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Africans in China: We face coronavirus discrimination
Ade* was given until midnight to vacate his apartment.
Five months earlier, the Nigerian student had moved to Guangzhou, southern China, to study computing at Guangdong university. He had just paid his university fees for the new semester when his landlord informed him that he needed to leave.
He scrambled to pack his belongings. The police were waiting for him and his roommates outside.
‘In hiding’
When he attempted to drop off his bags at a friend’s warehouse, he was prevented from entering. He spent several nights sleeping on the streets.
“Look how they are treating us, how they forced us out of our houses and forced us to self-quarantine,” he told the BBC from a hotel in the city.
“They told me that the [test] result is out and I am negative. Still they don’t want me to go out.”
African community leaders in Guangzhou believe the vast majority of the city’s African population have been forced into quarantine or are sleeping on the streets.
“Some are in hiding,” said one community leader over an encrypted social media app.
Every African national tested
In early April, online rumours began to circulate that parts of the city where Africans live and trade were under lockdown after two Nigerians who had tested positive for the virus escaped. Chinese media reported that a Nigerian patient had attacked a Chinese nurse.
The health commission began widespread testing of African nationals.
The local authority says it has tested every African national in the city for the coronavirus. It found that 111 of the more than 4,500 Africans in Guangzhou tested positive.
“They just came with their ambulance and medical team and took us. All they said was that it was Chinese law and an order from the government,” said Hao*, a businessman from Ivory Coast.
Guangzhou has become a hub for Africans in China.
Towards the end of the century’s first decade, hundreds of thousands were thought to live in the city. Many of them entering the country on short-term visas to buy goods from nearby factories and send them back to the continent.
By some estimates there were more than 200,000 dwelling in the city. Some settled for the long term. Many overstayed their visas.
‘Africans friendly with locals’
In recent years, the numbers have dwindled. Businessmen have complained of unfair visa restrictions and unfair treatment. In 2018, small hotels in Xiao Bei Lu, a popular area for African traders, temporarily turned away Africans from several nations, they told the BBC.
“Most of the Africans living there are nice and friendly with the locals, and they are doing business as normal for the past years,” said one Guangzhou resident who did not want to be named.
“If there is a problem, it may be that some Africans are overstaying and doing some illegal things.
“The conflict over the virus test, I think it is something of a misunderstanding. It is not about racial discrimination. That’s not the style of the Guangzhou people,” he said.
“People are not hostile to Africans in their mind, unless some Africans are doing things against the local rules,” he added.
The Chinese government dismissed claims of racism, insisting China and Africa are friends, partners and brothers and that it has zero tolerance to racism.
But many of those the BBC spoke to say they have been singled out because of their race.
“Ninety-eight per cent of Africans are in quarantine,” said one community leader who did not want to be named.
Wuhan lockdown continues – for some
Africans across China say they are facing increased scrutiny. On the deserted campus of Wuhan University African faces outnumber Chinese.
“We are the ones that are left behind,” says Michael Addaney a Ghanaian graduate student studying in the Chinese city where coronavirus was first detected.
For more than two months he has waged a social media campaign demanding his government bring his countrymen and women home.
At the height of the outbreak, an estimated 5,000 African students were stranded in Wuhan and neighbouring cities, after most sub-Saharan nations failed to evacuate their citizens.
“We feel like sacrificial lambs for no reason. The plan was to keep the people safe by sacrificing us,” asked one student who did not want to be named.
“What was the point as our countries didn’t put measures in place to protect the people from the virus?”
When Wuhan officially ended its lockdown on 8 April, normality began to creep back into the city.
More than a week on, African students on campuses remain unable to leave the grounds of the university. They have no information of when their own lockdown will be lifted.
Back in Guangzhou, a student from Sierra Leone said she believed Africans were being singled out.
“All of this is happening because there has been a rise in foreign imported cases, [but] the majority are from Chinese nationals,” she said.
“Only a small percentage is made up of Africans.”
She received a letter from her university stating that all Africans needed to be tested. Despite being tested twice she remains in quarantine.
‘Others not treated like this’
“With all this happening, the Chinese have exhibited racism and discrimination against black people here in Guangzhou.
“I know people from my church who are white and non-Africans who are not going through what we are going through – quarantine and multiple testing,” she said.
“Quarantine hotels are like forced detention for blacks.”
A Nigerian businessman under quarantine said that “it was the police that removed me from my apartment and put me on the streets”.
“I don’t have any problem with my landlord. He didn’t even know I had been evicted. My children slept on the streets for many days.”
On social media, hundreds of Africans in Guangzhou have organised groups supplying each other with regular updates. They send photos of numerous hotels and hospitals where businessmen, residents and students are being held across the city.
Some post test results showing that they are negative. Others post medical and hotel bills that they say they cannot afford to pay. Videos of Africans sleeping on the streets have gone viral.
The Guangdong government has publicised a hotline for “foreigners who experience discrimination”. But for those in quarantine, suspicions remain high. Videos continue to circulate online of Africans being moved between hotels by ambulance.
Xiao Bei Lu is known as “China’s little Africa” but social media videos show that its streets, at one time packed with African traders, are now deserted.
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Why an Irish Whiskey Brand Has a Place at This Year’s Great American Beer Festival
Jameson's beer garden promises plenty of unique brews.
By Mike Pomranz
Credit: Courtesy of Pernod Ricard USA
The Great American Beer Festival, probably the country’s largest and best known beer festival, has just announced a huge new sponsor, though the name might surprise you for a number of reasons… Jameson Irish Whiskey.
Debuting at this year’s GABF, set to take place in Denver from September 20 to 22, will be the Jameson Caskmates Barrel-Aged Beer Garden. The 12,600-square-foot beer garden, part of a nearly 100,000-square-foot expansion of the festival floor in total, “will feature 17 small and independent Jameson craft brewery partners and their limited-edition Jameson barrel-aged beer in a setting that draws inspiration from their local neighborhoods,” according to an announcement of the partnership. The breweries 8th Wonder, Bale Breaker, Big Dog’s Brewing Co, Black Abbey, Captain Lawrence, Cigar City, DC Brau, Fat Heads, Foolproof, Fulton, Great Divide, Green Flash, Harpoon, Heavy Seas, Parish, Revolution, and River Horse are all already on board for the collaboration, so clearly, there’s an opportunity for some amazing and unique craft beers here.
Aging beer in whiskey barrels has continued to grow in popularity since it first gained traction back in the mid-‘90s thanks to products like Goose Island Bourbon County Stout. More recently, the Brewers Association—the craft beer trade group that also runs the GABF—says that the sale of barrel-aged beers has risen 20 percent in the past three years alone, so offering an area dedicated to whiskey barrel-aged beers makes total sense.
However, in other ways, this partnership with Jameson—billed as the GABF’s first ever spirits sponsor—feels a bit odd. First, in case you haven’t caught on, Jameson Irish Whiskey would seem a bit out of place at the Great American Beer Festival… an event where only American breweries are allowed to participate in the competition.
But even setting that quibble aside, a more philosophical conflict exists: Though the GABF is open to all U.S. breweries, last year, the Brewers Association essentially banned breweries the organization doesn’t classify as “craft” from sponsoring the event. One of the BA’s keys to being defined as craft is a certain level of independence—less than 25 percent outside ownership. Needless to say, Jameson isn’t beer, so the rules of craft beer don’t apply; but Jameson also isn’t in any way independent: The Irish brand is a subsidiary of the global spirits giant Pernod Ricard. It’s easy to see how this could potentially be construed as a double-standard, especially when many in the craft beer and craft spirits world try to foster relationships across both industries.
That said, it’s also easy to see why both parties—the GABF and Jameson—would want to make this partnership work. Jameson has continued to push its line of beer barrel-aged products known as Caskmates; putting that brand in front of tens of thousands of diehard beer fans, especially with the prominent billing of being the festival’s first spirits sponsor, is a coup. And speaking of coups, one can only assume the GABF will make out well in the deal too… no matter how good the beers served in the beer garden are.
As for whether the Brewers Association is conflicted by any of this, Ann Obenchain, the BA’s marketing director chose to focus on the breweries involved. “This particular GABF activation is focused specifically on small and independent craft brewers,” she told us via email. “The Brewers Association believes the Jameson Caskmates program specifically offers a natural tie in to craft beer and supports small and independent neighborhood breweries. This craft beer-focused activation will also be targeted to Jameson’s cross-drinking customers, elevating the status of craft beer.”
Frankly, the Great American Beer Festival is a major event; it’s certainly worthy of big sponsors. But at the same time, the Brewers Association drew a line in the sand with beer literally last year. Regardless of whether working with a non-craft spirits brand like Jameson is a double standard or not—and it’s certainly not clear that it is—what is more clear is that if there is a debate to be had, the GABF kind of started it.
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‘When We Gather’ Collaborative Art Project To Celebrate Historic Inauguration Of Kamala Harris
What Does Sidney Harman's Death Mean for Newsweek?
Jeff BercoviciFormer Staff
I cover technology with an emphasis on social and digital media.
When The Washington Post Co. decided last year that it was time to get out of the weekly newsmagazine business, only a handful of suitors came forward with offers to take over Newsweek, and of those, only one, stereo equipment mogul Sidney Harman, was deemed an appropriate steward for the venerable title.
Now Harman is dead at age 92, and Newsweek's future is once again in doubt.
Throughout the sale process, Harman and those around him repeatedly insisted that his robust health and vigor made his age a non-issue. A month ago, however, he learned he had acute myeloid leukemia, according to the Daily Beast, the Barry Diller-owned website that merged with Newsweek in November. Complications from that disease were the cause of death.
However hale Harman seemed and was, Newsweek staffers knew that, with a 92-year-old owner, they'd be an object of succession sooner or later, but no one expected it to be this soon. Harman said last September that family members of his were interested in continuing to own and run Newsweek, although there would be no active role for his wife, Jane Harman, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. According to Diller, Harman reiterated his family's commitment to the magazine three weeks ago, after learning of his diagnosis.
But Harman also said publicly that he was prepared to lose up to $40 million in the effort to turn Newsweek around. Will his heirs have that sort of commitment? And, if they don't, will Diller be willing to take up the slack?
Of course, people asked the same sorts of questions in 2009 when Bruce Wasserstein, financier and owner of New York magazine, died at 61. So far, his family's attachment to that publication seems to be unwavering. Then again, it's been a long time since Newsweek was as healthy as New York is now.
Jeff Bercovici
I've been covering the business of news, information and entertainment in one form or another for more than 10 years. In February 2014, I moved to San Francisco to cover…
I've been covering the business of news, information and entertainment in one form or another for more than 10 years. In February 2014, I moved to San Francisco to cover the tech beat. My primary focus is social media and digital media, but I'm interested in other aspects, including but not limited to the sharing economy, lifehacking, fitness & sports tech and the evolving culture of the Bay Area. In past incarnations I've worked at AOL, Conde Nast Portfolio, Radar and WWD. Circle me on Google+, follow me on Twitter or send me tips or ideas at jbercovici@forbes.com.
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Appeal To Remember Somme Fallen In Mammoth Artwork
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to commemorate the troops who died in the Battle of the Somme and were never recovered...
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11th May 2017 at 6:30pm
Bringing The Tragedy Of The Somme To Life
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to commemorate the troops who died in the Battle of the Somme and were never recovered.
It's hoped £150,000 can be raised to help an artist hand-stitch a shrouded figure to remember every one of the 72,000 men.
In order to complete the installation in time to mark the Armistice Day centenary next year, Rob Heard is having to produce around 300 shrouds per day, which takes 15 hours. He's produced around 20,000 so far - and does each one himself by hand.
Working closely with the military, he's aiming to have the figures ready to go on display by November 2018, 100 years after the end of the First World War.
Mr Heard made one of the figures for each of the 19,240 men lost on the first day of the Battle of the Somme last year, which went on display in Exeter.
But after seeing the impact the display had on people, he knew he had to carry on and finish the job.
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Latest nor'easter could dump a foot or more of snow
BOSTON — Winter-weary New Englanders are preparing for blizzard conditions, more than a foot of snow and high winds as the third major nor'easter in two weeks bears down on the Northeast.
The National Weather Service on Monday issued a blizzard warning for much of the Massachusetts coast, a winter storm warning for most of New England and a winter weather advisory for portions of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The storm is expected to hit late Monday and last through most of the day Tuesday, with snow accumulating at a rate of 2 inches per hour during the Tuesday morning commute, disrupting road and air travel. American Airlines announced that it had suspended all flight operations from Boston Logan International Airport on Tuesday because of the storm, and warned of scattered cancellations and delays possible at other Northeast airports.
While the first two storms of the month brought coastal flooding and hundreds of thousands of power outages, this winter monster is a little bit different.
"This one's main impact is going to be snow," said Kim Buttrick, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Taunton, Massachusetts.
More power outages are possible, but they are not expected to be as widespread as last week. Only minor coastal flooding is possible.
The blizzard warning means sustained winds of greater than 35 mph (56 kph), along with visibility of less than a quarter mile for prolonged periods, according to the weather service. Wind gusts as high as 65 mph (104 kph) are forecast in coastal areas.
Boston and eastern Massachusetts, as well as Rhode Island, could get a foot and a half of snow, with less to the west of the city.
Maine is also bracing for a hard hit. The Portland International Jetport has had 75.5 inches (1.9 meters) of snow, far above the normal for the date of 51.8 inches (1.3 meters) with another 12 to 18 inches is on the way, said James Brown, of the National Weather Service.
In New Hampshire, where as much as 14 inches of snow is forecast, the storm is wreaking havoc with the age-old town meeting tradition. But Secretary of State William Gardner and Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said under state law, town meeting elections must go on.
In New York, heavy, wet snow is forecast for Long Island, which could get 5 to 10 inches of accumulation, while 2 to 4 inches are possible in New York City.
In New Jersey, the storm is expected to start out as light rain before changing over to all snow by early Tuesday, leaving behind up to 4 inches.
The Northeast isn't the only area of the country dealing with winter weather. As much as 15 inches of snow has fallen in a narrow band stretching from central Kentucky through southern West Virginia.
Most of North Carolina is also gearing up for snow, with spring a little more than a week away. Forecasters say up to 6 inches of snow is possible around Boone in the northern mountains, while other areas of the state should get only about 2 inches.
"Hopefully this will be the final punch of the winter," Buttrick said.
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Life ,National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) ,Pride ,Trump administration
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As President Donald Trump’s attacks on the trans community continue, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) has faced multiple bomb threats over the past few months. Trump’s vicious rhetoric and blatant racism have spawned a dramatic uptick in the number of hate crimes and domestic terrorism attacks in the United States.
After an investigation from the Washington Post revealed that Trump’s handpicked US Attorney, Jessie K. Liu, hasn’t been prosecuting hate crimes in the nation’s capital despite the increase of reported attacks, even more information about the sorry state of affairs in the District are coming to light.
One of the egregious examples are the multiple bomb threats that have been endured by NCTE. As the largest and most prominent national group, they’ve become the face of the transgender rights movement during a time when the administration has worked doggedly to strip the community of legal recognition and basic humanity.
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In December of 2018, the organization received three threats in less than 24 hours.
The city has seen a dramatic increase in the number of hate crimes against black transgender women in particular.
“While I recognize the relative newsworthiness of threats against a national organization, we are far more concerned – and would urge reporters to be far more concerned – with the epidemic of violence impacting transgender people who do not have the privilege of a public profile and institutional capacity,” NCTE media relations manager Gillian Branstetter told the Washington Blade.
In 2017, D.C. police arrested suspects in 59 hate crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. — “which handles most criminal cases in the capital,” the Post notes — only prosecuted three as hate crimes and it later dropped one of the prosecutions.
“Of the 178 suspected hate crimes in 2017,” the Post writes, “police closed 54 cases involving adults by arrest. Prosecutors charged two cases as hate crimes, and both were later dropped as part of plea deals.”
The threats against NCTE were not publicly revealed before the Post investigation. No one has been arrested.
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Marriage Today By For Your Marriage Staff and Associates
Marriage Today covers current trends and research pertaining to marriage and family life in today's world.
A Second Chance for Divorcing Couples
by David Gibson
Related Topics: Divorce, Research
Divorces could be prevented much more often than society tends to believe possible. Moreover, not only do troubled couples benefit from steps they take to reconcile, but so do their minor children and society itself, according to a report released Oct. 21 in Washington during an event hosted by two nationally known public-policy research centers, the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation.
Titled “Second Chances: A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce,” the report’s co-authors are William J. Doherty and Leah Ward Sears, two leading U.S. commentators on marriage and the family. Doherty, who writes and speaks frequently on marriage and children, is a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota. Sears, a retired chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, speaks often on restoring a culture of marriage in America.
Their report explores two popular, but “mistaken” assumptions about couples considering divorce. The first assumption is that most divorces occur only after a lengthy process of high conflict and misery for a couple.
But in what may be their report’s most astonishing observation, Doherty and Sears point to research over the past decade showing “that the majority of divorces (from 50 percent to 66 percent, depending on the study) occur in couples who had average happiness and low levels of conflict in the years prior to the divorce.” (Another group, 33 percent to 50 percent of divorcing couples, showed “a pattern of high conflict, alienation and sometimes abuse.”)
No wonder the authors believe many couples moving along the road to divorce would be able, with assistance, to reverse course.
A second mistaken assumption is that once couples file for divorce they will not entertain the possibility of reconciling. But here the report points to new research indicating that some 40 percent of couples “already well into the divorce process say that one or both of them are interested in the possibility of reconciliation.”
The report speculates that “the proportion of couples open to reconciliation might be even higher at the outset of the divorce process – before the process itself has caused additional strife.”
In light of evidence contradicting these two popular assumptions, the authors offer the following, thought-provoking summation:
“An intriguing and growing body of research is suggesting that most couples who divorce have problems that are not much different from those who stay married, that unhappy marriages can experience turnarounds and that even well into the process a significant minority of those divorcing are interested in exploring the option of reconciliation.”
The Doherty-Sears report does not advocate “keeping destructive marriages together” and expresses concern about children living with “chronic high levels of conflict and hostility between their parents” or abuse.
However, the authors distinguish those children from children “in the average marriages that break up.” The authors comment that “more than half of U.S. divorces today appear to take place in low-conflict homes in which the best outcome for children would probably be a continuation of the marriage.”
Children in the average marriages that break up “do not understand why their parents broke up. They may blame themselves. And they are propelled from a relatively stable family life into a post-divorce world that offers little relief and brings many challenges,” Doherty and Sears state.
Research shows, they add, “that divorced fathers and mothers are less likely to have high-quality relationships with their children.” And children “with divorced or unmarried parents are more likely to be poor,” and to experience a range of disappointing educational and social outcomes.
One reason society should take seriously the possibility of saving marriages is that the social and economic consequences of divorce cost taxpayers “billions of dollars per year,” according to the report. It says, “A modest reduction in divorce would produce significant” taxpayer savings.
So it is “wise … to help distressed couples when possible to avoid divorce,” the report says.
State Legislative Proposals
The report recommends that states “adopt a waiting period of at least one year from the date of filing for divorce before the divorce becomes final.” In cases involving domestic violence, for example, the requirement could be waived.
In ten U.S. states, no waiting period now is required before a divorce, and 29 states have waiting periods of fewer than six months, the report notes.
Doherty and Sears believe the value of a waiting period becomes clear when it is realized that “people making a decision to divorce are often at one of the most intense emotional periods of their lives.” Moreover, the authors fear that “the law moves couples more rapidly toward divorce than perhaps they had intended.”
But the possibility for couples to “learn new skills and connect with resources in their community to improve their marriages” greatly interests Doherty and Sears too, as does the need for divorcing parents to be educated for their roles.
In fact, the authors urge states to require “a four-hour parent education course before either spouse files for divorce,” a class to be completed either in a classroom or online.
The report’s title, “Second Chances,” also serves as the name for legislation the report urges states to adopt. The proposed legislation would establish a divorce waiting period of at least a year. Completion of the class for parents of minor children is another of the legislation’s requirements.
Such a class represents a “win-win situation” for couples, Doherty and Sears assert. One “win” comes with offering “information and encouragement on marital reconciliation.”
Another win comes from the time the class devotes to “communication and conflict management skills related to co-parenting.” Thus, couples who decide against reconciling are prepared to approach divorce in a less adversarial manner.
David Gibson served for 37 years on the editorial staff at Catholic News Service, where he was the founding and long-time editor of Origins, CNS Documentary Service. David received a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University in Minnesota and an M.A. in religious education from The Catholic University of America. Married for 38 years, he and his wife have three adult daughters and six grandchildren.
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Kamenetz: Five myths regarding student debt
By ANYA KAMENETZ
Americans borrowed $105 billion in student loans last year, an annual figure that has doubled in constant dollars since 1999. That makes student debt, as a category of consumer debt, second only to mortgages.
Democratic presidential candidates are drawing applause by talking about free college and debt relief. As graduates toss their mortarboards in the air this month, here are five lasting misconceptions about the debt they'll spend years or even decades paying back:
• Myth No. 1: You can avoid debt by working your way through college.
This is an old chestnut. "You can earn money by working while taking classes," Yahoo Finance advised in May in an article headlined "5 Ways to Avoid Student Loans." In 2015, CNBC touted the story of a mom whose "son snagged a job as a resident assistant, which covered his room and board."
Anecdotes are not data. It was entirely possible in the 1980s to be able to pay your way through a typical public university with a part-time, minimum-wage job. But trends in both college tuition and wages have put that strategy out of reach for most students today.
The average in-state cost for tuition, fees, room and board at a public four-year university last year was $21,370, according to information provided by the College Board. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. To pay for college on that wage, a student would have to work 56 hours a week, every week of the year.
No wonder about two in three graduates of public and private nonprofit colleges borrowed money for college, a proportion that has held steady for a decade.
• Myth No. 2: The bigger the loan, the worse trouble you're in.
This seems like a reasonable assumption. "Anyone who has shouldered the burden of six-figure student loan debt knows the heavy toll it can take," the Huffington Post wrote on May 14. According to Entrepreneur magazine, "Stories abound of liberal arts majors leaving school with six-figure student loans."
Yes, there are some. But the graduates who average six-figure student loan balances are generally doctors, lawyers and Ph.D.s, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (CAP), and those degrees tend to come with six-figure salaries to match.
Meanwhile, those most likely to default on their student loans (and suffer a lifetime of financial setbacks that follow bad credit) have debt in the four figures, not six, according to the Center for American Progress, which profiled defaulters in 2017. Its report found that defaulters are more likely to be older and to attend for-profit colleges. About half never finish their degrees.
CAP discovered that, in 2017, the median defaulter borrowed a little more than $9,600, while borrowers who did not default took out almost twice as much as the median.
• Myth No. 3: Student loans are a young person's problem.
This notion is out of date. "Student debt is delaying progress for an entire generation," said a Philadelphia Inquirer headline on May 21, referring to more recent graduates. According to CBS News, "Millennials struggle under the burden of student loan debt."
True enough, but boomers are increasingly in hot water, too, and they have retirements to fund. AARP reported this month that Americans over 50 owe almost $290 billion of the nation's student loans, up from $47 billion 15 years ago.
Among seniors, the number of indebted people, the amounts they owe and the percentage who are behind on payments all rose in the first half of the 2010s, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Some of the growth comes from parents taking out what are called PLUS loans for their children's educations: nearly $89 billion in total.
• Myth No. 4: If you rack up student loan debt, college isn't worth it.
"I'm going to owe $100,000 by the time I graduate college," Jacob Lopez, a junior economics major at Columbia, wrote in a recent Newark Star-Ledger op-ed. "Is it worth it?"
The Gates Foundation has a new initiative aimed at answering just that question. And in an April survey by the financial website GoBankingRates, 42 percent of Americans said that "their college degree wasn't worth the student debt it created."
Assuming he finishes his degree, Lopez has nothing to worry about. Economics is in the top 25 majors ranked by wages, according to Georgetown, with a midcareer salary of $117,800, according to PayScale. The firm also reports that a Columbia degree specifically is worth a 14 percent salary premium over the average grad.
Even if you're not an Ivy Leaguer, odds are still pretty good that college will pay off — as long as you finish. The College Board's most recent Education Pays report found that the average bachelor's degree recipient earns $61,400 annually, compared with $36,800 for someone with just a high school diploma. The average graduate, meanwhile, owes $28,650.
So let's imagine that Jane, who goes right into the workforce after high school, earns $515,200 in her first 14 years. John, who spends four years in college, will earn $614,000 in his first 10 years, while repaying $38,000 or so in principal plus interest under a standard repayment plan.
Now John's loans are gone. He's in the black, and the gains will only multiply over a several-decade career. And that calculation doesn't include the social benefits of higher education, such as job creation, innovation and even improved health and social stability.
• Myth No. 5: The Democrats have a plan to end student loan debt.
Democratic presidential candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are promoting "billion-dollar plans to make college free on the campaign trail," according to NBC News. They want to "erase student debt," reports CNBC.
And it's true that the federal government could, in theory, cancel existing student loans. The Democrats just have to take control of the White House in 2020, recapture Congress and get rid of the filibuster so they can pass student debt relief over the opposition of Senate Republicans.
But it's unclear what would happen to the student loan program. Erasing the need for all student debt forever — "free college" — is beyond the power of the federal government alone.
Warren's and Sanders' free-college proposals, which have the most details, require the federal government to spend more to incent public universities to forgo charging tuition in favor of other revenue schemes, including more state funding. But it would be up to states to decide whether to ante up the extra dollars.
Given how many red states opted out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion — a similar federal proposal that relied on state participation — it's unlikely that a Democrat would get nationwide results with such a plan.
Anya Kamenetz, the author of several books including "Generation Debt" and "The Art of Screen Time," covers education issues as a correspondent for National Public Radio. She has been a contributing writer for The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and has appeared in documentaries that were televised on PBS and CNN.
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Trump’s potential purge of career employees casts pall across federal government
December 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 career, casts, Employees, federal, government, pall, potential, purge, Trumps
Federal career employees across the Trump administration are fearful of losing their job protections and potentially their jobs, as agencies begin to implement a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
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The White House on November 11, 2020 in Washington.
A majority of career staff will be redesignated into a new category that strips them of protections afforded to civil servants and makes them easier to be removed.
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The Office of Management and Budget inside the White House has been one of the most aggressive in making the change. An October executive order created a new classification for federal employees serving in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions.” These employees typically do not change over during a presidential transition.
Experts say the reclassification could potentially leave tens of thousands of federal employees vulnerable to being fired without cause.
“This is an attempt to sabotage on their way out the door,” said Richard Loeb, senior policy counsel at the American Federation of Government Employees.
The Office of Personnel Management ultimately has final authority on which positions get changed, and late last month the acting director sent a memo instructing agencies how to implement the new classification system, known as Schedule F.
While the agencies have until January 19 to identify positions they believe should be reclassified, several agencies began compiling their lists immediately, including the Department of Energy, where managers received the attached memo, obtained by CNN, asking them to identify positions for possible transfer.
The OMB is also rushing ahead. According to a source with knowledge of internal conversations, the office sent in its reclassification list last week, submitting more than half its employees for potential transfer. This action and its timing were first reported by RealClearPolitics.
Dozens of career employees at OMB have expressed fear that their jobs will be in the hands of a President known for retaliation, according to a source familiar with these conversations. One former OMB employee said current workers have no hope that OMB Director Russ Vought might come to their rescue, describing the Trump loyalist as a “very strange and unqualified director.”
For years, Trump has vilified career officials as the “deep state” and sought to rid the federal government of people he views as insufficiently loyal. Trump installed his longtime aide John McEntee to take over the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, as part of an effort to purge those he thought had wronged him in some way and replace them with die-hard supporters.
The office is in charge of vetting political appointees, and shortly after taking over McEntee created a new questionnaire for potential political appointees across the administration, asking, among other things, what part of Trump’s campaign message “most appealed” to them and why.
Critics warn the order allows Trump to fill the federal workforce with loyalists during the final weeks of his administration and that it risks reverting the country to a spoils system in a way not seen since the 1883
2021 Federal 100 Nominations Open
November 2, 2020 [email protected]_84 federal, Nominations, open
FCW, published by 1105 Media, Inc., is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the 32nd annual Federal 100 Awards.
MCLEAN, VA, Nov. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Federal 100 Awards are presented to individuals in the federal IT community who have gone above and beyond to make a real difference in the way technology was bought, managed and used. This group mostly features agency employees and select members of the federal contracting sector, but past winners have included academics, independent watchdogs and even a member of Congress or two.
Nominations for the 2021 Federal 100 Awards are now open. To submit a nomination, please visit http://Fed100.com.
“Each year’s group of nominees represents the power of the individual in the federal IT community,” FCW Editor-in-Chief Troy K. Schneider said. “But it all starts with building the broadest and best possible pool of candidates. I’m so excited to see who rises to the top for our 32nd Federal 100.”
There are five points to remember when submitting a nomination:
Anyone in the federal IT community is eligible: career civil servants, political appointees, contractors, academics, even members of Congress.
The awards are for individual accomplishments in 2020.
Winners go above and beyond, whatever their level or rank. A fancy job title is not required, and just doing one’s job well is not enough.
Multiple nominations are encouraged.
Impact matters. Tell us what a nominee did and what that work accomplished.
Winners will be announced in early February, profiled in the August issue of FCW Magazine and celebrated in person at the Federal 100 Awards Gala on August 27, 2021. Nomination deadline is December 31, 2020.
About FCW
FCW’s editorial mission is to provide federal technology executives with the information, insights, and strategies necessary to successfully navigate the complex world of federal business. By providing federal technology executives with the “who” and “what” they need to know to get things done, FCW delivers access to a powerful, hard-to-reach audience that controls the $112B technology purchasing in federal government. https://FCW.com
CONTACT: Alene Metcalf 1105 Media Inc 703.876.5052 [email protected]
Jewish students file federal complaint against University of Illinois over ‘anti-Semitic harassment’
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 antiSemitic, complaint, federal, file, harassment, Illinois, Jewish, students, university
Jewish students and their supporters announced Friday the filing of a federal complaint alleging an “unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic harassment” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The complaint submitted in March with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights accused the university of allowing a “hostile environment to proliferate on campus,” citing an increase in swastikas, vandalism of menorahs and mezuzahs, and window-smashing at the Jewish fraternity house.
The document, which urged OCR to open an investigation, also said Students for Justice in Palestine’s members and supporters have harassed Jewish and pro-Israel students by calling them ‘Nazi’ and ‘White supremacist,’ and “converted mandatory UIUC diversity training into anti-Israel indoctrination.”
“Being a Jew at UIUC comes with immense hate and hostility” said UIUC student Ian Katsnelson in a statement. “First, as a senator on student government I’ve experienced shocking examples of anti-Semitism firsthand. I’ve been called a genocide supporter, a White supremacist, and harassed; all for being publicly Jewish. And all of this in front of the administration — who did nothing.”
Robin Kaler, UIUC associate chancellor for public affairs, said that the university “will never tolerate bigotry, racism or hate, and we condemn acts and expressions of anti-Semitism,” and that officials sought to address the problem after the complaint was submitted earlier this year to an accrediting organization.
“We were asked this summer to respond to the complaint,” said Ms. Kaler in an email. “After receiving our response, that organization determined that the allegations raised in the complaint do not indicate substantive noncompliance with their requirements and that no further review would be conducted.”
At the same time, she said, “the university has been engaged in a long, meaningful and what we believed was a collaborative discussion about the concerns raised by the involved parties, so it is very disheartening that they chose to stop engaging with us.”
“We are disappointed with the approach this group has taken to move our conversation to the media, but we are absolutely committed to an inclusive university community where everyone feels welcome,” Ms. Kaler said.
The complaint, which accused the university of violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, was prepared by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, with the involvement of the Jewish United Fund and Hillel International.
“Jewish students at UIUC have been targeted for years,” said Brandeis Center President Alyza D. Lewin. “We gave UIUC seven months since the complaint was filed to address the ongoing harassment. In the face of continuous stall tactics and almost no action from the university, we decided to publicize our efforts.”
In addition to incidents of vandalism and swastikas, the complaint listed a September 2019 university-sponsored diversity training session that included a presentation entitled, “Palestine & Great Return March: Palestinian Resistance to 70 Years of Israeli Terror.”
The chancellor later condemned the “anti-Semitic content,” but the student government passed a resolution sponsored by SJP defending the presentation at a
Federal judge rules students have no constitutional right to civics education — but warns that ‘American democracy is in peril’
October 22, 2020 [email protected]_84 American, civics, Constitutional, democracy, education, federal, Judge, peril, rules, students, warns
In an extraordinary decision that referenced President Trump’s tweets to postpone the November presidential elections, U.S. District Court Judge William Smith said the public school students who filed the lawsuit were not on a “wild-eyed effort to expand the reach of substantive due process.” Rather, he said, they were issuing “a cry for help from a generation of young people who are destined to inherit a country which we — the generation currently in charge — are not stewarding well.”
“What these young people seem to recognize is that American democracy is in peril,” he wrote (see opinion in full below). “Its survival, and their ability to reap the benefit of living in a country with robust freedoms and rights, a strong economy, and a moral center protected by the rule of law is something that citizens must cherish, protect, and constantly work for. We would do well to pay attention to their plea.”
The class-action lawsuit filed two years ago by 14 named students and their parents said that Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) and state education and legislative leaders had failed to provide them with an “education that is adequate to prepare them to function productively as civic participants capable of voting, serving on a jury, understanding economic, social, and political systems sufficiently to make informed choices, and to participate effectively in civic activities.”
That failure, the lawsuit said, violated their constitutional rights under different parts of the Constitution that they said guaranteed them the right to an education that prepares them to be active citizens. The lawsuit said the defendants had “downgraded the teaching of social studies and civics, focusing in recent decades on basic reading and math instruction” and “neglected professional development of teachers in civics education.”
But Smith said in his ruling last week that in regard to the contention by students that their constitutional rights included a right to civics education, “The answer to that question is, regrettably, no.” He said, however, that the students “should be commended for bringing this case,” believed to be the first of its kind in a U.S. court.
“It highlights a deep flaw in our national education priorities and policies,” Smith wrote. “The court cannot provide the remedy plaintiffs seek, but in denying that relief, the court adds its voice to plaintiffs’ in calling attention to their plea. Hopefully, others who have the power to address this need will respond appropriately.”
Derek Black, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law and an expert on constitutional law and education law, criticized the ruling, saying: “State courts across the country routinely answer these types of questions. The notion that a federal court cannot act, when states have otherwise failed to do so, is inconsistent with the history of public education.”
There has long been concern about the lack of comprehensive civics education in America’s schools, especially during the past few decades when education reform policy was focused on raising standardized test scores in math and
Trump issues order for some career federal employees to lose their civil service protections
October 22, 2020 [email protected]_84 career, civil, Employees, federal, Issues, lose, Order, protections, Service, Trump
“This is the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes,” American Federation of Government Employees President Everett Kelley said in a statement. “The president has doubled down on his effort to politicize and corrupt the professional service.
“This executive order strips due process rights and protections from perhaps hundreds of thousands of federal employees and will enable political appointees and other officials to hire and fire these workers at will,” he said.
Trump said his order will “give agencies greater ability and discretion to assess critical qualities in applicants to fill these positions, such as work ethic, judgment, and ability to meet the particular needs of the agency.”
Among career employees, the “excepted service” mainly applies to positions in which it is not practical to use competitive processes in hiring, such as administrative law judges and attorneys. Employees of some entire agencies, such as intelligence agencies, also are in the excepted service.
Agencies are not required to post excepted service vacancies on the central USAJobs.gov recruiting site—although some do—and need not use rating systems required when hiring for competitive service jobs. Also, there is no formal preference for veterans. Unless they are veterans, excepted service employees do not gain appeal rights until after two years of employment, rather than the standard one year.
The order tells agencies to conduct an initial review within three months, and a full review within seven months, of their positions “of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character not normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition.”
Agencies then are to ask the Office of Personnel Management to move those positions into a newly created category of the excepted service, although a list of “prohibited personnel practices” such as discrimination and nepotism would continue to apply to them.”
While not defining which occupations would be affected, such duties would include development or advocacy of policy; involvement with writing regulations and guidance; work in an agency component that primarily focuses on policy; supervision of attorneys; work in the agency’s executive secretariat; conducting negotiations with employee unions; or work that includes “substantial discretion to determine the manner in which the agency exercises functions committed to the agency by law.”
The order cites “the need to provide agency heads with additional flexibility to assess prospective appointees without the limitations imposed by competitive service selection procedures. Placing these positions in the excepted service will mitigate undue limitations on their selection.”
It also says that “Career employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy making, and policy-advocating positions wield significant influence over Government operations and effectiveness. Agencies need the flexibility to expeditiously remove poorly performing employees from these positions without facing extensive delays or litigation.”
The order follows the recent issuance of rules telling agencies to provide only the minimal accommodations required by law to assist underperforming employees before disciplining them and to make the maximum use of their discretion in choosing discipline either for poor performance or misconduct.
Arne Duncan on how the federal government can help the US education system amid the pandemic
October 18, 2020 [email protected]_84 Arne, Duncan, education, federal, government, pandemic, System
According to a new report, first-year college enrollment for this semester had fallen by 16%, and overall undergraduate enrollment dropped about 4%. Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined Yahoo Finance to discuss what can be done to help the state of higher education amid the pandemic.
Duncan tells Yahoo Finance that he hopes that college enrollment reduction is just a “one-time hit” amid the pandemic.
“Lots of young incoming freshmen are taking a gap year … so I don’t see that lasting. I hope that doesn’t last. What’s going to change in terms of higher ed, a couple of things. I think this is challenging for all of us, higher ed and K-12 as well,” Duncan said.
“What should stay online? What should stay virtual, what gets better delivered? Is it more effective, more efficient online versus in person? How do we continue, to reduce the cost of college? How do we make it more affordable for young people and families who are struggling before with the cost of college?,” he asked.
Students in a computer class. Students in front of computers in a computer class. Soft focus
Duncan tells Yahoo Finance that so many families are struggling financially as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and he believes that making education more affordable and accessible is the key to turning things around for millions of Americans.
“And so many families have taken a huge financial hit through the pandemic. How do we make things more affordable, more accessible for them? So in a really dark time, I think we’ll see more innovation. I think we’ll see more creativity in the long term that actually might be a good thing.”
One way the former education secretary believes that higher education can be more accessible to U.S. students is an implementation of the K-14 education model.
“We need to just change our model. We have a K-12 model that served us pretty well for the past 100 years, but that’s insufficient now. I think we need to move to a K-14 model starting earlier with our babies, and then a high school diploma is obviously critical, but it’s insufficient — some form of education beyond that. Four-year universities, two-year community colleges, trade, technical, vocational training, every high school graduate has to have a plan for furthering their education once they come out of here.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addresses a crowd of teachers and politicians in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes/File Photo
Despite the call for bold plans and actions, Duncan tells Yahoo Finance that he is not advocating for a federal takeover of public education in the U.S. but believes the federal government has a role to play when it comes to educating American children.
“When you have a pandemic that affects us all, you need a national response to it. This pandemic doesn’t know red versus blue. It doesn’t know liberal versus conservative. When you have massive unmet need, that is
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These are the faces of first-time voters
November 2, 2020 [email protected]_84 faces, firsttime, voters
Teslyn Nicole De Leon, 18, felt an “absolute thrill” while casting her ballot early in Texas recently. But what made the moment even more memorable for this first-time voter, she shared on Instagram and elaborated on for Yahoo Life, was that she went with another, very special, first-time voter: her grandmother.
“My grandmother legally immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines with two suitcases and $20 and built the family that I so proudly love,” De Leon, a student at the University of Texas, captioned the recent photo of them together. “I can’t thank her enough for the life she has given me.”
While De Leon was motivated to hit the polls by her “civic duty” and “incredulous excitement” over finally being of voting age, her grandmother, she tells Yahoo Life, “hadn’t voted because she had never felt knowledgeable enough to vote, because she hadn’t spoken much English and because she is a native Filipina. This year, she felt compelled by her extensive knowledge… She knew exactly how she felt and knew it was time to vote.”
De Leon and her grandmother are far from alone: With nearly half of U.S. states offering early voting in the 2020 general election, social media has been bursting with images of people on long lines and at ballot boxes for at least a week now. And many of the posts are from first-time voters, casting their ballots at what looks to be very high rates — and according, at least, to TargetSmart, a Democratic political data firm, which cites evidence of a “first-time voter surge.”
Instagram’s “first-time voter” hashtag brings up an endless scroll of proud voters, of all ages, some posted by parents or children or spouses of the first-timers.
“My mom immigrated from Colombia in the early ‘80s when she was 15. She became a citizen at that time, but throughout the years, she never felt compelled to vote,” Libia Marqueza Castro tells Yahoo Life about her Instagram post of her mom as a first-time voter. “Politics were pretty far removed from her lived experience. This year, however, she’s been paying extra attention because of COVID (she’s an elementary school teacher) … and one day she texted me that she had enough of the tontería (ridiculousness)… she feels like she’s actually doing something to change what she’s seeing unfold on TV, especially since she lives in Texas.”
“I always thought it was an insignificant process, but after using my rights to vote, I feel so empowered, motivated, and beyond blessed. I know, corny right,” wrote Georgia teen Fadlyna about going to vote for the first time with her mother, a breast cancer survivor. “But it does feel like you made an impact when you do something you are only able to do when you grow up.”
A woman who says she immigrated from Jamaica posted about voting for the first time since becoming a naturalized citizen in 2014. “I honestly was nervous about it and putting it off,” she shared. “I
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George Mason University To Tackle Retail Industry Disruption With New Center
November 24, 2020 [email protected]_84 Center, Disruption, George, industry, Mason, Retail, tackle, university
The retail industry was already facing dramatic disruptions before the coronavirus pandemic devastated the industry, and a new academic institution hopes to help small and midsized retailers survive.
George Mason University’s Fairfax, Virginia, campus.
George Mason University’s School of Business has launched the Center for Retail Transformation, aimed at providing research, events and a talent pipeline to the struggling industry, the school announced last week.
The center will be led by Gautham Vadakkepatt, who has spent the last decade in academia focused on marketing and has advised retailers on business strategy. He is putting together an advisory board of 30 retail industry professionals to guide the center.
“We started talking about the center before COVID, but definitely COVID has accelerated the need of a center such as this, focused on small- and medium-sized retailers,” Vadakkepatt said. “They are struggling. The hope is this institution can help in some way.”
The center currently offers one class, an undergraduate course on retail management. It plans to roll out several additional classes for undergraduate and graduate students to study various aspects of retail in hopes of creating a pipeline of young professionals who are knowledgeable about the industry.
It also plans to host conferences, workshops and executive training programs to convene retail leaders and experts to discuss the challenges the industry faces. And it will conduct research that it hopes will help retail executives make decisions about their businesses.
“We’re hoping to build a mutually beneficial, collaborative ecosystem here that provides a workforce-ready talent pool as well as cutting-edge research for the retail space,” Vadakkepatt said.
Courtesy of George Mason University
Gautham Vadakkepatt, the director of George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation.
Vadakkepatt sees a host of challenges with the retail industry that he wants the center to address.
He thinks legacy retailers have been too slow in adapting to the way e-commerce has changed consumer behavior and that many of the bankruptcies in the sector could have been avoided if retailers had pursued a better strategy.
“Now with the advent of the internet, finding the product is not the issue, so what is valuable to the customer has changed,” he said. “The retailers have been mostly reactive, especially some of the legacy retailers, hence the bankruptcies.”
He said the pain that many retail companies have faced has been a result of overextending their real estate footprint.
“The number of stores is too much, and the sizes of stores is perhaps too large,” he said. “Retailers could absolutely avoid some of these things by retaining the focus on evolving customer needs and rightsizing themselves.”
The pandemic has exacerbated many of the difficulties retail faced before this year, pushing more people to order products online and discouraging activities that bring them together.
Vadakkepatt said he thinks the pandemic will have long-term effects, such as accelerating the shift to e-commerce and forcing retailers to change their business model. He also said it had a silver lining in that it made retailers more willing to
George Washington University Students Told To Prepare For Election Week Unrest
November 2, 2020 [email protected]_84 Election, George, Prepare, students, Told, university, Unrest, Washington, Week
Retail stores in downtown Washington, D.C. have been boarded up in preparation for election-related … [+] unrest.
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Students at George Washington University, whose main campus is four blocks from the White House, have been told to prepare for “election related disruptions” and to stockpile a week’s worth of food and medications. Though most of GW’s 26,000 students are attending classes remotely for the fall semester, a small number are living on or near campus.
Christy Anthony, director of GW’s Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, sent emails to students late last week advising them to prepare “as you would for a hurricane or a snowstorm.” The email told students that the election may not be decided on November 3. “Some may want to celebrate while others may protest,” it said.
In a statement reported by the publication Inside Higher Ed, Crystal Nosal, a university spokesperson, said the email was sent after D.C. government officials advised they were preparing for a “very active election season.” Peter Newsham, the city’s chief of police, has said, ‘it is widely believed that there will be civil unrest after the November election regardless of who wins.”
Josh Ingersoll, a GW graduate student who lives 40 minutes west of campus, says “it felt kind of surreal” when he received the email on Friday. “It’s disheartening getting that email and seeing all the storefronts in D.C. boarded up in preparation for Election Day tomorrow,” he says. He adds that he thinks “everything will work out,” though “there could be protests in the streets” this week. He says he has discussed with friend that protesters could come from either side of the political aisle, “but personally I’ve seen more activity from white supremacists.”
In Rochester, Ingersoll’s hometown, there was a public moment of silence held for Daniel Prude, a black man with schizophrenia who died of suffocation in March after police restrained him with a mesh hood. “The Proud Boys showed up,” he says. President Trump famously referenced the Proud Boys in his first debate with Vice President Biden when he said the group, which is associated with the white nationalist movement, should “stand back and stand by.”
Ingersoll says he’s been pleased with how the GW administration has handled communication with students throughout the pandemic and racial justice protests. “They’ve made sure we’re aware of anything that could change our ability to safely access the campus,” he says.
That’s helped students feel safe. “Most people are going to grab a couple of extra boxes of mac and cheese and a couple extra gallons of water,” he says. “Nobody seems to be panicked.”
For more on preparations for election day unrest, read this.
Tetra Bio-Pharma, Targeted Pharmaceutical & the George Mason University Partner on ARDS-003 to Prevent & Treat COVID-19
October 22, 2020 [email protected]_84 ARDS003, BioPharma, COVID19, George, Mason, partner, Pharmaceutical, prevent, Targeted, Tetra, Treat, university
Tetra, Targeted Pharmaceutical and the George Mason University National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases (NCBID) sign a research collaboration
ARDS-003 to be evaluated in Sars-CoV-2 infected animals at the Biocontainment Laboratory-George Mason University NCBID
OTTAWA, ON / ACCESSWIRE / October 22, 2020 / Tetra Bio-Pharma Inc. (“Tetra” or the “Company”) ( TSX:TBP )( OTCQB:TBPMF ), a leader in cannabinoid-derived drug discovery and development, is excited to announce that it has signed a research collaboration agreement with Targeted Pharmaceutical and the George Mason University NCBID. As previously disclosed last quarter, Tetra officially acquired a 20% minority stake in Targeted Pharmaceutical. As per the Officer Certificate provided to the TSX, Targeted is in compliance with all applicable laws in the jurisdictions in which they operate.
The NCBID is a leading institute conducting pioneering research on infectious diseases including diagnostic, therapeutics, and vaccine development. The research collaboration will allow the evaluation of ARDS-003, with and without antiviral drugs, to prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals.
Under the leadership of Dr. Lance Liotta, Chief Medical Officer at Targeted Therapeutics, and Professor at the George Mason University, ARDS-003 will be studied in SARS-CoV-2 infected animals to further understand its potential as a preventive and therapeutic medicine. This research will be performed by Dr. Liotta’s team at the Biocontainment Laboratory-George Mason University NCBID. Dr. Liotta has served as Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) at the George Mason University. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Liotta served as Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, Deputy Director of NIH, Co-Director of the NCI/FDA Clinical Proteomics Program, and Director of the Anatomic Pathology Residency Program.
Dr. Guy Chamberland, CEO and CRO commented, “We have initiated this research agreement to generate new intellectual property and work closer with key researchers in the USA who are investigating therapeutic agents for treatment of patients who are severely ill from COVID-19. Teaming up with Targeted Pharmaceutical opened the door to a collaboration with a prestigious USA research laboratory at the George Mason University. Having the ability to study investigational new drugs in animals who are infected with the COVID-19 virus is a major opportunity for us. The research team will gain tremendous knowledge on the role a cytokine release modulating drug plays in COVID-19 infections. This type of animal research was used to study potential drug candidates for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and most recently the REGN-COV2 antibody in SARS-CoV-2 infected animals. The Company is not making any expressed or implied claims that its product has the ability to eliminate, cure and/or contain the COVID-19 or the SARS-COV-2 virus at this time. ”
About George Mason University
George Mason University is Virginia’s largest public research university. Located near Washington, D.C., Mason enrolls more than 37,000 students from 130 countries and all 50 states. The National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases (NCBID) at Mason focuses on host-pathogen interactions using proteomics and nanotechnology as they are applied to diagnostic, therapeutic, and vaccine development.
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Vasily Kandinsky: Several Circles 16'' x 20'' Print
My First Shapes with Frank Lloyd Wright
Guggenheim Logo Graphite Pencil Set
Vasily Kandinsky's Several Circles (Einige Kreise) was completed January-February 1926. Produced in-house by the Guggenheim's photography studio, each archival pigment print is made with hand-cut paper.
Complete your purchase with a user-friendly 16" x 20" black wood frame by Nielsen Bainbridge, pictured above, as an add-on. Frame packaged separately.
Ready to frame
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Vasily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow. From 1886 through 1892 he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow, where he lectured after graduation. In 1896 he declined a teaching position in order to study art in Munich with Anton Azbe from 1897 to 1899 and at the Kunstakademie with Franz von Stuck in 1900. Kandinsky taught in 1901–03 at the art school of the Phalanx, a group he cofounded in Munich. One of his students, Gabriele Münter, would be his companion until 1914. In 1902 Kandinsky exhibited for the first time with the Berlin Secession and produced his first woodcuts. In 1903 and 1904 he began his travels in Italy, the Netherlands, and North Africa and his visits to Russia. He showed at the Salon d’Automne in Paris from 1904.
In 1909 Kandinsky was elected president of the newly founded Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM). The group’s first show took place at Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. In 1911 Kandinsky and Franz Marc began to make plans for Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, although the publication would not appear until the following year. Kandinsky’s On the Spiritual in Art was published in December 1911. He and Marc withdrew from the NKVM in that month, and shortly thereafter the Blaue Reiter group’s first exhibition was held at the Moderne Galerie. In 1912 the second Blaue Reiter show was held at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich. Kandinsky’s first solo show was held at Der Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1912. In 1913 one of his works was included in the Armory Show in New York and the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon at the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. Kandinsky lived in Russia from 1914 to 1921, principally in Moscow, where he held a position at the People’s Commissariat of Education.
Kandinsky began teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. In 1923 he was given his first solo show in New York by the Société Anonyme, of which he became vice-president. Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Paul Klee made up the Blaue Vier (Blue Four) group, formed in 1924. He moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925 and became a German citizen in 1928. The Nazi government closed the Bauhaus in 1933 and later that year Kandinsky settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris; he acquired French citizenship in 1939. Fifty-seven of his works were confiscated by the Nazis in the 1937 purge of “degenerate art.” Kandinsky died on December 13, 1944, in Neuilly.
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Arun Maira
Arun Maira has an unusual combination of hands-on leadership experience in the private sector, public sector, and the social development sector; as well as in consulting with leaders in the corporate, government, and social development sectors in many countries.
He served as a Member of the Planning Commission of India from 2009 to 2014. He worked with the Tata Group in India for 25 years in many leadership and board-level positions. He was CEO of Innovation Associates in the USA and Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group in India.
Arun Maira has been Chairman of the Quality Council of India, Save the Children India, and the Axis Bank Foundation. He has served on the boards of the UN Global Compact and several social work organizations and educational institutions in India and abroad. He has also served on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry for many years.
Presently, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of HelpAge International. He is an advisor to many organizations and networks for social change.
Arun Maira is a thought leader on social and economic development and transformational change and leadership. He is an author of several books including: Shaping the Future — Aspirational Leadership in India and Beyond; Redesigning the Airplane While Flying — Reforming Institutions; Transforming Capitalism —Improving the World for Everyone and Listening for Well-Being —Conversations with People Not Like Us. His most recent book is, Transforming Systems — Why the World needs a new Ethical Tool-kit.
He was born in Lahore in 1943. He has a Master’s degree in physics from Delhi University.
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China has no judgment on Sweden’s coronavirus policy: ambassador
By Global Times Published: Dec 21, 2020 02:48 PM
China's Ambassador to Sweden Gui Congyou (left) answers questions from Swedish media Expressen on Friday. Photo: Screenshot from the Chinese Embassy in Sweden
China never interferes in other countries' internal affairs and respects the anti-epidemic policy the Swedish government has chosen, said China's Ambassador to Sweden Gui Congyou when asked about his view of Sweden's "failed" coronavirus policy in an interview with Swedish media Expressen.
The interview was published Sunday on the embassy's website. It covered a wide range of topics including the Swedish government's COVID-19 policy, Swedish media's reports on China, current strained China-Sweden relations as well as the dispute involving Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE.
Gui started his tenure as ambassador to Sweden in 2017 and has been described by some foreign media as being the Chinese ambassador most frequently "summoned" by the Swedish Foreign Ministry so far.
However, Gui corrected the term "summon" during the interview. He said the frequent "meetings" that he held with the Swedish Foreign Ministry have helped strengthen communication between the two countries.
Sweden has seen a soaring number of COVID-19 deaths and Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf said Thursday the country's approach to COVID-19 "has failed."
When Expressen asked Gui on his views of Sweden's epidemic situation and government policy, he clarified China's position that it never makes any judgment about the internal affairs of other countries.
"Sweden has its own national conditions. We respect the anti-epidemic policy chosen by the Swedish government. China never intervenes in other countries' internal affairs," he said.
Gui expressed sympathy for the Swedish people who have suffered from the epidemic and said China is willing to give a helping hand to Sweden in combatting the virus.
He stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation and communication between two countries, which share broad common interests in various fields and have a sound foundation and potential for further development of bilateral relations.
He stressed that the Swedish media must stop their biased and maliciously distorted reports about China, which have greatly damaged China-Sweden relations.
He encouraged Swedish reporters to visit China to gain a real and comprehensive understanding of the country and the Chinese people.
This was not the first time that Gui has criticized some Swedish media's prejudiced and hostile reports on China. In an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in October, 2018, he slammed some media for vilifying, attacking and smearing China on related issues.
Since arriving in Sweden, Gui has been engaged in promoting dialogue between China and Sweden through frequent meetings with the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on overcoming differences.
He said he had more than 60 meetings with the Foreign Ministry in 2018 alone. The ambassador believed more dialogue and communication is conducive to the healthy development of relations between the two countries.
When asked about the increasing number of Swedes who hold a negative view of China, as shown in a survey by the Pew Research Center, Gui believed Swedish people's real general view about China is more positive than the survey showed and questioned its credibility and the representativeness.
"We hope that the Swedish government's policy toward China can represent and reflect the mainstream public opinion, rather than base itself on opinion polls conducted by some US media and organizations that conduct surveys among a certain group of people to meet their own objectives," he said.
The interview also touched upon the topic of Huawei and ZTE being excluded from participating in the 5G expansion in Sweden.
Gui once again clarified China's position on the issue, stating that the relevant Swedish authorities' accusation against Huawei of posing a threat to Swedish network security is entirely groundless and not supported by any evidence. He urged the Swedish government to offer an open, fair, impartial, transparent and non-discriminatory business climate for Chinese companies in Sweden.
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1959 ac ace
2dr Roadster 6-cyl. 1991cc/90hp 3x1bbl SU
History of the 1954-1964 AC Ace
When AC cars went into liquidation in 1930, the Hurlock brothers bought the factory for their trucking business and continued to service AC cars and trucks. When customers asked for a new model, the brothers saw a chance to clear the parts bin, and obtained a Standard chassis that was supposed to be exclusive to Williams Lyons at SS. A series of lightweight 2-seaters followed and were quite successful. By 1950, however, the Hurlocks very much needed a new sports car. Jaguar had the XK 120 and MG had the T-Series, while Triumph’s TR2 and the Austin-Healey 100 were also not far off.
The Hurlocks then discovered John Tojeiro’s space-frame aluminum barchetta, which was built for Cliff Davis and inspired by the Ferrari 166. AC proposed building a production version of the racer, and Tojeiro agreed to a deal. The car was launched at the 1953 Earls Court Motor Show powered by AC’s 2-liter OHC engine. It was an immediate success and 466 were built, but the AC engine that dated back to the end of the First World War was long past the end of its development potential and only produced 75 bhp. Salvation arrived with the Bristol-sourced 2-liter, OHV 6-cylinder, which was basically the brilliant BMW 328 engine.
Once installed in the Ace in 1956, this Ace-Bristol proved an immediate race winner on both sides of the Atlantic and enjoyed seven years of successful production, with 463 sold. After Bristol stopped producing their 6-cylinder, AC was forced to look for other options. The quick choice was the 170 bhp Ruddspeed Ford Zephyr 2.6-liter 6-cylinder engine, which was available from 1961. Only 37 of those were built, however, before the Ace evolved into the Shelby Cobra, powered by the 264 bhp Ford 260 cubic inch V-8.
As the Ace became the Cobra, the power of the Ford V-8 required more and more improvements to the running gear. The Ace-Bristol, however, is the originating model, and with 125 bhp in its final tri-power D2 form, it remains competitive in historic racing. Based on a twin-tube ladder frame with 4-speed and overdrive transmission, independent suspension by transverse leaf springs and disc-drum brakes, it handles and stops well and has a top speed of 125 mph. In race tune, the Bristol engine also makes an incredible sound. The Ford Zephyr motor offered more power, but was only available in England, so parts are harder to source.
As Shelby prices have boomed, Aces have been drawn upwards too, and the best cars are no longer really affordable alternatives to the Cobra. Full provenance is essential and since many cars were used in competition, they should be carefully examined for crash damage repairs.
Speaking of competition, the Ace was a potent international racer in the late 1950s, and the company mounted annual Le Mans efforts between 1957 and 1959. Ken Rudd (of Ruddspeed) and Peter Bolton finished 10th overall in 1957 (2nd in class), Bolton and Richard Stoop were 8th overall in 1958 (2nd in class) followed by Hubert Patthey and Georges Berger (9th overall and 3rd in class). Finally in 1959, Ted Whiteaway and John Turner finished 7th overall and 1st in class. The last Ace to run at Le Mans was driven by Jean-Claude Magne and Georges Alexandrovitch in 1961. It finished 17th overall and won its class. The Cobras appeared in 1963. In The United States, the Ace cleaned up in the SCCA’s E-Production class, winning National Championships in 1957, 1958 and 1959. It was so successful that it was moved up a class twice, but Aces were still able to take National Championships in both D and C-Production. It will always live in the shadow of the Cobra, but the Ace created a very impressive legacy for itself long before Carroll Shelby stepped into the picture.
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Charting a Path Toward Fiscal Balance
COMMENTARY Budget and Spending
May 29th, 2019 2 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. @EdFeulner
Edwin J. Feulner is the founder and former president of The Heritage Foundation.
Like so many problems, this can be fixed — provided lawmakers are willing to do what it takes. Image by Erik Pronske Photography/Getty Images
Every now and then, sandwiched between breathless accounts of the latest political fights on Capitol Hill, a report on the rising tide of deficit spending appears.
Individuals can’t spend more than they take in. Families can’t do it. And neither can governments.
Now’s the perfect time, when the economy is still strong, to press them to do just that.
Every now and then, sandwiched between breathless accounts of the latest political fights on Capitol Hill, a report on the rising tide of deficit spending appears. Then everyone goes back to squabbling about the most recent scandal, and the deficit again slips off the radar screen.
In a sense, it’s hard to blame people for putting spending on the back burner. For one thing, few lawmakers on either side of the political aisle even bring it up — although, as we’ll see, they certainly should. Out of sight, out of mind.
For another, we’ve been hearing about the deficit for years, and, well, the sky hasn’t fallen. So do we really need to worry?
In a word, yes. The latest edition of “Blueprint for Balance” by The Heritage Foundation proves that conclusively. Things may look rosy now, and yes, the economy is quite strong now. But at our current rates of spending, we’re hurtling toward well, not a cliff, but a ravine — and a very deep one at that.
It’s a simple problem to understand. You can’t spend more than you take in forever. You can mask the problem for a while by using credit cards, but if the problem isn’t addressed at some point, you’re asking for trouble.
Individuals can’t spend more than they take in. Families can’t do it. And neither can governments. Oh, the latter can paper over the problem for longer, but sooner or later, the bills come due for everyone.
Still, some Americans may assume overspending is a problem for government, not them. Wrong.
“The impact will be felt by all Americans,” the Heritage report says. “Economic research shows that countries carrying such high levels of debt, especially if the debt is on an upward trajectory, experience slower economic growth. Slower growth means less take-home pay for workers and fewer opportunities for Americans to improve their economic well-being and attain financial security.”
Think of our growing economy as a hot-air balloon. Thanks in large measure to policies such as the Trump administration’s drive to cut taxes and reduce unnecessary regulations, it’s trying to soar. And for now, it’s able to do so.
But growing levels of deficit spending are like a huge sandbag tethered to the balloon. It’s acting like a drag, keeping the economy from rising as high as it otherwise could. And that sandbag is growing all the time, getting heavier and heavier.
Worse, the fastest growing portions of the federal budget — Social Security, health care, and interest payments — are on automatic pilot. If lawmakers do nothing, those three are on track by 2041 to consume every dollar the government takes in.
That doesn’t mean we can wait 20 years to fix this, by the way. The longer we let it go, the harder it is to fix, and the deeper we get into the ravine.
We’d all feel it — through inflation, for example. Through higher prices on everyday goods and services. Through higher interest rates, which would make it tougher to get a loan to start a business, purchase a car, or buy a better house.
That’s what deficit spending amounts to. It’s not some dry economic problem for Congress. It’s something that, left unchecked, will weaken our economy. Cause prices to rise. Put dreams of home-ownership and becoming their own boss out of reach for many Americans.
It’s a shame Heritage’s “Blueprint” isn’t viable in today’s toxic political environment. If implemented, it would reduce spending by $10.8 trillion over 10 years and eliminate budget deficits by 2029, as well as permanently extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and cut taxes by $800 billion.
Like so many problems, this can be fixed — provided lawmakers are willing to do what it takes. Now’s the perfect time, when the economy is still strong, to press them to do just that.
This piece originally appeared in The Washington Times
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All in a day’s work!
by Chris Calkin
The NHS Operating Game is an interactive training tool where services and organisations are visually represented requiring participants to plan service delivery over several rounds of the game. Each round representing a month. Find out more and watch a video showing the game in action .
The NHS Operating Games have been developed to ensure that they meet both training and technical requirements, but also importantly the requirement of those who have participated. The feedback, which has been universally excellent, has nevertheless helped us develop the games to reflect the challenges facing the NHS.
The Operating Game has developed over the last two years and now exists in four versions:
The NHS Operating Game - Integrated Health and social care
The NHS Operating Game - Acute
The NHS Operating Game - Mental Health
The NHS Wales Operating Game
The training day presents participants with a number of strategic and service challenges where the objective is to work as a team to deliver a quality, safe and financially viable health organisation. It illustrates in a very practical way that operational decisions have an effect on the financial position of organisations as well as quality ratings. During the day teams are presented with a number of unexpected events and challenges that require them to re-plan and develop solutions to ensure that they maintain operational, clinical and financial viability.
We have now run the NHS Operating Games with over 1500 individuals ranging from ward managers, consultants, operational managers, healthcare professionals, GPs, non executives and finance staff including several of the graduate entry finance training schemes. It works from ward to board. Organisations that have used the game include CCGs, acute, mental health & community trusts, NHS England, a Welsh health board and a major supplier of medical supplies to the NHS.
The “Game”, and I almost hesitate to call it that, has delivered insights for participants from all professions. The number of “light bulb” moments that occur every time we run the training is what makes facilitating the game so satisfying. In one day we are able to de-mystify many of the misconceptions and misunderstandings that exist and assist people to look outside of their silo and understand the challenges and constraints that all professions/organisations working in the NHS have to deal with every day. This leads to a better understanding and a more integrated approach to finding solutions.
I understand, especially in these financially challenged times, that obtaining funding to play a game may meet with resistance. However, gamification is a well-recognised method of learning. It even has a definition:
The gamification of learning is an educational approach to motivate students to learn by using video game design and game elements in learning environments. The goal is to maximise enjoyment and engagement through capturing the interest of learners and inspiring them to continue learning.
The latest version we have developed is The NHS Operating Game - Integrated health and social care. The catalyst was the NHS’s need to develop solutions that work across organisational boundaries and challenge the existing ways and methods of working. Integrated care needs integrated understanding and whilst all of the versions of the Games support this principle, the evolving NHS requires a more focused approach that would bring organisations as well as individuals together.
It is a privilege and pleasure to facilitate the NHS Operating Game and meet so many committed people who want to think outside their silo and find solutions that improve services. The game(s) will continue to evolve and develop as the NHS changes and develops.
I hope to see you soon at one of the training days.
To find out more about the NHS Operating Game, click here or contact our team on 0117 938 8350.
Chris Calkin
Lead facilitator for The NHS Operating Games
HFMA Awards 2020
NHS Operating Game - 17 October 2017
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Home » Large-scale medical centers seek efficiency in design
Large-scale medical centers seek efficiency in design
Architecture that pays attention to patient experience, workflow and sustainability while consolidating services
Amy Eagle
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay is an 878,000-square-foot building housing UCSF cancer, women’s and children’s hospitals. The $1.5 billion LEED-Gold certified facility opened in February 2015.
Image courtesy of Stantec
While the health care industry is in a building boom of small, off-site facilities, large-scale medical centers are still being delivered. And they're proving that big doesn't necessarily mean imposing or inefficient.
Consolidating substantial specialty care, clinical, research and teaching programs in a single building can require nearly 1 million square feet or more of complex, highly technical space. But large public hospitals, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other major health care organizations are showing that projects of this magnitude can be designed, built and operated efficiently.
What's more, monumental facilities can be welcoming and accessible to patients, visitors and staff.
Inspiring designs
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“Parkland proved it can be done,” says Michael Wood, CHFM, CHSP, CHEP, director of engineering, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas. The new 862-bed, $1.3 billion, LEED-Gold certified Parkland hospital has 2.1 million square feet of acute care space. The public hospital, which opened August 2015, replaces a 1950s-era building that had become outdated.
The project was a joint venture by architecture firms HDR and Corgan, both with offices in Dallas. For efficient construction and operations, spaces throughout the building were standardized as much as possible, says Hank Adams, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, director of health care and senior vice president, HDR. Patient rooms, which average 320 square feet, are designed to adapt to different acuity levels. For similar flexibility, the 23 surgical suites and four shelled suites are sized on a 700-square-foot module. Patient room toilets were built off-site for greater economy and quality control, as were the patient room headwalls and the overhead racks housing the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Energy-efficient infrastructure components like fanwall technology and variable-frequency drives were installed to make the hospital more cost-effective and sustainable to operate.
• Despite current interest in smaller, off-site facilities, several large-scale medical centers recently have come on line.
• While many previous large facilities stressed comfort, this new generation of facilities equally concentrates on efficiency and consolidation of services.
• These new facilities also are more welcoming and accessible than their size would lead one to believe.
The massing of the building was determined primarily by the colocation of surgical and women’s services. The women’s services program includes 44 labor and delivery rooms (LDRs), nine obstetrics specialty surgical suites and shelled space for four more LDRs. Positioning this department together with the surgery department on the hospital’s third floor created a footprint of 220,000 square feet.
This floor and the floors below it, where the hospital’s diagnostic and treatment block and main public spaces are located, form the base of the building. The patient tower and an adjacent women’s and children’s clinic that extends across the street are stacked at right angles to one another above this base, giving the building a distinctive geometric form. The “structural gymnastics” of this iconic design were driven by the clinical functions of the hospital, explains James J. Atkinson, AIA, LEED AP, EDAC, director of health care planning, HDR.
Adams says the hospital’s late CEO, Ron J. Anderson, M.D., said he wanted the new Parkland to be known in its region as the hospital of first choice. Now, says Wood, “You walk into this building and you’re just in awe about the dignity with which we can serve our patients. It keeps me inspired and my team inspired.”
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay is an 878,000-square-foot building housing UCSF cancer, women’s and children’s hospitals. The Mission Bay campus gave the quaternary care and academic research center an opportunity to expand these services and link them directly to research and teaching facilities already on-site, says Stuart Eckblad, FAIA, executive director, major capital projects, UCSF Health. The $1.5 billion LEED-Gold certified facility opened in February 2015.
According to Eckblad, local height restrictions were a factor in determining the form of the six-story structure, which stretches nearly 800 feet long. The three hospitals, which have a total of 289 beds, are arranged side-by-side in the building chassis, each with its own entrance and elevator core. A public concourse links the three hospitals on the main level of the facility, serving as an organizing element along the entire building. There are a variety of areas for respite, engagement and positive distraction, from the street-level community plaza to the 3.2 acres of rooftop gardens. “You can tell from the design, materials and attention to detail that this is a place where people care,” says Eckblad.
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The hospitals’ back-of-house functions are shared for increased operational efficiency and effectiveness, explains Annie Coull, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, San Francisco-based health and wellness sector lead for design firm Stantec. To reduce staff walking distances, a fleet of 27 autonomous mobile robots carries linens, food, specimens and medications throughout the building.
Laurel Harrison, senior principal, Stantec, says the scope of the Mission Bay project gave the project team the opportunity to work with software developers to shape the next generation of programs used to visualize and test building designs. “We were able to push the boundaries of design and construction technology,” she says.
The design and construction team was formed in 2008. “Technology was developing as rapidly as the project,” says Ray Trebino, LEED AP, project executive from the San Francisco office of DPR Construction. According to Trebino, building information modeling was just coming into use in the industry at the start of the project and had recently developed to the point that the entire team, including subcontractors, could work cooperatively on a digital model. Given the size and complexity of the project, an integrated team and collaborative work processes were necessary to ensure that the project reached its full potential, says Trebino.
Renewed purpose
University Medical Center (UMC) New Orleans is a replacement facility for the city’s Charity Hospital, which flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charity Hospital was founded in 1736; its 1930s-era building had been expanded to nearly 1 million square feet. At the time of the storm, the hospital had 425 staffed beds, according to Danny Mahaffey, assistant vice president and university architect, facility and property oversight, Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge.
“When [the community] saw Charity get shut down by Katrina, they were concerned they would never get anything back of that scale,” Mahaffey says. “We fought very hard to make sure that we brought something back that was bigger and better than what they had before.”
The new facility, which opened in August 2015, covers 2.3 million square feet overall, with 1.3 million square feet for health care services, including 446 private inpatient rooms, 60 behavioral health beds, 19 surgical suites, a Level I trauma center and a major ambulatory care component. UMC New Orleans is also a regional medical education center, with academic partners including LSU and Tulane University, and is certified LEED Silver.
The facility was designed as a joint venture by architecture firms NBBJ, headquartered in Seattle, and Blitch/Knevel Architects, New Orleans. Mackenzie Skene, partner, NBBJ, says the project was “a tremendous opportunity to give incredible health care professionals a facility commensurate with the level of care they provide.”
Skene says that due to the size of the building, the design team looked at walking distances differently for this project than they would for a typical hospital. They paid close attention to both vertical and horizontal distances in planning departmental adjacencies and sought to find a “sweet spot” between high-rise and low-rise facility designs, he says. One major driver for the building’s floorplate was the size of the surgery suites, all of which are located on the same floor. The six-story building was designed to be respectful in scale to nearby residential neighborhoods; a low, dense building also is safer in a major storm, Skene adds.
Other storm-protection measures include placing all mission-critical functions at least 21 feet above base flood elevation. Only public and administrative areas are located on the first floor, which is designed so the hospital can continue to operate even if the area floods. An exterior ramp leads to the emergency department (ED) on the second floor.
Health care’s front line
Across the street from UMC New Orleans, a medical center for the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (SLVHCS) is under construction, with completion expected mid-2016. The $1 billion, 1.6 million-square-foot project is replacing the New Orleans Veterans Affairs (NOVA) Medical Center facility, which was destroyed, like Charity Hospital, by Hurricane Katrina.
The new medical center will include 200 inpatient beds, 370 outpatient exam rooms and 21 procedural suites, as well as space for emergency care, ambulatory care, mental health services, patient education, transitional care and outpatient rehabilitation. It also will serve as a research and teaching facility. Known as “Project Legacy,” the medical center is designed by Studio NOVA, a joint venture of NBBJ and two New Orleans firms, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Rozas Ward Architects. According to the architects, the project is on target to receive LEED Silver certification.
Project Legacy will comprise 12 buildings that each connect to a central concourse. Doug Parris, FAIA, partner, NBBJ, says this layout provides clear wayfinding and shorter walking distances for veterans, many of whom have vision or mobility issues. Because the facility will serve a large region, each major entrance is designed to include services like restrooms and dining for the convenience of people who travel a long distance to reach the campus.
“The primary thing in creating a facility this big is to pay attention to the small things,” says Parris. Purposeful choices in color, furnishings, fabric and similar details bring the design to a human level, he says.
In a strategy also employed at UMC New Orleans, Project Legacy has several courtyards — a traditional New Orleans building feature — that bring natural light into the large structure. The complex is set back from nearby residential areas by greenspace, so as not to appear too overwhelming from the street.
Resiliency measures include a second-floor ED (above base flood elevation) with a ramp that can be used as a boat launch in an emergency. Primary power distribution is located on the fourth floor.
“This medical center is a state-of-the-art facility that will provide hospital care in a region that hasn’t had its own VA hospital in more than 10 years,” says Fernando O. Rivera, FACHE, director and CEO, SLVHCS. “It will be part of the resurgence of medical care and biosciences in this central southern region.”
In Orlando, Fla., another new VA medical center began a phased opening in February 2015. The Orlando VA Medical Center (VAMC) covers 1.2 million square feet “on paper,” notes Steve Langston, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, LEED BD+C, design director for Orlando-based architecture firm RLF. This figure includes a 500,000-square-foot hospital with 134 beds, a 450,000-square-foot multispecialty clinic and 120,000 square feet of community living (120 beds) and administrative space. Add the parking garages, central energy plant and a 6 1/2-foot interstitial space for each floor of the hospital and clinic and the total size of the $600 million project, which is designed for LEED Silver, rises to more than 2.4 million square feet.
The campus is on a peninsula, with the clinic at the front of the complex and the hospital facing the water. Two 1,300-car parking garages are positioned between the two. Langston explains that the site originally was programmed with surface parking using a tram service to shuttle patients to and from parking spaces. However, it was determined that the tram service would be too expensive to operate over the life of the building and the walking distances were too long. Placing the garages between the clinic and hospital, rather than constructing surface parking, reduced the average walking distance from a parking space to either building from 11,000 feet to 250 feet — no tram needed.
The hospital and clinic spaces are connected by a monumental glass, steel and concrete atrium, engraved at the entrance with the words, “For those who served.” The roofline of the atrium swoops across the middle of the medical complex, extending over a central spine where all major circulation in the building occurs. With this organizing structure, “you can get where you need to go easily,” says project executive Bart Bruchok, DBIA, construction and facilities management, office of acquisition, logistics and construction, Department of Veterans Affairs, Orlando. “The designers really tried to think about [patients’] typical transit through the building,” Bruchok says.
Huge undertaking
In an era when smaller, off-campus facilities are getting a large share of attention, major medical centers still play a big role. Educating the next generation of health providers, conducting cutting-edge medical research and providing care for large populations and people with complex medical issues is a huge undertaking. Well-designed, well-built and well-run facilities are helping to bring it down to size.
Amy Eagle is a freelance writer based in Homewood, Ill., who specializes in health care-related topics. She is a regular contributor to Health Facilities Management.
Medical center opens with new purpose after long delay
Grandview Medical Center, Birmingham, Ala., which opened October 2015, includes a 1 million-square-foot, 372-bed acute care hospital and a 220,000-square-foot medical office building.
To create the medical center, Community Health Systems (CHS) Inc., Franklin, Tenn., engaged architecture firm Earl Swensson Associates (ESa) Inc., Nashville, Tenn., and general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie, Birmingham, to repurpose an existing structure that originally was intended to be the world’s first all-digital hospital, to be operated by HealthSouth Corp., also of Birmingham. Brasfield & Gorrie first began construction of the 12-story facility in 2002. That project was halted in 2003. When construction stopped, the majority of the medical center’s footprint was established and most of its mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems were installed and operational, says Brian Willer, AIA, project design manager, ESa. The building sat unoccupied for about a decade.
CHS entered into an agreement to purchase the facility to replace the 50-year-old Trinity Medical Center, located about eight miles from the site. The agreement was contingent on the project’s receiving a certificate of need to relocate the hospital, which was granted in 2013. Keith Granger, president and CEO, Grandview Medical Center, says the health system was thrilled with the visibility and connectivity offered by the Grandview Medical Center site, which is just off a major interstate. “It’s very accessible,” says Andy Collignon, director of facility planning, CHS. The building was also the right size to meet the system’s needs and had well-designed engineering systems, adds Gordon Carlisle, vice president, design and construction, CHS.
The hospital is laid out in what Willer calls a “stacked ancillary” design. “Instead of being spread out, it’s vertical,” he explains. There are 21 elevators in the building. Twelve of these — six for staff, six for patients and visitors — are located in the central core of the building. The remainder are dedicated to certain services. Six elevators, for example, run between the surgery and central sterile processing departments, three for handling dirty items and three for clean items.
Granger says the high-rise structure enabled the hospital to vertically align elevator cores, stairwells, shafts, ductwork and piping, while segregating individual patient conditions on separate floors. One floor, for example, is reserved for intensive care patients. This floor has 48 intensive care beds arranged in three units that can be staffed as needed to meet fluctuating demand. On the surgical floor, there are 30 operating rooms and associated spaces for preoperative and post-anesthesia care, plus five endoscopy procedure rooms.
A 10-level parking deck serves the medical center, with separate parking levels and elevators for staff members and the public. The first, second and fourth levels of the parking deck are aligned with the first, second and fourth levels of the hospital to simplify wayfinding. The public face of the parking deck utilizes the same curtain wall system as the hospital and medical office building, to give the campus a uniform style.
Creating operational synergy through design
McGill University Health Centre’s (MUHC's) Glen site in Montreal, Canada, covers five square blocks. The new 2.4 million-square-foot project consolidated a research institute, a cancer center and three hospitals — Montreal Children’s Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Montreal Chest Institute — into a single facility with 500 beds. There are 346 beds for adults and 154 beds for pediatric patients.
Prior to the Glen site’s opening last year, the Royal Victoria Hospital was operating out of a building that dated, in part, to its original 1893 construction. “Delivering quaternary and tertiary care in that facility was very challenging,” says Imma Franco, director of technical services, planning and real estate management, MUHC. The new building is designed for improved clinical operations and infrastructure. MUHC reports that the LEED Silver facility will use 35 percent less energy than other Canadian hospitals.
The facility is the result of a public-private partnership. It was financed, designed and will be operated for the next 30 years by a consortium headed by engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, Montreal.
The design preserves the history of each constituent institution while allowing them to work together to maximize human resources, financial resources and equipment, Franco says. Combining hospital, research and cancer programs at a single site allows them to share clinical and nonclinical support services. For instance, there is now one main cafeteria — a congenial space with abundant natural light that has become a gathering place for principal investigators and other staff, according to Franco. Spaces like this that encourage interaction between colleagues at the facility are creating synergy among the programs, she says.
Much of the building’s square footage was driven by an effort to provide the best possible patient experience. The project team would compromise on administrative areas at times, but held firm on the size of patient rooms, operating rooms and exam rooms, Franco says. The team was sensitive to how the scale of the building could impact patients, and design changes were made where possible to reduce walking distances. “Although it’s big, I think we were successful in optimizing adjacencies,” says Franco.
Circulation routes for patients and visitors are designed to be straightforward. Single corridors lead to three large atria that fill the building with natural light. Eleven major pieces of public art serve as wayfinding cues inside and outside the facility. Curved blocks marking the main entrances provide a welcoming first impression and integrate the medical center into the urban fabric of its neighborhood.
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In opening remarks at a gathering of writers and readers on October 20, 2019, author Vincent James Vezza outlines the agenda for an event titled When History Matters. The Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society, in Mount Pleasant, N.C. and Friends of the Library, sponsored the meeting.
At a gathering of writers and readers on October 20, 2019, Denise McClain describes the "Roots Write Time" workshop that she manages on behalf of the Cabarrus County Public Library in Concord. Held in the Lore Local History Room of the library on the third Thursday of each month, this workshop is available to all writers. Denise works with the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society, ECHS on several occasions. She shared her information at an ECHS event titled "When History Matters" hosted by the Society and the Friends of the Library.
At a gathering of writers and readers on October 20, 2019, author Ben Callahan describes the work that went into the development of his book, "Mt. Pleasant by the Minutes." A former law enforcement officer and past president of the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society, ECHS, Ben shared his story at an ECHS event titled "When History Matters" hosted by the Society and the Friends of the Library.
Ben plans to publish his next book in 2020. It will be titled "Promises Unfulfilled." Keep an eye on the HTN Recommended books for purchase links.
At a gathering of writers and readers on October 20, 2019, author M.J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D. describes the work that went into the development of her published Priscilla Trilogy and soon to be published addition to the series. Dr. Simms-Maddox is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network. Her presentation was delivered at the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society at an event titled "When History Matters" hosted by the Society and the Friends of the Library.
At a gathering of writers and readers on October 20, 2019, author William Cottrell, a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network, describes his debut novel, "Confessions of an Anesthesiologist" featured in the HTN Recommended books. Dr. Cottrell is a contributor to the Trail Tales series published in Senior Savvy. The presentation was delivered at the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society at an event titled "When History Matters" hosted by the Society and the Friends of the Library.
At a gathering of writers and readers on October 20, 2019, author James Polk reads a short story that describes the plight of his ancestor who was captured during the Civil War. James is a frequent contributor to the Trail Tales series published in Senior Savvy. The presentation was delivered at the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society at an event titled "When History Matters" hosted by the Society and the Friends of the Library.
William Cottrell is a new contributor to the Trail Tales column, and an occasional hiker. His story, Perfect Attendance recalls a childhood memory that finds a measure of closure in a recent visit.
About William Cottrell- William is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and an anesthesiologist who practiced over 39 years in the area of Concord, North Carolina before retirement in 2018. He has served in various capacities including president of Cabarrus County Medical Society, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia and as a medical examiner for Cabarrus County. His medical practice has been complimented by a love of writing, acoustic guitar, golf, community and family including six grandchildren. In 2016 he completed his memoirs; Confessions of an Anesthesiologist, available on amazon and Barnes and Noble. It is also featured in the Recommended Tab on this website. This book gives a chronological review of how his medical practice evolved over forty years from both a personal and professional perspective.
You can reach Dr. Cottrell by email at wcottrell1@windstream.net.
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Charles Allen Sworn In as Ward 6 Councilman
by Andrea Swalec January 2, 2015 at 11:25 am 0
The new Ward 6 councilman has taken the oath of office.
Hill resident Charles Allen was sworn in as the D.C. Councilman for Ward 6 this morning (Friday). With 2-year-old daughter Cora Neal in his arms and wife Jordi Hutchinson alongside him, Tommy Wells’ former chief of staff took office about 11 a.m.
He spoke about the symbolic importance of the district.
“From Shaw to Southwest, from H Street to Hill East, from NoMa to Navy Yard, and across Capitol Hill, Ward 6 is a snapshot of our city,” he said. “It represents and celebrates our diversity, and I believe it reflects not only the District’s tremendous success stories, but it also reflects the challenges we must confront.”
Allen told an anecdote about meeting a woman on the street on Election Day, as he and his family walked to the polls.
“Wait, did I just vote for you?” the woman called out after him.
“I sure hope so,” Allen replied.
“I’m counting on you to do what you say, and represent my family,” the woman replied.
“I said I’d work hard to do just that,” Allen recounted.
Three or four days later, Allen received a card in the mail. “Dear Mr. Allen, You did it,” it said. The note was signed, “Peace, the person you met on 15th Street as you were heading to the polls.” The encounter reminded Allen of his deep responsibility, he said.
“I’m not interested in just filling a seat on this Council, I’m interested in rolling up my shirtsleeves, getting to work to make our lives better, to make our children’s lives better,” he said. “Our neighborhoods and our city have got to be a great place to grow up and a great place to grow old, and I believe they will be.”
“I’m ready to get to work.”
Charles Allen, D.C. Council
Souk Spice Market and Bakery Coming to Barracks Row
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i-Teams receives Hauser Forum IdeaSpace funding
“I-Teams embodies everything the Hauser Forum IdeaSpace is being created to represent – an enthusiasm for enterprise and innovation and a desire to help new innovations grow.”
I-Teams, a scheme designed to help inventors realise the commercial potential of innovative designs, has been given a financial boost.
The i-Teams programme, co-ordinated by the IfM, is one of the very first projects to receive financial support from the Hauser Forum. The city’s newest centre for enterprise has agreed to provide close to £35,000 for the scheme.
I-teams was set up in Cambridge in 2006 by Amy Mokady, and is a collaboration between the IfM and the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club. The programme, based on the successful programme created in the US at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is designed to analyse the commercial potential of an emerging, breakthrough technology.
Amy, an experienced local entrepreneur, said the funding showed the impact i-Teams had made: “We’re delighted that the Hauser Forum IdeaSpace has agreed to provide financial support for i-Teams. The IdeaSpace will be the University’s powerhouse for supporting new innovations, and we are proud to be closely associated with it.”
The IdeaSpace, set up with funding from EEDA, is part of the Hauser Forum which is set to open in early 2010 and will be housed in a new £8m building on the West Cambridge site.
The Forum is named after its chief benefactor Dr. Hermann Hauser. The former Cambridge graduate founded Acorn Computers 30 years ago, and is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of Silicon Fen.
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Multi-million pound grant boosts Ink-jet research
The group, headed by Professor Ian Hutchings of the IfM, has been awarded £5m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Professor Ian Hutchings
It may sound like science fiction, but industry could soon be producing complex electronics and hi-tech gadgetry simply by pressing the print button.
A consortium, led by the University of Cambridge, has been awarded a multi-million pound grant to investigate how ink-jet print technology could revolutionise manufacturing processes.
The consortium comprises collaborators from two other Cambridge departments, the Universities of Durham and Leeds, and a group of nine companies which include the major UK players in the ink-jet sector.
The £5m award, with additional funding from industry, will support a five-year programme of research to study the formulation, jetting and deposition of specialist printing fluids, and develop an overall process model. This work will improve the robustness of industrial ink-jet printing and help companies develop new applications for the technology.
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InkJet Research Centre
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Capstone Headwaters advises Strauss Brands on its acquisition by Insight Equity
Capstone Headwaters advised Strauss Brands Incorporated (“Strauss”) on its acquisition by Insight Equity Management Company (“Insight Equity”). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 1937 and based in Franklin, Wisconsin, Strauss Brands is a family owned and operated company that supplies ethically, humanely and sustainably raised meats. It is the largest brand of American family-farmed, grass-fed, grass-finished beef in the U.S. focused on health, transparency and sustainability. Strauss is recognized by consumers, retailers and chefs for its humane practices and superior-tasting products, and is mentioned by name in over 1,000 restaurant menus around the country. Products are also available for purchase through the company’s online store, Free Raised® Direct.
Insight Equity, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Southlake, Texas, is a private equity firm that makes control investments in strategically viable, middle market companies striving to achieve their full potential. The firm specializes in complex and special situations. Its approach is to partner with management teams to drive transformational improvements in businesses by providing more than just capital, but also taking responsibility along-side management team members for key operational and strategic objectives.
Randy Strauss, Co-president of Strauss Brands, said
"Capstone was a great partner – the process and industry relationships of the deal team generated multiple offers that allowed my brother Tim and I to achieve our numerous objectives. Given the transaction’s complexity, achieving all our objectives required incredible creativity and tenacity. The industry knowledge, honest and straightforward advice, and dedication of Capstone team members exceeded all expectations. They are trusted advisors and true leaders in the healthy-living industry.”
Bill Harrison, Managing Director and Head of Consumer Investment Banking at Capstone Headwaters, added
“It was an honor to represent Strauss. As a pioneer in ethical, humane and sustainable practices, Strauss has proven its commitment to producing meats that are better for the environment, more humane for the animal and healthier for consumers,” commented. For over 80 years, Strauss has been synonymous with premium meats and much of the company’s growth is a result of consumers’ increasing focus on healthier and more sustainable food with greater transparency. The next chapter for Strauss with Insight Equity as its partner will be extremely exciting.”
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Denying there is a border crisis is the surest path to a completely unsecured border
By Jennifer G. Hickey April 13, 2018 3 Comments
In his letter this week to Defense Secretary James Mattis and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen accepting federal dollars to deploy up to 400 National Guard troops to the border, California Gov. Jerry Brown could not resist a snarky addendum.
He’d take the money, but insisted that “there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California,” he said, adding that overall immigrant apprehensions “were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years.”
A group of Democratic House members made the similar (and familiar) argument in another letter to Mattis and Nielsen.
“We require a clearer explanation of the impetus for this approach at a time when border crossings are at a 40-year low,” demanded the lawmakers in their April 11 letter.
The “there is no crisis” mantra is a convenient, yet grossly inaccurate and misleading talking point of those who feign commitment to border security without committing to implementing the policies to achieve secure borders.
Are these the border crisis deniers wrong about an actual decline in the number of border apprehensions in California and nationwide? Yes.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the number of apprehensions along at the border and other ports of entry declined after October 2016 when 66,712 illegal immigrants were stopped from entering the U.S. That decline continued after President Trump was elected, but then it began to increase in May 2017. Between May and December 2017, the number rose from 19,940 to 40,511.
And the numbers are continuing to increase. According to data released this week, the Border Patrol apprehended 37,393 individuals in March – a 203 percent increase over March 2017, and a 37 percent increase from February (26,663).
The 2014 crisis of thousands of Central Americans flooding our borders occurred precisely because the Obama administration failed to act with urgency and immediacy – which is the exact reason why the Trump administration wants to send National Guard troops to free up border agents to address the crisis.
Numbers do not tell the full story that the Border Patrol lives every day. Along with a renewed surge of economic migrants entering illegally, there has been an uptick criminal activity along the border:
Colonel Steven McCraw, director of Texas Department of Public Safety, told a House committee on April 12 that his state troopers have seized in the last few months an amount of fentanyl that is equivalent to nearly 12 million lethal doses;
On April 6, CPB arrested several individuals with more than $3.1 million of narcotics;
An MS-13 gang member was found hiding among Central Americans claiming asylum;
A mother and her five kids were caught trying to smuggle 231 pound of drugs into the U.S. on April;
And, a CPB agent rescued two illegal immigrants abandoned by a smuggler.
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Will Mexico Continue Holding the Line Against Illegal Immigration for the Next U.S. President?
J. R. Alexander on April 22, 2018 7:32 am
Little has been said about the State of New Mexico and its sanctuary policies. While not public knowledge, a number of cities – Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Farmington, Roswell, Deming, etc. – are in fact sanctuary cities with high crime rates. Having lived in NM off and on since the 1990’s, I have seen Illegal Aliens in the stores in Deming; a small town just 35 miles North of a poorly guarded border with Mexico. It is easy to walk across the border – I have done it.
The word “Illegal” should still mean something to our elected representatives other than more Democratic Party voters to be forgotten the day after each election.
Greg Serbon on April 18, 2018 6:05 am
Honestly why not stop all illegals from coming across the border? How many get past the border patrol and in many cases more then once? It’s all a lie designed to keep the flow of cheap wage labor coming in for business.
Leland on April 14, 2018 11:34 am
Well yes, they are wrong. But more than that, they’re outright lying because the figures are available to anyone who cares to make the slightest effort to obtain them. These people are just dishonest con artists, unable to win by the merits of an issue.
The reason crossings dropped in October 2016 and then “began to increase in May 2017” is that fewer wanted to come during that period if they thought they would be automatically returned under Trump. But then it became clear that activist judges, it only takes one nationwide, were going to tie up Trump’s enforcement policies in the court system for years.
Brown is the typical double dealing faker. He makes some token deployment, because he knows if he doesn’t he will get labelled as supporting open borders. {Which he actually does, he told all Mexicans they were “welcome” to come to California, legal or not.} But he also put restrictions on the troops he is sending to the point where they cannot actually even assist in any enforcement procedures.
The dishonesty of the left is staggering. Accuse them of supporting open borders and they will reply righteously that we have the right to enforce our borders and deport those here illegally. But they really only talk a good game. But ask them for their solutions and it’s always pass the umpteenth amnesty, stop all deportations in the name of family unity, and no border wall or fence. In other words, all the things guaranteed to exacerbate the problem. Con artists, all of them.
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Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here's How He Did It
At 31 years of age, Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT. Here's an inside look at a company meeting, and what you can learn from it.
By Justin Bariso@JustinJBariso
Brilliant. Passionate. Overbearing. Impatient.
Steve Jobs's management style has been described in many ways, both positive and negative. Love him or hate him, there's no denying what he accomplished: Within a short time, he built the most successful company on the planet.
Before that, though, Jobs was actually forced out of Apple (in 1985). A few months later, he founded another company. This startup, appropriately named NeXT, focused on producing high-powered computers for the higher education industry. A talented team left secure positions at Apple and followed Jobs to his new endeavor--evidence of how much people believed in him.
The following video shows excerpts of a company retreat that Jobs orchestrated during the first three months of the company. And it's fascinating.
The lessons for entrepreneurs are plentiful. I've picked out eight that I feel are noteworthy. (I've also included the time frame from the video in parentheses.)
1. Show your passion (3:46)
Jobs was well known as an excellent presenter, and his skills are on full display in his introductory speech. He uses repetition well. He's enthusiastic. He's natural. But most important, he believes what he's saying, and he's not afraid to put himself out there.
If you don't get passionate about your idea, no one else will.
2. Focus on creating value (4:50)
Jobs: "We're doing this because we have a passion about it...because we really care about the higher educational process. Not because we want to make a buck."
As an entrepreneur, there's no greater feeling than providing a product or service that people feel will make their life better.
3. Challenge your team (6:15)
Throughout the video, Jobs probes and challenges his people. He doesn't accept anything at face value. He wants to know why people feel the way they do. And often, he lets them know exactly why he disagrees.
Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: "If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career."
4. Keep everyone on course (6:53)
Jobs: "There needs to be someone who is the keeper and reiterator of the vision.... A lot of times, when you have to walk a thousand miles and you take the first step, it looks like a long way, and it really helps if there's someone there saying 'Well we're one step closer.... The goal definitely exists; it's not just a mirage out there.'"
As your company evolves, it's easy to lose sight of what's important. Culture shift is a danger.
But it's your company. Don't compromise on things you believe in. It's what got Jobs kicked out of Apple in 1985, but it's also why they brought him back--and what made Apple such a success.
5. Define the right priorities (7:26)
As the NeXTteam discusses its priorities, you can witness Jobs's remarkable ability to focus on what's most important, and even more critical, to defend why it's important.
When team members challenge priority No. 1 (keeping the price of the computer at $3,000), Jobs vehemently defends it:
"They didn't say if you made it go three times faster we'd pay $4,000.... They said, 'Go to $3,000 [or] forget it.' That's their magic number.... Nobody else says that they can do that.... Whether it is or not, in reality, who knows. Whether it is or not in terms of their commitment to push us, we've established that."
The team followed his lead, and price stayed priority No. 1.
You know what's important, but can you prove why it's important? If so, then your team will follow.
6. Know when to interrupt (9:52)
A member of the team proceeds to goes on a rant. She goes on and on, and Jobs remains patient...at first. But as she continues, his patience runs out. He interrupts to refocus.
Many years ago, I sat in on a meeting where a senior member of the team talked for 20 minutes without interruption. We were all thinking the same thing, but nobody had the courage to speak up.
Finally, another manager (who was new to the company) respectfully put an end to the speech, to everyone else's relief. I learned a lot from that episode.
Be a good listener. Be patient. But know when you need to step in, and you'll save a lot of time and resources.
7. Learn from the past, but don't let it own you (11:11)
As one team member laments past failures, Jobs speaks up:
"I don't want to hear 'Just because we blew it last time, we're going to blow it this time....' This is a window we've got...it's a wonderful window."
Any great entrepreneur knows that failure is part of the process. The more you try, the more you fail--but success is out there. You've just got to find it.
8. Focus on the positive (12:22)
At the end of the weekend retreat, Jobs said the following:
"I find myself making lists of things we don't know, and then I remember that our company's 90 days old. And I look back to all the things we do know. And it's really phenomenal how far we've come in 90 days."
When you have a long road ahead of you, it can be intimidating to focus on what's left. There will always be plenty to do.
Remember to look back at what you've already accomplished, and that can give you the motivation you need to move forward.
If you enjoyed these points, make sure to check out the sequel with four more lessons: How Steve Jobs Ran His Legendary Meetings.
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Trade - Canadian Industry Statistics
Enter a keyword or NAICS code
Browse for an industry Glossary
Oil and Gas Extraction - 211
The information is provided through links to selected reports in Trade Data Online. You can use this information to identify export opportunities, identify opportunities to replace imported goods with your own, assess the export intensity of the subsector and determine the apparent size of the domestic market.
Total exports include all goods leaving the country (through customs) for a foreign destination. It consists of the sum of domestic exports and re-exports.
Total exports = domestic exports + re-exports
Domestic exports consist of the exports of all goods grown, produced, extracted or manufactured in the country (Canada) leaving the country (through customs) for a foreign destination. Exports of imported merchandise which has been substantially enhanced in value are also included.
On the other hand, re-exports refer to the export of goods that have previously entered the country (Canada) and are leaving in the same condition as when first imported. Exports of imported merchandise which has been minimally processed but NOT substantially enhanced in value are also counted as re-exports.
The following links request the Trade Data Online application to generate on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada:
Total exports - all countries (total) - latest 5 years (report)
Total exports - top 10 countries of destination - latest year (report)
Total exports to the U.S. by state of destination - latest 5 years (report)
Total imports include all goods which have entered the country (Canada) by crossing territorial (customs) boundaries, whether for immediate domestic consumption or for storage in customs bonded warehouses.
The re-imports (included in Total Imports) refer to goods re-entering (returned to) Canada after having been exported abroad without having been materially altered or substantially enhanced in value while abroad.
The following links request the Trade Data Online application to generate on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada.
Total imports - all countries (total) - latest 5 years (report)
Total imports - top 10 countries of origin - latest year (report)
Total imports from the U.S. by State of origin - latest 5 years (report)
The balance of trade represents the difference between exports and imports of goods between the country (Canada) and one (or more) of its international trading partners.
Trade balance = total exports - total imports
If the country imports more goods than it exports, the trade balance is negative (trade deficit) . If the country exports more goods than it imports, the trade balance is positive (trade surplus).
The following link requests the Trade Data Online application to generate on-the-fly reports using the latest available data from Statistics Canada.
Trade balance between Canada and all countries (total) - latest 5 years (report)
The current section contains links to selected reports in Trade Data Online to illustrate the type of information that can be viewed. However, once you access the Trade Data Online application, you are free to customize the selections by changing parameters in the main panel above the reports.
The main panel allows you the select the trade type (imports, exports, trade balance, etc.), the time period (5 or 10 years, selected years, year to date etc.), the currency (Canadian or U.S. dollars), the domestic region (All Canada, individual provinces etc.), the trading partners (world total, list of all countries, Top 10 trading partners, over 320 individual countries, predefined geographic areas, etc.) as well as selected the NAICS codes.
Data are available from 1992 to present for primary industries (e.g. agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, oil and gas extraction etc.) as well as manufacturing industries.
In addition to printing the reports or graphs, Trade Data Online also allows you to download the data in comma-delimited (CSV) format or as an Excel Spreadsheet file to save customized collections of reports for future use.
The data comes from Statistics Canada's Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database.
Please note that Industry-based trade data (which is classified according to NAICS) is derived from product-based trade data (which is classified according to HS). The primary purpose for the recompilation by industry is to provide a basis for estimating the apparent domestic market for a collection of fabricated goods by combining manufacturing production data with trade data. This type of data integration carries with it a number of potential pitfalls and important limitations.
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Oil and Gas Extraction
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The Role of Media in Peacebuilding
A talk & discussion by Saud Zafar
Time: 6 – 8pm
Pakistan is, arguably, among the few developing countries that have witnessed an enormous media boom in a very short period of time. During the rule of former military dictator General (retired) Pervaiz Musharraf, electronic media in particular emerged as a new force.
While on the one hand, the rapid growth of private media houses was seen as a welcome development in increasing transparency and accountability within the state and society, scholars have since argued that it has raised serious concerns over ethics, credibility and accuracy. Moreover, rivalry among media houses, biased approaches to reporting, and accusations of diverting public opinion from ‘real’ issues have also raised many questions on freedom of the press.
HIVE [karachi] is hosting a much-needed debate on the media and its role in promoting peace and countering extremism. Renowned journalist and scholar, Saud Zafar, will critically discuss key challenges currently faced by the media today, including:
Media Ethics vs. Responsibility
Sensationalism and Commercialization
Yellow Journalism and Biased Approaches
The Rise of Electronic and Social Media
PEMRA and its Effectiveness
Media’s Role in Promoting and Countering Extremism
Syed Saud Zafar is a business graduate with almost 20 years of post-graduate work experience, mostly in the field of electronic media. During his media career, Mr. Zafar worked in Marketing / Sales, Broadcasting, News Anchoring, TV Hosting, Acting, Commercials Voice-Over, Direction, Pre and Post Production and managing small and medium sized teams of Media professionals.
Mr. Zafar has worked in leading broadcasting houses and TV channels abroad and in Pakistan. In his private capacity, he provides consultancy to electronic media and other local companies. He teaches ‘News and TV Production’ as a Visiting Faculty Member at Iqra University, and ‘Media Ethics and Law’ at Greenwich University.
Mr. Zafar has recently started hosting a Current Affairs Talk Show at K21 News (an upcoming news channel based out of Karachi). His program ‘NewsLine at 8 pm’ telecasts live daily at 8pm from Monday to Thursday.
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Sky View’s Jackson DuBose competes in the 200 yard freestyle event on Thursday in Smithfield.
Sky View’s Jenna Gibbons competes in the 200 yard medley relay on Thursday in Smithfield.
Bobcats sweep tri-meet with Riverhawks, Wolves
By Jason Turner sports writer
Jason Turner
Two of the top girls swimming teams at the 4A level squared off in a Region 11 tri-meet, and to the surprise of nobody it was a nailbiter.
Sky View did just enough to hold off Ridgeline by six points, 86-80, Thursday in Smithfield. It was also a good meet for Green Canyon, which matched Sky View with four event titles.
The tri-meet was scored like a three-way dual. The Bobcats outpointed the Wolves, 98-71, while the Riverhawks dispatched of the Wolves, 89-77.
The Bobcats ended up securing the sweep as their boys squad won six of the 11 races and outpointed the Riverhawks, 95-71, and the Wolves, 104-66. Ridgeline edged Green Canyon, 87-80.
“Coming back from the (holiday) break, we are looking great,” said SV head coach Marcus Singleton, whose boys and girls teams finished second at the 4A State Championships a year ago. “We had many improve and get closer to their end-of-the-season goals. It’s been fun to watch so many of the swimmers achieve and do things they didn’t think were possible. We still have a few weeks until region and the excitement is growing as they see all of their hard work and dedication start to pay off.”
Sky View had a pair of athletes win both of their individual events. Allie Schwartz reigned supreme in the 200-yard IM (2 minutes, 18.85 seconds) and 100 butterfly (1:04.51), as did Jackson DuBose in the 100 fly (56.81) and 200 freestyle (1:54.57). Additionally, DuBose swam a leg on two victorious relay teams, as did teammates Jaxon Tueller and Alex Parks.
Jenna Gibbons was the silver medalist for the Lady Bobcats in the 200 IM (2:23.88) and 100 fly (1:04.69), while teammates Sarah Olsen and Tueller won a race and secured a spot in the top three in another. Olsen beat all comers in the 500 free (5:44) and was the bronze medalist in the 200 IM, while Tueller recorded the fastest time in the 100 backstroke (56.61) and placed third in the 100 free.
It was also a good day for Sky View’s Clayton Nye, who posted the second-fastest times in the 100 fly (58.21) and 100 back (58.70). Teammate Jacob Lawyer was third in the 200 free and 500 free.
In addition to Schwartz, DuBose, Olsen and Tueller, other Bobcats who prevailed in an individual event were Allison Dean in the 100 back (1:05.29) and Ben Walters in the 500 free (5:25).
Ridgeline was led by standout sprinters Carly Eubanks and Anthony Caliendo, who captured gold medals in both of their individual swims. Eubanks was the champion in the 100 free (55.20) and the 100 breaststroke — where she showcased her versatility — as was Caliendo in the 50 free (22.46) and 100 free (49.72). Caliendo and Eubanks also anchored a Ridgeline relay team to the top position on the podium.
Isaac Sorensen powered his way to the highest spot on the podium in the 200 IM (2:13.46) and was the runner-up in the 100 breast (1:07.81), while fellow Ridgeline teammates Hailey Rigby and Navie Powell tallied top three performances in both of their individual swims. Rigby placed second in the 200 free (2:08.26) and third in the 100 back, and Powell finished second in the 100 back (1:06.80) and third in the 200 free.
Joe Tenny was the gold medalist for the Riverhawks in the 100 breast (1:06.87) and also competed on a victorious relay squad.
“I feel like we are starting to do well finally this season,” RHS head coach Taryn McEuen said. “December was a good month for us to get some training underneath us, so now we can begin some strong sprinting. We had some good races today and we still have a lot of work to do. I’m excited to get through more details to continue to get better.”
Leading the way for Green Canyon was Kaylee Coats, who won the 200 free (2:03.90), anchored the 200 medley relay and 400 free relay teams to titles and nearly upset Eubanks in the 100 free. Coats clocked in at 55.60, which was a new school record and just .40 behind arguably the best sprinter in 4A.
Abbey Erickson, Mia Huebner and Rylie Corry rounded out both first place relay foursomes for the Lady Wolves. Corry claimed the title in the 50 free (26.79), to boot.
On the boys side, Green Canyon received solid performances from Nathan Seamons and Tyson Farnsworth. Seamons was the runner-up in the 200 free (1:59.31) and 500 free (5:26), as was Farnsworth in the 50 free (23.60) and 100 free (50.96).
“Great meet today,” GC head coach John Kane said. “The kids did really well and are excited about the last stretch of the season. They’re doing really well and are swimming fast.”
Other competitors who finished second in an individual event were Sky View’s Lauren Bassett (500 free, 5:55), Ellie Legler (100 breast, 1:21.74) and Peter Gibbons (200 IM, 2:15.70), and Ridgeline’s Sarah McNeil (50 free, 27.97).
Other bronze medalists were SV’s Lexi Sorensen (50 free), GC’s Huebner (100 fly), SV’s Jacey Mecham (100 free), GC’s Hailey Welsh (500 free), RHS’s Danya Sadler (100 breast), RHS’s Luke Eubanks (200 IM), GC’s Brayden Badger (50 free), SV’s Colton Duce (100 fly), GC’s Stephen Bunnell (100 back) and RHS’s Benjamin Checketts (100 breast).
The Sky View boys swept the top six positions in the 100 fly, boys from Ridgeline finished 1-2-3-4 in the 100 breast and the Lady Bobcats went 1-2-3 in the 200 IM.
LOGAN AT BEAR RIVER
The Grizzlies traveled to Garland and earned a split with the Bears. Logan prevailed on the girls side, 77-69, while Bear River won the boys competition by a 102-48 tally.
The Lady Grizzlies finished first or second in all 11 events, plus swept the top four positions in the 100 free. Logan was led by Zsofia Ugray, who bested her competition in the 200 free (2:20.93) and 400 free (5:01), plus anchored the 400 free relay team to victory. Other members of that triumphant foursome were Chessy Xu, Ellise Watkins and Malacha Leonard.
That relay capped off a good day for Leonard, who was the gold medalist in the 100 free (1:05.25) and the silver medalist in the 200 IM (2:34.85). Xu recorded the best time in the 100 fly (1:10.10).
Logan was led on the boys side by Spencer Bernhardt, who was triumphant in the 100 fly (1:01.10) and 100 back (1:00:17). Fellow Grizzly Parker Dahle was the titleist in the 100 free (58.02) and the runner-up in the 50 free (25.76).
Other Grizzlies who finished second in an individual event were Olivia Colton in the 50 free (31.57), Ellia Rice-Warren in the 100 free (1:05.28), Abby VonNiederhausern in the 100 back (1:14.50), Amanda Schiffman in the 100 breast (1:29.44) and Jake McLaughlin in the 100 breast (1:16.88).
All of the times in this story were converted from meters to yards.
“This week we had a lot of great races and some not so great,” LHS head coach Korryn Bernhardt said. “Coming out of the winter break and getting back into a meet schedule can be tricky. My swimmers have worked hard at keeping up with their conditioning over the break, and now we need to work on the small things like technique and stroke tempo. I think the more chances we have to race, the better my swimmers will perform. I’m happy to have a full schedule this month and I can’t wait to see what they can do going into the region meet at the end of the month.”
Sky View Swimming
Ridgeline Swimming
Green Canyon Swimming
Allie Schwartz
Jackson Dubose
Carly Eubanks
Anthony Caliendo
Kaylee Coats
Green Canyon
Luke Eubanks
Mia Huebner
Jason Turner is a sports reporter for The Herald Journal. He can be reached at jturner@hjnews.com or 435-792-7237.
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES BJÖRK DIGITAL EXHIBITION AND BJÖRK'S WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL DEBUT
Björk Digital Will Take Place May 19 to June 4 at Magic Box at The Reef
Björk Will Perform with Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall on May 30, 2017 (Sold Out)
Los Angeles, CA (March 3, 2017) - The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announces the West Coast premiere of Björk Digital, an exhibition of groundbreaking digital and virtual reality (VR) video works featuring music from the artist's latest album, Vulnicura. Björk Digital will run from May 19 to June 4 at Magic Box at The Reef in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets are still available for the exhibition. In conjunction with Björk Digital, Björk will also make her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut, performing with a 32-piece string orchestra in a sold-out concert conducted by Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason on May 30.
Björk's concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall will be a special addition to the LA Phil's Reykjavík Festival, highlighting the profound musical creativity from Iceland's capital.
A pioneer in music, art, and technology, Björk has worked with a collection of world-renowned directors, programmers, and visual artists to create a series of innovative virtual reality works displayed throughout a series of rooms. Björk Digital will invite guests to experience these immersive works through the latest in virtual reality technology.
The Björk Digital exhibition is a series of experiences: this begins with six VR experiences where users are transported with custom headsets; then, the Biophilia room, a hands-on educational space which showcases Björk's innovative apps and custom-made musical instruments, encouraging users to dive into an exploration of musicology, science and technology; and finally, the Cinema room, a curated program of Björk's extensive and groundbreaking music videos spanning her career thus far, remastered for a unique exhibition cinema experience. Included will be videos directed by Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Alexander McQueen, and many more.
Björk has also announced the release of a new scorebook, 34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste, which will be available early exclusively at the Björk Digital exhibition in Los Angeles, May 19 to June 4. The scorebook features 28 songs spanning Björk’s entire career, including selections from Debut, Post, Homogenic, Selmasongs, Vespertine, Medúlla, Björk’s Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack, Volta and Vulnicura. Each song is transposed for one of the titular instruments. Björk will perform songs from the book during her May 30 performance. The scorebook will be released by Wise Publications on June 5.
The VR experiences will include:
Stonemilker VR - Filmed on a remote beach location in Iceland and directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, Stonemilker VR presents Björk in a windswept 360-degree film performing the first track from Vulnicura.
Black Lake VR - Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Black Lake VR features a custom-built immersive space featuring a bespoke, cutting-edge surround sound setup to create an immersive and visceral virtual reality experience. Filmed in the highlands of Iceland, the video was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.
Quicksand VR - Featuring a 3-D printed headpiece by Neri Oxman, Quicksand VR captures Björk's live performance at Miraikan, Tokyo, in augmented virtual reality. The work was created in close collaboration with Dentsu Lab Tokyo.
Mouthmantra VR - Directed by Jesse Kanda, Mouthmantra VR transports the viewer to the inside of Björk's mouth for an intense and intimate experience as she sings the video's title track.
Family VR - Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang with co-creative direction by Björk and James Merry, Family is the centerpiece in the VR anthology for Vulnicura, encapsulating the full emotional arc of Björk's journey from despair to empowerment.
Notget VR - Directed by Warren du Prees and Nick Thornton Jones, Notget VR presents Björk as a stunning digital moth giantess transformed by masks created by James Merry.
Special thanks to Bowers & Wilkins, the official audio collaborator for Björk Digital.
Friday, May 19 - Sunday, June 4, 10AM-9PM
Björk Digital
Magic Box at The Reef
1933 S. Broadway, Los Angeles
The Björk Digital experience is approximately 90 minutes. Guests are strongly encouraged to arrive at least 30 minutes prior to exhibition entry time.
Tuesday, May 30, 8:30PM
Björk with Orchestra
Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason, conductor
111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Tickets for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2016/17 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall are currently available. To purchase, please visit LAPhil.com or the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office. To order by phone with credit card or for more information, please call 323.850.2000.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, under the vibrant leadership of Music Director & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music from all genres - orchestral, chamber and Baroque music, organ and celebrity recitals, new music, jazz, world music and pop - at two of L.A.'s iconic venues, Walt Disney Concert Hall (www.laphil.com) and the Hollywood Bowl (www.HollywoodBowl.com). The LA Phil's season extends from September through June at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and throughout the summer at the Hollywood Bowl. With the preeminent Los Angeles Philharmonic at the foundation of its offerings, the LA Phil aims to enrich and transform lives through music, with a robust mix of artistic, education and community programs.
Sophie Jefferies, sjefferies@laphil.org, 213.972.3422
Lydia Fong, lfong@laphil.org, 213.972.3689
PR Office: 213.972.3034
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Destination Ireland
Cyril McAree
Minister Catherine Martin, T.D., Announces Appointment Of Cultural Officers In London And New York
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, T.D., today announced the appointment of two specialist Cultural Officers, one in London and one in New York, under the Government’s Global Ireland 2025 strategy. These appointments are a key action to widen and deepen Ireland’s global cultural presence and engagement in these priority territories. This new strategic capability is being delivered in a close partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and will serve the wider needs of Government globally.
The core mandate of these two new positions is to enhance the promotion of Irish arts and culture in the US and Britain, working to achieve the strategic objectives of Culture Ireland in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Minister Martin said:
“These appointments will play a key part in enhancing cultural promotion, collaboration and exchange, and strengthening cultural engagement with our diaspora. They will provide a hugely valuable new resource for Irish artists, arts organisations and cultural institutions in supporting their international ambitions.”
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney, T.D, said:
“This new partnership initiative between our two Departments will help enrich our key bilateral relationships with Britain and the United States, and increase Ireland’s visibility, reach and reputation on the global stage.”
The positions, which were advertised nationally and internationally earlier this year and attracted extensive interest, are being filled by two arts professionals with extensive high-level experience in promoting Irish culture globally.
The Cultural Officer in New York, Nik Quaife, has worked with many of Ireland’s leading artists and arts organisations since 1999, including through his own arts PR company. Quaife has also worked for ten years with the Irish Arts Center NYC in various roles in marketing, PR and fundraising.
Kelly O’Connor, the Cultural Officer for Great Britain based in London, is the founder of Irish Film London, where she has served as Programme Director for the last decade, and a member of the Mayor of London’s St Patrick’s Community Advisory Board.
Four other priority locations for the appointment of Cultural Officers were specified in Global Ireland 2025 - Beijing, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo - with the possibility of additional locations in the lifetime of the strategy. The timing for these recruitments is under ongoing consideration by both Departments, subject to resources and requirements in those locations.
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The latest survey from the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) reveals a €2.6 billion drop in hotel and guesthouse revenues during 2020 compared to the previous year, representing an unprecedented financial
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Terrorism: Background on Chemical, Biological, and Toxin Weapons and Options for Lessening Their Impact [Updated December 1, 2004] [open pdf - 84KB]
"The catastrophic terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax mailings have sensitized the nation to acts of domestic terror. The confirmation of terrorist interest in weapons of mass destruction and the vulnerability of the United States to such attack have highlighted the potential that these weapons may be used as weapons of terror. The framework of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) includes chemical, biological, and toxin weapons. Chemical, biological, and toxin weapons pose additional concerns beyond mass casualties. These weapons may contaminate the area in which they are used, emergency vehicles, and first responders. The wide array of potential symptoms from chemical, biological, and toxin weapons makes identification of the causal agent difficult and complicates treatment. Additionally, public fears relating to disease and poisoning could increase the effect of a chemical, biological, or toxin attack, as worried, unexposed people request treatment from medical facilities. In extreme cases, public hysteria has been postulated as an outcome from mass dissemination. Several initiatives are underway to reduce the potential value of chemical, biological, and toxin weapons. One approach has been through funding significant increases in the public health system's preparedness and response capacity. Additionally, facilities and researchers possessing 'select agents' have been registered in a national database. Potential options to further decrease the odds of chemical, biological, and toxin terrorism include regulating and registering domestic purchase of 'dual-use' equipment; further development of the public health system; federal incentives for research and development into chemical, biological, and toxin medicines, vaccines, countermeasures and detectors; informational public outreach programs to properly inform the public about the risks involved; and voluntary media codes."
CRS Report for Congress, RL31669
Shea, Dana A.
U.S. State Department: http://www.state.gov/
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The Meaning of Friendship in a Social-Networked World
While a social connection on Facebook may be only a click away, cultivating a true friendship is not that easy or straightforward.
Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., Contributor
Cofounder, GLOBAL MEANING INSTITUTE
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
This quote is attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who wrote extensively about the notion and importance of true friendship as a determinant of "meaningful" living.
Aristotle's view on this matter stands in sharp contrast to what is depicted in the newly-released movie "The Social Network," destined to become a cult classic, about the founding of the Internet social networking site Facebook. With the advertising tag line, "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies," you have to wonder what the definition of "friends" is in this kind of social networking context. And as you watch the relationships depicted in the film, especially that between founder Mark Zuckerberg and his network of "friends," it is obvious that they don't meet the quality standards espoused by Aristotle!
In this connection (no pun intended), computer whiz Zuckerberg and his best friend Eduardo Saverin, also a principal co-founder of Facebook, become embroiled in enough fights, including a nasty legal battle, to establish that there is not a single soul dwelling in their two bodies. The notion of "friend," of course, is used rather loosely in the online world of Facebook. What do you think Aristotle would have to say about the meaning of -- and path to -- friendship that has come to popularize the new millennium? Have we gone too far in our quest for connection with others in a world that has become increasingly disconnected even if, according to American journalist Thomas Friedman, it is supposedly "flat?"
And in a world of hyperconnectivity driven by technology that knows no bounds, what is happening to true friendship? Is it dying away? Or are the various social media "platforms" such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn simply redefining or transforming our modern-day notion of friendship? If so, what are the implications for life as we know it on this planet? Will we be happier? Will it promote the kind of meaningful existence that Aristotle was seeking and advocating?
As I have written in this blog many times before, the search for meaning is not only the primary intrinsic motivation of human beings; it is also a mega-trend of the 21st century. From such a meaning-focused perspective, where does friendship fit in? And how might the social media "advances" to which I'm referring here influence, directly and indirectly, the nature of friendships between people and the human quest for meaning?
To be sure, I have more questions than answers, although there are some trends that are worthy of mention on the subject. A recent article in USA Today by Mark Vernon, a research fellow at Birkbeck College in London, England, addressed the issue of the social media's influence and concluded, "Just as our daily lives are becoming more technologically connected, we're losing other more meaningful relationships. Yes, we're losing our friends."
In other words, the joys of real human contact are being replaced by electronic stimuli and "shallow" friendships, that is, "social connections" rather than the kind of true friendships described and espoused by Aristotle. In our post-modern society, there is evidence that while we have plenty of acquaintances, more and more of us have few individuals to whom we can turn and share our authentic selves, our deep intimacies.
Moreover, according to research published in the American Sociological Review, a highly reputable professional journal, the average American has only two close friends, and some 25 percent don't have any friends! We're not just "bowling alone," to borrow the title from a book by sociologist Robert Putman; we're effectively living alone in the midst of a socially networked world! Now how ironic is that? Parenthetically, this is an illustration of what I call in my book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, paradoxical intention or working against ourselves. We have become our worst enemy as we seek to navigate the sea of so-called "friends" that we've been promised through Facebook and other social networking sites.
Aristotle once asked his fellow Athenians, "Who would live without friends even if they had every other thing?" Importantly, he believed that good friends were superior to any material possessions one might have. Stop and think, then, for a moment about the quality of friends that we may make online, such as via Facebook, and compare this quality of relationships with other kinds of friends with whom we have actual face-to-face contact -- be it infrequent, work-related, social, intimate, or perhaps even loving. Which of these contacts represent meaningful relationships and, by implication, true friendships? Which of these contacts, when all is said and done, really matters the most to you? In addition to feeding your soul, you can feel a single soul dwelling in two bodies?
In his classic work Ethics, Aristotle also offered the following ageless wisdom: "The desire for friendship comes quickly. Friendship does not." This is a very profound and perhaps provocative statement, especially in light of the powerful forces behind social networking. ("What do you mean you don't have a Facebook page?") It takes time and effort to build true friendships, relationships through which you are able and willing to disclose your authentic self -- close thoughts, intimate feelings, and sensitive vulnerabilities, including fears.
While a social connection on Facebook may be only a click away, cultivating a true friendship is not that easy or straightforward if you believe in and take Aristotle's advice.
Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, I must admit that I'm a "techie" (formerly called a "nerd") and have been for as long as I can remember. Among other things, I was credited by the World Future Society with inventing the concept of the "Electronic Visiting Professor," an innovation in online distance learning when the Information Highway was still a dirt road. I've also been a "Crackberry addict" (an obsessive-compulsive user of the Blackberry device), and was an early adopter of the iPhone, which now keeps me "connected" to family, friends, acquaintances, and others whenever I choose to let it. (Note the "I choose" reference; I am very conscious of the need to manage the technology, not the other way around!) I also regularly use most of the social networking platforms mentioned, explicitly or implicitly, in this week's column. Moreover, I'm very familiar with the propensity among people today to share themselves online with complete strangers-as-friends, presumably feeling safe in the deceptive shadows of cyberspace.
I also recognize that in today's busy, fast-paced world, many people are more likely to tell their hopes and troubles to bartenders, taxi drivers, hairstylists, and therapists than they are to the people who are regularly in their lives. In my opinion, this is a sad commentary on post-modern society, for many people seem to have drifted away from true friendships and a sense of "community" and are now living very private, even lonely, lives. It's time to resurrect the meaning and value of authentic relationships with others. It's time to refocus on and allow friendships to flourish in meaningful ways, both in our personal and work lives.
"A friend is another self," Aristotle also told us. True friendships, which admittedly are a blast from the past, are not simply a manifestation of what is being called "social connectivity" in social networking parlance. No, true friendships are the key to a flourishing, meaningful life, well-being, and a truly connected society and world. Now would you like to Facebook me?
You can find out more about Dr. Alex Pattakos, author of the international bestselling book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, in his HuffPost Bio. You can learn about his new initiative, The OPA Way!® of "living a happy, healthy, meaningful life," as well as join the new OPA! Village (it's free!) at: www.theopaway.com.
*A version of this post originally appeared on FastCompany.com.
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The Tatmadaw, the Northern Alliance trio and the peace process
Differences between the Tatmadaw and the three Northern Alliance allies behind recent brazen attacks in the north must be overcome for peace to have a chance.
By SITHU AUNG MYINT | FRONTIER
THE BOLD attacks by three members of the Northern Alliance on Tatmadaw, infrastructure and other targets in northern Shan State and neighbouring Mandalay Region since August 15 have shocked the nation.
They included an audacious attack on the Defence Services Technological Academy in Mandalay’s Pyin Oo Lwin Township, one of the nation’s most heavily fortified towns. The academy was one of five targets hit in a coordinated dawn operation on August 15 that included a police post on the Goktwin bridge in northern Shan’s Nawngkhio Township, a toll gate, narcotics checkpoint, and a bridge on the road linking Mandalay, Lashio and Muse, disrupting border trade with China.
The three groups, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and Arakan Army, have since struck at other targets in northern Shan and the fighting has displaced thousands of villagers.
The fighting involving the three groups, all non-signatories of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, has again focused attention on their differences with the Tatmadaw and the challenges facing the peace process.
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The National League for Democracy government and the Tatmadaw are dealing with three categories of ethnic armed groups, depending on what agreements they have signed, or in some cases, not signed.
The first are the ten ethnic armed groups that have signed the NCA. They include the Karen National Union, which has suspended its involvement in the peace process, a situation that needs to be resolved before peace talks can move forward.
Second are the groups that have signed bilateral ceasefires but are resisting signing the NCA. They are the United Wa State Army, armed wing of the United Wa State Party; the Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army; the Shan State Army-North, armed wing of the Shan State Progress Party; and the Karenni National Progressive Party and its armed wing, the Karenni Army.
In the third category are the groups that have never signed bilateral ceasefires, such as the TNLA and AA. This category includes the Kachin Independence Army, which signed a bilateral ceasefire with the Tatmadaw in 1994 that collapsed in 2011.
The NCA was initially signed by eight groups in October 2015 and was an important achievement of the Union Solidarity and Development Party government in moving the peace process forward. However, at the insistence of the Tatmadaw, the AA, MNDAA and TNLA were not permitted to participate in the negotiations that led to the signing of the NCA. The ostracism of the three groups had a flow-on effect, because it resulted in other organisations declining to sign the NCA, including the KIA, one of the biggest ethnic armed groups.
The AA, armed wing of the United League of Arakan, was established in 2008 at KIA headquarters at Laiza in Kachin State. The AA’s predecessor, the Arakan Liberation Army of the Arakan Liberation Party, was formed in 1968 and signed a bilateral ceasefire with the military government.
The TNLA had similar beginnings. It emerged in 1992 to replace the Palaung State Liberation Organization and its armed wing, the Palaung State Liberation Army, which signed a bilateral ceasefire in 1991 and surrendered to the Tatmadaw in 2005.
The MNDAA signed a ceasefire in 1989 but two decades later was driven from its stronghold in the Kokang region bordering with China because it resisted Tatmadaw pressure to become a Border Guard Force. In early 2015, the MNDAA launched an offensive aimed at regaining control of the Kokang region but was repulsed after months of fighting that caused heavy Tatmadaw casualties. The Tatmadaw therefore holds a grudge against the MNDAA.
Following the signing of the NCA in 2015, the government and the Tatmadaw made a conditional offer to the AA, TNLA and MNDAA. They were asked to issue a statement pledging to stop fighting in return for being able to participate in the NCA, but the three groups rejected the offer.
In a follow-up offer from the government and the Tatamadaw, the three groups were told that they did not have to surrender their weapons but must confine their activities to the territory of an ethnic armed organisation with which they had close relations. This meant, for example, that if the AA agreed to operate only in territory under the KIA’s control, it would be permitted to participate in the NCA.
The response to the offer has been the escalating AA campaign in Rakhine State since late last year and an upsurge of fighting in northern Shan. The three Northern Alliance allies made a counter offer to negotiate bilateral ceasefires with the Tatmadaw. After several rounds of talks, the government proposed a conditional ceasefire agreement, including that the three EAOs must sign on to the NCA within a stipulated time. One of the conditions was that the AA must stay out of Rakhine and must confine its activities to territory under KIA control, which the Northern Alliance trio rejected.
In a fresh bid to encourage the groups to negotiate, the Tatmadaw late last December declared a unilateral ceasefire in five commands in the north of the country, but excluding Rakhine. The ceasefire has been renewed four times and will expire on September 21.
The three-party alliance and other EAOs welcomed the unilateral ceasefire but there was criticism that it did not cover Rakhine, where fighting has continued.
The three EAOs issued a statement warning of negative consequences unless the Tatmadaw halted its operations in Rakhine and in northern Shan, where fighting had continued despite the unilateral ceasefire. But the fighting continued and the three groups responded by launching the attacks on August 15.
The Tatmadaw’s attitude towards the three EAOs has had significant consequences for the peace process. Many have wondered why the Tatmadaw permitted some small EAOs to sign the NCA, but hesitated to recognise or allow bigger groups, such as the TNLA, MNDAA and AA, to ink the accord.
The Tatmadaw needs to review its discriminatory approach towards the three Northern Alliance allies because the continued fighting can only lead to a hardening of attitudes that will not help the quest to bring lasting peace to Myanmar.
Sithu Aung Myint became a reporter in 1997. Prior to Myanmar gaining its press freedom in 2012, he worked for various exile media outlets, and is now one of Myanmar's most respected political commentators.
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Honorary Professor of TU Berlin
I was a full professor at the Technische Universität Berlin from 2006 to 2017. Since January 2018 I am a director at Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics in Saarbrücken. There I established a new research group named Internet Architecture (INET).
Before I got to TU Berlin I was a professor in the computer science department at Technische Universität München. Before that I was a professor at the computer science department of Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany. Before that, I was a member of the IP Network Measurement and Performance Department at AT&T Labs — Research.
My current research interest is still network performance debugging. Starting from data traffic measurements over traffic characterization this leads to judging the performance implications of what we have learned.
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Microsoft Adds Windows Live Search To Facebook
Facebook users' Web queries will produce search results and paid search ads generated by Microsoft's search engine.
A Microsoft executive said Thursday that the company has reached a deal to provide Web search services to users of the Facebook social networking site.
Under the agreement, Microsoft will provide Facebook with an application programming interface that will add Windows Live Search directly into the Facebook environment. Facebook users' Web queries will produce search results and paid search ads generated by Microsoft's search engine.
"We're excited about even using that as an opportunity to further extend the Live Search reach," said Microsoft senior VP Satya Nadella, who spoke Thursday at Microsoft's annual meeting with investment analysts at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters.
Financial details of the arrangement were not released. Nadella said the service would launch in the fall.
Microsoft needs to find new ways to grow its search business in the wake of its failed attempt to acquire Yahoo -- the No. 2 provider of paid search services behind Google. Google controls about 62% of all search traffic in the United States, followed by Yahoo -- which owns about 21% of the market. Microsoft is in third place with a 9.2% share, according to market watcher ComScore.
Facebook, which claims more than 90 million active users, could help Microsoft increase its share of the market considerably.
On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said an acquisition of Yahoo would have simply been a "tactic" and "not a strategy" to help the company grow its search business. Indeed, beyond the Facebook deal, Microsoft has made other moves recently to build out its search offerings.
Earlier this month, Microsoft acquired Powerset for a reported $100 million. The company specializes in an esoteric form of Web querying called semantic search. The technique uses a variety of linguistic tools to interpret the meaning of search phrases to produce the most accurate results. The method has been in development for more than 10 years.
In January, Microsoft reached an agreement to acquire enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer for $1.2 billion.
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By Abby Hade Terpstra on December 9, 2016 in Blog
The Neff family’s donated wetland is serving up nature to Fairfield’s residents.
"Families get out of their cars in the parking lot and enter a whole other world,” said Sheri Blough Neff. “They step into the wildness of it.”
Dave Neff purchased the 36 acres on the eastern edge of Fairfield in 1999, back when it was farmland. “Tadpoles were swimming in the bean field,” he said. “It didn’t want to be crop land. It wanted to be wetland.”
Dave put in an application to the DOT’s wetland mitigation program, and with highway construction happening in adjacent Keokuk County, they were plunged into the thick of converting the field within their first year of ownership.
The Neff Wetland is already familiar to residents of Fairfield who frequent the crushed limestone path along the dike. It is bisected by part of the 16-mile Loop Trail that encircles the town of Fairfield, linking Lamson Woods State Preserve to the south with the trails heading to Chatauqua Park. “On a pleasant, blue-sky day we might see 20 people an hour out there,” Dave said.
“I grew up in Cleveland,” he added, “playing in a string of linear parks called The Emerald Necklace. On a recent visit the memories flooded back of all the fun times we had. This is one of our hopes, for the future generations to be exposed to this type of greenbelt and have the memories last a lifetime.”
“This is a little piece of country life, with country sounds and fresh air,” Sheri said. “You’ll see black snakes tangled in the cattails, sunning themselves. You can hear the coyotes at night crying and chasing. You’ll see ducklings being kicked out of the nest. There are deer tracks and trails weaving through. Our neighbor says it’s a sure sign of spring when he opens the windows and hears the chorus of frogs. It’s a chance to see what the different seasons bring.”
Neff Wetland Dedication
Saturday, May 13, 11 a.m.
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The Neffs, longtime members of Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, turned to INHF to explore permanent land protection options. They decided to donate their property through INHF to Jefferson County Conservation Board with a condition that it remain open for public access. Jefferson County Conservation shares the Neffs’ vision of balancing the wildness of a place with recreation and education.
Asked what will change now that the land has traded hands, Sheri emphatically declares, “Nothing! That’s the goal. We want this to be here forever for the kids of the future.”
“The county will be responsible for the management long-term,” Dave said, “but in the meantime, we love to pull on our gloves and be hands on. It’s a labor of love.”
Dave and Sheri are looking forward to having a pubic celebration commemorating their donation in the spring and sharing their vision of philanthropy with their children and community. “It’s what it’s all about — the good you can do in your lifetime. ‘For Those Who Follow’ resonates with us. We wanted to be sure the next owner of this land will manage and care for it,” Dave said. “And we want the public to know this wetland is here for them. It’s for all in the community, region and state to enjoy.”
There will be a dedication for the new public area at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, 2017. View additional event info here.
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Neff Wetland: Jefferson County
Land: 36 acres donated to Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and Jefferson County Conservation
Special features: Public access, restored wetland, multi-use trail
Partners: Sheri and Dave Neff, INHF, Jefferson County Conservation
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Hulu's 'Castle Rock' is a 'Stranger Things' for the Stephen King horror universe, and could be your next TV obsession
Bill Skarsgard in "Castle Rock"
Hulu's new horror series, "Castle Rock," could be the streaming service's next big hit.
It's the closest Hulu has gotten to its own "Stranger Things," as it is heavily inspired by the work of Stephen King and relies on a sense of nostalgia akin to the Netflix hit.
"Castle Rock" isn't as flashy as "Stranger Things," but with the works of King at its disposal, it doesn't have to be.
The show has an impressive cast that includes Andre Holland, Scott Glenn, Sissy Spacek, and Terry O'Quinn.
The first four episodes are promising, and should entice both King fans and non-fans.
With the new seasons of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Westworld" wrapped, and a long wait until "Stranger Things" and "Game of Thrones" return, audiences may be craving a new otherworldly TV obsession. That's where Hulu's "Castle Rock" comes in, which may be able to fill that gap if it capitalizes on the promising start of its first four episodes.
"Castle Rock," a new Hulu original anthology series from executive producer J.J. Abrams, based on the stories of horror master Stephen King, is as close to Netflix's "Stranger Things" as Hulu has gotten.
"Castle Rock" isn't as flashy as "Stranger Things." It doesn't star a group of kids viewers can fall in love with, nor instantly recognizable theme music. But both are elevated fan-fiction that benefit from nostalgia pioneered by two of the most influential creators of a generation: Steven Spielberg for "Stranger Things" and Stephen King for "Castle Rock."
"Castle Rock" doesn't need to be as flashy — or even politically relevant like Hulu's first big hit, "The Handmaid's Tale" — to be a success. The show has an entire universe of horror at its disposal that already has a large, loyal fanbase, and the show's story relies on classic King works such as "The Shawshank Redemption," "Carrie," "The Shining," and more.
Andre Holland as Henry Deaver
Last year's box-office smash "It" proved that people will still flock to King's stories in other media besides books, and the subtle horror elements of "Castle Rock" should easily find an audience.
The series centers on a death-row lawyer named Henry Deaver, played by Andre Holland, who returns to his small hometown of Castle Rock, Maine to aid a mysterious prisoner at Shawshank State Penitentiary. The unnamed prisoner is played by Bill Skarsgard, who is no stranger to King adaptations, as he plays Pennywise in "It" and next year's sequel, "It: Chapter Two."
But Deaver has a mysterious past, as his adoptive father died under suspicious circumstances when he was a child — and the town believes Deaver had something to do with it.
Other notable characters include Molly Strand (Melanie Lynskey), a real-estate agent and childhood neighbor of Deaver who hears voices, and has a somewhat creepy mental connection to Deaver that she can't control; Alan Pangborn (Scott Glenn), the retired former sheriff in Castle Rock who knows more about what's going on at Shawshank than he lets on; Ruth Deaver (Sissy Spacek), Deaver's adoptive mother whose memory is failing her; Jackie (Jane Levy), a sarcastic and curious member of the local church who may or may not be a descendant of "The Shining's" Jack Torrance; and Dale Lacy (Terry O'Quinn), the God-fearing Shawshank warden.
"Castle Rock" packs quite an impressive cast. Glenn and O'Quinn's characters may be familiar to fans of "The Leftovers" and "Lost," respectively, as they each play characters reminiscent of the ones they portrayed in those shows.
Both those shows introduced a lot of questions that went unanswered, and that's something "Castle Rock" has the potential to do as well. Hopefully not. But being an anthology series, there's an urgency to wrap up this storyline by the end of the season rather than leaving important plot threads dangling for years to come.
My biggest fear with "Castle Rock" is that its mysterious plot will overshadow its characters, who all are all suffering from their own inner demons. But even if "Castle Rock" sets up a lot of questions in its first few episodes, it's not mind-numbingly confusing as, say, "Westworld." I can sum up the first four episodes of "Castle Rock" for you easily, and I was also genuinely surprised by some of the twists already taken.
"Castle Rock" has a ton of potential, and King fans as well as non-fans should enjoy what the show offers. It lays a solid groundwork in the four episodes, and I'm looking forward to seeing what else it has in store for viewers.
Simply put: It could be Hulu's next big hit.
The first three episodes of "Castle Rock" are available to stream on Wednesday on Hulu.
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While most litigation, be it civil or criminal, results in settlements of some kind, there are still numerous instances in which a case goes to trial and either or both parties are dissatisfied with the result. In these situations, the most typical solution is to appeal to a higher court. In North Carolina, there are two level of appellate courts: the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. It is important to keep in mind, that not every case can be appealed, and just because a party is unhappy with a result does not mean that case is appealable.
Who May Appeal?
In criminal cases, typically only a defendant may appeal because of the safeguards allowed by the 5th Amendment’s “double jeopardy” clause which prohibits trying a person twice for the same offense. If a defendant is acquitted, (found not guilty) the government is bound by that decision and cannot re-try that person for that same offense.
In civil cases, either party may appeal a decision or verdict to a higher court.
What Is Appealable?
Simply losing at trial does not make a case appealable. Parties must cite specific issues in which they feel an error was made either in a trial procedure or in the interpretation of law by a judge that prejudiced their case, and had that error not been made, a different result would have come about.
The Process for an Appeal
In both civil and criminal cases, usually parties must wait until a case is concluded before appealing a court’s decision. Typically, an appeal first must go to an appellate court, be it North Carolina Court of Appeals for state cases or the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals for North Carolina federal cases, for a ruling on issues before an appeal makes its way to the highest court, which is the North Carolina Supreme Court for state cases or the United States Supreme Court for federal cases.
If a party intends to appeal, there are very strict rules which detail the time frame in which each step must take place as well as the specific format in which documents must be prepared. The first step in any case though is to enter a Notice of Appeal. After this, a trial transcript must be prepared by the court reporter, the record on appeal must be settled by the parties, and briefs must be written in which the party claiming error (the appellant) sets for their basis for the appeal, and the party opposing the appeal (the appellee) argues against the appeal.
Occasionally an appellate court may request oral arguments, in which case attorneys for each side appear in person before the court to put forth their arguments and answer any questions the panel of judges pose.
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Civil trials are governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure, and it is these rules which provide, under limited circumstances, relief from a judgment. These types of proceedings fall outside the realm of direct appeals as they are considered by the trial court, not the Court of Appeals. Depending on the circumstances of a case, the type of relief offered by these rules include modifying the judgment or granting a new trial altogether.
Criminal cases are governed by the Rules of Criminal Procedure, and these rules provide for the most common form of post-conviction relief, which is called a Motion for Appropriate Relief. The rules are very specific as to the situations in which a court can consider a Motion for Appropriate Relief, but if granted, the court could, among other options, dismiss a defendant's charges or grant a new trial.
An additional option available in criminal cases is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This procedure is used when a defendant has been convicted in state court and has exhausted all of his direct appeal rights. This petition must allege that the conviction was obtained in violation of his or her federal constitutional rights and is filed in federal courts to determine the validity of the allegation.
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Grand Central’s Biltmore Room – the “Kissing Gallery”
November 21, 2012 November 21, 2012 Emily Moser History, Train Stories
Just a few months ago, Metro-North released plans for changes in Grand Central Terminal’s Biltmore Room – a room that has an amusing nickname – the Kissing Gallery. Of course the media couldn’t resist reporting on what they called the “kissing room,” and thus it found its way into most people’s awareness for the first time. As times have changed significantly over the past one hundred years, the room’s original purpose, and even the social niceties warranting the room in the first place, are rather different. Nonetheless, I think the story of the Kissing Gallery is an interesting bit of Grand Central history, and highlights one of the original concepts that made the Terminal great.
In March of 1912, just less than a year the before the opening of Grand Central Terminal, the New York Central’s chief engineer George W. Kittredge announced that the Terminal would have a designated “Kissing Gallery.” There was likely much jest in the dialogue, as Kittredge also called the entrance to the room the “perfunctory peck spot” – though he was said to prefer the term “greeting gallery.” Other folks named it the “Romeo and Juliet room” – no matter what it was called, the room (rumored to be built with soundproof walls and roof) had an important purpose in the Terminal.
The Biltmore Room in the 1950’s. Photo by Boris Klapwald.
Nowadays, heading through Grand Central Terminal is a bit chaotic. People run through the main concourse en route to the subways, the passageways, or any of the various exits. Grand Central was not always like this, however. One of the wonderful things about the Terminal when it was first built was that everything was highly organized. It was acknowledged that a variety of people would be using the station – commuters, long-distance riders, arriving passengers, and even those who were not going to take a train. The goal was to keep each audience separate – if they never mixed, there would never be a “traffic jam.”
Commuters dwelled in Grand Central’s lower concourse, and as they made their way out to either the subway or the street, they traveled up the ramps, never having to enter the main concourse. Long distance departures left from the gates in the main concourse, where a passenger could see all of the tracks in one glance, and quickly find their train. Incoming long-distance trains arrived in the Biltmore Room – and it was here where the Kissing Gallery was found.
The Biltmore Room was named for the Biltmore Hotel, located above and accessible via this room. The idea was that arriving passengers could ascend directly to their hotel without ever having to step outside, and as an added amenity bags would be taken directly from your train right up to your room. As the designated greeting room, kissing was permitted here – as long as it abided by several rules…
Rules on Kissing – Grand Central Terminal
Rules regarding kissing will be enforced by GCT staff
No kiss shall last longer than 5 seconds
Keep your tongue in your own mouth
The attendants will have orders to stop all osculation and send the particpants to the Romeo and Juliet room. No soul kisses… only straight ‘goodby’ and ‘how-are-you’ greetings of less than five seconds duration.
No kissing in any part of the Terminal other than the Kissing Gallery
Those who meet by chance in other parts of the station than the “kissing gallery” will be under the watchful eye of attendants who at the first sign of an affectionate embrace will politely request that the kiss parlors are the proper place for that sort of thing.
Please abide by the above rules
The purpose of the [room] is to do away with this promiscuous kissing around the station, and centralize it.
In all seriousness, the one main reason that these rules were in place was to deal with the aforementioned “traffic jams” that Grand Central was designed to avoid. In the main concourse passengers were supposed to have the ability to see every gate from anywhere in the room and know from exactly which spot their train would leave. Groups of stationary couples showing public displays of affection would not only hinder movement, but block the line of sight. Not to mention that this was 1913, and people were certainly more reserved. I suppose in a place where every single detail was well thought out, having a designated kissing area doesn’t sound too abnormal.
Left: Me about 10 years ago with my friend’s uncle in front of a DC Metro Kiss and Ride sign. Right: A Kiss and Fly sign at San Francisco International Airport. Photo from JPG Magazine.
I think the interesting thing to note is that there are still train stations in the United States and beyond that have similar concepts. I was rather amused by the “Kiss and Rides” found at many DC Metro stations when I first rode the rails there. Some airports also have “Kiss and Fly” versions. Since Grand Central’s Kissing Gallery was located in the arrivals hall, there was more of a focus on people greeting someone special arriving by train. These Kiss and Ride, or Kiss and Fly areas seem more focused on passengers departing – giving them a kiss and letting them go on their way.
Today there are no long distance trains that leave Grand Central – service is strictly commuters – but in its heyday Grand Central carried many different groups of people. The train was really the only way anyone traveled long distance in the early 1900’s, and the railroad was integral for moving troops during the world wars. Thus I wonder how many “thank god you’re still alive after the war” kisses happened in the Biltmore Room. Another thought to ponder about the Terminal we all know and love.
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6 thoughts on “Grand Central’s Biltmore Room – the “Kissing Gallery””
Ha! We have the ability to kiss and ride in Germany as well :)
I took a (crappy) photo of such a sign at Cologne Central Station 5 years ago:
http://www.fahrbier.de/2007/09/kiss-ride.html
Would you allow me to borrow the kissing rules from your page to write about them in my blog – referring to my older entry ibidem?
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving, btw…
Most definitely! I would totally link back to you too, if I could read German :)
Al Cyone says:
““thank god you’re still alive after the war”
Something to think about; especially today.
Steve Dunham says:
I looked at the Washington Metro website to see whether kiss-and-ride areas are explained anyplace. I didn’t see anything on the Parking page, and a search of the whole site turned up 365 results, among them the Parking page, but the top results didn’t seem to tell people what a kiss-and-ride area is or how it works (basically, it’s a spot to drop off or pick up passengers, and vehicles are supposed to stop just momentarily, not park there). I live in Virginia and use Metro a lot, and I think that maybe people are just supposed to know what “kiss & ride” means. By the way, I used to live in the Northeast, and I’ve ridden Metro North a few times, and enjoy reading your blog and keeping up with what’s going on, and I’m enjoying the series on one of my favorite buildings, GCT. I saw Wreck-It Ralph over the weekend; it had, I think, “Game Central Station,” which was clearly patterned on GCT.
On a somewhat related topic, JFK (and other airports) have cellphone parking lots where you can wait (for free) until the person you’re waiting for gets to the pickup area and calls you. When I first saw the sign I thought it was a pretty good outside-the-box idea. There’s a short article about it here.
The Biltmore Room is still one of my favorite parts of GCT, even if it was looking a bit worn the last time I went over to take a look (I haven’t been on a train that arrived or departed from one of those tracks in years). As a kid I’d go through it all the time since the ‘upper’ Harlem off-peak diesels almost always arrived on those tracks so they could turn the train. At that time the room was full of bus station style lockers, hiding most of the architectural elements from view. Then in the mid-80s (I think) it was renovated, it seemed like the first area of the terminal to be touched, and I was amazed at how beautiful the room was after being cleaned and the lockers removed. It really made me hope that some day maybe other parts of the terminal could be returned to their historic grandeur.
Tuesday Tour of the Hudson Line: Ardsley-on-Hudson
Tuesday Tour of the Hudson Line: Cortlandt
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A New Start For America
<p> When Irish journalist Carole Coleman first came to prominence in the U.S. in 2004 it was for her spirited fa...
When Irish journalist Carole Coleman first came to prominence in the U.S. in 2004 it was for her spirited face-to-face interview for Irish state broadcaster RTE TV with President George W. Bush on the eve of his visit to Ireland. Coleman's go-for-broke style was, she says, the result of the short 10-minute slot she had been given, but Bush looked like he'd just been steamrolled by his interviewer's pointed questions on the Iraq war. Not surprisingly the interview - possibly the most contentious one of Bush's career - made international headlines the day it was broadcast. In fact, the Bush administration was so stung that representatives actually called the Irish Embassy in Washington, D.C. to complain. If the White House was expecting a polite doormat they were gravely mistaken. Coleman says what she means and she means what she says. This is usually considered to be a strength in a journalist, but politicians take a different view when the questions start cutting a little too close to the bone. "The newspapers did go to town on my interview with Bush," Coleman told the Irish Voice by phone during an interview this week. "At the time I almost felt like slapping him. It was the way he was stalling me, and avoiding answering direct questions. "The thing is, these were all questions that had been approved ahead of time. I wasn't blindsiding him with outrageous new questions." Coleman watched the new "Frost/Nixon" movie recently and she realized that what she was seeing was exactly how she felt in her own interview with Bush. When celebrity host David Frost interviewed the ever-evasive Richard Nixon, what followed was a fascinating game of cat and mouse that held the nation spellbound. "The knowledge that time was ebbing away and I wasn't getting anything insightful in the first few minutes made me relate to that film. That just-get-to-the-truth dynamic led to the sharp exchange that happened between us," she says. Coleman's interview with Bush was variously described in the media as "a hijack," "a master class" and "a citizen's arrest." Although for Coleman it now feels like going over old ground her intent was clear - she wanted to discover if Bush could see another side to aims and ambitions that led to the Iraq war. The answer was no. On the day she interviewed him 100 people, including three U.S. soldiers, were killed there. "The majority of the Irish public, as far as I could tell, was angry with Bush and did not want to hear a cozy fireside chat in the middle of the most disputed war since Vietnam. Instead of the kid-glove start, I would get down to business," Coleman added. Coleman hails from Carrick-on-Shannon in Co. Leitrim, which explains her famously forthright manner. She first came to the U.S. in the late eighties when jobs in the media were more plentiful. Eventually she was hired by RTE and her career took flight. Considering her long standing engagement with U.S. foreign policy and her interest in national politics, Coleman's latest book "The Battle for the White House . . . and the Soul of America" was a natural progression. Working for RTE, she often found herself reporting from inside the 2008 presidential race. Writing a book about one of the most dramatic campaigns in political history was inevitable. "I was working for 'Prime Time', an Irish current affairs program, in 2007. At the time most of us thought that Hillary Clinton would eventually become the Democratic candidate. At that time I also got to meet Barack Obama, and I couldn't help but be impressed by him," Coleman recalls. "I remember thinking this guy is going to give her a run for her money. But I wasn't thinking he was going to be president. I followed both campaigns closely and eventually I figured, 'Hey this is history, so why not write it down?' "If it's going to be like the Kennedy story where in 50 years time people are still talking about it, maybe it will be the same with this election. If you're looking for a book about how it all went down this is a nice book to have on your shelf." Coleman started writing her book in June 2008, going over her notes and interviews. The Iowa caucuses, she says, was the game changer in regard to Clinton and Obama. "When you look back with hindsight it's easy to see that Hillary Clinton never got it back after the Iowa caucuses. But when you are actually on the road following it, it didn't become clear until after Super Tuesday," Coleman says. "She wasn't managing to win the momentum back from him. She started shifting her tactics, but it was becoming clear she didn't know how to contain this phenomenon." If you look at the actual numbers, Coleman says, Obama was only a couple of hundred delegates ahead of Clinton. There was always the chance that something dramatic might happen, and that's why it remained such a fascinating spectator sport. "Obama kept his focus. The world was changing as the election was taking place. People were beginning to realize that they didn't want what they'd had before - another Republican," Coleman says. "Unfortunately for Hillary she just wasn't different enough, whereas Obama was different in every way. He literally looked different, he embodied change. Change was what people wanted and he fit the bill." Senator John McCain's campaign failed to inspire the nation, Coleman argues. A long series of political missteps just kept getting more and more pronounced. "I didn't feel McCain was himself during the campaign. I felt that he was following the advice of aides that didn't turn out to be good advice," she offers. "But I also felt after their convention in September that a Republican wasn't going to have a great chance of winning anyway. The country was in a mood to repudiate the last eight years, and I could not see them electing another Republican. "Most of the time McCain was swimming against the tide. The negative campaigning was something I didn't expect to see coming so strongly from the McCain camp. He was swept away by the tide that was hungry for change that he just didn't represent." The appearance of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the so-called game changer, impressed many commentators initially, and Coleman was one of them. "I have to say I was very taken with her for the first few weeks. I thought she did give quite a powerful speech at the convention in political terms for a newcomer. But it didn't last," Coleman says. "She did scare the Obama camp for a little while but they wisely stayed cool and held back and waited for the phenomenon to pass - and it did. In a way I felt sorry for McCain. He found himself in an impossible situation." For Coleman the dramatic change that Obama represents was best illustrated when for fun one day, she researched Obama and McCain's top 10 favorite pop song choices. "I was horrified to discover that I knew all of John McCain's favorite songs - they were all things like Abba and the Beach Boys - but I hardly knew any of Barack Obama's. He chose the Fugees and Kanye West and U2. I thought, oh my God, he's hipper than anyone I know. He made me feel square. "He really does represent a new generation. This is really different for a president. I almost missed the extent of that myself. It's no wonder he got almost every college kid out to vote for him. He's about moving forward and leaving the past behind. The movement Obama put together is still out there." "The Battle for the White House . . . and the Soul of America" is published by Liffey Press (www.the liffeypress.com)
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MainOpEdsA Taste of the Future: How the Kurds Treat Minorities
A Taste of the Future: How the Kurds Treat Minorities
So what if the Kurds were a persecuted ethnic group? Now that they have autonomy in Iraq, they are doing the same to others. A foretaste of where the Middle East is going?
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi is a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum. His website is http://www.aymennjawad.org.
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(Note: The writer has sent a response to queries received about the article below, Arutz Sheva has added it at the end so be sure to read it.)
Among analysts of the ongoing unrest in Syria, it is a truism that the main reason Christians are generally not participating in demonstrations against Assad’s rule is because they fear reprisals at the hands of the Sunni Arab majority if the Alawite-dominated regime falls.
Alawites, who have incorporated Christian practices into their syncretic, Shi’a-rooted religion such as the celebration of Christmas and wearing of crosses, have always felt an affinity with Syrian Christians and have thus protected them since the establishment of the Baathist regime in 1963.
Less widely noticed, however, is the problem of tensions between the country’s traditionally marginalized Kurdish minority and the Christians. Several aspects of the Kurdish-Christian animosities have recently been documented by Dutch journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg.
Specifically, disclosures from the U.S. diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal that Christians in the northeastern region of al-Jazirah consider the Kurds to be recent intruders, and fear that the Kurdish presence could lead to the formation of a Greater Kurdistan.
The cables in question date from March 2009, and partly touch on the subject of the fourth anniversary of the Kurdish uprising in Syria in 2005. The Christian community apparently blames the Kurds for causing damages to public property in excess of $2 million during the uprising, while not mentioning that the Syrian security forces opened fire on crowds of unarmed Kurds, who were fleeing riots incited by anti-Kurdish rhetoric.
The Christians of al-Jazirah have also claimed that mass-immigration of Kurds and high Kurdish birthrates have transformed al-Jazirah from an area with an historical 80-90% majority Christian population into one now dominated by Kurds with a 35% Christian minority.
Hence, Kurdish participation in the protests against Assad’s rule has done nothing to allay Christian fears. The Syrian opposition, of course, suffers from problems of internal tensions, and during a recent opposition conference, Kurdish figures walked out in protest that most of the attendees wanted Syria to remain defined as an “Arab” country (as per the country’s current official name, “Syrian Arab Republic”).
Such a development no doubt suggests to the Christians that, if the Kurds are not striving to incorporate parts of Syria into the Greater Kurdistan, they might at least be aiming for an autonomous region similar to Iraqi Kurdistan.
Yet it is surely the example of Kurdish autonomy in Iraq’s north that partly underlies the anxiety of Syrian Christians over how Kurds might behave post-Assad.
Since gaining autonomy in 1991 after the First Gulf War, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has engaged in an active campaign of discrimination and cultural imperialism against the Assyrian Christians (as well as other non-Kurdish minorities like the Yezidis and Shabaks, who are not recognized as separate ethnic groups in the KRG Constitution), a problem that has only intensified since the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Most notably, Peshmerga militias have routinely confiscated Assyrian land, and in October 2002, a resolution was passed by the KRG to legalize such thefts by Peshmerga militiamen.
In addition, the Iraqi Kurds have attempted to marginalize the legitimate representative of the Assyrian people in Iraq: namely, the Assyrian Democratic Movement.
As Assyrian scholar Peter BetBasoo points out, during the 2005 general elections in Iraq, Kurdish authorities tasked with delivering ballot boxes to Assyrian districts in the north failed to do so as part of an attempt to block them from voting, while Assyrian election workers were fired on and killed.
Indeed, as a 2007 report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom notes:
“KRG officials were also reported to have used public works projects to divert water and other vital resources from Chaldo-Assyrian to Kurdish communities...leading to mass exodus, which was later followed by the seizure and conversion of abandoned Chaldo-Assyrian property by the local Kurdish population.”
Meanwhile, as part of its cultural imperialism, the KRG promotes pseudo-history in the same way Palestinian media have denied historical Jewish connections to the land of Israel.
In particular, the KRG falsely portrays the Kurds as the true indigenous inhabitants of northern Mesopotamia and southern Anatolia. For example, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan- one of two parties in the ruling KRG coalition- recently reaffirmed the claim to oil-rich Kirkuk as a Kurdish city that was supposedly founded by Kurds.
In reality, Kirkuk’s foundations date back to 4000 B.C., well before the arrival of the Kurds in northern Iraq in the twelfth century CE. In Old Assyrian it is called Arraphkha, and is one of the four cities that originally formed the Assyrian heartland.
It is therefore no surprise that many Syrian Christians are deeply suspicious of local Kurdish aspirations. Pundits frequently (and rightly) complain of the maltreatment of minorities by those who identify as Arab Muslims. Nonetheless, it is also evident that appreciation of tolerance and diversity is a virtue yet to be learned by Kurds at large.
The sooner the KRG is pressured to reverse its discrimination against minorities, the better for future Kurdish-Christian relations, both in Iraq and the wider region.
In response to this piece, several people have asked: 'If the KRG discriminates against Assyrian Christians, why have many Christians from Baghdad and points south chosen to settle in the KRG areas since 2003?'
The answer is that, for those Christians who cannot leave Iraq entirely, the KRG areas amount to the lesser of two evils, with a much lower risk of suffering attacks at the hands of al-Qa'ida. A life enduring discrimination is ultimately better than living in constant fear of death (the atmosphere of terror exemplified by mass-casualty attacks like the assault on the Assyrian Catholic 'Our Lady of Salvation' church in Baghdad back in October 2010).
A suitable historical analogy is the case of Jews who fled to the Ottoman Empire from Spain after the Reconquista. The Ottomans imposed a discriminatory policy known as Sürgün against Jews and other minorities around the area of Asia Minor and Greece. This policy, meaning 'exile' in Turkish, entailed a 'form of vassalage that restricted movement and social interactions, and resulted in economic penalties, including double taxation' [Bostom, 'The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,' (2008) pg. 108], along with deportations to enforce the sürgün status. One well known case is that of elite Spanish Jews who settled in Salonika around 1508, but were then forcibly exiled to Rhodes in 1523 and subject to the discriminatory policies of sürgün.
Superficially, it is true that the KRG has tried to win over Christians through an Assyrian named Sarkis Aghajan (although according to Wladimir van Wilgenburg, he is not so active anymore, as he is no longer KRG Minister of Finance). He used KRG funds to rebuild some churches and villages and set up a Christian defence militia in Mosul against al-Qa'ida. These initiatives did win over some Christian leaders, and as a result one will hear different opinions from them regarding KRG treatment of Christians. As a Wikileaks cable below illustrates (I have highlighted certain parts in bold for emphasis):
'C O N F I D E N T I A L BAGHDAD 002139
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/31/2018
TAGS: PGOV[Internal Governmental Affairs], PHUM[Human Rights], IZ[Iraq]
SUBJECT: NINEWA: DIVERSITY OF VIEWS FROM ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN AL QOSH This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message.
¶1. (C) In a July 3 meeting with PRT and US Army civil affairs personnel, Mayor of Tal Kaif District (and Provincial Chairman of the Assyrian Democratic Movement) Basim Bello said Assyrians in Ninewa Province feel intimidated by the Kurds and suffer from a lack of essential services. Bello said the solution lies in the inclusion of all groups in the provincial government. He said civil rights protections for Christians will continue to be a concern whether predominantly Christian areas remain part of Ninewa or join the KRG. He reiterated his party's position that the Christian areas of Ninewa should form an autonomous region under Article 125 of the constitution. PRT leader stressed the USG's commitment to ensuring fair treatment of minority communities within Iraq and said minority protections will be an important indicator of the overall health of Iraqi democracy.
¶2. (C) In a separate meeting with Father Dinkha Issa, the Assyrian Christian priest in charge of the Monastery of Rabbi Hormiz and nearby Church of the Holy Virgin at Al Qosh, PRT leader asked about the welfare of Christians in Al Qosh. Dhinka expressed hope the church could help bring peace to an area that he described as "disputed between two governments" (the Government of Iraq and the KRG). Unlike Basim, Dhinkasaid there have been no problems with intimidation or interference from political parties or Kurdish security forces. He said the main problem for the church and its adjoining orphanage was inadequate drinking water; a new orphanage building, funded by KRG Minister of Finance Sarkis Aghajan, was nearly finished. He asked for help procuring a vehicle gate to help secure the monastery site.
¶3. (C) Comment: These two conversations with long-term PRT interlocutors reflect the differences of view within the Assyrian community. Both men are dedicated to protecting their community, but may come to different conclusions about how best to ensure its safety in a new Iraq. PRT will continue to cultivate close contact with all of Ninewah's minority groups and report the diversity of views held by key figures on questions of politics, security, and community identity. We will also explore the possibility of using our resources to help secure unique religious sites like the Monastery of Rabbi Hormiz, which is an invaluable piece of Iraq's national patrimony and a potential tourist attraction capable of generating wealth in a poor area.'
None of this, however, negates the problems I drew attention to in my original article.
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Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life.› Full image and caption
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active.
Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report
PASADENA, Calif. - The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active.
The intentional swap at about 2:30 a.m. PST today (Thursday, Feb. 28) put the rover, as anticipated, into a minimal-activity precautionary status called "safe mode." The team is shifting the rover from safe mode to operational status over the next few days and is troubleshooting the condition that affected operations yesterday. The condition is related to a glitch in flash memory linked to the other, now-inactive, computer.
"We switched computers to get to a standard state from which to begin restoring routine operations," said Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Project, which built and operates Curiosity.
Like many spacecraft, Curiosity carries a pair of redundant main computers in order to have a backup available if one fails. Each of the computers, A-side and B-side, also has other redundant subsystems linked to just that computer. Curiosity is now operating on its B-side, as it did during part of the flight from Earth to Mars. It operated on its A-side from before the August 2012 landing through Wednesday.
"While we are resuming operations on the B-side, we are also working to determine the best way to restore the A-side as a viable backup," said JPL engineer Magdy Bareh, leader of the mission's anomaly resolution team.
The spacecraft remained in communications at all scheduled communication windows on Wednesday, but it did not send recorded data, only current status information. The status information revealed that the computer had not switched to the usual daily "sleep" mode when planned. Diagnostic work in a testing simulation at JPL indicates the situation involved corrupted memory at an A-side memory location used for addressing memory files.
Scientific investigations by the rover were suspended Wednesday and today. Resumption of science investigations is anticipated within several days. This week, laboratory instruments inside the rover have been analyzing portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess whether areas inside Gale Crater ever offered a habitable environment for microbes. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ . You can follow the mission on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .
Guy Webster
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov
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GeorgiaHISTORICAL MATERIALISM BOOK SERIES NEW TITLES www.brill.nl/hm Exploring Marx's Capital Philosophical, Economic and Political Dimensions Jacques Bidet. Translated by David Fernbach. Preface to the English Edition by Alex Callinicos Publication year: 2007 Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 14 ISBN-13 (i): 978 9004149 37 3 ISBN-10: 90 04 14937 6 Cover: Hardback Number of pages: xxiv, 328 pp. List price: € 129.00 / US$ 168.00 Jacques Bidet is Professor at the University of Paris-X, holding the chair of Political Philosophy and Theories of Society. His other publications include Théorie de la modernité(1990), John Rawls et la théorie de la justice (1995), Théorie générale, Théorie du droit, de l’économie et de la politique (1999) and Explication et reconstruction du 'Capital' (2004). This book, originally published in French under the title Que faire du Capital?, offers a new interpretation of Marx’s great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx’s theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a ‘pure’ economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a political aspect, neither of these being separable from the other. Jacques Bidet conducts an unprecedented investigation of Marx’s work in the spirit of the history of science, exploring it as a process of theoretical development. Traditional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as if they were complementary and mutually illuminated one another. In actual fact, like any scientist, Marx only wrote a new version in order to correct the previous one. He started from ideas borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and between one draft and the next it is possible to see these being eliminated and restructured. This labour, moreover, was never fully completed. The author thus re-assesses Marx’s entire system in its set of constitutive categories: value, market, labour-power, classes, working class, exploitation, production, fetishism, ideology. He seeks to pin down the difficulties that these encountered, and the analytical and critical value they still have today. Bidet attaches the greatest importance to Marx’s order of exposition, which assigns each concept its place in the overall system, and makes the validity of the construction depend on the pertinence of its initial presuppositions. This is particularly the case with the relationship between market mechanism and capitalism – and thus also between the market and socialism. Althusser: The Detour of Theory The Detour of Theory Gregory Elliott Available Publication year: 2006 Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 13 ISBN-13 (i): 978 9004153 37 0 ISBN-10: 90 04 15337 3 Cover: Hardback Number of pages: xxiv, 412 pp. List price: € 89.00 / US$ 116.00 Gregory Elliott was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he completed his D.Phil. on Louis Althusser in 1985. An independent translator and writer, his books include Perry Anderson: The Merciless Laboratory of History (1998). His most recent translation is Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s The New Spirit of Capitalism(2006). First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser’s ‘return to Marx’ in the mid-1960s; analysed the novel character of the Marxism developed in his major works; charted their author’s subsequent evolution, from his self-criticism to the proclamation of a ‘crisis of Marxism’; and concluded with a balance-sheet of Althusser’s contribution to historical materialism. For this second edition, Gregory Elliott has added a substantial postscript in which he surveys the posthumous edition of the French philosopher’s work published in the 1990s, from the early writings of the 1940s through to the late texts of the 1980s, relating the unknown Althusser revealed by them to the familiar figure of For Marx and Reading Capital, together with a comprehensive bibliography of Althusser’s oeuvre. A Marxist Philosophy of Language Jean-Jacques Lecercle. Translated by Gregory Elliott Publication year: 2006 Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 12 ISBN-13 (i): 978 9004147 51 5 ISBN-10: 90 04 14751 9 Cover: Hardback Number of pages: viii, 240 pp. (English) List price: € 113.00 / US$ 153.00 Jean-Jacques Lecercle was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. From 1999 to 2002 he was Research Professor in the English department at the University of Cardiff, and he is currently Professor of English at the University of Nanterre. He is the author of Interpretation as Pragmatics (Macmillan 1999), Deleuze and Language (Palgrave 2002) and The Force of Language (with Denise Riley, Macmillan 2004). The purpose of this book is to give a precise meaning to the formula: English is the language of imperialism. Understanding that statement involves a critique of the dominant views of language, both in the field of linguistics (the book has a chapter criticising Chomsky’s research programme) and of the philosophy of language (the book has a chapter assessing Habermas’s philosophy of communicative action). The book aims at constructing a Marxist philosophy of language, embodying a view of language as a social, historical, material and political phenomenon. Since there has never been a strong tradition of thinking about language in Marxism, the book provides an overview of the question of Marxism in language (from Stalin’s pamphlet to Voloshinov's book, taking in an essay by Pasolini), and it seeks to construct a number of concepts for a Marxist philosophy of language. The book belongs to the tradition of Marxist critique of dominant ideologies. It should be particularly useful to those who, in the fields of language study, literature and communication studies, have decided that language is not merely an instrument of communication. Marxism and Ecological Economics Toward a Red and Green Political Economy Paul Burkett Publication year: 2006 Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 11 ISBN-13 (i): 978 9004148 10 9 ISBN-10: 90 04 14810 8 Cover: Hardback Number of pages: x, 358 pp. List price: € 72.00 / US$ 97.00 Paul Burkett, Ph.D. (1984) in Economics, Syracuse University, is Professor of Economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. His publications on Marxism and ecology include Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective (St. Martin's Press, 1999) and many articles in scholarly journals. This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view, and shows how Marxist political economy can make a substantial contribution to ecological economics. The analysis is developed in terms of four basic issues: (1) nature and economic value; (2) the treatment of nature as capital; (3) the significance of the entropy law for economic systems; (4) the concept of sustainable development. In each case, it is shown that Marxism can help ecological economics fulfill its commitments to multi-disciplinarity, methodological pluralism, and historical openness. In this way, a foundation is constructed for a substantive dialogue between Marxists and ecological economists. For further details on the book series and other titles, go to www.brill.nl/hm The Editors Historical Materialism Faculty of Law and Social Sciences SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom 2424,7C7C,D4D4[log in to unmask] 9191,3636,ADADhttp://www.brill.nl/hima 9191,3636,ADADhttp://www.brill.nl/hm
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The website of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using these general data and information, the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
On the website of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd., users are given the opportunity to subscribe to our enterprise’s newsletter. The input mask used for this purpose determines what personal data are transmitted, as well as when the newsletter is ordered from the controller.
The Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. informs its customers and business partners regularly by means of a newsletter about enterprise offers. The enterprise’s newsletter may only be received by the data subject if (1) the data subject has a valid e-mail address and (2) the data subject registers for the newsletter shipping. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address registered by a data subject for the first time for newsletter shipping, for legal reasons, in the double opt-in procedure. This confirmation e-mail is used to prove whether the owner of the e-mail address as the data subject is authorized to receive the newsletter.
The newsletter of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. contains so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic embedded in such e-mails, which are sent in HTML format to enable log file recording and analysis. This allows a statistical analysis of the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. Based on the embedded tracking pixel, the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. may see if and when an e-mail was opened by a data subject, and which links in the e-mail were called up by data subjects.
Such personal data collected in the tracking pixels contained in the newsletters are stored and analyzed by the controller in order to optimize the shipping of the newsletter, as well as to adapt the content of future newsletters even better to the interests of the data subject. These personal data will not be passed on to third parties. Data subjects are at any time entitled to revoke the respective separate declaration of consent issued by means of the double-opt-in procedure. After a revocation, these personal data will be deleted by the controller. The Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. automatically regards a withdrawal from the receipt of the newsletter as a revocation.
The website of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.
The Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. offers users the possibility to leave individual comments on individual blog contributions on a blog, which is on the website of the controller. A blog is a web-based, publicly-accessible portal, through which one or more people called bloggers or web-bloggers may post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts. Blogposts may usually be commented by third parties.
The comments made in the blog of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. may be subscribed to by third parties. In particular, there is the possibility that a commenter subscribes to the comments following his comments on a particular blog post.
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd., he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd., he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. will arrange the restriction of the processing.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd..
The Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd.. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd. shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd..
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Jens Moeller Consulting Ltd..
14. Data Protection provisions about the application and use of AddThis
On this website, the data controller has integrated components of the enterprise AddThis. AddThis is a so-called bookmarking provider. The service allows for simplified bookmarking of Internet pages via buttons. By clicking on the AddThis component with the mouse, or by clicking on it, a list of bookmarking and sharing services is displayed. AddThis is used on over 15 million websites, and the buttons are displayed, according to the information of the operating enterprise, over 20 billion times a year.
The operating company of AddThis is AddThis, Inc. 1595 Spring Hill Road, Suite 300, Vienna, VA 22182, United States.
By calling up one of the individual pages of the website, which is operated by the controller, and on which an AddThis component has been integrated, the Internet browser of the data subject is automatically prompted by the respective AddThis component to download data from the website www.addthis.com. Within the framework of this technical procedure, AddThis is informed of the visit and the specific individual page of this website that was used by the data subject with the help of information technology. In addition, AddThis is informed about the IP address of the computer system assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) and used by the data subject, the browser type and language, the web page accessed before our website, the date and the time of the visit to our website. AddThis uses this data to create anonymous user profiles. The data and information transmitted to AddThis in this way will enable the enterprise AddThis, as well as affiliates or their partner-enterprises, to contact visitors of the web pages of the controller with personalized and interest-based advertising.
AddThis displays personalized and interest-based advertising on the basis of a cookie set by the enterprise. This cookie analyzes the individual surfing behavior of the computer system used by the data subject. The cookie saves the computer-based outgoing visits to Internet pages.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent AddThis from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Cookies may also be deleted by AddThis at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject also has the possibility of objecting permanently to the processing of personal data by AddThis. For this purpose, the data subject must click on the opt-out button under the link http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out, which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie used for this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the data subject deletes the cookies from his system, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the possibility exists that the websites of the controller are not fully usable anymore by the data subject.
The applicable data protection provisions of AddThis may be accessed under http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy.
15. Data protection provisions about the application
and use of functions of the Amazon Partner program
On this website, the controller has integrated Amazon components as a participant in the Amazon partner program. The Amazon components were created by Amazon with the aim to mediate customers through advertisements on various websites of the Amazon group, in particular Amazon.co.uk, Local.Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, BuyVIP.com, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it and Amazon.es in return for the payment of a commission. By using the Amazon components, the controller may generate advertising revenue.
The operating company of this Amazon component is Amazon EU S.à.r.l, 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Amazon sets a cookie the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With each single call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and in which an Amazon component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Amazon through the respective Amazon component. During the course of this technical procedure, Amazon receives personal information that is used to trace the origin of orders from Amazon, and as a result, to allow the accounting of a commission. Among other things, Amazon may understand that the data subject has clicked on an affiliate link on our website.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used, and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Amazon from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Amazon may be deleted at anytime via a web browser or other software programs.
Further information and the actual data protection provisions of Amazon may be retrieved under https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3312401&language=en_GB.
17. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
18. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Remarketing
On this website, the controller has integrated Google Remarketing services. Google Remarketing is a feature of Google AdWords, which allows an enterprise to display advertising to Internet users who have previously resided on the enterprise’s Internet site. The integration of Google Remarketing therefore allows an enterprise to create user-based advertising and thus shows relevant advertisements to interested Internet users.
The operating company of the Google Remarketing services is the Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
The purpose of Google Remarketing is the insertion of interest-relevant advertising. Google Remarketing allows us to display ads on the Google network or on other websites, which are based on individual needs and matched to the interests of Internet users.
Google Remarketing sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google enables a recognition of the visitor of our website if he calls up consecutive web pages, which are also a member of the Google advertising network. With each call-up to an Internet site on which the service has been integrated by Google Remarketing, the web browser of the data subject identifies automatically with Google. During the course of this technical procedure, Google receives personal information, such as the IP address or the surfing behaviour of the user, which Google uses, inter alia, for the insertion of interest relevant advertising.
The cookie is used to store personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Google may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to the interest-based advertising by Google. For this purpose, the data subject must call up the link to www.google.de/settings/ads and make the desired settings on each Internet browser used by the data subject.
Further information and the actual data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
20. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google-AdWords
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows the advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-define specific keywords with the help of which an ad on Google’s search results only then displayed, when the user utilizes the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.
The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website.
If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject through Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, e.g, the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or canceled a sale of goods.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.
The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as stated above, by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie set by Google AdWords may be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject has a possibility of objecting to the interest based advertisement of Google. Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
21. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Jetpack for WordPress
On this website, the controller has integrated Jetpack. Jetpack is a WordPress plug-in, which provides additional features to the operator of a website based on WordPress. Jetpack allows the Internet site operator, inter alia, an overview of the visitors of the site. By displaying related posts and publications, or the ability to share content on the page, it is also possible to increase visitor numbers. In addition, security features are integrated into Jetpack, so a Jetpack-using site is better protected against brute-force attacks. Jetpack also optimizes and accelerates the loading of images on the website.
The operating company of Jetpack Plug-Ins for WordPress is the Automattic Inc., 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, UNITED STATES. The operating enterprise uses the tracking technology created by Quantcast Inc., 201 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
Jetpack sets a cookie on the information technology system used by the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Jetpack component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to submit data through the Jetpack component for analysis purposes to Automattic. During the course of this technical procedure Automattic receives data that is used to create an overview of website visits. The data obtained in this way serves the analysis of the behaviour of the data subject, which has access to the Internet page of the controller and is analyzed with the aim to optimize the website. The data collected through the Jetpack component is not used to identify the data subject without a prior obtaining of a separate express consent of the data subject. The data comes also to the notice of Quantcast. Quantcast uses the data for the same purposes as Automattic.
The data subject can, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Automattic/Quantcast from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Automattic/Quantcast may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by the Jetpack cookie as well as the processing of these data by Automattic/Quantcast and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must press the ‘opt-out’ button under the link https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set with this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies are deleted on the system of the data subject, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
The applicable data protection provisions of Automattic may be accessed under https://automattic.com/privacy/. The applicable data protection provisions of Quantcast can be accessed under https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/.
23. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Shariff
On this website, the controller has integrated the component of Shariff. The Shariff component provides social media buttons that are compliant with data protection. Shariff was developed for the German computer magazine c’t and is published by GitHub, Inc.
The developers of the component is GitHub, Inc. 88 Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States.
Typically, the button solutions provided by the social networks already transmits personal data to the respective social network, when a user visits a website in which a social media button was integrated. By using the Shariff component, personal data is only transferred to social networks, when the visitor actively activates one of the social media buttons. Further information on the Shariff component may be found in the computer magazine c’t under http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschutz-und-Social-Media-Der-ct-Shariff-ist-im-Usatz-2470103. Html provided. The use of the Shariff component is intended to protect the personal data of the visitors of our website and to enable us to integrate a button solution for social networks on this website.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of GitHub are retrievable under https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-policy/.
The operating company of SlideShare is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. For privacy matters outside of the United States the LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called ‘tweets,’ e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user’s tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.
The operating company of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on XING, XING detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the XING component and associated with the respective XING account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on the XING button integrated on our Internet site, e.g. the “Share”-button, then XING assigns this information to the personal XING user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
28. Payment Method: Data protection provisions about the use of Klarna as a payment processor
On this website, the controller has integrated Klarna components. Klarna is an online payment service provider, which allows purchases on an account or a flexible installment payment. Klarna also offers other services, such as buyer protection and identity or creditworthiness checks.
The operating company of Klarna is Klarna AB, Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden.
If the data subject selects the “purchase on account” or “installment purchase” during the ordering process in our online shop as a payment option, the data of the data subject is automatically transmitted to Klarna. By selecting one of these payment options, the data subject agrees to this transmission of personal data required for the processing of the invoice or installment purchase, or identity and creditworthiness checks.
The personal data transmitted to Klarna is usually first name, surname, address, date of birth, sex, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, as well as other data necessary for the processing of an invoice or installment purchase. The processing of the purchase contract also requires such personal data, which are in connection with the respective order. In particular, the exchange of payment information such as bank details, card number, date of validity and CVC code, cumulative number, item number, data on goods and services, prices and taxes, information on the previous purchase behavior or other details of the financial situation of the data subject.
The purpose of the transmission of the data is, in particular, the identification check, payment administration, andfraud prevention. The controller shall provide Klarna with personal data, in particular, if a legitimate interest in the transmission exists. The personal data exchanged between Klarna and the data subject for the data processing shall be transmitted by Klarna to economic agencies. This transmission is intended for identity and creditworthiness checks.
Klarna shall also pass on the personal data to affiliates (Klarna Group) and service providers or subcontractors as far as this is necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or to process the data in the order.
Klarna collects and uses data and information on the previous payment behavior of the data subject as well as probability values for their behavior in the future (so-called scoring) in order to decide on the reasoning, implementation or termination of a contractual relationship. The calculation of scoring is carried out on the basis of scientifically-recognized mathematical-statistical methods.
The data subject is able to revoke the consent to the handling of personal data at any time from Klarna. A revocation shall not have any effect on personal data which must be processed, used or transmitted in accordance with (contractual) payment processing.
The applicable data protection provisions of Klarna may be retrieved under https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/data/de_de/data_protection.pdf.
29. Payment Method: Data protection provisions about the use of PayPal as a payment processor
On this website, the controller has integrated components of PayPal. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via so-called PayPal accounts, which represent virtual private or business accounts. PayPal is also able to process virtual payments through credit cards when a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an e-mail address, which is why there are no classic account numbers. PayPal makes it possible to trigger online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also accepts trustee functions and offers buyer protection services.
The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
If the data subject chooses “PayPal” as the payment option in the online shop during the ordering process, we automatically transmit the data of the data subject to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, the data subject agrees to the transfer of personal data required for payment processing.
The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, or other data necessary for payment processing. The processing of the purchase contract also requires such personal data, which are in connection with the respective order.
The transmission of the data is aimed at payment processing and fraud prevention. The controller will transfer personal data to PayPal, in particular, if a legitimate interest in the transmission is given. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and the controller for the processing of the data will be transmitted by PayPal to economic credit agencies. This transmission is intended for identity and creditworthiness checks.
PayPal will, if necessary, pass on personal data to affiliates and service providers or subcontractors to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or for data to be processed in the order.
The data subject has the possibility to revoke consent for the handling of personal data at any time from PayPal. A revocation shall not have any effect on personal data which must be processed, used or transmitted in accordance with (contractual) payment processing.
The applicable data protection provisions of PayPal may be retrieved under https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR.
In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR.
Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).
We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner).
Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded.
Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.
This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the External Data Protection Officers that was developed in cooperation with the Media Law Lawyers from WBS-LAW.
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Drama and Theatre
King’s has an outstanding Drama and Theatre department with a long history of being a valuable and distinguished part of school life. The department drives to better itself each year with new facilities, first-class productions, accessible courses for all, high standards of teaching, and extra-curricular events and clubs. We aim to stimulate and challenge the minds of all students and develop new skills in all aspects of performance and theatre work. The department was recently awarded 5 stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by Broadway Baby with their original production, ‘Ugly Youth’, and in 2020 were nominated for ‘Outstanding Drama Department’ at the Music and Drama Education Awards.
Each year there is a breath-taking number of shows, which include a musical theatre production, contemporary and classical studio pieces, academic showcases, open mic nights, Trinity Speech and Drama showcases and attendance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recent productions have included ‘Made in Dagenham’, ‘Education Education Education’, The Merchant of Venice’. ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘Lord of The Flies’, ‘The Dreaming’, ‘The Lion King’, ‘Arabian Nights’, ‘Grimm Tales’, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, ‘Les Miserables’, Seussical, ‘Electra’, ‘The Electra Project’, ‘Into The Woods’ and ‘Grease’. The department organises no less than 8 theatre trips a year and is currently organising an educational trip to Los Angeles in October 2020.
A Level Drama and Theatre pupils have achieved 100% A*-B for the past 5 years and in 2015 pupils achieved 100% A*. Last year 9/19 pupils achieved a 9 in GCSE Drama with 84% achieving a 9-7 grade and value added for exam pupils is statistically the best in the school. The exam board taught for GCSE Drama, GCSE Dance and A Level Drama and Theatre is AQA. Trinity Speech and Drama lessons are available and taught by the Speech and Drama teacher, and most students achieve a Distinction in the exams which take place three times with an academic year.
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This entry was posted on February 24, 2014 by Misc Authors.
One of the most celebrated combat sequences in cinema is the ‘Battle on the Ice’ from Sergei Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky (1938), which depicts the Novgorodian prince’s victory over a crusading army led by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus in 1242, the theme of the latest Medieval Warfare IV.1. It is, of course, both unwise and unfair to expect historical accuracy from any dramatic film. Filmmakers have different aims and operate under different rules than historians. Nevertheless, it is always interesting to explore how history and art converge or diverge in any film based on actual events (see also Murray Dahm’s article on history and film). Eisenstein’s epic presents an especially complex interplay of drama, history, propaganda, and legend, and demonstrates how the lines between these various strands can sometimes become nearly indistinguishable.
The film came at a critical juncture in both Eisenstein’s career and the history of the Soviet Union. The critical success that the director had achieved with The Battleship Potemkin (1925) had been followed by a series of failed and aborted projects. More dangerously for Eisenstein, a penchant for cinematic experimentation and a lengthy sojourn to the U.S. and Mexico which included an extended stay in Hollywood had left him ideologically suspect in the eyes of the increasingly doctrinaire and oppressive Stalinist regime. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union faced the imminent danger presented by the expansionistic ambitions of Adolf Hitler.
Eisenstein needed a ‘safe’ project to revive his flagging career and restore his political credentials, and Stalin needed a film that would rally the Russian people in the face of the ever more likely prospect of a German invasion. When Eisenstein took the helm of Alexander Nevsky, he intended to give Stalin exactly what the leader wanted, stating unequivocally in a contemporary article, “My aim is patriotism!” Nevertheless, the authorities were careful to surround him with sturdily dependable party loyalists who would insure that the mercurial director hewed closely to the Stalinist line. Eisenstein’s ‘guardians’ included his co-director, D.I. Vasiliev, and the scenarist, Piotr Pavlenko, who may have moonlighted as a spy for the Soviet secret police. Even the film’s leading man, Nikolai Cherkasov, was a member of the Supreme Soviet.
The finished product, though highly dramatized, generally conforms to the broad outlines of mid-thirteenth century Russian history. Novgorod stands as the last bastion of Russian independence. The Mongols have subdued vast stretches to the south and east, and a crusading army spearheaded by the Teutonic Knights advances from the west. At the opening of the film, Alexander Nevsky, is living in exile, having been expelled in a dispute with the Novgorod’s boyars and merchants following his defeat of the Swedes at Neva River in 1240. But with the crusaders fast approaching, a delegation from the city implores Alexander to return to confront the invaders. The prince accepts the invitation, and after arranging a pragmatic peace with the Mongols, turns his attentions to the more immediate threat from the west. Alexander gathers his forces and delivers a crushing defeat to the enemy on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus on August 5, 1242.
The film makes clear, however, that Eisenstein’s primary motive was not to record the events of the past faithfully, but to hold a mirror to the contemporary situation of the Soviet Union and to glorify the Russian people and contemporary Soviet doctrine. He frequently simplifies matters in order to make his message clear. For instance, the ethnic diversity of each army is ignored. Alexander’s forces would have included Lapps, Finns, Balts, Turco-Mongol horse-archers, and others. In the film, all are simply ‘Russians’. Likewise, the crusading army that probably was dominated by Estonians and counted among its numbers several other groups including Balts, Finns, and even Russians, here is conflated into a singular horde of ‘Germans’.
The masses of the Russian people are celebrated in diverse ways. Alexander is portrayed as a champion of the ‘proletariat’ who shares a solid bond with the workers, bother rural and urban. When the audience gets its first glimpse of him in exile at Pereyaslavl, he is calf-deep in the local river working alongside the common fishermen. The army that fought at Lake Peipus probably was comprised largely of the druzhinas — the elite military entourages — of Alexander and his younger brother Andrey, along with the Novgorod urban militia, as well as Finno-Ugrian and perhaps Turco-Mongol units. At best, it likely included only a very small percentage of true peasants. But in Eisenstein’s work, the poor Russian farmers flock to Alexander’s cause in enormous numbers to form an army consisting overwhelmingly of peasants. Representing another variety of worker, the patriotic armorer, Ignat, operates as a sort of one-man 5 Year Plan, selflessly distributing his martial wares to the departing army. And, in a particularly striking expression of the communist ideal of the universal brotherhood of the proletariat, at the conclusion of the battle, Alexander allows the surviving German foot-soldiers to return home unharmed because, “they were forced to fight”.
Whereas the film idealizes the common folk, the wealthy are vilified. The merchants and aristocratic boyars of Novgorod who fear that war will disrupt trade resist Alexander’s return. Acting as the spokesman for the masses, Ignat caustically rejects a proposed accommodation with the enemy: “For them, the rich folk, it’s all the same (…) wherever there’s a profit, that’s their native soil. But we poor folk face certain death under the Germans.”
Churchmen are portrayed in an equally negative way. The only Russian cleric featured in the film, the faithless monk Ananias, collaborates with the enemy. While the Orthodox Church was well entrenched in and around Novgorod by the mid-thirteenth century, in the film there is absolutely no indication of religious feeling among Alexander’s followers. The object of their devotion is Mother Russia, and Alexander even describes traitors to her as ‘Judases’. Not at all surprisingly, there is no hint in the film that Alexander was later elevated to sainthood by the Russian Orthodox Church.
The frightening and violent religious fanaticism of the Teutonic Knights and their religious leaders stands in stark contrast to the secularism of the Russians, and no doubt was equated in the minds of Soviet audiences with the brutal, blind fervor of Nazi true-believers. In one remarkable scene, the Grand Master of the order casually, one-by-one, drops the still-living children of the captured city of Pskov onto a blazing pyre: a gruesome portent of the fascist excesses soon to be unleashed on a massive scale in Eastern Europe.
The director’s intentions are also evident in the film’s martial details. As documented in his notebooks, Eisenstein oversaw each detail of costuming, including the arms and armor of the opposing armies. In spite of some obvious errors such as the incorrect design of the cross worn by the Teutonic Knights, there seems to have been at least some attempt at historical fidelity. Generally speaking, the swords, axes, mail and other armaments and protection employed by the combatants on both sides do not seem out of place. For instance, Alexander’s soldiers wear the typical conical, tapering helmets with aventails, and many carry the kite-shaped shields common to the place and period. Likewise, the elaborate crests that decorate the great helms of the leading Teutonic Knights, including the imposing, curving horns sported by the Grand Master, were clearly drawn directly from illuminations in the fourteenth-century Manesse Codex and other medieval manuscripts (see the examples below) Yet, even if jousting knights of the fourteenth-century actually sported such ornate headgear while competing, such unwieldy adornments seem rather impractical for the desperate, life-or-death combat at Lake Peipus.
But historical precision was clearly secondary to propaganda in Eisenstein’s mind, and other aspects of the costuming plainly illustrate his aim to depict the Teutonic Knights and their followers as “the ancestors of contemporary fascists” (Bordwell, p. 210). It has frequently been remarked that the great helms worn by the knights serve to transform individuals into dehumanized cogs in a faceless horde, interchangeable in Russian consciousness with the mass of soulless, fascist marauders then threatening to overrun their homes. Likewise, the design of the helmets worn by the crusader infantry deliberately evoke the modern German stalhelme.
More pointedly, the extended hand that tops the helm of one of the Teutonic Knights appears to be giving a Nazi salute (Bordwell, p. 215), and the bishop who accompanies the crusaders wears a mitre decorated with stylized swastikas.
The extended ‘Battle on the Ice’ marks the climax of the film. As staged by Eisenstein, Alexander is urged by his commanders the meet the enemy on the eastern side of Lake Peipus, which marks the boundary between Livonia and Russia. Alexander peremptorily rejects this suggestion, vowing, “The dogs shall never set foot on Russian soil!” and determines to meet them on the frozen surface of the lake itself. When one lieutenant points out the risks of fighting on ice that is already beginning to thaw in the early spring weather, Alexander retorts that the dangers will be much greater for the more heavily-armored Germans. Taking up position near the eastern shore, Alexander places his footsoldiers in the forefront to bear the brunt of the first assault, and holds his cavalry in reserve on each flank. The ‘countless’ German host initiates the action with a cavalry charge, followed by a full assault by their footsoldiers. The Russian infantry initially falls back, then rallies and begins to turn the tide. At the decisive movement, Alexander spurs his cavalry into action, catching the enemy in a classic pincer movement, and the battle soon turns into a rout. As the Germans retreat en masse toward the western shore, the ice begins to give way beneath them, and many sink into the freezing waters to the descending notes of Sergei Prokofiev’s famous score.
There is no doubt that Eisenstein has taken considerable dramatic license in his recreation of this encounter. To cite just one instance, in the film the Teutonic Knights are led by a Grand Master. Just who commanded the knights at Lake Peipus is not clear in the sources, but it is evident that no Grand Master was present. Indeed, it is very likely that the Teutonic Knights made up only a very small part of the crusading army (Nicolle, p. 41; Urban, p. 94).
Further, Eisenstein own vision of the battle was inspired by the ‘Battle in Heaven’ in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Like the Teutonic Knights in the film, the Host of Satan in Milton’s epic: “Brstl’d with upright beams innumerable / Of rigid Spears and Helmets throng’d and Shield / Various.” And Alexander’s minions substitute for the Heavenly Host who pursued their diabolical foes “into the wasteful Deep” (Seton, p. 380-1).
It is, however, impossible to judge with any precision how closely the director’s recreation of the battle reflects actual events, because the course of the historical battle is itself difficult to determine from contemporary sources. The earliest chronicles disagree on several significant points such as the size of each army and the numbers of crusaders who were captured or killed. At places, the same sources directly contradict details of the battle as presented by Eisenstein. For example, the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle of the 1290’s asserts that Alexander’s forces outnumbered the knights by a ratio of 60-1, and also records that the battle commenced with a charge by Alexander’s horse-archers, a group which does not even make an appearance in the film. Most interestingly, although the earliest Rus’ chronicles make mention of a lake and indicate that at the close of the battle fleeing crusaders were pursued by Alexander’s troops, the same sources give no indication that any part of the battle or pursuit actually took place on the lake. The Rhymed Chronicle does not even mention a lake or a pursuit. In fact, it states that during the fighting, “Many from both sides fell dead on the grass.” (quoted in Ostrowski, p. 292).
The Harvard historian Daniel Ostrowski has carefully traced the growth of what he calls the “legend” of the battle through several layers of sources following these earliest accounts (p. 290-1). The first source to allege that any part of the battle took place on the ice is the older redaction of the Novgorod Chronicle which did not appear until at least the fourteenth century, and Ostrowski makes a reasonable case that this assertion results from the author combining details of the battle in 1242 with an earlier engagement fought on a frozen lake in 1016 (p. 305-7). The first sources to claim that the ice gave way beneath the combatants are the Moscow Chronicle Compilations of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. And illuminations from the 16th century Litzevoi Letopisnyi Svod appear to indicate that some of Alexander’s men drowned along with their opponents (Ostrowski, p. 302-3).
Ostrowski argues, as had David Nicolle before him, that the legend of the battle — in which the battle was fought on the ice, which gave way under the fleeing crusader army with fatal results — was cemented in the popular imagination by Eisenstein’s epic (Ostrowski, p. 308-9; Nicolle, p. 69). More intriguingly, Ostrowski also posits that the film version of the battle had a significant impact on subsequent historiography. As evidence, he cites a passage from a popular textbook of Russian history which might very well serve as a brief synopsis of the battle sequence in the film:
“The massed force of mailclad and heavily armed German knights and their Finnish allies struck like an enormous battering ram at the Russian lines; the lines sagged but held long enough for Alexander Nevskii to make an enveloping movement with a part of his troops and assail an enemy flank; a complete rout of the Teutonic Knights followed, the spring ice breaking under them to aid in their destruction” (Raiasanovsky, p. 74).
Although the film served to shape historical perceptions in the long run, its short term fortunes were subject to the shifting tides of immediate events. It generated great enthusiasm and attracted huge domestic audiences following its initial release in November of 1938 and garnered numerous honors for Eisenstein, including the prestigious Order of Lenin. But with the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in August 1939 — and the abrupt reversal of the Stalinist line on Germany — the film quietly but quickly disappeared, only to be rushed back into theaters in the wake of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. During its re-release, the film achieved even greater popular success.
In the following year, the Soviet military introduced a new decoration, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, awarded for “showing initiative in the choice of a felicitous moment for a sudden audacious and successful attack to the enemy, inflicting a major defeat with few losses among one’s own forces” (Dobrenko, p. 69). In just one more instance of the film’s impact upon collective memory, the medal was adorned with the striking profile of Nikolai Cherkasov, the star of Eisenstein’s recent hit.
Alexander Nevsky. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. 1938. Liner notes by J. Hoberman. New York 2001. DVD.
D. Bordwell, The Cinema of Eisenstein. Cambridge 1993.
E. Christiansen, The Northern Crusades. London 1997.
E. Dobrenko, Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History. Edinburgh 2008.
R. Michell & N. Forbes (eds), The Chronicle of Novgorod. London 1914.
D. Nicolle, Lake Peipus 1242: Battle of the Ice. London 1996.
D. Ostrowski, “Alexander Nevskii’s ‘Battle of the Ice’: The Creation of a Legend”, in: Russian History33, n. 2,3.4 (2006), pp. 289-312.
N.V. Riasanovsky & M.D. Steinberg, A History of Russia. New York and Oxford 2011 (8th ed.).
M. Seton, Sergei M. Eisenstein. London 1978 (revised ed.).
W. Urban, The Teutonic Knights: A Military History. London 2003.
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Updated: 9:30 AM CDT Jul 11, 2018
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Tears glistened on the black and purple bruises covering 91-year-old Rodolfo Rodriguez's face as he described being attacked by a group of people while going for a walk on the Fourth of July."I can't walk anymore," Rodriguez said in Spanish. "I'm in so much pain."He'll be turning 92 in September, Rodriguez said, and he's never been hurt like this before, in a life working the fields with cattle and corn.He had traveled from Michoacan, Mexico, to visit his family in Willowbrook, California, a city in Los Angeles County, his grandson Erik Mendoza said.He makes the trip about twice a year, and takes a walk through the neighborhood every day after lunch, Mendoza said. "Everyone in the neighborhood knows him already," he said.Rodriguez said he was walking to a nearby park on Wednesday when he passed a woman and a little girl. Without warning, the woman assaulted him, he said, hitting him with a concrete block and enlisting a group of men to join in beating him."I didn't even bump into her kid," Rodriguez said. "I just passed her and she pushed me and she hit me until she was done.""We are concerned, especially with the type of crime they committed," Sheriff's Deputy D'Angelo Robinson told CNN affiliate KTLA. "There was what appears to be a 4-year-old child there who witnessed the entire thing. We can't have these kind of people like that out in the streets."According to KABC, a woman was arrested in the beating on Tuesday night. Laquisha Jones, 30, of Los Angeles was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. She is being held on $200,000 bail.Misbel Borjas was driving by when she saw the woman hitting Rodriguez repeatedly in the head with a concrete block, she said."I heard her saying, 'go back to your country, go back to Mexico,'" she told CNN by phone. "When I tried to videotape her with my cell phone, she threw that same concrete block, tried to hit my car."Rodriguez said he doesn't remember when the woman picked up the concrete block, but he remembers being hit repeatedly. At one point, he says, the woman ran up to a group of men nearby and told them Rodriguez was trying to take her daughter away from her -- so the men joined her and started kicking him as he lay bleeding on the sidewalk, Rodriguez said."But that's not true," he said, through tears. "In the years I have been alive I have never offended anyone."Mendoza said his grandfather suffered a broken jaw, broken cheekbones, two broken ribs and bruises on his face, back and abdomen. He spent five or six hours in the hospital, he said.The family has started a GoFundMe campaign to help cover Rodriguez's medical costs.As his grandfather laid back in a reclining chair at the family home, wearing a white T-shirt and blue plaid pajamas, Mendoza kissed him on one of the few places he hadn't been injured: the top of his head."We think we have an idea (on who the suspects are) but I just want police to find them," Mendoza said. "That's all our family wants, justice for our grandpa."
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Tears glistened on the black and purple bruises covering 91-year-old Rodolfo Rodriguez's face as he described being attacked by a group of people while going for a walk on the Fourth of July.
"I can't walk anymore," Rodriguez said in Spanish. "I'm in so much pain."
He'll be turning 92 in September, Rodriguez said, and he's never been hurt like this before, in a life working the fields with cattle and corn.
He had traveled from Michoacan, Mexico, to visit his family in Willowbrook, California, a city in Los Angeles County, his grandson Erik Mendoza said.
He makes the trip about twice a year, and takes a walk through the neighborhood every day after lunch, Mendoza said. "Everyone in the neighborhood knows him already," he said.
Rodriguez said he was walking to a nearby park on Wednesday when he passed a woman and a little girl. Without warning, the woman assaulted him, he said, hitting him with a concrete block and enlisting a group of men to join in beating him.
"I didn't even bump into her kid," Rodriguez said. "I just passed her and she pushed me and she hit me until she was done."
"We are concerned, especially with the type of crime they committed," Sheriff's Deputy D'Angelo Robinson told CNN affiliate KTLA. "There was what appears to be a 4-year-old child there who witnessed the entire thing. We can't have these kind of people like that out in the streets."
According to KABC, a woman was arrested in the beating on Tuesday night. Laquisha Jones, 30, of Los Angeles was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. She is being held on $200,000 bail.
Misbel Borjas was driving by when she saw the woman hitting Rodriguez repeatedly in the head with a concrete block, she said.
"I heard her saying, 'go back to your country, go back to Mexico,'" she told CNN by phone. "When I tried to videotape her with my cell phone, she threw that same concrete block, tried to hit my car."
Rodriguez said he doesn't remember when the woman picked up the concrete block, but he remembers being hit repeatedly. At one point, he says, the woman ran up to a group of men nearby and told them Rodriguez was trying to take her daughter away from her -- so the men joined her and started kicking him as he lay bleeding on the sidewalk, Rodriguez said.
"But that's not true," he said, through tears. "In the years I have been alive I have never offended anyone."
Mendoza said his grandfather suffered a broken jaw, broken cheekbones, two broken ribs and bruises on his face, back and abdomen. He spent five or six hours in the hospital, he said.
The family has started a GoFundMe campaign to help cover Rodriguez's medical costs.
As his grandfather laid back in a reclining chair at the family home, wearing a white T-shirt and blue plaid pajamas, Mendoza kissed him on one of the few places he hadn't been injured: the top of his head.
"We think we have an idea (on who the suspects are) but I just want police to find them," Mendoza said. "That's all our family wants, justice for our grandpa."
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As word comes in of the third oil pipeline break this week, this one from a Shell Oil pipeline in Texas, Californians may be wondering whether the same could happen here. Frightening news has unfolded since last Friday of the tarsands oil spill from Exxon's Pegasus pipeline through Mayflower Arkansas, that spill happening mere days after a train derailment spilled 30,000 gallons of tarsands oil in Minnesota. On average, according to federal agencies, 3.5 million gallons of oil spills from aging pipelines each year.
And as California has its share of oil pipelines, we are indeed vulnerable when they fail. But finding out just whether your home, your workplace, or the school your children attend might be vulnerable to oil spill damage is harder than it should be.
That's in part by design: oil pipelines are vulnerable targets for terrorist attack. Oil and gas pipelines are regulated by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), a federal agency that's part of the Department of Transportation, and PHMSA doesn't release the precise locations of oil pipelines, which it generally refers to as "hazardous liquid" pipelines.
The agency does maintain a publicly accessible pipeline mapping viewer, but that viewer is buggy, its maps hard to interpret, and the maps' metadata seemingly incomplete.
California's Department of Conservation put out an authoritative map of California energy infrastructure in 2000, viewable here as a PDF, and it's a lot more helpful than the feds' online map database. Zooming into the state's map reveals a few clusters of oil pipelines in places where you might reasonably expect them -- in the southern L.A. basin, the oil fields of the San Joaquin Valley, along the south shore of San Pablo Bay (where all the refineries are), and in the Ventura Basin connecting with the offshore platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. Zoom in even farther and you can generally figure out within a mile or so just where those pipelines run.
That said, the map is 13 years old, and its data seems to conflict in places with other sources such as PHMSA's online map. But it's a lot easier to interpret than the PHMSA map, and provides much more useful geographical context.
More recent information turns out to be hard to come by. If you're embarking on a construction project, calling 811 connects you to a switchboard that will tell you whether your earth-moving might disrupt a buried transmission pipeline. In Southern California, the vast majority of those lines hold natural gas. Finding out whether there's an aging oil pipeline a mile uphill from your home isn't really in 811's job description. Underground petroleum pipelines are usually marked along their length with warning signs like the one shown here, which is mainly helpful for people digging trenches. Unless you have the time to scour your neighborhood for little signs, you're out of luck.
Sensibly enough, the State Fire Marshall maintains a map of pipeline locations in order to help first responders know what they're up against when they arrive at a fire or spill. That map isn't accessible to the public. As it stands now, except for those of us who happen to live right up against a pipeline route and have seen the signs there, Californians will likely stay pretty much in the dark about the precise location and condition of the state's 5,500 miles of pipelines that carry oil and other hazardous materials.
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The annual OIV congress, held in the international city of Geneva, Switzerland from July 15th to July 19th discussed this year the topic: « Preserve and innovate: environmental, economic and social expectations». Vine and Wine Professionals coming from all over the world were presented over 350 abstracts from more than 41 countries, and were given the opportunity to share views and make the world of wine progress in an ever-changing environment.
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The OIV Merit is the most distinguished award presented for wine and vine scientists, experts and professionals by the International Organization of Vine and Wine. The OIV Merit award is given for due recognition of outstanding activities within the international vine and wine sector, including, but not limiting to scientific and technical research, product safety and quality, conditions for producing and marketing vine and wine products, innovation, general development of the international vine and wine sector and diffusion of wine culture and civilization.
In the world of wine ever since he was a child (his parents were producing wines in the Valais canton, in Switzerland), Dr. Jean-Claude VILLETTAZ graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich as Food Engineer in 1976 and obtained his PhD in 1979 with an in-depth study of the macromolecular fraction of grape and wine.
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Dr. Jean-Claude VILLETTAZ entered the OIV as Expert Speaker on 1980, became Vice-president of the SPECIF (specification of oenological products) group from 2008 to 2014 and was appointed president of the same group until 2019.
Dr. Jean-Claude VILLETTAZ is also former Vice-President of the Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology, of which is now member of honor, member of the Italian Academy for Vine and Wine and member of the Project Board of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW.
At Lallemand, we feel very proud and honored to work with Dr. Jean-Claude VILLETTAZ and extend our warmest congratulations to him!
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Community Solar: A Solution to Solar Problems with Significant Legal Barriers
April 2, 2020 by Jessica Meltzer
By Linn Bumpers, Staff Contributor
Community solar is a widespread solution for those who cannot invest in rooftop solar but want renewable energy. How does this innovative energy system fit into the existing legal frameworks?
There is a growing demand for solar power in the United States. However, despite the rapid growth of solar in the last decade, less than 16 percent of Americans have the ability to invest in the traditional rooftop solar model.[1] The concept of community solar has emerged to provide customers access to solar energy without installing rooftop panels by allowing participants to buy in to an off-site solar array, and crediting them with the value of the energy produced. Community solar is a relatively new and emerging concept that only began in 2010. However, over the last decade it has grown rapidly—40 states have hosted some type of community solar and 19 have enacted community solar policies.[2] The concept continues to grow with 1,523 Megawatts of community solar being installed in 2018 alone.[3] However, community solar is restricted by existing legal frameworks, and faces two major roadblocks.
First, community solar requires state enabling laws to function. By investing in the installation of off-site solar panels, or by leasing the energy of off-site solar panels from a single investor, a participant in community solar will receive a credit for the amount of energy generated by their panels.[4] This credit is typically applied to the participants energy bill, and the energy their panel produced is subtracted from their total energy used. This concept of “virtual net metering” however, requires state legislation.[5] The need for state action on authorizing virtual net metering is one of the biggest barriers to community solar.
Second, community solar projects can run into issues under security laws and regulations. Federal and state securities laws are intended to protect small investors from fraudulent promotions. Depending on the model that is used, selling shares in community solar projects may implicate federal and state securities laws. Although the federal statutes do not clearly define what a security is, in S.E.C. v. W.J. Howey Co., the Supreme Court articulated that a security is any transaction that involves an investment of capital with an expectation of profits without effort on the part of the investor.[6] Whether a community solar project would be a “security” is under this definition is still not clear.[7] There has been scholarly discussion regarding whether community solar projects may fall under securities regulation, with some authors claiming that all CSPs involve the sale or offer of securities and others explaining that bill-crediting relieves a CSP any securities liability.[8] Generally, to be safe under income tax laws and to potentially be safe under securities laws, the best practices for CSP administrators to use seems to be bill-crediting to ensure that subscribers are not viewed as ‘investors’ and that energy bill savings are not considered income. Through this model, the CSP agreement looks more like the customer paying for the energy ahead of time and subsequently receiving a credit. Regardless, state securities law also vary and it would be smart for any potential CSP administrator to take a deeper dive into the federal and state securities laws as applied to his project and whether it falls into one of the potential exceptions.[9]
[1] Joyce McLaren, Community Shared Solar, Policy and Regulatory Considerations, Nat’l Renewable Energy Laboratory (2014). Available at https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/62367.pdf
[2] Sarah Johnson Phillips & Sara Bergan, Community Solar Ready for the new Decade, Power Mag, (2020). Available at https://www.powermag.com/community-solar-ready-for-the-new-decade/
[4] McLaren Supra Note 1.
[5] Utility-owned community solar systems do not require state enabling statutes, but often do not pass the same benefits to the participant.
[6] S.E.C. v. W.J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. 293 (1946)
[7] Kristin L. Bailey, Insecurity for Community Solar: Three Strategies to Confront an Emerging Tension Between Renewable Energy Investment and Federal Securities Laws, 10 J. Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 123 (2012). Available at https://1.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=0370296414&pubNum=0167350&originatingDoc=NE7126A21A82911E99F30F2A7AC07F1C8&refType=LR&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=(sc.Search)&firstPage=true&bhcp=1&CobaltRefresh=54316
[8] Id.; Energysage, Virtual Net Metering: What is It? How Does It Work? (2016). Available at http://news.energysage.com/virtual-net-metering-what-is-it-how-does-it-work/; Sara E. Beran, Andrew P. Moratzka, Brian Orion, Sarah Johnson Phillips, David T. Quinby, The Law of Solar: Sommunity Solar, Stoel Rives (2017) Ch. 9 Pg. 5-6.
[9] Beran et al. supra note 8.
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Up and down and all around
The Big Apple and its surrounds is apparently not such a fruitful destination for Australian lawyers at the moment. This really needs no explanation: the line of devastation in the wake of the…
The Big Apple and its surrounds is apparently not such a fruitful destination for Australian lawyers at the moment.
This really needs no explanation: the line of devastation in the wake of the credit crisis is not a pretty sight, and the limited need for transactional lawyers is making for an extremely competitive employment market.
But still, some of the work occurring in New York currently is nothing short of amazing and plenty of Australian-qualified, American-based lawyers are getting in on the action. Dealing with the wreckages of what were some of the world’s largest financial institutions, Wall Street is crawling with lawyers unravelling the ruins of the Fanny Maes, Fanny Macs and the Lehman Brothers.
It’s a massive chunk of work that is not only bearing the scrutiny of the world’s media, but moving against the tide of dying practice areas threatening the life of their firms. Before September’s events on Wall Street, legal market conditions monitor West Peer Monitor Index revealed a sobering reality for some of the world’s largest legal markets: overall, billable hours had faced a significant cut year-over-year since 2007, dropping by 2 per cent.
In New York City, where the bulk of the work is occurring in the fallout of the credit crisis, billable hours were down by 4.1 per cent, in London down by 2.9 per cent and in Washington DC down by 3.4 per cent.
So in picking up the pieces of financial institutions that have crumbled, law firms are taking some well-needed advice: according to the same research, firms watching the decline of their billable hours are cutting costs and improving productivity accordingly. Perhaps there is a positive in the crisis after all.
Meanwhile, just as markets were hitting record lows last week, Ross Garnaut was releasing his long-awaited report into climate change. The impact of the report’s release must surely have been disappointing, given that the report had to coincide with a globe preoccupied by finance.
And the energy, money and politics spent on the US financial situation is likely to divert the attention from one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Specialised subprime and credit crisis response groups have been forming in American law firms for years now, yet the nation has seen little by way of mainstream development of specialised climate change practice groups — and a legal capacity to deal with matters pertinent to global warming.
While some firms have been quick to realise the opportunity of advising on climate change and creating practice groups accordingly, the number is minimal when viewed in light of the sheer size of the legal industry in the US.
It’s a notion testament to the fact the US is still the biggest emitter of Greenhouse Gases in the world — yet still lagging behind the rest of the globe in any pretence at caring.
Economies will fall, rebuild and fall again, but the degradation of our environment has only one chance. To ignore it further will leave us no time to turn back the clock.
Last Updated: 03 March 2012 Published: 13 October 2008
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Legal representation at disciplinary hearings
Morton Fraser
United Kingdom January 21 2010
I was very interested to see the Court of Appeal’s decision in the case of G v X School which was issued yesterday. The Court stated that employees should be allowed to be legally represented at disciplinary hearings where those hearings are “determinant of a civil right”.
In other words, where an employee is asserting a civil right, he is entitled to be legally represented throughout a disciplinary hearing, regardless of his employer’s policy. This is in accordance with Article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
In G v X School, G was a teaching assistant who had allegedly kissed and had sexual contact with a 15 year old boy. The Crown Prosecution Service did not pursue him in the criminal courts. However, he was subjected to disciplinary proceedings by the school governors. The governors refused his request to be legally represented throughout the disciplinary hearing. G was dismissed and his name passed to the relevant authority to consider whether or not to include him on a list of persons barred from working with children.
G applied to have the governors’ decision not to allow him to be legally represented during the hearing judicially reviewed. The court held that the right to practise a profession is a civil right. Given the potential consequences of G’s dismissal and subsequent referral to the authorities, his civil right was essentially being determined via the disciplinary hearing. Therefore, the school governors’ decision was unlawful under Article 6 of the ECHR.
It is important to remember that this does not mean that every employee is entitled to legal representation during a disciplinary hearing. An entitlement to remain in current employment is not a civil right. The distinction is crucial. If the disciplinary hearing may result in an employee being unable to practise his profession elsewhere, then the hearing is “determinative of a civil right” and the employee is entitled to be legally represented.
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By KS95 | August 14, 2020
Christina Grimmie will sing again through posthumous release "Cry Wolf"
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It’s been over four years since The Voice star Christina Grimmie tragically died after being shot after a concert. After her final album All Is Vanity was posthumously released in June 2017, fans will finally be able to hear her voice once again in a brand new song.
Grimmie’s family announced Thursday that they will be releasing a new single by the late singer, called “Cry Wolf.”
“On this #GrimmieThursday we are happy to announce the highly anticipated release of ‘CRY WOLF’ on September 15, 2020,” the family tweeted. “Because this song is so very special to you #TeamGrimmie, we felt it was time to make this never released song available in honor of you, the fans.”
Grimmie’s family teased that “More details will be coming soon” regarding the upcoming track, but encouraged fans in the meantime that “We hope all of you are doing well and keeping safe during these times.”
Grimmie, who placed third on her season of The Voice, died on June 10, 2016 after a man named Kevin James Loibl pulled a gun and shot her four times as she was signing autographs after a performance in Florida. Eye witnesses says he fired as she opened her arms to give him a hug.
Loibl died at the scene after sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Grimmie was rushed to the hospital and later succumbed to her injuries. She was 22.
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NATHAN JONES ON THE 2-1 DEFEAT TO DONCASTER ROVERS
Town boss Nathan Jones was disappointed to see his side concede early on again as they fell to a 2-1 defeat at Doncaster Rovers in Sky Bet League One this afternoon.
Donny took the lead six minutes in as Matty Blair was allowed space to run at goal and curl an effort into the top left corner, before Elliot Lee headed in from close range to equalise on the stroke of half-time.
The hosts came out and restored their lead just 35 seconds after the restart, as Ben Whiteman's deflected effort beat James Shea.
The result sees the Hatters remain in the top half of the table, sitting in 11th with eight points after seven games.
Jones said: "We keep saying it. We're controlling games, we were pretty dominant first half. We started the second poorly. We work on starts, we work on what we have got to do, maybe we shouldn't, maybe we should just let them get on with it.
"After the goal I thought were excellent, chance after chance, opportunity after opportunity. We controlled the game. these are a very good footballing side, all our reports came back and we were watching games, they cause sides real, real problems.
"We caused all the problems, they changed their shape at half-time, we come in at half-time right after scoring, thinking all the momentum is with us. One ball into the box, it's not even a good ball into the box and our six-foot left-back who is very good in the air doesn't win his header, it drops, we don't get on the second, we don't get on the third. Then you've got another mountain to climb.
"We're having to show a lot of character lately, but the reason we're having to show a lot of character is because we are giving goals away and it's poor. Our structure going forward, the way we play and how we cause problems is very good, it's excellent.
"But at the moment we're not keeping clean sheets and if you don't keep clean sheets then you don't win games."
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Mainstream’s $60 Million Down-Select on Production Contract from U.S. Army CECOM Confirmed by GAO
ROCKLEDGE, FL – February 2, 2011 – Mainstream Engineering Corporation, a 25-year-old Brevard County manufacturer with a history of leading-edge research and development that has resulted in advanced, lean-manufacturing, cost-competitive products, which are all Made in the USA, has secured a long-term production contract based on the company’s advanced technology designs.
Mainstream’s engineering efforts broadly focus on thermal control and energy conversion, and near-term successes have included improved high-mileage vehicles and hybrid vehicle drive trains, methods to convert garbage to fuel with the development of a new biomass processing facility, and thermal control and energy conversion efficiency improvements.
Mainstream was competing with an out-of-state contractor, to be the single organization down-selected to continue onto the job-creating production portion of this contract.
“After Mainstream passed all the performance tests with flying colors, we assumed we were the winner, but as is typical today, the loser (whose systems failed the tests) tried unsuccessfully, with a team of Washington lawyers, to reverse the award. However it is official now, Mainstream has received the award and is proceeding with the contract” stated Dr. Robert P. Scaringe, President of Mainstream.
This U.S. Army CECOM award is for the long-term production of an entire family of Improved Environmental Control Units (IECUs) used by the Military. While many employers in Brevard County are discussing reductions in force, Mainstream has seen its staff increase by 14% in the last year alone. This new IECU contract, which is valued at more than $60 million, will allow Mainstream to create additional engineering and production positions.
“Given the state of the economy and the anticipated job losses at Kennedy Space Center, we are excited about the possibility of being able to employ displaced aerospace workers from the local community. This new U.S. Army contract award is one small step in a series of ongoing job-creating programs that are developing at both Mainstream and our automotive spin-off company, to create local jobs, improve the nation’s energy efficiency, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, all while reducing emissions and preserving the environment. Our products have always been proudly “Made in the USA,” stated Dr. Robert Scaringe, President of Mainstream.
Mainstream Engineering Corporation is a solutions-oriented research, development and manufacturing business founded in 1986. Our primary mission is to transition advanced thermal control and energy conversion technology into high-quality and cost-effective commercial products. Mainstream products include lightweight diesel/JP8-fueled engines (including generators and hybrid vehicle drive trains) and advanced environmental control units. Mainstream also manufactures products for the heating and cooling industry under the trademark QwikProductTM (www.qwik.com). All Mainstream products are made in Brevard County, Florida.
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Home » News » Regional News » Karachi chosen to get rid of HIV/AIDs – 3 new treatment centres to be set up: CM
Karachi chosen to get rid of HIV/AIDs – 3 new treatment centres to be set up: CM
KARACHI – Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the provincial government will set up three new centres for the treatment and care of people suffering from HIV/AIDS.
These centres, he added, would be established at Karachi’s Jinnah Postgraduate Centre (JPMC), Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) and Hyderabad’s Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences.
The CM announced this while talking to the director of UN AIDS’ regional support team for Asia-Pacific, Steven J. Kraus, who along with three member delegation called on him to discuss measures being taken by Sindh government for curbing the spread of HIV.
On this occasion, Mr. Kraus, pointed out that access to treatment for HIV patients in Pakistan was only five per cent and it is very low as compared to other countries such as Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia where it is more than 85pc.
Deploring that HIV prevalence in Pakistan, Indonesia and Philippines was increasing, he said that Karachi had been selected as an important city by the UN AIDS programme for ridding it of HIV/AIDs by 2030.
Mr. Kraus also informed that only two million people in the Asia-Pacific region had access to treatment, but by implementing the planned fast-tracked plan the number of people, who can get treatment, could increase up to 4.1m.
In this regard, he offered UN’s technical assistance to government officials and building the capabilities of doctors and paramedical staff.
At the outset, he highlighted the need for introducing Opiate Substitution Therapy for rehabilitation of drug addicts and opening up more Anti-Retroviral Treatment centres for HIV/AIDS patients.
Briefing the meeting, Sindh AIDS Control Programme’s manager Dr Mohammad Younis Chachar said there were 8,752 people with HIV/AIDs in Sindh and of them 6,188 were in Karachi.
He said 21 voluntary, confidential and counselling testing centres, 46 sexually-transmitted infection centres and five Anti-Retroviral Treatment centres are working at Karachi’s Civil Hospital, Aga Khan University Hospital, Indus Hospital and Larkana’s Chandka Medical College and Hospital.
Earlier, the CM informed the UN AIDS team that Sindh was the first province to have passed the HIV/AIDS Control, Treatment and Protection Act in 2013 and had also prepared a three-year plan at an estimated cost of Rs1248 million to develop designated wings within the health department for devising and implementing treatment and prevention strategies between 2015 and 2018.
He said that Rs637m had already been spent to boost the HIV/AIDs control programme between 2011 and 2014 and thereafter it was extended till 2015 with an allocation of Rs100m.
Lauding the support being extended by the UN AIDS team for the eradication of HIV/AIDs, he said that health officials, and medical and paramedical staff of government hospitals required latest technology and skills for providing better treatment and services to patients.
The official of the UN AIDS’ regional support team appreciated the efforts of Sindh government and its team engaged in eradicating the menace of HIV/AIDs from the province.
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I’m a bit late in the run to be sharing this, but after doing the Reconciliation Film Festival earlier this year I’ve been once again enjoying the Fan Force TV format to watch the NAIDOC Film Festival.
Like the earlier lockdown-proof film festival, all films have a question-and-answer sessions after each screening with community members involved in the making of that film. Everyone who speaks brings such insight to the film, be it a documentary or scripted piece, which obviously enhances the understanding of the contexts and content, especially useful for these films as they don’t get a tonne of other media hype.
There’s still a few films to go and some re-screenings are planned so if you have the time and the cash (far cheaper than the movies for a subscription that can play for the whole family) I really recommend it. There are a lot of First Nations films on the platform in general that you can see at any time, so if you haven’t managed to catch In My Blood It Runs or The Australian Dream as yet, that’s a place to see them, too.
For my international friends, NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, and NAIDOC week has a long history here in the place now known as Australia, located on the unceded sovereign lands of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters and seas where I live and work.
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With nearly 16,000 acres to protect, Five Rivers MetroParks conservation efforts require collaboration among dozens of partner agencies and the continued support of residents who value their environment.
Funding Land Protection
Approximately 50 percent of MetroParks’ funding for land protection comes from state and federal grants. The Clean Ohio Fund has supported much of the park land that has been acquired since 2000. The Land and Water Conservation Fund, Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program, and Water Resource Restoration Sponsor Program have provided additional funds for land protection in the past.
Land protection efforts also are supported by conservation easements, which allow property owners to protect land from development while retaining ownership. Easements are a cost-effective way to support conservation efforts. Five Rivers MetroParks protects more than 3,000 acres through conservation easements. These include private land that contains important natural features such as headwater streams, large tracts of forest or farmland adjacent to existing MetroParks. The Three Valley Conservation Trust has been a valuable partner in acquiring easements.
Habitat Management & Restoration
Habitat management in the parks is guided by our understanding of pre-settlement conditions in the Miami Valley. While primarily forested, prairies and wetlands also were an important part of the historical landscape. To preserve this diversity of habitats, park lands are carefully managed to preserve and protect native plant and animal communities of the Miami Valley. Numerous methods are used.
Controlled burning is an important tool for managing prairie and edge/thicket habitat, as it releases nutrients and stimulates the growth of certain plant species.
Succession is the gradual process by which ecosystems change over time. While succession happens naturally, it also can be controlled through land management practices to create early forest habitat called edge/thicket habitat. This is a particularly important feeding area for both grassland and forest species.
Mowing is used to prevent establishment of woody species and maintain grassland areas.
Non-native invasive species, such as honeysuckle, compete with or eliminate native plant species and are controlled with mowing, a forestry machine called a Fecon and, in some cases, controlled treatment with herbicides.
The variety of habitats in MetroParks support a large number of wildlife species. From bald eagles to bobcats, willow flycatchers to seepage dancer damselflies, many species would not have a place to live without MetroParks. Enjoying wildlife is a great part of visiting MetroParks, and the goal of habitat management is to provide food, water and shelter for wildlife to thrive.
Conservation department staff create habitat for wildlife when natural sites are limited. For example, kestrel nest boxes have been installed at Germantown MetroPark, Medlar Conservation Area and Twin Creek MetroPark. Wood duck boxes can be found at Germantown and Possum Creek MetroParks.
Yet in some cases, overpopulation of wildlife can damage habitat. Of particular concern to Five Rivers MetroParks is the overpopulation of white-tailed deer and Canada geese due to the negative impacts on maintaining biodiversity. Indeed, wildlife management is one of the most important ways to preserve habitat and rare species for future generations.
The population of white-tailed deer has soared because of food availability, development of adjacent land and a lack of former predators, such as wolves. High, out-of-balance deer populations lead to extensive grazing that significantly damages forests. In some cases, those forests never recover, and deer can even become more susceptible to disease and starvation because of overpopulation.
Ohio Division of Wildlife regulations limit alternatives for deer management. Neither relocation nor birth control are permitted. MetroPark uses two methods, which are used by numerous park and conservation agencies, to control deer population:
Culling is the use of specialized firearms in the hands of specially trained MetroParks rangers at night when the park is closed. All venison from culling operations is donated to local food banks through the Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry program.
Controlled bow hunting, used in areas away from public access, is the harvest of deer by archers selected for experience and marksmanship. All hunting is located away from trails and adjacent properties. Bow hunters are required to pass a hunter education course or equivalent test, possess a current hunting license and be able to place at least four out of five arrows in a 10-inch diameter target from a distance of 20 yards. They also must complete an orientation to ensure understanding of safety regulations and MetroParks’ conservation goals for the program.
Similarly, the population of Canada geese also has soared. They lack natural predators while an ever-growing abundance of suitable habitat — with the expansion of retention ponds, golf courses and other aquatic habitats — has allowed them to reproduce quickly.
One of the biggest problems with geese is their feces, as a single goose can produce 1.5 pounds of feces per day, creating a contamination risk. Geese also can be very aggressive when defending nesting sites. Geese are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Ohio state law. It is illegal to harm any goose or nest without a permit from the Ohio Division of Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
MetroParks uses a variety of methods to deter and control geese. These include making some areas less attractive to geese simply by allowing pond edges to grow tall with vegetation. MetroParks also uses a service in which specially trained border collies chase away geese. This doesn’t harm the geese, but makes the area less attractive to them. Also used are such techniques as egg drilling and goose round-ups. No one method is effective everywhere and each site is unique.
Five Rivers MetroParks is committed to sustainable practices that minimize the organization’s “ecological footprint” and conserve finite resources for future generations. However, just as you are learning what it means to be green, so are we.
To further our efforts, we have designed a Sustainability Committee within MetroParks. This committee is responsible for researching new ideas & pushing environmental efforts forward across the organization, while being responsible stewards of the Montgomery County taxpayers dollars. The agency adopted a five-year, agency-wide sustainability plan in early 2016 and all Five Rivers MetroParks 16 staffed facilities have been certified for the Dayton Regional Green (DRG) Green Business Certification.
Learn more about the sustainability efforts of MetroParks.
Comprehensive Master Plan
Five Rivers MetroParks has developed a 10-year comprehensive master plan to guide the future of its parks, facilities and services and will to ensure our resources are aligned with current and future trends, community values, and the Montgomery County region’s changing demographics.
Learn more about the plan
At Five Rivers MetroParks, we believe that everyone has the privilege and duty of protecting our environment. As an employee you will ensure that our beautiful parks continue to thrive and inspire for generations to come.
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New Swing State Polls Are Absolutely Devastating for Donald Trump
By Luke Brinker
Hillary Clinton is walloping Donald Trump in key battleground states likely to tip the 2016 election, leaving the Republican presidential nominee with a massive deficit to erase less than 90 days before the election.
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist survey sampled voters in Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado and Florida. In each state, the size of Clinton's lead was larger than the survey's margin of error.
In Virginia — a state that eluded Democrats for four decades before President Barack Obama won it in 2008 and 2012 — Clinton looks likely to continue her party's winning streak. She leads Trump 46% to 33% in a head-to-head match-up in the Old Dominion State, which her running mate, Tim Kaine, is the junior U.S. senator.
Just south, Clinton has opened up a substantial lead in North Carolina, where she bests Trump 48% to 39%. Obama narrowly won the state in 2008 and narrowly lost it four years later. Should Clinton notch a victory there, Trump's path to the White House is all but closed.
Meanwhile, Clinton is burying Trump 46% to 32% in Colorado, and the former secretary of state boasted a 44% to 39% lead in Florida.
The polls follow a brutal stretch for Trump's campaign, which has been embroiled in controversies over the GOP nominee's attacks on the parents of a Muslim-American war veteran and his suggestion that "Second Amendment people" could thwart Clinton's Supreme Court appointments.
In recent weeks, Clinton has built such an advantage over Trump that, as of Thursday, she could still win the presidency even if she lost every swing state where she led by less than three percentage points in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
Friday's polls suggest Clinton's advantage may actually be growing, however. In an unusually frank acknowledgement that he could lose the election, Trump said Thursday that his campaign needed "help" in pivotal states like Ohio and even faced a "tremendous problem" in Utah, normally a solid GOP state but a place where his crude image sits poorly with Mormon voters.
"At the end, it's either going to work or I'm going to, you know, I'm going to have a very, very nice long vacation," Trump said in Florida.
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Re-discovering 'Rosie'
The research process can be overwhelming. So many questions remain mysteries and when the digging can seem daunting, we accept what's stated without questioning. Time passes and myth becomes fact. Then someone comes along and sees the flaw in that 'fact.' It may take years to unravel, but oh, how sweet the discovery...
A wartime industrial poster displayed in Westinghouse Electric plants in 1943, became an iconic feminist symbol and rallying image for generations of women. Created by J. Howard Miller, an illustrator from Pittsburg, Miller was inspired by a 1942 photograph of a young woman operating a lathe in a Navy machine shop.
The photo was published widely, and is believed to have been the photograph that inspired Miller, yet at the time, there was no caption identifying her, which is usually the case with women in historic images. Another women thought the image resembled her and for decades, declared herself as the 'original Rosie', but thanks to an intrepid professor, the true inspiration for this 'muscle-flexing-every-woman,' was discovered just a couple of years ago!
After nearly six years of scouring collections and archives to find a copy of the photo for any possible notation, Dr. James Kimble finally located a copy with the photographer's original caption: "Pretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose on the turret lathe she is operating. March 24, 1942, Alameda."
Naomi Parker Fraley and her sister worked at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA, where they were not only riveters and drillers, but also worked patching airplane wings to keep Naval pilots flying. "The women of this country these days need some icons," declared Naomi Fraley, in 2016. "If they think I'm one, I'm happy." And, when asked how it felt to at last be recognized as Rosie the Riveter, Fraley declared: "Victory! Victory! Victory!"
Naomi Parker Fraley—the original 'Rosie'—passed January 20th, at the age of 96. How sweet, that she experienced the re-discovery of her 'Rosie' contributions. Grateful thanks to that persistent professor, and — Godspeed, dear Naomi!
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Here's the delivery: MLB newborns of 2020
By Anthony Castrovince
As the gestational period reached its 37th week, Orioles pitcher Alex Cobb and his wife, Kelly, had a decision to make.
Kelly was at the point of her pregnancy when doctors and airlines advise against getting on a flight. And as of that June day, Alex did not know when -- or even if -- his baseball schedule would resume in Baltimore.
If Kelly remained at the couple’s Scottsdale home, Alex might not be there for the birth of their second child. But for Kelly, Alex and their 1-year-old daughter, Chloe, to get on a flight at this late stage would increase the risk of in-air labor -- all for a Major League season that was, at that moment, not yet certain due to the coronavirus shutdown and protracted negotiations about a restart.
“We were on pins and needles,” Kelly said. “Alex has a lot of baseball friends here who were talking about how they’re going to prepare and get their body ready. And the only thing on my mind was, ‘Where is this baby going to be born?’”
Everything worked out for the Cobbs -- frantically, but wonderfully. Mere hours after they made the decision to travel, MLB finalized a return-to-play plan. And mere days after they arrived safely in Baltimore, the Cobbs welcomed Everly Pauline, a beautiful baby girl who arrived two weeks early but, thankfully, not on a plane.
“It was an adventure,” Alex said with a laugh. “It was as hectic as can be.”
Alex Cobb welcomed his second daughter days after the family's cross-country flight from Arizona to Maryland.
This has been a hectic, heartbreaking, high-anxiety, unsettling, upsetting, demanding, divisive and overall unusual 2020. It has challenged us all. And to welcome new life into this rapidly altered world meant added uncertainty about the well-being of both mother and child.
For the baseball families that expanded in the year of a pandemic-shortened season, an added obstacle was the unusual nature of the schedule itself -- the sudden shutdown of Spring Training, the scramble to Summer Camp, the health and safety protocols and the postseason “bubbles.”
But with so much loss going on across the globe, those who leave this year with a new bundle of joy have even more appreciation for the blessing of a healthy birth and gratitude for the grace that children grant us.
Baseball people romanticize the notion of “Dad Power” -- how becoming a parent (and toting around an infant in his expanding arms) can propel a player to previously unreached levels of extra-base authority.
We saw this summer how the widely recognized greatest player in the game, Mike Trout, snapped out of what was, for him, a pedestrian start to the season (one homer, four RBIs through six games) when he returned to the field after the July 30 birth of his son, Beckham.
Trout went deep nine times in his first 13 games as a proud pop.
“People ask me about this Dad Power, and I guess it's a thing," Trout said in the middle of his parental power burst. "But there's no better feeling than being a father."
Trout is among a group of high-profile players who welcomed a child during the pandemic, a group that includes -- but is not limited to -- Gerrit Cole, Zack Wheeler, Kris Bryant, Ryan Braun, Brandon Woodruff, Mike Moustakas, Eugenio Suárez, Mike Minor and Byron Buxton.
For Dodgers outfielder AJ Pollock, parenthood summoned strength of a different sort. No couple in MLB was tested more by the difficulty of 2020 and rewarded more for perseverance than Pollock and his wife, Kate.
Kate went into labor one week after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic and three months before the baby’s due date. Maddi Mae Pollock weighed just one pound and six ounces at birth, requiring extensive care in a neonatal intensive care unit. And Maddi was three months old -- and still hospitalized -- when Pollock contracted COVID-19. (He believes he caught it at the hospital.) Pollock had to go 14 days without seeing his newborn daughter while in quarantine.
• Wife's couch query gets Pollock in camp
“It’s been a wild ride,” Pollock told reporters at the start of Summer Camp. “It’s been very emotional, it’s been very frustrating, it’s been scary. But [Maddi] is in a very good place now.”
People ask me about this Dad Power, and I guess it's a thing. But there's no better feeling than being a father.
Maddi was cleared to leave her Scottsdale hospital just as the Dodgers were beginning the 2020 season, 128 days after her birth. And it turned out to be a special season for Pollock, who tied a team high with 16 homers.
Dad Power, indeed.
As fate (and protocols) would have it, Pollock got to introduce his daughter to his parents in the most memorable of ways -- during the Dodgers’ World Series championship celebration on the field in Arlington, Texas. He held her in his arms near the netting in foul territory, as his mother, Karen, and father, Al, stood beaming from the front row of the stands.
Though not every player who experienced a pandemic pregnancy encountered as extreme circumstances as the Pollocks, all shared the same, uneasy feeling of vulnerability to the unprecedented and unknown.
When COVID-19 forced an abrupt stoppage in Spring Training, Mariners reliever Rafael Montero -- then with the Rangers -- decided it best to ride out the delay and continue training in Arizona rather than travel back to his native Dominican Republic. But that meant continued distance from his wife, Yasmina, who was pregnant with the couple’s first child and remained in the D.R.
The situation weighed on Montero heavily.
“It was all I could think about,” he said. “Fortunately, we had a woman helping her. Our friend, Milagro Florentino, cooked and took care of her. She made it so much easier on all of us. Milagro made a huge difference.”
“Milagro” is the Spanish word for “miracle.” And for the Monteros, yet another miracle arrived in the form of their daughter, Victoria. Victoria was born on June 30, just as baseball resumed.
As his teammates were rushing to report to camp, Montero was rushing from Phoenix to the D.R., with a layover in Newark, all in an effort to meet his baby girl. But his first flight was delayed, and he missed his connection.
Rafael and Yasmina Montero welcomed their first child, Victoria, on June 30.
“I was stuck at the airport all night,” he said. “I didn’t sleep at all. But it’s not as bad as it sounds. I was just so happy that I was going to meet my baby. I was so excited. Thoughts of seeing the baby made it so much better for me.”
Nationals reliever Aaron Barrett had a similar sprint to be there for the birth of his second child. Barrett was pitching at the Nationals’ alternate training site in Fredericksburg, Va., in early September when his wife, Kendyl, called to tell him she was scheduled to be induced the following day at a hospital near the couple’s home in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.
With that, Barrett put a secret plan into action. Unable to fly commercially due to coronavirus protocol, he rented a car for the 13-hour trek to Florida to surprise his wife shortly before she left for the hospital. The Nats and MLB arranged for Barrett to bring COVID-19 tests with him so he could stay on the league’s strict testing schedule.
• Barrett makes 26-hr. odyssey for son's birth
Barrett -- pounding Red Bulls to stay awake -- had to make a pit stop during the drive so that his wife and 3-year-old daughter, Kollyns, would not be tipped off to his whereabouts during their nightly FaceTime call.
“We always FaceTime before bed,” Barrett says. “So I’m thinking, ‘How am I going to pull this off where she thinks I’m at the [team] hotel?’ So I pull over at a random Holiday Inn and say, ‘I need a favor, I just need to borrow your lobby for a second.’”
It took a fair amount of subterfuge -- and Red Bull! -- but Aaron Barrett made it to Florida for the birth of his son.
All the strategy and trickery were worth it when Barrett strode through the door and surprised Kendyl mere hours before she was due to head to the hospital.
“I was crying,” Kendyl says. “I was so happy. It was so nice to have him here.”
The next morning, there was another arrival: a baby boy named Paxtyn.
In playing the 2020 season, Barrett had run the risk of not being there for Paxtyn’s birth. But not playing would have meant taking a risk of a different sort with his pitching career.
Due to Tommy John surgery and an awful fracture of his humerus bone, Barrett had gone four years between Major League appearances before stepping on the mound in September 2019. At the end of that season, he was just one day of service time shy of qualifying for salary arbitration -- a system that could earn him a substantial salary bump.
“I don’t want you to miss this,” Kendyl told her husband. “In a shortened season, you could get called up any day, any time. You worked so hard for this.”
Because of his 26 hours of driving to Florida and back, Barrett wound up experiencing the best of both worlds. He didn’t miss Paxtyn’s arrival, and he wound up getting promoted to the big league team within a week of the birth. As fate would have it, he made his 2020 debut and earned that needed day of service in the Sunshine State, against Tampa Bay.
This time, no rental car or energy drinks were necessary. Barrett had flown with the team.
I don’t want you to miss this. In a shortened season, you could get called up any day, any time. You worked so hard for this.
Kendyl Barrett, to husband Aaron
But Barrett was one of many players who ventured into the strange 2020 season without their pregnant partners, newborn babies or other immediate family members in tow, adding to the challenges of an exacting year.
Having teams travel during a pandemic was an uncharted experiment by MLB that stood at the mercy of players and staff adhering to protocols. Outbreaks on the Marlins and Cardinals threatened to scuttle the season shortly after it started. Some players waited to see how the season unfolded before having their families join them and only saw their wives and kids for brief visits, if that.
Given the complicated nature of the pandemic-shortened season and the protests in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area following the death of George Floyd this summer, Twins reliever Tyler Duffey felt it best to go solo at first when Summer Camp started. And that meant leaving his wife, Sarah, and newborn son, Teddy (who arrived in early April), back home in Houston.
COVID and unrest in Minneapolis-St. Paul led to Tyler Duffey's tough decision to leave his wife and son in Texas.
“It was tough leaving them,” Duffey said. “[Because of the pandemic], we had so much quality time that we never would have had [during a normal baseball schedule]. At that point, flying was so up in the air, so I drove from Houston to Minneapolis. You’re sitting in the car going, ‘I don’t know if I want to leave. Do I even need to go at this point?’”
Some of the players who opted out of the season made their decision with newborn children in mind. Buster Posey and his wife, Kristen, who already had 8-year-old twins (son Lee and daughter Addison), had just finalized the adoption of twin girls Ada and Livvi, who were born prematurely at 32 weeks. Not wanting to put his babies at risk, the Giants’ star catcher walked away from the season and his $8 million prorated salary.
“From a baseball standpoint, it was a tough decision,” Posey said at the time. “From a family standpoint and feeling like making a decision to protect our children, I think it was relatively easy."
It was not easy for Montero to say goodbye to his wife and son after his brief return to the Dominican Republic after the birth. But Summer Camp was starting, and he had a job to do.
From a baseball standpoint, it was a tough decision. From a family standpoint and feeling like making a decision to protect our children, I think it was relatively easy.
Buster Posey, on not playing in 2020
“I cried when I had to leave my wife and baby behind, I won’t lie,” he said. “That was one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do. I left my wife and new baby at home during a pandemic. That’s hard, because I know the baby had lots of checkups and needs. My wife would have to Uber to the doctor, and I worried about the virus and exposure. It helped that we have a big support team, but it was not easy.
“As I’m boarding the plane back to the United States, I’m thinking, ‘I’m doing this for my baby. I’m doing this for my wife. I’m going to work for them.’”
The Cobb family had decided that Alex would not go to work alone. He had missed virtually the entire 2019 season with a hip injury that required surgery, so 2020 was vital for him, but staying together was vital for the Cobbs -- even if it meant Kelly flying at 37 weeks pregnant.
Kelly visited her obstetrician in Arizona the morning of the cross-country flight to Baltimore to get what was rather reluctant approval.
“She wasn’t thrilled about it,” Kelly said, “but she trusted that in the next 12 hours, I wouldn’t be giving birth. She definitely said I was cutting it as close as she’ll allow it.”
Kelly’s due date was still more than two weeks away, but she’s convinced that the stress of the move is what compelled Everly’s early arrival, four days after the Cobbs landed in Maryland. Kelly had only met her new Baltimore-based obstetrician two days before the birth.
“We’re taking like a ninth-inning, third-out closer coming in,” she said with a laugh.
Baseball families are accustomed to adjustment, to constant movement. They often have three home bases -- their offseason domain, their Spring Training pad and their in-season residence. And, of course, any of those can be uprooted by the vagaries of trades or free agency.
Still, even for baseball families, 2020 required an unusual amount of adaptation.
The Duffeys were separated for about six weeks before Sarah and newborn Teddy joined Tyler in Minnesota in August. As the Twins neared the playoffs in late September, the family joined the MLB-imposed bubble at a downtown Minneapolis hotel. When the Twins were knocked out of the playoffs in the first round, Duffey was sad to see the season end, but happy to escape the hotel room.
“After 10 days, we were ready to get out of there,” he said. “We were pinned up in a room with a child who wanted out. [The Dodgers] were [in their bubble] upwards of a month. There are definitely going to be some stories to be told, for sure.”
Ultimately, though, these are happy stories. Given so much wreckage in the world at large, family-building and family bonding carried an additional emotional heft in 2020.
“This year is hard for the entire world,” Montero said. “You have to reflect and push forward when times are hard. I am just very grateful people stepped up to help us in our time of need. There are a lot of good people that help when a baby is born. That gives me hope that, God-willing, things will get better.”
credits: Anthony Castrovince has been a reporter for MLB.com since 2004. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter @Castrovince. MLB.com reporter Jesse Sanchez contributed to this story.
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Sebastian Vettel: the car is close to ideal
The first Vettel’s impressions of the new Ferrari car.
Fuente imagen: https://twitter.com/ScuderiaFerrari
Today the F1 tests have started in Barcelona. On the first testing day Scuderia Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel has set the best time 1:18.161 and drove 169 laps.
The German is pretty happy with the speed and power of the new Ferrari SF90.
“We couldn’t have hoped for a better day. It is unbelievable, I think the car was working very well. We had no issues slowing us down. We actually complete the program just the way we wanted, and we were able to squeeze a little bit more out even”, - said Vettel.
“It seems the car is working, I feel comfortable. Obviously, I’m still a bit rusty because I haven’t driven for a couple of months. The car is working well, I’m very happy it is doing what I want. So, I’m very pleased at the moment”.
However, despite the very impressive results and good feelings of the car, Sebastian has urged not to jump to conclusions.
“Obviously, it is very early, the first day, it is meaning less in a couple of weeks, but for now I think huge compliments to everyone back in the factory. How they tackled the new rules, new regulations, what they put on track today is very close to perfection”.
“The amount of laps that we did, how the team was handling with the car and obviously everything is more on the edge compared to last year car and tight and so on, what you had imagine but as I said no major dramas. So, from that point of view we were very, very well prepared”.
The season-2019 will become the fifth season for Sebastian in Ferrari. Namely at the same time Michael Schumacher won his first title with Scuderia. It seems the story should repeat itself, but Sebastian is calm about it and focusing on the future season.
“It’s too early. I think, obviously, it doesn’t feel like five years to be honest, but that what it is. I hope that this year we get to have a lot of fun, fun means to win a lot of races and fighting for the championship that, obviously, what we want. If we can maintain the level of enjoyment and fun that I found on the track today and saw in people's faces the last couple of months then I'm positive and hopeful for the future.”
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Stephen is a proven deal maker, strategist and entrepreneur experienced at creating & growing businesses of all sizes, structuring, negotiating strategic investments & alliances. Former Managing Director for Intel Capital’s VR/AR/XR and location-based entertainment investments. Stephen joined Intel Capital in 2002, and has previously led investment activity in support of Intel's Wi-Fi and Atom System-on-a-Chip businesses. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Saltzman was the founder & general manager of Intel’s Wi-Fi division, where he led its growth to market leadership. The Wi-Fi division was Saltzman’s second new business venture at Intel. In the late 1980s, he helped the then newly formed PC Enhancement Operation grow from $6M/year to over $250M/year in 3 years. In 1989 Saltzman co-founded Now Software, where he was president and CEO. By 1994, Now Software became the largest Macintosh-only software publisher in the world. In 1995 Saltzman started Active Arts which won numerous product awards and accolades. Stephen is a former Inc. Magazine-Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and a former Oregon High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. His investment portfolio exits include 3eTI (EF Johnson), AeroScout
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Director of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Schumacher, the eclectic and brazen filmmaker who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and steering the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in “Batman Forever” and “Batman & Robin,” has died. He was 80.
A representative for Schumacher said the filmmaker died Monday in New York after a yearlong battle with cancer.
A native New Yorker, Schumacher was first a sensation in the fashion world after attending Parsons School of Design and decorating Henri Bendel’s windows. His entry to film came first as a costume designer. Schumacher dressed a pair of Woody Allen movies in the 1970s: “Interiors” and “Sleeper.”
As a director, he established himself as a filmmaker of great flare, if not often good reviews, in a string of mainstream films in the ’80s and ’90s. To the frequent frustration of critics but the delight of audiences, Schumacher favored entertainment over tastefulness – including those infamous sensual Batman and Robin suits with visible nipples – and he did so proudly.
“A movie that’s in a movie theater that runs at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 and there’s no one in the audience when that movie runs — what’s the point?” Schumacher once told Charlie Rose.
The success of his first hit, “St. Elmo’s Fire,” with Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy not only helped make a name for the Brat Pack but made Schumacher in-demand in Hollywood. He followed it up with 1987’s “The Lost Boys,” with Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland and Corey Feldman. A vampire horror comedy, it gave a darker, contemporary view of the perpetual adolescence of “Peter Pan.”
Schumacher then made “Flatliners,” about morbidly obsessed medical students, and a pair of John Grisham adaptations in “The Client” and “A Time to Kill.” “Falling Down,” with Michael Douglas as a Los Angeles man whose anger from minute every-day interactions steadily builds in violence, was maybe his most critically acclaimed film, though its depictions of minorities – particularly a Korean grocer – were from the start hotly debated.
On its 25th anniversary, April Wolfe of LA Weekly wrote that it “remains one of Hollywood’s most overt yet morally complex depictions of the modern white-victimization narrative, one both adored and reviled by the extreme right.”
The slickness of those productions helped Schumacher inherit the DC universe from Tim Burton. In Schumacher’s hands, Batman received a garish overhaul that resulted in two of the the franchise’s most cartoonish movies in 1995’s “Batman Forever” and 1997’s “Batman & Robin.” The first was a box-office smash but the second fizzled and remains most often remembered for its infamous suits.
“It was like I had murdered a baby,” Schumacher said of the response to “Batman & Robin.” Yet it, too, has developed a small cult following for those who prefer the antithesis of Christopher Nolan’s more grim Batman movies.
Schumacher was raised in Queens by his mother after his father died when he was four-years-old. As a youngster, he quickly became enmeshed in the city’s nightlife.
“The street was my education,” Schumacher told Vulture earlier this year. “You could ride your bike over the 59th Street Bridge then. So I rode my bike everywhere. I was in Manhattan all the time and all over Queens. If you’re a kid on a bike, anything can happen, and predators come out of the woodwork, my God. I looked very innocent, but I wasn’t.”
Schumacher would often say he was fortunate to have survived the ’60s at all. He made habits of liquid Methadrine, acid and sex. Out long before many in Hollywood, Schumacher pegged his lovers in “the double-digit thousands.” He was a warm and gossipy raconteur though Schumacher said he “never kissed and told about anybody who gives me the favor of sharing a bed with me.”
“I don’t not like talking about it, I just don’t believe it matters,” Schumacher said of his sexuality in a 2000 interview with the Guardian. “I’ve lived my life very openly. I started drinking at nine. I started doing drugs in my early teens. I started smoking at 10 and I started sex at 11. So I’m not hiding anything. But I am totally and completely against labels.”
After “Batman and Robin,” Schumacher turned to lower-budget thrillers: “8mm,” with Nicholas Cage; “Flawless,” with Robert De Niro; “Phone Booth,” with Colin Farrell. Schumacher, behind the beginnings of so many careers, gave Farrell his first led role in 2000’s “Tigerland.” In 2004, he took on Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Phantom of the Opera,” a late, gaudy flourish that combined Schumacher with perhaps his Broadway equivalent in the spectacle-making Weber. Most recently, he directed two episodes of Netflix’s “House of Cards” in 2013.
In his last interview, with New York magazine, Schumacher reflected on a show at London’s National Gallery of the now highly regarded works of James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent.
“They did a brilliant thing. Right next to them on the wall, framed right next to the paintings, were all their horrible reviews,” said Schumacher. “Who remembers these reviews?”
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Biggio leads New Hampshire over Reading 7-2
By AP | May 24, 2018
READING, Pa. (AP) — Cavan Biggio had three hits and three RBI as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats beat the Reading Fightin Phils 7-2 on Wednesday.
New Hampshire started the scoring in the first inning when Biggio hit a two-run double.
The Fisher Cats later added runs in four additional innings to secure the victory.
New Hampshire right-hander T.J. Zeuch (1-2) picked up a quality start and the win after allowing two runs on eight hits over seven innings. Opposing starter Harold Arauz (3-2) took the loss in the Eastern League game after a rough outing in which he allowed six runs and five hits over five innings.
Deivi Grullon singled three times for the Fightin Phils.
With the win, New Hampshire improved to 6-2 against Reading this season.
This story was generated by Automated Insights ( http://www.automatedinsights.com ) using data from and in cooperation with MLB Advanced Media and Minor League Baseball, http://www.milb.com
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Martin Kenney & Co. Solicitors
British Virgin Islands: Financing The Cost Of The Asset Recovery Process – Part 1
Article by Martin Kenney & Elizabeth O'Brien
Financing Litigation Generally
The cost of large scale asset recovery inquiries and associated litigation is a factor which often deters victims of economic crime from pursuing their rights, preferring instead to abandon any hope for recovery. It is ironic that in civil suits against those who have misappropriated assets, the key to success for the wrongdoer is often access to large amounts of ill-gotten laundered cash with which to pay for the very best in legal and asset protection services that money can buy. Thus, wrongdoers use their victims' resources to intimidate them into going away.
In many asset location and recovery litigations, the process is very expensive because:
the assets misappropriated have typically been transferred through several jurisdictions, many of them offshore financial centres, before arriving in their current physical location;
there is usually a need for work to be carried out by forensic accountants, investigators and lawyers in a number of jurisdictions;
the defendants are often able to use the misappropriated monies to hire experienced defence legal teams. Even in circumstances where they find 'their' assets tied up pursuant to a Mareva injunction or other similar restraining order, there will, absent exceptional circumstances, be a generous provision or allowance to enable the defendant to mount a defence ;
the litigation will typically need to be conducted in a number of jurisdictions simultaneously, and appropriate use will need to be made of interim reliefs such as freezing and tracing orders and their equivalents; and
courts may require the posting of substantial security to support cross-undertakings in damages or costs, particularly in the case of litigants from overseas, to permit interim relief such as freezing injunctions to stay in place pending a final end to the litigation.
The cost of mounting a legal action for the recovery of assets may be divided into legal costs, court fees and the costs of evidence gathering by forensic accountants and investigators. In smaller cases, lawyers may agree with their client not to be paid until the outcome of the case is known, but few firms of lawyers are likely to be able to take on larger cases, on a one-off basis, without being paid by their clients on an ongoing basis, given the investment of human and financial capital required.
In addition, the costs incurred in respect of forensic accountants and investigators are likely to be incurred at the beginning of any inquiry, when the evidence and assets are being sought. Again these professionals will expect payment early on either from the client or from the instructing lawyer, which is an additional reason why a funding mechanism should be put in place at the outset. 1
Larger firms of lawyers, forensic accountants and other professionals may be prepared to carry out some initial work, particularly of an investigative nature, in exchange for a fixed or reduced fee, in order to begin to ascertain whether their client's case has any reasonable prospect of success – if they believe that the case may ultimately prove to be profitable. However, the extent of such initial work is likely to be limited. There are very few firms which specialize in the field.
The market for the finance of concealed asset claims is inefficient because of the absence of a wide acceptance or understanding that something meaningful can be done to manage the risks of the asset recovery process. Thus, capital is scarce. The failure of most asset recovery projects is due to their under-capitalization with the right people and the right amount of money. The authors' experience shows that the risks can be managed – and very substantial assets recovered – if sufficient resources are committed to a project.
Assuming initial investigations show that assets of a meaningful value are capable of being discovered to levy against, it will be necessary to put in place funding to bring the investigation and litigation processes through to completion. Methods of funding asset recovery actions include the following:
conditional fees (U.K.);
contingent fees (U.S. and Canada);
after the event litigation costs insurance (U.K.);
venture capital / third party investment; and
sale of shares in a company that owns the right to litigate.
There are many examples that show that a sustained commitment to establishing the facts and the whereabouts of the proceeds of a fraud has taken what, at the beginning, looked like a very difficult situation, into one that was righted. With the right team of people and commitment from a claim holder or his backers, each stake-holder in the case can take confidence in the process.
The recovery of concealed assets involves the need to manage risk. Experience has taught the authors the following about risk:
Investigations conducted in a factually tangled and difficult environment, and directed towards a person who has conducted himself (or herself) in a dishonest and harmful manner over a long period, represent very complex and dynamic work.
To be effective, the work must be undertaken within a fluid and lateral-thinking environment. Restated, the work must move laterally around the dishonest obligor's strengths. Such an obligor expects to see a conventional or orthodox approach – devoid of imagination, sustained financial commitment and the unexpected. The rigours of budgetary projections for this type of work are not applied easily. However, breaking an inquiry down into elements and phases helps to establish sign posts and decision points to manage risk.
The quantum of the cost of the process is not a function of the measure of value of the obligation sought to be enforced, or the economic size of the problem – once the amount of value 'handled' by the subject exceeds, say, $10 million. Thus, the cost of pursuing an inquiry involving the apparent mis-management or misappropriation of $10 million is often roughly the same, in absolute terms, as the cost of pursuing a US$100 million one.
In general terms, as more capital is spent on the process, the risk associated with a complete failure in the investigation declines. In other words, with each step, there is ordinarily greater access to objective fact with which to support moving forward to the next step. The process of mitigating the risk of a total failure in the inquiry is thus incremental.
The cost of locating $10- to $100 million of wealth most usually ranges between $250,000 and $2.5 million. Most of the capital that is required to recover substantial value is not spent on the critically important 'finding' and 'attribution' of concealed wealth part of the process (which is the most speculative aspect). Rather, the most substantial resources are spent in the recovery litigation that follows from the freezing of value. Seen in this light, risk is a prism. Looking into the prism of risk from the beginning of a concealed asset case, most analysts experience fear and concern – as it is hard to discern where we are going and how we are going to get there. Thus, the cost of finding and attributing the assets (so as to ready them for the pre-emptive freeze), may look to some to be a foolish and highly speculative wager. However, once the initial phases have been completed, that prism of risk is flipped-over onto it head. To the inexperienced analyst, it is as if the risk profile of the process moves from the highly speculative to the highly rational, on the sudden. The day of execution of pre-emptive asset freezing orders granted worldwide – freezing, say, $100 million of value is, objectively, a transforming event. Risk has now moved to a point where all who are involved can more readily measure the probability of success.
Thus, where it once looked daunting to spend $2 million of capital to locate and be in a position to pre-emptively preserve $100 million of concealed wealth – all who are involved in the process can say that it is rational to spend upwards of $5- or $6 million in litigation costs to complete the process of obtaining a judgment and liquidating the value thus frozen.
However, although the date of execution of pre-emptive relief to freeze concealed wealth is, to a non-expert in the field, a sudden and transforming event to the risk profile of the case; to those who understand how results are achieved in our work, it is accepted that the process of managing risk is truly an incremental one –that the big result is built on a multitude of minor ones flowing out of a long series of sequential steps.
There exists an inefficient market for 'distressed' claims, judgments and debts. Claims fall into the 'distressed' category when, in part, it would appear that assets have been misappropriated by fraud, and concealed from the claim holder.
The market for this type of claim is inefficient because:
those who own and value such claims lack an appropriate multi-jurisdictional, critical analytical framework, for properly discerning their value. Restated, those who are responsible for concluding that a claim is effectively unenforceable have, as a general rule, little or no learning in multi-jurisdictional asset location, arrest and recovery. Such claim administrators are often too quick to abandon claims on a wholesale basis. Thus, there persists a perception, in particular within the confines of financial institutions and government bureaucracies, that when a recalcitrant debtor or fraudsman claims that he has no assets, or is perceived to have hidden assets offshore, no viable method of recovery exists. Often, this conclusion is wrong. Very substantial sums of wealth are squandered through the wholesale abandonment or write-down of complex, high-value claims. The recovery profile of the world's leading financial institutions and companies is very poor, where an obligor chooses to launder wealth offshore, either because he deliberately stole the money, or, after legitimately borrowing it, hid it to avoid his obligation to repay; and
historically, in the English-speaking world, the law of champerty and maintenance has effectively blocked the creation of an open market for claims that will involve contentious litigation or unliquidated damages. 2 These prohibitions, to a lesser or greater degree, continue to present a barrier to the creation of an efficient market for substantial value 'distressed' claims and paper.
Substantial opportunities exist in the market for those willing to invest the time and energy into learning how to manage the risk associated with the process, and to inculcate themselves in the language of concealed asset recovery model building, investigation and enforcement.
In addition, the same logic and rationale that supports the use of the portfolio model of risk management in respect of the investment of capital in stocks, bonds and other investment securities – applies with equal force in respect of concealed asset paper and claims. Based on the experience of the authors, approximately 50% of all concealed asset recovery investigations that successfully make it past an initial phase of inquiry of a cost of approximately $250,000 are successful in achieving their objective of locating and attributing very substantial value in anticipation of a pre-emptive asset freeze. Equally, somewhere around one in every three matters are successfully able to make it past this initial approximate $250,000 'spend,' decision point – in the risk assessment journey. If a portfolio of substantial value claims were to be analyzed in the aggregate – and if the very best were to be selected from the bunch – the performance of the capital invested should improve on the foregoing performance figures – as they are based on a purely random experience (e.g., with disparate clients bringing completely unrelated claims to us for the purpose of critical examination and review – to assess risk – and advise on how to proceed).
The balance of this paper seeks to set-out a summary description of the rules that govern a number of primary methods that exist in the United Kingdom and the United States to support the finance of the pursuit of concealed asset or 'distressed' claims, as well as other forms of litigation. The law of finance and purchase and sale of claims is a somewhat muddled and misunderstood area. Thus, there is value in gaining some familiarization with the base principles.
Conditional and Contingency Fees.
Contingency fee agreements have always been permitted for non-contentious (meaning corporate and commercial, or extra-litigation), legal work in England and Wales. Indeed, Section 57(2) of the Solicitors Act 1974 specifically authorises percentages and commissions as a means of charging for non-contentious work.
The essential, although simplistic, distinction between contentious and non-contentious work is whether proceedings have been begun in a court.
In the civil courts of England and Wales, a true contingency fee arrangement under which lawyers for the plaintiff would be rewarded by a percentage of what is recovered could not be entertained. This stands in stark contrast to the position in the United States where success fees expressed in terms of a percentage of the value of recovery are commonplace and indeed have lead to hugely disproportionate earnings for lawyers in high value class action law suits.
In the U.K., until the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, any form of contingency funding was contrary to the common law doctrine of champerty 3 and was unenforceable (but not unlawful) by means of litigation.
The 1990 Act introduced the concept of conditional fee agreements, the essential elements of which are:
the statute authorises retainer agreements that provide no fee for the solicitor if the case is lost – and a fee if the client wins equal to an hourly rate enhanced by up to 100% as a success fee;
the client has to fund their own disbursements and in particular court fees and experts' fees but can of course seek a separate conditional fee agreement to cover trial counsel's (or the barrister's) fees; and
in most litigation, after the event insurance is desirable in support of the conditional fee agreement to protect the client against the risk of losing.
This provides indemnity in respect of the opponents' costs and the client's own disbursements.
Section 27 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 substituted a new Section 58 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. All contingency fee type arrangements are now lumped together under the generic description of "conditional fees":
"A conditional fee agreement is an agreement with the person providing advocacy or litigation services which provides for his fees and expenses, or any part of them, to be payable only in specified circumstances."
The Act provides that a conditional fee agreement which does not satisfy all of the conditions specified in Section 58 "shall be unenforceable".
Divisional Court decisions of British Waterways Board v. Norman 4 and Aratra Potato Co Ltd v Taylor Joynson Garrett 5 held, respectively, that the client must be under a liability to pay their lawyers whether they won or lost and that the lawyers could not offer to discount their fees in the event of a loss. The Court of Appeal decision in Thai Trading v Taylor 6 distinguished these arrangements as 'contingent fee' agreements. The Access to Justice Act has now provided them with statutory recognition.
The Access to Justice Act, 1999 also includes the much-heralded provisions for possible recovery of success fees and insurance premiums. The relevant provisions are set out below:
Section 29:
"Where in any proceedings a costs order is made in favour of any party who has taken out an insurance policy against the risk of incurring a liability in those proceedings, the costs payable to him may, subject in the case of court proceedings to rules of court, include costs in respect of the premium of the policy."
The explanatory notes confirm that this is not limited to insurance policies taken out alongside a conditional fee agreement.
New Section 58A(6) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 provides that:
"A costs order made in any proceedings may, subject in the case of court proceedings to rules of court, include a provision requiring the payment of any fees payable under a conditional fee agreement which provides for a success fee."
It is important to remember that Courts in the U.K. follow the English costs rule – whereby the loser pays a substantial portion of the winner's legal costs in most cases (called 'party-party costs'), and nearly 100% of the winner's costs (called 'solicitor-client costs'), where a plaintiff has been found to have mis-conducted himself in the litigation. Historically, no 'success fee' or litigation insurance premium would be recoverable by the successful party against the loser. However, this has been reformed. In the U.K., from 1st April 2000, both a success fee and the insurance premium can be recovered from an unsuccessful opponent, although they can, in certain circumstances, challenge the amount of the success fee. That part of a success fee which is considered to be solely referable to the economic cost of the postponement of payment of fees is not recoverable, but that which relates to the complexities of the case and the risk, is.
There are a number of interesting considerations which arise in the context of conditional fee negotiations, in commercial litigation. Both lawyers and clients should be aware of the following:
risk sharing between lawyer and client gives rise to an inherent conflict of interest: two parties are buying and selling a product;
there may very well therefore be a need for negotiation and independent advice upon the terms of the conditional fee agreement itself;
in particular, the definition of "success" may be a matter for considerable negotiation. What if judgment is obtained but is not capable of being enforced on a cost-effective basis? There needs to be careful discussion over the possible outcomes of the litigation;
what protection do the lawyers have if the client decides to withdraw instructions before success is achieved? Most conditional fee agreements in routine litigation provide that the client would then become liable for all of the work done at the basic hourly rate. That assumes that the client will be in a position to pay. In addition, it would be inadequate remuneration for the carrying of risk and absence of funding in a case where success had become assured and the client changed to other lawyers on an ordinary funding basis to conclude the litigation;
solicitors operating Conditional Fee Arrangements ("CFAs") in commercial litigation place increased reliance on a client's credibility on matters of fact. Warranties should be sought and responsibility formally allocated. The clients in CFA litigation need to be advised that they will compromise their own control of the proceedings. Solicitors expect to be able to terminate the retainer at any stage if they become concerned and no longer believe that the prospects justify their continued involvement and investment; and
under a conditional fee agreement, in many instances, clients are really seeking funding when what they should be purchasing is quality, independent advice. Are solicitors best placed to act as a bank or an insurance company in litigation? If the expectation is that solicitors will fund major disbursements on the basis of any sort of direct return in the event that the case is successful, there may be Consumer Credit Act difficulties.
Contingency Fees (U.S.).
People often confuse conditional fees with contingency fees. In English law, contingency fees are only available where a case is settled before Court proceedings are started. In the event that Court proceedings do become necessary, the contingency fee element of the agreement comes to an end and some other form of case funding must be agreed upon.
In the U.S., however, contingency fees are not confined to non-contentious work. In a contingency fee agreement, lawyers charge an agreed percentage of the compensation that the client recovers. This percentage will cover both fees and expenses. From an ethics perspective, these types of arrangements are often criticized as they provide a potential windfall for attorneys which does not bear any relation to the actual work or risk involved. On the other hand, however, attorneys are also open to the risk that no award or a minimal award may be made. Some would argue that the risks inherent in all litigation counterbalance the potential for windfall recovery of fees. However, Professor Lester Brickman of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York has written extensively on this topic. He is a well-known critic of the arbitrary way in which contingency fees are fixed or measured. He developed his "corollary proportionality proposition," in his article, 'Contingent Fees Without Contingencies: Hamlet Without the Prince of Denmark?' 37 U.C.L.A. L.Rev. 29 (1989). This proposition holds that, for a contingency fee to be valid under the attorney ethics principle that all lawyers' fees must be reasonable, there must be an actual 'contingency.' This requires the presence of a real risk of non-recovery. The measure of the success (or contingency) fee must thus be proportionate to the risks involved. Accordingly, it is a nonsense to Professor Brickman, for all contingent fees to be in the 30% - 40% range. Many should be much lower, and some higher – depending on the risks involved.
A contingency type fee can be negotiated to take account of the type of risk involved, the degree of expertise of the lawyer, the level of support that lawyer can expect from the client and the possibility that recovery may exceed expectations. Thus for example a staggered percentage rate could be agreed, the percentage declining in line with any increase in compensation above certain defined thresholds.
The advantage of contingency fee type arrangements is that the lawyer acquires an added incentive to succeed, and to increase that success. It is well documented that employees who benefit from a profit sharing or performance related pay structure, outperform those who do not. Many argue however that a lawyer's duty to his client is such that an incentive is irrelevant. Lawyers are duty bound to protect the best interests of their clients and to use due skill and diligence in exercising that duty. Nonetheless, lawyers are human, and there can be abuses. The reality is that contingency type fees have, in the main, proved a successful way of promoting access to justice in the United States. 7
On the other hand, contingency fees involve a potential pitfall insofar as attorneys who become a partner in the litigation so to speak, lose their impartiality and may be more inclined to advocate or support positions which, from an impartial perspective, they ought not.
After the Event Litigation Costs Insurance (U.K.).
'After the event' litigation costs insurance covers the insured claimant against contingent liability for 'own-costs' and disbursements and for the contingent risk of incurring liability for the costs and disbursements of the defendant.
In the U.K., if there is a conditional fee agreement, then a claimant may only wish to insure against the contingent risk of incurring liability for the defendant's costs and disbursements. Even if there is a conditional fee agreement in place, the claimant or his solicitor may still wish to insure a proportion of the claimant's basic costs which will be unpaid in the event that the litigation is unsuccessful (as well as the adverse party's costs – payable by the client should he be unsuccessful due to the operation of the English costs rule).
As a matter of professional practice, solicitors in England and Wales are now required to advise clients on whether the client's liability for their own costs may be covered by insurance, and whether the client's liability for another party's costs may be covered by pre-purchased insurance or, if not, whether it would be advisable for the client's liability for another party's costs to be covered by after the event insurance (including in every case where a conditional fee or contingency fee arrangement is proposed). 8
Practice Rule 15 also requires English solicitors to discuss with their clients whether the likely outcome in a matter will justify the expense or risk involved, including, if relevant, the risk of having to bear an opponent's costs. This involves the solicitor in undertaking a cost/benefit analysis. In order to do this he will need to assimilate the information that is required in an after the event costs proposal form.
The reasons for taking out a policy covering after the event litigation costs insurance may include the following:
Accounting certainty;
An incentive for the defendant to settle as, if he loses, he must reimburse the plaintiff for the cost of the litigation insurance;
Security for costs; and
Raising finance to fund the litigation.
Once a premium has been agreed and paid, a claimant knows that his liability for his 'own-costs' and for the contingent risk of being liable to pay the costs of the defendant (should he be unsuccessful), are capped at the level of the premium, subject to the limit of indemnity. This is particularly important where the claimant may be publicly accountable for the costs of the litigation or where liquidators may be personally liable. Increasingly, litigation costs insurance may be seen as prudent public accounting.
A defendant knows when a claimant is sensitive to the issue of costs. A defendant's classic tactic in an action of this type is to obfuscate and delay, thereby causing the claimant to increase legal expenses and to exert pressure on the claimant to withdraw the action or settle. A policy of 'after the event insurance' sends a message to the defendant that underwriters are confident in the claimant's ability, not only to prosecute the litigation to a successful conclusion, but also to achieve a recovery of assets. The policy of insurance also puts the defendant on notice that the claimant is in the litigation for the duration and cannot be subjected to political and/or financial pressure with regard to the costs being incurred, both in respect of his own costs and in respect of his contingent liability for the costs of the defendant.
If the claimant has to provide security for costs, then it is possible for the policy of insurance to be linked to a bond which will stand as security for costs in place of a payment into Court. The cost of the bond will normally be approximately 3% of the value of the bond. The value of the bond will normally be less than the amount insured for the defendant's costs and disbursements.
If a loan is needed in order to fund a party's own costs and disbursements, it is now possible for a lender to be a named insured in the policy of insurance and to lend on the basis that the policy acts as security for the loan. The lender may advance up to 80% of the amount of own-costs insured. The lender's risk is that the insurers will avoid making a payment in the event that there is a claim under the policy. The answer to this is for the lender to take out a separate policy of insurance insuring against the risk that insurers of the primary policy may not pay out. The cost of this supplemental policy is approximately 5% of the amount of the loan. Part of the loan may be used to pay the insurance premiums. The lender will wish to recover interest at an agreed commercial rate in addition to the principal sum loaned.
Premiums for Policies Covering Own-Costs and Disbursements and Defendants' Costs and Disbursements (Litigation Expense Insurance) (U.K.).
Premiums for this type of policy of insurance in the U.K. are calculated as a percentage ("the rate on line") of the total amount of costs insured ("the limit of indemnity"). The rate on line generally varies between 15% and 30% of the limit of indemnity. Quotes should be obtained from more than one insurer. Rates on line will vary as different insurers may assess the risk differently. The credit rating of the insurers may also influence the choice of insurer. If a case is worth insuring, then it should be possible to place the risk at a rate on line not in excess of 30%.
Underwriting Considerations (U.K.).
There are few underwriting considerations that are unique to civil actions brought in England and Wales that involve tracing assets. As with any civil matter, part of the underwriting process will involve an analysis of the issues, the strengths and weaknesses of the claimant's case and the likelihood of recovering the assets to which the claimant alleges he is entitled. Underwriters will look at the merits and look at whether, on balance, the claimant is likely to be able to establish liability against the defendant, and where the defendant can be made to pay an adverse costs order. In many ways this is similar to the cost benefit analysis that solicitors are required to provide for clients pursuant to the Solicitors Practice Rule 15. The underwriting process should be helpful to clients and their solicitors. Clients spending public or creditors' money will not wish to embark upon litigation that may prove fruitless. English litigation insurance, in the context of a serious fraud case, should probably be purchased, when available, but only after sufficient assets have been located and frozen pending trial – so as to justify the cost and provide the necessary showing to the insurance underwriters that, if the plaintiff is successful, the defendant will be made to pay. There will normally be a fee payable for the underwriting process. This will vary according to the quality and detail of the legal advice available and the complexity of the issues. Fees for underwriting reports can vary from as little as £1,000 up to £25,000 for the more complex cases.
Litigation Insurance and Proceedings in Jurisdictions Outside England and Wales.
There is no reason, in principle, why a policy of insurance cannot be written or extended to cover proceedings outside of England and Wales that involve tracing against the same defendant. Underwriting considerations dictate that it will be helpful if the other jurisdictions have similar rules regarding the risk of incurring costs (i.e. costs will normally follow the event – meaning the result achieved in the case); however, this is not necessarily essential. Normal policy wording provides that assets recovered or damages awarded have to be utilised before any claim can be made under a policy of insurance for own-costs or for any liability for costs of the defendant. This means that, if a policy was taken out in respect of proceedings in England and Wales and costs were incurred and no recovery was made, and assuming that the policy was extended to proceedings tracing assets in other jurisdictions and assets were recovered in those jurisdictions, such assets would be brought into a "hotchpot" in order to avoid any claim being made under the policy. Premiums paid for a policy to cover costs in foreign proceedings may not be recoverable from the defendant, subject to the rules of that jurisdiction.
1. In fact, many American states have statutes that require the licensing of private investigators. Under many of these statutes, such as New York's, private investigators are prohibited from providing their services in exchange for a contingent or success fee, in whole or in part. The policy basis underlying this proscription appears to be that many state legislatures do not want investigators, who are in the 'coal-face' of the evidence procurement process in civil justice matters, to have their testimony swayed because they have a substantial economic interest in the outcome of the matter.
2. Since the late 19th Century, however, and generally speaking, claims sounded in debt or of a liquidated (meaning an easily-fixed or ascertainable sum), can be bought and sold readily – just as if they were a bale of goods.
3. For a brief discussion of this doctrine see Section 17.9 infra.
4. (1993) TLR 11 November.
5. SJ 16 June 1994, 587.
6. [1998] 3 All ER 65.
7. Although the writers suggest that it has also contributed to the United States' record as the most litigious nation in the world. To an extent, contingency fees have promoted litigation which would be considered vexatious or frivolous in other jurisdictions.
8. See, U.K. Solicitors Practice Rule 15.
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Even during 2015 — when we were #1 in the world at some points, #2 team overall across the year — Nathan was always the guy to hype the team up with a speech. So that’s a role that he hasn’t changed, and I don’t think he’ll ever change — just being that player with huge passion. I think that that’s something we’ll keep seeing from him. Q: You’ve gone from being #1 in the world to hitting a bit of a slump. How did you guys handle the initial group stage loss? How did prep for elimination match? A: The team was really excited and confident coming into the tournament. Happy even told me that he he thought that they were ready for a semi-final appearance, at least. They thought that the team was playing really well in scrims, and leading up to the tournament, they were winning most of those scrims against other professional teams. So there was a lot of confidence coming in, but when we lost that first match to CLG… the team was really shocked, but at the same time, I don’t think that that is what caused them to lose against Gambit. I think the mechanical parts of the team are a bit broken right now. It’s like, even a nice car will break down, so even if you have a Ferrari in the garage, at some point you’re going to have to address a serious problem, take it apart and try to find the issue. So, after that first loss, they just kind of kept going with what they had.\nQ: Talking about new experiences, how did DEVIL perform this week, in your mind? It was his first major, playing for a team that has a history of performing incredibly well at majors. Do you think that the pressure affected him poorly? A: I actually don’t think the pressure was a problem for DEVIL. I don’t he think he necessarily played poorly, he played pretty well in fact. It was just that the team as a whole didn’t play well. You can’t put the blame on Timothée at all, you have to look at the team as a whole. I mean, I think maybe the inexperience got to him at a few points, just in terms of positioning on sites, certain angles he took against top teams, especially, Gambit are very tough. Both teams we played in groups are great teams, CLG obviously made a deep run in the tournament and Gambit has players who have been playing professionally for a long time. So, I think that it was just inexperience, and obviously with time we’ll be able to fix that. Q: With the team losing, we’ve seen them use past losses as a building experience. Does the team have a good mindset of using this as an emotional or a building experience? A: Yeah, so, I think the team is really just ready to leave and immediately get back to work. We’ve got Dreamhack Masters Malmö coming up in about 10 days, so we’re ready to go and hit that hard. But really our goal is to use the time after that and rebuild. Rebuild our strategies, rebuild our chemistry — everyone is going to work one-on-one with DEVIL. We have plans to have DEVIL to stay in his location and fly a different player to stay with him for a week and really build up that chemistry.\nQ: So you just touched on this with the improved training schedule and more formalizing training partners… but what ideas do the team have for the future?A: The big takeaway is that we’re just going back to a more structured training schedule. Just a lot more structure. We already had one in place, but this is going to be much more rigorous, the team is going to grind more. The players got a little comfortable in their situation of being settled at or near the top, but I think they understand that they really need to take things up a level now. I certainly think our team is about to really go hard. Q: Any words for the fans of nV? A: Yeah. Honestly, it was pretty shocking to see just how much support we had today. I 100% know for a fact that there were more people wearing nV shirts here today than any other team. Even the American teams! For me, that’s a big statement, that the fans would come out and support the team even though we didn’t make it to Nationwide Arena. To me, it was a just a huge shock to see so many of our shirts and jerseys at an American event. I just want to give a huge thank you to all of our American fans for being a supporter of a French team and of our guys. It’s honestly emotional, since we’ve built this team from a pretty small thing into a big team and it’s so great to have people supporting that. So just a big thank you to everyone.\nHalo Infinite Art - Hydro74"
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Beyond the competition, the kids learned a greater lesson from the Family-Feud style duel.
“I think the kids understood that even though he’s a famous football player, he still needed the same things that we’re telling them that they need every day in school and that it does carry over into everyday life,” Goshay said.
On the field, Jackson is reaching a crossroads.
The Sidney Lanier graduate will officially become a free agent March 9. Jackson played under a one-year deal last season with Seattle for a reported $1.5 million.
“If you’re a free agent, of course other teams are going to inquire about you or they’re not going to inquire about you,” said Jackson, who has won a Super Bowl with Seattle. “That’s just how it goes.”
Jackson plans to keep all options open, but made his love for Seattle known Monday. Jackson, who started his NFL career at Minnesota as a second-round pick in 2006 out of Alabama State, has spent the last three seasons with the Seahawks playing quarterback behind Russell Wilson.
“It’s not like I’m testing the waters,” Jackson said. “You wouldn’t be a smart businessman if you didn’t see what was out there. It’s not like, ‘OK, I don’t want to go back to Seattle.’ They know how I feel about being up there. It would be hard to get me from up there if they want me back.”
Montgomery native Tarvaris Jackson talks Lanier, ASU football
Jackson has thrown for just 188 yards and one touchdown the last three seasons in Seattle, but when looking at some of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL right now, he has thoughts of whether he could start again.
“Me and a couple of my teammates always have that conversation,” Jackson said. “Me and Russell have that conversation. You see a couple of guys go down. Play against guys every weekend, it’s like, I’m better than that guy or they’ll say, ‘T.J., you’re better than that guy,’ but it’s my situation. It’s the cards I was dealt. I had my chances. I could have made a better chance of it, but it didn’t happen that way.”
Being around kids took Jackson down memory lane of how he was as a youth. Jackson said he went to four elementary schools, but the dream to play professional sports started at a young age.
“I always liked sports, but at first, I wanted to be a firefighter when I was growing up,” Jackson said. “Then I kind of got more and more into sports. Kind of got good. Started seeing more of it on TV and understanding the game, different games. After that, I wanted to be a professional basketball player, football, baseball. I wanted to do it all. It just happened to be football. It was a dream come true.”
Now that his NFL career is on the back end, Jackson is looking at his future beyond pro football as he plans to coach someday possibly back in Montgomery and pass down lessons he’s learned.
“It’s coming to an end, I know that,” Jackson said. “Kind of looking forward to the next stage. Right now, I’m just having fun with it. Trying to do as much as I can and have as much fun as I can while it lasts.”
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General terms and conditions of delivery and payment of Moso International B.V., Adam Smithweg 2, 1689 ZW ZWAAG, registered at the Chamber of Commerce in Alkmaar under number: 36052388. VAT number NL 8072.954.37.B01.
CLAUSE 1: APPLICABILITY
These terms and conditions shall apply to all offers and to all purchase and sale agreements of Moso International B.V., with registered office in Zwaag, hereinafter referred to as “the user”.
The purchaser or the client, as the case may be, shall hereinafter be referred to as “the other party”. Should a provision below specifically refer to a situation where the other party is a natural person not acting in the course of a profession or business, such party shall be referred to as “the consumer”.
Other terms and conditions shall only form part of the agreement concluded between the parties if and insofar as both parties have expressly agreed this in writing.
In these general terms and conditions, “in writing” shall also be understood to mean: by email, by fax or any other means of communication which can, given the state of technology and generally accepted standards, be considered as equivalent thereto.
Should the other party accept and retain, without comment, a quotation or order confirmation which refers to these terms and conditions, the other party shall be deemed to have agreed to the application thereof.
Should (part of) a provision of these general terms and conditions not apply, this shall not affect the applicability of the remaining provisions.
CLAUSE 2: AGREEMENTS
Agreements shall only become binding on written confirmation by the user.
Verbal arrangements shall only bind the user once these have been confirmed by the user in writing, or once the user has, with the consent of the other party, started to execute the agreement.
Supplements or amendments to the general terms and conditions or other changes or supplements to the agreement shall only become binding once they have been confirmed by the user in writing.
CLAUSE 3: OFFERS
All offers, quotations, price lists, delivery periods etc. of the user shall be without obligation, unless they contain a period for acceptance. Should a quotation and/or offer contain an offer without obligation and this offer is accepted by the other party, the user shall be entitled to withdraw the offer within 2 working days of receipt of the acceptance.
The prices charged by the user as well as the prices given in the offers, quotations, price lists and suchlike are exclusive of VAT and any costs. These costs may include – but are not limited to – travelling expenses, transport costs and statements of expenses from third parties used. The above shall apply unless expressly indicated otherwise in writing.
Samples, brochures, drawings, models, specifications in terms of colour, dimensions and weight and other descriptions shown and/or provided are as accurate as possible, but shall serve as an indication only. No rights may be derived from these, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
The samples, brochures, drawings and suchlike referred to in the previous subclause of this clause shall remain the property of the user at all times, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing. These must be returned at the first request of the user. They may not be duplicated or made available to third parties for inspection, unless the written consent of the user has been obtained.
A. Should, between the date of the conclusion of the agreement and the execution of the agreement, wages, employment conditions or social insurance schemes and suchlike be amended by the government and/or collective industrial organisations, the user shall be entitled to pass the increases on to the other party. Should a new price list be issued by the user and/or suppliers and come into force between the aforementioned dates, then the user shall be entitled to charge the other party the prices given therein.
B. Where the agreement has been concluded with the consumer, price increases may be passed on and/or charged 3 months after the conclusion of the agreement. In the event of price increases within a period of less than 3 months, the consumer shall be entitled to dissolve the agreement.
CLAUSE 4: USING THIRD PARTIES
If and insofar as this is required for the proper execution of the agreement, the user shall be entitled to have specific activities and/or deliveries carried out by third parties.
CLAUSE 5: DELIVERY, DELIVERY PERIODS
Stated delivery periods within which the goods must be delivered may never be regarded as fixed deadlines, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing. Should the user fail to fulfil its obligations pursuant to the agreement or fail to fulfil these on time, it must therefore be given written notice of default.
Where delivery is made in consignments, each delivery or phase shall be regarded as a separate transaction and the user may invoice per transaction.
The risk in respect of the delivered goods shall pass to the other party at the time of delivery.
The ordered goods shall be shipped and/or transported in a manner to be specified by the user, but for the account and risk of the other party. The user shall not be liable for loss or damage of any kind or in any form whatsoever relating to the shipment and/or transport, regardless of whether this loss or damage is sustained by the goods themselves. The provisions of this subclause shall apply unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
Should it prove to be impossible to deliver the goods to the other party for reasons attributable to the other party, the user reserves the right to store the ordered goods for the account and risk of the other party. The user shall notify the other party of the storage in writing, giving a reasonable period within which the other party must make it possible for the user to deliver the goods.
Should the other party still have failed to fulfil its obligations even after the expiry of the reasonable period set by the user as referred to in the previous subclause of this clause, the other party shall be in default as a result of the mere expiry of 1 (one) month, to be calculated as from the date of storage, and the user shall be entitled to wholly or partially dissolve the agreement in writing and with immediate effect, without prior or further notice of default, without judicial intervention and without being obliged to pay compensation for loss or damage, costs and interest.
The above shall not affect the obligation of the other party to pay the agreed and/or stipulated and/or owed price as well as any storage costs and/or other costs.
The user shall be entitled to require – with regard to the fulfilment of the financial obligations of the other party – advance payment or security from the other party before commencing the delivery.
CLAUSE 6: PROGRESS OF THE DELIVERY
The user cannot be required to start delivering the goods until all the information required for this is in its possession and it has received any agreed (instalment) payments. Should delays arise as a result of this, the stated delivery periods shall be adjusted pro rata.
Should it not be possible to carry out the deliveries normally or without interruption for reasons not attributable to the user, the user shall be entitled to charge the other party the resulting costs.
All expenses incurred by the user within the framework of the agreement at the request of the other party shall be entirely for the account of the latter, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
CLAUSE 7: PACKAGING
The reusable packaging in which the goods are delivered shall remain the property of the user and may not be used by the other party for purposes other than that for which it is intended.
The user shall be entitled to charge the other party a deposit for this packaging. The user shall be obliged to take back this packaging, provided that it is returned carriage paid, at the price charged to the other party, during a period following the delivery date and specified by the user.
Should packaging be damaged, incomplete or lost, the other party shall be liable for this loss or damage and shall lose its right to the repayment of the deposit.
Should this – in the opinion of the user – prove to be necessary, the other party shall be charged for packaging at cost price and the packaging shall not be taken back.
CLAUSE 8: COMPLAINTS AND RETURNS
The other party shall be obliged to check the goods immediately on taking delivery thereof. Should the other party discover visible defects, deficiencies and/or faults, these must be noted on the consignment note and/or accompanying bill and immediately brought to the attention of the user, or the other party must notify the user of these within 24 hours of receipt of the goods, followed by immediate written confirmation of this to the user.
Other complaints must be submitted to the user by registered letter within 8 days of receipt of the goods.
Without prejudice to the provisions of subclauses 1 and 2 of this clause, the provisions of subclause 8 of clause 9 shall also be taken into account where the agreement has been concluded with the consumer.
Should the aforementioned complaints not have been made known to the user within the periods stipulated above, the goods shall be deemed to have been received in a good condition.
The ordered goods shall be delivered in the wholesale packaging that the user has in stock. Minor deviations in respect of the given dimensions, weights, quantities, colours and suchlike shall not constitute shortcomings on the part of the user.
No complaints may be asserted in respect of imperfections in natural products, if, in the opinion of the user, these imperfections are related to the nature and characteristics of the raw material(s) from which the product has been made.
Complaints shall not have the effect of suspending the payment obligation of the other party.
The user must be given the opportunity to investigate the complaint. Should it prove to be necessary to return the goods for the complaint to be investigated, this shall only be for the account and risk of the user if the latter has given its express prior written consent for this.
In all cases, goods must be returned in a manner to be specified by the user and in the original packaging. Return shipments shall be for the account and risk of the other party, unless the user declares the complaint to be well-founded.
Should, after delivery, the nature and/or composition of the goods have been altered or the goods have been wholly or partially processed or treated, damaged or repackaged, any right to complain shall lapse.
In the case of valid complaints, the claim shall be settled pursuant to the provisions of clause 9.
CLAUSE 9: LIABILITY AND GUARANTEE
The user shall discharge its task as may be expected of a company in its line of business, but accepts no liability whatsoever for loss, damage or injury, including death and personal injury, consequential loss or damage, trading loss, loss of profits and/or losses due to business stagnation, which is the result of acts or omissions on the part of the user, its staff or third parties brought in by it, except in the case of intentional acts or omissions and/or deliberate recklessness on its part, or on the part of its board and/or its managerial staff.
Without prejudice to the provisions of the other subclauses of this clause, the liability of the user – for whatever reason – shall be limited to the amount of the net price of the goods delivered and/or work carried out.
Without prejudice to the provisions of the previous subclauses of this clause, the user shall never be required to pay compensation that exceeds the insured amount, insofar as the loss or damage is covered by insurance taken out by the user.
The user guarantees the customary normal quality and reliability of that which has been delivered; the actual useful life thereof can never be guaranteed.
Should visible defects, deficiencies and/or faults appear in the delivered goods, which must already have been present at the time of delivery, the user undertakes to repair or replace these goods free of charge, at its option.
A. In all cases the period within which the other party can claim compensation for assessed loss from the user shall be limited to 6 months as from the time at which it was established that the compensation was payable.
B. Contrary to the provisions under A of this subclause, a maximum period of 1 (one) year shall apply in respect of the consumer.
If goods delivered by the user have a manufacturer’s guarantee, this guarantee shall apply between the parties in the same way.
Where the agreement has been concluded with the consumer, the user shall observe the statutory guarantee periods.
The other party shall lose its rights vis-à-vis the user, shall be liable for all loss or damage and shall indemnify the user against any claims of third parties in respect of compensation for loss or damage if and insofar as:
A. the aforementioned loss or damage has arisen as a result of injudicious use and/or use contrary to the instructions and/or advice of the user and/or injudicious safekeeping (storage) of the delivered goods by the other party;
B. the aforementioned loss or damage has arisen as a result of errors, omissions or inaccuracies in information, materials, information carriers and suchlike which were provided to the user by or on behalf of the other party and/or the use of which by the user was prescribed by or on behalf of the other party.
CLAUSE 10: PAYMENT
Payment must be made within 30 days of the date of invoice, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
Should an invoice not have been paid in full after the expiry of the period referred to in subclause 1:
A. a credit restriction surcharge of 2% shall be charged to the other party as from that date, without further notice of default being required;
B. the other party shall owe the user default interest of 2% per month to be calculated cumulatively on the principal sum. Parts of a month shall be regarded as full months in this respect;
C. the other party, after having received a demand from the user in this regard, shall owe a minimum of 15% of the total of the principal sum and the default interest in respect of extrajudicial costs, with an absolute minimum of € 150.00;
D. the user shall be entitled to charge the other party an amount of at least € 20.00 in respect of administration costs for each payment reminder, demand and suchlike sent to the other party. The user shall refer to this in the agreement and/or on the invoice.
At the discretion of the user, the agreement may, in the aforementioned or similar circumstances, be wholly or partially dissolved without further notice of default or judicial intervention; this may or may not be combined with a claim for compensation.
Should the other party not have fulfilled its payment obligations on time, the user shall be entitled to suspend the fulfilment of the obligation to deliver and/or to carry out work entered into vis-à-vis the other party until the payment has been made or proper security has been provided for this. The same shall apply even before the other party is in default if the user has reasonable grounds to suspect that there are reasons to doubt the creditworthiness of the other party.
Payments made by the other party shall always be used to settle all interest and costs owed and then due and payable invoices which have been outstanding the longest, unless the other party expressly indicates in writing, when making the payment, that the payment relates to a later invoice.
A. Should the other party, for whatever reason, have one or more counterclaims against the user, or acquire such counterclaims in future, the other party shall waive the right of setoff in respect of this/these claim(s). The said waiver of the right of setoff shall likewise apply should the other party apply for the (provisional) suspension of payment or be declared bankrupt.
B. The provisions under A of this subclause shall not apply to agreements concluded with the consumer.
CLAUSE 11: RETENTION OF TITLE
The user shall retain ownership of the goods delivered and to be delivered until the other party has fulfilled its payment obligations vis-à-vis the user in this regard. These payment obligations shall consist of paying the purchase price, plus claims in respect of work carried out connected to this delivery as well as any claims for compensation on account of the other party’s failure to fulfil its obligations.
The other party may only resell the goods falling under the retention of title in the context of its normal business activities.
Should the user invoke the retention of title, the agreement concluded in this respect shall be regarded as having been dissolved, without prejudice to the right of the user to claim compensation for loss or damage, lost profit and interest.
The other party shall be obliged to inform the user immediately and in writing should third parties assert rights in respect of goods which are subject to the retention of title pursuant to this clause.
CLAUSE 12: PLEDGE/WARRANTAGE
Up to the time at which the other party has fulfilled all its payment obligations vis-à-vis the user in this regard, the other party shall not be entitled to give the delivered goods to third parties as security and/or to establish a nonpossessory pledge thereon and/or to place the goods under the actual control of one or more financiers for the purpose of storage (warrantage), as such actions shall be deemed to constitute attributable non-fulfilment on the part of the other party. In such a case, the user may immediately suspend its obligations arising from the agreement or dissolve the agreement without being obliged to give any notice of default and without prejudice to the right of the user to claim compensation for loss or damage, lost profit and interest.
CLAUSE 13: BANKRUPTCY, LOSS OF POWER TO DISPOSE OF PROPERTY and suchlike
Without prejudice to the provisions of the other clauses of these terms and conditions, the agreement concluded between the other party and the user shall be dissolved without any judicial intervention and without any notice of default being required as soon as the other party is declared bankrupt, applies for the (provisional) suspension of payment, has execution levied against it, is placed in receivership or under administration or loses its power and/or legal capacity to dispose of its assets or parts thereof in any other way, unless the receiver or administrator acknowledges the obligations arising from the agreement as estate debt.
CLAUSE 14: FORCE MAJEURE
Should the user be unable to fulfil its obligations pursuant to the agreement concluded with the other party and this is due to non-attributable non-performance on the part of the user and/or on the part of third parties or suppliers brought in by the user for the execution of the agreement or should another important reason arise on the part of the user, the user shall be entitled to dissolve the agreement between the parties or to suspend fulfilment of the obligations vis-à-vis the other party for a reasonable period to be determined by the user, without being obliged to pay any compensation. Should the aforesaid situation arise once the agreement has already been partly executed, the other party shall be obliged to fulfil its obligations vis-à-vis the user up to that time.
Circumstances resulting in non-attributable non-performance shall include: war, riots, mobilisation, foreign and domestic civil commotion, government measures, strikes and lockouts by employers or the threat thereof and similar circumstances; disruption of the exchange rates existing at the time of the conclusion of the agreement; weather conditions, interruption of business operations as a result of fire, accidents or other incidents and natural phenomena, all this irrespective of whether the non-performance or late performance takes place at the user, its suppliers or third parties brought in by the user for the execution of the obligation.
CLAUSE 15: DISSOLUTION, CANCELLATION/TERMINATION
A. The other party waives all rights to dissolve the agreement pursuant to article 6:265 ff. Dutch Civil Code or other statutory provisions, unless mandatory legislative provisions oppose this. This shall apply subject to the right to cancel or terminate the agreement pursuant to this clause.
Cancellation shall, within the framework of these general terms and conditions, be understood to mean: one of the parties bringing the agreement to an end before any part of it has been executed.
Termination shall, within the framework of these general terms and conditions, be understood to mean: one of the parties bringing the agreement to an end after part of it has already been executed.
Should the other party terminate or cancel the agreement, it shall owe the user a payment, to be determined by the latter. The other party shall be obliged to compensate the user for all costs, loss or damage and lost profit. The user shall be entitled to set the costs, loss or damage and lost profit and – at its choice and depending on the work already carried out and/or deliveries already made – to charge the other party 20 to 100% of the agreed price.
The other party shall be liable vis-à-vis third parties for the consequences of the cancellation or termination and shall indemnify the user in this regard.
Amounts already paid by the other party shall not be refunded.
CLAUSE 16: APPLICABLE LAW/COMPETENT COURT
The agreement concluded between the user and the other party shall be subject exclusively to Dutch law. Disputes that arise from the agreement shall likewise be settled in accordance with Dutch law.
Contrary to the provisions of subclause 1 of this clause, the consequences pursuant to the law of property of the retention of title for goods intended for export shall, if the legal system of the country or state for which the goods are destined is more favourable for the user, be governed by that law.
Any disputes shall be settled by the competent Dutch court, unless the user is entitled to bring the matter before the competent court in the place where the user has its registered office, except where the subdistrict court has jurisdiction.
In the case of disputes with the consumer, the consumer shall have the right to stipulate, within 1 (one) month of having been notified by the user that the matter will be brought before the court, that he chooses to have the matter heard by the court with jurisdiction by law.
In the case of disputes that arise from an agreement where the other party has its registered office outside the Netherlands, the user shall be entitled to act in accordance with the provisions of subclause 3 of this clause or – at its choice – to bring the disputes before the competent court in the country or state where the other party has its registered office.
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Pride on wheels: New Jersey Hall of Fame rolls out mobile museum
Updated Mar 30, 2019; Posted Jun 12, 2013
New Jersey Hall of Fame 2013 nominees
Gallery: New Jersey Hall of Fame 2013 nominees
By Amy Kuperinsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
You may have heard something about the New Jersey Hall of Fame. (Check the slideshow of 2013 nominees above).
Now, it's gone mobile. Not the app kind of mobile, or the iPad kind of mobile. It's literally on wheels.
Designed by Princeton architect Michael Graves — himself an inductee — the New Jersey Hall of Fame Mobile Museum launches on June 24 for a summer tour. In the fall, the museum will visit state schools as a kind of reverse field trip, with curriculum materials being planned for teachers.
"The best way I can describe it is a spaceship on wheels," says Steve Edwards, president of the New Jersey Hall of Fame Foundation Board.
The museum occupies a 53-foot, double-expandable trailer, which when parked can fold out to 850 square feet, standing 13 1/2 feet tall. Ralph Appelbaum Associates devised the exhibition, which will incorporate photos, film and artifacts in a changing display tagged to the theme "make a difference." Various groups funded the project; the lead sponsor is the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters.
Queen Latifah, with her mother, Rita Owens, at the New Jersey Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2011.
"We've done the math and it's very efficient for schools," says Edwards. He says the mobile option eliminates the need for schools to pay for buses, chaperones and food, and estimates the total cost of a visit to be $1,500.
After the cancellation of a ceremony originally scheduled for his month, the actual induction of a New Jersey Hall of Fame class of 2013 remains delayed, though voting was conducted online through May 6. The hall itself lives at njhalloffame.org.
The opening ceremony for the museum on wheels will be 11 a.m. June 24 at the Flag Plaza of Liberty State Park in Jersey City. Buzz Aldrin, who grew up in Montclair and was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2008, will attend. Edwards says Aldrin has appeared at every induction. Other inductees over the hall's five classes have been Queen Latifah, Bruce Springsteen, Susan Sarandon and Yogi Berra.
After that, for its entire first week, the museum will travel to a different destination each day. Tuesday, June 25, it will be at the statehouse. June 26, the Atlantic City Airshow. On the 27th, Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange. Then it's off for a tour of the Jersey Shore, says Edwards, with visits set to include Asbury Park and Oceanfest in Long Branch.
To see a preview of the museum, visit njhalloffame.org/mobile-museum.
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Elle Columnist Accuses Donald Trump of Rape, Says She Still Has the Unwashed Coat She Was Wearing
By Nicole Goodkind On 6/21/19 at 1:41 PM EDT
U.S. Donald Trump Sexual assault
A writer for Elle magazine has accused President Donald Trump of raping her about 24 years ago, and says she still has the unwashed coat she was wearing when it happened.
E. Jean Carroll, a well-known advice columnist and writer, said the assault took place at Bergdorf Goodman, a high-end department store in New York City, where Trump recognized her while shopping. Trump was married to his second wife, Marla Maples at the time and had a young daughter, Tiffany Trump, with her.
The White House and Carroll did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Newsweek. The White House called the allegations, "completely false and unrealistic" to New York. The story surfaced 25 years after the allegations, they said, and "was created simply to make the President look bad."
According to Carroll, the president recognized her as "that advice lady" and asked her to help him pick out a gift for "a girl." The pair settled on a piece of lacy lingerie and Trump asked Carroll to try it on. Carroll said she deflected the offer and told him to try it on instead. The pair then made their way to a dressing room where, Carroll alleges, Trump sexually assaulted her.
Carroll did not go to the police after the encounter, but did say she told friends, both journalists, one told her to go to the police she said and the other advised her to tell no one. Both confirmed the account to New York.
Carroll said she did not come forward earlier because "receiving death threats, being driven from my home, being dismissed, being dragged through the mud, and joining the 15 women who've come forward with credible stories about how the man grabbed, badgered, belittled, mauled, molested, and assaulted them, only to see the man turn it around, deny, threaten, and attack them, never sounded like much fun. Also, I am a coward."
Carroll also claimed that the dress she wore on the night of the encounter, "still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening."
Carroll wrote about her encounter with the president, which she says took place in 1995 or 1996, in New York Magazine this week, where she also detailed other acts of sexual misconduct brought upon her by powerful men like Les Moonves, who has also faced allegations of sexual abuse from several other women.
President Trump has been accused of harassment, sexual misconduct and sexual abuse by more than a dozen women.
Donald Trump, musician Tony Bennett, actress (and Trump's wife) Marla Maples, and her daughter, Tiffany Trump, during a 'roaring 20's' party at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, December 9, 1995, around the time of the alleged assault. Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty
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DirecTV Latest to Land Lakers Networks' Distribution Deal
By Mike Reynolds 15 November 2012
DirecTV has reached a deal with Time Warner Cable Sports and will launch its pair of Los Angeles Lakers-centric services today.
With the agreement, financial terms of which were not disclosed, Dish Network is now the only major provider that is not carrying Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes in the regional sports networks’ territories. Published reports put the combined monthly subscriber license fee for the two services at $3.95.
Time Warner Cable SportsNet will be available to DirecTV customers on channel 691 throughout Southern California -- Los Angeles, San Diego, Bakersfield and parts of Fresno -- as well as Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, Las Vegas and Hawaii. Time Warner Cable Deportes, the nation’s first Spanish-language RSN, is positioned on channel 458.
In addition to Lakers games and related programming around the storied NBA franchise, which earlier this week hired Mike D’Antonio as its coach, the RSNs are also the local homes for Major League Soccer’s LA Galaxy and the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.
"DirecTV is pleased that Los Angeles Lakers, LA Galaxy and Los Angeles Sparks games and programming will now be seen by so many people whose loyalty remains the life's blood to each team," said Dan York, chief content officer at DirecTV, in a statement."We appreciate our customers’ patience and are happy to have arrived at an outcome that benefits everyone involved. We know that our customers will enjoy the great programming of these three franchises for many years to come.”
Noted Dan Finnerty, senior vice president, Time Warner Cable Sports: “Our partners at DirecTV value Southern California sports as much as we do and we’re thrilled to work with them to bring Lakers, Galaxy and Sparks games and programming to our viewers. Time Warner Cable SportsNet and Time Warner Cable Deportes will help bring DirecTV customers closer to these teams than they have ever been before.”
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TV Looms for High Court
By Ted Hearn 01 April 2006
Washington — A split Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday voted 12-6 in favor of a bill that would force the U.S. Supreme Court to televise its oral arguments.
The nine-member court, which allows reporters to attend court sessions and take notes, has never permitted TV or radio coverage inside its hearing room.
The bill (S. 1768), sponsored by Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), would require camera coverage in all instances except where the court determines the due process rights of a party would be violated.
“Because the Supreme Court of the United States holds the power to decide cutting-edge questions on public policy, thereby effectively becoming a virtual 'super legislature,' the public has a right to know what the Supreme Court is doing,” Specter said in a statement after the vote.
COURT BATTLES LIKELY
If it became law, the Specter bill could trigger a constitutional battle, spawning litigation that could result in the high court ruling that mandated camera coverage was an unconstitutional invasion of the judiciary as a co-equal branch of government. Specter himself has said the court retained authority to rule his bill out of bounds.
Sentiment against TV coverage runs strong within the court. No sitting Supreme Court Justice has endorsed televised coverage; many justices have argued that the court's role in society would be distorted and its carefully protected reputation would be tarnished if video footage from court proceeding became part of the larger entertainment culture.
A Specter spokesman didn't know Specter's plan for gain full Senate passage. One possibility is for Specter to attach his bill to the annual spending bill that funds the federal judiciary.
If passed by the Senate, terms of a mandate for live camera coverage of Supreme Court proceedings would still need to gain approval of the House of Representatives; and the final, jointly approved legislation would have to be signed into law by President Bush.
At his confirmation hearing in January, Justice Samuel Alito said that as a member of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he voted to admit cameras, but a majority of his colleagues refused. Chief Justice John Roberts, during his Senate hearing, was noncommittal.
Opposition to the Specter bill involved a rare alliance among liberal Democrats Edward Kennedy (Mass.) and Diane Feinstein (Calif.) and conservative Republicans Orrin Hatch (Utah), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), and Tom Coburn (Okla.).
The Judiciary Committee, in a 10-6 vote, also approved a second bill (S. 829) sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) that would authorize Chief Justice Roberts and other presiding judges in lower federal courts to permit TV coverage.
Court TV considers the Grassley-Schumer bill more valuable because it would improve access to criminal trials in federal courts. A similar bill has passed the House Judiciary Committee.
“The [Senate] committee has reflected the will of the people who want to be able to see and hear the third branch of their government for themselves. We hope the full Senate will now pass this bill which will not only provide important educational benefits but will also increase confidence in the American system of justice,” Court TV CEO Henry Schleiff said in a statement.
C-SPAN COMMITMENT
C-SPAN, the public-affairs network created by cable, has pressed the Supreme Court to admit cameras, promising to televise in full every oral argument. The court hears about 80 cases in a term.
C-SPAN has not endorsed legislation because the network does not want to be perceived as taking sides between Congress and the Supreme Court.
“These bills indicate at least Congress is interested in opening up the federal judiciary by televising court proceedings, and C-SPAN agrees with that goal. But it is also clear to us that the federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court, are much less interested in allowing camera coverage,” said C-SPAN corporate vice president Bruce Collins.
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Newport Beach Public Library is latest to launch high school diploma program for adults
Newport Beach Public Library is latest to launch an online high school diploma program for adults.
By Louis Casiano | Orange County Register
September 20, 2016 at 10:59 a.m.
Since launching last week, two people have already applied to participate in a state library initiative to help adults obtain a high school diploma and career certificate by completing online courses now offered at the Newport Beach Public Library.
The California State Library and The Career Online High School, a career-based online education program for adults, help administer the 18-credit curriculum. Scholarships are available to pay the $1,100 tuition.
“The scholarships are being offered to remove barriers for the target population, who are generally at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum and who are usually juggling multiple work and family responsibilities,” said Janet Coles, a state library program manager for the online school.
The Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles and Orange County libraries already participate. Libraries in other cities from San Diego to New Orleans and Virginia Beach have also followed.
The Newport Beach program hopes to enroll at least 10 students over the next nine months, said Cherall Weiss, the library’s online school coordinator.
Classes are geared toward adults who were not successful in traditional high schools, but who want to earn an accredited diploma and a credentialed certificate in one of eight career paths.
Participants can transfer up to 14 credits from high school and have up to 18 months to finish.
“It will give the student so many opportunities,” Weiss said. “A high school diploma is the minimum you need these days.”
Around 115 students have completed the program statewide.
Weiss said she hopes to have a graduation ceremony for the Newport Beach students who successfully complete the classes.
The school also gives anyone with a GED the opportunity to get a diploma to move ahead with career or higher education plans, Coles said.
Developers of the school felt libraries were an ideal choice to partner with given its inherent educational value, said said Kristina Massari, spokeswoman for Gale Cengage Learning, which provides learning materials to the students.
“Libraries are often the community’s most trusted educational institution and are already focused on supporting adult literacy, GED preparation, and workforce development,” she said. “It’s really the perfect venue to offer a program like COHS.”
The income disparity between those with and without a high school education can mean thousands of dollars over a lifetime.
In 2015, full-time workers ages 25 and older earned on average $493 a week, compared to $678 for high school graduates and $1,137 for those with a bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The unemployment rate the same year was around 8 percent for people with less than a high school education. Unemployment figures decline as education levels rose.
Statewide, 8.4 percent of Californians ages 25 and older had attended high school without receiving a diploma, 2014 U.S. Census Bureau estimates show.
In Orange County, 84 percent of residents have earned a high school diploma or higher.
The State Legislature earmarked $1 million from the 2015-16 budget to spearhead the program, which began in October 2015, with the first libraries offering the courses in December.
As of Monday, 45 library agencies are participating, Coles said.
“The return on investment is huge,” she said. The higher wages graduates tend to received “goes back into the economy and the tax base,” she said.
To enroll in the virtual high school, a student must have a Newport Beach library card and be in good standing, Weiss said. Students don’t have to be city residents.
Because tuition is paid by the state, students are selected based on a self-assessment, a prerequisite course that must be completed within two weeks and an in-person interview with library representatives.
“That’s showing us the their motivation,” Weiss said. “We have limited spaces available, so we want to make sure that the people who do get those spaces are going to do it.”
Applicants must also be at least 19 and be willing to commit 10 hours each week to coursework.
Their progress in monitored by the school and the Newport Beach library and they will be assigned a tutor if needed.
Weiss said she hopes people are encouraged to apply. “It’s a big step for a an adult to come and look for help like this.”
To apply, go to: newportbeachlibrary.org.
Contact the writer: , 714-796-2478 or lcasiano@scng.com
Louis Casiano | Freelancer
Louis Casiano studied journalism at the University of Houston, where he was a reporter for the Daily Cougar and interned at the Houston Chronicle covering crime and breaking news. After graduating, he interned at NBCNews.com covering news on the national desk. Most recently he worked at The Orange County Register's breaking news and public safety beats. In 2016, he covered the busy coastal cities of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.
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BBC Radio 1 Interview
Posted on 1st April 1992 Posted in Article, Interview
DJ : Tim Booth from James and Jim’s here as well. You’ve done so well in the States and you’ve sold out a tour and you’re selling millions of albums. You’re taking America by storm. So I suppose that this means inevitably, you’ll abandon us and take American citizenship and never return.
Tim : Change our names as well. Jim Bob
DJ : But you’re never here now
Tim : That’s not true actually. We’ve only been, we’ve only played in America this year in nine years and everyone says “Why didn’t you go to America before?” and we’ve only been there for a few weeks. It’s just that..
DJ : It has taken off though, hasn’t it?
Tim : Yeah, it’s doing so at the moment
DJ : The sell out tour business. It must be very alluring as much as anything.
Tim : Yeah it’s exciting going to another country so foreign as America because we’re kind of used to Europe just from holidays if nothing else. You get used to Europe but America is just like another planet and within the whole of America there’s like seven different countries at least. And you kind of, like Larry says, get on a bus in the morning and it’s kind of snowing and minus ten and you sleep and by the time you wake up it’s 80 degrees and kind of subtropical. It’s bizarre how the landscape changes so quickly.
DJ : Talking about America, forgetting the landscape for a minute, they like to be able to put people in a box. Do you have an identity that they’ve imposed on you?
Jim : Not yet. There’s not been sufficient press yet, I think, to actually build up some kind of identity for us over there yet. I know what type of….
Tim : That’s the music thing. It’s hard to talk about music. Journalists, you can’t talk to about notes and tempos and so journalists tend to say “oh, they’re like so and so” or they hope you’re going to give them a photograph where there’s an easily discernible image.
DJ : Which is something you’re not keen on it, is it?
Tim : No, we’re all sloppy dressers, so and there’s seven of us and it’s chaos. I mean we couldn’t coordinate a look, we can’t coordinate a sound so this idea of coordinating a look, it’s crazy. The trumpet player wears a dress, what are you going to do with the rest of us?
DJ : Does that cause a problem?
Tim : We’re quite happy with it. We play games in America, like we have a dice game where we roll the dice to see who wears the dress each night and then you have to carry it off on stage. We play games like that with each other.
DJ : All the same size?
Tim : Yeah, well the drummer has trouble because he’s about six foot four.
Jim : Miniskirt
Tim : He looks cute
DJ : Sexy? Yeah. You’re playing this enormous gig at Alton Towers. You talked earlier this week, last week it was, maybe the week before with Philip Schofield. You’ve got Alton Towers which is not exactly your backyard. Why?
Tim : We’ve been looking to play Manchester for a year or so, because the last gigs we did in Manchester were really special to us. It was like a homecoming. It was just when we were breaking and it was a huge celebration and we filmed it and we didn’t know how to top it. We’d been looking for a good gig to play in Manchester and we hadn’t got council permission. We tried aerodromes etc and this seemed it. It’s about an hour and a half from Manchester so it seems like a great idea. They can pay a little extra and do free fair rides in the afternoon. And it’s like a festival but you have real toilets.
Jim : They’re setting the stage up actually in the lake, on the edge of the lake where the grass slopes down so we’ll get a great view as well. With the houses in the background.
Tim : And we’ll have a big kind of firework display at the end of the night
DJ : Sounds great. Just while we’re talking about performing. One of my obesssions is about encores because I’ve been to two gigs this week and the encores have been longer than the gigs. You have this ritual that bands are starting to go through now where you know they’re going to do 4, 5, maybe 6 song encores and an hour after they actually start doing the gig, then they’re into the encores and the encores take another ninety minutes or so. Do you plan yours?
Tim : What we do is put down a pool of a few songs we might play if we’re asked back and we don’t always go back.
Jim : That’s why it takes us so long to come back because we argue backstage “I don’t want to play that one, let’s play this one. We have huge rows.”
DJ : So are they real encores?
Tim : We write down a pool of six songs we know we can play as encores if we need to but we don’t always go back. The last concert we played we had a huge row. We went off stage. Half the band wanted to play one song, half the band another. So two went on stage and started to play the song they wanted to play and we were really angry because we didn’t want to play that song. So I went on and I started attacking Larry in a mock humour way. But he got really angry because he was trying to play guitar and I was shaking him so much he was out of tune. So he picked up his guitar and threw it at me and he stormed off and we played the song without him and he came back half way through and carried on playing and we were OK then.
DJ : That’s good to hear
Tim : It’s that kind of chaos where you don’t know what’s going to happen.
DJ : It must be a nightmare for management.
Tim : No, Martine likes that
Jim : She’s got used to it. The eyebrows shoot up
Tim : She comes on stage with us and sings some nights. She’s been with us eight years. She’s part of the band.
DJ : Tim and Jim, thanks very much indeed for coming in. Thanks James.
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Indiana school district deploys dozens of wi-fi buses for students with no internet at home
By David Matthews
A wi-fi-enabled school bus is pictured. (Meg Kinnard/AP)
As school districts around the U.S. attempt to safely start their fall semesters in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, many unforeseen problems have arisen, especially in regards to remote learning capabilities.
An Indiana school district will ensure that all of its students can access the internet when at home by deploying dozens of wi-fi-enabled buses around town during the school week between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The South Bend Community School Corporation, which started classes Wednesday, is conducting at least the first eight weeks of its semester online. To keep more than 18,000 students logged on, the district is sending 35 connected buses out to designated areas that lack internet access.
The buses will be parked in areas that are covered or have outdoor seating, but student will not be allowed inside the buses.
The district has also issued Chromebooks laptops to nearly all of its students. The computers will automatically log onto the district’s mobile wifi networks.
The district has reason to believe the strategy will be successful: the district provided a smaller number of wifi buses in alternating areas in the spring at the onset of the pandemic when it switched to online-only instruction.
The password-free network will be available to the public so students from other districts can access the wifi as well.
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Home Images and media photos Erebus crash site
Erebus crash site
In this photograph of the crash site of Air New Zealand Flight TE901, the wreckage of the DC-10 appears as a dark smudge on the white slopes of Mt Erebus. The photo was taken by Bob Thomson during his visit to the site by helicopter on 30 November 1979, two days after the accident.
The first recovery and investigation parties
In the hours that followed the sighting of the wreckage of Air New Zealand Flight TE901, professionals and volunteers around the country learned that they were needed to head, assist or report on the site investigation and recovery operation in Antarctica. Many people stationed at Scott Base and McMurdo Station would provide invaluable assistance to the investigation and recovery parties.
The first party left from Christchurch on the afternoon of 29 November aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130. It included:
Ron Chippindale, the chief air accident investigator, who led the site investigation. He was supported by David Graham, another investigator from the Office of Air Accidents.
Inspector Robert (Bob) Mitchell, search and rescue coordinator, who led the recovery operation. He was supported by 10 members of the New Zealand Police's Search and Rescue and Disaster Victim Identification team.
Five members of the Federation of New Zealand Mountain Clubs Face Rescue Squad, a group of experienced mountaineers used to operating in difficult and dangerous rescue situations.
Ian Wood, deputy chief engineer, and Captain Ian Gemmell, chief pilot, from Air New Zealand.
Captain Peter Rhodes, from Air New Zealand but representing the NZ Airline Pilots Association (NZALPA)
Bob Thomson, Superintendent of the Antarctic Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Paul Cavanagh and John Blumsky, journalists, and Frank Kazukaitis, cameraman, representing newspapers, radio and television.
Bill Birch, the Minister of Science and Technology, was a late addition to the flight. He was already scheduled to visit Scott Base and the government decided that his trip should go ahead.
Disaster Victim Identification
In 1978 Chief Inspector Ian Mills and Inspector Bob Mitchell spent four months overseas studying disaster contingency planning. On their return they developed a disaster victim identification (DVI) plan, drawing on procedures used by the New South Wales Police and the FBI in the United States. The first training in this area was completed in March 1979, and there were plans to extend it throughout the country.
As the C-130 headed south, Keith Woodford, Hugh Logan and Daryl Thompson, the three New Zealand mountaineers who had been first to the crash site, and others from Scott Base, returned to erect polar tents and leave food and equipment for the coming party.
The flight arrived at McMurdo around midnight on 29 November. Mitchell, the mountaineers and others stayed at Scott Base, while the rest of police party was put up at McMurdo. Early the next morning Logan briefed the party on what they could expect at the site. He believed that only 50 to 70 bodies would be able to be recovered.
Later that morning a US Navy helicopters flew Chippindale, Mitchell and other key members of the party to the crash site. They subsequently agreed that the first priority was to get the site surveyed and establish a grid pattern that would enable the location of aircraft parts and bodies to be recorded.
In the aftermath of the disaster, accommodation and resources at Scott Base were stretched. Both Thomson and Scott Base leader Mike Prebble were keen that only those absolutely essential to the site investigation and recovery operation should come to Antarctica.
Members of the investigation team and their mountaineer assistants would accompany surveyors on the first flight to try to recover the digital flight data recorder (DFDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). Once the site had been surveyed and a helicopter pad established, members of the Search and Rescue and DVI team could move in to start recovering bodies and personal belongings.
The weather closed in that afternoon and no one was able to reach the crash site for the next day and a half. In the intervening period the mountaineers instructed police and investigators in rudimentary safety measures.
Next page: Site investigation begins
The recovery operation - personal accounts from the ice (NZALPA's Erebus website)
Image: Archives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga, Christchurch Regional Office
Reference: CAHU CH282/Box13/3 Photos (10) taken by R.B. Thomson during first visit to crash site by helicopter – 30/11/79, 1979
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Arkema announces the proposed divestment of its...
Arkema announces the proposed divestment of its Functional Polyolefins business
10/14/2019 - Press release
Corporate - Finance - Products
Arkema announces the proposed divestment of its Functional Polyolefins business to SK Global Chemical, a major chemicals player in South Korea and a subsidiary of SK, the large South-Korean corporation. With this project, Arkema continues its shift towards specialty chemicals and advanced materials.
Part of the PMMA Business Unit (Industrial Specialties division), the Functional Polyolefins activity represents sales of some €250 million. It comprises ethylene copolymers and terpolymers for the food packaging, cable, electronics and coatings markets, and leverages well-known brands: Evatane®, Lotryl®, Lotader®, Orevac®.
This activity employs around one hundred people in France and has an international sales network of around thirty people.
A subsidiary of South-Korean group SK, SK Global Chemical reported sales of US$11.9 billion in 2018, and operates around ten production sites around the world.
Offering a highly complementary fit with SK Global Chemical’s existing portfolio of activities, Arkema’s Functional Polyolefins would enable the company to consolidate its position in the packaging market and enter new industrial markets such as cable manufacturing.
The transfer of the business from Arkema France to SK Global Chemical would lead to the creation of a French subsidiary of the South-Korean group.
The offer received is based on an enterprise value of €335 million.
The proposed disposal is subject to an information and consultation process involving Arkema’s employee representative bodies and to the approval of the relevant antitrust authorities. The project is expected to be finalized in second quarter 2020.
This project, part of the program to divest non-strategic activities initiated in 2015, contributes to Arkema’s objective to increase the share of specialties in its portfolio, in line with its ambition for these businesses to exceed 80% of Group sales by 2023.
Béatrice ZILM
Arie TAIEB
Gilles GALINIER
VP Communication
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Paysafe Gears Up for an exciting 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series Season
Montreal, 7 March 2018 – Paysafe, a leading global payments provider, will be cheering on the No. 19 Dale Coyne Racing Paysafe Honda as it speeds through the streets of St. Petersburg this weekend. The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg event marks the first race of the season in the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series for which Paysafe recently announced its sponsorship. In 2017, Paysafe sponsored a single race in the series, the Go Pro Grand Prix of Sonoma, and the new deal marks its commitment to both Indy car motor sports and the growth of its brand in North America.
Having driven innovation in payments since 1996, with a focus on keeping the payments process safe, secure and frictionless, Paysafe knows success is predicated on agility in fast paced environments, and the ability to leverage the latest technologies. This exciting sponsorship, which is a manifestation of these values and beliefs, is designed to heighten Paysafe’s brand awareness in North America where it has identified significant growth opportunities.
As part of its sponsorship with Dale Coyne Racing, two up and coming drivers will also be representing the Paysafe brand on the track: young Canadian driver, Zach Claman De Melo (19) and Brazilian teammate, Pietro Fittipaldi (21), grandson of former motor racing legend, Emerson Fittipaldi.
“Paysafe is proud to partner with Dale Coyne Racing and sponsor up and coming star drivers, Zach Claman De Melo and Pietro Fittipaldi,” said Oscar Nieboer, Chief Marketing Officer, Paysafe. “The entire team at Paysafe will be rooting for them as they take turns to pilot the No. 19 Paysafe Honda in what is probably one of the most exciting motor sports events in the world. Special good wishes go to Zach who will be taking the wheel this weekend.”
“The opportunity to drive throughout the entire series is an amazing opportunity and I’m truly grateful to my patron, Paysafe, for making my dream come true,” said Zach Claman De Melo, Indy car driver for Dale Coyne Racing. “I couldn’t have done it without them and I am extremely proud to have the Paysafe logo on my uniform and car. I look forward to bringing them the success they deserve.”
“I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the No. 19 Paysafe car and take a few checkered flags for Dale Coyne Racing and my fans this season,” said Pietro Fittipaldi, Indy car driver for Dale Coyne Racing.
The 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series features 17 races, including the legendary Indianapolis 500 on May 29 and ending with the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma in California. The two drivers will take turns piloting the Paysafe car throughout the season:
March 11: Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg – Zach Claman De Melo
April 7: Phoenix International Raceway – Pietro Fittipaldi
April 15: Grand Prix of Long Beach – Zach Claman De Melo
April 22: Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama – Zach Claman De Melo
May 12: INDYCAR Grand Prix – Pietro Fittipaldi
May 27: Indianapolis 500 – Pietro Fittipaldi
June 2: Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit Race 1 – Zach Claman De Melo
June 9: Texas Motor Speedway – Pietro Fittipaldi
June 24: Road America – Zach Claman De Melo
July 8: Iowa Corn 300 – Zach Claman De Melo
July 15: Honda Indy Toronto – Zach Claman De Melo
July 29: Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio – Pietro Fittipaldi
Aug. 19: ABC Supply 500 – Zach Claman De Melo
Aug. 25: Gateway Motorsports Park – Zach Claman De Melo
Sept. 2: Portland International Raceway – Pietro Fittipaldi
Sept. 16: Go Pro Grand Prix of Sonoma – Pietro Fittipaldi
The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will be televised live on ABC starting at 12:30 PM ET on March 11.
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About Dale Coyne Racing
Dale Coyne Racing (DCR) is a Verizon IndyCar Series team based in Plainfield, IL, about 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The team has participated in every season of the INDYCAR/Champ Car World Series since 1984. DCR earned its fifth IndyCar win with a victory at the season opening race in St. Petersburg, FL in 2017 with driver Sebastien Bourdais and also obtained its best Indianapolis 500 finish in 2017 with a third place by top finishing rookie, Ed Jones. Team Owner Dale Coyne is a true racer with a long history in racing. As an Indy car driver for five years, and a team owner since 1984, he has more than 30 years of experience in open-wheel racing and is known for taking on young drivers and mentoring them in the early stages of their careers. Coyne is a Midwestern entrepreneur who designed and built Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, IL. He and Tony George, along with International Speedway Corporation (ISC), expanded the facility by forming a partnership and building Chicagoland Speedway. Coyne served as president of the facility through its construction and opening season, and served on its management committee until its eventual buyout by ISC in 2007. Coyne has several other investments, including being the largest Sonny’s BBQ franchisee in the country.
About Zachary Claman De Melo
Zach began his campaign to reach the highest tiers of motorsports in 2006 (aged 8), when he was discovered by a group of professional drivers at the local go-karting track, and at age 12, Zach seized his first Canadian National Karting Championship. By 2015 (aged 16), Zach claimed two additional Canadian National Championships and made the jump to open-wheel racing in Europe’s Formula 3 MSV Cup, where he posted an undefeated record while only competing part-time. In 2016 (aged 17), Zach landed his first full-time open-wheel drive in the Verizon IndyCar Series' official feeder series, called Indy Lights, with the 2015 defending champions, Juncos Racing.
In 2017, Zach’s results drew the attention of Carlin Motorsports, the 2016 defending champions. Upon signing with Carlin for his sophomore season in Indy Lights, Zach earned his first Indy Lights race win, set 3 fastest laps, and delivered seven top 5 and thirteen top 10 finishes, and in just his second year in open-wheel racing, Zach exceeded the pace of his Indy Lights competitors with up to triple his experience.
In 2017, with Paysafe’s backing, Zach made his debut in Indy car racing by competing in the Sonoma race in September. At 19, he is one of the youngest drivers ever to have competed in the series.
About Pietro Fittipaldi
Grandson of the two-time Formula 1 World Champion and double Indy 500 winner, Emerson Fittipaldi, the Miami-born Brazilian quickly rose through the American karting ranks to become one of the brightest talents in junior racing. His driving skills soon took him to stock car racing, and at just 15 years old he became the first Latin American NASCAR champion in the Limited Late Model category.
The lure of continuing the Fittipaldi legacy in open-wheel racing inevitably took him to the UK in 2013 – an intensely competitive arena for honing a driver’s skills and a tried and tested route into Formula 1. Promising debut stints in the single-seater 2013 Formula Renault BARC and BRDC F4 Championships – including podiums and a race win – were made more impressive given the seamless transition from racing stock cars since 2010.
In 2014, Pietro Fittipaldi dominated the British Formula Renault Protyre championship and was named 2014 champion with the Silverstone final race still to go. Pietro also raced in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and tested in Formula Renault World Series 3.5.
In 2015, Pietro competed in the FIA European Formula 3, where he secured three rookie podiums, and raced in the MRF Challenge from October 2015 to January 2016, where he claimed the championship with one race to spare.
In 2017, Pietro won the World Series 3.5 V8 Championship, as well as broke the World Series Championship record for most pole positions with 10, a record that was previously tied between Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull F1) and Kevin Magnussen (Haas F1) who both scored 8 poles in one season.
For further information and/or to set up an interview with Oscar Nieboer, please contact:
Kate Aldridge, VP, Corporate Communications – Global
+44(0) 203 934 9197/ kate.aldridge@paysafe.com
Amy Gregus, Head of Corporate Communications – North America
+1 514-294-0247 / amy.gregus@paysafe.com
To set up an interview with Dale Coyne, Zach Claman De Melo and/or Pietro Fittipaldi, please contact:
Karina Redmond, Director Communications - Dale Coyne Racing
+1 317-956-9910 / karina.redmond@dalecoyneracing.com
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Publisher's description. Shortlisted for the Man Booker and Goldsmiths prizes, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power under the scorching midday sun. Sofia and her mother arrive on the Spanish coast looking for answers - what they find there will be strange, seductive and fearsome beyond their wildest dreams.
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Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home, Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected in Levy: Plays 1. Her work is widely translated. Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring trilogy of memoirs, a living autobiography on writing, gender politics and philosophy. The first two volumes, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020. The final volume, Real Estate, will be published in Spring 2021.
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Empiricism According to Some Social
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Constructivism on the contrary, though it does not agree with empiricism, as it sees all social scientific observation as a non-objective encounter based on the fact that science itself is a socially constructed aspect of the human condition, in much the same way that faith, philosophy or any number of other explanations are socially constructed and driven by social situations and encounters.
A social constructionists deny that science is an objective encounter with the world, as suggested by the "realists." The values of science do not arise out of any privileged access to nature, but are simply contingent social constructions. In this view science is just one story of many about the world and the privileged knowledge that scientists claim is just a manifestation of their ideological success in convincing us of this. This controversy is important to social scientists, for if a version of social constructionism is right then…… [Read More]
Bhaskar, Roy. The Possibility of Naturalism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Bevir, Mark. New Labour: A Critique. London: Routledge, 2005.
Brown, Andrew, Steve Fleetwood, and John Michael Roberts, eds. Critical Realism and Marxism. London: Routledge, 2002.
Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1921.
Empiricism Is a Theory of
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As experiments became more complex, however, especially noting embryonic development, scientists found that the process that occurs in vitro parallels the evolutionary process of nerve system complexity, and then becomes more qualitative in that not every aspect of thought can be explained by a simple combination of neurotransmitters (neuron coded molecules) or electrical events. While it is true that the electrical even between two cells allows for communication, the subtle and complex nature of neural chemistry cannot completely define the process of memory and thought.
Thus, we see that not only was there an evolution in experimentation, but of the very definition of the neural system from a more purist rationalistic position, to one that combines the material with the immeasurable to form the next generation of conundrum.
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Lacey, a.. (1996). A Dictionary of Philosophy. 1st…… [Read More]
Lacey, a.R. (1996). A Dictionary of Philosophy. 1st ed., Routledge.
Lynch, Robert. (2008). "Nerve Physiology." University of Colorado. Cited in:
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Preference for Rationalism Over Empiricism
henever a person chooses a side in the traditional debate between rationalism and empiricism, that person is necessarily making a statement about how much people should trust the evidence of their own senses. However, there are a number of instances in which I think that sensory evidence can be deceptive. hile I think the allure of empiricism is undoubtedly seductive, for the precise reason that sensory experience can be so vivid, I think this is a limited worldview. I would like to advance my own preference for rationalism by looking at two basic objections to empiricism -- the presence of innate knowledge in the mind, and the potentially deceptive nature of the senses. The former, I hope, will show that rational processes and structures to a certain degree exist without need of sensory evidence -- that reason and logic are, to some extent, a thing apart from perception. The…… [Read More]
Hamilton, James, Feldman, Marc, et al. "The A, B, C's of Factitious Disorder." The Medscape Journal of Medicine 11(1): 2009. 27. Web. Accessed 29 March 2014 at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654694/
McCarthy, John J. "Prosodic Structure and Expletive Infixation." Language 58(3): 1982. 574-590. Web. Accessed 29 March 2014 at: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/413849?uid=3739864&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103767976427
Plato. Meno. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. Project Gutenberg, 2008. Web. Accessed 29 March 2014 at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1643/1643-h/1643-h.htm
Sacks, Dr. Oliver. Hallucinations. New York: Knopf, 2012. Print.
Philosophy Empiricism Empiricism Does it Collapse Into
Philosophy: Empiricism
Empiricism: Does it Collapse into Idealism?
What is Empiricism?
It is important at first to identify the fact that "empiricism" may refer to a method -- for example, the "empirical method" of observing child behavior, or an "empirical study of cancer in rats" -- and it also may refer to the philosophy (or the theory) that embraces empiricism. That philosophy of empiricism, by one definition, "has its roots in dualist theories of perception and communication" (Vesey, 1976). The "perception" part of the theory, Vesey explains (vii), is when a person's mind, "as well as his body, is acted on when he perceives something." That is to say, that "something" that his body is acted upon -- let's say it is a large tree swaying in the wind -- stimulates his sense organs and his nervous system; but beyond that stimulation, there is also a "sensation" or a "sense-impression"…… [Read More]
Berkeley, George. Principles of Human Knowledge/Three Dialogues. London: Penguin
Books, 1988.
Davies, Stephen. Empiricism and History. London: Palgrave, 2003.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online. "Subjective Idealism." Encyclopedia Britannica Article
Zeno's Paradoxes and Empiricism
This research paper attempts to provide some insights into the life of Zeno of Elea and his paradoxes or arguments against plurality, motion, place, and hearing. The paper also provides information regarding Empiricism and its relation to plurality, motion, place, and hearing. By comparing and contrasting these notions the paper aims to better understand the empirical argument and Zeno's paradoxes.
Historians have noted that Zeno did not actually contribute to the School of Eleatic philosophy but only because his main objective was to devote all of philosophical efforts to refute his mentor's opponents' views. That mentor was said to have been Parmenides who was a teacher on the subjects of the illusions we now know as motion and multiplicity. His teachings revolved around a basic concept that there is a 'True Being' which equates to an absolute one which entails a complete lack of plurality or…… [Read More]
Anderson, John B. Studies in Empirical Philosophy. New York: Angus and Robertson, 1962.
Feibleman, James K. Foundations of Empiricism. Oxford: Nijhoff, 1962.
James, William The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. New York: Dover Publications. 1956. clas.ufl.edu. Retrieved on Nov.21, 2004, from
O'Connor, J.J. & E.F. Robertson. Zeno of Elea. Ed. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved on Nov.21, 2004, from
Rationalism vs Empiricism
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Rationalism/empiricism; deduction/induction; intuition/scientific method; yin/yang. First of all, one should ask oneself if experience be complete without polar opposites. This writer would answer "probably not."
Rationalism purports the basic notion that at least some concepts or ideas are independent of our experience and that some truth is known by reason alone. In other words, truth can be a priori in that knowledge can be true by definition. This strength of this argument manifests itself when we explore issues about the relations between our own subjective concepts. I do not need to impose a research study to know who my parents are, what kind of food I like, what type of person I am attracted to, etc. If I have a concept of God, then by intuition I know that there is right and wrong, meaning to life, and an eternal existence etc. If I am an atheist then by intuition…… [Read More]
Plato and Hume a Comparison
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ationalism is based on logic, or -- rather -- the proper ordering of things. That order, according to Plato, is necessarily hierarchical and his Allegory of the Cave explicitly shows it: the philosopher is one who has striven to leave behind the shadows and worked to climb the hill, until he has reached a revelation of sorts. It is then his duty to go back and instruct the ignorant who still live in the darkness of the cave by appealing to their intellect. While empiricism explains all knowledge as deriving from experience, ationalism explains all knowledge as logical. In other words, experience is not necessary to gain philosophical wisdom, for the life of the mind allows one to logically grasp one conclusion from the next. Platonic ationalism emphasizes the intellect over sheets of data.
In conclusion, I prefer the Platonic theory of knowledge because I find many of the modern…… [Read More]
Hume, D. (1748). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Retrieved from http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/david_hume/human_understanding.html
Weaver, R. (1984). Ideas Have Consequences. IL: University of Chicago Press.
Global Skeptisim Global Skepticism Analysis
One need only refer to the preceding example to prove this fact. In this example, glass on the floor with spilled water and the author's testimonial to what happened all add up to the fact that there a glass was broken. In this case, there is no difference between what appears as truth (that a glass has broken), and what in fact is truth (that a glass is broken). Although reasons may exist as to why such an event happened (whether or not the author was distracted or perhaps is just innately clumsy), the fact that it took place is indisputable, and demonstrates that the author is wrong about the fact that there is "always" a distinction between appearances and reality.
In all actuality, the most suitable alternative to the philosophical position propagated by the author of this particular positing is a synthesis of global skepticism with empiricism and rationalism.…… [Read More]
Klein, Peter, "Skepticism," the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu /archives/sum2011/entries/skepticism/" target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">
Priori Justification
priori justification, differentiate it from a posteriori justification and see where each fits in the context.
As such, following an excellent essay on the item, a priori knowledge refers to a proposition that is "knowable independently of experience"
, as such, to nonempirical knowledge. A priori justification then refers to a justification that is not dependent on experience, that is either known to be so (as in the case of an axiom) or that has a reason not related to direct personal experience.
In order to properly suggest the difference between the a priori and a posteriori justification, it is best to give out some examples. As such, "examples of a posteriori justification include many ordinary perceptual, memorial, and introspective beliefs, as well as belief in many of the claims of the natural sciences" and may include things like the neuronal cells are not regenerating, cloud may lead to rain…… [Read More]
1. Graham, J. Peter. Theorizing Justification. University of California, June 2004
2. Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 13, 1999, pp. 29-55.
Reprinted in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 81, Special Issue on A Priori Knowledge, 2000.
3. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003.08.08. On the Internet at http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2003/8/butchvarov-casullo.html
Anti-Realism or Constructive Realism of Van Fraasen
anti-Realism (or constructive realism) of van Fraasen. He divides his essay into three sections:
An explanation of van Fraasen's attempt to demolish scientific realism
His insistence that van Fraasen succeeds no better than his predecessors in answering a major objection to antirealism
The link between realism and explanation and van Fraasen's attempt to sever that link.
According to Van Frassen, realism can be defined in the following way: "Science aims to give us, in its theories, a literally true story of what the world is like, and acceptance of the scientific theory involves the belief that it is true." (1088).
Van Fraasen does not go to the extreme, as some do, of rejecting science absolutely. He accepts that scientific statements have a truth value of being true or false. At the same time, however, he rejects the positivist stance where…… [Read More]
Descartes Rationalism a Rationalist Is
Different people analyze different situations differently and reach to different conclusions. In supporting his idea he further argued that the senses should not be trusted because people get fooled by their sense. This is due to the reason that many variables affect a person's way of looking and perceiving an event. That's why different people experience same event in different ways.
I do agree with Descartes on this point but at the same time it is also true that majority of the people look at a particular situation in a similar way and reach to similar accurate conclusions. For instance, considering the example of road accident again, if 20 persons watch an accident then majority of them can point out who was responsible for the accident. All of these people view same situation from their own perspective but reach to almost similar conclusion. Therefore it cannot be said that the…… [Read More]
Pereboom, Derk. The Rationalists. Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. USA: Roman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
Skepticism Is Defined as a School of
Skepticism is defined as a school of philosophical thought where a person doubts the beliefs of another person or group. hile one person might believe wholeheartedly a certain political perspective or believe completely the dogma of a religion, a skeptic would have doubts about these beliefs or about the stories related to religion. Not only do they doubt organized religion, they also doubt the validity of socially constructed morals and laws. Sometimes they doubt the world as they witness it because they are unsure of the truth of reality as they perceive it through the senses (Butchvarov 1998). Like many philosophies, skepticism has origins in Ancient Greece. Pyrrho of Elis is credited with founding the philosophy, a branch of which was later named Pyrrhonism in his honor. The philosophy was expanded into countries throughout the known world, up to and including the early modern world. During the Enlightenment, skepticism branched…… [Read More]
Baird, F.E. & Kaufmann, W. (2008). From Plato to Derrida. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Prentice Hall.
Butchvarov, P. (1998). Skepticism about the External World. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Cuneo, & Woudenberg. (2004). The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid.
Hume and Experience in Morals Politics Religion
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Hume and Experience
In morals, politics, religion and science, Hume was a conservative empiricist who emphatically rejected all theories he thought of as metaphysical or not based on actual experience and sense perceptions. He did not regard religious and metaphysical theories as scientific, but more like idle speculation, superstition and prejudice. No ultimate original principles existed outside of the mind and perceptions, and this certainly included the concept of cause and effect, which he insisted was derived from the senses and later processed through the mind in the form of simple and complex ideas. Nothing could be known about human nature or any other subject outside of an exact, empirical science, while innate and a priori ideas did not exist. Even his theories of mathematics, logic and the color spectrum were all based on empiricism, and the ability of the mind to reflect, compile and make connections based on repeated…… [Read More]
Strengths and Weaknesses of Empirical Methods of Inquiry
philosopher Rene Descartes can be regarded as the supreme rationalist. Descartes believed that only through our rational minds could we fully know God and find evidence of God. Empirical knowledge was not sufficient justification to prove the existence of God because our senses could delude us or be faulty (such as through madness or blindness). In contrast, through rational inquiry we could first demonstrate our own existence on a mental plane: even if all is a delusion regarding the body there must be some 'mind' doing the thinking, rationalized Descartes. And, as the human mind can conceive of a greater intelligence known as God, a level of perfection human beings cannot approach, then within the very structure of our mind lies the evidence of God.
David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, however, takes the opposite, empiricist point-of-view. In the dialogue, three figures known as Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo engage in…… [Read More]
Philosophy of Descartes and Its
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5. Kant's "Copernican Revolution" in philosophy is in his genius use of the positive aspects of Rationalism (Descartes and so on) and Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley and Hume). How can you argue this out with the help of the "Critique of Pure Reason"?
The human experience of negotiating the universe as it seems to be presented to us is one governed by a great many assumptions. Our education of this process, and in particular our capacity to become adept or even talented in various faculties thereto, is created by experience. In experience, we gain the evolving abilities to relate to objects which we can perceive in our world. However, in order to accomplish this, there are any number of beliefs which must be possessed in us that will create a framework wherein such relating can occur. These beliefs -- and the practical, ideological and physiological experiences which are dependent upon them…… [Read More]
Berkeley, G. (1994). Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. Arete Press, Claremont, CA.
Hume, D. (1738). A Treatise on the Human Nature. Escuela de Filosofia Universidad ARCIS.
Kidd, S.D. (1988). The Intersubjective Heart. Sorbonne.
Kline, A. (2009). Kierkegaard, Abraham, and the Nature of Faith. Soren Kierkegaard Biography. Online at http://atheism.about.com/od/existentialistphilosophers/a/kierkegaard_2.htm
ules & Ways of Knowing
The author of this report is asked to answer several questions as they relate to the current nursing classes that the author is taking. The first question is the role of scholarly during an APN/DNP program. The second question asks the author to discuss the interest the author has in the selected role and degree in question. A sub-section of that question is whether the role in question meets the APN consensus statement, what professional organizations offer certification in the applicable certification role and what the criteria are for any applicable industry exams. Next up will be a selection and explanation of an APN conceptual framework for practice. After that will be an explanation of the ways of knowing and how they influence the author's current practice. What will follow that is an identification and explanation of the author's preferred paradigm. Last will be a…… [Read More]
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Philosophy What Did Kierkegaard Mean
How is it possible, then, that we can come to know anything?
Methodological doubt is best represented in the first of the Meditations, "hat can be called into doubt."
In this meditation, the meditator is forced to think about everything that he has believed throughout the course of his life. He must then make a conscious decision to do away with all of these lies and begin again so that the basis of his knowledge is free of any lies.
4. hat is the difference between atheism and agnosticism?
Atheism means that there is a denial of theism (i.e., the existence of God) while agnosticism means that there is a question concerning the existence of God, a heaven, or any type of spiritual being. An atheist would believe that God does not exist and therefore does not have any control over his or her life while an agnostic would believe…… [Read More]
Allison, Henry E. Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. Yale University Press; Rev Exp edition, 2004.
Descartes, Rene., Cottingham, John., Ameriks, Karl. & Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes:
Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies. Cambridge University Press; Revised edition, 1996.
Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics). Penguin Classics, 1986.
Locke or Berkeley
Locke v. Berkeley
The philosophers John Locke and George Berkeley offer stark contrasts on the issue of various matters. Locke's whose viewpoint can best be classified as based in relativism. He believed that all knowledge come from the senses. As every man's senses are unique, no two individuals will sense the same experience the same and, therefore, all knowledge is different in each individual. By extension, there is no such thing as better beliefs or true beliefs. Everyone's beliefs are their own and based on their individual experience. George Berkeley's viewpoints offer a sharp contrast to those of Locke. In fact, their individual careers ran concurrently and they spent most of that time being contrasted and possessing viewpoints that were diametrically opposed. Berkeley's was an empiricist but one who also possessed a certain idealist twist. Berkeley viewed experience as the source of most knowledge. According to Berkeley's form of empiricism,…… [Read More]
Perceptual Abilities Innate One Needs
Human infants are perceptually competent hence; infants use senses mostly in everything. Moreover, learning has a lot of effect on children's decision-making.
esearchers divide children's development into three: cognitive, language, and physical. All these relate to contribute to the kids general development. Cognitive development entails the need for a better means of speech that will help in expressing knowledge. Language helps a child to capture new words and ideas. Physical development allows a kid to do tasks that seem tough hence helping them encounter other people socially. It results from both heredity factors and forces from the environment. Perceptual abilities develop more during childhood than in adulthood. They learn actively to explore the environment so that they can fully develop their perceptual abilities.
Piaget uses four stages in describing the development of perception. This starts with sensorimotor stage whereby behavior lacks to consider logic. Therefore, a child starts to move…… [Read More]
Brown, T., Mapleston, J., Nairn, A., & Molloy, A. (2013). Relationship of Cognitive and Perceptual Abilities to Functional Independence in Adults Who Have Had a Stroke. Occupational Therapy International, 20(1), 11-22. doi:10.1002/oti.1334
Budnik, U., Bompas, A., & Sumner, P. (2013). Perceptual strength is different from sensorimotor strength: Evidence from the centre -- periphery asymmetry in masked priming. Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology, 66(1), 15-22. doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.741605
Dommes, A., & Cavallo, V. (2011). The role of perceptual, cognitive, and motor abilities in street-crossing decisions of young and older pedestrians. Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 31(3), 292-301. doi:10.1111/j.1475-1313.2011.00835.x
Tucker-Drob, E.M., & Harden, K. (2012). Early childhood cognitive development and parental cognitive stimulation: evidence for reciprocal gene-environment transactions. Developmental Science, 15(2), 250-259. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01121.x
Lessons in Theory Building
Darwin's Theory Of Evolution
The construct of irreducible complexity is a pivotal aspect of genetic theory and of Darwinian theory. Irreducible complexity is a nexus of the older science of biology from which Darwin built his theory and modern genetic engineering. Darwin's words for irreducible complexity, most commonly associated with his argument about the construction of the eye, were "Organs of extreme perfection and complication," and Darwin further explicates,
"Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed…… [Read More]
Abalaka, M.E. & Abbey, F.K. (2011). Charles Darwin theory of evolution and modern genetic engineering. Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Opinion, 1(7):174-177. 12 December 2014. Web. Retreived from http://innovativejournal.in/index.php/jpro/article/viewFile/685/592
Bergman, G. Pangenesis as a source of new genetic information. The history of a now disproven theory. Rivista di Biologia, 99(3): 425-43. 2006, September-December. Web. Retreived from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17299698
Darwin, Charles. "Difficulties on theory." Chapter 6. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (1st edition). 1859. Retrieved from http://friendsofdarwin.com/docs/origin-1/chapter-06/
Liu, Y. Darwin and Mendel: who was the pioneer of genetics? Rivista di Biologia, 98(2); 305-322. 2005. 12 December 2014. Web. Retreived from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16180199
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Nietzsche often identified life itself with "will to power," that is, with an instinct for growth and durability. This concept provides yet another way of interpreting the ascetic ideal, since it is Nietzsche's contention "that all the supreme values of mankind lack this will -- that values which are symptomatic of decline, nihilistic values, are lording it under the holiest names" (Kaufmann 1959). Thus, traditional philosophy, religion, and morality have been so many masks a deficient will to power wears. The sustaining values of estern civilization have been sublimated products of decadence in that the ascetic ideal endorses existence as pain and suffering. Some commentators have attempted to extend Nietzsche's concept of the will to power from human life to the organic and inorganic realms, ascribing a metaphysics of will to power to him (Kaufmann 1959).
The insidious process by which we ascribe attributes to our fictitious consciousness has…… [Read More]
Call, L. Nietzsche as Critic and Captive of Enlightenment. 1995.
Descartes, R. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. Translated by D. Cress. Hackett Publishing Company, 1999.
Berkeley, G. Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.
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Descartes & Web Du Bois
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For Descartes, the individual is capable of thinking beyond the physical and real, and this can be done by arguing based on pure reason. is version of "truths" about human existence and other universal truths about life can be generated from human reason alone, in the same manner in which he proved his existence as a result of his belief that he is "persuaded" that he exists. That is, even though experience and reality does not provide proof of his existence, the fact that Descartes believed that he existed is proof enough that he, indeed, exists in the world he lives in.
Descartes' questioning of reality and experience profoundly helped the manner by which human knowledge is created and developed. Rationalism as a philosophy puts premium on the human ability to think and reason, and through these attributes, be able to create ideas that make sense of one's existence and…… [Read More]
He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another. For the first time he sought to analyze the burden he bore upon his back, that dead-weight of social degradation partially masked behind a half-named Negro problem. He felt his poverty; without a cent, without a home, without land, tools, or savings, he had entered into competition with rich, landed, skilled neighbors. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. He felt the weight of his ignorance, -- not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities...The red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systematic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon his race
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Du Bois, W.E.B. "Souls of the Black Folk." Available at http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html .
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
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Ethical Theory & Moral Practice
Debates about theory and practice are ancient. Each generation considers the dynamics that surround issues about the interdependency of theory and praxis to be uniquely challenging. Complexity is a variable closely linked with knowledge. As science has added layer upon layer of knowledge, decision-making dilemmas have been confounded by new and staggering concomitant factors. In concert, theoretical frameworks for social science disciplines have been adapted to accept newly identified moral imperatives and ethical considerations.
This paper offers a discussion about the nexus of epistemology, ethics / morality, and praxis. An examination of the historical development of the paradigm and the assumptions of post-positivism is presented as an introductory foundation for the discussion. Next, is a discussion about ethical theory, followed by an exploration of the increasing division between philosophical frameworks and evolving modern science. Particular note is made of the theory-practice gap in healthcare, which…… [Read More]
Beauchamp, T.L. (2007). Does Ethical Theory Have a Future in Bioethics? The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. 32(2): 209-217.
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Gastmans, C. (1998). Nursing Considered as Moral Practice: A Philosophical-Ethical Interpretation of Nursing. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8(1): 43-69.
Priori and a Posteriori Capacities
They are simply mental constructs of philosophy that have no objective existence in and of themselves.
The idealism of Kant was a direct reaction against the empiricism of philosophers such as Locke or Hume whose skepticism (if unchecked) could unmake the validity of all scientific inquiry in the minds of people (ibid.).
To understand the other side of the coin with Locke and empiricism, we must understand that his investigation into knowledge began with his asking how humans acquire the basic substances out of which that knowledge is composed that that makes up our ideas. To explain this, he formulated the concept of empiricism. According to Locke, empiricism is a theory of human knowledge that claims that knowledge comes about primarily via the phenomenon of sensory experience. Empiricism emphasizes the role of human experience and evidence. This is especially done via sensory perception, in the way of the formation of…… [Read More]
A priori/a posteriori. (2012, January 21). Retrieved from http://humancond.org / analysis/philosophy/a_priori.
Kemerling, G. (2011). Locke: The origin of ideas. Retrieved from http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4l.htm .
Continental Rationalists
Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz are often accurately portrayed as the key figures representing the Continental rationalism. Continental rationalism is characterized by a belief that truth can be deduced from human reason, and that certain innate, or self-evident ideas form the basis for such knowledge. In contrast, British empiricism saw the source of knowledge could be found in experience and through the senses. hile the works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz contain significant differences, they share the common beliefs in: 1) reason as the ultimate source of knowledge, 2) Leibniz' principle of sufficient reason, and 3) the idea that knowledge must come from self-evident, a priori truths. The belief in innate principles or ideas characterized the work of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and is probably best characterized through their shared belief in the idea of a deity.
Overview of Rationalism and Empiricism
Continental rationalism argues essentially that the ultimate source of…… [Read More]
Descartes, Rene. Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy. Prentice Hall, 1960.
Hauptli, Bruce W. Continental Rationalism Characterized. Florida International University,
2003. 08 November 2004.
http://www.fiu.edu/~hauptli/ContinentalRationalismBrieflyCharacterized.html
Humans Have Wondered About Certain
This object, though, sets in human consciousness in many divergent ways -- perception, memory, retention, etc. Depending on the manner in which the idea is intentional, the object may be identical but interpreted different and thus a divergent sense of reality for individuals. Opposite of Descartes and Kant, there is no one finite way of describing this object and it is entirely dependent upon the method of reduction and interpretation in which we find meaning. hen we reference a thing, this object, then, we are closer to representing a Platonian version of forms or ideas in that thing -- the thing's essence or idea. Some say that when we describe an identical thing as what we really "see" or measure, it does not mean that this is the entirety of the thing. The ultimate goal of phenomenology, then, is to understand how these different aspects are merged into the actual…… [Read More]
Phenomenology. (2008). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Retrieved from: http://plato.stanford.edu /entries/phenomenology/" target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW">
Truth and Beauty Many Debate
He believed that these functions and their personal elements can be separated only artificially. The personal element in the selective function is an aesthetic response, and in heuristic function it is a goal-directed striving as the following Polyani quote clarifies:
Scientific passion serves also as a guide in the assessment of what is of higher and what of lesser interest; what is great in science, and what relatively slight. I want to show that this appreciation depends ultimately on a sense of intellectual beauty; that it is an emotional response which can never be dispassionately defined, any more than we can dispassionately define the beauty of a work of art or the excellence of a noble action."
In summary, logical empiricism provides a strict definition of science centered on facts. In comparison, integrative philosophy melds logical empiricism with tacit knowledge, blurring traditional empiricist distinctions between art and science. Today, the…… [Read More]
Jha, S.R. Michael Polanyi's integrative philosophy. Retrieved October 7, 2004 from Harvard University Web Site: http://www.kfki.hu/chemonet/polanyi/9602/mp1.html
Jones, R.S. (1982). Physics as Metaphor, Univ Minn Press, p.207.
Phelan, S.E., What is complexity science, really? Retrieved October 7, 2004 from University of Texas at Dalles Web site: http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:_d6gNqd5l_EJ:www.utdallas.edu/~sphelan/Papers/whatis.pdf+%22logical+empiricism%22+and+%22what+is+science%22&hl=en
Poststructuralism in Health Care the
The mechanism of scientific classification, or traditional science in general, is an "encryption" process wherein access is only available to individuals who knows the language of science. Access to information and knowledge is oftentimes dependent on external factors such as socio-economic capability, age, educational attainment, and race, among others. In this mechanism, not all extant and observable information is understood, thus providing little or no venue for understanding and critical thinking on the part of the individual who does not know the language of traditional science.
A6. Financially benefiting or profiting from healthcare and the medical profession is a latent example of how scientific classification has made healthcare a very expensive and exclusive sector wherein specific groups of people are given access to it. Medical practitioners who are able to educate themselves in the field of biological science have gained access to information and knowledge about the field, which also…… [Read More]
William Foxwell Albright
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William F. Albright
A Study of W.F. Albright and How iblical Archeology Helped Shape His
William Foxwell Albright was first and foremost a believer in the religion of Christianity, a fact that greatly influenced his role as a iblical archeologist, or "historian of religion," according to critical scholars like J. Edward Wright and David Noel Freedman.
Yet Albright himself never claimed to be anything more than dedicated to interpreting "the unfolding scroll of history," in which he saw the Revelation of Christianity -- the fulfillment of the prophets of the Old Testament.
Or, more appropriately, as Albright himself wrote in 1940, the purpose of his work was "to show how man's idea of God developed from prehistoric antiquity to the time of Christ, and to place this development in its historical context."
In other words, Albright sought to illustrate in a real, contextual way the truth of the Christian…… [Read More]
Albright, William F. From the Stone Age to Christianity: Monotheism and the Historical Process. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940.
Albright, William F. From the Stone Age to Christianity, 3rd edn. NY: Doubleday,
Albright, William F. "How Well Can We Know the Ancient Near East?" Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 56, no. 2 (June, 1936), 121-144.
Bon Jour Defending Cartesian Foundationalism
' ut I am not simply rejecting this: I am demanding an explanation of how it could be so. How could this intuitive process justify something unless the process is empirical? The a priori is mysterious because we do not have even a hint of a satisfactory answer. It seems like magic that a process in someone-s [SIC] mind can justify her belief in an external worldly fact without that justification arising from some sort of experiential link to that fact."
Although onJour unarguably demonstrates admirably the inadequacies of empiricism as a means of explaining a priori knowledge, it is not clear, at least not within onJour's paradigm, that rationalism is more successful. In fact, many would argue that onjour's account of rationalism is precisely the one that has led so many to be wary of the a priori in the first place.
Laurence onJour's Epistemic Justification: Internal-ism vs. Externalism,…… [Read More]
BonJour, Laurence. "The Dialectic of Foundationalism and Coherentism." A Companion to Epistemology. Eds. E. Sosa and J. Dancy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
BonJour, Laurence. Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
BonJour, Laurence. Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
BonJour, Laurence. In Defense of Pure Reason. London: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Plato the Failure of Rationalism
and, through the scientific study of modern, cognitive science, the idea that 'I' am doing the thinking in a way that is separate from my body and that this can be rationally deducted, simply by thinking and without scientific experimentation would be confounded.
However, those using empiricism as their main philosophical view of the world have also been able to twist the empiricism to use science's supposed rationalism and objectivity to justify tyranny of 'the best,' as in the case of eugenics, and the notion of 'survival of the fittest,' which suggests that the 'best' (morally, racially, and ethically) thrive and should be allowed to triumph over the 'weak.' In reality, Darwin's actual theory merely supports the idea that those best suited to an environment survive, not that survivors are innately better or superior creatures (a mutated moth that can blend in with a coal-blackened environment is not 'better' than…… [Read More]
Analyzing the Mind and Body Problem
Mind/ody Problem
Mind/ody Dualism: Compare/contrast Cartesian Rationalism and at least one version of Empiricism.
Descartes Method
Descartes, who was fascinated with mathematical qualities of indubiability, certainty and clarity, considered philosophy as an antithesis of the said qualities since he perceived philosophy as a subject, which was based on shaky grounds. He then sought to provide philosophy with steady foundation through using math principles in his search for something that is clear and indubitable. He thought that such a foundation would offer a steady philosophical system on which all other philosophical truths would be anchored. So, he set on this difficult exercise, through systematically questioning/doubting all the "truths" that he thought he knew. Descartes thought that he needed to forget all the things that he held as his opinions, so as to later bring on other facts or opinions that would be better than his previous ones through rationally confirming everything…… [Read More]
Allais, L. (2007, July). Kant's Idealism and the Secondary Quality Analogy. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 459-484. Retrieved from Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/v045/45.3allais.html
Clay, B. (n.d.). The Difference Between Rationalism and Empiricism; Rene Descartes is a Rationalist. Retrieved from: http://www.beckyclay.com/philosophy/essays/rationalism-empiricism/RationalismEmpiricism.pdf
Crowell, S., Embree, L., & Julian, S. (2001). The Reach of Reflection: Issues for Phenomenology's Second Century. Electron Press.
Krishnananda, S. (2014). Studies In Comparative Philosophy. Retrieved from Swami Krishnananda: http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/com/com_lock.html
Nursing Science the Nursing Profession
As such, a nurse is primarily to recognize herself as an individual in the world, with certain responses to this world. When a patient enters the hospital, such a patient is also to be seen as a unique individual who responds to the world and his or her environment in a certain way.
Humanistic nursing is then primarily experiential rather than experimental. This means that new knowledge is gained with every new patient that arrives for treatment. In giving treatment, responses are observed and noted for future reference in similar situations. It is not however assumed that a treatment will work because it did in the past and in similar conditions. Instead, hypotheses are based upon experiences of the past. The recognition that hypotheses may prove incorrect helps the nurse to be open to new experiences. Each human being is then seen as a "world," as it were, with the…… [Read More]
Cody, William K. & Kenney, Janet W. (2006). Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice. Jones & Bartlett.
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Kleinman, Susan (2009). Humanistic Nursing Theory. http://www.humanistic-nursing.com/faq.htm
17th and 18th Century Europe
Not only was this theme fully explored within the historical context, but thoroughly analyzed within Europe as well. The teachings of such notable thinker as Sigmund Freud points to this direction of development. He concluded that there modernism within Europe had become characterized by the disorder of the mind. More precisely, there was a lack of any fixed system of reference for living and thinking. Europe, which had formerly been the center of intellectual development and revolutionary thinking now suffered under the burden of a weak political infrastructure. As a result, many of their greatest talents and knowledge now flowed away from Europe to other developing nations such as the United States.
The Age of Anxiety was coined not by historian but by Europeans of the age themselves. They reflected upon the disturbing trends that were occurring within European nation-states. It gave rise to radical social, political and scientific ideas…… [Read More]
For-Profit Education vs Non-Profit Education
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NPSAS was the only study in 1996 that encompassed the people who enrolled in the for-profit institutions which is why not even the very basic criteria of the for-profit sector and its educational setup has been well-recognized (reneman, Pusser and Turner 2000; Chung, 2006).
The confirmation that the students who had some sort of shortcoming whether in the financial sector, minority aspect or admittance-timeline factor were the ones who mainly enrolled in the for-profit educational institution was made by Apling and Aleman in a study they conducted in 1990, and Lee and Merisotis in a study they conducted in the same year which were also then matched by Phipps et al. (2000) and JL Associates (2004).
Grubb was the only researcher who, in the year 1993, explored and assessed the influence and affect of the concept of the industrial market proceeds in relation to the non-profit institutions and education. He…… [Read More]
Altheide, D.L., & Johnson, J.M. (1994). Criteria for assessing interpretive validity in qualitative research. In N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 485-99). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Apling, R. & Aleman, S. (1990). Proprietary schools: a description of institutions and students. (Report No, 90-428EPW). Washington, DC.: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service.
Apling, R. (1993). Proprietary schools and their students. Journal of Higher Education 64:4, pp. 379-416.
Barone, T.E. (1992). Beyond theory and method: A case of critical storytelling. Theory into Practice, 31(2), 142-146.
Science Critical Examination of the
The differences between the empirical inductivist approach to science and the Popperian one are immense. Based on induction, the former approach is thesis to Popper's antithesis. The Popperian approach is a response to and a rejection of the value of induction in the scientific process. This rejection pits these two approaches against one another. In the end, while the empirical inductivist approach does have some value and has a long tradition of function to back it up, this is not the same as saying that it is a rigidly scientific approach to scientific inquiry. In this case, the Popperian approach provides us with a clearer division between theories that are and are not scientific.
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Determining Sexual Freedom in Europe
Spirituality in Health Care
Spirituality plays a very large part of my personal worldview. As such, it is prudent to define the various connotations and denotations that this term has in my worldview. Firstly, spirituality is a belief in a higher power -- a deity -- that has a creating and a controlling influence in the world today. What is essential about this particular definition of spirituality is that it is largely contrasted with religion. eligion is man's rules about the deity or even about spirituality. Spirituality, however, is an increasing awareness and state of communing with that spirit directly, which encompasses a large part of this definition of spirituality. Additionally, in my worldview the term spirituality is a reference to the term spirit, which is largely contrasted with the soul. I believe that all humans are imbued with a soul -- which is an aspect of the deity that…… [Read More]
Bronte, C. (1850). Biographical notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. In Wuthering Heights. International Collectors Library: Garden City, New York.
Markie, P. (2015). Rationalism vs. empiricism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu /
Philosophy Questions
Empiricism is fundamentally the belief that all knowledge is eventually resultant from the senses and experience, and that all conceptions can be linked back to data from the senses. John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume are considered to be three of the most persuasive empiricists in philosophy. The key aspects that the philosophies of these three empiricists have are that knowledge develops from sensory experience. However, it is imperative to note that each of these three empiricists have their own views (Meyers, 2014).
To begin with, Locke repudiated the prospect of intrinsic ideas and that when an individual is born, his or her mind is blank. Therefore, Locke makes the argument that all notions come from experience and that devoid of such experience, reason does not have a benchmark for differentiating the truth from fallacy. In turn, Locke asserted that the foundation of all ideas stem from sensation and…… [Read More]
Holism and Hempel's Theory of
In that sense, he was a victim of his time period. He may have felt very differently if he were alive today, because science, technology, and even the study of metaphysics have advanced a great deal. Hempel was a scientist, but he was a bit of a philosopher, as well (Sarkar & Pfeifer, 2006).
That is a large part of the reason why his opinions on the issue seem odd. Philosophers are often willing to consider the possibilities and implications of something more being 'out there' and available to them and the rest of the world, but Hempel appeared to have no interest in that. y insisting that the parts made up the whole, and that the whole could be simply broken back down into those parts, Hempel cheated himself out of a lot of other ideas and issues that he could have considered and studied. He was a man…… [Read More]
Sarkar, Sahotra & Pfeifer, Jessica. (2006). The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge.
Clifford Descartes to a Large
This concept is implausible if there is a just and loving God, but if some evil genius had created the world instead -- along with human understanding of God -- then every single belief could be brought into doubt. Essentially, Descartes takes the null hypothesis regarding mental interpretations of the external world. Still, this construction of absolute doubt is merely a portion of Descartes' argument, because he intends to find some undeniable truth -- a principle beyond doubt -- which can destroy the premise that nothing can be known. In his Meditations he words this as "I am, I exist." This statement -- at other times worded as 'I think, therefore I am' -- is accepted by Descartes because even a maniacal construction of the world could not disprove his own existence, since he believes himself to exist. Obviously, this argument depends upon some distinction between the subjective and the…… [Read More]
Cahn, Steven M. And Maureen Eckert. 2006. Philosophical Horizons: Introductory Readings. California: Thomson and Wadsworth.
Rodney Dangerfield Psychology's Issue of
This Nicolosi article quotes a senior member of the APA, who asserted, "hen we speak in the name of psychology we are to speak only from facts and clinical expertise,' he explained. If psychology speaks out on every social issue, 'very soon the public will see us as a discredited organization -- just another opinionated voice shouting and shouting.'" (Nicolosi, p. 1)
Quite indeed, the biggest challenge facing psychology's credibility is the invasion of political motive. The Nicolosi article indicates that, for instance, the highly charged debate over gay marriage has penetrated the field of psychology and that both sides of the debate are guilty of experimental subversion in the interest of political objective. Regardless of the social importance of such political objectives as advancing civil rights, we can see that the aims of psychology are undermined by the deprivation of properly controlled research.
On my own career path, I…… [Read More]
Keller, P.A. (1994). Academic Paths: Career Decisions and Experiences of Psychologists. Psychology Press.
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Teens Teaching Theories and Instructional
III. Instructional Format
The instruction in this instance to teenagers concerning substance abuse would likely be presented first in an informative way such as a slide show or short talk about the facts associated with substance abuse. It would be highly effective to have someone the same age as the teens who has had a problem with substance abuse to come into the classroom and talk with the teens about the 'real-life' experience of substance abuse. According to the work reviewed a small informal group would be the optimal learning environment for teens being instructed concerning substance abuse. Furthermore, the 'Interpersonal Realm' will be fertile learning ground in this instance in that it is a "therapeutic, supportive" environment that is "conducive to providing quality educational interaction" with the learners contributing through their interest and responsiveness to the subject in the group interactions.
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I added some to extend certain parts. I looked to be more specific with quotes but didn't find anything that fit well. Please note that much of the substance comes from the websites of Stanford. When referencing a resource like this, page numbers and such cannot be used. One sometimes lists paragraph numbers but only if the paragraphs are numbered in the original. So not sure what else to do. I added about a page and smoothed out other language. The way this is pieced together makes it seem comprehensive.
The erlin Society of Empirical Philosophy was one of several distinct collaborations of recognized scientific experts of the early 20th century. They came together to determine how to eliminate or reduce the elements of what might be considered the softer sciences of philosophy, sociology, psychology from the processes of scientific exploration in…… [Read More]
Background of the Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy
The Berlin Society grew out of a desire to find new ways to address the thinking and results of science, perhaps in hopes of developing a unified theory under which all science, and hopefully some philosophical propositions, could be confirmed or disproved. There were major changes and advancements happening on many levels of objective inquiry, and the world seemed to be coming together to share understandings and expectations about what knowledge meant and how it could be harnessed. In theory, by providing a unifying acceptance of what knowledge was, less accurate (and possibly even meaningless) knowledge could be differentiated. This was accepted as being true to the point where many could comfortably accept that the formulas of mathematics and logic could be considered unrelated to the social context in which they were found. This was why many of the supporters, particularly within the Vienna Circle, used the understanding of language and linguistics as a guide for their beliefs (Uebel, 2011).
This then leads us to the operational definition of either Logical Empiricism or Logical Positivism; both terms are considered interchangeable today. The Berlin Society, under the leadership of Hans Reichenbach, opted to use the phrase Logical Empiricism to ensure that the difference between the groups was affirmed. The importance of this can be seen in translations of the writings of Reichenbach where he bemoans how people forget
Combination of Modern and Postmodern Bereavement Theory Explain and Contrast
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Postmodern Bereavement Theory
Bereavement is a universal observable fact as every human being experiences the loss of a loved one at some point in his/her life. However, every individual experiences it in a unique way. It is, without a doubt, an undeniable truth that to be human is to grieve. The passing away of a loved one can be difficult, irresistible and dreadful for any normal individual. When people are faced with such overwhelming situations, a majority of them especially the older adults get into the habit of enduring their loss with time. On the other hand, to forget and live without a loved one is not as easy for some individuals. It becomes difficult for these people to cope up with the grief-stricken situations as they experience a grief of greater concentration or time (Hansson & Stroebe, 2007). There are a number of theorists who have put forwarded their…… [Read More]
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History of Crime and Punishment in Europe 17c 18c
History of Crime and Punishment in Europe 17C-18C
This paper traces the history crime and punishment in Europe. It looks at the influences of that time the social and philosophical movements and how they affected the whole evolution of treatment of crime and the thought behind punishment. The paper details about the neoclassical period its forbearers and how they regarded the issue of crime and punishment and their assumptions regarding the problem.
Crime is as old as civilization itself and where you find groups of people, you will consistently find some shape of criminal activity. You will also find punishment. The criminal has always been seen as undermining the values and, even, the very fabric of the society she or he deceives. Accordingly, those found out or found culpable have often been dealt with unsympathetically. Again, the Jewish Mythology will spring to the Western mind with its mantra of an…… [Read More]
Andrews Richard Mowery. 1994. Law, Magistracy and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Alan Gewirth and Human Rights
lan Gewirth and Human Rights
The philosophical concepts of human rights are many and varied. Yet, one of the theories that stands out the most in both approach and application is that of lan Gewirth.
His work demonstrates and ideal that has often been set as a stage for the application of many public issues, from law to psychology. Within the body of his works Gewirth argues that, "...human rights are best defended as necessary prerequisites for individual human beings' exercise of free and rational will." Giving license to the concepts of the right of all humans to act on their own behalf to meet their own needs of happiness through their own free will.
Hence, the value or requiredness of autonomy is not disproved by pointing to conditions whose efficacy stems from a violation of autonomy. The solution to this problem is to maintain or restore autonomy, not acquiesce…… [Read More]
Alan Gewirth, "The Immoral Sense," Criminal Justice Ethics 13.2 (1994), Questia, 22 Apr. 2004 http://www.questia.com/ .
Alan Norrie, ed., Closure or Critique: New Directions in Legal Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993) 22.
Mind and Body in History
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For Marx, of course, economics and class conflicts were the base of society, and social change proceeded through revolutions, such as the French, American and English evolutions against feudalism in the 17th and 18th Centuries. In the future, capitalism would be overthrown by a socialist revolution, starting with the most advanced industrial economies in the West (Greene, p. 200). Comte argued that sociology should be concerned with the "laws of social evolution," though, and that science and technology had undermined traditional religion and the feudal social order. Society evolved in three distinct stages, theological, metaphysical and positive, with positivism representing urban, industrial society (Greene, p. 204).
Plato, Augustine and Descartes were the most important dualist philosophers in history, and all of them valued the mind and immortal soul far more than the physical body or the material universe. This view was dominant until the era of the Scientific evolution…… [Read More]
Augustine (2006). Confessions. Penguin Classics.
Gil, C. (1999). Plato: The Symposium. Penguin Classics.
Greene, John C. "Biological and Social Theory in the Nineteenth Century: August Comte and Herbert Spencer" in John Offer (ed). Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists, Volume 2. Routledge, 2000: 203-26.
Descartes, R. (1996). Meditations on First Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
Enduring Concern and Its Historical Conceptions
Conceptions of an Enduring Issue
elationship between Body and Mind/Soul - Aristotle and Descartes
Aristotle modeled hylomorphism as a fusion of form and matter or soul and body as two elements of one solid being. Aristotle viewed the body's form to be the soul and the soul's matter to be the body. Descartes' dualism separates matter and mind (also soul) and recognizes that the two constitute a person. The two philosophies both subscribed to the view that the mind or soul was located centrally in a person. Aristotle believed that the soul resided in the heart while Descartes believed that the mind was located in the brain. The mind and soul were seen to be interacting with the rest of the body, albeit not clearly in Descartes' case. Aristotle's theory advanced a deep connection between the two and it is probable that he considered the faculty of the soul called…… [Read More]
Chaffee (2011).The philosopher's way: thinking critically about profound ideas. Retrieved from http://www.pearsonhighered.com/showcase/chaffee3e/assets/chaffee_ch3.pdf
Cohen, S.M. (2008). Aristotle on the Soul. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/433/PsycheDisplay.pdf
Eltagouri, M. (2009). Immanuel Kant: Last Influential Philosopher of the Theory of Knowledge of the Enlightenment Era. Retrieved from http://condino-gruppsaplitcompclass.wikispaces.com/Immanuel+Kant
Fleming, J.S. (2008). The Nature of Human Nature: Philosophical Perspectives on Human Development. Retrieved from http://swppr.org/Textbook/Ch%203%20Philosophy.pdf
Does the Fisher Ury Model Work
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A High Impact Negotiations Model: An Answer to the Limitations of the Fisher, Ury Model of Principled Negotiations
This study aims to discover the ways in which blocked negotiations can be overcome by testing the Fisher, Ury model of principled negotiation against one of the researcher's own devising, crafted after studying thousands of negotiation trainees from over 100 multinational corporations on 5 continents. It attempts to discern universal applications of tools, skills, and verbal and non-verbal communication techniques that may assist the negotiator in closing deals with what have been "traditionally" perceived as "difficult people." This study concludes that there are no such "difficult people," but rather only unprepared negotiators. The study takes a phenomenological approach to negotiations, with the researcher immersing himself in the world of negotiation training from 2012-14, for several major multinational corporations, intuiting the failings of the negotiators with whom he comes in contact,…… [Read More]
Allred, K., Mallozzi, J., Matsui, F., Raia, C. (1997). The influence of anger and compassion on negotiation performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 70(3): 175-187.
Andonova, E., Taylor, H. (2012). Nodding in dis/agreement: a tale of two cultures.
Cognitive Process, 13(Suppl 1): S79-S82.
Aristotle. (1889). The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle. (Trans R.W. Browne).
Emanuel Kant's the Work of
And the freedom in question is the most harmless of all-namely, to make public use of one's reason in all matters" (Clarke 1997, 53). This added to classical liberalism's support of the freedom of speech and of the press. This all played a part in Kant's desire to apply reason to practical life. In The Conflict of the Faculties, he wrote in defense of the openness of the university as "an institution that exists to serve governments…and [bring about] enlightening ends" (Clarke 1997, 53-54). Thus once knowledge was separated from values, it could be harnessed to serve the human project. One area where Kant had an impact beyond philosophy has been in international relations theory. "According to the classical view of international politics, the international sphere is composed of sovereign states and characterized by anarchy" (Bartelson 1995, 257). People have order in their native land but see the rest of…… [Read More]
Ames, Edward Scribner. "The Religion of Immanuel Kant." The Journal of Religion 5:2
(1925): 172-177.
Bartelson, Kens. "The Trial of Judgment: A note on Kant and the Paradoxes of Internationalism." International Studies Quarterly 39:2 (1995): 255-279.
Clark, Michael. "Kant's Rhetoric of Enlightenment." The Review of Politics 59:1 (1997):
Hume Descartes Hume Descartes and
Descartes systematic approach to establishing an understanding of that which is rationally true inherently called on him to reject all assumed notions of what was true. This 'atheist' thought which he rejected would be characterized by its unfounded but universally accepted nature. By casting doubt and applying testing methods to assumed facts, Descartes sought to provide a living framework entirely governed by empiricism. Such a doctrine inclined Descartes to conclude that man could not accept himself to be capable of distinguishing between his experiences as he dreams and those which he has while awake. Descartes' assessment is derived from his own framework for the resolution of knowledge and, within the parameters that he had designed, is a functionally acceptable one. Indeed, he establishes meaningful similarities between our experiences in both realms.
Indeed, Descartes' view on dreams stems from his umbrella system of epistemology, which is instructed by the pursuit of…… [Read More]
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Hume, D. (1910). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Harvard Classics, 37: P.F. Collier & Son.
Newman, L. (1999). Descartes' Epistemology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Nominalism Abelard and Ockham Philosophical
Concepts in the mind such as 'society' can thus have an impact on the real, sensory world but they do not have an independent, tangible or ideal existence. The one exception to Abelard's nominalism is the category of "human beings, whose forms are their immaterial (and immortal) souls. Strictly speaking, since human souls are capable of existence in separation form the body, they are not forms after all, though they act as substantial forms as long as they are joined to the body" (King 2004). Through this idea, Abelard strove to reconcile Christianity with nominalism and to elevate the human being.
The other great medieval nominalist of note is illiam Ockham. Ockham also subscribed to the Aristotelian ontology of realist empiricism, believing that universal essences "are nothing more than concepts in the mind" and no innate ideas exist apart from the mind (Kaye 2007). "The defense of nominalism undertaken by…… [Read More]
De Wulf, M. "Nominalism." The Catholic Encyclopedia. May 11, 2010.
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Miller Evolution Miller's Theory of
As Miller indicates, "the capacity for life is built into matter. In fact, the key molecules of life are largely constructed from just a few relatively few atoms, such as hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. In that sense, the chemical properties of these atoms are what makes life possible." (Miller, 119) Miller posits the argument that the building blocks of life are easily observable and demonstrate no deviation from that which makes up the rest of the universe.
Chapter 6: The orld That Knew e ere Coming
Miller's text is frequently refers to claims that man is crafted in God's image as one of the fundamental arguments against evolution. The religious right has long clung tightly to this idea as a cause for viewing the course of human progress as separate from that of other species. This chapter refutes this claim by examining the concept of evolution in…… [Read More]
Balaram, P. (2004). Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design. Current Science, 86(9).
Miller, K. (2008). Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul. Viking Adult.
Islamization of Knowledge This Work
Not only is a challenge present for Muslim teachers in attempting to standardize this curriculum but as well "this is compounded by the fact that curriculum materials related to teaching about Islam produced overseas - even for Arabic language studies - are viewed as irrelevant or unsuited to young students' lives and culture in the U.S. And Europe." (Douglass and Shaikh, 2004)
Guidelines have been provided in recent years concerning teaching religion in public schools in the U.S. And it is stated by Douglass and Shaikh that "general adherence to the guidelines and their implementation in textbook development has done more than anything else to improve the accuracy of textbook depictions of the basic beliefs and practices, origin stories and subsequent cultural and institutional history of various religions." (Douglass and Shaikh, 2004) Stated as primary among the changes is "the consistent use of attributive phrases, combined with greater factual accuracy."…… [Read More]
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Douglass, Susan L. And Shaikh, Munir a. (2004) Defining Islamic Education: Differentiation and Applications. Current Issues in Comparative Education Vol. 7(1) Teachers College, Columbia University.
Power and Knowledge Description and
Therefore, these strategies identify the problems of contemporary science resulting from male bias. Longino acknowledges that such approach is descriptively adequate to a certain extent, but she demonstrates that it falls short of normative adequacy.
The third section of the article takes into account another strategy used by feminist epistemology, termed multiplying subjects. The strategy is based on the ideal of unconditioned subject. Traditionally it has been acknowledged that individual subjectivities are conditioned, and the unconditioned subjectivity is an achievement; the methods of natural sciences and the scientific methodology in general are the means to that achievement.
The nature of the relationship between observation, data, and theory, which represent scientific discourse have been considered arguments against unconditioned subjectivity and empiricism. The arguments rely on the fact that if the scientific knower is considered an individual who should be freed from external influences in order to produce acceptable knowledge the puzzles…… [Read More]
Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Is a
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Third, lack of attention to evidence-based practice can lead to inconsistent delivery of care services.
Evidence-based practice relates to almost every aspect of health care at every stage of a client's relationship with the institution. For example, evidence-based practice informs the types of questions asked during the diagnostic procedures and might even impact the diagnosis itself (Bennett & Bennett, 2000). Evidence-based practice impacts the methods by which infections are prevented (Cantrell, 2009). Evidence-based practices impact the extent to which nurses are empowered to make sound, safe, and effective decisions (Scott & Pollock 2008). Evidence-based practice has the potential to transform the structure of a health care organization like MMH. This is because evidence-based practice changes the hierarchical structure in the organization due to the increased responsibility of nurses for conducting their own research. Alternatively, evidence-based practice can be an extension of organizational change. Health care organizations reducing the hierarchical nature…… [Read More]
Artinian, B.M., West, K.S., & Conger, M.M. (2011). The Artinian Intersystem Model. New York: Springer.
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Post-Modern to Contemporary Psychology
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Diversity and Psychology
There were two major developments that influenced the field of psychology and the professions' views regarding multicultural competence, emphasized in 2003. The American Psychological Associations' 2002 Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct and the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists published in 2003 both stressed the importance of moving from a mono-cultural school of thought to a multicultural perspective and that these 'new rules' acknowledge an appreciation of differences as well as an "understanding of the inherent ambiguity and complexity in psychological practice (Pack-rown & Williams, 2003; Manesse, Saito, & Rodolfa, 2004). Knapp and VandeCreek (2003) said of these new guidelines that they articulate a need for greater sensitivity regarding linguistic and cultural minorities. The development of the new Code of Ethics and the APA's positioning were purported to be in response to a long awaited recognition of the need for…… [Read More]
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Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning an Analysis
Francis Bacon's Advancement Of Learning
An Analysis of Bacon's Rationale for riting the Advancement of Learning
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Sociology With the Emergence of
Take as an example McDonald's venture to extend its business operations in countries within the Asian region. Through globalization, the company has learned to adapt to the culture of the country it invests in. Examples of such adjustments are the introduction of rice in most of the meal offerings of McDonald's in the Philippines, inclusion of spicy foods in McDonald's menus in India, and the establishment of large McDonald's buildings in China in order to accommodate the large number of consumers that patronize the fast food chain. These are examples of companies' conscious effort to recognize globalization and its principles.
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180). Effectively, social constructivism is helping "reconstruct" the field of psychology (Bohan, 1990, p. 86). In that, it seems the future of social constructionism can only grow and alter, just as the field of psychology has grown and altered since its inception. The role of the social constructionist is to always question, and because of this, when it is applied to psychology, it can only bring change, new understanding, and continued growth and comprehension to the entire field.
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What are the views on the legalization of gay marriage?
Gay marriage should be legalized
Same-sex couples should be allowed to enter civil unions
Gay marriage should be illegal
It is an irrelevant debate
Not allowing same-sex marriage is discriminatory
Marriage is a fundamental right for all
Gay marriage is beneficial to the economy
The definition of marriage is always changing
Civil unions provide the best of both worlds
Marriage remains a religious ritual
Gay marriage goes against the institution of marriage
Homosexuality is against many religious beliefs
Gay marriage would undermine the fidelity of marriage
Only God determines the legitimacy of a marriage
Civil unions can grant legal rights to gay couples without infringing on the religious ritual of marriage.
Marriage is, first and foremost, a religious ritual. Civil unions are a legal ritual. Same-sex partners will receive all the legal benefits of marriage without infringing on the religious ideology that maintains marriage is reserved for a man and a woman.
Marriage is carried out on religious grounds by religious figures. The eligibility for marriage should, therefore, be guided by religious teachings. A civil union is one way of accommodating the legal recognition of a same-sex partnership without defying religious teachings.
Marriages are not religious. They are both legal and expressive. In expressive terms, people wed to express their love and commitment to each other in front of witnesses. They show their love and expect society to acknowledge it. To deny gay people the right to marry is to deny them the right to express themselves in the same way. Additionally, many democracies demand a secular government. Therefore, religious arguments about marriage should not influence legislative practices or prohibit gay marriage.
[P1] Marriage is a religious ritual. [P2] Civil parnerships are a legal ritual. [P3] Civil partnerships grant same-sex couples legal rights, without offending religious belief. [P4] Therefore, civil partnerships or unions are the legislative outcome.
[Rejecting P1] Marriage is not merely a religious ritual. It is also an expressive ritual. [Rejecting P4] In secular democracies, religion should not influence the legislature.
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ACE-COMM Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006, both ending June 30, 2006.
For the year ended June 30, 2006, the Company recorded revenues of $26.7 million, compared to $20.0 million for fiscal year 2005. The Company had net income and income per fully diluted share of $0.3 million and $0.02, respectively, compared to a net loss and loss per fully diluted share of $6.5 million and $0.44 for fiscal year 2005. Revenues for the fourth quarter 2006 totaled $6.5 million compared to $6.8 million for the same quarter in fiscal year 2005. Net loss for the quarter was $0.5 million, or $0.03 per fully diluted share, compared to net income of $0.3 million, or $0.02 per fully diluted share for the same quarter a year ago. [Read more…]
iGR Report Ranks ACE-COMM a Leading Developer of Parental Controls for the Youth Mobile Market
August 25, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, today announced that an independent research report by iGR – “Mobile Phones, Children and Parental Controls”, August 2006 – has ranked ACE*COMM’s Parent Patrol(TM) as a leader in the parental controls marketplace. iGR is a market strategy consultancy focused on the wireless and mobile communications industry.
“From conversations with multiple mobile operators, we understand that the need to provide a solution that incorporates parental controls is one of the most pressing product strategies for wireless service providers today,” said Iain Gillott, wireless analyst at iGR and acknowledged mobile industry authority. “Our data clearly shows that there is a significant untapped mobile market with children, but the mobile operators must be responsible in addressing this opportunity. In the competitive wireless marketplace, operators need to provide the appropriate parental protection and management capabilities in order to responsibly target younger subscribers with parents’ blessings.”
According to the iGR report, “ACE*COMM, a leader in the parental control industry, is offering Parent Patrol and is a good example of a network-based product that has met with wide acceptance and a high level of interest from the mobile operators.” [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Adds Three New NetPlus Customers
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ: ACEC), a provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, has added three new North American customers in the municipal and federal government sectors for its NetPlus(R) enterprise OSS and telemanagement product suite. In total, these contracts represent an initial value of approximately US$800 thousand. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Signs Parent Patrol Contract with Tier One North American Carrier
June 28, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, today announced it has signed its first customer in North America for the deployment of its industry-leading Parent Patrol(TM) wireless access control application. The customer, an undisclosed Tier One North American service provider, is expected to commence rollout for the new service in one of its regional divisions in the third quarter of 2006.
“Selling dynamic, value-added service applications like Parent Patrol(TM) into the Tier-1 customer space is a breakthrough achievement for ACE*COMM and a positive indicator of the market potential for this class of product,” said George Jimenez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ACE*COMM.
Parent Patrol(TM) gives parents the ability to supervise their children’s use of mobile phones. Parents use an intuitive web-based interface to the service provider’s network, through which they set allowance limits on parameters such as time of day, numbers called or received, minutes used, and services accessed. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Recognized for Best Customer Success by Billing World
May 17, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, announced today that it has received the ‘Best Customer Success’ award from TeleStrategies, the publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine, at the Sixth Annual Excellence Awards reception on May 3 at the Billing & OSS World 2006 Conference in Miami. Published 12 times per year, Billing World & OSS Today is the most widely read magazine by the back-office software decision makers in the telecommunications industry.
“Billing World & OSS Today magazine is proud to present the 2006 Excellence Awards to the companies who are driving innovation and positive ROI in the billing and OSS/BSS industries,” said Jill Morgan, publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine. “The Best Customer Success category is self explanatory, but it should be noted that it was the single most competitive category in this year’s competition. This year’s winner – ACE*COMM – is a company we have seen go through many changes and challenges over the years in the industry. It is a company that has re-invented itself and thrived, but without ever abandoning its core expertise. What impressed us the most about ACE*COMM was the innovative way in which it has taken technology that is traditionally buried behind the scenes and given it relevance on the front lines.”
The Best Customer Success award recognizes outstanding industry achievement for real-life benefits achieved as part of a customer deployment. ACE*COMM’s Market Maker(TM) product – part of the ACE*COMM Network Business Intelligence(TM) (NBI) suite – was recognized for dramatically improving a Tier 1 cable operator’s ability to position its marketing resources to achieve higher quality upsell opportunities and close new customers. At the same time the operator was able to develop the information required to match marketing efforts with available network capacity. [Read more…]
Yankee Group and ACE*COMM to Present on Data Integrity Management at TeleManagement World Nice 2006 Conference
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC) today announced that it will be presenting with Yankee Group at TeleManagement World Nice 2006, Wednesday, May 17th, in Nice, France. TeleManagement World brings together noted business and technical leaders from both service providers and their suppliers to discuss and debate the issues, challenges and solutions facing the management of next generation networks and services. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Reports Improvements for Q3 2006
May 5, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the third quarter of its 2006 fiscal year. The Company reported revenues of $6.7 million for the quarter, which compares to $3.8 million for the comparable quarter of fiscal year 2005. Net profit for the quarter was $365 thousand, or $0.02 per share, compared to a net loss of $6.6 million, or $0.47 per share, for the same quarter in the prior year. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Announces N*VISION2 Hyperconvergent Mediation Platform
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, has announced that it will officially launch N*VISION(R)2 (NV2) at the TeleStrategies Billing & OSS World 2006 conference in Miami Beach, Florida, May 3-4. NV2 is the next generation of ACE*COMM’s award winning convergent mediation solution, which has evolved dramatically to meet the demands of carrier’s mediation and collection environments. NV2 uses advanced technologies and techniques to control, moderate, and facilitate the interactive communication between multiple network technologies and software support systems, without sacrificing support for critical legacy network and infrastructure investments.
“NV2 is the industry’s first hyperconvergent platform,” said Chris Couch, ACE*COMM’s Chief Marketing Officer. “Our established service provider customers want to take advantage of new network technologies without sacrificing existing OSS infrastructure. They want to tap into new services like MMS, phone-based gaming, IPTV, and VoIP to increase revenues, expand market share, and increase customer loyalty – while still extracting returns on their existing network investments. NV2 was developed with these challenges in mind.”
Based on core ACE*COMM technology and expertise, the NV2 product suite enables the flow of information in hyperconvergent environments by removing traditional application barriers that delay or even prevent the incorporation of new products and services. NV2 uses advanced technologies and techniques for the simultaneous and multi-directional flow of information. It supports the service provider’s legacy network investment while allowing the full exploitation of new service and technologies. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Executives to Present at AeA Micro Cap Financial Conference
April 29, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, today announced that its CEO, Mr. George T. Jimenez, and CMO, Mr. Chris Couch, will be presenting at the 8th Annual AeA Micro Cap Financial Conference on May 8, 2006. The Conference is focussed on technology companies with under $200 million in annual sales or market capitalization. Mr. Jimenez and Mr. Couch will discuss the Company’s recent successes, new market directions, and global growth strategies. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM’s Network Business Intelligence(TM) (NBI) Suite Selected as Finalist for Two TeleStrategies 2006 Excellence Awards
March 30, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of advanced OSS, value-added services, and network business intelligence solutions, announced today that it has been selected by TeleStrategies, publisher of Billing World & OSS Today magazine, as a finalist in two categories for its Sixth Annual Excellence Awards. ACE*COMM Network Business Intelligence (NBI) is a finalist in the Best New Product category, and NBI’s installation with a Tier 1 cable customer is a finalist in the Customer Success category. Published 12 times per year, Billing World & OSS Today is the most widely read magazine by the back-office software decision makers in the telecommunications industry. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Announces Two New Contracts for Its Advanced OSS Solutions – Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) and B Digital
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today announced it has signed two contracts, one with Cameroon Telecommunications, the other with B Digital in Australia, to provide elements of its advanced OSS suite. [Read more…]
ACE*COMM Reports 41% Revenue Growth for the Second Quarter of Fiscal 2006; Company Achieves Third Consecutive Quarter of Profitability
February 9, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, the second quarter of its 2006 fiscal year. The Company reported revenues of $6.7 million for the quarter, which compares to $4.8 million for the comparable quarter of fiscal year 2005. Net profit for the quarter was $347 thousand, or $0.02 per share, compared to a net profit of $176 thousand, or $0.01 per share, for the same quarter in the prior year.
ACE*COMM Signs New Contracts with Customers in North America and Middle East
January 19, 2006 By oss
ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC), a global provider of network business intelligence and advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions, today announced that is has signed two new contracts that extend current customer relationships for elements of its Convergent Mediation(TM) SDP (service delivery platform) and advanced OSS suite.
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— ORDERED: That, in relation to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House of the following:
That the Senate agrees to the amendments made by the House of Commons to its amendments;
The Senate agrees to the amendment made by the House of Commons in consequence of Senate amendments 3 and 4;
That the Senate does not insist on its amendment 10, to which the House of Commons disagreed.
C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, ...Government billsMessages from SenateSenate passage
Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms — Chapter No. 9;
Bill C-81, An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada — Chapter No. 10;
Bill S-203, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and other Acts (ending the captivity of whales and dolphins) — Chapter No. 11;
Bill C-82, An Act to implement a multilateral convention to implement tax treaty related measures to prevent base erosion and profit shifting — Chapter No. 12;
Bill C-68, An Act to amend the Fisheries Act and other Acts in consequence — Chapter No. 14;
Bill C-77, An Act to amend the National Defence Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts — Chapter No. 15;
Bill C-78, An Act to amend the Divorce Act, the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act and the Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act — Chapter No. 16;
Bill C-84, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bestiality and animal fighting) — Chapter No. 17;
Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts — Chapter No. 18;
Bill C-88, An Act to amend the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts — Chapter No. 19;
Bill C-93, An Act to provide no-cost, expedited record suspensions for simple possession of cannabis — Chapter No. 20;
Bill C-101, An Act to amend the Customs Tariff and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act — Chapter No. 22;
Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages — Chapter No. 23;
Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families — Chapter No. 24;
Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts — Chapter No. 25;
Bill C-48, An Act respecting the regulation of vessels that transport crude oil or persistent oil to or from ports or marine installations located along British Columbia's north coast — Chapter No. 26;
Bill C-83, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and another Act — Chapter No. 27;
Bill C-69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts — Chapter No. 28;
Bill C-97, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 19, 2019 and other measures — Chapter No. 29.
Pursuant to Standing Order 57, Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. Lametti (Minister of Justice), moved, — That, in relation to the consideration of Senate amendments to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, the debate not be further adjourned.
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The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Lametti (Minister of Justice), seconded by Mr. Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), — That a Message be sent to the Senate to acquaint Their Honours that, in relation to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, the House:
agrees with amendments 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12(b), 13 and 14 made by the Senate;
proposes that amendment 3 be amended to read as follows:
“3. Clause 239, pages 90 and 91:
(a) on page 90, replace lines 2 and 3 with the following:
“dictable offence that is punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment, other than an offence listed in section 469, the justice”;
(b) on page 90, replace lines 18 and 19 with the following:
“able by 14 years or more of imprisonment, an offence listed in section 469 that is not punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment or an”;
(c) on page 90, replace line 44 with the following:
“section 469 that is punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment,”;
(d) on page 91, replace lines 20 and 21 with the following:
“offence listed in section 469 that is punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment, the justice shall endorse on the informa-”;”;
(a) on page 92, replace line 11 with the following:
“14 years or more of imprisonment, other than an offence mentioned”;
(b) on page 92, replace lines 25 to 27 with the following:
“offence that is punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment, an offence listed in section 469 that is not punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment or an offence mentioned in section”;
(d) on page 93, replace line 20 with the following:
“is punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment, the justice or”;”;
proposes that, as a consequence of Senate amendments 3 and 4, the following amendment be added:
1. Clause 238, page 89: Replace line 33 with the following:
“fence that is punishable by 14 years or more of imprisonment is be-”;
proposes that amendment 6 be amended by replacing the words “an intimate partner — and, in particular, a partner” with the words “a person” and by replacing the words “on the basis of sex or is an Aboriginal person” with the words “because of personal circumstances — including because the person is Aboriginal and female”;
respectfully disagrees with amendment 10 made by the Senate because the Bill already provides flexibility to the provinces and territories with respect to agent representation while also recognizing regional diversity in respect of how legal representation is regulated across Canada, and because the amendment could have unintended repercussions for the provinces and territories; and, the Government continues to work with the provinces and territories to support the effective implementation of these reforms;
proposes that amendment 12(a) in the English version be amended by replacing the words “apply in Bill C-45” with the words “apply if Bill C-45”.
C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, ...Consideration of Senate amendmentsGovernment billsLametti, DavidLiberal CaucusMinister of Justice
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The Order was read for the consideration of the amendments made by the Senate to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Mr. Lametti (Minister of Justice), seconded by Mr. Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), moved, — That a Message be sent to the Senate to acquaint Their Honours that, in relation to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, the House:
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Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) gave notice of the intention to move a motion at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 78(3), for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days or hours for the consideration and disposal of the consideration of Senate amendments to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, ...Chagger, BardishGovernment billsLeader of the Government in the House of ...Liberal CaucusNotice of motionTime allocation
Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) gave notice of the intention to move at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 57, that, in relation to the consideration of Senate amendments to Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, the debate not be further adjourned.
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— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, with the following amendments:
1. New clause 196.1, page 62: Add the following after line 21:
“196.1 (1) Subparagraph (c)(i) of the definition secondary designated offence in section 487.04 of the Act is replaced by the following:
(i) subsection 52(1) (sabotage),
(i.001) subsection 57(3) (possession of a forged passport),
(i.002) section 62 (offences in relation to military forces),
(i.003) subsection 65(2) (riot — concealing identity),
(i.004) subsection 70(3) (contravening order made by governor in council),
(i.005) subsection 82(1) (explosives, possession without lawful excuse),
(i.006) subsection 121(1) (frauds on the government),
(i.007) subsection 121(2) (contractor subscribing to election fund),
(i.008) section 122 (breach of trust by public officer),
(i.009) subsection 123(1) (municipal corruption),
(i.01) subsection 123(2) (influencing municipal official),
(i.011) section 124 (selling or purchasing office),
(i.012) section 125 (influencing or negotiating appointments or dealings in offices),
(i.013) subsection 139(2) (obstructing justice),
(i.014) section 142 (corruptly taking reward for recovery of goods),
(i.015) section 144 (prison breach),
(i.016) section 145 (escape and being at large without excuse),
(2) Subparagraph (c)(iv) of the definition secondary designated offence in section 487.04 of the Act is replaced by the following:
(iv) section 182 (dead body — neglect to perform duty, improper or indecent interference with),
(iv.1) section 184 (interception of private communication),
(iv.2) section 184.5 (interception of radio-based telephone communications),
(iv.3) section 221 (cause bodily harm by criminal negligence),
(iv.4) section 237 (infanticide),
(iv.5) section 242 (neglect to obtain assistance in child-birth),
(iv.6) subsection 247(1) (traps likely to cause bodily harm),
(iv.7) subsection 247(2) (traps — causing bodily harm),
(iv.8) subsection 247(3) (traps — in a place kept or used for committing other indictable offence),
(iv.9) section 262 (impeding attempt to save life),
(3) Paragraph (c) of the definition secondary designated offence in section 487.04 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (viii):
(viii.01) section 280 (abduction of person under 16),
(4) Paragraph (c) of the definition secondary designated offence in section 487.04 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (viii.1):
(viii.11) section 291 (bigamy),
(viii.12) section 292 (procuring feigned marriage),
(viii.13) section 293 (polygamy),
(viii.14) section 293.1 (forced marriage),
(viii.15) section 293.2 (marriage under age of 16 years),
(viii.16) section 300 (publishing defamatory libel known to be false),
(viii.17) section 302 (extortion by libel),
(viii.21) paragraph 334(a) (theft over $5,000 or testamentary instrument),
(viii.22) section 338 (fraudulently taking cattle or defacing brand),
(viii.23) subsection 339(1) (take possession of drift timber, etc.),
(viii.24) section 340 (destroying documents of title),
(6) Paragraph (c) of the definition secondary designated offence in section 487.04 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (x):
(x.1) subsection 351(2) (disguise with intent),
(x.11) paragraph 355(a) (possession of property over $5,000 or testamentary instrument),
(x.12) section 357 (bring into Canada property obtained by crime),
(x.13) paragraph 362(2)(a) (false pretence, property over $5,000 or testamentary instrument),
(x.14) subsection 362(3) (obtain credit, etc. by false pretence),
(x.15) section 363 (obtain execution of valuable security by fraud),
(x.16) subsection 377(1) (damaging documents),
(x.17) section 378 (offences in relation to registers),
(x.18) section 382 (manipulation of stock exchange),
(x.19) subsection 382.1(1) (prohibited insider trading),
(x.2) section 383 (gaming in stocks or merchandise),
(x.21) section 384 (broker reducing stock by selling his own account),
(x.22) section 386 (fraudulent registration of title),
(x.23) section 394 (fraud in relation to minerals),
(x.24) section 394.1 (possession of stolen minerals),
(x.25) section 396 (offences in relation to mines),
(x.26) section 397 (falsification of books and documents),
(x.27) section 399 (false return by public officer),
(x.28) section 400 (false prospectus),
(x.29) section 405 (acknowledging instrument in false name),
(7) Paragraph (c) of the definition secondary designated offence in section 487.04 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (xi):
(xi.1) section 424 (threat against an internationally protected person),
(xi.11) section 424.1 (threat against United Nations or associated personnel),
(xi.12) section 426 (secret commissions),
(xi.13) section 435 (arson for fraudulent purpose),
(xi.14) section 436 (arson by negligence),
(xi.15) section 436.1 (possession incendiary material),
(xi.16) subsection 438(1) (interfering with saving of a wrecked vessel),
(xi.17) subsection 439(2) (interfering with a marine signal),
(xi.18) section 441 (occupant injuring building),
(xi.19) section 443 (interfering with international boundary marks, etc.),
(xi.2) section 451 (having clippings, etc.),
(xi.21) section 460 (advertising and dealing in counterfeit money),
(xi.22) subparagraphs 465(1)(b)(i) and (ii) (conspiracy to prosecute),
(xi.23) section 753.3 (breach of long-term supervision).”.
2. Clause 235, page 88: Add the following after line 11:
“(7) In this section, judge, in the Province of Quebec,
(a) in the case where the order that the accused be detained in custody has been made by a judge of the superior court of criminal jurisdiction of the Province of Quebec, has the same meaning as in paragraph (b) of the definition judge in section 493; and
(b) in any other case, means a judge of the superior court of criminal jurisdiction of the province, a judge of the Court of Quebec or three judges of the Court of Quebec.”.
“a court composed of a judge and jury. If you elect to be tried by a judge without a jury or by a court composed of a judge and jury or if you are deemed to have elected to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, you will have a preliminary inquiry only if you or the prosecutor — or both — request one and that request is authorized by the justice. How do you elect to be tried?”; and
(b) on page 91, add the following after line 5:
“(4.01) If an accused referred to in subsection (2.1) elects to be tried by a judge without a jury or by a court composed of a judge and jury, if an accused does not elect when put to the election or is deemed under paragraph 565(1)(a) to have elected to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, or if an accused is charged with an offence listed in section 469 that is not punishable by imprisonment for life, the justice shall, on the joint request of the accused and the prosecutor that is made at that time or within the period fixed by rules of the court made under section 482 or 482.1 — or, if there are no such rules, by the justice — hold a preliminary inquiry into the charge, if the justice is satisfied that appropriate measures have been taken to mitigate the impacts on any witness likely to provide evidence at the inquiry, including the complainant.
(4.02) If an accused referred to in subsection (2.1) elects to be tried by a judge without a jury or by a court composed of a judge and jury, if an accused does not elect when put to the election or is deemed under paragraph 565(1)(a) to have elected to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, or if an accused is charged with an offence listed in section 469 that is not punishable by imprisonment for life, the justice may, subject to section 577, on the request of the accused or the prosecutor that is made at that time or within the period fixed by rules of the court made under section 482 or 482.1 — or, if there are no such rules, by the justice — hold a preliminary inquiry into the charge, if the justice is satisfied that it is in the best interests of the administration of justice to hold one and that appropriate measures have been taken to mitigate the impacts on any witness likely to provide evidence at the inquiry, including the complainant.”.
“of a judge and jury. If you elect to be tried by a judge without a jury or by a court composed of a judge and jury or if you are deemed to have elected to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, you will have a preliminary inquiry only if you or the prosecutor — or both — request one and that request is authorized by the justice. How do you elect to be tried?”; and
“(3.1) If an accused referred to in subsection (2.1) elects to be tried by a judge without a jury or by a court composed of a judge and jury, if an accused does not elect when put to the election or is deemed under paragraph 565(1)(a) to have elected to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, or if an accused is charged with an offence listed in section 469 that is not punishable by imprisonment for life, the justice shall, on the joint request of the accused and the prosecutor that is made at that time or within the period fixed by rules of the court made under section 482 or 482.1 — or, if there are no such rules, by the justice — hold a preliminary inquiry into the charge, if the justice is satisfied that appropriate measures have been taken to mitigate the impacts on any witness likely to provide evidence at the inquiry, including the complainant.
(3.2) If an accused referred to in subsection (2.1) elects to be tried by a judge without a jury or by a court composed of a judge and jury, if an accused does not elect when put to the election or is deemed under paragraph 565(1)(a) to have elected to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury, or if an accused is charged with an offence listed in section 469 that is not punishable by imprisonment for life, the justice may, subject to section 577, on the request of the accused or the prosecutor that is made at that time or within the period fixed by rules of the court made under section 482 or 482.1 — or, if there are no such rules, by the justice — hold a preliminary inquiry into the charge, if the justice is satisfied that it is in the best interests of the administration of justice to hold one and that appropriate measures have been taken to mitigate the impacts on any witness likely to provide evidence at the inquiry, including the complainant.”.
5. Clause 278, page 113: Replace lines 9 and 10 with the following:
“261 or 462.37, subsection 491.1(2), 730(1) or 737(2.1) or (3) or section 738, 739, 742.1, 742.3, 743.6, 745.4”.
6. New clause 292.1, page 123: Add the following after line 5:
“292.1 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 718.03:
718.04 When a court imposes a sentence for an offence that involved the abuse of an intimate partner — and, in particular, a partner who is vulnerable on the basis of sex or is an Aboriginal person — the court shall give primary consideration to the objectives of denunciation and deterrence of the conduct that forms the basis of the offence.”.
7. Clause 293, page 123: Replace line 9 with the following:
“offence, abused the offender’s intimate partner or a member of the victim or the offender’s family,
293.1 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 718.2:
718.201 A court that imposes a sentence in respect of an offence that involved the abuse of an intimate partner shall consider the increased vulnerability of female persons who are victims, giving particular attention to the circumstances of Aboriginal female victims.”.
8. Clause 301, pages 126 and 127:
(a) On page 126, replace lines 1 to 36 with the following:
“301 Section 737 of the Act is replaced by the following:
737 (1) An offender who is convicted, or discharged under section 730, of an offence under this Act, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act or the Cannabis Act shall pay a victim surcharge for each offence, in addition to any other punishment imposed on the offender.
(2) Subject to subsections (2.1) and (3), the amount of the victim surcharge in respect of an offence is
(a) 30% of any fine that is imposed on the offender for the offence; or
(b) if no fine is imposed on the offender for the offence,
(i) $100 in the case of an offence punishable by summary conviction, and
(ii) $200 in the case of an offence punishable by indictment.
(2.1) Despite subsection (1), the court may, on application of the offender or on its own motion, order an offender to pay no victim surcharge, or to pay a reduced amount, if it is satisfied that the victim surcharge
(a) would cause undue hardship to the offender; or
(b) would not cause undue hardship to the offender but would be disproportionate to the gravity of the offence or the degree of responsibility of the offender.
(2.2) For the purposes of subsection (2.1), undue hardship means the offender is unable to pay a victim surcharge on account of the offender’s precarious financial circumstances, including because of their unemployment, homelessness, lack of assets or significant financial obligations towards their depend-ants.
(2.3) For greater certainty, for the purposes of subsection (2.2), the imprisonment of the offender alone does not constitute undue hardship.
(2.4) When the court makes an order under subsection (2.1), the court shall state its reasons in the record of the proceedings.
(3) The court may order an offender to pay a victim surcharge in an amount exceeding that set out in subsection (2) if the court considers it appropriate in the circumstances and is satisfied that the offender is able to pay the higher amount
(4) The victim surcharge imposed in respect of an offence is payable within the time established by the lieutenant governor in council of the province in which the surcharge is imposed. If no time has been so established, the surcharge is payable within a reasonable time after its imposition.
(5) A victim surcharge shall be applied for the purposes of providing such assistance to victims of offences as the lieutenant governor in council of the province in which the surcharge is imposed may direct from time to time.
(6) The court shall cause to be given to the offender a written notice setting out
(a) the amount of the victim surcharge;
(b) the manner in which the victim surcharge is to be paid;
(c) the time by which the victim surcharge must be paid; and
(d) the procedure for applying for a change in any terms referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c) in accordance with section 734.3.
(7) Subsections 734(3) to (7) and sections 734.3, 734.5, 734.7, 734.8 and 736 apply, with any modifications that the circumstances require, in respect of a victim surcharge imposed under this section and, in particular,
(a) a reference in any of those provisions to “fine”, other than in subsection 734.8(5), must be read as if it were a reference to “victim surcharge”; and
(b) the notice provided under subsection (6) is deemed to be an order made under section 734.1.
(8) Subsections (2.1) to (2.4) apply to any offender who is sentenced for an offence under this Act, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act or the Cannabis Act that was committed after the day on which those subsections come into force.”; and
(b) on page 127, delete lines 1 to 18.
“section 259 or 261, subsection 730(1) or 737(2.1) or (3) or section 738, 739, 742.1 or 742.3,”.
10. Clause 317.1, page 135: Replace line 25 with the following:
“(c) the agent is authorized to do so under
(i) the law of the province; or
(ii) a program”.
11. Clause 388, page 183: Replace lines 6 and 7 with the following:
“388 (1) Paragraph 2(1)(a) of the Identification of Crimi-nals Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (i), by adding “or” at the end of subparagraph (ii) and by adding the following after subparagraph (ii):
(iii) an offence punishable on summary conviction if that offence may also be prosecuted as an indictable offence described in subparagraph (i);
(2) Paragraph 2(1)(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:”.
12. Clause 401, page 187:
(a) Replace line 15 with the following:
“401 (1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply in Bill C-45, in-”; and
(b) delete lines 27 to 36.
13. Clause 406, page 197: Replace lines 27 and 28 with the following:
“to 353, subsection 370(1), sections 376 to 379, 382 and 385, subsection 388(1) and sections 399 and 400.1 come into force on the 90th”.
14. Clause 407, page 197: Replace line 42 with the following:
“370(2), sections 371 to 375, 380, 381 and 387, subsection 388(2) and sections 389 to 393, 396 to”.
C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, ...Government billsMessages from SenateSenate amendmentsSenate passage
Pursuant to Order made Tuesday, November 27, 2018, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Ms. Wilson-Raybould (Minister of Justice), seconded by Mr. Brison (President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government), — That Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, be now read a third time and do pass.
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The Order was read for the third reading of Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Mr. Blair (Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction) for Ms. Wilson-Raybould (Minister of Justice), seconded by Mr. Brison (President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government), moved, — That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
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The question was put on the motion and, pursuant to Order made Tuesday, November 27, 2018, the recorded division was deferred until Monday, December 3, 2018, at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment.
C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, ...Deferred divisionsGovernment billsThird reading and adoption
By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practice of the House: (a) any recorded division requested in relation to the third reading stage of Bill C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, or the third reading stage of Bill C-86, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, be deferred until Monday, December 3, 2018, at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment; and (b) at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions on Thursday, November 29, 2018, the House revert back to the rubric “Motions” for the purpose of considering a motion to concur in the 66th Report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
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Heros remembered on Memorial Day
Published 11:51 am Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Over 75 people turned out Monday morning for the Memorial Day service presented by the Jefferson Davis County Veterans Administration and the Town of Prentiss.
The Pledge of Alliegance was led by Sgt. Joe Bridges, followed by the National Anthem and prayer by Rev. Charles Burnham.
Prentiss Mayor Charley Dumas provided the reading of a Memorial Day poem, followed by his introduction of the speaker, Capt. Ralph Hanegan.
“Ralph is such an integral part of our community. He is very active, not only in Bassfield, but in Prentiss as well. We appreciate the service he does for us, not just his military service,” said Dumas.
Hanegan is a 1966 graduate of Bassfield High School. He enlisted into the Marine Corps in March of 1966 and after finishing boot camp and infantry training, he received orders to serve in the Republic of South Vietnam.
Hanegan received many military awards throughout his career and retired in March 1990 after completing a 24-year career.
After retiring from, the Marines in 1990, Hanegan served as the Director of Human Resources at the Princess Royale Resort in Ocean City, Maryland.
He returned home to Bassfield in 1995. He attended The University of Southern Mississippi, graduating with highest honors and earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management.
Capt. Hanegan served as the Assistant Federal Programs Director/ Title IV Coordinator, for the Jefferson Davis County School District and is currently serving as Jefferson Davis County Election Commissioner for district two.
Kelly retires after 36 years of service
After 36 years of service, Prentiss Fire Chief Howard Kelly has retired. A reception was held Thursday at the Ronald... read more
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Consultation starts on Liverpool Combined Authority
Simon Donohue
The establishment of a combined authority with the power to "accelerate economic growth" has been recommended by the Liverpool City Region Cabinet.
The combined authority would take the strategic lead on "economic development, transport and employment and skills in the city region to support jobs and growth" and enable Liverpool to better compete with other regions with similar systems in place, including Manchester.
The proposal has backed been by the six local authorities within the Liverpool City Region, as well as the Local Enterprise Partnership and Merseytravel, following a governance review.
It will now be the subject of a public consultation exercise running until Friday 6 September.
A spokesman said the combined authority would not be a "super council".
"It is instead about formalising the existing positive informal arrangements and being able to draw-down powers and resources from Central Government for local use.
"It would provide clear leadership and greater transparency, while creating a legal entity which would be in a position to attract funding and devolved powers from Government.
"Many other areas across the country are also pursuing changes to their governance arrangements and this recommendation would enable the Liverpool City Region to compete with them."
Two documents have been produced which will be available to download from the Local Authority and Merseytravel websites.
A Governance Review, which looks at how functions are organised at the moment, reviews the options for change and recommends that a Combined Authority is consulted upon
A draft scheme, which sets out the possible functions of a Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
Stakeholders are invited to send their feedback to lcr.governance@knowsley.gov.uk.
Following the consultation period, a final recommendation will come back to individual cabinet and council meetings in September, and if agreed by all city region councils, a formal submission will be made to Government on Monday 30 September.
Information on the review of strategic governance can be found at www.knowsley.gov.uk.
Isit too much to ask for one chief executive, director of regen etc for the whole area, saving huge money for important things like schools, social services etc? Or will it be another case of shuffling deck chairs and turkeys voting for Christmas?
August 06, 2013 at 7:13 pm By John brown
Hear, Hear John Brown! How much extra will this take out of local services budgets, put into the pockets of the councillors and their chums. Somebody needs to come up with some sort of metric whereby we can measure the net benefit that each one of these positions "adds" to Liverpool and its residents. Those that do not contribute positively should be sacked. The metric should measure financial and social benefit into an overall annual score.
August 07, 2013 at 9:36 am By Mr Baggins
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Senior Principal Designer VACANCY REF: CK18524 The company A growing safety consultancy...
Three contractors named on £1bn campus framework
Paul Unger
Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine have been picked by the University of Manchester to deliver the bulk of its £1bn estates programme.
The three secured places on the framework contract to deliver the majority of the university’s capital projects in excess of £10m over the next eight years.
The contractors will work on a number of major developments, including the £350m Manchester Engineering Campus Development, designed by Dutch architect Mecanoo, which will bring together the university’s four Schools of Engineering in one location and also provide teaching and office space.
In the second phase, from 2018 to 2022, proposals will include the biomedical campus which started in phase one; remodelling of the Stopford building and improved frontage, refurbishment of the Zochonis and Dover Street Buildings; also refurbishments within engineering and physical sciences and non-faculty refurbishments; continued work on the university library from phase one.
Diana Hampson, director of estates and facilities, said: “This construction partnering framework is probably unique within higher education. The scope and scale of the campus masterplan requires a huge amount of resource and presents significant delivery challenges. A collaborative, partnership arrangement was therefore vital in ensuring both quality and value.
“It will benefit all partners and importantly it will have environmental as well as social benefits such as providing training and creating jobs for unemployed people. We are looking forward to working closely with the three contractors on some landmark developments across our campus.”
Jon Adams, Balfour Beatty managing director for Northern major projects, said: “We applaud the University of Manchester for their innovative and ground breaking procurement route which enables delivery of best value and we look forward to working collaboratively with them on a framework which will see over £1bn of new university buildings delivered to create a state-of-the-art campus in Manchester. Our start-to-finish infrastructure capabilities, from design through to piling, construction and mechanical and electrical services enables us to meet the demands of this framework which will provide an improved built environment for the 40,000 students the university serves.”
Steve Coleby, leader for Laing O’Rourke Construction UK, said: “Laing O’Rourke is delighted to be partnering with the University of Manchester on this significant and transformative programme. The values underpinning the construction partnering framework align well to ours and will help ensure all partners drive – and importantly share – innovation and best practice for the benefit of the university and its stakeholders, while we deliver a world-class campus.”
Richard McAlpine, director of Sir Robert McAlpine, said: “We share with the university a passion for innovation and a commitment to providing world class facilities which inspire future generations to push the boundaries of what is possible.”
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Executive Coaching: Transforming Big Pharma from Within
Rick Koonce
Pharmaceutical Executive, Pharmaceutical Executive-09-01-2014, Volume 0, Issue 0
Defining the critical coaching steps necessary for top managers to realize their potential in an industry undergoing significant restructuring of human and financial capital.
These are tumultuous times at the top ranks of the big Pharma c-suite. Changing customer models, a predatory M&A cycle, rising therapeutic competition, and cost containment spurred by consolidation in the payer base are forcing most companies to rethink their business and marketing strategies.
The first line of offense in addressing these challenges is an agile, adaptable, and responsive cadre of leaders: the CEO along with a senior management team with the ability to be strategic one moment and tactical the next; who can nurture other leaders in their organizations, and articulate new visions and business strategies on a regular basis. It's all about people who can function across many lines of business and geography, with a truly comprehensive perspective on the complex and often contradictory nature of today's global pharma business.
Companies are incorporating coaching into their corporate leadership development programs, using these to grow leaders at every level. That's because they've come to realize the importance of grooming top managers who possess the right mix of critical industry skills and personal attributes (e.g., leadership agility, strong self-awareness, and adaptive capacity) necessary to be effective leaders in times of continuous change.
Companies are using coaching to:
» Facilitate and accelerate the onboarding of new executives, especially at senior levels.
» Help already strong corporate performers become truly stand-out performers.
» Prepare recently promoted executives for new job responsibilities.
» Position high-potential managers for future promotion.
» Help executives and managers at many levels develop the self-awareness required to manage and motivate people in today's global business environment.
Selecting managers best poised to benefit from coaching is but the first step in a long process. Who in your organization is an appropriate candidate for executive coaching? It could be an established leader whom the organization wants to retain, develop, and groom for future advancement to the c-suite. It could be a young, rising star in the organization, who's viewed as an emerging leader with tremendous potential to be a corporate superstar in the near-to-medium-term future. Or it could be someone who's viewed as a strong, technical asset to the organization, but who needs guidance and feedback to improve his or her "soft skills" and personal self-awareness in dealing with others.
An executive coach might be asked to help a senior executive become more effective at strategy development and execution, or to help a new manager learn how to effectively manage a virtual or multi-cultural team. He or she might be asked to help a newly-promoted executive learn to manage an expanded array of job responsibilities or become more adept at delegation, strategic decision-making, communication, or managing through influence. A coach might also be retained to help an executive lead a major change initiative or to help the executive learn how to manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
Doing it right requires four things: strong sponsorship by the organization's senior leaders, careful review and selection of coaches, consideration of the range of coaching services to offer executives and managers, and appropriate matching of coaches to individual executives and managers ( "coachees").
Top leadership should emphasize the importance of executive coaching to organizational success. If you're thinking of introducing executive coaching into your organization, it's important that it be championed by the CEO. It should be introduced as a vehicle for helping drive execution of business strategy, as part of some large-gauge business or leadership initiative. When coaching is positioned within an organization this way—as a critical linkage to the success of the business —it sets the tone and expectation for what executive coaching is intended to do, and gives it a strong leadership stamp of approval.
Build a cadre of external coaches. As part of introducing coaching into an organization, it's important to build a base of expertise that your company is interested in making available to its executives and managers. The corporate HR department will, in many cases, have access to information about coaches in the local areas where a company operates. Look for coaches who have solid line-business experience as leaders themselves, advanced degrees in business or organization development, and who can relate personally to the challenges that today's business executives and managers face. As part of vetting coaches, the HR department should interview individuals to better understand their personal coaching approaches, their coaching philosophies, and the specific kinds of tools and assessments they use in their coaching engagements.
Decide on the scale of services to offer. Your company needs to decide what level(s) of coaching to offer executives and managers. Some companies, for example, offer a range of coaching options to individuals, based on seniority, specific job responsibilities, and other factors. Some limit coaching services to a stipulated number of meetings or hours over a certain period of time, typically six months to a year. In other cases, and particularly for senior executives, a company may offer a fuller range of coaching options that includes weekly meetings with a coach, administration of 360-degree assessments that are then used as the basis of initial coaching work, 24/7 coach availability, and "shadowing," where a coach travels with and observes a top executive in meetings with employees, other senior executives, and other stakeholders.
How the coaching process works
Once your company's coaching program has been put in place, coaching engagements typically follow a series of steps. Those steps include:
Step 1: Alignment meeting
Once a coach and coachee have been paired, it's critical that the HR department arrange a four-way meeting that includes the coach, coachee, the coachee's boss, and sometimes a representative of HR. These "alignment meetings" are designed to ensure that there is broad general agreement at the start of a coaching engagement as to what areas of focus the coaching will have. It should also be made clear that the specific subject matter discussed in one-on-one coaching meetings is confidential.
Step 2: The initial meeting between coach and coachee
In an initial coaching meeting, the coach normally outlines to the coachee what executive coaching is designed to do. The coach discusses with the coachee issues of confidentiality, accountability, and supervisor "report-backs" and together the two parties "contract" with one another for purposes of going forward.
As part of the contracting process, both parties make commitments to the other about the roles they will bring to the coaching process. Because coaching is best thought of as a "co-equal" process (an alliance of peers), the coachee must bring a willingness to discuss issues impacting his or her job performance and leadership of others, and be willing to invest time, energy, and attention to develop a coaching action plan with clear and concrete goals. For his/her part, the coach must bring curiosity, a willingness to ask probing questions, and the ability to challenge the coachee, when appropriate, to help that individual articulate a set of coaching objectives.
Step 3: Client assessment and goal setting
After contracting occurs, the coaching engagement begins in earnest. The coach typically queries the coachee about what his or her coaching goals are, and initiates the process of getting to know the coachee in more depth. In some cases, a coach will meet informally alone with a coachee's supervisor and sometimes with the coachee's direct reports, to further gather contextual information that can inform the coaching process.
Early conversations between coach and coachee often pivot around several core concerns:
» To what extent does the coachee feel aligned with the company's mission and values?
» To what degree does he/she understand its culture, politics, organizational dynamics, and history?
» To what extent does he/she feel aligned with his/her boss and colleagues?
» To what extent does his/her own management style match that of the boss and co-workers?
All these factors can directly influence an individual's success and effectiveness in an organization.
As conversations proceed over several coaching meetings, the coachee typically delineates four to six specific coaching goals he/she wants to pursue, given the organizational context in which the person works, and the nature of the position the individual currently holds.
Step 4: Determine measures of success
A key element in making executive coaching work is ensuring the coachee and coach agree on specific metrics that will be used to assess their coaching progress. Thus, a coachee who decides that one of his/her goals is to improve team leadership skills might decide to query their executive team about this at the start of the coaching process, and then again six months later. Or, a coachee who decides one of his/her coaching goals is to improve the clarity of the communications with their direct reports might agree to use data from a 360-degree narrative assessment conducted before coaching work begins, as a baseline for measuring progress with this goal six months after coaching begins.
Step 5: Create a coaching development plan
As the coach and coachee work to define development goals (and associated metrics and timeframes for accomplishing them), it's also important that the coachee develop a personal mission statement to drive their actions and shape their development plan. In addition, the coach and coachee need to pinpoint specific skill gaps in an executive or manager's background, and identify available training or leadership development (LD) programs that may be available to help address these skill gaps.
Today, there are many LD and continuous learning options that a company may want to make available to executives, based on needs determined in coaching discussions. For example, coaching may determine that a high-potential executive would benefit from a special set of rotational job assignments that expose him or her to other parts of the business, or that participation in a senior leadership program offered by a leading business school would help that person develop stronger skills in the areas of global strategy formulation, brand building, and business execution.
Step 6: Implement the plan
Once coaching goals have been established, timeframes for completion have been agreed to, and action steps initiated, it's important that the coach and coachee continue to meet on a regular basis to review progress in achieving goals, and to discuss issues of interest or challenge to the coachee as they arise. During this same phase of coaching, a coach will sometimes check in with a coachee's direct reports, or "shadow" his or her coachee, to see how the individual is applying ideas and principles discussed in coaching in real-life situations with employees and co-workers. Also during this phase, a coach may do role-plays with coachees as a way to address specific challenges.
Step 7: Evaluate progress and next steps
As coaching proceeds, it is clearly important for the coachee to provide feedback to the coach on how he/she feels the coaching is going.
» Is the coachee being successful in implementing his/her action goals?
» Does the coachee feel both supported and challenged?
» Has trust been firmly established, and is there good chemistry between the coach and coachee?
Because coaching relationships are co-equal, it's appropriate for the coach to occasionally ask the coachee for feedback, for example, by asking "Is the approach we're taking here helpful to you?" Good chemistry between coach and coachee is important because it creates momentum in the relationship, and binds the parties together in a mutual endeavor.
Step 8: Wrap-up — completing the formal coaching engagement
Most coaching engagements last from six to 12 months, sometimes longer. And they can involve different levels of service, depending on the seniority of a particular executive or the needs of a company or organization. That said, there comes a time when formal coaching engagements end; when the coachee has achieved good progress with their coaching goals, and structures have been put in place to evaluate continuing progress.
What makes coaching unique?
How is the coaching process different from traditional management consulting or training? Coaching differs from the latter function in several ways:
» At its core, executive coaching is a designed alliance between two equals—a "coachee" and a coach who work closely together over a specified period of time, typically six to 12 months. The goal of the relationship is to facilitate learning, personal growth, increased self-awareness, and achievement of specific professional or developmental goals in the executive or manager. The outcome of doing this is typically linked closely to improving a company's overall business performance, or aligning top leadership to promote better execution of business or organizational strategy.
» While executive coaches often bring specific subject-matter expertise and business-line experience to the coaching process, the principal role of a coach isn't to provide specific solutions or industry advice regarding business problems—as a consultant would do. Instead, it's to ask penetrating and powerful questions, to spark ideas and discussion, to challenge and engage the coachee, and to help generate insights and options in the mind of that individual that can create shifts in the person's thinking, awareness, and perspective, and help him or her more effectively deal with issues and challenges on the job. Such conversations become the basis for the coachee and coach to develop a leadership development or executive action plan, as well as specific metrics and timeframes for achieving performance goals.
» Unlike traditional training, the aim of which is to transfer hard skills or knowledge to executives and managers, executive coaching often focuses more on "people skills" development, and on helping technically talented managers and executives acquire a fuller understanding of their behavior, personal style, and impact on others. The development of "people skills" (e.g. emotional and social intelligence, right-brain thinking, strong self-awareness, etc.) traditionally has not been part of the curriculum at many business schools (though that is changing). Nor is it a topic that gets strong emphasis in many corporate training programs. Coaching, however, provides an ideal context in which this can occur.
» Target coaching efforts at your company's most important current and emerging leaders. Some people have the mistaken impression that coaching is primarily remedial in nature, offered to an executive who is derailing in their job or in danger of being fired or demoted. In reality, executive coaching is best thought of as a premium professional development offering that should only be extended to an organization's most vital and promising talent, as a way to support long-term success of the business.
That "T" factor
A final word: there must be strong trust and rapport between the coach and coachee for coaching conversations to be successful. Moreover, both parties to the relationship should come to an early consensus as to the scope of their coaching work, and the concrete goals that the coachee will strive to achieve.
Richard Koonce is a Director for the Ayers Group and co-author of Growing Leaders. He can be reached at Richard.koonce@ayers.com.
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NIH Translational Research Partnership Yields Promising Therapy
Jill Wechsler, Pharm Exec's Washington Correspondent
Jill Wechsler is Pharm Exec's Washington Corespondent
A potential treatment for sickle cell disease has come through the “valley of death” of early stage development due to support from a collaborative partnership established by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
A potential treatment for sickle cell disease has come through the “valley of death” of early stage development due to support from a collaborative partnership established by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The results of early clinical trials demonstrated sufficient effectiveness in addressing the underlying cause of this high-profile disease to attract commercial interest – in this case from Baxter International, which announced July 9, 2014 the acquisition of Mass.-based AesRx and its experimental drug Aes-103, a small-molecule, oral drug for SCD.
NCATS director Christopher Austin cited this accomplishment as “truly historic” for NCATS and its Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program and validation for its collaborative model for de-risking drug development programs. TRND forms public-private partnerships to conduct preclinical and early clinical testing of candidate drugs for rare and neglected conditions to the point where they will attract industry investment able to support large-scale testing, production and registration.
Austin credits the project’s success to a highly collaborative development team, which included scientists from TRND, AesRx, the NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIHLBI) and other NCATS programs. “Our partners were exemplary,” he comments, emphasizing their willingness to share data in real time and their considerable expertise.
The Aes-103 compound was not that promising to begin with, Austin acknowledges, noting that it has an unusual mechanism of action and faced difficult clinical and regulatory issues. Researchers have known the genetic basis of sickle cell disease for 65 years, but have not been able to develop effective treatments with low toxicity. Afflicted patients have a genetic defect that causes red blood cells to become rigid, which leads to clots and blocked blood vessels that can cause serious pain and life-threatening illness. The disease affects only 100,000 individuals in the U.S., primarily African-Americans, and 13 million worldwide, largely in developing nations. Despite its designation as an orphan drug, AesRx had difficulty obtaining private financing for development. That made it a prime candidate for TRND; Aes-103 was one of the first TRND projects when the program began its pilot phase five years ago.
The Aes-103 project will be developed by Baxter BioScience, which is being spun off by Baxter International to manage its $6 billion biopharmaceuticals business, stated Baxter BioScience CEO Ludwig Hantson. The firm’s portfolio includes therapies to treat hemophilia and other bleeding disorders - a good fit for a new treatment for sickle cell disease.
TRND now has 15 active projects supported by a $23 million annual budget. Several of the early development programs have been discontinued or taken back by biopharma sponsors, but Austin expects to announce the hand-off of additional projects in the near future – a signal that they have been sufficiently de-risked to move forward commercially. With many potential therapies for neglected diseases facing similar risks, Austin sees a “compelling need” for TRND to apply its model to many more untreated conditions.
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Rent A Dramaturg
2020 Conference Plays & Playwrights
Alumni Playwrights
Haas Fellows Program
Resources | Press
Play Penn
2020 Conference Deep Dive with Michele Volansky
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This course will meet to discuss each of the Conference plays, teasing out thematic links and talking through the Conference season as a whole.
Required Prep
Associate Artistic Director and Conference Dramaturg Michele Volansky will conduct a “deep dive” exploration of the six extraordinary plays in our 2020 Conference line-up. This course will meet three times to discuss each of the Conference plays, teasing out their thematic, structural,and character elements and discussing their progress during the Conference. Participants are invited to “attend” at least one of the six scheduled readings as a way of tracking the evolution of the play as a way of conducting their own deep dive.
Thursday July 9th 4:30-6:30
Discuss overall plan, BADLANDS and COVENANT
Thursday July 16th , 4:30-6:30
Update on BADLANDS and COVENANT and discuss MY MOTHER THE SUN and TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE
Thursday July 23rd, 4:30-6:30
Update on MY MOTHER THE SUN and TAKE MY HAND AND WAVE GOODBYE and discuss how it feels to fall from the sky and THIS MUCH IS TRUE
Online (via Zoom)
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April 15, 1469, three hours before dawn, the village of Talwandi, about forty miles south-west of Lahore, witnessed the birth of one of the greatest spiritual leaders of all times. When the child was born, a flash of light filled the home of father Mehta Kalu Chand Bedi and mother Tripta. And when he took his first breath, the child gently laughed like a saint.
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The first Sikh Guru, Nanak, was born into a society that was in the grip of religious orthodoxy and empty ritualism. Society was further crippled by infanticide, child marriage, subordination of women and a rigid caste system. A gifted child and deeply spiritual from an early age, Guru Nanak amazed his teachers by quickly learning the alphabet and the scriptures. He was soon composing poems praising God. Before he entered his teens, Guru Nanak started to question the traditional religious ceremonies and superstitions of people around him.
Believed to have attained enlightenment around the age of twenty-seven, Guru Nanak spent the next twenty-three years travelling as far as Sri Lanka, Tibet, Assam and Mecca to spread his message.
Guru Nanak and his teachings brought in a period of social change, and spiritual and religious enlightenment. His message was simple and based on ethics, social responsibility and, social justice. He asked his followers to worship one God, control worldly desires, treat everyone equally, work honestly, share with the less fortunate, and serve the community. His followers were also to refrain from all forms of external piety and ritualism.
Guru Nanak was a divinely inspired poet. His teachings come to us in 974 hymns composed by him. This divine poetry is compiled in the Sikh holy book Sri Guru Granth Sahib and is considered the revealed word of God by his followers.
This is the last volume of the five book series. It covers Guru Nanak’s return from his fourth udasi, or extended travel, and his time in Kartarpur.
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Richmont Mines Reports Strong Second Quarter Financial Results; On Track to Meet or Exceed Guidance Estimates
Richmont Mines
TORONTO, August 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Richmont Mines Inc. (TSX: RIC) (NYSE MKT: RIC) ("Richmont" or the "Corporation") announces operating and financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016, driven by solid results from the Island Gold Mine. The Corporation will host a conference call and webcast on Monday, August 8, 2016, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (details below). (All amounts are in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise indicated.)
Second Quarter Highlights
Company-wide production was 23,320 ounces for the quarter, an 11% decrease over Q2 2015, primarily due to the depletion of the Monique stockpile earlier this year. The Island Gold Mine produced 18,617 ounces of gold in the second quarter, a 24% increase over Q2 2015, driven by record underground and mill productivity of 911 tonnes per day and 878 tonnes per day, respectively, as well as a positive reconciliation (mined vs. reserves) of 19%.
Gold sold during the quarter was 24,888 ounces, a decrease of 10% over Q2 2015, at an average realized price of $1,628 (US$1,263) per ounce.
Revenues for the quarter were $40.6 million (US$31.5 million), consistent with Q2 2015.
Company-wide cash costs[1] for the quarter were $903 per ounce (US$701 per ounce), a decrease of 7% over Q2 2015 and below current guidance estimates. Cash costs for the Island Gold Mine were $766 per ounce (US$595 per ounce), a 20% decrease over Q2 2015 and significantly below current guidance estimates.
Company-wide All-in-Sustaining Costs[1] ("AISC") for the quarter were $1,330 per ounce (US$1,032 per ounce), in-line with Q2 2015 and within current guidance estimates. AISC for the Island Gold Mine were $1,038 per ounce (US$806 per ounce), a 21% decrease over Q2 2015 and significantly below current guidance estimates.
Earnings were $2.7 million, 8% lower than Q2 2015, or $0.04 per share (US$2.1 million, or US$0.03 per share).
Operating cash flow (after changes in non-cash working capital) of $14.9 million (US$11.5 million), or $0.25 per share (US$0.19 per share), both in-line with Q2 2015.
Richmont ended the quarter with an increased cash balance of $95.5 million (US$73.4 million), which includes net proceeds of $29.1 million (US$22.7 million) related to a bought-deal prospectus financing completed on June 7, 2016 and $3.0 million of net free cash flow[1].
Based on the success of the Phase 1 exploration program at the Island Gold Mine, the Corporation launched an aggressive 18 to 24 month Phase 2 drilling program of up to 142,000 metres, with an estimated 39,000 metres to be completed in the second half of 2016.
Based on the strong operational and cost performance in the first six months of the year, Richmont expects to meet, or exceed, the high end of production guidance and the low end of cash cost and AISC guidance. The Corporation will determine whether a revision to 2016 guidance estimates is warranted following the completion of a scheduled 3-week electrical upgrade at the Island Gold mill and the commencement of stope mining in the Q Zone of the Beaufor Mine, both expected in August. It is anticipated that any update to guidance estimates would be released by mid-September.
[1] Non-IFRS performance measure. Refer to the Non-IFRS Performance Measures section contained in the Second Quarter Management's Discussion and Analysis.
"Positive grade and tonne reconciliations, as well as record mining and milling productivities at the Island Gold Mine have driven better than expected production and cost performance in the first half of the year. For the remainder of the year, we expect Island Gold to continue its strong performance as well as see improved performance from the Beaufor Mine as stope mining from the higher grade Q Zone commences." stated Renaud Adams, CEO. He continued, "Our solid cash position and cash flow generation is expected to fully fund both our accelerated development activities and the Phase 2 exploration program that are currently underway at the Island Gold Mine, both of which could position this core asset for significant production growth and mine life extension."
Six months Six months
(in thousands of $, except per Quarter ended Quarter ended ended ended
share amounts) June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015 June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015
Revenue from mining operations 40,618 40,552 93,252 77,762
Net earnings per share, basic 0.04 0.05 0.19 0.14
Operating cash flow, per share 0.25 0.25 0.54 0.43
Adj. operating cash flow, per
share(1)(2) 0.19 0.18 0.55 0.36
Net free cash flow, per
share(2) 0.05 0.13 0.07 0.13
Revenue from mining operations
(US$) 31,521 32,977 70,104 62,945
Net earnings per share, basic
(US$) 0.03 0.04 0.14 0.11
Operating cash flow, per share
share(1)(2) (US$) 0.15 0.15 0.41 0.29
share(2) (US$) 0.04 0.10 0.05 0.11
(1) Before changes in non-cash working capital.
(2) Non-IFRS performance measure. Refer to the Non-IFRS performance measures section contained in the Second Quarter Management's Discussion & Analysis.
Operational Highlights
Quarter ended Quarter ended ended ended
June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015 June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015
Gold produced (oz) 23,320 26,314 55,689 52,173
Gold sold (oz) 24,888 27,566 57,127 52,357
Average cash costs per ounce
($)(1) 903 974 848 976
Average AISC per ounce
($)(1) 1,330 1,304 1,200 1,281
Average realized gold price
per ounce ($) 1,628 1,468 1,629 1,482
(US$)(1) 701 792 637 790
(US$)(1) 1,032 1,060 902 1,037
per ounce (US$) 1,263 1,194 1,225 1,200
(1) Non-IFRS performance measure. Refer to the Non-IFRS performance measures section contained in the Second Quarter Management's Discussion and Analysis.
Island Gold Mine Highlights
ISLAND GOLD MINE June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015 June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015
Cash costs per ounce ($)(1) 766 954 714 1,120
AISC per ounce ($)(1) 1,038 1,307 935 1,501
Realized gold price per ounce
($) 1,627 1,470 1,627 1,482
Cash costs per ounce
AISC per ounce (US$)(1) 806 1,063 703 1,214
(US$) 1,263 1,195 1,223 1,200
Underground tpd 911 759 882 656
Mill tonnes 79,924 71,584 155,830 115,369
Mill tpd 878 787 856 637
Head grade (g/t gold) 7.51 6.73 9.36 7.16
Recoveries (%) 96.5 96.8 96.4 97.0
Sustaining costs ($000's) 5,480 5,555 10,193 9,383
Project costs ($000's) 7,946 4,546 14,933 8,853
Non-sustaining exploration
($000's) 3,624 605 7,394 1,040
Sustaining costs (US$000's) 4,253 4,517 7,663 7,595
Project costs (US$000's) 6,166 3,697 11,226 7,166
(US$000's) 2,812 492 5,559 842
At the end of the quarter, the Island Gold Mine reported more than 5.5 years (over 2 million man hours) of operations without lost-time injury.
The Island Gold Mine produced 18,617 ounces of gold (20,147 ounces sold), an increase of 24% over the same period in 2015. As previously disclosed, the mine plan for the quarter was focused in lower-grade areas of the mine where ore development activities primarily occurred in the lower grade extensions of the second mining horizon. Overall, the operation reported a higher than planned mined grade of 7.51 g/t. The forward looking 2016 mine plan continues to forecast development and stope mining at grades of between 7.0 and 7.5 g/t gold, using the December 2015 resource model capped at 95 g/t gold.
Underground productivity averaged a record 911 tonnes per day and mill processing averaged record productivity of 878 tonnes per day. The higher underground productivity and grade realized in the quarter were primarily the result of a positive reconciliation (mined vs. reserves) of 19%, comprised of 8% on tonnes and 10% on grade. As compared to Q1 2016, there was a negative impact on mined grades as a result of mining wider zones as compared to reserves. It is expected that over the coming quarters drilling patterns will continue to be evaluated to best optimize grade and tonnage profiles.
The percentage of higher cost development ore versus total ore tonnes mined was 48% for the quarter, as compared to a planned 40%. It is expected that during the second half of the year the percentage of development ore mined will decrease to planned levels of 40% as stope mining commences in the second mining horizon.
Cash costs for the quarter were $766 per ounce (US$595 per ounce), significantly below guidance estimates and a 20% decrease over the Q2 2015.
AISC per ounce decreased to $1,038 (US$806), a decrease of 21% over Q2 2015. AISC for the quarter included $5.4 million of sustaining capital, comprised of $2.0 million of underground development costs, $0.8 million in electrical upgrades, $0.8 million of delineation drilling, $0.3 million for capital lease payments and $1.5 million on other assets.
As previously disclosed, a 3-week mill electrical upgrade was launched in late July and remains on track for completion in mid-August.
During the quarter, the Corporation spent $7.9 million in non-sustaining project costs related to the accelerated development of the deeper resources, which included advancing both the main access ramp ($2.6 million) and the east ramp ($2.0 million), fixed assets ($2.6 million), and exploration & delineation development drift on level 740 ($0.7 million).
The recent final update on the Phase 1 exploration drilling program demonstrated the potential to grow production and increase mine life both laterally above the 860 metre level, as well as in the vertical extension below the 1,000 metre level. Exploration drilling costs of $3.6 million (approximately 16,800 metres) were incurred in the quarter, completing the Phase 1 drilling program. The success of the Phase 1 program supported the launch of an aggressive 18 to 24 month Phase 2 exploration program of up to 142,000 metres of drilling.
Beaufor Mine Highlights
BEAUFOR MINE June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015 June 30, 2016 June 30, 2015
Gold produced (oz) 4,703 7,082 9,318 15,045
Gold sold (oz) 4,741 6,888 9,778 15,719
Cash costs per ounce ($)(1) 1,486 1,062 1,441 973
AISC per ounce ($)(1) 1,899 1,259 1,812 1,113
(US$)(1) 1,154 864 1,083 788
AISC per ounce (US$)(1) 1,475 1,024 1,362 901
Mill tonnes 28,281 36,914 57,599 66,665
Sustaining costs ($000's) 1,958 1,358 3,632 2,198
At the end of the quarter, the Beaufor Mine reported 2.5 years of operations without lost-time injury.
Production for the quarter was 4,703 ounces (4,741 ounces sold), a 34% decrease over Q2 2015, primarily as a result of lower than expected tonnes and grades mined in secondary Zones M-MF and 12.
Development of the higher-grade Q Zone advanced during the quarter with stope mining planned for the third quarter, which should contribute to increased grade and ounces produced in the second half of the year.
Cash costs for the quarter were $1,486 per ounce (US$1,154 per ounce), a 40% increase over Q2 2015. Cash costs are expected to decrease as stope mining in the higher grade Q Zone begins in the third quarter.
AISC per ounce for the second quarter were $1,899 (US$1,475), a 51% increase over Q2 2015. Sustaining costs for the quarter were $2.0 million, which included $1.0 million for capitalized underground mine development, $0.4 million for expensed exploration costs and $0.6 million of other sustaining costs. AISC are expected to decrease as higher grades stope mining in the new Q Zone begins in the second half of the year.
Underground productivity at the Beaufor Mine averaged 286 tonnes per day, modestly lower than planned levels.
Second Quarter and Recent Corporate Highlights
On June 7, 2016, Richmont announced the completion of a bought-deal prospectus offering (the "Offering"). Pursuant to the Offering, the Corporation issued 2,990,000 common shares at a price of $10.40 per common share for gross proceeds of approximately $31 million that included 390,000 common shares issued pursuant to the exercise in full of the underwriter's over-allotment option.
Effective Friday, June 17, 2016 Richmont was added to the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index.
Upcoming News & Events
Phase 2 exploration update (September 2016)
Potential guidance update (mid-September)
Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment and Technical Session (Q4 2016)
Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis
The financial statements and related Management's Discussion and Analysis can be found on the Corporation's website at http://www.richmont-mines.com or under the Company's profile on http://www.sedar.com and with the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Webcast and Conference Call
A webcast and conference call will be held on Monday, August 8, 2016 starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Senior management will be on the call to discuss the results.
Conference Call Access
International & Toronto: 1-416-764-8688
Canada & U.S. Toll Free: 1-888-390-0546
Please ask to be placed into the Richmont Mines 2016 Second Quarter Results Conference Call.
Conference Call Live Webcast
The conference call will be broadcast live on the Internet via webcast. To access the webcast, please follow this link: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=1221836&s=1&k=4BF022AEDB00EC80C28A6E55008FCE7C
Archive Call Access
If you are unable to attend the conference call, a replay will be available until 08:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Monday, August 15, 2016 by dialing the appropriate number below:
International & Toronto: 1-416-764-8677 Passcode: 882550#
Canada & U.S. Toll Free: 1-888-390-0541 Passcode: 882550#
Archive Webcast
The webcast will be archived for 90 days. To access the archived webcast, visit the Corporation's website at http://www.richmont-mines.com or follow this link: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=1221836&s=1&k=4BF022AEDB00EC80C28A6E55008FCE7C
About Richmont Mines Inc.
Richmont Mines has produced over 1.6 million ounces of gold from its operations in Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland since beginning production. The Corporation currently produces gold from the Island Gold Mine in Ontario, and the Beaufor Mine in Quebec. The Corporation is also advancing development of the significant high-grade resource extension at depth of the Island Gold Mine in Ontario. With 35 years of experience in gold production, exploration and development, and prudent financial management, the Corporation is well-positioned to cost-effectively build its Canadian reserve base and to successfully enter its next phase of growth.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that include risks and uncertainties. When used in this news release, the words "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and other indications of future tense, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and apply only as of the date on which they were made. Except as may be required by law, the Corporation undertakes no obligation and disclaims any responsibility to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements include changes in the prevailing price of gold, the Canadian-United States exchange rate, grade of ore mined and unforeseen difficulties in mining operations that could affect revenue and production costs. Other factors such as uncertainties regarding government regulations could also affect the results. Other risks may be set out in Richmont Mines' Annual Information Form, Annual Reports and periodic reports. The forward-looking information contained herein is made as of the date of this news release.
Cautionary note to US investors concerning resource estimates
Information in this press release is intended to comply with the requirements of the Toronto Stock Exchange and applicable Canadian securities legislation, which differ in certain respects with the rules and regulations promulgated under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended ("Exchange Act"), as promulgated by the SEC. The Reserve and Resource estimates in this press release were prepared in accordance with Regulation 43-101 adopted by the Canadian Securities Administrators. The requirements of Regulation 43-101 differ significantly from the requirements of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
U.S. Investors are urged to consider the disclosure in our annual report on Form 20-F, File No. 001-14598, as filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act, which may be obtained from us (without cost) or from the SEC's web site: http://sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Regulation 43-101
The geological data in this news release has been reviewed by Mr. Daniel Adam, Geo., Ph.D., Vice-President, Exploration, an employee of Richmont Mines Inc., and a qualified person as defined by Regulation 43-101.
Renaud Adams, President and CEO, Phone: +1-416-368-0291 ext. 101; Anne Day, Vice-President, Investor Relations, Phone: +1-416-368-0291 ext. 105
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Australian Paediatric Pharmacology Research Unit (APPRU)
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About APPRU
To address the imbalance between adult and paediatric drug therapy through the conduct of clinical trials which aim to improve the safety and efficacy of therapies for children.
To improve the health outcomes for children by providing and promoting innovative services, research education and advocacy in partnership with other health providers and the community.
The Australian Paediatric Pharmacology Research Unit (APPRU) is a specialised clinical trials unit). The unit conducts clinical trials in children to investigate the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs and medications typically developed for adults.
To facilitate and promote paediatric labelling of new drugs or drugs already on the market.
Up to 80% of medications marketed today are not approved for use in neonates, infants, children and adolescents. That is, most of the drugs that are prescribed for children have never been tested on children.
A doctor faced with a sick young patient often has two options: to give a smaller dose of a drug licensed for use only on adults or not to give the drug at all. In some cases, manufacturers or doctors' groups have recommended dose schedules for children, but in others they haven't. Then it's a case of relying on their own experience and that of others.
There is no easy extrapolation from adult studies to children because the physiological systems of a child are different from adults and the results of medication can be very different.
Based at The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH)
Experienced with:
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Clinical trials involving paediatric patients require additional consideration to protect this vulnerable population. Close review is given to every protocol and informed consent form.
Dissemination of findings
APPRU maintains a strong academic mission and encourages the publication of results from the trials that it manages. Its leaders assist with preparation and submission of manuscripts to peer-reviewed medical journals and presentations at national and international meetings. APPRU is committed to the sharing of new information that will contribute to the advancement of pediatric therapies.
Established to facilitate high quality clinical trials in children, the unit is run by a dynamic, multi-disciplined team of professionals who have extensive clinical trial experience. Staff in the unit have collaborated on many clinical drug trials involving various clinical specialties. These range from phase I to phase IV studies, single-centre and international multi-centre trials, and include a number of pharmacokinetic, bioequivalence and pharmacodynamic studies.
The APPRU is located at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, which has an international reputation as a centre of excellence for research and clinical practice. It provides a comprehensive range of clinical services and it is a referral centre for highly specialised areas such as cardiac surgery, genetics and intensive care. It has 250 inpatient beds and serves 32,000 inpatients and 248,000 outpatients each year. The RCH enjoys strong local community support, receiving donations of time and money from a variety of local charities. A yearly telethon raises several million dollars for the hospital each year.
The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) combines cutting-edge scientific and clinical research with first-class public health services. Its research covers asthma, childhood cancers, diabetes, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, nerve, muscle and bone disorders and adolescent health issues. The MCRI was formed when the Murdoch Institute and the RCH Research Institute merged in January 2000, creating the largest children's health research institute in Australia with more than 1000 staff. The merger brought together international experts in human genetics and genomics, paediatrics and neonatology, public health, education and ethics. The many scientists, researchers, doctors, counsellors and support staff working at the MCRI are the institute's greatest assets. Their passion for children's health and the quality of their research has created an international reputation for the MCRI. A not-for-profit organisation, the MCRI depends on the support of individual donors, charitable trusts and corporate sponsors.
A purpose-built clinical trials area is now well established. We provide a non-threatening and family friendly environment to clinical trial participants in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
APPRU has dedicated clinical trial pharmacists who have extensive experience in Clinical Pharmacology.
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When a loved one suffers a debilitating, persistent and chronic mental illness, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, those feelings can be compounded. Strange, unpredictable behaviors can be terrifying and confusing. Your loved one may suddenly rage at you with blame or be utterly dependent upon you for basic needs and emotional stability.
You may experience many confusing emotions yourself, including anger, grief, guilt, fear and sadness. As you struggle with each episode of illness and worry about the future, you may feel anxious and overwhelmed.
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“Loneliness,” writes Abigail Van Buren, “is the ultimate poverty.”
As humans we are social beings, but sometimes we lose touch with that social part of ourselves—or we don’t have enough chances to exercise it. When this happens, we may feel lonely and isolated.
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Loneliness is the feeling that we would like more connection, community and companionship than we think we have.
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We all have friends or coworkers who just can’t seem to sit still or stay focused. “I must have undiagnosed ADHD,” they joke. When you get right down to it, we’ve all felt restless, disorganized, or distracted at one time or another. So then, do we all just have ADHD?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)¬—once referred to as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)—is one of the most common disorders in childhood, affecting about 7.5 percent, according to the Mayo Clinic. But many adults with ADHD don’t even realize they have the disorder. They do know that everyday tasks—from keeping appointments and getting up in the morning, to staying focused and being productive—are a real challenge.
Adults who have ADHD have had it since childhood. The Mayo clinic states that out of every three people with ADHD, one grows out of their symptoms, one has symptoms that are less severe than when they were younger, and one has persistent and significant symptoms as an adult.
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It's not unusual to feel down during the holidays, but the blues don t have to ruin the holiday season. The first step is recognizing the symptoms and then taking some action and getting help.
So many people experience feelings of sadness or loss, of being overwhelmed at this time of year, even the name for it has become a cliché: the Holiday Blues.
As the name implies, these blues are seasonal. When the holidays are over, they'll probably disappear along right with the decorations and last of the Christmas cookies. But they are real and their symptoms can dampen an otherwise joyous holiday experience. Here are some symptoms and some solutions
• Families and family traditions change. Are you hanging onto old ideas or pictures?
• Media images of the perfect holidays seldom match anyone’s real life. Check your expectations against the reality of your situation.
• Over-indulging in food and drink will have aftereffects. So will lack of physical exercise, sleep and rest.
Life on a Swing: Bipolar Disorder
Causes and effects of Bipolar Disorder and what to do if you or someone you love has it.
We all experience a variety of moods, including happiness, sadness, anger and frustration. Having "good" moods, "bad" moods and fluctuations in moods is an inevitable part of life.
But when a person experiences extreme emotional highs (mania) followed by extreme lows (depression) and these fluctuations severely and negatively impact how they behave and function in their daily lives, a mood disorder could be the underlying cause.
Bipolar disorder (aka manic depression) is an illness that causes severe changes in mood, energy, thinking and behavior.
OCD: Do Your Quirks Rise to the Level of This Disorder?
Explores the line between interesting personality quirks and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and the effect of OCD on people’s lives.
Used in everything from creating eccentric TV characters to being the punch line on late night TV talk shows,
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often oversimplified and misused. But for those who suffer from OCD it’s no joke.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder where people experience obsessions and/or compulsions.
Obsessions are unwanted, persistent thoughts, such as about germs or intruders, or images of doing—or actual impulses to do—something destructive.
Compulsions are deliberate behaviors (washing, checking, organizing, hoarding) or mental rituals (praying, counting, repetitive statements) typically performed to reduce the anxiety triggered by the obsessions.
For instance, people with an obsessive fear of uncleanliness and infection may wash their hands repeatedly or refuse to shake hands or touch things that they believe are “contaminated.”
People who have an obsessive desire for exactness and need everything to be “just so” and “in its place” may be compelled to organize food cans by size and with the labels facing in the same direction.
What is PTSD? How do you know if you have it? How do you cope with it?
Ernesto just returned from Afghanistan where he witnessed an improvised explosive device (IED) destroy a Humvee in his convoy, killing his best friend. Now that he’s back home, he’s no longer the easy-going guy he once was. He has angry outbursts at the slightest provocation and uses illegal drugs to repress his wartime memories.
When Liz was seven years old, her stepfather sexually abused her. Now in her thirties, she wants to put the past behind her but can’t. She’s unable to establish intimate relationships and has frequent nightmares about her abuse.
It may not appear that Ernesto’s wartime experience has much in common with Liz’s sexual abuse, but it does. As a result of the trauma they’ve each experienced, they both now suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.
Top 10 Tips for Moving Through Depression
Connection, physicality, even singing; here are ten ways to lighten the dark.
The crushing blackness of depression can seem insurmountable when you’re in it. But there are things you can do to help lighten the darkness and even project a feeling of well-being and joy.
1. Stay connected with others. Isolating yourself doesn’t protect loved ones nor help you. Just being around others in silence is better than hiding away.
2. Set priorities and do what you can. Acknowledge (even celebrate) the completion of even little things.
3. Do physical work. Chop wood or scrub the bathtub or prune trees. Physical effort helps to shift emotional blockages and numbness.
Top 10 Ways to Chase the Winter Blues
Gray, rainy or snowy days and high heating bills can sink a mood. Here are 10 ways to lift your spirits.
Winter blues color the mood of those in the higher latitudes most often, but even residents of milder climes can experience a touch of after-the-holidays seasonal heaviness. Symptoms may include feeling a little sad, experiencing a lack of energy, boredom, and maybe some loneliness.
Following are ten ways to relieve those winter blues.
1. Exercise regularly and maintain a healthy diet.
2. Keep a regular sleep schedule.
3. Pamper yourself—massage, beauty salon, spa. Paint your toenails.
When Depression Is Mild
At some time during the course of daily affairs, nearly every human being experiences feelings of depression—sadness, discouragement, the blues. What can one do to cope with or alleviate mild depression? And when do the blues constitute a serious illness?
Depression/Disorders becomes a depressive illness when symptoms intensify and persist over an extended period of time.
The good news is that depression can be treated; the sad news is that nearly two-thirds of depressed people don’t get appropriate treatment. Even with all we know, some still believe depression is a personal fault or weakness, and that the person who is suffering could just “snap out of it” if he or she wanted to....
Some Symptoms of Depression/Disorders
• Persistent sad or “empty” feelings, feeling discouraged, blue or down.
• Negative feelings – feeling guilty, unworthy. Self-criticism or self-blame.
• Decreased energy, feeling fatigued, restless, irritable or lethargic.
• Increase or decrease of sleep, insomnia; awaking earlier or later than usual.
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Redlands Symphony Orchestra opens its 65th anniversary season
The Redlands Symphony Orchestra opened its 65th anniversary season with a Saturday night seduction — in the form of Richard Strauss’s tone poem “Don Juan.”
In spite of the reputation of Don Juan, one of literature’s best-known womanizers, this concert was not a one-night stand, but the continuation of a love affair with music.
For some in the audience in the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel, that love affair began many years ago. Others may still be in the early stages of getting acquainted with classical music, having the thrill of hearing some pieces for the first time.
But whether you’ve been married to orchestral music for decades or have just started dating the likes of Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok, there was music to love in the Redlands Symphony’s season opener.
After the passion of “Don Juan,” there was the Wagnerian spell of “Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music” from Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” and finally Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s lyrical and exciting Violin Concerto, which for me was the most seductive music of the evening.
In his pre-concert remarks, Jon Robertson, the orchestra’s conductor and music director, said it’s an adage in concert programming that a season should begin and end with barn-burners.
“We’re going to burn the barn,” he said, and not just one barn, but “a lot of barns in the neighborhood before this night is out.”
Redlands doesn’t have as many barns as it did in 1914 when a lot of the town’s polling places were in barns (for a list of Redlands’ Nov. 3, 1914, polling places, see the Oct. 26 100 Years Ago in Redlands feature in the Redlands Daily Facts), but there were musical flames rising from the orchestra Saturday night.
And at the end of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, a friend said it was amazing that soloist Marina Lenau’s violin didn’t spontaneously combust.
But before we burn Tchaikovsky’s barn, let’s go back to Strauss’s seductive “Don Juan.” This piece of music, composed in 1888, is significant in music history as the first tone poem, a new musical genre telling a story in music, according to the Redlands Symphony’s program notes. Robertson said it is also a very difficult piece for the orchestra, considered in its time the most difficult orchestral piece there was.
As for the story in the music, “it’s definitely rated in the latter part of the alphabet,” Robertson said.
The Redlands Symphony burned through the technical difficulties to seduce the audience with music full of Don Juan’s anything-but-subtle personality, contrasted with more lyrical romantic episodes. It was certainly the wild, passionate musical ride Robertson promised before the concert when he advising those in the audience to fasten their seat belts.
After “Don Juan,” we stepped back into the 1850s, when Wagner composed “Die Walküre,” part of his “The Ring of the Nibelung” cycle of operas.
I have said before that Wagner is not one of my favorites, and “The Ring” cycle has moments that are so well-known they can almost be cliches, but I opened my mind and found a lot to like in the Redlands Symphony’s performance of “Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music.” There are reasons why this music has endured more than 150 years, and the Redlands Symphony romanced Saturday night’s audience with every one of them.
That was another barn burned, heating up a rich German soup of melody and drama.
After intermission it was out of the soup and into the lyric beauty of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, the music of the evening that seduced not only my heart but also my soul.
This is another piece that is very difficult, especially for the violin soloist. In fact, because of its difficulty for the soloist, this concerto, composed in 1878, was not performed until 1881, according to the Redlands Symphony’s program notes.
Joseph Kotek, who advised Tchaikovsky on the solo part, and Leopold Auer, to whom the concerto is dedicated, both refused to perform the premiere, saying the piece was impossible to play.
It was not impossible for Marina Lenau, a Ukrainian-born violinist who is completing her doctorate in music at USC.
She and the Redlands Symphony made the difficult gymnastics sound satisfyingly musical and the lyrical passages almost painfully beautiful, and many in the audience broke out into not only applause but even cheers at the end of the first movement.
A three-movement concerto’s second movement is typically slower and more melodic, contrasting with faster first and last movements. The second movement of this concerto has a melody that made me feel Saturday night as if my soul was expanding — and that’s a very seductive feeling.
The final movement is fast and dramatic, and Lenau made all that fast, furious, difficult playing sound as musical as the slower, more lyric sections. Her violin did not burst into flames, but it would not have been surprising to see smoke rising from it and from the orchestra.
There was not a barn left standing.
The musical love affair continues Nov. 22 when the Redlands Symphony Orchestra will play Handel’s “Water Music,” Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 and Telemann’s Trumpet Concerto in D Major with David Scott, the symphony’s principal trumpet player.
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