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SUPER SOAKER CREATOR AWARDED $72.9M FROM HASBRO
LONNIE JOHNSON SUPER SOAKER CREATOR AWARDED $72.9M FROM HASBRO
The Atlanta-based company behind the Super Soaker water gun and Nerf toy guns have been awarded nearly $73 million in royalties from toymaker Hasbro Inc., according to the law firm King & Spalding.
Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson have been in a royalty dispute with Hasbro since February when the company filed a claim against the giant toy company. According to King & Spalding, which along with the A. Leigh Baier P.C. law firm represented Johnson, Hasbro underpaid royalties for the Nerf line toys from 2007 to 2012.
“In the arbitration, we got everything we asked for,” said Atlanta attorney Leigh Baier. “The arbitrator ruled totally in Lonnie’s favour.” The attorney also said Johnson “is very pleased” with the outcome.
Johnson could not be reached for comment Wednesday, nor could Pawtucket, RI.-based Hasbro.
The arbitration agreement resolves a 2001 inventors dispute in which Hasbro agreed to pay Johnson royalties for products covered by his Nerf line of toys, specifically the N-Strike and Dart Tag brands, King & Spalding attorney Ben Easterlin said.
In a separate breach of contract suit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta in February, Johnson accuses Hasbro of violating a 1996 agreement to pay him Super Soaker royalties of 2 per cent for “three-dimensional products” based on the appearance of the toy and 1 per cent for “two-dimensional visual representations.”
The suit says Hasbro sold water guns that were “visually similar and based upon the appearance of Super Soaker water guns that incorporate Johnson’s technology.” Johnson also wanted the court to force Hasbro to open its books to determine sales of Super Soaker products from 2006 to 2012.
Johnson, a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University PhD and former NASA scientist, founded his company in 1989. It was the same year he first licensed the Super Soaker, which generated more than $200 million in retail sales two years later, the company said. The toy was licensed to Larami Corp., which was later purchased by Hasbro.
Johnson holds more than 80 patents, with more than 20 pending, the company said, which said sales of the Super Soaker have approached nearly $1 billion.
As an Alabama high school senior, Johnson finished building a remote-controlled robot with a reel-to-reel tape player for a brain and jukebox solenoids controlling its pneumatic limbs, according to a 2008 profile in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After graduating from Tuskegee he joined the Air Force, worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Sandia, worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Mars Observer project, among others. He also helped design the Cassini robot probe that flew 740 million miles to Saturn.
He moved to Atlanta in 1990 before his Super Soaker invention made him wealthy. His inventions have included rechargeable battery technology and thermodynamic energy conversion technology
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Questions and answers about the Electoral College challenges
High Plains Pundit on January 06, 2021
Congress will convene for a joint session Wednesday to tally electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election in one of the last formalities before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
But the normally routine proceedings promise to be a tense affair this time around as dozens of GOP lawmakers have vowed to challenge the election results.
The Electoral College voted last month 306 to 232 to elect Biden as the 46th president of the United States, but Congress needs to record those votes before he can be sworn in on Inauguration Day.
The procedures for the final electoral vote tally are laid out by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and a concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate and House on Sunday.
Never in the nation’s history have both chambers of Congress voted to invalidate an election, or even an individual state’s electoral votes.
Lawmakers in both parties, even those who plan to object to some states’ votes for Biden, say they do not expect Congress to invalidate any Electoral College votes on Wednesday.
Nevertheless, it’s expected to be a dramatic day since it’s President Trump’s last chance to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A senior House Democratic aide involved in the planning efforts for the joint session said: “We are prepared for everything.”
Here are answers to the biggest questions surrounding the proceedings.
How is a challenge made?
Under a concurrent resolution approved this week by the House and Senate, two tellers from the Senate and two tellers from the House will take turns announcing the certificates of electoral votes for each state in alphabetical order.
After a certificate of electoral votes for Biden or Trump is announced, any lawmaker may stand up to voice their objection.
The objection must be presented in writing and must have the signature of at least one member of the House and one member of the Senate. It must state “clearly and concisely” the grounds for objection.
At that point, Vice President Pence, sitting in the chair as the president of the Senate, will recognize the objection as complying with the Electoral Count Act, Title 3, Section 15 of the U.S. Code, and order the House clerk to read the objection.
Pence will then instruct the Senate and House to withdraw from the joint session to deliberate and vote separately on the pending objection and report their respective decisions back to the joint session at a later time.
The vice president is required by law to consider the presentation of election certificates of all 50 states and the District of Columbia in alphabetical order. Objections to each state’s electoral votes must be debated and voted on one at a time.
Have there been objections before?
Yes. The last time a House member and a senator signed onto an objection to a state’s electoral slate was in 2005 when then-Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) and now-former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) lodged an objection to Ohio’s votes, which were decisive in former President George W. Bush’s defeat of Democratic nominee John Kerry.
The objection was recognized by Vice President Dick Cheney, who suspended the joint session so that each chamber could debate and vote on the matter.
A key difference between now and then was that Kerry, who had already conceded the race to Bush, announced beforehand that he would not participate in the electoral protest. He was traveling in the Middle East when the chambers convened to tally the results of the 2004 presidential election.
The challenge was resoundingly defeated by a 267-31 vote in the House and 74 to 1 in the Senate, where Boxer was the only person to vote for it.
The joint session for tallying electoral votes was also suspended in 1969 when then-Rep. James O’Hara (D-Mich.) and former Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) objected to the vote of an elector from North Carolina who had been pledged to President Nixon and instead voted for George Wallace, a candidate for the American Independent Party.
The objection was subsequently rejected by both chambers and the vote for Wallace counted.
In 2001, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) led a group of Democrats in objecting to the certification of Florida’s electoral votes, citing "overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to suppress voter turnout.” The group was unsuccessful in finding a Senate counterpart.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in 2017 led a group of House Democrats in objecting to the results in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. No senators agreed to partake in challenging the results.
When will Wednesday’s joint session start?
The joint session is scheduled to start in the House at 1 p.m.
About 10 minutes later, Pence is expected to recognize a Republican lawmaker offering an objection to Arizona’s election results.
The vice president will then ask if a senator agrees with the objection before affirming it complies with the law. After the clerk reads the objection, Pence is then expected to ask if there are any additional objections to Arizona’s electoral votes before the chambers separate for their respective debates.
Sources noted the timing could be subject to change.
How long will the proceedings take?
The proceedings will take hours, and possibly extend into the night.
If an objection gains the support of at least one member of both the House and the Senate, it will force a suspension of the joint session to allow each chamber to debate the issue for up to two hours.
Each senator and House member may speak up to five minutes and not more than once during those two hours.
Thirteen Republican senators have signaled they intend to support objections, which means they could fill more than an hour of debate time. After two hours it will be the duty of the presiding chair in each chamber to hold a vote without further debate.
The law states that “no votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of.”
That means Trump’s allies can delay the tally of electoral votes for up to two hours per state.
Trump’s campaign is contesting the electoral votes of five states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The entire process could stretch out for more than 10 hours if there are enough members from both chambers committed to prolonging the debate.
Will the electoral challenges be successful?
No. Both chambers must vote by simple majority to throw out a state’s electoral slate.
Given that Democrats control the House, and with a substantial number of Senate Republicans saying they will oppose objections which they see as an unconstitutional infringement on states’ rights, the effort is doomed to fail.
Even Republicans sympathetic to Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud acknowledge the effort is highly unlikely to overturn the election results.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) noted in a tweet that “If every Republican votes to disallow every Biden elector on January 6th, Biden will still be declared the winner by Congress. This is simple math, Democrats are in the majority and will vote to keep the Biden electors.”
Will the debate be public?
Yes. The debate in both chambers will be televised. The presiding chair of each chamber will put to members the question of whether the objection should be sustained and have the clerk read the objection.
According to House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) plans “to preside over any and all House debate considering objections.”
What is Pence’s role?
Pence’s actions on Wednesday are strictly bound by the Constitution and the 1887 law.
The law stipulates that the vice president shall only have the power to preserve order. It further states that no debate shall be allowed, nor any question considered, except a motion for each chamber to withdraw to consider an objection.
The 12th Amendment states that Pence, as president of the Senate, shall open all the certificates of election and “the votes shall then be counted.”
“The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such a number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed,” the amendment states.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday affirmed a lower court’s decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) that sought to expand Pence’s authority to overturn the election results of certain states.
City of Canyon selects Freese & Nichols to develop downtown master plan
Freese & Nichols, an engineering, planning and consulting firm was selected by the Canyon City Commission on Monday, December 7, 2020, as the firm that will develop the Canyon Downtown Master Plan. The Commission authorized City staff to enter into a contract for these services on Monday, January 11, at their regular meeting. “We had five excellent firms that were interested in developing our plan and after our committee’s evaluation and interviews with the City Commission, Freese & Nichols came out on top “said Jon Behrens, Canyon Assistant City Manager. Chance Sparks, Freese & Nichols Project Manager stated: “We are excited to work in Canyon because we see it on the edge of becoming something truly great! This area already has some great things going on, but you can almost feel additional energy ready to bubble up. It has a great history, a story to share and so many assets to leverage to strengthen its’ sense of place." Sparks would like Downtown Canyon to beco
House lawmakers on Wednesday impeached President Trump for his role in last week’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, capping an extraordinary week of violence, apprehension and partisan brawling in Congress just as Washington cranks up security in preparation for Joe Biden’s inauguration, just a week away. The vote was historic: It made Trump the first president in the country’s history to be impeached twice. And unlike the first debate, this time the president’s Democratic critics had support across the aisle. At least 10 Republicans joined every voting Democrat to approve the single impeachment article, which accuses Trump of inciting violence against the same federal government he leads. The vote was still taking place when this story was posted, but the vote total had cleared the 217 voted needed to impeach the president. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who oversaw both impeachment efforts, said Trump’s refusal to concede his election defeat — and his subsequent efforts t
Republicans change rules to maintain supermajority in Texas Senate
The Texas Senate approved its rules on Wednesday, including a change to previous rules that will reduce the number of senators needed to bring legislation to the floor from 19 to 18. Republicans lost their supermajority of 19 members in November when then-Sen. Pete Flores (R-Pleasanton) was defeated by then-Rep. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio). Lt. Governor Dan Patrick advocated the change to help Republicans last month during the Senate District 30 special runoff election, at which time then-Rep. Drew Springer (R-Muenster) said that he would support the rule change. The reduction to a five-ninths requirement follows a similar reduction to a three-fifths requirement, which Patrick also led in 2015 to help Republicans. Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) introduced the Senate resolution (SR) that included the five-ninths provision, SR 2. Hughes acknowledged that Republicans losing a seat in the body was a driving factor in the rule change. The resolution was divided into two votes, one wit
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Defensive prospects an area of strength for the Toronto Maple Leafs’ system
By John-Eric Iannicello
Photo: Carter Ashton is just one of a handful of young forwards the Maple Leafs have acquired over the past two years. (Jeanine Leech/Icon SMI)
The additions of defensemen Morgan Rielly and Matt Finn at the 2012 NHL Draft have bolstered what was once a weak point in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ system. They are added to a list of names such as Korbinian Holzer, Jesse Blacker, Stuart Percy, and Petter Granberg that are in the fold currently. Each player offers a different dynamic that should complement the team’s defensive core if they continue to progress in their development.
With a young NHL defensive core made up of names such as Dion Phaneuf (27-years-old), Carl Gunnarsson (25-years-old), Cody Franson (25-years-old), and rookie stand-out Jake Gardiner (22-years-old) at the NHL level, it leaves a few doors open for the Maple Leafs to bolster other areas of their roster if need be. General Manager Brian Burke already moved 22-year-old Luke Schenn for 23-year-old James vanRiemsdyk, in an effort to bolster a lack of true top-six talent on the Maple Leafs roster. A similar effort was made with the acquisition of Carter Ashton last February as the Maple Leafs moved big defenseman Keith Aulie to Tampa Bay.
Areas of weakness for the Maple Leafs system continue to be lack of high-end forward and goalie talent. The scouting staff has done a good job on the defensive end, focussing more on stronger transitional defenseman rather than big bruising defenseman of old, and the same will have to be done at the forward level. After a few years selecting the ‘pick and axe’ type players in the top-60 such as Tyler Biggs, Kenny Ryan, and Brad Ross, the Maple Leafs may be in a prime position to land a top-line forward talent at the upcoming 2013 Draft, which seems ripe with first-round quality centers.
The Maple Leafs AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, has experienced major consistency issues early on in the 2012-13 season. So far, the team has been a shadow of the club that made it to the Calder Cup finals just a few months ago. Even with the additions of Mike Kostka, Paul Ranger, Keith Aucoin, and Leo Komarov, the team has slipped to the bottom of the North Standings.
The Toronto Marlies saw the addition of two left-wing junior prospects this season in Brad Ross and Jamie Devane. With the lockout in effect both have suffered from a lack of playing time. Ross played in a few games with the Marlies, but was limited in ice time. He did however show his pesky style of game that has made him an effective forward so far in his career. Jamie Devane saw some exhibition action prior to the season and he was able to showcase his talent for the fisticuffs when he pummelled Hamilton Bulldogs forward Kyle Hagel.
Nicolas Deschamps and Jerry D'Amigo both returned to the Marlies this season looking to build on successful 2011-12 seasons. Like many Marlies, both have had consistency issues so far this season. Deschamps, after scoring 30 points in 40 games has only one goal in 10 games and has at been a healthy scratch. D’Amigo after a very successful playoff performance, has not found the back of the net yet this season.
At the OHL level, both Josh Leivo and David Broll continue to take steps forward in their development. Levio has continued where he left off last season although he is not surrounded by the same supporting cast. He leads the Sudbury Wolves in goals with 10, and points with 20 through the first 19 games of the season. He was also named to the Subway Super Series roster and will appear in both games. Broll continues to look for consistent offense in his game, now a fourth year player. Through the first 20 games of the season he has scored six goals and seven assists while collecting 23 penalty minutes.
Restricted free agent forward Marcel Mueller, who was a member of the Marlies the past two seasons, returned to Europe this year likely due to the lockout. The 24-year-old has performed well sitting third in team scoring for MODO (SEL) with four goals and eight assists in 20 games.
The center position, specifically for the Marlies, has seen many players playing the wing as the linesup continue to be juggled to find the right chemistry.
The two key forward prospects in the Maple Leafs system: 22-year-olds Joe Colborne and Nazem Kadri, have not had the starts many expected. As the Marlies struggle to find offense, so do Kadri and Colborne. For two players who were expected to compete for NHL positions, they will need to raise their level of play in the near future to help aid the Marlies out of their funk.
Another new Marlies addition who has been a bright spot in an otherwise dark start to the season has been the play of rookie forward Greg McKegg. Since the start of training camp, McKegg has drawn praise from many including Marlies head coach Dallas Eakins. He’s been used in a top-six role at points and has been one of the more consistent forwards for the Marlies.
Other rookies at the minor league level include Spencer Abbott, Sam Carrick, and Andrew Crescenzi. All three have been reserve forwards so far this year, with Sam Carrick being the lone forward playing at the ECHL level. Carrick has appeared in eight games with the Idaho Steelheads and managed two goals. Abbott, who appeared in three games the Marlies at the end of last season, has recently made the most out of his chance in the Marlies lineup. He scored his first AHL goal in his first game of the season on November 2nd against the Abbotsford Heat. Crescenzi, has yet to see game action this season at any level. He has an opportunity to return as an overage player with the Kitchener Rangers, but does not seem likely to return at this point.
Minnesota natives Tony Cameranesi and Dominic Toninato are more of the lesser known names in the Maple Leafs system, but have gotten off to strong starts in their seasons. Diminutive speedster Cameranesi is playing his freshman season at Minnesota-Duluth and has been used mostly in a top-nine role. Toninato, who will be joining Cameranesi next season at Minnesota-Duluth, sits second in scoring for Fargo Force (USHL) with five goals and 13 assists in 14 games. Both are considered long-term, five-year projects and are expected to play out their entire NCAA careers first before making the professional jump.
With the London Knights in the OHL, Ryan Rupert has yet to find the back of the net through 15 games this season although he does have seven assists. Even without a goal on the year, he was named to the Subway Super Series roster; however a recent shoulder injury could sideline him for the entire month of November.
Matt Frattin, Carter Ashton, and Greg Scott represent a group of key top-nine forward who returned to the Marlies this season.
Ashton, who had a strong offensive performance last year with the Norfolk Admirals, has not been able to produce much with the Marlies. He does however possess a strong cycle game and a willingness to go into the dirty areas. Scott is coming off career highs of 21 goals and 44 points last season. He emerged as one of the leagues premiere two-way forwards, but has also come out of the gate slow this season. Frattin continues to rehabilitate the knee injury he suffered in last season’s Calder Cup playoffs. Prior to his injury, Frattin had an astounding 10 goals in 13 playoff games. He recently began practicing with the club again and is approaching a return to the lineup. He is expected to play a key role with the club as the teams’ go-to sniper.
Kenny Ryan and Tyler Brenner continue to work on establishing themselves at the AHL level after spending last season in the ECHL. Ryan has already seen a few games this season and has made the most of them scoring two goals and adding an assist in four games. Brenner was one of the few Marlie depth players to find an ECHL affiliate. He is currently a member of the Bakersfield Condors and is among their most productive forwards.
Two of the clubs younger right-wing prospects at the OHL level: Tyler Biggs and Connor Brown have both had varying degrees of success so far this year. Biggs, the Maple Leafs 22nd overall selection in 2011, has made a solid transition to the OHL after spending last season in the NCAA with Miami (Ohio). He has nine goals, 12 assists, and 27 penalty minutes (including three fighting majors). Brown, who was selected this past June at the NHL Entry Draft, has produced extremely well so far with the Erie Otters, managing 16 goals and 12 assists through 20 games of the season.
As mentioned above, the strongest area in the Maple Leafs system could be the strength of their defensive prospects. This is mainly due to the additions of recent draftees Reilly and Finn, who have excelled greatly in the early parts of their junior seasons. Rielly is among the top offensive producers in the CHL from the backend with four goals and 17 assists through 22 games with the Moose Jaw Warriors. He is usually the most dynamic player game in game out, and is starting to focus more on becoming a complete two-way player. Finn has also shown great offensive prowess so far this year, managing at almost a point per game level. He also logs heavy minutes in all-situations for the Guelph Storm.
Another OHL defenseman not to be forgotten is 25th overall selection in 2011 Stuart Percy. The 19-year-old is looking to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2011-12 campaign, and is off to a strong start. He has five goals and 10 assists through 16 games this season while captaining the Mississauga Steelheads.
At the professional level, the Marlies have Jesse Blacker, Korbinian Holzer, and Simon Gysbers returning from last years squad. Juraj Mikus, who appeared in 76 games for the Marlies last season, decided to return to Europe to play in the KHL during the lockout season.
For Blacker, the second year defenseman will look to establish himself as a primary fixture with the Marlies. He has already seen an increased role with the club in special teams situations, but still has work to do when it comes to his overall game. At 21-years-old he is the youngest defenseman on the team.
Holzer to some was seen as the clubs most NHL-ready defender although he’s projected as more of a depth player. He makes up the Marlies shutdown unit with Toronto native Mark Fraser. Holzer has already matched his goal totals from last year scoring once through seven games this year.
Gysbers remains a depth option for the Marlies as he sees himself rotated in and out of the lineup. The 6’4, 210 pound defenseman is one of the Marlies more offensive minded defenseman over the last few years scoring an average of 30 points the last two seasons.
The Maple Leafs have a trio of other young defensive prospects plying their trade in Sweden. Petter Granberg has only appeared in two games for Skellefteå because of a nagging collarbone injury that he suffered first in late August. He is currently sidelined until mid-January as he recovers from the surgery. Tom Nilsson and Viktor Loov are both playing in Sweden’s Allsvenskan league again this season. Nilsson as a member of Mora has one goal and one assist in 16 games, while Loov, who was selected this past summer in the seventh round, also has one goal and one assist through 16 games for Södertälje.
At the NCAA level, the Maple Leafs have depth defensive prospects Max Everson, Eric Knodel, Dennis Robertson, and Andrew MacWilliam. Everson, who only managed four assists through 34 games last year, has one assist in five games this season with Harvard. Robertson, who is captaining Brown, has contributed three assists through his first six games. Knodel, who invites intrigue due to his 6’6 stature, has three goals and one assist through seven games in his second season with New Hampshire. MacWilliam returns to captain North Datkota in his senior year. The 22-year-old has two assists through his first seven games, while also amassing 27 penalty minutes.
The stable of Maple Leafs goaltending prospects is made up primarily of free-agent acquisitions. Ben Scrivens returns as the clubs starting netminder, but after a sensational 2011-12 campaign that saw him win the Hap Holmes Award for goaltender with the best goals against average, he too has started off rather shaky. He’s appeared in six games so far splitting time with both Jussi Rynnas and Mark Owuya. Through those six games he has a 2.82 goals against average and a .894 save percentage. Rynnas has appeared in three games posting a .98 goals against average and .968 save percentage. He also recorded two shutouts. Owuya has only made two starts, and has not faired particularly well, posting a 3.55 goals against average and a .833 save percentage.
The only drafted goalie prospect in the Maple Leafs system remains Garret Sparks, who the club selected in the seventh round of the 2011 NHL Draft. He has also battled consistency issues this season, and is relied on heavily by the Guelph Storm. He has appeared in 20 games and has a 3.34 goals against average and a .909 save percentage. He is considered to be in contention for the backup role for Team USA’s World Junior squad.
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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
N'Sync Not N'Star Wars After All
By Paul Davidson
Updated: 17 Jun 2012 11:03 pm
Posted: 11 Jan 2002 8:00 am
Last week, Star Wars fandom was all abuzz, as LucasFilm had confirmed rumors that members of the N'Sync boys' band would be playing cameo roles in the next prequel movie, Attack of the Clones. In one scene, several of the singers had been Jedi warriors, clad in robes and armed with lightsabers. In another sequence, they were extras in a Naboo crowd scene.
The online response from the huge Star Wars fan community was immediate and condemnatory; many felt that the independent, fly-in-the-face-of-convention sci-fi franchise was become just another pop culture marketing gimmic, and that N'Sync's involvement was another nail in its coffin.
This week, however, LucasFilm proved that it does listen to its fans. Because of the outcry and dismay expressed on various fan websites (notably TheForce.net), they made the decision to cut N'Sync's parts from the film. The decision was made public by an N'Sync member himself, Joey Fatone, who rang up a Florida radio station to say that his scenes had been scrapped. According to Ananova Fatone called up 93.3 FLZ's Carson Radio show and said, "I'm going to make it officially known [LucasFilm] dropped [the scenes] because people made a big deal about it. We're not going to be in it and I'm not going to comment on it any more."
Have you seen Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones?
In other Star Wars news, the first lineup has already formed for next May's release! The Seattle Star Wars Society, led by president John Guth, already has a short lineup in place at an area cinema. Participants plan to carry out work, correspondence, and pass the time with laptops and mobile Internet connections. For the full story, check out the Seattle Times.
Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones
Ten years later, the galaxy is on the brink of civil war. Under the leadership of a renegade Jedi named Count Dooku, thousands of solar systems threaten to secede from the Galactic Republic. When an assassination attempt is made on Senator Padme Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, twenty-year-old Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect her. In the course of his mission, Anakin discovers his love for Padme as well as his own darker side. Soon, Anakin, Padme, and Obi-Wan Kenobi are drawn into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
Franchises:Star Wars
Genres:Sci-Fi, Action, Family, Fantasy
Platforms:Theater, DVD, On-Demand, Blu-ray
Producers:Lucasfilm Ltd.
Distributors:20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Lucasfilm Ltd.
Release Date:May 16, 2002
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More Workers Complain of Bias on the Job
Experts say high unemployment led to a record amount of workplace discrimination claims in 2010.
By Venuri Siriwardane
Here's a labor law truism: When the economy heads south, employment discrimination claims head north.
A record number of workers and job seekers filed workplace discrimination complaints in fiscal year 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently reported. The number of charges—which workers file with the commission when they think they have been unfairly treated based on race, sex or other protected categories—rose to nearly 100,000. That's up 7 percent from the year-earlier period and 21 percent from fiscal 2007, before the recession.
Experts pegged the spike to a brutal job market, with workers arguing the recession has brought out the hidden biases of employers, who can now afford to be pickier when selecting a job candidate.
"When the pie shrinks, your selection criteria—why you picked this person over that person—comes under much greater scrutiny," says Merrily Archer, a former EEOC attorney under the Clinton administration, noting a similar rise in the aftermath of the 2001 recession.
The largest increase was among people who felt they had been discriminated against because of a disability, an uptick that may be linked to recent legislation that widened the legal definition of "disabled" and the EEOC's new education efforts on the topic—a hallmark of the Obama administration's deep interest in discrimination cases, Archer says.
"It could be that people are more aware of their rights now," says EEOC spokeswoman Justine Lisser, who rattled off a list of outreach tactics the commission has used under Obama.
Employers, however, contend that many of the discrimination cases filed with the commission are baseless attempts by workers with no job opportunities. They point to the fact that the number of suits eventually filed by the EEOC declined last year, from 314 to 271.
Archer, who now represents employers for the national labor law firm Fisher & Phillips, says there's a caveat to the data: Equipped with the largest budget in its history and an additional 300 staffers, "the EEOC has taken the most aggressive stance I've seen throughout my whole career."
That could account for the spike in claims. So, small businesses should have their hiring practices audited and anticipate bias charges before they occur, rather than have their workplaces become hotbeds of discrimination, she adds.
Among the report's other findings: Racial discrimination, the most frequently filed charge since the EEOC was established in 1965, was outpaced for the first time last year by retaliation discrimination. A worker can file a retaliation complaint if he or she is fired or treated differently based on previous allegations of discrimination, according to the commission.
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Hallgrímskirkja - Reykjavík, Iceland
The Hallgrímskirkja is a Lutheran (Church of Iceland) parish church in Reykjavík, Iceland. At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the largest church in Iceland and the sixth tallest architectural structure in Iceland after Longwave radio mast Hellissandur, the radio masts of US Navy at Grindavík, Eiðar longwave transmitter and Smáratorg tower. The church is named after the Icelandic poet and clergyman Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 to 1674), author of the Passion Hymns.
State Architect Guðjón Samúelsson's design of the church was commissioned in 1937. He is said to have designed it to resemble the basalt lava flows of Iceland's landscape. It took 38 years to build the church. Construction work began in 1945 and ended in 1986, the landmark tower being completed long before the church's actual completion. The crypt beneath the choir was consecrated in 1948, the steeple and wings were completed in 1974, and the nave was consecrated in 1986. Situated in the centre of Reykjavík, it is one of the city's best-known landmarks and is visible throughout the city. It is similar in style to the expressionist architecture of Grundtvig's Church of Copenhagen, Denmark, completed in 1940.
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There will be social distancing at the event, said Terence Roberts, Anderson's mayor.
He said the city is hoping to be able to screen Boseman's ''Black Panther'" film.
The Rev. Samuel Neely, a retired pastor who has known Boseman's family for years, has agreed to speak at the memorial, Roberts said.
Absent from the event will be Boseman's immediate family, according to a statement issued from his publicist, Nicki Fioravante.
"On behalf of the Boseman Family, we appreciate the community’s outpouring of love and admiration for Chadwick. The event taking place tomorrow evening at the Sports and Entertainment Center in Anderson was not authorized or organized by the Boseman Family. This event is a community celebration. It is not a funeral or memorial service and the immediate family will not be attendance at the event. We continue to ask that you respect the privacy of the Boseman Family at this time."
There is no ticketing information available yet because the event is still being planned, Roberts said.
We will update this story as details are made available.
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What Good Does The Global Forum On Migration And Development Do?
A line of Syrian refugees crossing the border of Hungary and Austria on their way to Germany Hungary Central Europe September. Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-NC-ND
Antoine Pécoud, Université Paris 13 - USPC
Here at the end of 2016, migration issues are once more the subject of heated international debate. Today, the media regularly depicts the innumerable deaths and tragedies of migrant journeys.
From December 10 to 12, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, delegates of about 160 countries met during the Global Forum on Migration and Development. Organized by the Bangladeshi government, this edition had the motto "Time to Act", focusing on better global governance on migration. Its aim was not to make decisions: rather, in this consultative process, states would engage in dialogue and draft the basis of a new international migration policy.
For those interested in international migration, 2016 has been both sombre and overwhelming. Fuelled by the war in Syria, about 4,000 migrants died in Europe and the Mediterranean region, making 2016 the worst year ever for migrants and refugees.
Calais's 'jungle' migrants on the move again in North of France, February 2016. Malachybrowne/flickr, CC BY-SA
In October, the French government tore apart the Calais "jungle". The massive camp that had provided temporary shelter for the numerous people seeking to immigrate to the UK, but who were blocked on the French side of the English Channel
In June Britain had voted to end their membership of the European Union- a decision motivated, among other factors, by the hope of reducing immigration by avoiding the EU's freedom-of-movement rights and rules.
November saw the election of a new president in the United States, Donald Trump, who has promised to build a wall at the Mexican border.
That decision is not new, but it will exacerbate existing tensions around Latin American immigrants in American society.
What the forum can actually do
The consensual and plush atmosphere of the Global Forum contrasted with the chaos and violence that often characterize global migration dynamics.
As its name suggests, the Global Forum focuses on links between migration and development. Its primary aim is to make sure that migration policies are useful for economic development of migrants' home countries such that, in the long run, people don't need to leave anymore.
Such a virtuous circle would first take the shape of a new policy for temporary migration. Such policies were widely used in Western Europe in the 1930s to bring Turkish workers to Germany, North Africans to France and South Asians to the United Kingdom.
After the oil crisis of the 1970s, the programs were dropped. Such an approach has since become unpopular as governments realized that working migrants often settled in Europe rather than returning to their countries of origin.
Today these policies seem to be in favour again. Canada for example, which used to attract permanent migrants, is increasing its hiring of temporary workers.
According to supporters, these programs present a good deal for destination states: they get a cheap workforce for fields that need it, like construction, agriculture, catering and personal care services. For out-migration countries, these programs help them regulate their labor markets and encourage remittances.
According to the World Bank, global remittances - cash flows from country to country - amount for more than US$440 billion a year, and more than the total sum of development aid. In Senegal or Philippines, for example, it represents over 10% of GDP.
Such programs could be an alternative to irregular immigration which is today the main drive behind hiring of migrant workers. As a reminder, in the US, 5% of working population is comprised of clandestine workers, mainly Mexicans.
The forum also insists on the many advantages of security rights and labor protection, so that workers will not be forced to work illegally, under the rules of the black market.
A sensitive but necessary cooperation
But for these policies to work, states must cooperate. And this is the other major objective of this forum. For instance, countries that recruit migrant workers need to be assured that their states of origin will take them back at the end of their stay. Out-migration states also need to ensure that other countries do not attract too significant a portion of necessary workers. In Kenya for example, 600 doctors are trained annually, but 30% to 40% of them immediately leave the country to work abroad, which is a major issue for public health there.
Many Kenyan doctors have joined US army research programs. US Africa/Flickr, CC BY-SA
This cooperation is sensitive; migration is a sovereignty issue. Even within the EU, where state cooperation is very high, members are not keen to adopt a common migration policy.
It is indeed interesting to notice that the Global Forum is organized by countries, and not by the UN, because governments fear the interference of this international organization in their national policies. Developed countries are concerned that their Global South neighbors could use the UN influence to criticize the way their countrymen are treated and question local governance over immigrants.
This forum was thus only one step in long reflection that should lead to a common and consultative global migration policy. Like trade or climate change, migration is transnational. Yet it is not the subject of real international cooperation. This year's forum is not the first nor the only step in this process: it is its 9th edition, and the UN has been meeting on these issues since the early 2000s.
Last September, the UN organised a conference called Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. Similarly, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015, bring up for the first time a strong commitment regarding migration. Goal 10 is to:
Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well managed migration policies
A meeting of cynics ?
Not everyone is convinced by the sincerity of the process. After all, the same states that build walls and exclude migrants by any means possible send their envoys to Bangladesh to discuss the urgency of migration policies.
But perhaps states will take seriously the propositions put forward by the Global Forum. It's possible that its aims, seemingly charitable, actually hide a political agenda, focused on the necessity of organizing international labor mobility.
We should remember that goods and capital cross borders very easily, while labor often stays stuck at national frontiers. This situation is unsustainable. Though industrial work can be outsourced to countries with cheaper labor, the same is not true for other professions such as cleaning services or construction. Consequently, even developed economies need low-skilled labour.
These considerations have played a significant role in the German decision regarding generous refugee policies since 2015: feeding, housing, training, offering health care services and shelter for a cost a little over 86.2 billion dollars in the next four years.
Migrant workers in sweet potato fields in North Carolina, United States. Gerry Dincher/Flickr, CC BY-ND
Often, the political answer to this dilemma is black market labor and irregular immigration, which creates controversy and tension. Global governance on migration policies would create an alternative, based on the necessary circulation of workers but under strict conditions controlled by countries.
It would also initiate a strong competition for workers worldwide and, with it, mounting pressure on labor rights and protections. Under cover of making migration policies a tool for sustainable development, the Global Forum would actually push a free-market economic agenda, which would control borders, security and grant access to a flexible, unprotected labor force.
Unions have always been careful on this point, insisting on giving migrants the same social rights and protection that national citizens and workers enjoy in order to avoid a "dumping" of labour.
Without jumping to conclusions about the intentions of the countries meeting in Dhaka, I would underline one fact: current migration policies are failing, and new approaches must be found. A multi-nation forum may or may not be the best frame or solution. But it is a sufficient and necessary step for making progress on the issues. The Global Forum must be seen as more than an obscure meeting, disconnected from the sharp realities it is supposed to address.
Antoine Pécoud, Professeur de sociologie, Université Paris 13 - USPC
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As virus cases spike, financial outlook for airlines dims
A shelter is seen at the Thomas Dixon Aircraft Observation Area as a Southwest Airlines flight from Jacksonville, Fla., makes its landing approach onto Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in Glen Burnie, Md. With coronavirus cases spiking in the U.S. and Europe, the financial outlook of the world’s airlines is getting worse. The International Air Transport Association said Tuesday that around the world, airlines will lose more than $157 billion this year and next. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
With coronavirus cases spiking in the U.S. and Europe, the financial outlook of the world’s airlines is getting worse.
Airlines will lose more than $157 billion over this year and next because of the pandemic, their main trade group said on Tuesday,
The forecast from the International Air Transport Association was worse than the group’s June estimate of $100 billion in losses for the two years.
The latest estimate breaks down to airlines losing $66 for every passenger carried this year.
However, the trade group now sees a quicker recovery. It said airlines will begin taking in more cash than they spend in the fourth quarter of 2021, earlier than it had previously forecast, on the belief that travel will increase as COVID-19 vaccines becomes available.
U.S. airline stocks rose Tuesday on further encouraging news about vaccines. But industry officials are pressuring governments around the world to move more quickly by lifting travel restrictions for passengers who test negative for the new coronavirus.
“We cannot wait for the vaccine that will not be fully available before mid-2021,” said the trade group’s chief, Alexandre de Juniac. “We need testing in the meantime.”
Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr called passenger testing “a bridge toward the vaccination of travelers.”
Airlines and airports have launched trial testing programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and elsewhere. It is unclear, however, whether test results will ever replace quarantines and other restrictions.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said that once vaccines are widely available, the Australian carrier will likely require cross-border travelers to show proof of vaccination.
Last year, airlines carried 4.5 billion passengers, according to the trade group. It estimates that number will plunge to 1.8 billion this year, then rise to 2.8 billion next year. Passenger revenue is expected to decline 69% this year, but cargo loads are expected to rise next year partly from the shipment of vaccines.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Benjamin de Rothschild, who oversaw the banking empire started by his father in 1953, has died. He was 57.
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GM to build electric delivery vans in Canada
NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors plans to spend $800 million to turn a Canadian SUV plant into one that will make electric delivery vans.
Work on the plant, which is in Ingersoll, Ontario, will start immediately and take two years. The plant currently makes Chevrolet Equinox SUVs.
MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (AP) — Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling more than 762,000 pounds of pepperoni Hot Pockets, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
The frozen stuffed sandwiches — shipped to retail stores nationwide — are being recalled because they “may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of glass and hard plastic,” the USDA said Friday.
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Houston blast prompts safety debate in city with no zoning
by: JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press
Posted: Feb 15, 2020 / 10:28 AM EST / Updated: Feb 15, 2020 / 12:16 PM EST
In this Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, photo, Houston resident Guadalupe Ortiz takes her daily walk at a city park located across the street from her home and a Valero oil refinery. Houston’s lack of zoning has resulted in residents like Ortiz living next to petrochemical facilities and businesses that handle hazardous substances. (AP Photo/ Juan Lozano)
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s lack of zoning restrictions has left many residents with neighbors they don’t want: petrochemical facilities and businesses that handle hazardous materials.
That unease was laid bare again last month when a massive explosion leveled a metal fabricating and manufacturing business in the northwest of the city, killing two workers, damaging hundreds of nearby buildings and homes, and terrifying their occupants.
Quan Nguyen, a 49-year-old plumbing, heating and air conditioning technician whose house is a few hundred yards (meters) from Watson Grinding and Manufacturing, said the Jan. 24 blast knocked him out of bed and caused his wife to fall and hit her head while she was getting a drink of water. Some of their ceilings collapsed and the explosion shattered the windows in their sleeping son’s bedroom, but thankfully none of them were seriously injured.
“I feel like it needs to be separated, businesses from residential areas. If they (have) businesses around here with chemicals, probably they have to be maintained more often, more inspections for them,” said Nguyen, voicing a growing sentiment in a city and region that has endured six major industrial accidents in the past year that have killed three people, injured dozens of others, and forced temporary evacuations and school closures.
While the accidents have stoked the debate over zoning, it’s highly unlikely that the nation’s fourth-largest city is going to embrace major development restrictions. Instead, city leaders have begun discussing other measures, including requiring such businesses to submit to more frequent inspections and to disclose more information about the types of hazardous materials they are handling.
“We just can’t have these incidents occur without us looking for ways to mitigate future risk,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said recently.
Even modest new local regulations could face pushback from higher up, though, in a state that aggressively bills itself as open for business.
It’s unclear why Houston never adopted zoning, making it the largest U.S. city without it. It’s not for lack of trying, as there have been five attempts to do so in the self-proclaimed energy capital of the world since 1929, most recently in 1993, when voters declined to embrace zoning.
Lars Lerup, a retired Rice University architecture professor who studied Houston, suggested that the lack of zoning could have come about as a reflection of the state’s independent spirit, and the self-reliance and drive that many in the oil industry had. The lack of zoning has created a city with a “highly unique” urban environment, he said.
Although Houston has rejected zoning over the years, it does have various land use rules and other kinds of restrictionsthat amount to “quasi zoning,” said Matthew Festa, a professor who teaches property law and land use at South Texas College of Law Houston. For example, there are rules that regulate construction around the city’s airports, restrict where sexually oriented businesses can open, and set minimum lot sizes, which help restrict density.
Supporters of no zoning say it has helped boost Houston’s development and economic growth. But others, including community groups and researchers, say neighborhoods that are poorer or home to more racial minorities are disproportionately negatively affected by the lack of zoning.
In the southeastern Houston neighborhood of Manchester, Guadalupe Ortiz has lived more 32 years across the street from a refinery. The 68-year-old widow who lives off her monthly Social Security check said her dream of moving is unaffordable.
“I want to sell. But people will continue living here. Where will they go? We are poor,” Ortiz said. As she sat in a park next to the refinery and where she walks daily, white smoke billowed from the sprawling facility, which emits a constant mechanical hum that Ortiz says keeps her up at night.
The explosion at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing seemed to be a tipping point for many.
“It just raises questions about how safe are we in our neighborhoods,” Houston City Council member Karla Cisneros said during a recent meeting of a committee that’s discussing new regulations on businesses that handle hazardous materials.
It’s unclear what, if any, substantial changes could be made, as attempts could be challenged in court or by state officials who have shown an aversion to regulations. When the Environmental Protection Agency in November scaled back chemical plant safety measures put in place after a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas, killed 15 people, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton praised the decision, saying it would “make Texans safer … and restore some common sense to the regulatory process.”
Festa, the law professor, said he doesn’t think adopting formal zoning regulations is the answer because Houston is “pretty well-built” and it would be economically and politically impossible to reconfigure neighborhoods.
Nguyen, whose home was damaged in last month’s blast, said that although he wants more protections for people like him, he also wouldn’t want to drive away industry or jobs.
Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña, meanwhile, said he is hopeful that the city can come up with changes that will improve safety, adding it will take “being able to sit down and have a conversation as far as what do we want as a community in order to better protect our citizens.”
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Overview of U.S. investors’ appetite
Infrastructure Investor Research & Analytics profiles and monitors over 470 US-based institutional infrastructure investors. The largest investor groups are foundations and endowments (44%) and public/corporate pension funds (30%).
83 percent of US investors will consider investing in energy, making it the most preferred sector. Renewables and transport are also popular as approximately 40 and 29 percent have an appetite for each sector respectively.
North America is without doubt the first investment destination for US investor. For other markets, 51 percent will look into Western Europe, and 44 percent will consider Asia-Pacific.
US investors have continued to seek new infrastructure investment opportunities over recent months. Earlier in May, the $148 billion New York City Retirement System (NYCRS) announced that it had committed $300 million to IFM Global Infrastructure Fund and $200 million to First Reserve Energy Infrastructure Fund II (FREIF II). In April, the New Mexico State Investment Council (SIC) also confirmed its $100 million commitment to FREIF II. The Washington State Investment Board (WSIB) has also approved an investment commitment of up to $100 million initially, and up to another $50 million for follow-on investments, in the Fortress Worldwide Transportation and Infrastructure Investors Fund.
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Home News & Analysis Deals Ünlü secures $110m mandate for Turkey
Ünlü secures $110m mandate for Turkey
The investment partnership with a large foundation covers a number of asset classes including infrastructure.
Ünlü & Co, a Turkey-based investment banking services and asset management group, has secured an evergreen multi-asset investment partnership with one of the largest foundations worldwide to invest in Turkey, PEI has learnt.
The partnership, which has initial committed capital of $110 million, will invest in a variety of asset classes, including private equity, public equity, infrastructure, non-performing loans, real estate and structured debt including mezzanine-type structures, Utku Ozay, a principal at Ünlü Alternative Asset Management, told Private Equity International.
The majority of the capital has been provided by the foundation, whose name could not be disclosed, while Ünlü & Co also committed some of the capital. “The foundation sees Turkey as a great place to invest and they choose us as an advisor for the new partnership,” Ozay added.
The “partnership”, which is “somewhere between a private equity fund and a managed account”, is expected to be invested in the next two to three years. The partnership could be co-investing alongside other investors.
The firm hasn’t made any investments from the vehicle yet, but it has identified a number of potential opportunities, he added. “We may do one investment in 2014, but we will wait for the right time to invest.”
The vehicle will be Ünlü & Co’s second investment vehicle. The firm’s $100 million debut fund, which focuses largely on consumer-related sectors, is fully invested.
The partnership comes as Ünlü & Co is currently in the market raising its third fund, which will focus on small to mid-cap private companies in Turkey. That vehicle, which will target between $200 million and $250 million, is expected to hold a first close in early 2015.
Ünlü & Co, which was founded in 1996, provides a broad service portfolio including corporate finance advisory, debt finance & advisory, equity capital markets, global markets and asset management.
Ünlü Alternative Asset Management was founded in 2006 to provide advisory services to institutional investors searching for private equity investments in Turkey.
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$125,000 Settlement for Family of Deceased Car Accident Victim
K.B., a veteran with 24 years of service for his country, a loving husband, and a father of three, was on his way to work when a driver who was attempting to pass multiple cars illegally on a blind shoulder lost control and slammed head-on into his car.
He was airlifted to the hospital with horrific injuries, and although doctors performed more than seven surgeries in an attempt to save him, he passed away from his injuries after a long and painful struggle with pneumonia, multiple fractures, cardiac arrest, and kidney and liver failure.
Although K.B. passed as a result of this tragic car accident, his family remains dedicated to improving road safety in the hopes that other families will not have to experience the same painful loss.
Davis Law Group Helps To Memorialize Crash Victim
His loving wife and three children put up a memorial sign on the side of State Route 507, urging motorists to drive safely in honor of his memory. They also talked to the Washington State Department of Transportation and made sure that they re-striped the stretch of road where the accident had occurred.
The driver responsible for the fatal crash was charged with vehicular homicide. Although the driver at fault had no assets to go after, Davis Law Group was able to recover $125,000 from insurance to help the family deal with their grief and the loss of K.B.’s income and support.
We were able to recover $125,000 to help our client's surviving family deal with their grief and the loss of their beloved husband and father's support.
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Home Small Business RealPlayer Comes to Symbian-based Handhelds
RealPlayer Comes to Symbian-based Handhelds
By Bob Liu | June 28, 2001
Seattle-based RealNetworks, Inc. on Thursday announced support for the Symbian mobile platform -- the open operating system used in handheld devices manufactured by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Psion, and Panasonic.
As part of the alliance, London-based Symbian and RealNetworks will work together to bring multimedia to mobile solutions developed on the Symbian operating system. RealNetworks has become a member of the Symbian Technology Partner Program.
RealNetworks has also announced the commercial availability of RealPlayer Mobile for the Symbian OS. RealPlayer Mobile is the mobile version of the popular desktop media player software and is now fully optimized for Symbian OS version 6.
"This is the industry's first substantive step in enabling media services to mobile phones, and it offers consumers a dramatic new dimension in mobile communications," said Mark Bretl, vice president, RealNetworks, Inc.
RealPlayer Mobile will be bundled with Nokia's new 9210 Communicator, now available in Europe. RealPlayer Mobile allows users to download and play back RealAudio and RealVideo on the Nokia 9210 Communicator.
"The mobile marketplace has taken a huge step forward with the commercial release of this groundbreaking mobile media solution, enabled through the combination of the Symbian OS, RealPlayer Mobile and the Nokia 9210 Communicator, providing the first mobile media experience available to business professionals and mainstream consumers," said Mark Edwards, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Symbian.
Demonstration content for the Nokia 9210 Communicator will be available soon on www.real.com.
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Rolls-Royce Share Price Chart Hints at Potential Drop to 90p
Written by Crispus Nyaga on Jan 05, 2021, 09:14 GMT
Rolls-Royce share price is up by more than 2.4% today becoming the fifth best-performing company in the FTSE 100. The other top performers are Next Plc, AVEVA, Shell, and DCC. It is trading at 105.70p, which is lower than December high of 135p.
What’s happening: There’s no news and analysts forecast about Rolls-Royce today. Therefore, the performance is mostly because of the overall optimism that the global aviation industry will rebound this year as countries implement coronavirus vaccinations.
Still, the situation is getting bad across the world as the number of cases continues to rise. In fact, in the United Kingdom, where Rolls-Royce is headquartered, the government has just announced another seven-week lockdown. In the United States, where the company sells most of its engines and services, the number of cases has also risen.
Rolls-Royce share price is also possibly rising because of the recent rumours from Airbus. According to Bloomberg, the company sold about 560 planes last year. That was close to the upper side of the internal target but it was less than the 863 planes that it delivered in 2019.
This report, if true, will be a positive thing for Rolls-Royce, a company that makes most of its money from its civil aviation business.
RR share price is also rising because of the latest Brexit deal. The deal meant that it will continue to supply its engines and other products to clients in the European Union without significant changes.
Read my 2021 forecast for Rolls Royce share price.
Rolls-Royce share price technical outlook
On the daily chart, we see that the Rolls Royce shares have been on a downward trend since December when it rose to 135.45p. This price was slightly below the June 20 high of 145.85. During this decline, the stock has moved below the 25-day moving average and is now along the 50 SMA. Therefore, a break below the 50-da SMA will mean that bears have prevailed, which will see the share price continue falling possibly to 90p.
RR technical chart
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Crispus Nyaga
Crispus Nyaga is a self-taught financial analyst and trader with more than seven years in the industry. He has worked for some of the biggest brokers in Europe and Australia as an analyst, coach, and course creator. He has a wealth of experience in equities, currencies, commodities, and global macroeconomic issues. He has also published for prominent financial publications like SeekingAlpha, Forbes, Investing.com, and Marketwatch. Crispus graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in 2013, an MBA in 2017, and is currently working on an MSc in Financial Engineering from WorldQuant University. When he is not trading and writing, you can find him relaxing with his son.
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Google Says Android Phones are Now as Secure as iPhones
David Kleidermacher, Google’s head of security for Android, Google Play and Chrome OS, has said that his team has been hard at work to make Android bugs a thing of the past, while adding that Android is now just as safe as the competition (via CNET). Considering that Android’s main competitor is the iPhone, Google seems to be making a pretty big claim.
In its recently published annual Android Security Report, Google notes that Android security has made “a significant leap forward in 2017 and many of our protections now lead the industry”. According to Kleidermacher, Android flaws have become harder for researchers to find and that Android OS now protects users from any malicious software.
Google’s security report also notes that the company is paying freelance bug hunters more money per flaw, which means it’s harder to find the flaws to begin with.
“As Android security has matured, it has become more difficult and expensive for attackers to find high severity exploits,” the report says. In other words, the low-hanging fruit is gone. That was reflected in the results of a major annual phone hacking event, Mobile Pwn2Own: In 2017, good-guy hackers didn’t win rewards for any core Android flaws.
“As a global, open-source project, Android has a community of defenders collaboratively locating the deeper vulnerabilities and developing mitigations,” the report says. “This community may be orders of magnitude larger and more effective than a closed-source project of a similar scale.”
Kleidermacher also noted that Google has come a long way in getting phone makers to provide regular updates, and that it’s going to improve further in 2018.
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This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 1 month, 1 week ago by madge45.
JillWill
Apparently there was a survey of population in Ireland taken on the 16th November 1941. I have been shown references to it in the Irish Times. It appears to be somewhat similar to the 1939 Register in England. I was told another one was also taken in 1943. Do the records survive? Is it possible to access them?
November 11, 2018 at 5:24 pm #12116
I have since learnt that Steven Smyrl wrote a letter on behalf of CIGO to the Irish Times in November 2000 seeking information on this and the subsequent population surveys http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/emergency-ration-register-1.682620 However no further information was forthcoming.
November 12, 2018 at 9:03 am #12117
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The Population Registers were the equivalent to the UK’s National Register; but unlike the UK, several were compiled during The Emergency (as the war was referred to in Ireland). This appears to have been because the Population Register was not updated, but static. Thus changes of address and births and deaths necessitated the collection of up-to-date data.
The first were compiled in 1941 and then subsequent canvasses were taken in 1943, 1947 and possibly 1951. The data noted was each person’s name, occupation and date of birth. The data was collated by address on the night of the canvas. However, unlike the UK, where an individual was away from home on the set night their permanent address was recorded too.
Despite making extensive enquiries I have been unable so far to establish the fate of the Population Registrars and it seems likely that they have been destroyed. Assumedly, each earlier register was pulped after the subsequent one was compiled.
Although they were not census enumerations, the system followed for gathering the data was borrowed from the census. All personal data was noted on ‘Form As’, which were household schedules, and statistics and lists of the household returns (noting each head of household’s name) were recorded by street or townland on ‘Form Bs’.
Enquiries have established that the Central Statistics Office retains some – possibly all – of the statistical ‘Form Bs’ but not the vital ‘Form As’.
December 6, 2020 at 7:14 pm #15953
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That would be a very valuable record to get our hands on.
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Dublin’s Chinese community delighted with new year celebrations
Mayor briefly hands over the reins as festival marking year of the pig begins
Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 21:13 Updated: Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 21:17
Simon Foy
The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival programme has been launched and runs from 1 – 13 February. 2019 celebrates The Year of the Earth Pig, which represents overall good fortune wealth and prosperity. Video: Bryan O’Brien
Juliana McAllen (12), Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring and Guanhui Liu (6) during the launch of the programme for the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival on Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Dragons, pigs and people dressed in traditional Chinese clothing descended on Temple Bar on Tuesday afternoon to launch the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival for 2019 which coincides with the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Ireland and China.
Chinese people worldwide, including almost 18,000 Chinese citizens living in Ireland, will celebrate the year of the pig in 2019.
Members of the Chinese community in Ireland expressed their delight at the growth of the celebrations in recent years.
Dario Dai, originally from Fujian Province in southeast China who moved to Ireland more than 15 years ago and now owns a pizza restaurant in Newbridge, Co Kildare, said: “Chinese New Year is getting bigger and bigger in Ireland, which is great. It is very, very important to Chinese people – it’s just like Christmas for Irish people. It is a time for family.”
Connie Xintong Dai (11) with a piglet at the launch of the programme for the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Angela Chun Zhu Wang, an art lecturer at UCD’s Confucius Institute from Shenyang city near Beijing who has lived in Ireland since 2001, said: “When I came in 2001, not many people knew about Chinese New Year. And now when I meet my friends they often ask what [zodiac] animal it is this year.”
“I’ve found that the Irish government and the Irish people are more likely to celebrate Chinese New Year now. Everybody knows what it is,” she added.
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She also commented on China’s growing presence in international affairs and said she is “very proud that China is getting stronger and stronger”. “China has opened the door to the world now”, she said.
This year also marks a number of important anniversaries for China and its relationship with Ireland.
Jieyuan Liu (9) and Chinese ambassador to Ireland Yue Xiaoyong with a piglet during the launch of the programme for the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival. This year will celebrate the year of the pig. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Speaking to The Irish Times, the Chinese ambassador to Ireland Yue Xiaoyong, said: “It is a very important year. This is the year when the People’s Republic of China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of our country and we are also going to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Ireland.”
“So the coming year, the year of the pig, in China’s tradition and culture is the year of prosperity, stability and security. This year we are going to expect that new and greater achievements will be obtained between Dublin and Beijing and between China and Ireland,” said Mr Yue.
Dublin Lord Mayor Nial Ring said the festival was “a great opportunity for Dublin people to see more of what the Chinese people have to offer our city as it becomes more cosmopolitan”.
“It’s a unique way of seeing other cultures. The Chinese have a wonderful culture. You can see here the colourfulness and the carnival atmosphere. I just want to make sure that everyone in Dublin can share in that.”
Mr Ring, who held one of the piglets on his lap at the launch and briefly put his chain of office around it, added jokingly: “Some people might say the Lord Mayor is a pig. The little pig was allowed wear the chain of office for a while. I think it’s only five days old and has already reached great heights in Dublin. It took me 59 years to get to here.”
Organisers of the Dublin festival, which will run from February 1st to February 17th, have said this year’s festival will be “the largest and most spectacular programme to date”.
“This will be the 12th edition of the festival and also the year where we celebrate the 12th zodiac animal, the pig. We are coming full circle so it’s a very exciting year for us,” said the festival producer Aimée van Wylick.
The festival will include more than 80 events across the city in February such as workshops in dumpling making, calligraphy and Chinese flower arrangements along with other events such as film screenings and lectures.
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Examining The Criminal Code in Pre-Code Hollywood
This month, TCM has been devoting every Friday to one of my favorite eras in film history, Pre-Code Hollywood. The peculiar and intriguing 4-5 years that represent the roughly defined period, beginning around 1929-1930 and ending in the summer of 1934 when the Production Code Administration (PCA) announced that all films released after July 1, 1934 required a seal of approval, were highlighted by movies that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on-screen entertainment for the masses in regards to sex, nudity, violence, and other potentially objectionable ideas and themes.
The official looking 1934 Code.
Ironically, the term 'Pre-Code' is technically a misnomer. In actuality, attempts to wrangle regulations in one place to assure morality, as opposed to each state censor board making different cuts to every film released in each state, stretched back a few years. In 1927, a list that would become referred to as the "Don'ts and Be Carefuls" was written in collaboration with Will Hays, who was hired by the studios to help with Hollywood's image, and studio employees. Two years later, Martin Quigley, editor of the Motion Picture Herald, and Jesuit priest Daniel Lord devised a set of rules which was actually signed and agreed upon in 1930 after revisions by studio heads. However, despite the earnest attempts and existence of these documents, studios basically ignored the suggestions (as they saw them at the time); furthermore, inadequate power and authority hindered actual enforcement.
Though Pre-Code Hollywood is one of my favorite eras, it's not often that I get to watch movies from the period on the big screen. Personally, I'm drawn to the racier dramas, which are always fun to watch with an audience, and I've seen a few over the years, including The Story of Temple Drake (1933) at MoMA, Tarnished Lady (1931) at Lincoln Center, and Bed of Roses (1933) and The Age of Consent (1932) at UCLA. (Note: What great Pre-Code titles!).
Perhaps the most unattractively painted/drawn image of Miriam Hopkins ever.
Though the subject of sex saturates a large sampling of Pre-Code pictures, the period was also well-known for a stark, rampant representation of violence, and most people today remember the classic gangster movies produced during this time, including Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932). Sharing the same rebellious nature as gangster films and reflecting a "wary attention to the mechanisms of social control" in "a nation on the brink of chaos," according to Thomas Doherty, was the prison picture, a visual collision of violence and social themes which manifested heavily as a result of the hardest years of the Great Depression (158).
Represented first by The Big House (1930) and further exemplified in movies such as I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) and 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), the prison genre solicited mixed emotions and varying levels of appeal from different parts of the public. On one hand, Doherty observed that life within prison walls wielded a "certain perverse appeal for free men facing an open-ended term of economic entrapment. Viewed from outside...an environment with commodious shelter, three squares, and no breadwinner responsibilities might be worth going over the wall into" (158).
On the other hand, certain types of patrons were rather turned off by the genre, including those who represented law and order and many women. The former were fearful of potential uprisings in reaction to these pictures (whether in anger or imitation) and naturally showed some restraint, while the latter simply weren't as attracted to these films, which Doherty characterized as "male-dominated" and "so casually cruel, so bereft of boy-girl romance" (170). To many exhibitors who complained of this lopsided appeal and the lack of female attendees at these movies, their reception served to show the industry that "social conscience cinema didn't pay the bills as handily as social forgetfulness cinema" (170).
I can see why Wardens didn't like prison pictures.
The Criminal Code (1931)
The UCLA Film and Television Archive, in conjunction with the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program, presented a program of 11 recent restorations from Columbia in the 1930s during January and February 2014, 1931's The Criminal Code being one of them.
Ironically, the posters for The Criminal Code played up the female character and romance, neither of which is a large part of the film (though they needed female audiences somehow...)
An early Howard Hawks film, The Criminal Code opens with Robert Graham (Phillip Holmes) accidently killing another man at a night club. DA Mark Brady (Walter Huston) feels for Graham and knows that if he were representing him he could successfully secure an acquittal; however, as a representative of the state he must stick to the law and gets Graham a 10 year prison sentence.
Brady eventually runs for governor, but after his attempt fails he becomes warden of the prison Graham and many other men he sent up reside in. Meanwhile, Graham's sentence begins to wear on him, and one day during his work in the prison mill he collapses, at the end of his rope mentally and physically. Brady recognizes Graham from his conviction and takes pity on him, giving him a new position as valet to his household ajoining the prison, which includes face time with Brady's daughter, Mary (Constance Cummings) and the opportunity to leave the premises to take care of groceries or to drive Mary around (one time dropping her off at a train station, no less!).
Graham (Phillip Holmes) dropping Mary (Constance Cummings) at the train station. Yes, that's right. How easy would it be to hop the train with her...
With Graham doing well at his new job, Brady gets the ball rolling on granting him parole. However, after one prisoner squeals on an escape attempt, the rest of the convicts plot revenge, and Graham accidently witnesses his cellmate, Ned Galloway (a disturbingly bleak Boris Karloff), who also works in the Warden's household, murder the informer in Brady's office. Graham is found at the scene after the killing, and with the potential to be a free man around the corner, he must decide whether or not to abide by the unspoken criminal code and remain silent or turn Galloway in.
Walter Huston and Phillip Holmes stand out in their respective roles as DA/Warden and prisoner, and both do a wonderful job juggling the diverse emotional ranges each character demands. Huston, as Mark Brady, has the ethical responsibilities of both his jobs as DA and Warden to handle, as we see when he grapples with the burden of Graham's conviction early in the film and later when he witnesses firsthand the consequences of his actions in the prison yard. Though his obligation to uphold the law may cause some grief for his conscience, Brady stands strong with the prisoners, as seen in the excellent scene in which he takes his first stroll as Warden through the courtyard; his powerful presence and confidence alone quells whatever potential outburst may have occurred, with nary a word from him.
Warden Brady (Walter Huston) commanding respect, or something that resembles it, walking among the convicts, many of them sent there by him.
Though he exudes a strong and secure manner publicly, Brady continues to grapple with himself, especially after the escape plan is uncovered and one of the escapees is killed in the process: how should he protect the informer from the rest of the cons, who are sure to make him pay for turning his back on his fellow men? Brady deals with this disturbing situation in a way that is selfish yet realistic, as one murder, and the potential for another, won't look good on his record.
On the other side of the story is Graham, played by Phillip Holmes, who seamlessly transitions from naive young man to emotionally wrought inmate to diligent worker in love to silent, beaten down protector. He grows to acknowledge the prison family he has formed, especially after he witnesses the terrifying effect the prisoner's collective force has on the inmate who botched the escape plan. That man's fanatical, and completely legitimate, fear for his life obviously stuck with Graham, and it is that anxiety, in addition to his regard for Galloway as his cellmate, that prompts Graham to keep his mouth shut after the murder. Of course, Brady knows Graham is innocent, and luckily, Graham's actions in the murder's aftermath earn him respect among his fellow convicts, which actually leads to the truth being revealed in another surprising way.
Graham, during his 'on the brink of losing it' phase.
Speaking of Galloway, Boris Karloff, whose facial expressions alone chill to the bone, undeniably steals the 2nd half of the film after he also lands a job in Brady's house, which provides him a chance to plot revenge on the informer on behalf of the prison population by drugging the Warden's aunt so he can slip away to commit the crime and count on her as his alibi. Karloff's devilish role here feels similar in vein to his famous monster movies, except for the fact that he looks somewhat normal (key word: somewhat). Even so, I would never want to cross him, in this or any other film!
Ned Galloway (Boris Karloff). Man or monster?
Writers Fred Niblo Jr. and Seton I. Miller, along with director Howard Hawks, masterfully captured the rough, no-nonsense atmosphere of the prison setting during this time period and all the apprehension that existed between the characters, particularly Brady, Graham, and Galloway. In regards to Hawks' direction, The New York Times review lauded it as being "for the most part intelligent and firm."
In an interview years later with Peter Bogdanovich reprinted in Howard Hawks: American Artist, Hawks revealed that many of the characters and situations found in the film were inspired by real life, which explains the feeling of authenticity found throughout the picture. In particular, Huston's character was based on a DA in California who was sentenced to a prison full of men placed there by him. Though in this film Huston's character wasn't put in prison but rather named Warden, it was the closeness to those he sent up that was the same, and several of Brady's actions were directly influenced by real events from the DA's time in jail. For example, the DA Brady's character was based on was housed in the prison hospital to ensure his protection, but he finally got sick of the isolation and decided to take a stroll through the yard, a scene Hawks famously replicated in The Criminal Code when Brady shows the convicts that he's not afraid of them. Another scene that stemmed from a true occurrence was played for laughs: Brady receives a shave from an inmate...who just so happened to be in jail for slitting someone's throat!
Not sure you want a con with a razor that close to your neck, Warden.
Hawks told Bogdanovich that in addition to using prisoners as extras throughout the picture, he also sat down with 10 real life convicts to discuss the ending; he disclosed that the men played a large part in shaping several scenes that were structured around the "convicts' code of not squealing" (51). The prisoner's stories appear to be quite accurate, at least according to observances by Donald Clemmer, who spent time as a Staff Sociologist at Menard State Penitentiary in Illinois during the 1930s. Clemmer published his findings in a work entitled The Prison Community in 1940, detailing Menard State prisoners' intricate subculture of habits and history "glued together by unwritten law, the inmate code, which existed beside and in opposition to the institution's official rules," as Scott Christianson pointed out in his book With Liberty for Some (234). In particular, Clemmer observed that "[i]nmates are to refrain from helping prison or government officials in matters of discipline, and should never give them information of any kind, and especially the kind which may work harm of a fellow prisoner," which perfectly describes the attitude and actions of the inmates in The Criminal Code (234).
In addition to the performances, story, and the direction, I also must briefly touch upon the visual look of the film, as cinematographer James Wong Howe skillfully captured the contrast between the bleakness of Graham's world inside the prison walls and the hope that exists just steps away in the Warden's quarters. The new restoration screened at UCLA, courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment, beautifully let the grittiness of the picture shine.
I enjoyed watching this film on the big screen at UCLA; for me, the moral tug of war the characters go through and the suspense of the 2nd half played wonderfully with a crowd (and I even found myself questioning what I would do if I were the Warden in this picture). Unfortunately, The Criminal Code only appears to be available from third party sellers on VHS on Amazon.com (or a pretty horrible Youtube version which is a pity considering the new restoration looks marvelous). If you still own a VCR, I'd say it's worth the current $9.99 price to buy it!
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» Number of fatalities from car accidents exceeded from last year
Number of fatalities from car accidents exceeded from last year
On behalf of Patricia M. Jarzobski, P.C. | Sep 9, 2015 | Car Accidents
A county in Colorado is surpassing a record from last year that it does not want to exceed. According to official files for Weld County, there have been three more fatalities from car accidents than this same time last year. A recent fatal crash has been attributed to speed, according to the State Patrol.
An SUV was traveling on Interstate 76 when it rolled over. According to a CSP trooper, the SUV rolled when the driver overcorrected after heading too far toward the shoulder of the road. The five passengers were thrown from the vehicle but the driver, the only one wearing his seat belt, remained inside.
Responding emergency personnel found two of the passengers, both minors, dead at the scene. The driver and the only other adult, a female, were taken to two different hospitals with serious injuries. The two remaining survivors, both minors, were transported by helicopter to a children’s hospital for treatment. Although the crash investigation is ongoing, the authorities do not believe alcohol or drugs were a factor in the wreck.
Too many car accidents happen because of the negligence of a driver. The preliminary evidence in this case suggests speeding contributed to the crash. If that assessment is confirmed during the course of the investigation, civil causes of action for wrongful death and personal injury likely exist against the driver and anyone else with an ownership interest in the SUV. A parent or legal guardian may be designated to act in a Colorado court on behalf of any underage victims, and the surviving families of the deceased victims may proceed on behalf of their legal estates.
Source: greeleytribune.com, “Colorado State Patrol investigating speed as cause of Hudson crash that killed two, injured four on Sunday“, Allison Dyer Bluemel, Sept. 7, 2015
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Masks and COVID-19: Information Roundup
Came across yet more anti-mask stuff today, so I figured I’d do a single blog post I could link to rather than trying to have probably-pointless individual arguments and discussions.
I may add more links and research later on…
Do Masks Really Stop the Virus?
Short answer? Like most anything, they’re not perfect. But they help. A lot.
“[F]ace masks combined with other preventive measures, such as frequent hand-washing and social distancing, help slow the spread of the virus.” (Mayo Clinic)
“Coronavirus is primarily transmitted person to person via respiratory spray. Staying away from people (social distancing) and decreasing the germs being transmitted between people are both ways to decrease the spread of the virus. While high quality research regarding mask use is limited, all of the data supports mask wearing as a key public health measure to decrease viral spread.” (American Lung Association, Emphasis Added)
“One recent study in BMJ Global Health looked at transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in 124 families in which at least one member had COVID-19. The data showed that face masks were ‘79% effective in reducing transmission’ if the person with COVID-19 wore them before they developed symptoms.” (Medical News Today)
“Studies have demonstrated that cloth masks reduce the number of microorganisms that someone releases into the air. So the more people wear masks in an area, the fewer potential viral droplets go into the space, and the less risk that someone will be exposed to the virus.” (Cleveland Clinic)
Do Masks Cause Low Oxygen Levels?
If you have a preexisting lung condition, you’ll want to talk to your doctor. But for everyone else? You should be fine.
“We wear masks all day long in the hospital. The masks are designed to be breathed through and there is no evidence that low oxygen levels occur. There is some evidence, however, that prolonged use of N-95 masks in patients with preexisting lung disease could cause some build-up of carbon dioxide levels in the body. People with preexisting lung problems should discuss mask wearing concerns with their health care providers. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that mask wearing or physical distancing weakens the immune system.” (American Lung Association)
“In the real world, the average mask user without preexisting respiratory illness has nothing to worry about — except COVID-19.” (Hartford HealthCare
“The prolonged use of medical masks can be uncomfortable. However, it does not lead to CO2 intoxication nor oxygen deficiency. While wearing a medical mask, make sure it fits properly and that it is tight enough to allow you to breathe normally. Do not re-use a disposable mask and always change it as soon as it gets damp.” (World Health Organization)
If You Have COVID-19, Won’t Masks Prevent You From Exhaling Viral Particles and Cause Your Disease to Get Worse?
“While it’s true that some studies of health care workers have suggested that the viral dose is an important determinant of infection, it’s different for someone who is already infected. If you are sick, you already have the virus in your lungs; it’s not going to get any worse.” (Amy Price, PhD, Senior Research Scientist at Stanford)
Wearing Masks Will Cause Cancer!
I hadn’t seen this one before today. I wonder if it’s in reference to a study about masks being reprocessed using potentially harmful chemicals…
“Nurses at CHI facilities reported that respirators and face masks were being collected for reprocessing using ethylene oxide to decontaminate. The EPA has concluded that ethylene oxide is carcinogenic to humans and that exposure to ethylene oxide increases the risk of lymphoid cancer and, for females, breast cancer.” (Washington State Nurses Association)
That’s all I could find. If anyone has any information of research about masks posing a cancer risk, please let me know. Otherwise, I’m gonna assume this is up there with “windmill cancer” and other nonsense.
Quick Book Reviews
One of the nice things about spending a week up north earlier this month was catching up on a little reading. I’ve had a harder time focusing on novel-length stuff these past couple of years, but being away seemed to help a lot.
The reading has slowed down again now that I’m home and having to do day job stuff and all the rest, but I’m hoping it won’t dry up as much as before.
In the meantime, have some quick mini-reviews of my vacation reads…
Justice Calling [Amazon | B&N | IndieBound], by Annie Bellet. This is book one of Bellet’s Twenty-Sided Sorceress series. It’s quick-paced geek-friendly urban fantasy. The protagonist, Jade Crow, uses role-playing games to help her form and shape her magic, and wears a magical d20. Comes complete with sexy shape-shifters, lots of action, and a dark, dangerous past…
Every Heart a Doorway [Amazon | B&N | IndieBound], by Seanan McGuire. My biggest complaint about this one is that I wish I’d thought of it first. The story takes place at a boarding school for kids who’ve returned from other worlds and yearn to go back. What happens after Narnia, Wonderland, Oz, and all the rest? Apparently, the answer is murder. McGuire is known for fun characters and worldbuilding, and this book is no exception.
Artemis Fowl [Amazon | B&N | IndieBound], by Eoin Colfer. I was curious about the “twelve-year-old James Bond villain” pitch used to describe protagonist Artemis Fowl. It’s a pretty accurate pitch, but you have to add in fairies and magic. Fowl is generally the smartest person in the room, and he’s out to score himself some fairy gold. Lots of fairy “tech” and bureaucracy, lots of clever plans, and lots of action. Fowl has a few redeeming qualities, but it’s interesting to follow someone who’s essentially a MG-aged supervillain.
Emergency Skin [Amazon], by N. K. Jemisin. This was the shortest one I read, a second-person story in which you’ve been sent back to old Earth to track down a strain of cells needed to sustain your colony world. The colony founders were the wealthy elite who left Earth when it became unsustainable. But Earth isn’t what you’ve been led to believe. This is not a subtle story. It’s not supposed to be. I enjoyed it, and it made me want to shoot Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (among others) into space.
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Memebusting: Masks, Mosquitoes, and Chain Link Fences
I’ve seen this meme a lot on Facebook, and wanted to take a little time to swat it.
I get why this one is popular among people who don’t believe masks are effective. The comparison is funny enough to be catchy, and the logic is plausible. Viruses are really, really tiny — that’s high school science. The COVID-19 virus is only 125 nanometers.
So it’s fair to ask how cloth masks are supposed to stop COVID-19.
The first thing the meme fails to recognize is that the virus isn’t traveling solo.
“Current evidence suggests that COVID-19 spreads between people through direct, indirect (through contaminated objects or surfaces), or close contact with infected people via mouth and nose secretions. These include saliva, respiratory secretions or secretion droplets. These are released from the mouth or nose when an infected person coughs, sneezes, speaks or sings, for example. People who are in close contact (within 1 meter) with an infected person can catch COVID-19 when those infectious droplets get into their mouth, nose or eyes.” (Source; emphasis added)
The mask’s primary goal isn’t to stop individual virus particles; it’s to stop the droplets the virus is traveling in. Those respiratory droplets are 5-10 micrometers in diameter. That’s between 40 and 80 times larger than the virus itself.
(For comparison, mosquitoes average about 0.4″. Now imagine a mosquito two feet long. Or don’t — the last thing we want to do is give 2020 more ideas…)
Going back to the chain link fence, it’s not that we have individual normal-sized mosquitoes trying to fly through. (Viruses generally don’t have wings!) Instead, our wingless COVID mosquitoes are hitching rides in respiratory water balloons.
That’s what masks help to block. Just like a water balloon has a hard time getting through the fence, those respiratory droplets have a hard time getting through a mask.
The primary benefit here is to protect others. COVID-19 is highly contagious, and people can be infected without realizing (pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic). Wearing a mask reduces the chance of your droplets infecting other people.
Nature has one of many studies showing the effectiveness of masks in reducing viral transmission.
The mask can also help reduce your chance of inhaling other people’s droplets. And of course, the mask can serve as a reminder to avoid touching your face and to take other precautions, like hand-washing/sanitizing.
USCF has another roundup of evidence for the effectiveness of masks in reducing the spread of COVID-19 and protecting those around you.
Are masks perfect? Of course not. And it’s true that some types are more or less effective than others. But a “less effective” mask is still a heck of a lot more protection than nothing at all. Two sick hairstylists in Springfield wore cloth masks while interacting with 140+ customers, all of whom were also required to wear masks. None of the customers caught COVID-19.
I understand some people don’t want to wear them. I get it — I don’t like wearing them either. But a large body of scientific evidence shows that they do work. So wear the damn masks. You could be saving someone’s life.
Abigail Rath Vs. Bloodsucking Fiends, by Catherine Schaff-Stump
Just finished reading a review copy of my friend Catherine Schaff-Stump‘s fun new middle-grade fantasy Abigail Rath Versus Bloodsucking Fiends.
Here’s the official summary:
At thirteen years old, Abigail Rath knows she is a lean, mean, monster-hunting machine, just like her mom and dad. After all, she’s learned everything she knows from the horror movies her dad has starred in. When her best friend Vince comes to her with news he’s being stalked by a vampire, her professional opinion is they should go out and stake him.
It turns out that Abby’s monster hunting parents haven’t been entirely straightforward with Abby about what being a monster hunter means. Alarmed at Abby’s behavior, Abby is grounded and both Abby and her parents try to introduce more normalcy into Abby’s life. At the same time, odd things start happening at school to Abby’s friends. What should Abby do about the new supernatural creatures in her life, now that she doesn’t know exactly what the rules are? How can she protect her friends and her family without continually getting detention? And how will she survive her mother taking her to the mall?
It took me a chapter or so to get into the voice and the tone — I’d just finished an epic fantasy, so switching to a first-person middle-school monster-hunter was a bit of a jolt. But the book drew me in and kept me reading.
It’s a fun, light story, which is the sort of thing I need these days. I like how the book builds from more “normal” conflicts — popularity, limbo contests, field hockey, bullying (admittedly, it’s all messier with vampires) — to more serious stakes and consequences. Abigail grows a lot as she learns the difference between her movie-informed ideas about what it means to be a monster hunter and the risks and dangers of the real thing.
I also liked Abigail’s family. Both parents are in the picture, and she also has a bit of an extended supernatural family. It’s nice to read about that kind of love and support, as well as the inevitable conflicts that come with family 🙂
Book two in the series, Abigail Rath Versus Mad Science, comes out on July 7.
Amazon has a “Look Inside” preview if you’d like to check out a bit of book one.
Friday thinks this week has been a particularly long year…
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Rescue pet pics
Birds that look made-up
Goblin Queen Updates and Pre-order Links
Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen is up for pre-order, with a tentative release date of September 15, 2020!
These links are for the ebook only. The print edition is coming, but it will take longer to get those links ready.
For everyone who backed the Kickstarter, my plan is to get your rewards out before the official release date. I’ve got the Smudge stickers, and the bookmarks have been ordered, so all I really need is the finished book and lots of envelopes.
The manuscript and cover art are pretty much finalized. Leanna Crossan is working on the interior artwork, which will take a little more time. While she does that, I’ve started sending out a few review copies. (So if you happen to be a SF/F MG reviewer, let me know?)
I’ve got one more announcement, but I’m waiting for contracts on that piece before I share the details.
I think that’s it for Goblin Queen news. Which means I should probably get back to work on Terminal Peace…
Friday has a brand new pre-order link…
Goose couple caring for 47 goslings
Happy bat squeaking as he gets scritches
Two dogs using each other as pillows
Technicolor squirrels
A Week of Triggers
This past week or so has been rough.
Some of that was expected. We’re planning to head up north in a few weeks, and one of the things we’ll be doing is spreading Amy’s ashes. That’s stirred up a lot.
What wasn’t expected was the results from some of my bloodwork. I get blood drawn several times a year to help monitor and control my diabetes. This time, the labwork came back with low hemoglobin, low white blood cell counts, and a few other irregularities.
My doctor immediately called about setting up an appointment with a hematologist. Which they scheduled at a local cancer center. The same group that treated Amy…
Intellectually, I didn’t think I had cancer. I suspected iron-deficiency anemia. Partly because of my diet. Partly because I’ve been donating blood and giving double-red donations.
(Spoiler: I was pretty much right.)
But intellect didn’t do much for the fear, or for the gut-level reaction when the paperwork arrived in the mail a few days later with the cancer center’s logo right there on the top. It didn’t make things easier when I drove to the appointment this morning. It didn’t erase the fact that there was a chance — even if it was a small one — that the abnormalities could have been caused by something cancerous in the blood/bone marrow…
The thought of having to face something like that again. The thought of putting the kids through that, of what it would do to them and to my parents and to everyone else. I just couldn’t.
My appointment was at a different building than the one Amy went to for treatment, which is good. But I was right across the road from the hospital where she was first admitted back in late 2018. More memories, more flashbacks.
Thankfully, the doctor didn’t think it was anything to be too worried about. I was able to get additional bloodwork done this morning, and the results came back this afternoon. Yay, technology. The doctor called this evening and confirmed I do not need to freak out. Just take some iron supplements and we’ll check in a month to see how it’s going.
But for the past week, I’ve felt completely derailed. This was one of the main reasons I cancelled Storytime last Friday. It’s been rather draining, to say the least.
I am planning to do Storytime tomorrow, though. It might be a little after 8, since I’ve got another online meeting at 7:30, but hopefully I’ll see some of you there for “The Creature in Your Neighborhood”!
Shadow of a Dead God, by Patrick Samphire
I’ve been trying to get my reading brain back for the past few months. Patrick Samphire‘s new epic fantasy Shadow of a Dead God was exactly what I needed.
It was only supposed to be one little job – a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favour to his oldest friend. But then it all blew up in his face. Now he’s been framed for a murder he didn’t commit.
So how is a second-rate mage, broke, traumatized, and with a habit of annoying the wrong people, supposed to prove his innocence when everyone believes he’s guilty?
Mennik has no choice if he wants to get out of this: he is going to have to throw himself into the corrupt world of the city’s high mages, a world he fled years ago. Faced by supernatural beasts, the mage-killing Ash Guard, and a ruthless, unknown adversary, it’s going to take every trick Mennik can summon just to keep him and his friend alive.
But a new, dark power is rising in Agatos, and all that stands in its way is one damaged mage…
More than anything, this was quick-paced and fun. There’s plenty of action — poor Nik is constantly being blown up, chased through town, threatened, attacked with magical squid, and so much more.
The characters are comfortably familiar and enjoyable. Nik is the underdog who turned his back on the entitled, power-hungry lifestyle of most mages, choosing instead to live in relative poverty as a mage-for-hire. He’s not the most powerful, but he’s clever. Then there’s his best friend Benny, who happens to be a thief, and Benny’s young and potentially murderous but incredibly loyal daughter Sereh.
Samphire spent a lot of time on worldbuilding as well. Every street and neighborhood in the city has its name and history. The politics and economics and history are all deep enough to help drag Nik into deeper and deeper trouble.
There’s a fair amount of swearing and a bit of magical violence, but it never felt dark or gritty.
All in all, a fun read. I look forward to the sequel, Nectar for the God, set to come out in 2021.
You can read the first chapter of Shadow of a Dead God on the author’s website.
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FINDING HOPE: Paramedics saving lives with opioid overdose antidote
Treasure Valley veteran KC O'Dell shares his story of overcoming opioid addiction, now celebrating a sober life.
By: Karen Lehr
As a newsroom, part of our job is to keep a close eye on what happens in our community every day. We listen to police scanners from surrounding agencies and one call that seems to come in on a daily basis is medical assistance needed for an overdose.
While those calls also include alcohol and other drug-related overdoses, a large number of them are opioid-related. Some of them are even deadly, and of course, the minutes immediately following an overdose are critical in saving someone's life. That's where dispatch and local paramedics step in to help.
"We see the worst end of the spectrum," Ada County Paramedics Training Captain Steve Cole said. "These calls can occur in the most affluent part of town or in an alleyway and everywhere in between."
Most overdoses called into dispatch will see a response from local police, fire and paramedics.
"We bring basically a mobile emergency room to the patient's side," Cole said.
Possibly the most important part of that life-saving kit is Narcan, also called Naloxone - an opioid overdose antidote that's available over the counter.
"It is what they use in the emergency department, it's what we use on ambulances, and it may be what you find out in the community."
The drug can be administered as a shot, an IV, or most commonly as a nasal spray, but some patients need more than one dose.
In 2017, Ada County Paramedics administered Naloxone to about 180 opioid overdose patients using 276 doses. Essentially, saving someone's life every other day.
"That is relatively mild compared to back east where agencies are going through that many doses in a week or a month period," Cole said.
But compared to 2016, the use of Narcan in the county went up 62 percent. In 2016, Ada County Paramedics used 157 doses to treat roughly 112 patients. And keep in mind, those statistics don't include patients who died before medics arrived or overdoses that didn't need Narcan. Cole says a large portion of overdose calls, do not need Naloxone.
But before paramedics even make it to the scene, immediate help comes first over the phone from dispatch. "So the dispatcher has a series of instructions, a series of tools they can use to both help and make sure the scene is safe for us to arrive," Cole said.
Dispatchers play a major role in walking bystanders through resuscitation before paramedics pull up on scene, explaining how to do CPR, or how to administer Narcan if it's readily available.
The potentially deadly aspect of an opioid overdose is when a patient stops breathing but Cole says that makes it relatively easy to treat on scene.
"The good news about that is that is relatively easy to treat compared to other types of overdoses, so a bystander, even if they did not have Naloxone, if they knew how to do rescue breathing or they knew how to do basic CPR, can be very effective until professional help arrives," Cole said.
One outcome trickling down to some agencies across the country as a result of the opioid epidemic is the rising cost of Naloxone. Fortunately, officials with Ada County say they've not yet seen increases on a local level. Their last order, placed in January, cost the department just 300 dollars.
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J Clin Med Res
Journal of Clinical Medicine Research, ISSN 1918-3003 print, 1918-3011 online, Open Access
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Volume 12, Number 8, August 2020, pages 517-529
Impact of a Culturally Tailored Diabetes Education and Empowerment Program in a Mexican American Population Along the US/Mexico Border: A Pragmatic Study
Silvia Flores-Luevanoa, f, Maricela Pachecob, Gurjeet S. Shokarc, Alok Kumar Dwivedid, Navkiran K. Shokare
aDepartment of Molecular and Translational Medicine and Family and Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX 79924, USA
bChristus Health TX A&M College of Medicine Spohn Hospital, Family Medicine Residency, 600 Elizabeth Street, Corpus Christi, TX 78404, USA
cDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX 79924, USA
dDivision of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Consulting Lab (BECL), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC EP), El Paso, TX 79905, USA
eFamily & Community Medicine & Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Center of Emphasis for Cancer, El Paso, TX 79924, USA
fCorresponding Author: Silvia Flores-Luevano, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine and Family and Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 9849 Kenworthy Street, El Paso, TX 79924, USA
Manuscript submitted June 25, 2020, accepted July 7, 2020, published online July 22, 2020
Short title: Impact of DEEP in Mexican American Population
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jocmr4273
Abstract ▴Top
Background: The study purpose was to deliver a diabetes education program under real world conditions and evaluate its effect on diabetes-related clinical, self-management and psychosocial outcomes among Mexican Americans residing along the US/Mexico border.
Methods: A pragmatic study was conducted among adult patients with diabetes in three primary care clinics located along the US/Mexico border. A bilingual culturally tailored diabetes education program incorporating hands-on participatory techniques was delivered in 4 - 8 weekly group sessions. Clinical, self-management and psychosocial outcomes were evaluated pre- and post-intervention with surveys and medical record review.
Results: A total of 209 participants were enrolled; mean age was 58.9 years (range 23 - 94, standard deviation: 11.2); 68.4% were female; 91.1% were Hispanic. Significant improvements were observed in glycated hemoglobin (-1.1%, P < 0.001, n = 79), total cholesterol (-17.2 mg/dL, P = 0.041, n = 63), glucose self-monitoring (+1.3 times a week, P = 0.021, n = 115), exercise less than once a week (-18.2%, P < 0.001, n = 129), nutritional behavior (+2.23, P < 0.001, n = 115), knowledge (+1. 83, P < 0.001, n = 141) and diabetes-related emotional distress (-7.32, P = 0.002, n = 111). Benefits were observed with attendance rates as low as 50%.
Conclusion: A clinic-based culturally competent diabetes education/self-management program resulted in significant improvements in outcomes among Hispanic participants. Experimentally tested culturally appropriate interventions adapted for real world situations can benefit Mexican American diabetic patients even when attendance is imperfect.
Keywords: Type 2 diabetes; Diabetes self-management education; Culturally competent interventions; Health education; Hispanics; Mexican American
Introduction ▴Top
Current estimates suggest that 10% of the US population (i.e. 30 million) have diabetes including 23.8% (7.2 million) who are undiagnosed, and there are an additional 84 million with pre-diabetes [1]. This number will increase to 14% of the population by 2030 and to 18% by 2060 [2]. There is a greater diabetes prevalence among racial/ethnic minority groups; among US Hispanics, the prevalence is 12% and among the Mexican American subgroup, it is nearly 14% [1]. Diabetes is associated with excess medical costs: in 2012, the total direct medical expenses for all type of diabetes in the US were estimated at $18.2 billion and indirect costs were $5.5 billion [3]. Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the US with an average 4.4 years of life lost per person [4]. Mortality rates among Hispanics are higher than both national and state rates (24.7/100,000 vs. 21.5/100, 000) [5], and may be even higher because diabetes is an underreported cause of death [6]. Diabetes especially impacts older adults, racial/ethnic minorities, men and those with lower educational attainment. Progressively, diabetes may lead to blindness, kidney failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, painful neuropathy, foot ulcers and lower limb amputation [7]. Previous work has shown that Hispanics are at greater risk of uncontrolled diabetes, diabetic complications and death from diabetes than non- Hispanic whites [8-10].
The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) identifies seven self-care behaviors that predict good outcomes in people with diabetes including blood sugar monitoring, compliance with medications, good problem-solving skills, healthy coping skills and risk-reduction behaviors [11]. Hispanics are particularly prone to have poor self-management skills in adherence to ADCES’s seven essential behaviors, specifically in monitoring their glycated hemoglobin (A1c) [12]. Data suggest that culturally competent self-management educational programs, along with medical management implemented in controlled experimental designs can improve clinical outcomes through reduction in A1c, improved patient knowledge and dietary behaviors [13-18]. Several systematic reviews conclude that diabetes self-management education (DSME) programs in adults employing different delivery methods have been effective in diverse settings among general populations [19, 20] including Hispanics [21].
The data summarized above reveal that under experimental conditions education and self-management programs can improve important diabetes outcomes; however, despite this evidence, diabetes-associated morbidity and mortality remain high particularly in Hispanics. This suggests that these intervention types are either not being implemented in practice or do not achieve similar outcomes in the real world. Relatively few studies with limited behavioral and psychological outcomes have yielded the promising effect of a diabetes education intervention program in the US population. Moreover, no previous studies have determined the effectiveness of a diabetes education and self-management program in a pragmatic and uncontrolled setting particularly in Mexican Americans who have higher incidence of diabetes and associated complications. Compared to prior studies, our study also proposes to determine the effect of this intervention on behavioral and psychological parameters. The aim of this study therefore was to implement and evaluate a culturally tailored diabetes education and self-management program in a clinic setting under real world conditions. The novelty of this study is to report that even in a non-experimental control intervention, diabetes practical education can be implemented and adapted to patient’s needs. In addition, we included a range of outcome variables for which there is limited information available and we described implementation challenges and proposed solutions.
Materials and Methods ▴Top
Study design and setting
This was a pragmatic non-randomized diabetes education and self-management support intervention that utilized a pre-post design for evaluation of outcomes. Participants were recruited from three primary care clinics located in El Paso, Fabens and Socorro Texas along the US-Mexico border. Over 80% of the population in these regions is Hispanic and between 21% and 29% live below the poverty level [22]. All program staff were bilingual, and the study was approved by Institutional Review Board of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso (IRB Protocol # E11081).
Individuals were eligible if they were a patient in one of the participating clinics, were aged 18 years or older and had a documented diagnosis of diabetes. Patients were either referred by their primary care physician, self-referred through word of mouth, or through flyers posted in the clinics. Potential participants were contacted by staff to check eligibility, and explain the study between June 2011 and April 2014. Exclusion criteria included inability to provide informed consent or a cognitive, mental health, pregnant women, or a medical condition such as cancer that could impact participation. An informed consent and HIPAA consent were obtained from the patients for the study.
The Diabetes Education and Empowerment Program (DEEP) curriculum is a multi-cultural and bilingual (English and Spanish) eight module program that was created by the University of Illinois [23]. It is tailored for Hispanic (as well as African American) populations to improve diabetes self-management through education about diabetes, risk factors and complications, diet, physical activity, and use of a glucometer and medications. The DEEP curriculum provides resources for patient empowerment through partnerships with a diabetes health care team, promoting understanding of the psychosocial effects of illness, problem-solving strategies, and guiding patients in how to access community diabetes resources. The curriculum is sensitive to cultural issues and popular misconceptions about diabetes in the Hispanic community. The sessions were interactive with demonstrations, activities to promote problem-solving, and facilitated group dynamics through the sharing of personal experiences.
After written informed consent was obtained, participants completed a pre-intervention questionnaire which assessed clinical demographic and behavioral information. The 2-h classes were delivered weekly over 4 - 8 weeks. Initially eight weekly sessions were provided but these were integrated into six and then four weekly sessions to reduce attrition. Separate classes were available for English and Spanish speaking participants. The curriculum was implemented by clinic promotoras (community health workers), a health educator and a research assistant who received training on program delivery. The post-intervention survey was administered after the final session. Completion of the surveys took a maximum of 1 h. The clinical outcomes were abstracted from the electronic medical record (EMR) using a standardized protocol for the period of 6 - 12 months prior to the intervention and 6 - 12 months after the last session for each participant.
Survey variables covered socio-demographic information (gender, race/ethnicity, health care coverage, education level, country of birth, income and preferred language). Acculturation was assessed with the validated short acculturation scale for Hispanics [24] which is a four-item scale that is scored on a five-point Likert-scale with one being only Spanish to five being only English.
Diabetes history questions covered duration of diagnosis, diabetes type, previous diabetes education, A1c awareness, doctor visits and receipt of foot and eye exams. Diabetes knowledge was assessed with a modified Starr County Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire consisting of 21 true-false questions (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient = 0.7) [25]. Responses were coded as correct or incorrect and the score was summed for each participant. Three self-management behaviors were evaluated: eating behaviors were evaluated with the Latino Dietary Behaviors Questionnaire (LDBQ), a survey developed for the Spanish-speaking community with 13 questions answered on a scale of 0 to 4 or 0 to 5. A total score and factor scores are calculated by summing across individual items. A higher score reflects healthier eating behaviors with an internal reliability of 0.47 and test-retest reliability of 0.48 [26]. Physical activity was measured by items assessing hours per day watching TV/videos and times per week exercising. Glucose monitoring frequency was assessed with one item. Two psychosocial variables were assessed: diabetes related emotional distress was measured with the problem areas in diabetes (PAID) scale which consists of 20 questions with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.90, and test-retest reliability of 0.83 [27]. The Likert scale is scored between 0 and 4, from “not a problem” to “a serious problem” then the answers are totaled and multiplied by 1.25. Total scores of 40 and above suggest severe diabetes distress (Supplementary Material 1, www.jocmr.org). Fatalism was assessed with the diabetes fatalism scale, a 12-item survey with three sub-scales reflecting emotional distress, religious, spirituality coping and perceived self-efficacy. The scale is scored from 1 to 6 on a Likert scale, has an internal reliability of 0.80 and correlates well with A1c [28]. Clinical outcomes (A1c, lipid levels, blood pressure and body mass index (BMI), retinal eye exam and foot exam) were assessed by EMR review for each participant at 6 - 12 months pre-intervention and at 6 - 12 months post-intervention.
Descriptive analyses described survey and clinical diabetes measures. Quantitative variables were reported as the mean and standard deviation (SD) while categorical variables were reported with frequency and percentage. For knowledge and behavioral scales (fatalism, LDBQ and PAID), we calculated the change in scores from baseline to post-education using mean percentage change along with 95% confidence interval (CI). The effect of the intervention was also reported by calculating the change in scores from pre- and post-intervention in individuals using paired t-tests. Changes in pre- and post-intervention clinical outcomes of A1c levels, BMI, cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), triglyceride (TG) and urinary microalbumin were calculated and analyzed by paired t-test. Predictors of glycemic control defined as A1c ≤ 8% at follow-up were examined using logistic regression analysis. Results of logistic regression were reported using odds ratio (OR) with 95% CI and P-value. In the sensitivity analysis, the psychosocial, diabetes knowledge and clinical outcomes between pre- and post-intervention were compared using a paired t-test by educational session attendance percentage as < 50% of attendance, between 50-74% and ≥ 75%. SPSS software version 25.0 was used for data analysis and an alpha of 0.05 was used to determine statistical significance. Important results were summarized using forest plots.
Results ▴Top
Of 275 potential participants contacted, 209 were eligible and enrolled in the study. The intervention was conducted in 13 education cycles from June 2011 to April 2014. A total of 143 females and 66 males participated. Attrition was observed for class attendance: 31.6% (n = 66) of participants attended all the sessions, 58.9% (n = 123) attended 75% or more of the sessions and 76.1% (n = 159) attended at least 50% of the sessions (Fig. 1). Mean age was 58.9 years; 91.1% were Hispanic; 74.3% reported an annual income less than $20,000, about half had a high school diploma (57.1%) and 27% were uninsured. Over half of the participants (55.9%) were born in Mexico and 58.7% reported a Spanish language preference and had low acculturation levels (72.3%). The majority of participants rated their health as fair or poor (58%). Almost half of participants reported watching TV/videos more than 2 h per day (51.2%) and the majority (73%) reported participation in sports or exercise less than one time per week.
Click for large image Figure 1. Flowchart of the study participants. DEEP: Diabetes Education and Empowerment Program; EMR: electronic medical record; PAID: problem areas in diabetes; LDBQ: Latino Dietary Behaviors Questionnaire.
The mean duration of diabetes was 8 years (SD: 7.8), 20% did not know their diabetes type and most participants (61.5%) had never attended a diabetes class. The majority (82.9%) reported monitoring their glucose at least once per week and sought diabetes care at least once per year (91.9%). Sixty-eight percent reported a doctor checked their feet in the previous year and 98.8% had completed at least one eye exam. Only 28.6% reported knowing their A1c test result and 26.9% reported retinopathy. The clinical and demographic characteristics of the study participants are described in Tables 1 and 2. There were no significant differences in the baseline socio-demographic characteristics of completers (n = 123) (i.e. completed 75% of sessions) and non-completers (n = 86, Table 1). A relatively lower frequency of foot examination by a doctor was reported among non-completers (Table 2).
Click to view Table 1. Baseline Characteristics of Participants
Click to view Table 2. Self-Reported Baseline Clinical Characteristics of Participants
Among all participants, the mean baseline A1c was 8.98% (211 mg/dL) (SD: 2.37), the BMI was 32.68 with 60.5% in the obese BMI range. Mean total cholesterol was 186.55 mg/dL (SD: 55.81) and 31.9% had a total cholesterol level > 200 mg/dL; mean LDL-C was 98.31 mg/dL (SD: 37.58), 50% of participants had an LDL-C level < 100 mg/dL, 26.9% were in the 100 to 129 mg/dL range, 11.1% were in the 130 to 159 mg/dL range and 8.3% had LDL-c level ≥ 160 mg/dL; mean HDL-c was 43.66 mg/dL (13.69) and mean TGs were 172.17 mg/dL (86.57). Among the 40 participants with an available microalbumin level, the mean was 77.81 mg/dL (SD: 156.33), and 47.5% had a microalbumin > 30 mg/dL (data not shown).
Table 3 shows the results of the paired analysis among participants that had both pre- and post-intervention clinical variables available in the medical record and behavioral and psychological variables collected.
Click to view Table 3. Diabetes Clinical, Self-Management Behaviors and Psychosocial Variables Pre- and Post-Intervention
Clinical outcomes pre-post intervention
The A1c declined significantly from 8.92% to 7.82% (-1.10%, P < 0.001, n = 79), and 67% (n = 52) of participants had a reduction in A1c from pre- to post-intervention. The proportion of participants with an A1c level > 8% (i.e. uncontrolled) also declined significantly (from 56% to 39%, P < 0.001). The total mean cholesterol level declined from 188 mg/dL (SD: 60) to 171 mg/dL (SD: 37) (P = 0.04, n = 63) at 6 months post-intervention. Although TG, HDL, LDL and urinary microalbumin levels improved compared to their respective baseline values, the changes did not reach statistical significance and no changes were observed in the BMI post-intervention.
Diabetes self-management behaviors pre-post intervention
Significant improvement was also observed in all three diabetes self-management behaviors: glucose self-monitoring increased by 16% from pre- to post-intervention (8.21 times per week vs. 9.54, P = 0.021, n = 115); with lower numbers of participants reporting never checking their glucose (32% vs. 17%). A greater percentage reported exercising more than three times per week (14% vs. 28% post) and exercising 1 to 3 times per week (13% vs. 17%), whereas those reporting exercising less than once per week declined (73% vs. 55% post) (P = 0.001, n = 129). Self-reported beneficial dietary behaviors measured using the LDBQ also showed a significant increase (mean change = 2.23, P ≤ 0.001, n = 115) from pre- to post-intervention (Table 3).
Knowledge, diabetes emotional distress and fatalism
The results related to knowledge, diabetes emotional distress and fatalism are reported in Table 3. The mean baseline diabetes knowledge score was 13.45 (SD: 3.33, maximum possible score: 21). Lack of knowledge was especially observed for detecting symptoms for variation of blood glucose: “shaking and sweating are signs of high blood sugar” (67.3% incorrect) and “frequent urination and thirst are signs of low blood sugars” (54.9% incorrect). The mean PAID scale score was 39.22 (SD: 26.66) and half of participants had a significant diabetes emotional distress level (i.e., a score ≥ 40). All the psychosocial outcomes improved significantly after the intervention; mean knowledge scores increased 1.83, (P < 0.001, n = 141); PAID scores decreased by a mean of -7.32, and the proportion with significant diabetes distress (PAID scores ≥ 40) decreased from 51.4% to 38.7% (P < 0.001, n = 111). Fatalism also decreased but the change was not statistically significant (-1.22, P = 0.39, n = 110). The maximum effect size observed across psychosocial variables was for diabetes emotional distress (18%) followed by knowledge (13%), and then fatalism (3%).
Predictors of glycemic control
In the logistic regression analysis, we examined the association between baseline demographic characteristics, clinical and psychosocial variables and post-intervention glycemic control (A1c ≤ 8) as an outcome variable. The A1c value was available and abstracted from the EMR during a period of 6 - 12 months of follow-up for 105 participants. A greater number of years of diagnosed diabetes and diagnosed retinopathy were both associated with lower odds of glycemic control (OR = 0.904, P = 0.002 and OR = 0.227, P = 0.002, respectively). Better health status (good, very good or excellent vs. poor or fair) was associated with a greater odds of glycemic control (OR = 2.36, P = 0.054). Diabetes knowledge, psychosocial and self-management variables were not significantly associated with glycemic control in this analysis (Table 4).
Click to view Table 4. Unadjusted Associations Between Demographic and Behavioral Characteristics With Glycemic Control (A1c ≤ 8%)
Effect of education session attendance on clinical, knowledge, psychosocial and diabetes self-management outcomes
Because of the relatively high attrition rate, a final analysis of outcomes was performed stratified by attendance. The majority of the study participants who completed the intervention had 75% or more sessions completed. Although not statistically significant, the effect size for most outcomes was markedly higher in patients who completed 50-74% of sessions compared to those who did not (< 50%) with similar sample sizes. Moreover, A1c, knowledge and the PAID score showed improvement even for those attending a moderate level of sessions (50-74%). Those who did not complete sessions had an opposite effect size compared to those who attended a moderate level of sessions. Completers demonstrated significant improvement in the majority of clinical and behavioral parameters (Fig. 2).
Click for large image Figure 2. Effect of intervention by sessions attendance. All variables are presented with pre-post changes except for HDL, knowledge and LDBQ (post-pre changes). HDL: high-density lipoprotein; LDBQ: Latino Dietary Behaviors Questionnaire.
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We implemented a culturally tailored and literacy level-appropriate diabetes education program in a predominantly Mexican American population. Significant findings of this study include improvements in clinical (glycemia, cholesterol), self-management (glucose self-monitoring, exercise and diet), knowledge and psychosocial outcomes. A key finding of this study was an improvement in glycemia 6 months after the intervention: the proportion of participants having glycemic control (A1c ≤ 8) increased after the intervention from 43.9% to 60% and the mean A1c level decreased from 8.92% to 7.82%. This change is nearly twice the 0.6% reduction published in a meta-analysis of culturally appropriate diabetes education interventions among minorities that included 11 studies from across the world and 1,603 patients [29] and is higher than those reported in a systemic review of 18 DSME interventions that included 3,540 adult Latinos with type 2 diabetes where the pooled effect on A1c was a reduction of 0.24% [21]. A change in A1c level from 8.92% to 7.82% indicates that the typical study participant dropped from an average daily blood glucose of 207 to 177 mg/dL, a noticeable change in daily self-management [30].
We observed a significant reduction of total cholesterol level (-17.17 mg/dL, P = 0.041) at 6 months post-intervention which is similar to the changes observed in a randomized intervention of a 3-month self-management education among Mexican Americans with diabetes living along the Texas-Mexico border (-21.95) [31] and much higher than the changes observed by others [29].
We observed non-significant improvements in LDL-C, HDL-C and TG.
We also observed improvements in all three considered diabetes self-management behaviors (glucose self-monitoring, healthy eating and physical activity). Self-care practices depend on access to education, health status, self-efficacy, social and family support, cultural factors and the relationship with primary health professionals [32, 33]. Even though Hispanic Americans may be more interested than non-Hispanic whites in improving self-management behaviors [34], challenges for self-management in Hispanics include barriers to healthcare access, transportation, lack of quality health care and costs (e.g. checking blood glucose less times that recommended to reduce costs) [35]. Glucose self-monitoring among adults with diabetes is an effective tool for achieving glycemic control and for reducing chronic diabetes complications. It has been reported to raise awareness of this chronic disease, to prevent major health problems and help to interpret signs and symptoms of diabetes [36], even though, self-monitoring is difficult to sustain over time [32]. We also observed significant changes in physical activity levels: at baseline 72% of participants reported being physically inactive (less than one time per week of doing exercise) and this was reduced to 54.7% after the intervention. However, despite the improvement, this percentage remains higher than the 41% reported in a national sample of diabetics who reported being inactive [1].
Participants demonstrated statistically significant improvements in knowledge and diabetes-related emotional distress (PAID). Similar improvements in diabetes knowledge have been noted previously [31, 37]. Participants perceived a higher emotional distress at baseline which was significantly reduced after the intervention. These results are consistent with the findings observed in diverse clinical settings [38], and for patients undergoing one-on-one interventions [39]. This result has potential positive implications because of the reported relationship between higher diabetes distress and poor self-management, worse medication adherence, depression and poor quality of life [40, 41].
There are some interesting points to note about this population at pre-intervention. Although the average duration of diabetes was 8 years, almost 20% reported not knowing which type of diabetes they had, and 70% had not heard about A1c or were aware of its purpose despite having an average of over three doctor visits per year. This may be because only 38.5% reported attending a diabetes class which is a lower percentage than the approximately 50% reported nationally [37] and in Texas in 2017 [42]. However, they did report high levels of positive behaviors both by themselves or their physicians which may suggest potential over-reporting.
Of note, the main predictors of less glycemic control were having more years with diabetes and retinopathy which are the consequences of chronic hyperglycemia in this population [43].
Despite proven benefits, there are challenges in implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions in real world practice. We encountered many challenges which required a number of adaptations to address them. First we had to schedule separate sessions in English and Spanish; second we dropped the smoking module because of a low rate of community smoking rates; third we reorganized the sessions into 6-week and then 4-week sessions in order to increase adherence from week to week; fourth we added multiple phone reminders and permitted participants to attend missed sessions in other classes in order to improve follow-up. We had additional challenges in extracting the clinical information because our EMR changed during study implementation, requiring us to access two separate EMR systems. Finally, we examined program outcomes based on attendance, and this clearly showed that there is continuous improvement in outcomes with number of sessions attended. So even partial completion of the intervention had some positive impacts on outcomes. This is useful information for program planners and others putting together diabetes educational programs.
Strengths and Limitations
We utilized a pragmatic design in a real world setting that focused on a Mexican American population, therefore, our findings are generalizable to similar populations seeking care in clinics in the US. One of the strengths of our pragmatic design is that we were able to make adaptations as the study was implemented in order to better reflect real world experience. Another strength is our inclusion of a population that suffers significant diabetes-related health disparities that is relatively understudied. Our robust evaluation is also a strength we included both behavioral and objective clinical outcomes ascertained with validated surveys and an objective medical record review. We were also able to provide detailed outcomes stratified by attendance in order to understand the pattern of outcome depending on degree of exposure to the intervention. One of the main strengths of our program is that the health educator was a peer Hispanic female that underwent specific program training and the classes were taught in a group. Consequently the participants felt comfortable discussing issues with the educator and also gained the benefits of a group process for support and accountability. Also, the intervention was performed in a clinical practice setting well known to participants. This education program was supported by funding that allowed adequate infrastructure and personnel to provide the classes for 35 months.
Study findings should be interpreted in the context of study limitations. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with a non-randomized one-group pre-post intervention design. Although we observed an association between the educational intervention and some clinical outcomes, we have to acknowledge that the lack of randomization and absence of a comparison group mean that threats to internal validity exist, for instance we may not have accounted for important confounding variables or maturation effects. This study was a pragmatic design reflecting the practices in real-life routine conditions to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. Although this study would be unable to estimate the net effect due to an absence of a control group, it provides the effect size of the intervention in real world practical conditions.
As a quasi-experimental design, it is prone to a greater tendency for attrition bias and missing responses. One of the main challenges of a longitudinal program in clinical or community settings is the attrition rate. In this study, the total number of participants that attended 100% of classes was 66, an attrition rate of 68%; for completers of 75% of classes the attrition rate was 57.4%. These attrition rates are higher than the 46% reported by Ryan et al [37] in a non-randomized 4-week diabetes self-management education program facilitated by a nurse and licensed dietician that included non-Hispanic black and Hispanic participants. Our attrition represents the real world experience. It is therefore important to understand and explore the pattern of response by session completion. In this study, we attempted to do just that by conducting paired statistical tests, and conducting analyses stratified by attendance. In doing so we may have overestimated the overall effect; however, we do provide information about the effectiveness of the program in those that do attend. This is important for real world application, as it may help in deciding about resource allocation by clinics and programs. We observed that as long as people attend at least 50% of the program sessions, they do gain a benefit, indicating that resources could be diverted to increasing attendance to at least 50% for as many as possible and less so on those already at 50% or greater attendance. The self-management behaviors were evaluated by self-report and are therefore open to self-report bias. However, since both baseline and follow-up data are prone to this, the effect should be minimized. Also the EMR systems changed half way through data collection so we had to navigate two separate EMRs, and the data review depends on accuracy of information in the EMR.
In summary, culturally tailored diabetes self-management education programs adapted and delivered in a primary care could be important in alleviating diabetes disparities among Mexican Americans. Promoting self-care in an integrated and cultural competent program may improve glycemic control, self-management behaviors and knowledge and beliefs.
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Suppl 1. Survey.
We thank Dr. Silvia Aide Hernandez and Dr. Diana Escobedo who helped with entering the clinical data.
Funding for the implementation of the DEEP program was provided by TMF Quality Institute.
None to declare.
An informed consent and HIPAA consent were obtained from the patients for the study.
SFL: conceptualization, statistical analysis, manuscript development, main writer; MP: assisted with EMR chart review, manuscript editing; AKD: assisted with manuscript editing, analysis plan and interpretation of statistical analysis; GS: manuscript editing; NKS: principal investigator, conceptualization, implementation and manuscript development.
The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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Jerusalem Post Israel News Israeli Sports
Sinai Says: Bloch an inspiration for young and old
Bloch was participating in his first Olympics at the age of 37, making her the oldest member of the 47 athletes on the Israel delegation.
By ALLON SINAI
Shani Bloch
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The sight of an Israeli cyclist celebrating wildly as she crossed the finish line of the Olympic road race in Rio on Sunday must have seemed strange to many onlookers.
After all, she had just finished the race in 48th position, completing the 141 kilometer course in a time of 4:02.59 hours, over 11-and-a-half minutes behind Dutch winner Anna van der Breggen.
But Israel’s Shani Bloch had every reason to rejoice. Simply participating in Rio was a triumph on its own. Completing the course and finishing ahead of 20 of the world’s best female cyclists made it all the sweeter, especially when considering what she had to overcome to reach the Olympic Games.
That is probably the least remarkable part of Bloch’s story.
Bloch is a trailblazer in women’s cycling in Israel, becoming the first of her countrywomen to take part in the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and World Championships.
She came up short in her attempt to qualify for the 2004 Athens Olympics and decided to retire. She got married, gave birth to three baby girls and started a new life.
That changed all of the sudden in 2014 when she felt an urge to return to cycling.
She hasn’t looked back since, booking her spot in the 2016 Games by being ranked at No. 88 in the world in the UCI rankings to become the first Israeli road cyclist of either gender to participate in the Olympics since 1960.
She entered Rio with little expectations, and her unbridled joy at the finish line was a much-needed uplifting moment for the Israeli delegation following two disappointing days to start the 2016 Games.
“I’m so happy that I managed to finish the race. This gives me an amazing sense of satisfaction,” said Bloch. “I’m so proud to represent Israel. I thank God for this opportunity.”
Bloch said she hopes the history she made on Sunday will open the door for future generations of female cyclists in Israel.
“I have to say that this is the first time I didn’t want a race to end,” added Bloch with a smile. “I feel that at my age I’m more mentally ready to cope with this situation.
I tried to reach the Olympics when I was 24 and didn’t make it. I feel that a big reason for that was the difficulty to cope with the mental pressure.”
The dramatic stories of the winners and the heartbreaking defeats of the losers grab most of the headlines during the Olympics. But there are also those like Shani Bloch who can inspire us all simply by participating.
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Kathy Manley
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26 Dinmore Road, Selkirk, NY 12158
In addition to all levels of criminal defense, Kathy has also had a lot of success with sex offender level adjudications, level reduction motions and other sex offender issues. More recently she has taken on quite a few parole appeals, and has won new parole hearings several times. She also challenges NYS prison disciplinary adjudications.
These include People v. Clark, 108 A.D.3d 797 (3rd Dep’t 2013); People v. Powell, 101 A.D.3d 1369 (3rd Dep’t 2012); People v. Arnold, 85 A.D.3d 1330 (3rd Dep’t 2011); People v. Cecunjanin 14 N.Y.3d 799 (2010); People v. Onyia; 70 A.D.3d 1202 (3rd Dep’t 2010); People v. Pinto, 56 A.D.3d 956 (3rd Dep’t 2008)
Kathy Manley has an excellent record of winning appeals. In People v. Diack, 24 N.Y.3d 674 (2015), her victory changed the law in NY, abolishing local sex offender residence restrictions. And while she was working with Kindlon Shanks, Kathy wrote many winning briefs for the Court of Appeals and Appellate Division, Third Department.
STEPHEN F. DOWNS
Now retired from the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct, where he was the chief attorney, Stephen Downs volunteers his legal talents in certain cases where he can make a difference. He is seen above during a prison visit with long time client Yassin Aref.
KATHY MANLEY
Kathy puts clients first and works very hard to obtain the best result. She also realizes that the criminal justice system is badly in need of reform, so she works with civil rights groups to reduce the US addiction to incarceration and punitive supervision.
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Is New York City's General Assembly the University of the Future?
What is a university? There's a legal answer to that question, of course, as well as historical, philosophical, instructional, and civic. And strictly by some of these definitions, General Assembly doesn't qualify as a university. There are no degrees awarded. There is no .edu Web domain. There is no football team.
And yet the New York City-based organization has a "campus." It offers classes in engineering and entrepreneurship. It even offers certification. And by some accounts at least, what General Assembly offers the New York City community (and soon London, too) is very possibly the future of higher education. At the very least, it could be the future of more informal, lifelong learning.
General Assembly officially opened at the beginning of the year, a self-professed "campus to the public." That campus offers classes on topics like Web design, startup accounting, and product design, tapping into the growing interest -- in New York City as elsewhere -- in technology and entrepreneurship.
But the classes offer something a little different than what you'd find in a traditional university or city college course catalog. Take, for example, Alexis Ohanian's class Making Something People Love. The class will cost you $30 for just one evening's worth of instruction. But for those who are familiar with Ohanian's work -- he's the co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk -- one evening is a huge opportunity not just for learning from an iconic entrepreneur, but to make important intellectual, professional, and social connections.
Another factor that makes General Assembly unique is that it offers more than classes. General Assembly has some of the resources you'd expect from a traditional campus -- seminar rooms, classrooms, a media room, a library. But there's also a large communal working area and for a monthly membership fee, students can have access round-the-clock to the work-space. Some startups and entrepreneurs pay an additional fee to rent "office" space (desks really) there. For them, General Assembly is more akin to a startup incubator.
Some of those startups, in turn, help teach the different classes. It's an interesting blend of startups and community, which is what helps make General Assembly into a hands-on laboratory for building a startup -- for programming, for business and product development, and for networking.
That important networking piece might appeal to learners who want to be surrounded by other like-minded people taking on the same or similar educational (as well as entrepreneurial and engineering) challenges.
In addition to learning how-to concepts about launching a business or learning computer science, those who are part of the General Assembly community are actually doing those very things. And while the courses that General Assembly offers aren't free, they're far cheaper than college tuition and with far less of a time commitment.
General Assembly has announced its plans to expand to London, and there is talk about making the courses available online, as well. But as it expands into these new geographies -- both virtual and physical -- it will have to work to maintain that focus on a committed community of teachers and learners, wanting hands-on, practical learning experiences.
With recent doubts about the value of a college degree, the idea of a learning hub like the General Assembly seems like it might have legs.
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After Almost 30 Years, Patty Smyth Returns With New Album 'It's About Time'
Published October 10, 2020 at 5:39 AM MDT
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Rocker Patty Smyth hasn't released an album of new music in almost three decades, just a little bit longer than she's been married to John McEnroe, who played some tennis. Patty Smyth celebrates that relationship and others with a new album and this song.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUILD A FIRE")
PATTY SMYTH: (Singing) Pull the car off the road. Pull me close. Turn the engine off. I feel the wind and your hands in my hair. Yeah, you're talking soft.
SIMON: That's "Build A Fire" off the new album "It's About Time." Now, this may be Patty Smyth's first new material for a while, but she has been busy raising six children, touring, recording, acting and providing the Netflix series "Glow" with its theme, her 1984 hit "The Warrior" with the band Scandal.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE WARRIOR")
SCANDAL: (Singing) Shooting at the walls of heartache - bang, bang. I am the warrior. Well, I am the warrior.
SIMON: Patty Smyth joins us now from Malibu, a small town in Southern California. Thanks so much for being with us.
SMYTH: Thank you so much for having me. It's a real pleasure to be here.
SIMON: Well, it's a real pleasure to have you. And please understand why I have to get this question out of the way. You have been married to John McEnroe for a long time...
SMYTH: Twenty three years.
SIMON: ...Somebody who has been known to display mild irritation at times.
SMYTH: Mmm hmm.
SIMON: So what's the secret to an enduring, loving relationship?
SMYTH: I have no idea what the secret is. I do know that if you asked us who has a worst temper, it would be me, not him, so...
SIMON: (Laughter) He's finally made...
SMYTH: ...I am totally the hothead.
SIMON: Relationships are a recurring theme on this album, aren't they?
SMYTH: Well, relationships are a recurring theme in life. You know, you got a relationship with the mailman, for crying out loud. I mean, to me, I feel like it's all about relationships. And I also watch other people's relationships. I - you know, I like to, you know, eavesdrop and spy on people and steal material from them. So you kind of have to be listening with an extra ear. It's almost like three ears (laughter).
(SOUNDBITE OF PATTY SMYTH SONG, "DRIVE")
SIMON: Could you tell us a bit about the song "Drive," which I understand is at least partly about your sister? Let's listen to it, if we could.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DRIVE")
SMYTH: (Singing) Come out with me. Let's go back in time. Let's drive. And all of the years in between, just let them fly by.
SIMON: I love that line, all the years between, just let them fly by.
SMYTH: Thank you.
SIMON: That'd be great sometimes, wouldn't it?
SMYTH: Yeah, it really would. You know, I feel like for me at that point, my sister and I, our lives have been drastically different. And I felt that there was a huge chasm between us, and I didn't know how to fix it or get across it. And, you know, we were raised by a single parent. We moved all the time. It was a chaotic, hard childhood. And I had started writing the song, which turned out to be "Drive," and I had the music and the melody, but I really didn't know what I was writing - what I wanted to write it about. And I just picked up a photograph of her and I, and I just wrote it. And all of the pain that you've had, just leave it behind is the second chorus because it's like I didn't know how to make it better. I just knew that I wanted to make it better.
SMYTH: (Singing) And all of the pain that you've had, just leave it behind.
And I think it helped. I think it helped us.
SIMON: Oh, good. Can I check a couple of things with you?
SMYTH: Yeah.
SIMON: Of course, Eddie Van Halen sadly left us this week. Is it true you turned down an offer to replace David Lee Roth as the front person in Van Halen?
SMYTH: I did. I did turn it down. I mean, at the time that he asked - I mean, I just feel so badly for his family right now. I just can't believe that he's gone. But he was a warm, funny, happy musical genius. And when he asked me for that last time, when he - he was like, you know, I've got to know now - I was eight months pregnant, and I just was not ready. So I probably should have thought that through a little bit more. But it turned out fine. It would have been nice to have made a record with him, though. I'll always regret that, you know?
(SOUNDBITE OF PATTY SMYTH SONG. "ODE TO BILLIE JOE")
SIMON: You got a couple of covers on this album - Tom Waits's "Downtown Train" and Bobbie Gentry's - could we listen to a little bit of "Ode To Billie Joe?"
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ODE TO BILLIE JOE")
SMYTH: (Singing) It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day. I was out chopping cotton, and my brother was bailing hay.
Probably not until, I don't know, seven years ago did I start doing it live. And it just - people really responded to it. It's a really soulful song. It's a different side of my voice. And I love singing it. And it also was one of those, you know, building blocks of my musical childhood, I think.
SMYTH: (Singing) I dropped down into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
SIMON: May I ask what kind of music has been - have you been listening to or has been maybe helping you in these times?
SMYTH: Oh, you know, my husband is a big jammer. He loves to jam. And him and his friend jam like three or four times a week. So I sit in...
SIMON: You're kidding me. Really? I didn't know that.
SMYTH: Yeah. And so we're - there's always music in the house. If my girls are around, then they start singing, I'm not a big jammer, but I will jam with them. So we've been doing, like, Cure songs and Go-Go's songs and then some of my old songs because they like to sing my songs. We did "Drive" the other day. Basically how I've been doing it is just writing. I don't listen to a lot of music. It's terrible to say it, but I feel like I get music out in a way, you know? I need silence sometimes.
But I'll tell you what, I played "Ball Of Confusion" because I - someone asked me to come up with a playlist for voting, you know, for the voting booth.
SIMON: Yeah.
SMYTH: And one of the songs I came up with was "Ball Of Confusion," which is, you know, probably one of the earliest rap because you think about it - (singing) people moving here. People moving there. Why? Because - I mean, it's, like - it's totally, like, this rhythmic kind of singing, talking. And it blew John's mind. I mean, he'd never heard it. And I was like, this is The Temptations. This is an amazing song. So I like to do that. Like, I'll go back, and then all of a sudden I fall down the rabbit hole of these great old Motown songs.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BALL OF CONFUSION")
THE TEMPTATIONS: (Singing) Ball of confusion, that's the world is today.
SIMON: Sounds like you have a fun household.
SMYTH: Well, thanks to my husband because if it wasn't for him being such a goofy lover of music, it would probably just be crickets in here all the time (laughter). He's kept me abreast of what's going on and also, you know, made me remember this is what I love to do. So I count myself as lucky.
SIMON: Patty Smyth - her new album, "It's About Time" - thank you so much for being with us.
SMYTH: It was so nice to talk to you. Thanks for having me. I'm a huge fan of NPR. I'm a big contributor. And so I'm super psyched.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DOWNTOWN TRAIN")
SMYTH: (Singing) Outside another yellow moon. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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December.2, 2020 - 10:05 — Annie Chueh 2855 pageviews
MLS Aims to Become a Lighting Brand and Will Reduce the Role of LED Packages in Its Business Portfolio
In a recent interview with a market research firm, China-based LED manufacturer MLS announced that it is fully committed to become a brand in finished lighting products and will be scaling back the role of LED packages in its business portfolio over the next few years.
MLS currently owns two brand names: “MLS” and “LEDVANCE”. Its strategy going forward will be primarily about building up brand recognition and opening new sales channels.
MLS said that it has been laying the groundwork for the transition during these recent years. To establish itself as a major lighting brand, the company has accumulated related expertise and studied the various strategies adopted by other players in the market. MLS has found that each product category requires the assignment of a specialist that can help develop a flexible strategy for finding client partners and distribution channels. Currently, sales of branded products account for around 70% of the company’s overall revenue.
MLS pointed out that even though the market for branded lighting products has a relatively low degree of concentration at this moment, this situation will change due to the trend of rapid urbanization and the introduction of regulations for ensuring product quality. The rise in both the expectations from consumers and the specification requirements will raise the entry barriers pertaining to technologies and innovations. Hence, MLS anticipates that the market will eventually become more concentrated and dominated by a few major brands.
When discussing the complementary relationship between channel management and product development, MLS said that branding offers two advantages. First, it assists the company in selling products of premium quality to end users. Second, it creates avenues for profit sharing among participants in the distribution and sales network, thereby forming mutually beneficial relations between the manufacturer and its channel partners.
MLS will be allocating a lot of resources into online commerce and has hired a team with an impressive track record in this area to formulate a strategy that guarantees future success.
In the aspect of product development, MLS intends to build on its existing advantages so as to create products that differentiate from competitions, deliver high additional values, and possess substantial technological content. Another important part of its product development process is the empowerment of the brand.
Regarding the state of the LED market, MLS said that the demand related to lighting applications is expanding steadily. The global market for LEDs used in lighting products has been showing annual growth rates of 10-20% in the recent years. MLS also noted that the demand for LED packages has been surging in the recent months. Many products are in short supply, and prices on the whole are on a stable but also slightly upward trend.
Additionally, MLS mentioned its strategic investment project with Xiaomi. The project is currently in the pre-application stage, and further progress will have to wait until certain policies are in place. Nevertheless, the two parties have begun initial discussion on how to proceed with cross-industry collaboration in the future.
(The above article is an English translation of Chinese content provided by LEDinside. Image credit: MLS.)
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NYC Tribunal Rejects Claim That First Amendment Requires Use of Audience Factor for Sourcing Receipts from Credit Ratings
The New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal, reversing an Administrative Law Judge decision, has held that McGraw-Hill does not have a First Amendment right to source its credit ratings receipts for New York City general corporation tax purposes using an “audience-based” methodology similar to that available to publishers and broadcasters. The City Tribunal also rejected McGraw-Hill’s claim that the receipts in question were “other business receipts,” sourced to where the receipts are “earned,” rather than arising from the performance of services and sourced to where the services were performed. Matter of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., TAT(E) 10-19 (GC) et al., (N.Y.C. Tax App. Trib., Oct. 28, 2015).
Facts. McGraw-Hill, through its Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) division, operates a credit rating agency to provide ratings, risk evaluations, and investment research. Debt issuers hire S&P to prepare credit ratings for use by investors, intermediaries, and the issuers themselves. S&P employs approximately 1,200 analysts who prepare the ratings. Upon approval by an S&P ratings committee, the ratings are communicated to the issuer, and then usually made public on the S&P website to registered users free of charge. The issuers, rather than the website users or investors, pay S&P for providing the credit ratings, usually based on a percentage of the offering amount, and also pay for follow- up monitoring.
For the tax years 2003 through 2007, McGraw-Hill filed general corporation tax (“GCT”) returns, and in its receipts factor treated the credit rating fees of its S&P division as from the performance of services, sourced based on a place-of-performance method. In 2009, McGraw-Hill filed amended GCT returns, requesting refunds for those years totaling approximately $35 million. The refund claims were based on sourcing the credit rating receipts, which McGraw-Hill now reported as “other business receipts,” to “customer” locations. The Department of Finance (“Department”) disallowed the refund claims on the grounds that the credit rating fees were from the performance of services, sourced based on where the services were performed. McGraw-Hill filed its 2008 GCT return consistent with the receipts factor reported in its amended returns and, following an audit, the Department issued a Notice of Determination for $3.2 million, also sourcing the credit rating fees based on place of performance.
ALJ decision. After an administrative hearing, in February 2014 the Chief ALJ held that, on First Amendment grounds (pertaining to freedom of the press), McGraw-Hill was entitled to a discretionary adjustment to source its credit rating receipts using an audience-based allocation methodology. The Chief ALJ held that as a financial information publisher, McGraw-Hill’s S&P division “was entitled to the same [First Amendment] protections afforded other members of the press.” She cited McGraw-Hill, Inc. v. State Tax Commission, 75 N.Y.2d 852 (1990), where the Court of Appeals affirmed a decision of the Third Department, holding that the State of New York could not for Article 9-A purposes source McGraw-Hill’s revenues from advertisements in its magazines based on place of performance because this represented differential treatment between the print media and the broadcast media, in violation of the First Amendment. She also concluded that S&P’s credit rating fees constituted “other business receipts” under Admin. Code §11-604(3)(a)(2).
Tribunal decision. The City Tribunal reversed the Chief ALJ’s decision, and in doing so rejected each of McGraw- Hill’s three principal arguments. First, the Tribunal held that the denial of use of an audience method did not violate McGraw-Hill’s First Amendment rights. It addressed the First Amendment implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Leathers v. Medlock, 499 US 439 (1991), which rejected a First Amendment challenge to application of an Arkansas gross receipts tax on a cable television provider’s sales and services, even though receipts from subscriptions and over-the-counter sales of newspapers and magazines were exempt. The Tribunal concluded that, under Leathers v. Medlock, the First Amendment only bars disparate taxation based on the content of a taxpayer’s speech. According to the Tribunal, McGraw-Hill did not show that it was similarly situated to broadcasters and publishers such that the denial of use of the audience method resulted in unconstitutional discrimination based on content. The Tribunal also distinguished the 1990 Article 9-A McGraw-Hill decision, decided on First Amendment grounds, finding that it was limited to advertising receipts and has no application to the sourcing of credit rating receipts.
McGraw-Hill also argued that S&P’s credit rating receipts constituted “other business receipts,” and not receipts from the performance of services, contending that they were “generated through the creation and communication of financial commentary to an audience.” The City Tribunal disagreed, concluding that McGraw-Hill was compensated for its work in generating the ratings— which involved substantial investigation and analysis —and made its credit ratings available to users free of charge. Thus, the receipts in question were found to be from the performance of services.
Finally, McGraw-Hill asserted that sourcing based on a place of performance method resulted in an improper reflection of McGraw-Hill’s activities in New York City, and claimed that the City Tribunal should exercise discretionary authority and apply an audience- based method to more fairly allocate the credit rating fees. According to the Tribunal, McGraw-Hill did not establish that the sourcing of credit rating receipts based on the location of the S&P analysts who worked on the ratings did not properly reflect McGraw-Hill’s activities in the City. Moreover, the Tribunal concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support a conclusion that the location of visitors to the S&P free website—the “customers” that McGraw-Hill used for its audience-based methodology—was a more reasonable means of sourcing those receipts.
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To a large extent, the City Tribunal’s reversal is predicated on its conclusion that McGraw-Hill is not similarly situated to broadcasters and publishers with respect to its S&P credit rating services, and therefore the First Amendment was not implicated in this case. The Tribunal’s decision may be appealed to the New York courts, as McGraw-Hill successfully did previously in pursuing its First Amendment constitutional challenge under Article 9-A with respect to its advertising receipts. If the decision stands, its impact under the new Article 3-A tax—which generally provides for the sourcing of receipts based on where the customer “derives the benefit”—is not entirely clear since S&P’s paying “customer” is the issuer or intermediary, not the party viewing the ratings on the S&P web site.
One interesting question presented is whether the City Tribunal has the authority to exercise the discretionary authority to adjust the receipts factor. Because it did not agree with the substance of McGraw-Hill’s position urging the exercise of the Department’s discretionary authority to apply the audience-based method, the Tribunal declined to address the claim that McGraw- Hill could not request such an exercise for the first time “on exception.” While it is subject to dispute whether McGraw-Hill first sought such relief “on exception” —McGraw-Hill appears to have made such a request through an earlier aborted letter ruling request—the decision is a reminder that taxpayers should claim discretionary relief either during the audit process or at conciliation to avoid such a potential impediment.
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North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Records, 1926-2012 (bulk 1996-2012)
Size: 46.25 linear feet (65 archival boxes, 7 legal boxes, 7 artifact boxes, 1 CD box, and 5 cartons,); 1409.13 megabytes Collection ID: UA 016.005
The North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Records contain correspondence, reports, memoranda, committee meeting notes, and artifacts from Evelyn Q. Reiman, former Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. These materials range in date from 1955 to 2012. The ... More
The North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Records contain correspondence, reports, memoranda, committee meeting notes, and artifacts from Evelyn Q. Reiman, former Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. These materials range in date from 1955 to 2012. The North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Office under Evelyn Reiman included Multicultural Student Affairs, Campus Activities, Student Conduct, the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service (CSLEPS), the Women's Center, and Business and Planning for University Student Centers. The GLBT Center, Parents and Family Services, the Student Organization Resource Center, and the Union Activities Board comprised Campus Activities. The Chaplains' Cooperative Ministry, Student Government, and Student Media also fell under Associate Vice Chancellor Reiman's purview. Multicultural Student Affairs, the GLBT Center, the Women's Center, CSLEPS, and Parent and Family Services were all founded during Reiman's tenure, providing a much-needed emphasis on diversity, ethics, and public service.Student Affairs' mission statement was to provide "programs and services for students and the larger community to enhance quality of life, facilitate intellectual, ethical and personal growth, and create a culture which engenders respect for human diversity." The Division of Student Affairs no longer exists, and has been transformed into the The Division of Academic and Student Affairs. Less
North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid Records, 1889-2002
Size: 3.25 linear feet (2 cartons, 1 archival half box) Collection ID: UA 016.007
The records of the North Carolina State University Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid include correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, announcements, reports, and lists of scholarship awardees from the student loan fund. Topics cover scholarships, named scholarships, grants, financial aid, and work study programs.
North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Student Media Authority Records, 1909-2020
Size: 23 linear feet (36 archival boxes, 9 CD boxes, 3 cardboxes, 1 oversize flatbox, 1 legal-sized archival box, 1 flatfolder); 556.46 gigabytes; 209389 Files Collection ID: UA 016.035
The North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Student Media Authority Records contain budget and financial statements, contracts, correspondence, minutes, staff applications, layout and design information, and publications. There is also a large amount of photographic materials, including CDs, DVDs, photographic ... More
The North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Student Media Authority Records contain budget and financial statements, contracts, correspondence, minutes, staff applications, layout and design information, and publications. There is also a large amount of photographic materials, including CDs, DVDs, photographic prints, negatives, contact sheets, and slides, most of which are from student photographers. The collection includes records of the Student Media Board, 1928-2008, the Agromeck office from 1909 to 2011, the Technician office from 1939 to 2011, the WKNC Radio Station from 1922 to 2006, the Windhover from 1928 to 2013, the Nubian Message from 2007 to 2009, and a small number of records, 1926-2020, from other publications. The Student Media Authority at North Carolina State University oversees creation of campus student publications at North Carolina State University, which include a yearbook, a daily newspaper, literary magazine, and African American student newspaper. It also oversees the student radio station, WKNC, and student television station, Wolf TV. The Publications Board was formed at North Carolina State College in or before 1933 to oversee creation of student publications. By 1937, it included representatives from student publications such as the Agromeck, Technician, Wataugan, Southern Engineer, and Agriculturist. By the late 1940s, it also included representatives from the student radio station WVWP. In the following decades, the organization continued to oversee the finances and leadership of student publications at North Carolina State University. It underwent various name changes, becoming known as the Student Media Board by the mid-2000s. As of 2010, Student Media is part of the Division of Student Affairs and is based in Witherspoon Student Center. It includes 220 paid and volunteer student positions. Less
North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Records, 1889-2008
Size: 110.45 linear feet (220 archival boxes, 1 archival half box, 1 flatfolder,) Collection ID: UA 016.001
The records of the North Carolina State University Office of the Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs, 1889-2008, contain correspondence, reports, and memoranda pertaining to student life on campus including admissions, financial aid, residence life, counseling, student conduct, arts organizations, Greek organizations, housing and ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University Office of the Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs, 1889-2008, contain correspondence, reports, and memoranda pertaining to student life on campus including admissions, financial aid, residence life, counseling, student conduct, arts organizations, Greek organizations, housing and residence life, and the administration of student organizations. Records include files from the Associate Vice Chancellor's office, Alumni Association, Athletics, Financial Aid, and Student Government. The Division of Student Affairs at North Carolina State University provided programs and services for students and the larger community to enhance quality of life, facilitate intellectual, ethical and personal growth, and create a culture which engenders respect for human diversity. Through these activities the Division of Student Affairs support student learning with the principle of “Students First.” In 2011, the Division of Student Affairs merged with the Division of Undergraduate Academic Programs to become the Division of Academic and Student Affairs (DASA). Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organization, Pi Tau Sigma, Pi Alpha Chapter Records, 1942-1979
Size: 2 linear feet (4 archival boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.487
The records of the Pi Alpha Chapter (North Carolina State's chapter) of Pi Tau Sigma include correspondence, financial records, membership rosters, meeting minutes, and other general information about the chapter, its members, and its activities. This subgroup also contains some materials distributed by the national office of Pi Tau ... More
The records of the Pi Alpha Chapter (North Carolina State's chapter) of Pi Tau Sigma include correspondence, financial records, membership rosters, meeting minutes, and other general information about the chapter, its members, and its activities. This subgroup also contains some materials distributed by the national office of Pi Tau Sigma, primarily issues of their annual publication, The Condenser of Pi Tau Sigma. Pi Tau Sigma is the international mechanical engineering honor society, the purpose of which is to establish a means of fellowship and communication between individuals who study and practice mechanical engineering. North Carolina State's chapter, the Pi Alpha Chapter, was established in 1942, and is open to mechanical engineering students who either rank in the top 25% of their class as juniors, or top 33% as seniors. Graduate students in mechanical engineering at NC State whose undergratuate universities did not have a chapter of Pi Tau Sigma are also allowed to join. The Pi Alpha Chapter remained active at NC State as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Agri-Life Council Records, 1922-1983
Size: 3.25 linear feet (3 archival boxes, 2 archival half boxes, 1 archival legal box) Collection ID: UA 021.418
Records of the North Carolina State University Agri-Life Council include meeting minutes, financial information, membership rosters, information on activities, and publications created by the Council. The Council was created to form a collective organization to represent students from all disciplines within the College of Agriculture ... More
Records of the North Carolina State University Agri-Life Council include meeting minutes, financial information, membership rosters, information on activities, and publications created by the Council. The Council was created to form a collective organization to represent students from all disciplines within the College of Agriculture (later, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and acts as the unofficial student organization of the College. What is known in 2008 as the Agri-Life Council was founded sometime during or before 1922 at N. C. State as the Agriculture Club; later, the name was changed to the Agricultural Council, and then to the Agri-Life Council. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Agricultural Economics Club Records, 1950-1986
Size: 0.5 linear feet (1 archival box) Collection ID: UA 021.416
Contents of the North Carolina State University Agricultural Economics Club records include general information on the club, photographs, information about annual senior class trips, and ribbons won at State Fair competitions. The North Carolina State University Agricultural Economics Club was formed in 1950 by students in the ... More
Contents of the North Carolina State University Agricultural Economics Club records include general information on the club, photographs, information about annual senior class trips, and ribbons won at State Fair competitions. The North Carolina State University Agricultural Economics Club was formed in 1950 by students in the agricultural field. The club existed on campus at least through the end of 1986, with primary activities being tours of agricultural businesses around the state of North Carolina and participation in agricultural competitions, including the North Carolina State Fair. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Agronomy Club Records, 1948-1982
Size: 0.5 linear feet (1 archival storage box) Collection ID: UA 021.419
Records, 1948-1982, of the North Carolina State University Agronomy Club include its constitution and by-laws, other organizational documents, publications, and flyers and programs for events. The North Carolina State University Agronomy Club is the North Carolina State University Section of the American Society of Agronomy. The club ... More
Records, 1948-1982, of the North Carolina State University Agronomy Club include its constitution and by-laws, other organizational documents, publications, and flyers and programs for events. The North Carolina State University Agronomy Club is the North Carolina State University Section of the American Society of Agronomy. The club was established to stimulate interest in agronomy and to foster a spirit of cooperation among agronomy students and staff. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Alpha Delta Pi, Zeta Beta Chapter Records, 1958 1970-1984
Size: 0.25 linear feet (1 archvial half box) Collection ID: UA 021.421
The records of the Zeta Beta Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi include a 1958 Pledge Director’s Manual from the national organization in addition to national and chapter materials from 1970s through the early 1980s. The national Alpha Delta Pi Sorority was established in 1851 as the Adelphean Society at Wesleyan College. It was the first ... More
The records of the Zeta Beta Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi include a 1958 Pledge Director’s Manual from the national organization in addition to national and chapter materials from 1970s through the early 1980s. The national Alpha Delta Pi Sorority was established in 1851 as the Adelphean Society at Wesleyan College. It was the first secret society for college women. In 1905, the Adelphean Society's name was changed to Alpha Delta Pi. Chapters were installed at a number of colleges in the following decades, although the mother chapter was closed in 1916. The Zeta Beta Chapter at North Carolina State University was colonized in 1969 and installed in 1971, after an apparent false start in the late 1950s. The Zeta Beta Chapter remained active as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, Iota Lambda Chapter Records, 1950-2005
Size: 21.25 linear feet (1 archival box, 6 flat folders, 13 cartons, 1 archival halfbox); 12 megabytes Collection ID: UA 021.424
The records of the Iota Lambda (North Carolina State University) Chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity (APO) contain the charter to establish the Iota Lambda Chapter, chapter meeting minutes, publications, the constitution and by-laws, membership rosters, scrapbooks, photo composites of members, and other general ... More
The records of the Iota Lambda (North Carolina State University) Chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity (APO) contain the charter to establish the Iota Lambda Chapter, chapter meeting minutes, publications, the constitution and by-laws, membership rosters, scrapbooks, photo composites of members, and other general information on the chapter. Members of the chapter volunteer to provide service and promote tolerance in the community. The Iota Lambda Chapter was established in November of 1950. Alpha Phi Omega is a national service co-ed fraternity whose mission is to create campus and community leaders through service. Its purpose is to develop leadership, to promote friendship and to provide service to humanity. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Alpha Zeta, North Carolina Chapter Records, 1904-1990, 2007-2009
Size: 7.2 linear feet (10 archival boxes, 4 oversized boxes, 1 flat folder) Collection ID: UA 021.426
The records of the North Carolina Chapter (NC State's chapter) of Alpha Zeta include correspondence, meeting minutes, financial information, membership records, the chapter's history, scrapbooks created by the chapter, and other files documenting the chapter, its members, and its activities. This collection also includes a number of ... More
The records of the North Carolina Chapter (NC State's chapter) of Alpha Zeta include correspondence, meeting minutes, financial information, membership records, the chapter's history, scrapbooks created by the chapter, and other files documenting the chapter, its members, and its activities. This collection also includes a number of publications produced and distributed by the national office of Alpha Zeta. Alpha Zeta was founded at Ohio State University in 1897 as an honorary professional society for students and industry professionals in the agriculture and natural resources fields. Alpha Zeta was founded at Ohio State University in 1897 as an honorary professional society for students and industry professionals in the agriculture and natural resources fields. The North Carolina Chapter (NC State's chapter) was established in January of 1904, and is the oldest agricultural society on campus. The North Carolina Chapter of Alpha Zeta remained active as of 2009. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, American Ceramic Society, North Carolina State University Chapter Records, 1925-1987
Size: 0.5 linear feet (2 archival half boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.430
The records of North Carolina State University's chapter of the American Ceramic Society (ACS) contain meeting minutes, the constitution and by-laws, membership rosters, and other general information about chapter activities. Members of the ACS work together to share information in the field of ceramics research. A student chapter of ... More
The records of North Carolina State University's chapter of the American Ceramic Society (ACS) contain meeting minutes, the constitution and by-laws, membership rosters, and other general information about chapter activities. Members of the ACS work together to share information in the field of ceramics research. A student chapter of the ACS was started in or before 1925 at North Carolina State College (University). The student chapter remained active through at least 1987, though it has since disbanded. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, North Carolina State University Student Chapter Records, 1930-2004
The records of the North Carolina State University Student Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers contain meeting minutes, correspondence, the constitution and by-laws, membership rosters, and other general information. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers was formed in 1908, and has since become the world's ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University Student Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers contain meeting minutes, correspondence, the constitution and by-laws, membership rosters, and other general information. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers was formed in 1908, and has since become the world's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals. A student chapter of the organization was established at NC State in 1930, and is still active as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, American Society of Civil Engineers, North Carolina State University Student Chapter Records, 1948-1994
Size: 3 linear feet (3 archival boxes, 1 carton) Collection ID: UA 021.432
The records of the North Carolina State University Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) contain annual reports, membership rosters, photographs, publications produced by the chapter, and other general information on the activities of the chapter. The mission of the ASCE is to advance professional ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) contain annual reports, membership rosters, photographs, publications produced by the chapter, and other general information on the activities of the chapter. The mission of the ASCE is to advance professional knowledge and improve the practice of civil engineering. NC State's student chapter of the ASCE was established in or before 1948, giving civil engineering students the opportunity to become exposed to the professional world of civil engineering, while also helping to coordinate many of the activities going on within the Department of Civil Engineering (later, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering) at NC State. NC State University's chapter was still active in 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, North Carolina State University Student Section Records, 1945-1975
Size: 2.5 linear feet (5 archival boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.435
The records of the North Carolina State University Student Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) include records from both NC State's section, and from the regional unit (Region IV) that NC State's section was formerly housed under. Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University Student Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) include records from both NC State's section, and from the regional unit (Region IV) that NC State's section was formerly housed under. Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, membership rosters, conference materials, and other general information. NC State's student section of the ASME was established in or before 1945 to allow mechanical engineering students at NC State to share in the practice of enabling mechanical engineers to contribute to the well-being of society. NC State's student section has remained active since that time, and in the 2000s has emerged as one of the most active student sections of the ASME in the world. The student section at NC State was once housed under the Region IV unit of the ASME; now, it is part of the Eastern North Carolina unit. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Animal Science Club Records, 1949-1987
Size: 1 linear foot (2 archival boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.434
The records of the Animal Science Club include a single folder of assorted materials reflecting club business and activities, copies of the annual publication Meat and Milk, the Scientific Way, and two scrapbooks created in the 1980s. The materials reflect the club’s membership, activities, and achievements, as well as developments ... More
The records of the Animal Science Club include a single folder of assorted materials reflecting club business and activities, copies of the annual publication Meat and Milk, the Scientific Way, and two scrapbooks created in the 1980s. The materials reflect the club’s membership, activities, and achievements, as well as developments in animal industries from 1949 to 1975 and from 1985 to 1987. North Carolina State University’s Animal Science Club was started as the Animal Industry Club in 1936 by students interested in promoting livestock industries in North Carolina, and in providing interactions among students, faculty, and livestock producers. The name of the club was changed to the Animal Science Club in 1962 or 1963. The organization participated in a variety of professional, service, and social activities, including assorted programs, suppers, dances, competitions, and conferences. The Animal Science Club remained active as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Arab Club Records, 1958-1989
Size: 6.5 linear feet (1 archival box, 4 flat boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.447
The records of the North Carolina State University Arab Club contain their constitution, correspondence, information on events and activities the Club hosted, records of Club officers and members, as well as scrapbooks and photograph albums assembled by the Club. The Arab Club was established in or before 1958 at North Carolina State ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University Arab Club contain their constitution, correspondence, information on events and activities the Club hosted, records of Club officers and members, as well as scrapbooks and photograph albums assembled by the Club. The Arab Club was established in or before 1958 at North Carolina State College (University) to act as a social organization for students of Arab background, as well as to promote Arab culture and heritage throughout campus at various events and activities. The Arab Club appears to have changed their name frequently, being known alternately as the Arab Students' Organization of Raleigh, the Arab Student Organization, the Arab Student Club, the Organization of Arab Students, and the Arab Student Association, though the name "Arab Club" is the name they most commonly used. The Arab Club remained active at NC State at least through 1989, though appears to have since disbanded. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Chi Epsilon Honor Fraternity, North Carolina State University Chapter Records, 1948-1978
Size: 1.25 linear feet (2 archival boxes, 1 archival half box) Collection ID: UA 021.439
The records of North Carolina State University's chapter of the Chi Epsilon Honor Fraternity include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, clippings, membership rosters, information on the formation of the chapter, and other general information. Some issues of the national Fraternity newsletter, The Transit are also included. ... More
The records of North Carolina State University's chapter of the Chi Epsilon Honor Fraternity include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, clippings, membership rosters, information on the formation of the chapter, and other general information. Some issues of the national Fraternity newsletter, The Transit are also included. The Chi Epsilon Honor Fraternity was established in 1923, and acts as the national honorary society for undergraduates studying civil engineering. Students at NC State petitioned to form a chapter in 1948, a granted request designating them as the 23rd chapter of the national organization. The chapter remained active as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Christian Science Organization, North Carolina State University Chapter Records, 1955-1988
The North Carolilna State University Chapter of the Christian Science Organization records include by-laws, reports, announcements, correspondence, the College Division Organization Newsletter, pamphlets, tracts, and general information. Materials range in date from 1955 to 1988. The North Carolina State University Chapter of the ... More
The North Carolilna State University Chapter of the Christian Science Organization records include by-laws, reports, announcements, correspondence, the College Division Organization Newsletter, pamphlets, tracts, and general information. Materials range in date from 1955 to 1988. The North Carolina State University Chapter of the Christian Science Organization began in 1963. The organization made its first application in the spring of 1963. After corrections were made to the by-laws, the North Carolina State University Christian Science Organization received organization status in the fall of 1963. North Carolina State's chapter of the Christian Science Organization remains active as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Circle K Club of North Carolina State University Records, 1959-1979
The records of the Circle K Club of North Carolina State University contain information on the club, the district the club is in, and the international offices of the Circle K organization. Types of materials include meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, financial information, newsletters and other publications, information ... More
The records of the Circle K Club of North Carolina State University contain information on the club, the district the club is in, and the international offices of the Circle K organization. Types of materials include meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, financial information, newsletters and other publications, information about activities and events, and other general information. Circle K organizations are collegiate affiliates of local Kiwanis service groups. Circle K was established at NC State in November of 1961, and it is sponsored by both the Capital City Kiwanis and the Raleigh Kiwanis Club. NC State's Circle K club is a member of the Carolinas District of Circle K organizations. Circle K remained active at NC State as of 2008. Less
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North Carolina State University. University Extension
North Carolina State University. Office of Research and Innovation. Research Operations Council
North Carolina State University. Office of Research and Graduate Studies
Filters: North Carolina State University. Office of Research and Innovation. Research Operations CouncilNorth Carolina State University. University Extension2000-20091960-19691930-19391980-19891990-19991970-1979Has digitial content
North Carolina State University, Research Operations Council Records, 1970-1994
Size: 1.5 linear feet (1 carton); 1 website Collection ID: UA 011.003
This collection contains minutes, reports, memoranda regarding research and its funding; arranged chronologically. The Research Operations Council (ROC) provides leadership at the college and university level for NC State research endeavors. The council’s monthly meeting agenda is set by the Vice Chancellor of Research and ... More
This collection contains minutes, reports, memoranda regarding research and its funding; arranged chronologically. The Research Operations Council (ROC) provides leadership at the college and university level for NC State research endeavors. The council’s monthly meeting agenda is set by the Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation. Members include the associate dean for research (or comparable chief research officer) from each college, the Vice Chancellor’s senior staff and the University Research Committee’s chair (https://research.ncsu.edu/about/committees/research-operations-council/, accessed 7/30/2020). Less
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May 31, 2012 9:00 pm by Ancos Views: 114
Novara dome entrance
Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara. It is located in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy. It population density of a little over 100,000 makes it the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin and the second largest urban area of the Piedmont region with 190,000 inhabitants. It is a central crossroad for commercial traffic among the routes from Milan to Turin and from Genoa to Switzerland. Novara lies between the Agogna and Terdoppio Rivers in northeastern Piedmont some 38 km from Milan and 95 km from Turin.
Anyone with some romance language background can probably decipher a little of the meaning of the name “Novara”. It is formed from “Nov”, meaning “new”, and “Aria”, which is the name used for the surrounding region. It is situated on perpendicular roads typical of the way the ancient Romans laid out their cities.
After Napoleon came through here, Novara became the capital of the Department of the Agogna, but was then put into the House of Savoy in 1814. In 1821, it was the site of the battle between Sardinian and Piedmontese troops, of which the Sardinians were victorious. The Battle of Novara in 1849, the Sardinian army was defeated by the Austrian army. This defeat is seen by some as the beginning of the Italian unification movement.
An 1859 decree created the province of Novara, which then include the present day provinces of Vercelli, Biella and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.
At the time of unification in 1861, Novara had a population of about 25,000. 20th century industrialization increased the city’s population to a little over 100,000 at present day.
Sforza castle in Novara
As with many cities in Italy, there are two areas to see the main sights within the city. Most larger cities were encompassed by city walls at some point. After the walls were knocked down, the city grew out. Therefore, the areas within the old city walls and outside its ancient boundaries usually house two distinct pockets of history and architecture.
Novara is no exception to this phenomenon. The old city center makes up the “historic” center. As per the norm, Novara once had an encircling wall, which was demolished to allow for the city to grow. Of the old wall their remains only the Barriera Albertina, a complex of two buildings that constituted the gate of entry to the city. This was the required passageway for those who traveled from Turin to Milan. After the walls came down, the present day baluardi took its place. The baluardi is the tree lined boulevards that surround the historic center of town.
The cupola of the Basilica of San Gaudenzio is the symbol of the town. It stands at 121 meters. Together with the bell tower, it makes the entire Basilica a key figure since the time of its construction in 1888.
Panorama of Novara
The Cathedral is the spiritual heart of Novara. Designed by Alessandro Antonelli, it sits exactly where the temple of Jupiter stood in the times of the Romans. The early Christian Baptistery, the oldest building in Novara, faces the Cathedral.
Also in close proximity to these complexes is the courtyard of the Broletto. The Broletto is the historic meeting place of the city council, the center of the political life of the city.
The Palazzo del Podesta and the Palazzetto dei Paratici both look over the Broletto courtyard. The buildings house the Civic Museum and the Gallery of Modern Art, and the Palace of the City Council.
The Piazza Cesare Battisti marks the exact center of the city. To the townspeople it is known as the Piazza delle Erbe, or “Herbs square”.
The Palazzo Natta-Isola, seat of the province and of the prefecture of Novara, sits in Piazza Giacomo Matteotti. The signature piece of this structure is its clock tower. Along the connecting Via Fratelli Roselli is the Palazzo Cabrino, the official seat of the administrative offices of the city. In ancient Roman planning, a cardo was a set of north-south oriented streets in cities and military camps. It served as the economic center and was lined with shops, merchants and vendors. Such it was in Novara, as well. Today that cardo corresponds directly to the present day Corso Italia and Corso Cavour.
Galliate castle, Novara
Statues to Victor Emmanuele II are found in many places in Italy and also in Novara. The equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuele II is found here in the city’s largest square, Piazza Martiri della Liberta. The Castello Visconteo-Sforzesco, built by dukes Visconti and Sforza, and the Teatro Coccia, oversee the Piazza Martiri. The Castello is surrounded by one of the largest public gardens in Novara, the Allea.
Other piazzas of note are the Largo Cavour, dominated by the statue of the same name; Piazza Garibaldi, the square facing the railway station, featuring the statue of the hero; Piazza Gramsci, which hosts the statue of Icarus.
This is all within the old city center. Outside the old historic center include the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore, the Church of San Nazzaro della Costa and the Ossuary of Bicocca. The Ossuary is in memory of the fallen soldiers of the historic battle between the Piedmontese and Austrians in 1849. Also, worthy of seeing is the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which was built in 1477, and whose interior consists of a single nave with lateral chapels and paintings attributed to artists of the 15th century.
Novara has its share of festivals throughout the year, as well. January 22 marks the feast of San Gaudenzio, its patron saint. You may visit the saint’s tomb as well as indulge in the marroni di Cuneo, or roasted chestnuts. Liberation Day, April 25, is celebrated here and other spots around the country, to celebrate the resistance movement and the local partisans who took part in resistance activities.
The turn of the new century has spawned two new festivals, Giovani Espressioni and the Novara Gospel Festival. The Giovani Espressioni is a music festival aimed at emerging, young musicians. There is a contest held each year, as well, as a way of focusing in on new bands. The Gospel Festival is composed of workshops, local tours, and gospel concerts in the main theatre of the city.
Because of its proximity to Milan some firms based in Milan have offices in Novara. In addition, rice, corn, metallurgy, pharmaceuticals, banking and insurance make up the economy here.
So, if you are looking to enjoy una festa, a walk through the ancient ruins, or take in some music, Novara is the place to be.
Author: Ancos
Life in Italy > Tourism > Piedmont > Novara
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By Tamsin Cooper
Oct 23rd, 2018
Langleys colleague scales new heights for charity
Partner Tamsin Cooper has tackled the dizzying heights of Mt Kilimanjaro in a bid to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
The climb, which scales 5,895 metres to the summit, was described by Tamsin as ‘one of the hardest physical challenges I’ve ever undertaken.’ This is no exaggeration for the active and sporty Tamsin who is already a keen walker.
Altitude, lack of sleep and extreme cold all served to make the challenge that bit harder as Tamsin, alongside friend and former colleague Wendy Forrester, trekked on to the top.
Both ladies have been delighted by the support of friends and co-workers who have contributed to the fundraising, helping them achieve over £2,500 in donations.
On their reasons for choosing Macmillan, Tamsin said, ‘the charity does such wonderful work to support people at a difficult time and we’re proud to be able to help contribute to such a worthy cause.’
Tamsin and Wendy’s JustGiving page is still active for anyone wishing to support the cause. Find out more and make a donation here
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Women suffer disproportionately under harsh California laws
By Robin AbcarianColumnist
She’s probably told her story thousands of times, but when we talk, Susan Burton’s tale comes spilling out of her as if it’s the first time she’s shared it: in and out of prison for years for possessing small amounts of crack cocaine, never offered drug diversion or help with housing or work.
When Burton argues that Proposition 47, a ballot initiative that would reclassify many small-time felonies as misdemeanors, would have spared her years of a “turnstile” life, she is persuasive.
“I was sent up over and over again during a 15-year span,” said Burton, who fell into serious addiction in 1982 after her 5-year-old son was killed by a car. “I’d have maybe like $20 worth. Literally, I would get off a bus downtown skid row and try to make my way with my $200 ‘gate money.’ I had no ID, no Social Security card. I would re-offend, get caught and go back to prison.”
It was not until she found CLARE Foundation, which has provided recovery support to addicts in Santa Monica for nearly 45 years, that it occurred to Burton that something was very wrong in her own neighborhood. “I found so many services at CLARE that helped me—counseling, medical services, dental services, just a wide variety of services that helped me put my life back together.”
Long story short: She founded her own program in South Central, scraping together enough money for a down payment on a place. “I would go down to the bus station where I had gotten off that bus many, many times, and I would wait for the women that I knew were leaving prison, and I would invite them to the house.”
Most of the women had done time for petty, poverty-related crimes: stealing a purse, writing bad checks, drug possession. “One woman I helped served three years for .05 grams of cocaine—like a little bit of dust, a crumb!”
At last count, Burton’s organization, A New Way of Life, has served about 750 women. The other day, Burton was a featured speaker at the University of Illinois in Chicago, talking about alternatives to incarceration. It’s an idea whose time, at long last, seems to have come.
Prop. 47 would reduce penalties for many low-level crimes in California: drug possession, petty theft, shoplifting, forgery and writing bad checks. Money saved on what has come to be called California’s “overincarceration” problem — as much as $300 million annually-- would be used to support schools, the state’s victims compensation fund and, most critically, mental health, substance abuse and drug diversion efforts.
My colleague Paige St. John reported last week that more than 58,000 of the state’s 202,000 felony convictions in 2012 involved crimes listed on the ballot measure. About 40,000 cases would be reduced to misdemeanors, she wrote, noting that Prop. 47 exempts offenses involving more than $950 and people whose criminal records include violence of sex offenses.
Because Proposition 47 is retroactive, more than 7,000 inmates, including some convicted under the state’s “three strikes” law, could petition the courts for release.
Opponents suggest it’s insane to reduce possession of date rape drugs and the theft of guns worth less than $950 from felonies to misdemeanors, and they do have a point.
But they don’t talk about the dramatic effect that the measure will have on women, who, as it turns out, have a particularly high stake in the outcome.
A new analysis by the Women’s Foundation of California found that California women are incarcerated for the crimes addressed by Prop. 47 at disproportionate rates compared to men.
For women, even more than men, the fallout of these convictions is devastating. Once they are convicted of drug felonies, for instance, women have a hard time accessing public benefits, housing, and even jobs, according to the report’s author, Jolene Forman, a criminal justice and drug policy fellow at ACLU of Northern California.
Criminal convictions, said Forman, preclude a woman from doing the kind of unskilled work that women tend to do-- elder or child care. Men, on the other hand, tend to work in manual labor or construction jobs, where a conviction is far less likely to be a bar.
Women who have petty drug convictions, she noted, also have trouble getting public housing vouchers. This puts a special burden on children, because, compared to men, a far higher percentage of women lived with their children before going to prison.
Children with incarcerated mothers, Forman notes in her analysis, are more likely to live in foster care, to drop out of school and to become, as the jargon goes, “justice involved.”
“Once you are part of the juvenile or adult justice system,” Forman told me, “it’s really hard to stay out of the system because of collateral affects, and the trauma associated with incarceration.”
This was true for Burton. Her frequent incarceration ruptured her relationship with her daughter, who was 15 when her son was killed. “She lost me, too,” said Burton, 63. “I served six terms – 18 months, two years, three years. It’s not rocket science that I was a woman who needed help, which was never given to me through the courts.”
Though Prop. 47 is supported mostly by left-leaning groups and individuals, it is by no means a partisan proposal. Last month, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and B. Wayne Hughes Jr., the conservative Christian billionaire and political activist, argued on the Times editorial page in favor of Prop. 47. (Hughes, a sometime Malibu resident, is founder of Public Storage. He is among the single largest donors to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads Super PAC.)
“California has been overusing incarceration,” they wrote. “Prisons are for people we are afraid of, but we have been filling them with many folks we are just mad at.”
California, they note, spends $62,396 per prisoner each year, compared to $9,200 per K-12 student. “And as California built 22 prisons in 30 years, it built only one public university.”
More to the point, we’re not safer. Six of 10 offenders return to prison within three years of release.
If none of this is persuasive, would it help to know that both Texas and South Carolina—those solidly red states filled with law-and-order conservatives--have already figured out that reclassifying crimes and putting the money into treatment is the way to go?
Texas stopped expanding its prisons in 2007, Gingrich and Hughes wrote, using the money instead for probation and treatment. Its violent crime rate is the lowest it’s been in nearly four decades. Likewise, South Carolina’s reforms have led to the closure of one prison and a lower recidivism rate.
So ... progressive California? Not really. Punitive California is more like it.
Cast your vote for sanity: @robinabcarian
Robin Abcarian
Robin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She writes about news, politics and culture. Her columns appear on Wednesday and Sunday. Twitter: @AbcarianLAT
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Title 40 - Protection of Environment
CHAPTER I - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SUBCHAPTER D - WATER PROGRAMS
PART 122 - EPA ADMINISTERED PERMIT PROGRAMS: THE NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Subpart B - Permit Application and Special NPDES Program Requirements
§ 122.21 Application for a permit (applicable to State programs, see § 123.25).
40 CFR § 122.21 - Application for a permit (applicable to State programs, see § 123.25).
(a) Duty to apply.
(1) Any person who discharges or proposes to discharge pollutants or who owns or operates a “sludge-only facility” whose sewage sludge use or disposal practice is regulated by part 503 of this chapter, and who does not have an effective permit, except persons covered by general permits under § 122.28, excluded under § 122.3, or a user of a privately owned treatment works unless the Director requires otherwise under § 122.44(m), must submit a complete application to the Director in accordance with this section and part 124 of this chapter. The requirements for concentrated animal feeding operations are described in § 122.23(d).
(2) Application Forms: (i) All applicants for EPA-issued permits must submit applications on EPA permit application forms. More than one application form may be required from a facility depending on the number and types of discharges or outfalls found there. Application forms may be obtained by contacting: U.S. EPA, Mail Code 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460 or by visiting http://www.epa.gov/npdes. Applications for EPA-issued permits must be submitted as follows:
(A) All applicants, other than POTWs, TWTDS, vessels, and pesticide applicators must submit Form 1.
(B) Applicants for new and existing POTWs must submit the information contained in paragraph (j) of this section using Form 2A or other form provided by the director.
(C) Applicants for concentrated animal feeding operations or aquatic animal production facilities must submit Form 2B.
(D) Applicants for existing industrial facilities (including manufacturing facilities, commercial facilities, mining activities, and silvicultural activities), must submit Form 2C.
(E) Applicants for new industrial facilities that discharge process wastewater must submit Form 2D.
(F) Applicants for new and existing industrial facilities that discharge only nonprocess wastewater must submit Form 2E.
(G) Applicants for new and existing facilities whose discharge is composed entirely of storm water associated with industrial activity must submit Form 2F, unless exempted by § 122.26(c)(1)(ii). If the discharge is composed of storm water and non-storm water, the applicant must also submit, Forms 2C, 2D, and/or 2E, as appropriate (in addition to Form 2F).
(H) Applicants for new and existing TWTDS, subject to paragraph (c)(2)(i) of this section must submit the application information required by paragraph (q) of this section, using Form 2S or other form provided by the director.
(ii) The application information required by paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this section may be electronically submitted if such method of submittal is approved by EPA or the Director.
(iii) Applicants can obtain copies of these forms by contacting the Water Management Divisions (or equivalent division which contains the NPDES permitting function) of the EPA Regional Offices. The Regional Offices' addresses can be found at § 1.7 of this chapter.
(iv) Applicants for State-issued permits must use State forms which must require at a minimum the information listed in the appropriate paragraphs of this section.
(b) Who applies? When a facility or activity is owned by one person but is operated by another person, it is the operator's duty to obtain a permit.
(c) Time to apply.
(1) Any person proposing a new discharge, shall submit an application at least 180 days before the date on which the discharge is to commence, unless permission for a later date has been granted by the Director. Facilities proposing a new discharge of storm water associated with industrial activity shall submit an application 180 days before that facility commences industrial activity which may result in a discharge of storm water associated with that industrial activity. Facilities described under § 122.26(b)(14)(x) or (b)(15)(i) shall submit applications at least 90 days before the date on which construction is to commence. Different submittal dates may be required under the terms of applicable general permits. Persons proposing a new discharge are encouraged to submit their applications well in advance of the 90 or 180 day requirements to avoid delay. See also paragraph (k) of this section and § 122.26(c)(1)(i)(G) and (c)(1)(ii).
(2) Permits under section 405(f) of CWA. All TWTDS whose sewage sludge use or disposal practices are regulated by part 503 of this chapter must submit permit applications according to the applicable schedule in paragraphs (c)(2)(i) or (ii) of this section.
(i) A TWTDS with a currently effective NPDES permit must submit a permit application at the time of its next NPDES permit renewal application. Such information must be submitted in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section.
(ii) Any other TWTDS not addressed under paragraph (c)(2)(i) of this section must submit the information listed in paragraphs (c)(2)(ii)(A) through (E) of this section to the Director within 1 year after publication of a standard applicable to its sewage sludge use or disposal practice(s), using Form 2S or another form provided by the Director. The Director will determine when such TWTDS must submit a full permit application.
(A) The TWTDS's name, mailing address, location, and status as federal, State, private, public or other entity;
(B) The applicant's name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address and ownership status;
(C) A description of the sewage sludge use or disposal practices. Unless the sewage sludge meets the requirements of paragraph (q)(8)(iv) of this section, the description must include the name and address of any facility where sewage sludge is sent for treatment or disposal, and the location of any land application sites;
(D) Annual amount of sewage sludge generated, treated, used or disposed (estimated dry weight basis); and
(E) The most recent data the TWTDS may have on the quality of the sewage sludge.
(iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs (c)(2)(i) or (ii) of this section, the Director may require permit applications from any TWTDS at any time if the Director determines that a permit is necessary to protect public health and the environment from any potential adverse effects that may occur from toxic pollutants in sewage sludge.
(iv) Any TWTDS that commences operations after promulgation of an applicable “standard for sewage sludge use or disposal” must submit an application to the Director at least 180 days prior to the date proposed for commencing operations.
(d) Duty to reapply.
(1) Any POTW with a currently effective permit shall submit a new application at least 180 days before the expiration date of the existing permit, unless permission for a later date has been granted by the Director. (The Director shall not grant permission for applications to be submitted later than the expiration date of the existing permit.)
(2) All other permittees with currently effective permits shall submit a new application 180 days before the existing permit expires, except that:
(i) The Regional Administrator may grant permission to submit an application later than the deadline for submission otherwise applicable, but no later than the permit expiration date; and
(3) [Reserved]
(e) Completeness.
(1) The Director shall not issue a permit before receiving a complete application for a permit except for NPDES general permits. An application for a permit is complete when the Director receives an application form and any supplemental information which are completed to his or her satisfaction. The completeness of any application for a permit shall be judged independently of the status of any other permit application or permit for the same facility or activity. For EPA administered NPDES programs, an application which is reviewed under § 124.3 of this chapter is complete when the Director receives either a complete application or the information listed in a notice of deficiency.
(2) A permit application shall not be considered complete if a permitting authority has waived application requirements under paragraphs (j) or (q) of this section and EPA has disapproved the waiver application. If a waiver request has been submitted to EPA more than 210 days prior to permit expiration and EPA has not disapproved the waiver application 181 days prior to permit expiration, the permit application lacking the information subject to the waiver application shall be considered complete.
(3) Except as specified in 122.21(e)(3)(ii), a permit application shall not be considered complete unless all required quantitative data are collected in accordance with sufficiently sensitive analytical methods approved under 40 CFR part 136 or required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N or O.
(i) For the purposes of this requirement, a method approved under 40 CFR part 136 or required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N or O is “sufficiently sensitive” when:
(A) The method minimum level (ML) is at or below the level of the applicable water quality criterion for the measured pollutant or pollutant parameter; or
(B) The method ML is above the applicable water quality criterion, but the amount of the pollutant or pollutant parameter in a facility's discharge is high enough that the method detects and quantifies the level of the pollutant or pollutant parameter in the discharge; or
(C) The method has the lowest ML of the analytical methods approved under 40 CFR part 136 or required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N or O for the measured pollutant or pollutant parameter.
Note to paragraph (e)(3)(i):
Consistent with 40 CFR part 136, applicants have the option of providing matrix or sample specific minimum levels rather than the published levels. Further, where an applicant can demonstrate that, despite a good faith effort to use a method that would otherwise meet the definition of “sufficiently sensitive”, the analytical results are not consistent with the QA/QC specifications for that method, then the Director may determine that the method is not performing adequately and the applicant should select a different method from the remaining EPA-approved methods that is sufficiently sensitive consistent with 40 CFR 122.21(e)(3)(i). Where no other EPA-approved methods exist, the applicant should select a method consistent with 40 CFR 122.21(e)(3)(ii).
(ii) When there is no analytical method that has been approved under 40 CFR part 136, required under 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N or O, and is not otherwise required by the Director, the applicant may use any suitable method but shall provide a description of the method. When selecting a suitable method, other factors such as a method's precision, accuracy, or resolution, may be considered when assessing the performance of the method.
(f) Information requirements. All applicants for NPDES permits, other than POTWs and other TWTDS, vessels, and pesticide applicators, must provide the information in paragraphs (f)(1) through (10) of this section to the Director, using the application form provided by the Director. Additional information required of applicants is set forth in paragraphs (g) through (k) and (q) through (r) of this section.
(1) The activities conducted by the applicant which require it to obtain an NPDES permit.
(2) Name, mailing address, and location of the facility for which the application is submitted.
(3) Up to four SIC and up to four NAICS codes that best reflect the principal products or services provided by the facility.
(4) The operator's name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address, ownership status, and status as Federal, State, private, public, or other entity.
(5) Whether the facility is located on Indian lands.
(6) A listing of all permits or construction approvals received or applied for under any of the following programs:
(i) Hazardous Waste Management program under RCRA.
(ii) UIC program under SDWA.
(iii) NPDES program under CWA.
(iv) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program under the Clean Air Act.
(v) Nonattainment program under the Clean Air Act.
(vi) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Pollutants (NESHAPS) preconstruction approval under the Clean Air Act.
(vii) Ocean dumping permits under the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act.
(viii) Dredge or fill permits under section 404 of CWA.
(ix) Other relevant environmental permits, including State permits.
(7) A topographic map (or other map if a topographic map is unavailable) extending one mile beyond the property boundaries of the source, depicting the facility and each of its intake and discharge structures; each of its hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities; each well where fluids from the facility are injected underground; and those wells, springs, other surface water bodies, and drinking water wells listed in public records or otherwise known to the applicant in the map area.
(8) A brief description of the nature of the business.
(9) An indication of whether the facility uses cooling water and the source of the cooling water.
(10) An indication of whether the facility is requesting any of the variances at 40 CFR 122.21(m), if known at the time of application.
(g) Application requirements for existing manufacturing, commercial, mining, and silvicultural dischargers. Existing manufacturing, commercial, mining, and silvicultural dischargers applying for NPDES permits, except for those facilities subject to the requirements of § 122.21(h), shall provide the following information to the Director, using application forms provided by the Director.
(1) Outfall location. The latitude and longitude to the nearest 15 seconds and the name of the receiving water.
(2) Line drawing. A line drawing of the water flow through the facility with a water balance, showing operations contributing wastewater to the effluent and treatment units. Similar processes, operations, or production areas may be indicated as a single unit, labeled to correspond to the more detailed identification under paragraph (g)(3) of this section. The water balance must show approximate average flows at intake and discharge points and between units, including treatment units. If a water balance cannot be determined (for example, for certain mining activities), the applicant may provide instead a pictorial description of the nature and amount of any sources of water and any collection and treatment measures.
(3) Average flows and treatment. A narrative identification of each type of process, operation, or production area which contributes wastewater to the effluent for each outfall, including process wastewater, cooling water, and stormwater runoff; the average flow which each process contributes; and a description of the treatment the wastewater receives, including the ultimate disposal of any solid or fluid wastes other than by discharge. Processes, operations, or production areas may be described in general terms (for example, “dye-making reactor”, “distillation tower”). For a privately owned treatment works, this information shall include the identity of each user of the treatment works. The average flow of point sources composed of storm water may be estimated. The basis for the rainfall event and the method of estimation must be indicated.
(4) Intermittent flows. If any of the discharges described in paragraph (g)(3) of this section are intermittent or seasonal, a description of the frequency, duration and flow rate of each discharge occurrence (except for stormwater runoff, spillage or leaks).
(5) Maximum production. If an effluent guideline promulgated under section 304 of CWA applies to the applicant and is expressed in terms of production (or other measure of operation), a reasonable measure of the applicant's actual production reported in the units used in the applicable effluent guideline. The reported measure must reflect the actual production of the facility as required by § 122.45(b)(2).
(6) Improvements. If the applicant is subject to any present requirements or compliance schedules for construction, upgrading or operation of waste treatment equipment, an identification of the abatement requirement, a description of the abatement project, and a listing of the required and projected final compliance dates.
(7) Effluent characteristics.
(i) Information on the discharge of pollutants specified in this paragraph (g)(7) (except information on storm water discharges which is to be provided as specified in § 122.26). When “quantitative data” for a pollutant are required, the applicant must collect a sample of effluent and analyze it for the pollutant in accordance with analytical methods approved under Part 136 of this chapter unless use of another method is required for the pollutant under 40 CFR subchapters N or O. When no analytical method is approved under Part 136 or required under subchapters N or O, the applicant may use any suitable method but must provide a description of the method. When an applicant has two or more outfalls with substantially identical effluents, the Director may allow the applicant to test only one outfall and report that quantitative data as applying to the substantially identical outfall. The requirements in paragraphs (g)(7)(vi) and (vii) of this section state that an applicant must provide quantitative data for certain pollutants known or believed to be present do not apply to pollutants present in a discharge solely as the result of their presence in intake water; however, an applicant must report such pollutants as present. When paragraph (g)(7) of this section requires analysis of pH, temperature, cyanide, total phenols, residual chlorine, oil and grease, fecal coliform (including E. coli), and Enterococci (previously known as fecal streptococcus at § 122.26 (d)(2)(iii)(A)(3)), or volatile organics, grab samples must be collected for those pollutants. For all other pollutants, a 24-hour composite sample, using a minimum of four (4) grab samples, must be used unless specified otherwise at 40 CFR Part 136. However, a minimum of one grab sample may be taken for effluents from holding ponds or other impoundments with a retention period greater than 24 hours. In addition, for discharges other than storm water discharges, the Director may waive composite sampling for any outfall for which the applicant demonstrates that the use of an automatic sampler is infeasible and that the minimum of four (4) grab samples will be a representative sample of the effluent being discharged. Results of analyses of individual grab samples for any parameter may be averaged to obtain the daily average. Grab samples that are not required to be analyzed immediately (see Table II at 40 CFR 136.3 (e)) may be composited in the laboratory, provided that container, preservation, and holding time requirements are met (see Table II at 40 CFR 136.3 (e)) and that sample integrity is not compromised by compositing.
(ii) Storm water discharges. For storm water discharges, all samples shall be collected from the discharge resulting from a storm event that is greater than 0.1 inch and at least 72 hours from the previously measurable (greater than 0.1 inch rainfall) storm event. Where feasible, the variance in the duration of the event and the total rainfall of the event should not exceed 50 percent from the average or median rainfall event in that area. For all applicants, a flow-weighted composite shall be taken for either the entire discharge or for the first three hours of the discharge. The flow-weighted composite sample for a storm water discharge may be taken with a continuous sampler or as a combination of a minimum of three sample aliquots taken in each hour of discharge for the entire discharge or for the first three hours of the discharge, with each aliquot being separated by a minimum period of fifteen minutes (applicants submitting permit applications for storm water discharges under § 122.26(d) may collect flow-weighted composite samples using different protocols with respect to the time duration between the collection of sample aliquots, subject to the approval of the Director). However, a minimum of one grab sample may be taken for storm water discharges from holding ponds or other impoundments with a retention period greater than 24 hours. For a flow-weighted composite sample, only one analysis of the composite of aliquots is required. For storm water discharge samples taken from discharges associated with industrial activities, quantitative data must be reported for the grab sample taken during the first thirty minutes (or as soon thereafter as practicable) of the discharge for all pollutants specified in § 122.26(c)(1). For all storm water permit applicants taking flow-weighted composites, quantitative data must be reported for all pollutants specified in § 122.26 except pH, temperature, cyanide, total phenols, residual chlorine, oil and grease, fecal coliform, and fecal streptococcus. The Director may allow or establish appropriate site-specific sampling procedures or requirements, including sampling locations, the season in which the sampling takes place, the minimum duration between the previous measurable storm event and the storm event sampled, the minimum or maximum level of precipitation required for an appropriate storm event, the form of precipitation sampled (snow melt or rain fall), protocols for collecting samples under part 136 of this chapter, and additional time for submitting data on a case-by-case basis. An applicant is expected to “know or have reason to believe” that a pollutant is present in an effluent based on an evaluation of the expected use, production, or storage of the pollutant, or on any previous analyses for the pollutant. (For example, any pesticide manufactured by a facility may be expected to be present in contaminated storm water runoff from the facility.)
(iii) Reporting requirements. Every applicant must report quantitative data for every outfall for the following pollutants:
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5)
Total Organic Carbon
Total Suspended Solids
Ammonia (as N)
Temperature (both winter and summer)
(iv) The Director may waive the reporting requirements for individual point sources or for a particular industry category for one or more of the pollutants listed in paragraph (g)(7)(iii) of this section if the applicant has demonstrated that such a waiver is appropriate because information adequate to support issuance of a permit can be obtained with less stringent requirements.
(v) Each applicant with processes in one or more primary industry category (see appendix A of this part) contributing to a discharge must report quantitative data for the following pollutants in each outfall containing process wastewater:
(A) The organic toxic pollutants in the fractions designated in table I of appendix D of this part for the applicant's industrial category or categories unless the applicant qualifies as a small business under paragraph (g)(8) of this section. Table II of appendix D of this part lists the organic toxic pollutants in each fraction. The fractions result from the sample preparation required by the analytical procedure which uses gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. A determination that an applicant falls within a particular industrial category for the purposes of selecting fractions for testing is not conclusive as to the applicant's inclusion in that category for any other purposes. See Notes 2, 3, and 4 of this section.
(B) The pollutants listed in table III of appendix D of this part (the toxic metals, cyanide, and total phenols).
(A) Each applicant must indicate whether it knows or has reason to believe that any of the pollutants in table IV of appendix D of this part (certain conventional and nonconventional pollutants) is discharged from each outfall. If an applicable effluent limitations guideline either directly limits the pollutant or, by its express terms, indirectly limits the pollutant through limitations on an indicator, the applicant must report quantitative data. For every pollutant discharged which is not so limited in an effluent limitations guideline, the applicant must either report quantitative data or briefly describe the reasons the pollutant is expected to be discharged.
(B) Each applicant must indicate whether it knows or has reason to believe that any of the pollutants listed in table II or table III of appendix D of this part (the toxic pollutants and total phenols) for which quantitative data are not otherwise required under paragraph (g)(7)(v) of this section are discharged from each outfall. For every pollutant expected to be discharged in concentrations of 10 ppb or greater the applicant must report quantitative data. For acrolein, acrylonitrile, 2,4 dinitrophenol, and 2-methyl-4, 6 dinitrophenol, where any of these four pollutants are expected to be discharged in concentrations of 100 ppb or greater the applicant must report quantitative data. For every pollutant expected to be discharged in concentrations less than 10 ppb, or in the case of acrolein, acrylonitrile, 2,4 dinitrophenol, and 2-methyl-4, 6 dinitrophenol, in concentrations less than 100 ppb, the applicant must either submit quantitative data or briefly describe the reasons the pollutant is expected to be discharged. An applicant qualifying as a small business under paragraph (g)(8) of this section is not required to analyze for pollutants listed in table II of appendix D of this part (the organic toxic pollutants).
(vii) Each applicant must indicate whether it knows or has reason to believe that any of the pollutants in table V of appendix D of this part (certain hazardous substances and asbestos) are discharged from each outfall. For every pollutant expected to be discharged, the applicant must briefly describe the reasons the pollutant is expected to be discharged, and report any quantitative data it has for any pollutant.
(viii) Each applicant must report qualitative data, generated using a screening procedure not calibrated with analytical standards, for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) if it:
(A) Uses or manufactures 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4,5,-T); 2-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) propanoic acid (Silvex, 2,4,5,-TP); 2-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) ethyl, 2,2-dichloropropionate (Erbon); O,O-dimethyl O-(2,4,5-trichlorophenyl) phosphorothioate (Ronnel); 2,4,5-trichlorophenol (TCP); or hexachlorophene (HCP); or
(B) Knows or has reason to believe that TCDD is or may be present in an effluent.
(ix) Where quantitative data are required in paragraphs (g)(7)(i) through (viii) of this section, existing data may be used, if available, in lieu of sampling done solely for the purpose of the application, provided that: All data requirements are met; sampling was performed, collected, and analyzed no more than four and one-half years prior to submission; all data are representative of the discharge; and all available representative data are considered in the values reported.
(8) Small business exemption. An application which qualifies as a small business under one of the following criteria is exempt from the requirements in paragraph (g)(7)(v)(A) or (g)(7)(vi)(A) of this section to submit quantitative data for the pollutants listed in table II of appendix D of this part (the organic toxic pollutants):
(i) For coal mines, a probable total annual production of less than 100,000 tons per year.
(ii) For all other applicants, gross total annual sales averaging less than $100,000 per year (in second quarter 1980 dollars).
(9) Used or manufactured toxics. A listing of any toxic pollutant which the applicant currently uses or manufactures as an intermediate or final product or byproduct. The Director may waive or modify this requirement for any applicant if the applicant demonstrates that it would be unduly burdensome to identify each toxic pollutant and the Director has adequate information to issue the permit.
(10) [Reserved]
(11) Biological toxicity tests. An identification of any biological toxicity tests which the applicant knows or has reason to believe have been made within the last 3 years on any of the applicant's discharges or on a receiving water in relation to a discharge.
(12) Contract analyses. If a contract laboratory or consulting firm performed any of the analyses required by paragraph (g)(7) of this section, the identity of each laboratory or firm and the analyses performed.
(13) Additional information. In addition to the information reported on the application form, applicants shall provide to the Director, at his or her request, such other information as the Director may reasonably require to assess the discharges of the facility and to determine whether to issue an NPDES permit. The additional information may include additional quantitative data and bioassays to assess the relative toxicity of discharges to aquatic life and requirements to determine the cause of the toxicity.
(h) Application requirements for manufacturing, commercial, mining and silvicultural facilities which discharge only non-process wastewater. Except for stormwater discharges, all manufacturing, commercial, mining and silvicultural dischargers applying for NPDES permits which discharge only non-process wastewater not regulated by an effluent limitations guideline or new source performance standard shall provide the following information to the Director, using application forms provided by the Director:
(1) Outfall location. Outfall number, latitude and longitude to the nearest 15 seconds, and the name of the receiving water.
(2) Discharge date (for new dischargers). Date of expected commencement of discharge.
(3) Type of waste. An identification of the general type of waste discharged, or expected to be discharged upon commencement of operations, including sanitary wastes, restaurant or cafeteria wastes, or noncontact cooling water. An identification of cooling water additives (if any) that are used or expected to be used upon commencement of operations, along with their composition if existing composition is available.
(i) Quantitative data for the pollutants or parameters listed below, unless testing is waived by the Director. The quantitative data may be data collected over the past 365 days, if they remain representative of current operations, and must include maximum daily value, average daily value, and number of measurements taken. The applicant must collect and analyze samples in accordance with 40 CFR Part 136. When analysis of pH, temperature, residual chlorine, oil and grease, or fecal coliform (including E. coli), and Enterococci (previously known as fecal streptococcus) and volatile organics is required in paragraphs (h)(4)(i)(A) through (K) of this section, grab samples must be collected for those pollutants. For all other pollutants, a 24-hour composite sample, using a minimum of four (4) grab samples, must be used unless specified otherwise at 40 CFR Part 136. For a composite sample, only one analysis of the composite of aliquots is required. New dischargers must include estimates for the pollutants or parameters listed below instead of actual sampling data, along with the source of each estimate. All levels must be reported or estimated as concentration and as total mass, except for flow, pH, and temperature.
(A) Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5).
(B) Total Suspended Solids (TSS).
(C) Fecal Coliform (if believed present or if sanitary waste is or will be discharged).
(D) Total Residual Chlorine (if chlorine is used).
(E) Oil and Grease.
(F) Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) (if non-contact cooling water is or will be discharged).
(G) Total Organic Carbon (TOC) (if non-contact cooling water is or will be discharged).
(H) Ammonia (as N).
(I) Discharge Flow.
(J) pH.
(K) Temperature (Winter and Summer).
(ii) The Director may waive the testing and reporting requirements for any of the pollutants or flow listed in paragraph (h)(4)(i) of this section if the applicant submits a request for such a waiver before or with his application which demonstrates that information adequate to support issuance of a permit can be obtained through less stringent requirements.
(iii) If the applicant is a new discharger, he must complete and submit Item IV of Form 2e (see § 122.21(h)(4)) by providing quantitative data in accordance with that section no later than two years after commencement of discharge. However, the applicant need not complete those portions of Item IV requiring tests which he has already performed and reported under the discharge monitoring requirements of his NPDES permit.
(iv) The requirements of parts i and iii of this section that an applicant must provide quantitative data or estimates of certain pollutants do not apply to pollutants present in a discharge solely as a result of their presence in intake water. However, an applicant must report such pollutants as present. Net credit may be provided for the presence of pollutants in intake water if the requirements of § 122.45(g) are met.
(5) Flow. A description of the frequency of flow and duration of any seasonal or intermittent discharge (except for stormwater runoff, leaks, or spills).
(6) Treatment system. A brief description of any system used or to be used.
(7) Optional information. Any additional information the applicant wishes to be considered, such as influent data for the purpose of obtaining “net” credits pursuant to § 122.45(g).
(8) Certification. Signature of certifying official under § 122.22.
(i) Application requirements for new and existing concentrated animal feeding operations and aquatic animal production facilities. New and existing concentrated animal feeding operations (defined in § 122.23) and concentrated aquatic animal production facilities (defined in § 122.24) shall provide the following information to the Director, using the application form provided by the Director:
(1) For concentrated animal feeding operations:
(i) The name of the owner or operator;
(ii) The facility location and mailing addresses;
(iii) Latitude and longitude of the production area (entrance to production area);
(iv) A topographic map of the geographic area in which the CAFO is located showing the specific location of the production area, in lieu of the requirements of paragraph (f)(7) of this section;
(v) Specific information about the number and type of animals, whether in open confinement or housed under roof (beef cattle, broilers, layers, swine weighing 55 pounds or more, swine weighing less than 55 pounds, mature dairy cows, dairy heifers, veal calves, sheep and lambs, horses, ducks, turkeys, other);
(vi) The type of containment and storage (anaerobic lagoon, roofed storage shed, storage ponds, underfloor pits, above ground storage tanks, below ground storage tanks, concrete pad, impervious soil pad, other) and total capacity for manure, litter, and process wastewater storage(tons/gallons);
(vii) The total number of acres under control of the applicant available for land application of manure, litter, or process wastewater;
(viii) Estimated amounts of manure, litter, and process wastewater generated per year (tons/gallons);
(ix) Estimated amounts of manure, litter and process wastewater transferred to other persons per year (tons/gallons); and
(x) A nutrient management plan that at a minimum satisfies the requirements specified in § 122.42(e), including, for all CAFOs subject to 40 CFR part 412, subpart C or subpart D, the requirements of 40 CFR 412.4(c), as applicable.
(2) For concentrated aquatic animal production facilities:
(i) The maximum daily and average monthly flow from each outfall.
(ii) The number of ponds, raceways, and similar structures.
(iii) The name of the receiving water and the source of intake water.
(iv) For each species of aquatic animals, the total yearly and maximum harvestable weight.
(v) The calendar month of maximum feeding and the total mass of food fed during that month.
(j) Application requirements for new and existing POTWs. Unless otherwise indicated, all POTWs and other dischargers designated by the Director must provide, at a minimum, the information in this paragraph to the Director, using Form 2A or another application form provided by the Director. Permit applicants must submit all information available at the time of permit application. The information may be provided by referencing information previously submitted to the Director. The Director may waive any requirement of this paragraph if he or she has access to substantially identical information. The Director may also waive any requirement of this paragraph that is not of material concern for a specific permit, if approved by the Regional Administrator. The waiver request to the Regional Administrator must include the State's justification for the waiver. A Regional Administrator's disapproval of a State's proposed waiver does not constitute final Agency action, but does provide notice to the State and permit applicant(s) that EPA may object to any State-issued permit issued in the absence of the required information.
(1) Basic application information. All applicants must provide the following information:
(i) Facility information. Name, mailing address, and location of the facility for which the application is submitted;
(ii) Applicant information. Name, mailing address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the applicant, and indication as to whether the applicant is the facility's owner, operator, or both;
(iii) Existing environmental permits. Identification of all environmental permits or construction approvals received or applied for (including dates) under any of the following programs:
(A) Hazardous Waste Management program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Subpart C;
(B) Underground Injection Control program under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA);
(C) NPDES program under Clean Water Act (CWA);
(D) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program under the Clean Air Act;
(E) Nonattainment program under the Clean Air Act;
(F) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS) preconstruction approval under the Clean Air Act;
(G) Ocean dumping permits under the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act;
(H) Dredge or fill permits under section 404 of the CWA; and
(I) Other relevant environmental permits, including State permits;
(iv) Population. The name and population of each municipal entity served by the facility, including unincorporated connector districts. Indicate whether each municipal entity owns or maintains the collection system and whether the collection system is separate sanitary or combined storm and sanitary, if known;
(v) Indian country. Information concerning whether the facility is located in Indian country and whether the facility discharges to a receiving stream that flows through Indian country;
(vi) Flow rate. The facility's design flow rate (the wastewater flow rate the plant was built to handle), annual average daily flow rate, and maximum daily flow rate for each of the previous 3 years;
(vii) Collection system. Identification of type(s) of collection system(s) used by the treatment works (i.e., separate sanitary sewers or combined storm and sanitary sewers) and an estimate of the percent of sewer line that each type comprises; and
(viii) Outfalls and other discharge or disposal methods. The following information for outfalls to waters of the United States and other discharge or disposal methods:
(A) For effluent discharges to waters of the United States, the total number and types of outfalls (e.g, treated effluent, combined sewer overflows, bypasses, constructed emergency overflows);
(B) For wastewater discharged to surface impoundments:
(1) The location of each surface impoundment;
(2) The average daily volume discharged to each surface impoundment; and
(3) Whether the discharge is continuous or intermittent;
(C) For wastewater applied to the land:
(1) The location of each land application site;
(2) The size of each land application site, in acres;
(3) The average daily volume applied to each land application site, in gallons per day; and
(4) Whether land application is continuous or intermittent;
(D) For effluent sent to another facility for treatment prior to discharge:
(1) The means by which the effluent is transported;
(2) The name, mailing address, contact person, phone number, and electronic mail address of the organization transporting the discharge, if the transport is provided by a party other than the applicant;
(3) The name, mailing address, contact person, phone number, electronic mail address and NPDES permit number (if any) of the receiving facility; and
(4) The average daily flow rate from this facility into the receiving facility, in millions of gallons per day; and
(E) For wastewater disposed of in a manner not included in paragraphs (j)(1)(viii)(A) through (D) of this section (e.g., underground percolation, underground injection):
(1) A description of the disposal method, including the location and size of each disposal site, if applicable;
(2) The annual average daily volume disposed of by this method, in gallons per day; and
(3) Whether disposal through this method is continuous or intermittent;
(ix) An indication of whether applicant is operating under or requesting to operate under a variance as specified at 40 CFR 122.21(n), if known at the time of application.
(2) Additional Information. All applicants with a design flow greater than or equal to 0.1 mgd must provide the following information:
(i) Inflow and infiltration. The current average daily volume of inflow and infiltration, in gallons per day, and steps the facility is taking to minimize inflow and infiltration;
(ii) Topographic map. A topographic map (or other map if a topographic map is unavailable) extending at least one mile beyond property boundaries of the treatment plant, including all unit processes, and showing:
(A) Treatment plant area and unit processes;
(B) The major pipes or other structures through which wastewater enters the treatment plant and the pipes or other structures through which treated wastewater is discharged from the treatment plant. Include outfalls from bypass piping, if applicable;
(C) Each well where fluids from the treatment plant are injected underground;
(D) Wells, springs, and other surface water bodies listed in public records or otherwise known to the applicant within 1/4 mile of the treatment works' property boundaries;
(E) Sewage sludge management facilities (including on-site treatment, storage, and disposal sites); and
(F) Location at which waste classified as hazardous under RCRA enters the treatment plant by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe;
(iii) Process flow diagram or schematic.
(A) A diagram showing the processes of the treatment plant, including all bypass piping and all backup power sources or redundancy in the system. This includes a water balance showing all treatment units, including disinfection, and showing daily average flow rates at influent and discharge points, and approximate daily flow rates between treatment units; and
(B) A narrative description of the diagram; and
(iv) Scheduled improvements, schedules of implementation. The following information regarding scheduled improvements:
(A) The outfall number of each outfall affected;
(B) A narrative description of each required improvement;
(C) Scheduled or actual dates of completion for the following:
(1) Commencement of construction;
(2) Completion of construction;
(3) Commencement of discharge; and
(4) Attainment of operational level;
(D) A description of permits and clearances concerning other Federal and/or State requirements;
(3) Information on effluent discharges. Each applicant must provide the following information for each outfall, including bypass points, through which effluent is discharged, as applicable:
(i) Description of outfall. The following information about each outfall:
(A) Outfall number;
(B) State, county, and city or town in which outfall is located;
(C) Latitude and longitude, to the nearest second;
(D) Distance from shore and depth below surface;
(E) Average daily flow rate, in million gallons per day;
(F) The following information for each outfall with a seasonal or periodic discharge:
(1) Number of times per year the discharge occurs;
(2) Duration of each discharge;
(3) Flow of each discharge; and
(4) Months in which discharge occurs; and
(G) Whether the outfall is equipped with a diffuser and the type (e.g., high-rate) of diffuser used;
(ii) Description of receiving waters. The following information (if known) for each outfall through which effluent is discharged to waters of the United States:
(A) Name of receiving water;
(B) Name of watershed/river/stream system and United States Soil Conservation Service 14-digit watershed code;
(C) Name of State Management/River Basin and United States Geological Survey 8-digit hydrologic cataloging unit code; and
(D) Critical flow of receiving stream and total hardness of receiving stream at critical low flow (if applicable);
(iii) Description of treatment. The following information describing the treatment provided for discharges from each outfall to waters of the United States:
(A) The highest level of treatment (e.g., primary, equivalent to secondary, secondary, advanced, other) that is provided for the discharge for each outfall and:
(1) Design biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5 or CBOD5) removal (percent);
(2) Design suspended solids (SS) removal (percent); and, where applicable,
(3) Design phosphorus (P) removal (percent);
(4) Design nitrogen (N) removal (percent); and
(5) Any other removals that an advanced treatment system is designed to achieve.
(B) A description of the type of disinfection used, and whether the treatment plant dechlorinates (if disinfection is accomplished through chlorination);
(4) Effluent monitoring for specific parameters.
(i) As provided in paragraphs (j)(4)(ii) through (x) of this section, all applicants must submit to the Director effluent monitoring information for samples taken from each outfall through which effluent is discharged to waters of the United States, except for CSOs. The Director may allow applicants to submit sampling data for only one outfall on a case-by-case basis, where the applicant has two or more outfalls with substantially identical effluent. The Director may also allow applicants to composite samples from one or more outfalls that discharge into the same mixing zone. For POTWs applying prior to commencement of discharge, data shall be submitted no later than 24 months after the commencement of discharge;
(ii) All applicants must sample and analyze for the pollutants listed in appendix J, Table 1A of this part;
(iii) All applicants with a design flow greater than or equal to 0.1 mgd must sample and analyze for the pollutants listed in appendix J, Table 1 of this part. Facilities that do not use chlorine for disinfection, do not use chlorine elsewhere in the treatment process, and have no reasonable potential to discharge chlorine in their effluent may delete chlorine from Table 1;
(iv) The following applicants must sample and analyze for the pollutants listed in appendix J, Table 2 of this part, and for any other pollutants for which the State or EPA have established water quality standards applicable to the receiving waters:
(A) All POTWs with a design flow rate equal to or greater than one million gallons per day;
(B) All POTWs with approved pretreatment programs or POTWs required to develop a pretreatment program;
(C) Other POTWs, as required by the Director;
(v) The Director should require sampling for additional pollutants, as appropriate, on a case-by-case basis;
(vi) Applicants must provide data from a minimum of three samples taken within four and one-half years prior to the date of the permit application. Samples must be representative of the seasonal variation in the discharge from each outfall. Existing data may be used, if available, in lieu of sampling done solely for the purpose of this application. The Director should require additional samples, as appropriate, on a case-by-case basis.
(vii) All existing data for pollutants specified in paragraphs (j)(4)(ii) through (v) of this section that is collected within four and one-half years of the application must be included in the pollutant data summary submitted by the applicant. If, however, the applicant samples for a specific pollutant on a monthly or more frequent basis, it is only necessary, for such pollutant, to summarize all data collected within one year of the application.
(viii) Applicants must collect samples of effluent and analyze such samples for pollutants in accordance with analytical methods approved under 40 CFR Part 136 unless an alternative is specified in the existing NPDES permit. When analysis of pH, temperature, cyanide, total phenols, residual chlorine, oil and grease, fecal coliform (including E. coli), or volatile organics is required in paragraphs (j)(4)(ii) through (iv) of this section, grab samples must be collected for those pollutants. For all other pollutants, 24-hour composite samples must be used. For a composite sample, only one analysis of the composite of aliquots is required.
(ix) The effluent monitoring data provided must include at least the following information for each parameter:
(A) Maximum daily discharge, expressed as concentration or mass, based upon actual sample values;
(B) Average daily discharge for all samples, expressed as concentration or mass, and the number of samples used to obtain this value;
(C) The analytical method used; and
(D) The threshold level (i.e., method detection limit, minimum level, or other designated method endpoints) for the analytical method used.
(x) Unless otherwise required by the Director, metals must be reported as total recoverable.
(5) Effluent monitoring for whole effluent toxicity.
(i) All applicants must provide an identification of any whole effluent toxicity tests conducted during the four and one-half years prior to the date of the application on any of the applicant's discharges or on any receiving water near the discharge. For POTWs applying prior to commencement of discharge, data shall be submitted no later than 24 months after the commencement of discharge.
(ii) As provided in paragraphs (j)(5)(iii)-(ix) of this section, the following applicants must submit to the Director the results of valid whole effluent toxicity tests for acute or chronic toxicity for samples taken from each outfall through which effluent is discharged to surface waters, except for combined sewer overflows:
(A) All POTWs with design flow rates greater than or equal to one million gallons per day;
(C) Other POTWs, as required by the Director, based on consideration of the following factors:
(1) The variability of the pollutants or pollutant parameters in the POTW effluent (based on chemical-specific information, the type of treatment plant, and types of industrial contributors);
(2) The ratio of effluent flow to receiving stream flow;
(3) Existing controls on point or non-point sources, including total maximum daily load calculations for the receiving stream segment and the relative contribution of the POTW;
(4) Receiving stream characteristics, including possible or known water quality impairment, and whether the POTW discharges to a coastal water, one of the Great Lakes, or a water designated as an outstanding natural resource water; or
(5) Other considerations (including, but not limited to, the history of toxic impacts and compliance problems at the POTW) that the Director determines could cause or contribute to adverse water quality impacts.
(iii) Where the POTW has two or more outfalls with substantially identical effluent discharging to the same receiving stream segment, the Director may allow applicants to submit whole effluent toxicity data for only one outfall on a case-by-case basis. The Director may also allow applicants to composite samples from one or more outfalls that discharge into the same mixing zone.
(iv) Each applicant required to perform whole effluent toxicity testing pursuant to paragraph (j)(5)(ii) of this section must provide:
(A) Results of a minimum of four quarterly tests for a year, from the year preceding the permit application; or
(B) Results from four tests performed at least annually in the four and one half year period prior to the application, provided the results show no appreciable toxicity using a safety factor determined by the permitting authority.
(v) Applicants must conduct tests with multiple species (no less than two species; e.g., fish, invertebrate, plant), and test for acute or chronic toxicity, depending on the range of receiving water dilution. EPA recommends that applicants conduct acute or chronic testing based on the following dilutions:
(A) Acute toxicity testing if the dilution of the effluent is greater than 1000:1 at the edge of the mixing zone;
(B) Acute or chronic toxicity testing if the dilution of the effluent is between 100:1 and 1000:1 at the edge of the mixing zone. Acute testing may be more appropriate at the higher end of this range (1000:1), and chronic testing may be more appropriate at the lower end of this range (100:1); and
(C) Chronic testing if the dilution of the effluent is less than 100:1 at the edge of the mixing zone.
(vi) Each applicant required to perform whole effluent toxicity testing pursuant to paragraph (j)(5)(ii) of this section must provide the number of chronic or acute whole effluent toxicity tests that have been conducted since the last permit reissuance.
(vii) Applicants must provide the results using the form provided by the Director, or test summaries if available and comprehensive, for each whole effluent toxicity test conducted pursuant to paragraph (j)(5)(ii) of this section for which such information has not been reported previously to the Director.
(viii) Whole effluent toxicity testing conducted pursuant to paragraph (j)(5)(ii) of this section must be conducted using methods approved under 40 CFR part 136. West coast facilities in Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific Territories are exempted from 40 CFR part 136 chronic methods and must use alternative guidance as directed by the permitting authority.
(ix) For whole effluent toxicity data submitted to the Director within four and one-half years prior to the date of the application, applicants must provide the dates on which the data were submitted and a summary of the results.
(x) Each POTW required to perform whole effluent toxicity testing pursuant to paragraph (j)(5)(ii) of this section must provide any information on the cause of toxicity and written details of any toxicity reduction evaluation conducted, if any whole effluent toxicity test conducted within the past four and one-half years revealed toxicity.
(6) Industrial discharges. Applicants must submit the following information about industrial discharges to the POTW:
(i) Number of significant industrial users (SIUs) and non-significant categorical industrial users (NSCIUs), as defined at 40 CFR 403.3(v), including SIUs and NSCIUs that truck or haul waste, discharging to the POTW; and
(ii) POTWs with one or more SIUs shall provide the following information for each SIU, as defined at 40 CFR 403.3(v), that discharges to the POTW:
(A) Name and mailing address;
(B) Description of all industrial processes that affect or contribute to the SIU's discharge;
(C) Principal products and raw materials of the SIU that affect or contribute to the SIU's discharge;
(D) Average daily volume of wastewater discharged, indicating the amount attributable to process flow and non-process flow;
(E) Whether the SIU is subject to local limits;
(F) Whether the SIU is subject to categorical standards, and if so, under which category(ies) and subcategory(ies); and
(G) Whether any problems at the POTW (e.g., upsets, pass through, interference) have been attributed to the SIU in the past four and one-half years.
(iii) The information required in paragraphs (j)(6)(i) and (ii) of this section may be waived by the Director for POTWs with pretreatment programs if the applicant has submitted either of the following that contain information substantially identical to that required in paragraphs (j)(6)(i) and (ii) of this section.
(A) An annual report submitted within one year of the application; or
(B) A pretreatment program;
(7) Discharges from hazardous waste generators and from waste cleanup or remediation sites. POTWs receiving Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), or RCRA Corrective Action wastes or wastes generated at another type of cleanup or remediation site must provide the following information:
(i) If the POTW receives, or has been notified that it will receive, by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe any wastes that are regulated as RCRA hazardous wastes pursuant to 40 CFR part 261, the applicant must report the following:
(A) The method by which the waste is received (i.e., whether by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe); and
(B) The hazardous waste number and amount received annually of each hazardous waste;
(ii) If the POTW receives, or has been notified that it will receive, wastewaters that originate from remedial activities, including those undertaken pursuant to CERCLA and sections 3004(u) or 3008(h) of RCRA, the applicant must report the following:
(A) The identity and description of the site(s) or facility(ies) at which the wastewater originates;
(B) The identities of the wastewater's hazardous constituents, as listed in appendix VIII of part 261 of this chapter; if known; and
(C) The extent of treatment, if any, the wastewater receives or will receive before entering the POTW;
(iii) Applicants are exempt from the requirements of paragraph (j)(7)(ii) of this section if they receive no more than fifteen kilograms per month of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e).
(8) Combined sewer overflows. Each applicant with combined sewer systems must provide the following information:
(i) Combined sewer system information. The following information regarding the combined sewer system:
(A) System map. A map indicating the location of the following:
(1) All CSO discharge points;
(2) Sensitive use areas potentially affected by CSOs (e.g., beaches, drinking water supplies, shellfish beds, sensitive aquatic ecosystems, and outstanding national resource waters); and
(3) Waters supporting threatened and endangered species potentially affected by CSOs; and
(B) System diagram. A diagram of the combined sewer collection system that includes the following information:
(1) The location of major sewer trunk lines, both combined and separate sanitary;
(2) The locations of points where separate sanitary sewers feed into the combined sewer system;
(3) In-line and off-line storage structures;
(4) The locations of flow-regulating devices; and
(5) The locations of pump stations;
(ii) Information on CSO outfalls. The following information for each CSO discharge point covered by the permit application:
(A) Description of outfall. The following information on each outfall:
(1) Outfall number;
(2) State, county, and city or town in which outfall is located;
(3) Latitude and longitude, to the nearest second; and
(4) Distance from shore and depth below surface;
(5) Whether the applicant monitored any of the following in the past year for this CSO:
(i) Rainfall;
(ii) CSO flow volume;
(iii) CSO pollutant concentrations;
(iv) Receiving water quality;
(v) CSO frequency; and
(6) The number of storm events monitored in the past year;
(B) CSO events. The following information about CSO overflows from each outfall:
(1) The number of events in the past year;
(2) The average duration per event, if available;
(3) The average volume per CSO event, if available; and
(4) The minimum rainfall that caused a CSO event, if available, in the last year;
(C) Description of receiving waters. The following information about receiving waters:
(1) Name of receiving water;
(2) Name of watershed/stream system and the United States Soil Conservation Service watershed (14-digit) code (if known); and
(3) Name of State Management/River Basin and the United States Geological Survey hydrologic cataloging unit (8-digit) code (if known); and
(D) CSO operations. A description of any known water quality impacts on the receiving water caused by the CSO (e.g., permanent or intermittent beach closings, permanent or intermittent shellfish bed closings, fish kills, fish advisories, other recreational loss, or exceedance of any applicable State water quality standard);
(iii) Public notification plan for CSO discharges to the Great Lakes Basin. Each permittee authorized to discharge a combined sewer overflow to the Great Lakes Basin as defined in § 122.2 must submit a public notification plan developed in accordance with § 122.38 as part of its permit application. The public notification plan shall describe any significant updates to the plan that may have occurred since the last plan submission.
(9) Contractors. All applicants must provide the name, mailing address, telephone number, electronic mail address and responsibilities of all contractors responsible for any operational or maintenance aspects of the facility; and
(10) Signature. All applications must be signed by a certifying official in compliance with § 122.22.
(k) Application requirements for new sources and new discharges. New manufacturing, commercial, mining and silvicultural dischargers applying for NPDES permits (except for new discharges of facilities subject to the requirements of paragraph (h) of this section or new discharges of storm water associated with industrial activity which are subject to the requirements of § 122.26(c)(1) and this section (except as provided by § 122.26(c)(1)(ii)) shall provide the following information to the Director, using the application forms provided by the Director:
(1) Expected outfall location. The latitude and longitude to the nearest 15 seconds and the name of the receiving water.
(2) Discharge dates. The expected date of commencement of discharge.
(3) Flows, sources of pollution, and treatment technologies -
(i) Expected treatment of wastewater. Description of the treatment that the wastewater will receive, along with all operations contributing wastewater to the effluent, average flow contributed by each operation, and the ultimate disposal of any solid or liquid wastes not discharged.
(ii) Line drawing. A line drawing of the water flow through the facility with a water balance as described in § 122.21(g)(2).
(iii) Intermittent flows. If any of the expected discharges will be intermittent or seasonal, a description of the frequency, duration and maximum daily flow rate of each discharge occurrence (except for stormwater runoff, spillage, or leaks).
(4) Production. If a new source performance standard promulgated under section 306 of CWA or an effluent limitation guideline applies to the applicant and is expressed in terms of production (or other measure of operation), a reasonable measure of the applicant's expected actual production reported in the units used in the applicable effluent guideline or new source performance standard as required by § 122.45(b)(2) for each of the first three years. Alternative estimates may also be submitted if production is likely to vary.
(5) Effluent characteristics. The requirements in paragraphs (h)(4)(i), (ii), and (iii) of this section that an applicant must provide estimates of certain pollutants expected to be present do not apply to pollutants present in a discharge solely as a result of their presence in intake water; however, an applicant must report such pollutants as present. Net credits may be provided for the presence of pollutants in intake water if the requirements of § 122.45(g) are met. All levels (except for discharge flow, temperature, and pH) must be estimated as concentration and as total mass.
(i) Each applicant must report estimated daily maximum, daily average, and source of information for each outfall for the following pollutants or parameters. The Director may waive the reporting requirements for any of these pollutants and parameters if the applicant submits a request for such a waiver before or with his application which demonstrates that information adequate to support issuance of the permit can be obtained through less stringent reporting requirements.
(A) Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD).
(B) Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD).
(C) Total Organic Carbon (TOC).
(D) Total Suspended Solids (TSS).
(E) Flow.
(F) Ammonia (as N).
(G) Temperature (winter and summer).
(H) pH.
(ii) Each applicant must report estimated daily maximum, daily average, and source of information for each outfall for the following pollutants, if the applicant knows or has reason to believe they will be present or if they are limited by an effluent limitation guideline or new source performance standard either directly or indirectly through limitations on an indicator pollutant: all pollutants in table IV of appendix D of part 122 (certain conventional and nonconventional pollutants).
(iii) Each applicant must report estimated daily maximum, daily average and source of information for the following pollutants if he knows or has reason to believe that they will be present in the discharges from any outfall:
(A) The pollutants listed in table III of appendix D (the toxic metals, in the discharge from any outfall: Total cyanide, and total phenols);
(B) The organic toxic pollutants in table II of appendix D (except bis (chloromethyl) ether, dichlorofluoromethane and trichlorofluoromethane). This requirement is waived for applicants with expected gross sales of less than $100,000 per year for the next three years, and for coal mines with expected average production of less than 100,000 tons of coal per year.
(iv) The applicant is required to report that 2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxin (TCDD) may be discharged if he uses or manufactures one of the following compounds, or if he knows or has reason to believe that TCDD will or may be present in an effluent:
(A) 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4,5-T) (CAS #93-76-5);
(B) 2-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) propanoic acid (Silvex, 2,4,5-TP) (CAS #93-72-1);
(C) 2-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) ethyl 2,2-dichloropropionate (Erbon) (CAS #136-25-4);
(D) 0,0-dimethyl 0-(2,4,5-trichlorophenyl) phosphorothioate (Ronnel) (CAS #299-84-3);
(E) 2,4,5-trichlorophenol (TCP) (CAS #95-95-4); or
(F) Hexachlorophene (HCP) (CAS #70-30-4);
(v) Each applicant must report any pollutants listed in table V of appendix D (certain hazardous substances) if he believes they will be present in any outfall (no quantitative estimates are required unless they are already available).
(vi) No later than 24 months after the commencement of discharge from the proposed facility, the applicant is required to complete and submit items V and VI of NPDES application Form 2C (see § 122.21(g)). However, the applicant need not complete those portions of Item V requiring tests which have already been performed and reported under the discharge monitoring requirements of the NPDES permit.
(6) Engineering Report. Each applicant must report the existence of any technical evaluation concerning his wastewater treatment, along with the name and location of similar plants of which he has knowledge.
(7) Other information. Any optional information the permittee wishes to have considered.
(l) Special provisions for applications from new sources.
(1) The owner or operator of any facility which may be a new source (as defined in § 122.2) and which is located in a State without an approved NPDES program must comply with the provisions of this paragraph (l)(1).
(i) Before beginning any on-site construction as defined in § 122.29, the owner or operator of any facility which may be a new source must submit information to the Regional Administrator so that he or she can determine if the facility is a new source. The Regional Administrator may request any additional information needed to determine whether the facility is a new source.
(ii) The Regional Administrator shall make an initial determination whether the facility is a new source within 30 days of receiving all necessary information under paragraph (l)(2)(i) of this section.
(3) The Regional Administrator shall issue a public notice in accordance with § 124.10 of this chapter of the new source determination under paragraph (l)(2) of this section. If the Regional Administrator has determined that the facility is a new source, the notice shall state that the applicant must comply with the environmental review requirements of 40 CFR 6.600 through 6.607.
(4) Any interested party may challenge the Regional Administrator's initial new source determination by requesting review of the determination under § 124.19 of this chapter within 30 days of the public notice of the initial determination. If all interested parties agree, the Environmental Appeals Board may defer review until after a final permit decision is made, and consolidate review of the determination with any review of the permit decision.
(m) Variance requests by non-POTWs. A discharger which is not a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) may request a variance from otherwise applicable effluent limitations under any of the following statutory or regulatory provisions within the times specified in this paragraph:
(1) Fundamentally different factors.
(i) A request for a variance based on the presence of “fundamentally different factors” from those on which the effluent limitations guideline was based shall be filed as follows:
(A) For a request from best practicable control technology currently available (BPT), by the close of the public comment period under § 124.10.
(B) For a request from best available technology economically achievable (BAT) and/or best conventional pollutant control technology (BCT), by no later than:
(1) July 3, 1989, for a request based on an effluent limitation guideline promulgated before February 4, 1987, to the extent July 3, 1989 is not later than that provided under previously promulgated regulations; or
(2) 180 days after the date on which an effluent limitation guideline is published in the Federal Register for a request based on an effluent limitation guideline promulgated on or after February 4, 1987.
(ii) The request shall explain how the requirements of the applicable regulatory and/or statutory criteria have been met.
(2) Non-conventional pollutants. A request for a variance from the BAT requirements for CWA section 301(b)(2)(F) pollutants (commonly called “non-conventional” pollutants) pursuant to section 301(c) of CWA because of the economic capability of the owner or operator, or pursuant to section 301(g) of the CWA (provided however that a § 301(g) variance may only be requested for ammonia; chlorine; color; iron; total phenols (4AAP) (when determined by the Administrator to be a pollutant covered by section 301(b)(2)(F)) and any other pollutant which the Administrator lists under section 301(g)(4) of the CWA) must be made as follows:
(i) For those requests for a variance from an effluent limitation based upon an effluent limitation guideline by:
(A) Submitting an initial request to the Regional Administrator, as well as to the State Director if applicable, stating the name of the discharger, the permit number, the outfall number(s), the applicable effluent guideline, and whether the discharger is requesting a section 301(c) or section 301(g) modification or both. This request must have been filed not later than:
(1) September 25, 1978, for a pollutant which is controlled by a BAT effluent limitation guideline promulgated before December 27, 1977; or
(2) 270 days after promulgation of an applicable effluent limitation guideline for guidelines promulgated after December 27, 1977; and
(B) Submitting a completed request no later than the close of the public comment period under § 124.10 demonstrating that the requirements of § 124.13 and the applicable requirements of part 125 have been met. Notwithstanding this provision, the complete application for a request under section 301(g) shall be filed 180 days before EPA must make a decision (unless the Regional Division Director establishes a shorter or longer period).
(ii) For those requests for a variance from effluent limitations not based on effluent limitation guidelines, the request need only comply with paragraph (m)(2)(i)(B) of this section and need not be preceded by an initial request under paragraph (m)(2)(i)(A) of this section.
(3)-(4) [Reserved]
(5) Water quality related effluent limitations. A modification under section 302(b)(2) of requirements under section 302(a) for achieving water quality related effluent limitations may be requested no later than the close of the public comment period under § 124.10 on the permit from which the modification is sought.
(6) Thermal discharges. A variance under CWA section 316(a) for the thermal component of any discharge must be filed with a timely application for a permit under this section, except that if thermal effluent limitations are established under CWA section 402(a)(1) or are based on water quality standards the request for a variance may be filed by the close of the public comment period under § 124.10. A copy of the request as required under 40 CFR part 125, subpart H, shall be sent simultaneously to the appropriate State or interstate certifying agency as required under 40 CFR part 125. (See § 124.65 for special procedures for section 316(a) thermal variances.)
(n) Variance requests by POTWs. A discharger which is a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) may request a variance from otherwise applicable effluent limitations under any of the following statutory provisions as specified in this paragraph:
(1) Discharges into marine waters. A request for a modification under CWA section 301(h) of requirements of CWA section 301(b)(1)(B) for discharges into marine waters must be filed in accordance with the requirements of 40 CFR part 125, subpart G.
(3) Water quality based effluent limitation. A modification under CWA section 302(b)(2) of the requirements under section 302(a) for achieving water quality based effluent limitations shall be requested no later than the close of the public comment period under § 124.10 on the permit from which the modification is sought.
(o) Expedited variance procedures and time extensions.
(1) Notwithstanding the time requirements in paragraphs (m) and (n) of this section, the Director may notify a permit applicant before a draft permit is issued under § 124.6 that the draft permit will likely contain limitations which are eligible for variances. In the notice the Director may require the applicant as a condition of consideration of any potential variance request to submit a request explaining how the requirements of part 125 applicable to the variance have been met and may require its submission within a specified reasonable time after receipt of the notice. The notice may be sent before the permit application has been submitted. The draft or final permit may contain the alternative limitations which may become effective upon final grant of the variance.
(2) A discharger who cannot file a timely complete request required under paragraph (m)(2)(i)(B) or (m)(2)(ii) of this section may request an extension. The extension may be granted or denied at the discretion of the Director. Extensions shall be no more than 6 months in duration.
(p) Recordkeeping. Except for information required by paragraph (d)(3)(ii) of this section, which shall be retained for a period of at least five years from the date the application is signed (or longer as required by 40 CFR part 503), applicants shall keep records of all data used to complete permit applications and any supplemental information submitted under this section for a period of at least 3 years from the date the application is signed.
(q) Sewage sludge management. All TWTDS subject to paragraph (c)(2)(i) of this section must provide the information in this paragraph to the Director, using Form 2S or another application form approved by the Director. New applicants must submit all information available at the time of permit application. The information may be provided by referencing information previously submitted to the Director. The Director may waive any requirement of this paragraph if he or she has access to substantially identical information. The Director may also waive any requirement of this paragraph that is not of material concern for a specific permit, if approved by the Regional Administrator. The waiver request to the Regional Administrator must include the State's justification for the waiver. A Regional Administrator's disapproval of a State's proposed waiver does not constitute final Agency action, but does provide notice to the State and permit applicant(s) that EPA may object to any State-issued permit issued in the absence of the required information.
(1) Facility information. All applicants must submit the following information:
(i) The name, mailing address, and location of the TWTDS for which the application is submitted;
(ii) Whether the facility is a Class I Sludge Management Facility;
(iii) The design flow rate (in million gallons per day);
(iv) The total population served; and
(v) The TWTDS's status as Federal, State, private, public, or other entity;
(2) Applicant information. All applicants must submit the following information:
(i) The name, mailing address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the applicant; and
(ii) Indication whether the applicant is the owner, operator, or both;
(3) Permit information. All applicants must submit the facility's NPDES permit number, if applicable, and a listing of all other Federal, State, and local permits or construction approvals received or applied for under any of the following programs:
(i) Hazardous Waste Management program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA);
(ii) UIC program under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA);
(iii) NPDES program under the Clean Water Act (CWA);
(iv) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program under the Clean Air Act;
(v) Nonattainment program under the Clean Air Act;
(vi) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS) preconstruction approval under the Clean Air Act;
(vii) Dredge or fill permits under section 404 of CWA;
(viii) Other relevant environmental permits, including State or local permits;
(4) Indian country. All applicants must identify any generation, treatment, storage, land application, or disposal of sewage sludge that occurs in Indian country;
(5) Topographic map. All applicants must submit a topographic map (or other map if a topographic map is unavailable) extending one mile beyond property boundaries of the facility and showing the following information:
(i) All sewage sludge management facilities, including on-site treatment, storage, and disposal sites; and
(ii) Wells, springs, and other surface water bodies that are within 1/4 mile of the property boundaries and listed in public records or otherwise known to the applicant;
(6) Sewage sludge handling. All applicants must submit a line drawing and/or a narrative description that identifies all sewage sludge management practices employed during the term of the permit, including all units used for collecting, dewatering, storing, or treating sewage sludge, the destination(s) of all liquids and solids leaving each such unit, and all processes used for pathogen reduction and vector attraction reduction;
(7) Sewage sludge quality. The applicant must submit sewage sludge monitoring data for the pollutants for which limits in sewage sludge have been established in 40 CFR part 503 for the applicant's use or disposal practices on the date of permit application.
(i) The Director may require sampling for additional pollutants, as appropriate, on a case-by-case basis;
(ii) Applicants must provide data from a minimum of three samples taken within four and one-half years prior to the date of the permit application. Samples must be representative of the sewage sludge and should be taken at least one month apart. Existing data may be used in lieu of sampling done solely for the purpose of this application;
(iii) Applicants must collect and analyze samples in accordance with analytical methods approved under SW-846 unless an alternative has been specified in an existing sewage sludge permit;
(iv) The monitoring data provided must include at least the following information for each parameter:
(A) Average monthly concentration for all samples (mg/kg dry weight), based upon actual sample values;
(B) The analytical method used; and
(C) The method detection level.
(8) Preparation of sewage sludge. If the applicant is a “person who prepares” sewage sludge, as defined at 40 CFR 503.9(r), the applicant must provide the following information:
(i) If the applicant's facility generates sewage sludge, the total dry metric tons per 365-day period generated at the facility;
(ii) If the applicant's facility receives sewage sludge from another facility, the following information for each facility from which sewage sludge is received:
(A) The name, mailing address, and location of the other facility;
(B) The total dry metric tons per 365-day period received from the other facility; and
(C) A description of any treatment processes occurring at the other facility, including blending activities and treatment to reduce pathogens or vector attraction characteristics;
(iii) If the applicant's facility changes the quality of sewage sludge through blending, treatment, or other activities, the following information:
(A) Whether the Class A pathogen reduction requirements in 40 CFR 503.32(a) or the Class B pathogen reduction requirements in 40 CFR 503.32(b) are met, and a description of any treatment processes used to reduce pathogens in sewage sludge;
(B) Whether any of the vector attraction reduction options of 40 CFR 503.33(b)(1) through (b)(8) are met, and a description of any treatment processes used to reduce vector attraction properties in sewage sludge; and
(C) A description of any other blending, treatment, or other activities that change the quality of sewage sludge;
(iv) If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility meets the ceiling concentrations in 40 CFR 503.13(b)(1), the pollutant concentrations in § 503.13(b)(3), the Class A pathogen requirements in § 503.32(a), and one of the vector attraction reduction requirements in § 503.33(b)(1) through (b)(8), and if the sewage sludge is applied to the land, the applicant must provide the total dry metric tons per 365-day period of sewage sludge subject to this paragraph that is applied to the land;
(v) If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility is sold or given away in a bag or other container for application to the land, and the sewage sludge is not subject to paragraph (q)(8)(iv) of this section, the applicant must provide the following information:
(A) The total dry metric tons per 365-day period of sewage sludge subject to this paragraph that is sold or given away in a bag or other container for application to the land; and
(B) A copy of all labels or notices that accompany the sewage sludge being sold or given away;
(vi) If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility is provided to another “person who prepares,” as defined at 40 CFR 503.9(r), and the sewage sludge is not subject to paragraph (q)(8)(iv) of this section, the applicant must provide the following information for each facility receiving the sewage sludge:
(A) The name, mailing address, and electronic mail address of the receiving facility;
(B) The total dry metric tons per 365-day period of sewage sludge subject to this paragraph that the applicant provides to the receiving facility;
(C) A description of any treatment processes occurring at the receiving facility, including blending activities and treatment to reduce pathogens or vector attraction characteristic;
(D) A copy of the notice and necessary information that the applicant is required to provide the receiving facility under 40 CFR 503.12(g); and
(E) If the receiving facility places sewage sludge in bags or containers for sale or give-away to application to the land, a copy of any labels or notices that accompany the sewage sludge;
(9) Land application of bulk sewage sludge. If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility is applied to the land in bulk form, and is not subject to paragraphs (q)(8)(iv), (v), or (vi) of this section, the applicant must provide the following information:
(i) The total dry metric tons per 365-day period of sewage sludge subject to this paragraph that is applied to the land;
(ii) If any land application sites are located in States other than the State where the sewage sludge is prepared, a description of how the applicant will notify the permitting authority for the State(s) where the land application sites are located;
(iii) The following information for each land application site that has been identified at the time of permit application:
(A) The name (if any), and location for the land application site;
(B) The site's latitude and longitude to the nearest second, and method of determination;
(C) A topographic map (or other map if a topographic map is unavailable) that shows the site's location;
(D) The name, mailing address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the site owner, if different from the applicant;
(E) The name, mailing address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the person who applies sewage sludge to the site, if different from the applicant;
(F) Whether the site is agricultural land, forest, a public contact site, or a reclamation site, as such site types are defined under 40 CFR 503.11;
(G) The type of vegetation grown on the site, if known, and the nitrogen requirement for this vegetation;
(H) Whether either of the vector attraction reduction options of 40 CFR 503.33(b)(9) or (b)(10) is met at the site, and a description of any procedures employed at the time of use to reduce vector attraction properties in sewage sludge; and
(I) Other information that describes how the site will be managed, as specified by the permitting authority.
(iv) The following information for each land application site that has been identified at the time of permit application, if the applicant intends to apply bulk sewage sludge subject to the cumulative pollutant loading rates in 40 CFR 503.13(b)(2) to the site:
(A) Whether the applicant has contacted the permitting authority in the State where the bulk sewage sludge subject to § 503.13(b)(2) will be applied, to ascertain whether bulk sewage sludge subject to § 503.13(b)(2) has been applied to the site on or since July 20, 1993, and if so, the name of the permitting authority and the name, phone number, and electronic mail address if available, of a contact person at the permitting authority;
(B) Identification of facilities other than the applicant's facility that have sent, or are sending, sewage sludge subject to the cumulative pollutant loading rates in § 503.13(b)(2) to the site since July 20, 1993, if, based on the inquiry in paragraph (q)(iv)(A), bulk sewage sludge subject to cumulative pollutant loading rates in § 503.13(b)(2) has been applied to the site since July 20, 1993;
(v) If not all land application sites have been identified at the time of permit application, the applicant must submit a land application plan that, at a minimum:
(A) Describes the geographical area covered by the plan;
(B) Identifies the site selection criteria;
(C) Describes how the site(s) will be managed;
(D) Provides for advance notice to the permit authority of specific land application sites and reasonable time for the permit authority to object prior to land application of the sewage sludge; and
(E) Provides for advance public notice of land application sites in the manner prescribed by State and local law. When State or local law does not require advance public notice, it must be provided in a manner reasonably calculated to apprize the general public of the planned land application.
(10) Surface disposal. If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility is placed on a surface disposal site, the applicant must provide the following information:
(i) The total dry metric tons of sewage sludge from the applicant's facility that is placed on surface disposal sites per 365-day period;
(ii) The following information for each surface disposal site receiving sewage sludge from the applicant's facility that the applicant does not own or operate:
(A) The site name or number, contact person, mailing address, telephone number, and electronic mail address for the surface disposal site; and
(B) The total dry metric tons from the applicant's facility per 365-day period placed on the surface disposal site;
(iii) The following information for each active sewage sludge unit at each surface disposal site that the applicant owns or operates:
(A) The name or number and the location of the active sewage sludge unit;
(B) The unit's latitude and longitude to the nearest second, and method of determination;
(C) If not already provided, a topographic map (or other map if a topographic map is unavailable) that shows the unit's location;
(D) The total dry metric tons placed on the active sewage sludge unit per 365-day period;
(E) The total dry metric tons placed on the active sewage sludge unit over the life of the unit;
(F) A description of any liner for the active sewage sludge unit, including whether it has a maximum permeability of 1 × 10−7 cm/sec;
(G) A description of any leachate collection system for the active sewage sludge unit, including the method used for leachate disposal, and any Federal, State, and local permit number(s) for leachate disposal;
(H) If the active sewage sludge unit is less than 150 meters from the property line of the surface disposal site, the actual distance from the unit boundary to the site property line;
(I) The remaining capacity (dry metric tons) for the active sewage sludge unit;
(J) The date on which the active sewage sludge unit is expected to close, if such a date has been identified;
(K) The following information for any other facility that sends sewage sludge to the active sewage sludge unit:
(1) The name, contact person, mailing address, and electronic mail address of the facility; and
(2) Available information regarding the quality of the sewage sludge received from the facility, including any treatment at the facility to reduce pathogens or vector attraction characteristics;
(L) Whether any of the vector attraction reduction options of 40 CFR 503.33(b)(9) through (b)(11) is met at the active sewage sludge unit, and a description of any procedures employed at the time of disposal to reduce vector attraction properties in sewage sludge;
(M) The following information, as applicable to any ground-water monitoring occurring at the active sewage sludge unit:
(1) A description of any ground-water monitoring occurring at the active sewage sludge unit;
(2) Any available ground-water monitoring data, with a description of the well locations and approximate depth to ground water;
(3) A copy of any ground-water monitoring plan that has been prepared for the active sewage sludge unit;
(4) A copy of any certification that has been obtained from a qualified ground-water scientist that the aquifer has not been contaminated; and
(N) If site-specific pollutant limits are being sought for the sewage sludge placed on this active sewage sludge unit, information to support such a request;
(11) Incineration. If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility is fired in a sewage sludge incinerator, the applicant must provide the following information:
(i) The total dry metric tons of sewage sludge from the applicant's facility that is fired in sewage sludge incinerators per 365-day period;
(ii) The following information for each sewage sludge incinerator firing the applicant's sewage sludge that the applicant does not own or operate:
(A) The name and/or number, contact person, mailing address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the sewage sludge incinerator; and
(B) The total dry metric tons from the applicant's facility per 365-day period fired in the sewage sludge incinerator;
(iii) The following information for each sewage sludge incinerator that the applicant owns or operates:
(A) The name and/or number and the location of the sewage sludge incinerator;
(B) The incinerator's latitude and longitude to the nearest second, and method of determination;
(C) The total dry metric tons per 365-day period fired in the sewage sludge incinerator;
(D) Information, test data, and documentation of ongoing operating parameters indicating that compliance with the National Emission Standard for Beryllium in 40 CFR part 61 will be achieved;
(E) Information, test data, and documentation of ongoing operating parameters indicating that compliance with the National Emission Standard for Mercury in 40 CFR part 61 will be achieved;
(F) The dispersion factor for the sewage sludge incinerator, as well as modeling results and supporting documentation;
(G) The control efficiency for parameters regulated in 40 CFR 503.43, as well as performance test results and supporting documentation;
(H) Information used to calculate the risk specific concentration (RSC) for chromium, including the results of incinerator stack tests for hexavalent and total chromium concentrations, if the applicant is requesting a chromium limit based on a site-specific RSC value;
(I) Whether the applicant monitors total hydrocarbons (THC) or Carbon Monoxide (CO) in the exit gas for the sewage sludge incinerator;
(J) The type of sewage sludge incinerator;
(K) The maximum performance test combustion temperature, as obtained during the performance test of the sewage sludge incinerator to determine pollutant control efficiencies;
(L) The following information on the sewage sludge feed rate used during the performance test:
(1) Sewage sludge feed rate in dry metric tons per day;
(2) Identification of whether the feed rate submitted is average use or maximum design; and
(3) A description of how the feed rate was calculated;
(M) The incinerator stack height in meters for each stack, including identification of whether actual or creditable stack height was used;
(N) The operating parameters for the sewage sludge incinerator air pollution control device(s), as obtained during the performance test of the sewage sludge incinerator to determine pollutant control efficiencies;
(O) Identification of the monitoring equipment in place, including (but not limited to) equipment to monitor the following:
(1) Total hydrocarbons or Carbon Monoxide;
(2) Percent oxygen;
(3) Percent moisture; and
(4) Combustion temperature; and
(P) A list of all air pollution control equipment used with this sewage sludge incinerator;
(12) Disposal in a municipal solid waste landfill. If sewage sludge from the applicant's facility is sent to a municipal solid waste landfill (MSWLF), the applicant must provide the following information for each MSWLF to which sewage sludge is sent:
(i) The name, contact person, mailing address, electronic mail address, location, and all applicable permit numbers of the MSWLF;
(ii) The total dry metric tons per 365-day period sent from this facility to the MSWLF;
(iii) A determination of whether the sewage sludge meets applicable requirements for disposal of sewage sludge in a MSWLF, including the results of the paint filter liquids test and any additional requirements that apply on a site-specific basis; and
(iv) Information, if known, indicating whether the MSWLF complies with criteria set forth in 40 CFR part 258;
(13) Contractors. All applicants must provide the name, mailing address, telephone number, electronic mail address and responsibilities of all contractors responsible for any operational or maintenance aspects of the facility related to sewage sludge generation, treatment, use, or disposal;
(14) Other information. At the request of the permitting authority, the applicant must provide any other information necessary to determine the appropriate standards for permitting under 40 CFR part 503, and must provide any other information necessary to assess the sewage sludge use and disposal practices, determine whether to issue a permit, or identify appropriate permit requirements; and
[Note 1: At 46 FR 2046, Jan. 8, 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency suspended until further notice § 122.21(g)(7)(v)(A) and the corresponding portions of Item V-C of the NPDES application Form 2C as they apply to coal mines. This suspension continues in effect.]
[Note 2: At 46 FR 22585, Apr. 20, 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency suspended until further notice § 122.21(g)(7)(v)(A) and the corresponding portions of Item V-C of the NPDES application Form 2C as they apply to:
a. Testing and reporting for all four organic fractions in the Greige Mills Subcategory of the Textile Mills industry (subpart C - Low water use processing of 40 CFR part 410), and testing and reporting for the pesticide fraction in all other subcategories of this industrial category.
b. Testing and reporting for the volatile, base/neutral and pesticide fractions in the Base and Precious Metals Subcategory of the Ore Mining and Dressing industry (subpart B of 40 CFR part 440), and testing and reporting for all four fractions in all other subcategories of this industrial category.
c. Testing and reporting for all four GC/MS fractions in the Porcelain Enameling industry.
This revision continues that suspension.] 1
[Note 3: At 46 FR 35090, July 1, 1981, the Environmental Protection Agency suspended until further notice § 122.21(g)(7)(v)(A) and the corresponding portions of Item V-C of the NPDES application Form 2C as they apply to:
a. Testing and reporting for the pesticide fraction in the Tall Oil Rosin Subcategory (subpart D) and Rosin-Based Derivatives Subcategory (subpart F) of the Gum and Wood Chemicals industry (40 CFR part 454), and testing and reporting for the pesticide and base-neutral fractions in all other subcategories of this industrial category.
b. Testing and reporting for the pesticide fraction in the Leather Tanning and Finishing, Paint and Ink Formulation, and Photographic Supplies industrial categories.
c. Testing and reporting for the acid, base/neutral and pesticide fractions in the Petroleum Refining industrial category.
d. Testing and reporting for the pesticide fraction in the Papergrade Sulfite subcategories (subparts J and U) of the Pulp and Paper industry (40 CFR part 430); testing and reporting for the base/neutral and pesticide fractions in the following subcategories: Deink (subpart Q), Dissolving Kraft (subpart F), and Paperboard from Waste Paper (subpart E); testing and reporting for the volatile, base/neutral and pesticide fractions in the following subcategories: BCT Bleached Kraft (subpart H), Semi-Chemical (subparts B and C), and Nonintegrated-Fine Papers (subpart R); and testing and reporting for the acid, base/neutral, and pesticide fractions in the following subcategories: Fine Bleached Kraft (subpart I), Dissolving Sulfite Pulp (subpart K), Groundwood-Fine Papers (subpart O), Market Bleached Kraft (subpart G), Tissue from Wastepaper (subpart T), and Nonintegrated-Tissue Papers (subpart S).
e. Testing and reporting for the base/neutral fraction in the Once-Through Cooling Water, Fly Ash and Bottom Ash Transport Water process wastestreams of the Steam Electric Power Plant industrial category.
1Editorial Note: The words “This revision” refer to the document published at 48 FR 14153, Apr. 1, 1983.
(r) Application requirements for facilities with cooling water intake structures -
(i) New facilities with new or modified cooling water intake structures. New facilities (other than offshore oil and gas extraction facilities) with cooling water intake structures as defined in part 125, subpart I of this chapter, must submit to the Director for review the information required under paragraphs (r)(2) (except (r)(2)(iv)), (3), and (4) (except (r)(4)(ix), (x), (xi), and (xii)) of this section and § 125.86 of this chapter as part of the permit application. New offshore oil and gas extraction facilities with cooling water intake structures as defined in part 125, subpart N, of this chapter that are fixed facilities must submit to the Director for review the information required under paragraphs (r)(2) (except (r)(2)(iv)), (3), and (4) (except (r)(4)(ix), (x), (xi), and (xii)) of this section and § 125.136 of this chapter as part of their permit application.
(ii) Existing facilities.
(A) All existing facilities. The owner or operator of an existing facility defined at 40 CFR 125.92(k) must submit to the Director for review the information required under paragraphs (r)(2) and (3) of this section and applicable provisions of paragraphs (r)(4), (5), (6), (7), and (8) of this section.
(B) Existing facilities greater than 125 mgd AIF. In addition, the owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 mgd actual intake flow (AIF), as defined at 40 CFR 125.92 (a), of water for cooling purposes must also submit to the Director for review the information required under paragraphs (r)(9), (10), (11), (12), and (13) of this section. If the owner or operator of an existing facility intends to comply with the BTA (best technology available) standards for entrainment using a closed-cycle recirculating system as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(c), the Director may reduce or waive some or all of the information required under paragraphs (r)(9) through (13) of this section.
(C) Additional information. The owner or operator of an existing facility must also submit such additional information as the Director determines is necessary pursuant to 40 CFR 125.98(i).
(D) New units at existing facilities. The owner or operator of a new unit at an existing facility, as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(u), must submit or update any information previously provided to the Director by submitting the information required under paragraphs (r)(2), (3), (5), (8), and (14) of this section and applicable provisions of paragraphs (r)(4), (6), and (7) of this section. Requests for and approvals of alternative requirements sought under 40 CFR 125.94(e)(2) or 125.98(b)(7) must be submitted with the permit application.
(E) New units at existing facilities not previously subject to Part 125. The owner or operator of a new unit as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(u) at an existing facility not previously subject to part 125 of this chapter that increases the total capacity of the existing facility to more than 2 mgd DIF must submit the information required under paragraphs (r)(2), (3), (5), and (8) of this section and applicable provisions of paragraphs (r)(4), (6), and (7) of this section at the time of the permit application for the new unit. Requests for alternative requirements under 40 CFR 125.94(e)(2) or 125.98(b)(7) must be submitted with the permit application. If the total capacity of the facility will increase to more than 125 mgd AIF, the owner or operator must also submit the information required in paragraphs (r)(9) through (13) of this section. If the owner or operator of an existing facility intends to comply with the BTA (best technology available) standards for entrainment using a closed-cycle recirculating system as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(c), the Director may reduce or waive some or all of the information required under paragraphs (r)(9) through (13) of this section.
(F) If the owner or operator of an existing facility plans to retire the facility before the current permit expires, then the requirements of paragraphs (r)(1)(ii)(A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) of this section do not apply.
(G) If the owner or operator of an existing facility plans to retire the facility after the current permit expires but within one permit cycle, then the Director may waive the requirements of paragraphs (r)(7), (9), (10), (11), (12), and (13) of this section pending a signed certification statement from the owner or operator of the facility specifying the last operating date of the facility.
(H) All facilities. The owner or operator of any existing facility or new unit at any existing facility must also submit with its permit application all information received as a result of any communication with a Field Office of the Fish and Wildlife Service and/or Regional Office of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
(2) Source water physical data. These include:
(i) A narrative description and scaled drawings showing the physical configuration of all source water bodies used by your facility, including areal dimensions, depths, salinity and temperature regimes, and other documentation that supports your determination of the water body type where each cooling water intake structure is located;
(ii) Identification and characterization of the source waterbody's hydrological and geomorphological features, as well as the methods you used to conduct any physical studies to determine your intake's area of influence within the waterbody and the results of such studies;
(iii) Locational maps; and
(iv) For new offshore oil and gas facilities that are not fixed facilities, a narrative description and/or locational maps providing information on predicted locations within the waterbody during the permit term in sufficient detail for the Director to determine the appropriateness of additional impingement requirements under § 125.134(b)(4).
(3) Cooling water intake structure data. These include:
(i) A narrative description of the configuration of each of your cooling water intake structures and where it is located in the water body and in the water column;
(ii) Latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds for each of your cooling water intake structures;
(iii) A narrative description of the operation of each of your cooling water intake structures, including design intake flows, daily hours of operation, number of days of the year in operation and seasonal changes, if applicable;
(iv) A flow distribution and water balance diagram that includes all sources of water to the facility, recirculating flows, and discharges; and
(v) Engineering drawings of the cooling water intake structure.
(4) Source water baseline biological characterization data. This information is required to characterize the biological community in the vicinity of the cooling water intake structure and to characterize the operation of the cooling water intake structures. The Director may also use this information in subsequent permit renewal proceedings to determine if your Design and Construction Technology Plan as required in § 125.86(b)(4) or § 125.136(b)(3) of this chapter should be revised. This supporting information must include existing data (if they are available). However, you may supplement the data using newly conducted field studies if you choose to do so. The information you submit must include:
(i) A list of the data in paragraphs (r)(4)(ii) through (vi) of this section that are not available and efforts made to identify sources of the data;
(ii) A list of species (or relevant taxa) for all life stages and their relative abundance in the vicinity of the cooling water intake structure;
(iii) Identification of the species and life stages that would be most susceptible to impingement and entrainment. Species evaluated should include the forage base as well as those most important in terms of significance to commercial and recreational fisheries;
(iv) Identification and evaluation of the primary period of reproduction, larval recruitment, and period of peak abundance for relevant taxa;
(v) Data representative of the seasonal and daily activities (e.g., feeding and water column migration) of biological organisms in the vicinity of the cooling water intake structure;
(vi) Identification of all threatened, endangered, and other protected species that might be susceptible to impingement and entrainment at your cooling water intake structures;
(vii) Documentation of any public participation or consultation with Federal or State agencies undertaken in development of the plan; and
(viii) If you supplement the information requested in paragraph (r)(4)(i) of this section with data collected using field studies, supporting documentation for the Source Water Baseline Biological Characterization must include a description of all methods and quality assurance procedures for sampling, and data analysis including a description of the study area; taxonomic identification of sampled and evaluated biological assemblages (including all life stages of fish and shellfish); and sampling and data analysis methods. The sampling and/or data analysis methods you use must be appropriate for a quantitative survey and based on consideration of methods used in other biological studies performed within the same source water body. The study area should include, at a minimum, the area of influence of the cooling water intake structure.
(ix) In the case of the owner or operator of an existing facility or new unit at an existing facility, the Source Water Baseline Biological Characterization Data is the information in paragraphs (r)(4)(i) through (xii) of this section.
(x) For the owner or operator of an existing facility, identification of protective measures and stabilization activities that have been implemented, and a description of how these measures and activities affected the baseline water condition in the vicinity of the intake.
(xi) For the owner or operator of an existing facility, a list of fragile species, as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(m), at the facility. The applicant need only identify those species not already identified as fragile at 40 CFR 125.92(m). New units at an existing facility are not required to resubmit this information if the cooling water withdrawals for the operation of the new unit are from an existing intake.
(xii) For the owner or operator of an existing facility that has obtained incidental take exemption or authorization for its cooling water intake structure(s) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service, any information submitted in order to obtain that exemption or authorization may be used to satisfy the permit application information requirement of paragraph 40 CFR 125.95(f) if included in the application.
(5) Cooling Water System Data. The owner or operator of an existing facility must submit the following information for each cooling water intake structure used or intended to be used:
(i) A narrative description of the operation of the cooling water system and its relationship to cooling water intake structures; the proportion of the design intake flow that is used in the system; the number of days of the year the cooling water system is in operation and seasonal changes in the operation of the system, if applicable; the proportion of design intake flow for contact cooling, non-contact cooling, and process uses; a distribution of water reuse to include cooling water reused as process water, process water reused for cooling, and the use of gray water for cooling; a description of reductions in total water withdrawals including cooling water intake flow reductions already achieved through minimized process water withdrawals; a description of any cooling water that is used in a manufacturing process either before or after it is used for cooling, including other recycled process water flows; the proportion of the source waterbody withdrawn (on a monthly basis);
(ii) Design and engineering calculations prepared by a qualified professional and supporting data to support the description required by paragraph (r)(5)(i) of this section; and
(iii) Description of existing impingement and entrainment technologies or operational measures and a summary of their performance, including but not limited to reductions in impingement mortality and entrainment due to intake location and reductions in total water withdrawals and usage.
(6) Chosen Method(s) of Compliance with Impingement Mortality Standard. The owner or operator of the facility must identify the chosen compliance method for the entire facility; alternatively, the applicant must identify the chosen compliance method for each cooling water intake structure at its facility. The applicant must identify any intake structure for which a BTA determination for Impingement Mortality under 40 CFR 125.94 (c)(11) or (12) is requested. In addition, the owner or operator that chooses to comply via 40 CFR 125.94 (c)(5) or (6) must also submit an impingement technology performance optimization study as described below:
(i) If the applicant chooses to comply with 40 CFR 125.94(c)(5), subject to the flexibility for timing provided in 40 CFR 125.95(a)(2), the impingement technology performance optimization study must include two years of biological data collection measuring the reduction in impingement mortality achieved by the modified traveling screens as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(s) and demonstrating that the operation has been optimized to minimize impingement mortality. A complete description of the modified traveling screens and associated equipment must be included, including, for example, type of mesh, mesh slot size, pressure sprays and fish return mechanisms. A description of any biological data collection and data collection approach used in measuring impingement mortality must be included:
(A) Collecting data no less frequently than monthly. The Director may establish more frequent data collection;
(B) Biological data collection representative of the impingement and the impingement mortality at the intakes subject to this provision;
(C) A taxonomic identification to the lowest taxon possible of all organisms collected;
(D) The method in which naturally moribund organisms are identified and taken into account;
(E) The method in which mortality due to holding times is taken into account;
(F) If the facility entraps fish or shellfish, a count of entrapment, as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(j), as impingement mortality; and
(G) The percent impingement mortality reflecting optimized operation of the modified traveling screen and all supporting calculations.
(ii) If the applicant chooses to comply with 40 CFR 125.94(c)(6), the impingement technology performance optimization study must include biological data measuring the reduction in impingement mortality achieved by operation of the system of technologies, operational measures and best management practices, and demonstrating that operation of the system has been optimized to minimize impingement mortality. This system of technologies, operational measures and best management practices may include flow reductions, seasonal operation, unit closure, credit for intake location, and behavioral deterrent systems. The applicant must document how each system element contributes to the system's performance. The applicant must include a minimum of two years of biological data measuring the reduction in impingement mortality achieved by the system. The applicant must also include a description of any sampling or data collection approach used in measuring the rate of impingement, impingement mortality, or flow reductions.
(A) Rate of Impingement. If the demonstration relies in part on a credit for reductions in the rate of impingement in the system, the applicant must provide an estimate of those reductions to be used as credit towards reducing impingement mortality, and any relevant supporting documentation, including previously collected biological data, performance reviews, and previously conducted performance studies not already submitted to the Director. The submission of studies more than 10 years old must include an explanation of why the data are still relevant and representative of conditions at the facility and explain how the data should be interpreted using the definitions of impingement and entrapment at 40 CFR 125.92(n) and (j), respectively. The estimated reductions in rate of impingement must be based on a comparison of the system to a once-through cooling system with a traveling screen whose point of withdrawal from the surface water source is located at the shoreline of the source waterbody. For impoundments that are waters of the United States in whole or in part, the facility's rate of impingement must be measured at a location within the cooling water intake system that the Director deems appropriate. In addition, the applicant must include two years of biological data collection demonstrating the rate of impingement resulting from the system. For this demonstration, the applicant must collect data no less frequently than monthly. The Director may establish more frequent data collection.
(B) Impingement Mortality. If the demonstration relies in part on a credit for reductions in impingement mortality already obtained at the facility, the applicant must include two years of biological data collection demonstrating the level of impingement mortality the system is capable of achieving. The applicant must submit any relevant supporting documentation, including previously collected biological data, performance reviews, and previously conducted performance studies not already submitted to the Director. The applicant must provide a description of any sampling or data collection approach used in measuring impingement mortality. In addition, for this demonstration the applicant must:
(1) Collect data no less frequently than monthly. The Director may establish more frequent data collection;
(2) Conduct biological data collection that is representative of the impingement and the impingement mortality at an intake subject to this provision. In addition, the applicant must describe how the location of the cooling water intake structure in the waterbody and the water column are accounted for in the points of data collection;
(3) Include a taxonomic identification to the lowest taxon possible of all organisms to be collected;
(4) Describe the method in which naturally moribund organisms are identified and taken into account;
(5) Describe the method in which mortality due to holding times is taken into account; and
(6) If the facility entraps fish or shellfish, a count of the entrapment, as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(j), as impingement mortality.
(C) Flow reduction. If the demonstration relies in part on flow reduction to reduce impingement, the applicant must include two years of intake flows, measured daily, as part of the demonstration, and describe the extent to which flow reductions are seasonal or intermittent. The applicant must document how the flow reduction results in reduced impingement. In addition, the applicant must describe how the reduction in impingement has reduced impingement mortality.
(D) Total system performance. The applicant must document the percent impingement mortality reflecting optimized operation of the total system of technologies, operational measures, and best management practices and all supporting calculations. The total system performance is the combination of the impingement mortality performance reflected in paragraphs (r)(6)(ii)(A), (B), and (C) of this section.
(7) Entrainment Performance Studies. The owner or operator of an existing facility must submit any previously conducted studies or studies obtained from other facilities addressing technology efficacy, through-facility entrainment survival, and other entrainment studies. Any such submittals must include a description of each study, together with underlying data, and a summary of any conclusions or results. Any studies conducted at other locations must include an explanation as to why the data from other locations are relevant and representative of conditions at your facility. In the case of studies more than 10 years old, the applicant must explain why the data are still relevant and representative of conditions at the facility and explain how the data should be interpreted using the definition of entrainment at 40 CFR 125.92(h).
(8) Operational Status. The owner or operator of an existing facility must submit a description of the operational status of each generating, production, or process unit that uses cooling water, including but not limited to:
(i) For power production or steam generation, descriptions of individual unit operating status including age of each unit, capacity utilization rate (or equivalent) for the previous 5 years, including any extended or unusual outages that significantly affect current data for flow, impingement, entrainment, or other factors, including identification of any operating unit with a capacity utilization rate of less than 8 percent averaged over a 24-month block contiguous period, and any major upgrades completed within the last 15 years, including but not limited to boiler replacement, condenser replacement, turbine replacement, or changes to fuel type;
(ii) Descriptions of completed, approved, or scheduled uprates and Nuclear Regulatory Commission relicensing status of each unit at nuclear facilities;
(iii) For process units at your facility that use cooling water other than for power production or steam generation, if you intend to use reductions in flow or changes in operations to meet the requirements of 40 CFR 125.94(c), descriptions of individual production processes and product lines, operating status including age of each line, seasonal operation, including any extended or unusual outages that significantly affect current data for flow, impingement, entrainment, or other factors, any major upgrades completed within the last 15 years, and plans or schedules for decommissioning or replacement of process units or production processes and product lines;
(iv) For all manufacturing facilities, descriptions of current and future production schedules; and
(v) Descriptions of plans or schedules for any new units planned within the next 5 years.
(9) Entrainment Characterization Study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 mgd AIF, where the withdrawal of cooling water is measured at a location within the cooling water intake structure that the Director deems appropriate, must develop for submission to the Director an Entrainment Characterization Study that includes a minimum of two years of entrainment data collection. The Entrainment Characterization Study must include the following components:
(i) Entrainment Data Collection Method. The study should identify and document the data collection period and frequency. The study should identify and document organisms collected to the lowest taxon possible of all life stages of fish and shellfish that are in the vicinity of the cooling water intake structure(s) and are susceptible to entrainment, including any organisms identified by the Director, and any species protected under Federal, State, or Tribal law, including threatened or endangered species with a habitat range that includes waters in the vicinity of the cooling water intake structure. Biological data collection must be representative of the entrainment at the intakes subject to this provision. The owner or operator of the facility must identify and document how the location of the cooling water intake structure in the waterbody and the water column are accounted for by the data collection locations;
(ii) Biological Entrainment Characterization. Characterization of all life stages of fish, shellfish, and any species protected under Federal, State, or Tribal law (including threatened or endangered species), including a description of their abundance and their temporal and spatial characteristics in the vicinity of the cooling water intake structure(s), based on sufficient data to characterize annual, seasonal, and diel variations in entrainment, including but not limited to variations related to climate and weather differences, spawning, feeding, and water column migration. This characterization may include historical data that are representative of the current operation of the facility and of biological conditions at the site. Identification of all life stages of fish and shellfish must include identification of any surrogate species used, and identification of data representing both motile and non-motile life-stages of organisms;
(iii) Analysis and Supporting Documentation. Documentation of the current entrainment of all life stages of fish, shellfish, and any species protected under Federal, State, or Tribal law (including threatened or endangered species). The documentation may include historical data that are representative of the current operation of the facility and of biological conditions at the site. Entrainment data to support the facility's calculations must be collected during periods of representative operational flows for the cooling water intake structure, and the flows associated with the data collection must be documented. The method used to determine latent mortality along with data for specific organism mortality or survival that is applied to other life-stages or species must be identified. The owner or operator of the facility must identify and document all assumptions and calculations used to determine the total entrainment for that facility together with all methods and quality assurance/quality control procedures for data collection and data analysis. The proposed data collection and data analysis methods must be appropriate for a quantitative survey.
(10) Comprehensive Technical Feasibility and Cost Evaluation Study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 mgd AIF must develop for submission to the Director an engineering study of the technical feasibility and incremental costs of candidate entrainment control technologies. In addition, the study must include the following:
(i) Technical feasibility. An evaluation of the technical feasibility of closed-cycle recirculating systems as defined at 40 CFR 125.92(c), fine mesh screens with a mesh size of 2 millimeters or smaller, and water reuse or alternate sources of cooling water. In addition, this study must include:
(A) A description of all technologies and operational measures considered (including alternative designs of closed-cycle recirculating systems such as natural draft cooling towers, mechanical draft cooling towers, hybrid designs, and compact or multi-cell arrangements);
(B) A discussion of land availability, including an evaluation of adjacent land and acres potentially available due to generating unit retirements, production unit retirements, other buildings and equipment retirements, and potential for repurposing of areas devoted to ponds, coal piles, rail yards, transmission yards, and parking lots;
(C) A discussion of available sources of process water, grey water, waste water, reclaimed water, or other waters of appropriate quantity and quality for use as some or all of the cooling water needs of the facility; and
(D) Documentation of factors other than cost that may make a candidate technology impractical or infeasible for further evaluation.
(ii) Other entrainment control technologies. An evaluation of additional technologies for reducing entrainment may be required by the Director.
(iii) Cost evaluations. The study must include engineering cost estimates of all technologies considered in paragraphs (r)(10)(i) and (ii) of this section. Facility costs must also be adjusted to estimate social costs. All costs must be presented as the net present value (NPV) and the corresponding annual value. Costs must be clearly labeled as compliance costs or social costs. The applicant must separately discuss facility level compliance costs and social costs, and provide documentation as follows:
(A) Compliance costs are calculated as after-tax, while social costs are calculated as pre-tax. Compliance costs include the facility's administrative costs, including costs of permit application, while the social cost adjustment includes the Director's administrative costs. Any outages, downtime, or other impacts to facility net revenue, are included in compliance costs, while only that portion of lost net revenue that does not accrue to other producers can be included in social costs. Social costs must also be discounted using social discount rates of 3 percent and 7 percent. Assumptions regarding depreciation schedules, tax rates, interest rates, discount rates and related assumptions must be identified;
(B) Costs and explanation of any additional facility modifications necessary to support construction and operation of technologies considered in paragraphs (r)(10)(i) and (ii) of this section, including but not limited to relocation of existing buildings or equipment, reinforcement or upgrading of existing equipment, and additional construction and operating permits. Assumptions regarding depreciation schedules, interest rates, discount rates, useful life of the technology considered, and any related assumptions must be identified; and
(C) Costs and explanation for addressing any non-water quality environmental and other impacts identified in paragraph (r)(12) of this section. The cost evaluation must include a discussion of all reasonable attempts to mitigate each of these impacts.
(11) Benefits Valuation Study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 mgd AIF must develop for submission to the Director an evaluation of the benefits of the candidate entrainment reduction technologies and operational measures evaluated in paragraph (r)(10) of this section including using the Entrainment Characterization Study completed in paragraph (r)(9) of this section. Each category of benefits must be described narratively, and when possible, benefits should be quantified in physical or biological units and monetized using appropriate economic valuation methods. The benefits valuation study must include, but is not limited to, the following elements:
(i) Incremental changes in the numbers of individual fish and shellfish lost due to impingement mortality and entrainment as defined in 40 CFR 125.92, for all life stages of each exposed species;
(ii) Description of basis for any estimates of changes in the stock sizes or harvest levels of commercial and recreational fish or shellfish species or forage fish species;
(iii) Description of basis for any monetized values assigned to changes in the stock size or harvest levels of commercial and recreational fish or shellfish species, forage fish, and to any other ecosystem or non use benefits;
(iv) A discussion of mitigation efforts completed prior to October 14, 2014 including how long they have been in effect and how effective they have been;
(v) Discussion, with quantification and monetization, where possible, of any other benefits expected to accrue to the environment and local communities, including but not limited to improvements for mammals, birds, and other organisms and aquatic habitats;
(vi) Discussion, with quantification and monetization, where possible, of any benefits expected to result from any reductions in thermal discharges from entrainment technologies.
(12) Non-water Quality Environmental and Other Impacts Study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 mgd AIF must develop for submission to the Director a detailed facility-specific discussion of the changes in non-water quality environmental and other impacts attributed to each technology and operational measure considered in paragraph (r)(10) of this section, including both impacts increased and impacts decreased. The study must include the following:
(i) Estimates of changes to energy consumption, including but not limited to auxiliary power consumption and turbine backpressure energy penalty;
(ii) Estimates of air pollutant emissions and of the human health and environmental impacts associated with such emissions;
(iii) Estimates of changes in noise;
(iv) A discussion of impacts to safety, including documentation of the potential for plumes, icing, and availability of emergency cooling water;
(v) A discussion of facility reliability, including but not limited to facility availability, production of steam, impacts to production based on process unit heating or cooling, and reliability due to cooling water availability;
(vi) Significant changes in consumption of water, including a facility-specific comparison of the evaporative losses of both once-through cooling and closed-cycle recirculating systems, and documentation of impacts attributable to changes in water consumption; and
(vii) A discussion of all reasonable attempts to mitigate each of these factors.
(13) Peer Review. If the applicant is required to submit studies under paragraphs (r)(10) through (12) of this section, the applicant must conduct an external peer review of each report to be submitted with the permit application. The applicant must select peer reviewers and notify the Director in advance of the peer review. The Director may disapprove of a peer reviewer or require additional peer reviewers. The Director may confer with EPA, Federal, State and Tribal fish and wildlife management agencies with responsibility for fish and wildlife potentially affected by the cooling water intake structure, independent system operators, and state public utility regulatory agencies, to determine which peer review comments must be addressed. The applicant must provide an explanation for any significant reviewer comments not accepted. Peer reviewers must have appropriate qualifications and their names and credentials must be included in the peer review report.
(14) New Units. The applicant must identify the chosen compliance method for the new unit. In addition, the owner or operator that selects the BTA standards for new units at 40 CFR 125.94 (e)(2) as its route to compliance must submit information to demonstrate entrainment reductions equivalent to 90 percent or greater of the reduction that could be achieved through compliance with 40 CFR 125.94(e)(1). The demonstration must include the Entrainment Characterization Study at paragraph (r)(9) of this section. In addition, if data specific to your facility indicates that compliance with the requirements of § 125.94 of this chapter for each new unit would result in compliance costs wholly out of proportion to the costs EPA considered in establishing the requirements at issue, or would result in significant adverse impacts on local air quality, significant adverse impacts on local water resources other than impingement or entrainment, or significant adverse impacts on local energy markets, you must submit all supporting data as part of paragraph (r)(14) of this section. The Director may determine that additional data and information, including but not limited to monitoring, must be included as part of paragraph (r)(14) of this section.
[48 FR 14153, Apr. 1, 1983]
Editorial Note:
For Federal Register citations affecting § 122.21, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.govinfo.gov.
Safe Drinking Water Act
CERCLA
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/gilbert_garcia/article/Garcia-Trump-s-border-visit-a-reminder-of-the-15865750.php
Garcia: Trump’s border visit a reminder of the wall he built between us
By Gilbert Garcia
Updated 7:22 pm CST, Tuesday, January 12, 2021
President Donald Trump reacts after speaking near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Alamo, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Photo: Alex Brandon, STF / Associated Press
ALAMO — It looked like a tailgate party on a college-football Saturday.
Long rows of cars and trucks were parked along the narrow shoulder on Alamo Road, just south of the Rio Grande Valley town of Alamo.
The line of vehicles was just around the corner from the entrance to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, adjacent to a section of U.S.-Mexico border wall that President Donald Trump used Tuesday as a backdrop for a stage-exiting celebration of himself.
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Eight days before he was due to leave office, and six days after his loyalists stormed the Capitol because they believed his unfounded claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, Trump’s rhetoric focused on wall building. But his true agenda was legacy building.
The people who parked on Alamo Road didn’t need any convincing. They weren’t able to get anywhere close to Trump’s border event, but they didn’t seem discouraged. They were there for each other, after all.
“Trump 2020” banners and American flags waved from their vehicles. One truck displayed a large sign with the image of Uncle Sam, and a caption proclaiming, “I Want YOU to Make America Great Again!”
The members of one family faced the passing drivers and held signs saying, “Jesus Heals” and “Pray.”
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This was about Trump supporters lifting each other up at a time when their hero is limping out of office with Cabinet members quitting on him, members of his own party turning on him and House Democrats preparing to impeach him for a second time.
About 10 miles north of that car caravan, 100 people gathered in front of the San Juan headquarters of LUPE (La Unión del Pueblo Entero), an organization founded by César Chávez, the legendary farmworkers organizer.
This gathering was meant as an antidote to Trump’s border photo-op. At the LUPE rally, you felt undiluted anger.
Anger that Trump had helicoptered in to use their community as a prop. Anger that he was once again using undocumented immigrants as the scapegoats for a multitude of problems in the United States. Anger that he seemed unaware or uninterested in the fact that Hidalgo County is beset with sky-high COVID-19 infection rates, colonias with minimal infrastructure and extreme income inequality.
Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro drove down to the Valley for the LUPE rally and said Trump was leaving office the same way as he came in, by inciting hate and division.
“The most significant thing about the Trump presidency is not the wall he’s built around us,” Castro said. “It’s the wall that he has built between us.”
Melissa Cigarroa, a Laredo-based member of the No Border Wall coalition, said Trump had played to the worst prejudices of his fan base by depicting the border as a “dangerous war zone.” She called for President-elect Joe Biden to sign an executive order on Day One of his presidency, putting a halt to border wall construction.
“Not another foot of wall,” the crowd chanted along with Cigarroa.
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The signs at the LUPE rally felt like they’d been crafted from a different universe than the one inhabited by Trump’s car caravan: “Chump Go Away”; “1 Mile of Wall Could Pay for 300,000 Vaccines.”
The parallel worlds operating 10 miles from each other drove home, as if we needed any more confirmation, what an all-in or all-out proposition Trump remains after four years in the White House.
Three other U.S. presidents — Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush — were voted out of office in the past 45 years. None of them, in their final days in office, would have motivated a large crowd of devotees to line up along the shoulder of a road just for the honor of spending a few minutes in the same zip code as the president.
On the other hand, none of those presidents would have generated the kind of contempt that you sensed at the LUPE rally.
Ford, Carter and Bush all left office with the bipartisan sentiment that they were honorable men, if unsuccessful presidents. Of course, none of them spent two months after their election loss making unfounded claims about voter fraud or stirring up an insurrectionist mob with the false notion that Congress had the power to overturn the election results.
During his 20-minute border speech, Trump was the same vainglorious mess he’s always been. He alternately touted his border security efforts and whined about having his Twitter account permanently suspended.
He also suggested that Democratic calls for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to relieve Trump of his duties “will come back to haunt Joe Biden.” (The latest in an endless series of Trump swipes at Biden’s cognitive function.)
Trump entered the stage to Lee Greenwood’s cornball classic, “God Bless the U.S.A.” He exited to the strains of the Village People’s gay disco anthem, “Y.M.C.A.”
It was a wildly incongruent conclusion to what was meant to be a somber speech about border security. But being wildly incongruent is Trump’s jam.
ggarcia@express-news.net | Twitter: @gilgamesh470
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Adobe Acknowledges That Apple's Flash Prohibition Could Harm Business
Friday April 9, 2010 10:07 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Bloomberg reports that a new quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing from Adobe reveals for the first time that Apple's refusal to adopt Adobe's Flash platform for the iPhone and iPad could pose a material threat to Adobe's business.
The admission comes as part of the "Risk Factors" section of the report that typically offers "doom and gloom" scenarios in which the company's business could experience difficulty, but makes specific mention of Apple's potential effect on the company.
Additionally, to the extent new releases of operating systems or other third-party products, platforms or devices, such as the Apple iPhone or iPad, make it more difficult for our products to perform, and our customers are persuaded to use alternative technologies, our business could be harmed.
Bloomberg notes that earlier SEC filings from Adobe contained language noting that it wished to work with Apple on the iPhone platform but required cooperation from Apple in order to do so.
The dispute between Adobe and Apple over the inability for the iPhone, iPod touch, and now iPad to handle media in the Flash format has been well-known ever since the iPhone's original introduction in 2007, and thus it seems to be no surprise that Adobe may consider the situation at an impasse and consequently have adopted stronger language regarding the risk it poses to the company's business.
Interestingly, the filing comes just one day after Apple's iPhone OS 4 preview event alongside which the company released a modified developer licensing agreement that appears to prohibit the use of a feature in Adobe's forthcoming Flash Professional CS5 to export Flash content into the native iPhone format. Flash Professional CS5 is set to be introduced as part of Creative Suite 5 next Monday, and Adobe is reportedly looking into the change in Apple's developer licensing terms to understand how it affects the company's plans.
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National Police Remembrance Day 2013
Having been part of the NSW Police Force myself many years ago, I have a lot of brothers and sisters who are still serving our community and keeping our streets safe.
Each year, the 29th September holds a special significance for Police throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands. It is a day for police to pause to honour officers whose lives have been cut short while performing their duty as a police officer. This important day is also a time to remember police officers who have lost their lives through illness or other circumstances.
Remembrance Day asks people to remember the high and tough calling's Police make for our community and country.
On Friday the 27th of September we honour those members of the NSW Police Force who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the execution of their duty.
The NSW Police Force has a ribbon that provides an opportunity for employees and the public to show their support for National Police Remembrance Day. They have made an electronic version of the ribbon available for those people who wish to show their support via their Facebook profile picture.
Please note that National Police Remembrance Day is an annual event that is traditionally observed on 29 September. With that date falling on a Sunday in 2013, National Police Remembrance Day and all related services will be held on Friday 27 September.
NATIONAL POLICE REMEMBRANCE DAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2013 Valedictory Names of police officers killed while performing their duties during the period 28 September 2012 to 26 September 2013.
New South WalesDetective Inspector Bryson Charles Anderson, VA – 6 December 2012QueenslandConstable Casey Blain – 29 March 2013Papua New GuineaProbationary Constable David Opa – 8 July 2013
We also remember serving members of the NSW Police Force who have died during the period 28 September 2012 to 26 September 2013
Senior Constable Leanne Bannatyne – 30 October 2012Mr Malcolm McGregor – 28 November 2012Mr Raymond Edwin Northcote – 16 December 2012Sergeant Glenn Howard Stirton, VA – 20 December 2012Mrs Georgina Jones – 7 January 2013Senior Constable David Alexander Scott – 3 March 2013Mrs Barbara Thurecht – 18 March 2013Sergeant Barry John Walker – 3 April 2013Senior Constable Anthony William George Tamplin – 29 April 2013Leading Senior Constable Christopher Otis Plummer – 7 May 2013Mrs Lynn Margaret Foster – 15 May 2013Senior Constable Talama Kupa – 26 May 2013Mrs Fiona Mary Whitehouse – 14 June 2013Ms Karen Gay Scutts – 17 June 2013Mr Wing Lee – 22 June 2013Sergeant Gabrielle Patricia McDonald – 3 July 2013Constable Aaron Mark Ryan – 4 July 2013Detective Sergeant Roger Wayne Borgas – 7 July 2013Miss Natalie Jane Staib – 21 July 2013Chief Inspector Graeme Francis Donnelly – 16 August 2013Sergeant Nicholas Michael Skomarow – 24 August 2013Senior Constable Julie Rose Wild – 27 August 2013
Hills District "effect" almost ready
We have scouted a number of locations for what we believe has NEVER been done within the Hills Districts and we plan to accomplish this in the coming months. Hopefully not much longer.
We have discussed the plans with the Castle Hill Police and have had our invitations accepted by 2 members of the Hills District who will witness the "effect" first hand. More on this later.
We are currently waiting to hear back from the Road & Maritime Services for the final go ahead as they will hopefully give us the final permission we are waiting for.
If this doesn't go to plan then we have a plan B (secondary location) and a plan C (third location) in mind that will be able to invite the general public so they can witness the effect live also. Obviously option 1 is what we would prefer as its more dangerous but will see how we go in the coming weeks ahead.
The Knights Templar & Friday the 13th
Not many people know the origins of Friday the 13th.
The Knights Templar formed one of the most important and most well known international organizations in the Middle Ages.
The Knights Templar had been formed in 1118 to protect Christians from Muslims in the Holy Land. They were among the best soldiers of their era. They also ran Europe’s first international banking system.
The Knights were good at both fighting and finance. They were bankers with swords.
Christian pilgrims headed for the Holy Land could deposit their funds with the Knights Templar in Europe. The way to Holy Land was dangerous and so the pilgrims were given coded statements of their finance. When they got to their lodgings along the way, their coded statement would be “debited” each time to pay for the accommodation. This early form of credit card saved the need to carry cash.
The Knights were often the first into a battle and the last to leave. They had to be tough because the Muslims were determined to get back the Holy Land.
At dawn on Friday October 13, 1307, under the orders King Philip IV of France, a well-planned operation was unleashed to seize every Knight Templar in France. The arrest warrant started with the phrase : "Dieu n'est pas content, nous avons des ennemis de la foi dans le Royaume", "God is not pleased. We have enemies of the faith in the kingdom". Estimates of the number of knights involved vary from about 2,000 up to 15,000. Only 20 escaped.
Various allegations were made against them dealing with heresy, blasphemy and immorality. Virtually all were tortured to death to make them agree to “confessions”. Many were executed. All of their assets were taken by the king and so it was a very profitable operation.
As for the leaders of the Order, the elderly Grand Master Jacques de Molay, who had confessed under torture, retracted his confession. Geoffroi de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy, also retracted his confession and insisted on his innocence. Both men were declared guilty of being relapsed heretics, and they were sentenced to burn alive at the stake in Paris on 18 March 1314. De Molay reportedly remained defiant to the end, asking to be tied in such a way that he could face the Notre Dame Cathedral and hold his hands together in prayer.
According to legend, he called out from the flames that both Pope Clement and King Philip would soon meet him before God. His actual words were recorded on the parchment as follows : "Dieu sait qui a tort et a péché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort", "God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death".
Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. His final words were a curse on the French king and the pope. Coincidentally, the pope was dead within a month and the king died in a hunting accident nine months later.
However they did not all disappear. Some went underground and their influence continued. For example the Masons may be descendants of some of the Knights who were based in Robert the Bruce’s Scotland (the Scottish Rite of the Freemasons). Some of the Templar symbols and rituals have been incorporated into Masonic rituals. The legend of the Knights Templar has continued to live on over the centuries.
New effect/stunt almost ready
For the last 3 month we have been working on a bunch of new ideas and projects. From brand new close up effects to grand stage effects to something even bigger and dangerous... We are hoping to deliver the Hills District something they haven't experienced yet. Two lucky people from the Hills Shire will be able to witness and experience the effect up close and personal with the help of the Castle Hills Police (if all goes to plans). We are still scouting for the best possible locations however we are hoping that in the coming days/weeks we will be able to test the effect in real time and see what happens...
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Erin's Picks
Erin spent her childhood curled up with good books, most especially science fiction, fantasy, biographies, quirky fiction & the classics. In college, she pursued & attained a BFA in Photography & Art History. She still loves to study & discuss these fields. In bookstores, she can be found perusing cookbooks, natural history, psychology, history, women's studies, the children's section...her taste is eclectic to say the least! Curiosity is a virtue in her book.
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Hardcover)
By Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams
Published: Avery - September 20th, 2016
A truly beautiful book written by wise friends who came together to discuss the meaning of life experience and how to cultivate joy. If nothing else, look at the pictures. The bromance between these astounding humans (the Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu) will immediately lighten your heart. If you are looking for guidance to find joy and peace in troublesome times, this is the book for you.
Upstream: Selected Essays (Paperback)
By Mary Oliver
Published: Penguin Books - October 29th, 2019
Lovely & lyrical. If her poetry moves you, then read this to know her world more intimately. She speaks of her favorite writers, her writing process, her town, observing spiders, her woods & lakes. My favorite essay of this collection is called "Of Power & Time," which is a must read for anyone who is called to create.
Impossible Things: A Novel (Mass Market)
By Connie Willis
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Published: Spectra - December 1st, 1993
11 different worlds created by Doomsday Book author, each with a very different mood and voice. "The Last of the Winnebago's" is a world bereft of dogs. Canines were wiped out by an immune deficiency virus. The narrator reminisces about his own beloved pooch & how hard it is to capture the character of a dog in a photograph. "Even the Queen" offers a critique similar to Colette, of how dogma in feminism can be detrimental to individualism. Amusing dialogue between 3 generations in a family we can all relate to, in a futuristic setting. Willis' spin on "A Winter's Tale" is funny, and slightly mysterious. A marvelous collection.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Paperback)
Published: Avery - April 7th, 2015
"The credit belongs to the man whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming." Opening with Roosevelt's famour speech "Citizenship in a Republic," Brene begins to explain the importance of being vulnerable, the importance of trying our best, the importance of not pretending to be perfect, the importance of having the uncomfortable conversations, and the importance of getting back up again when you fail. Being Human 101.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (Paperback)
By Terry Tempest Williams
Published: Picador - February 26th, 2013
One of the best books I have ever had the pleasure of reading!
The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet (Paperback)
By Jim Robbins
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Published: Random House - March 3rd, 2015
There is so much information coming out about global warming & the destruction we humans are wrecking, it's really disheartening. This book glosses over nothing, and there are a couple of parts that made me so angry and/or incredibly sad but it's a story of people making a difference. This book gave me real hope. Also, I loved learning more about how amazing trees are. For instance there is a Bristlecone Pine that is over 8,000 years old & weighs 6,600 tons!
The Love and Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking (Hardcover)
By Jeanine Donofrio
Published: Avery - March 29th, 2016
Best cookbook I've ever owned! I've had so many successes from this book. Not too complicated, no random ingredients that you never use again. Works backward (or straightforward). Go to the grocery or farmer's market, grab the best looking produce & come home to find 4 or 5 different recipes based on that amazing looking produce.
The Scarecrow (Hardcover)
By Beth Ferry, Eric Fan (Illustrator), Terry Fan (Illustrator)
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Published: HarperCollins - September 3rd, 2019
A new heartwarming children's book that is sure to be a classic! Luminous illustrations show a Scarecrow who takes in and cares for a fallen baby crow. The seasons of life correspond to the seasons so beautifully draw, as the crow grows up and leaves the nest and the Scarecrow alone in a cold winter. Then with the arrival of spring the crow returns with a friend and new hope, as the build a nest in the Scarecrow's warm heart.
Migrations: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Charlotte McConaghy
Published: Flatiron Books - August 4th, 2020
Crafting a good story is not an easy task. Some authors have a way with descriptive language, but ramble on in such a way that the reader becomes lost in the words, there is no purpose in sight. Or an author may be so blunt with their words, that there is no meat or grace that allows you to connect with the characters. Charlotte McConaghy's book "Migrations" is one of the most lyrical and wrenching stories I have read in a long time, while still remaining page turning and purposeful. Maybe it's because she is a screenwriter, typically writing to fit within a 2-3 hour film that must be evocative, but she managed to craft something that is as close to a perfect novel as I can imagine.
The story begins within the narration of Franny Stone who is tagging Arctic Terns in order to track their migration. You soon find out that she is much like a migrating bird herself, who must fly out into the world, as much as they must return home when done. Franny finds a fishing boat that will take her aboard and meets a dynamic cast of characters- I suppose that anyone who enjoys being shipbound for long periods of time is an interesting human! They are as curious about her as she is them and slowly her tale unravels, her life in Ireland and her life in Australia is palpable. She is a gloriously imperfect character who doesn't have nearly enough empathy for herself, surrounded by her ilk.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
By James Nestor
Published: Riverhead Books - May 26th, 2020
Did you know that we are some of the worst breathers in the animal kingdom? We have a whole organ for breathing, the nose, yet so many of us still breath out of our mouths. Turns out this has a lot of negative side effects for us. Some of you may be experiencing them: dehydration, brain fog, snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, psoriasis- all of these maladies are impacted, possibly caused, definitely exacerbated by breathing through the mouth. James helped me to retrain myself to breathe through my nose, to take deep breaths, and now I know how important the exhales are.
Another big takeaway is the importance of chewing, which strengthens our respiratory system, and helps it form the correct way. Apparently a lot of our problems with narrow jaws, crooked teeth, and breathing problems started when we started consuming soft cooked foods, and stopped chewing. Crooked teeth are not a common phenomenon in the animal world. So I'm chewing a lot more gum, and food, these days, as the studies suggest that chewing more, even now as an adult, can greatly benefit us.
So if you are curious about the benefits of breathing, improving your quality of life, or just looking for a truly fascinating read, I highly recommend "Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art." Thank you James Nestor.
There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak (Hardcover)
By Jonathan Cott
Published: Doubleday - May 16th, 2017
Jonathan dissects and illuminates "Outside Over There", the seminal book in Maurice Sendak's famous trilogy, through personal interviews, biographical information of Maurice, and critiques by art historians. The trilogy also includes, "In the Night Kitchen" & "Where the Wild Things Are"-notably his most famous work. Maurice was in psychoanalysis for most of his adulthood, and extremely interested in Jungian theory, the collective unconscious, universal archetypes, the primal world of the child imagination, and Mozart....all of which you find layered in the paintings that become his illustrations, and his carefully worded prose. "Outside Over There" was one of my favorite picture books as a child, and after reading this work, I have a lot more insight into why this permeated my psyche so deeply.
The Silmarillion (Paperback)
By J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor)
Published: Mariner Books - October 7th, 2014
Lyrical tales of the conception of "Middle Earth" which is sung into being. Heroes, anti-heroes, villains, demons, inter-race relationships, good men broken by their weaknesses, finding hope in dark places, enduring friendships, cultural clash- a world that can be strangely relatable. Classic Tolkien.
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illustrator)
Published: Milkweed Editions - September 8th, 2020
Did you happen to read "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer? It was published by Milkweed Editions, a unique non-profit press who works with debut and experimental writers whose voices they find essential to "ensuring a vibrant, diverse, & empowered future." I've been keeping my eye on this press and they have a lovely little book about to release by Aimee Nezhukumatathil titled "World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments." Traditionally Aimee has been known for her poetry, but "World of Wonders" is a lyrical compilation of essays that are full of, and inspire, wonder for the world around us.
These essays are woven from the journey of Aimee's life, through many states, and many cultures. It's woven from the unique creatures that this world is blessed with: whale sharks, aoxityls, fireflies, peacocks, jellyfish, and the corpse flower among them. Certainly there is wisdom and truths to be gleaned, but there is also a lovely openness for interpretation that isn't usually found outside of poetry or abstract writing.
In one chapter Aimee writes of the first time her husband came home and into the yard to find her talking with birds. Yes, tweeting back. I felt both her self consciousness of being truly seen, and the ephemeral feeling of catching a glimpse of yourself through another human's eyes. Like her husband, through this book I have caught sight of the whimsy and dearness of Aimee's naturalist poet soul & believe it is a gift to have her in our lives. I highly recommend picking up a copy for yourself.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography (Paperback)
By Eric Idle
Published: Crown - October 1st, 2019
Inevitably a wild romp through Idle's life. You will laugh out loud ....a lot. Eric had/has many funny friends, aside from the Python Boys, & it was interesting to learn how the creative processes of George Harrison, Robin Williams, & Steve Martin intertwined with Idle's own. How they encouraged each other and supported each other. Get this book and read it.
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Ruth Emmie Lang
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Published: St. Martin's Press - November 14th, 2017
A whimsical yarn of the life of a man who can change the weather. Told from the perspective of the lives he impacts, and full of Americana motifs-such as living with wolves- truly a lovely read to get lost in, without it feeling trite or shallow. Layers of perspective and experience lead us to sink in and explore more of the range of human emotions.
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch (Paperback)
By Karl Ove Knausgaard
Published: Penguin Books - March 26th, 2019
For a long time I've avoided the writings of Knausgaard. I was skeptical of someone who could write so much about themselves. It seemed narcissistic. When I heard that he was writing a biography of Munch though, I decided to get over my prejudice. Munch has been one of my favorite artists since I was very young. At first I did indeed find Knausgaard to be full of himself- "who is he," I thought to make a statement about "all painters" or another about "all artists." Then he won me over, you see, because the heart of this book is how Munch moves him and other artists that he meets and discusses Munch's work with. This is a work that in fact works on the reader, Karl is working to express how Edvard's paintings impact him, and then the reader is thus moved by the kinship and relationship between Edvard's work and Karl. So many beautiful layers, which is the core of the history of art, the conversations that art is having with society, the conversations society is having with art, and the conversations between the artists themselves.
The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel (Paperback)
Published: Harper Perennial - December 31st, 2013
An intricately woven, fantastical story of what it means to be a human. A Golem (Kabbalistic mythical creature) arrives in the 1899 Jewish borough of New York City. A Jinni (Arabic mythological creature) has a parallel arrival in the Middle Eastern/ Christian Orthodox borough of 1899 New York City. Wecker's tale is full of historical insight into these little pockets & the lives of their residents. There really are only dashes of mysticism & magic; she really explores the concept of the soul and what it means to be human and live in community with humans. I completely lost myself in this beautiful yarn.
Wee Sister Strange (Hardcover)
By Holly Grant, K. G. Campbell
Published: Schwartz & Wade - September 19th, 2017
An evocative, archetypal tale of a sprite of a girl who lives in the woods, charms animals, climbs trees, and dives into the bog "inspect(ing) every snail as a mermaid counts pearls." This sweet story ends with Wee Sister Strange curling up on a bed of leaves outside a young girl's window, listening to a mother tell her daughter of "Wee Sister Strange." Lyrical prose, stunning, ethereal illustrations.
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - August 14th, 2018
What is this book not? It's a well timed & planned murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. It's a classic coming of age tale, a journey into womanhood. It explores the details of survival & lonliness, it describes loss & love. It's a love letter written to marshland, and the birds, crabs, crawdads, oysters, frogs, fish, and everything else that is born and nurtured within the wetlands. I couldn't put it down.
The Silkworm (A Cormoran Strike Novel #2) (Mass Market)
By Robert Galbraith
Published: Mulholland Books - December 22nd, 2015
Could not put this book down!!! A totally fun 'who done it' but you are flying blind. Nothing is obvious. Also, it's very well written. Even though this is part of the 'Comoran Strike Novels,' they don't have to be read in order. Feel free to pick this up and if you enjoy it as much as I did, you'll know there are 3 more you can dive into after.
Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World (Hardcover)
By Richard Kreitner
Published: Black Dog & Leventhal - April 23rd, 2019
A must for any bibliophile! Great gift book too!
Malacqua: Four Days of Rain in the City of Naples, Waiting for the Occurrence of an Extraordinary Event (Paperback)
By Nicola Pugliese, Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
Published: And Other Stories - November 14th, 2017
Very few books are able to truly sweep me away these days but Pugliese took me everywhere he wanted me to go- with lyrical language & incredible insight into the inner dialogue of 'humanity.' I loved this book. It's quirky, visceral, & unexpected- yet it seems so very real, exploring the reactions of different characters dealing with torrential rains that are impacting each in different ways. They are thinking of life, death, moving, political incompetence, sex, love, shaving- in just the right amount of detail. E bel.
The Sun and Her Flowers (Paperback)
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - October 3rd, 2017
I wish I could send a copy of this lovely book of poetry to every young woman. This is a book of beauty and strength. Rupi writes candidly about the things women are not supposed to speak of in "polite" society. She speaks of the things all women experience: brutal heartbreak, depression, placing your self worth in someone else's hands, breaking the glass ceiling, the judgement & objectification of female bodies, realizing we have more choices than the women who have come before us & how they fought to give us these choices, menses, breast milk....Rupi is a fierce woman & I love her for speaking these truths.
Inland: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Téa Obreht
Published: Random House - August 13th, 2019
Tea put me in the shoes of lives I have never imagined, in places I have never visited. This book teaches you about surviving in hard circumstances, about the depth of grit & determination. What would it be like to be an immigrant child, parents gone, exhuming corpses to sell for cadavers? What would it be like to be a woman in the hard, untamned West, waiting for your husband to return with water when your well is dry? What would you do? Tea transported me with beautiful language, and elegant descriptions into these lives. Really wonderful.
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
By Victoria Law, Laura Whitehorn (Introduction by)
Published: PM Press - October 5th, 2012
Many of us go through our entire lives unaware of the plights of others. This author, Victoria, was herself incarcerated. This book comes from both her personally informed postion, and her research. What I find truly remarkable about this work, is that despite the heartrending stories that are shared, I find these women so incredibly inspiring & impressive. I think of incarceration as an incredibly powerless place to be, and yet they band together, supporting each other, resisting abuse, finding creative ways to defend and express themselves. A truly remarkable read.
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (Hardcover)
By Michiko Kakutani
Published: Tim Duggan Books - July 17th, 2018
An in-depth search into how culture has bred the current political climate that subsists on falsehood. Well-founded and researched, she links our current predicament to those of Nazi Germany's citizens & the Italian's under Mussolini. She shows how the rhetoric is creating an atmosphere inflamed with mistrust that's reactionary and polarized. She shows how the concepts of post-modernism have disseminated into our culture and created a foundation for Trump and the far right to come into power. She also explores how the Russian trolling fits into all of this and how effective it's been in inciting chaos in multiple countries. This is such an important read that helps to better understand the problems so that we might seek solutions.
The Rules of Magic: A Novel (The Practical Magic Series #1) (Hardcover)
By Alice Hoffman
Published: Simon & Schuster - October 10th, 2017
An unexpected, and welcomed sequel to "Practical Magic." Another tale weaving magic, healing of generational differences, and the bonds of sisters. Alice's character insight & development is strong, and by the end of all her novels I feel like I have made new friends and have possibly come to understand a bit more of this human experience.
Milkman: A Novel (Paperback)
By Anna Burns
Published: Graywolf Press - December 4th, 2018
One of the most interesting voices I've encountered. Burns' describes her characters thru relationship- i.e. "second sister," "maybe boyfriend," "milkman," "real milkman," etc. So no matter what you're reading about- tensions between political & religiously factioned communities in Northern Ireland, French class, the dissection of cars, running, etc.- the subject is woven by the characters connections. It is set within political tensions of Northern Ireland in the '90s, however more than that she captures perfectly how hard it can be to deal with sexual predation, how nuanced a stalker's web can be, and how vulnerable a woman who is young can be, especially w/out the support of transparent community. A very timely, well-written book.
Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi [A Baking Book] (Hardcover)
By Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
Published: Ten Speed Press - October 3rd, 2017
An alluring compendium of sweet, savory, and always elegant, desserts. Personally, I love European style sweets, which unlike American goodies, I never find too sweet. This gives plenty of spice to explore!
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 (Paperback)
By Philip K. Dick
Published: Del Rey - May 28th, 1996
A classic. What defines humanity? What makes you a worthy member of society? Can you tell the real from the contrived? This book brings up many questions and moral imperitives without shoving the writer's views down your throat. You may know the film adaptation: "Bladerunner."
An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division (Hardcover)
By Dalai Lama, Franz Alt
Published: William Morrow - November 7th, 2017
Provides answers to some really difficult questions that are pressing us today: How do we move our society forward in the current political climate? How do we handle the divisiveness? What should we do to help refugees and take care of our own people? What is the most important goal for younger generations? Etc. He does not turn away from suffering, or the extent of the problems we face, he insightfully tackles them. A hopeful and beautiful little book.
Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine (Paperback)
By Deepak Chopra
Published: Bantam - November 17th, 2015
A fascinating read exploring the connections between the mind and the body. Dr. Chopra likens trying to explain the link between our brain & consciousness to trying to understand a Mozart concerto by taking apart a piano. Unlike a lot of "science" books and new articles I see coming out currently, Chopra really looks at ALL the biases. There are numerous citations and examples showing the varied studies conducted learning about where consciousness comes from, and how it enables the body's healing process.
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
By Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - June 13th, 2017
I am not gonna lie, this is not the best-written book I've read. It's technically efficient & I find the scientist quite full of herself. I believe that she is trying to express that she has a life & is a real person, but she comes across as a braggart. Also, she doesn't really give her creation, CRISPR, a decent hard criticism, and acts completely oblivious to the real and possible hazards of GMO food and their release into the environment (apparently she knows nothing of Monarch butterflies, ahem.) She also acts like the potential release of mosquitos genetically modified to sterilize the entire mosquito species wouldn't impact other animal species, other than wiping out Malaria in humans...I want to send her a copy of "The Lion King"- it's the circle of life!!!
So why am I recommending this to you? I believe this to be an incredibly important read. Jennifer is one of the scientists who has pioneered a biological technology called CRISPR which enables genetic modification of all life. This book is the most comprehensive explanation of how the technology works, its roots, its purposes, and its possibilities. There are ethical questions arising as to what it means to be human, whether or not we are entering into a new era of eugenics, are we going to be creating laws governing the extent into which we modify our species & other species, what qualifies as "disability", etc. I remember watching Gattaca years ago and thinking on these questions. These issues are no longer just fodder in a movie, no longer eons in the future, this is not science fiction, genetic modification is happening in labs all over the world. We need to be ready. We need to be educated. I also highly recommend Francis Fukuyama's "Our Posthuman Future."
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More UK nurses and midwives leaving than joining profession
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More nurses and midwives are leaving the profession in the UK than joining it, for the first time since 2008, figures show.
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The number registered in the UK fell by 1,783 to 690,773, in the year to March.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) said the downward trend had been most pronounced among British workers. Many leavers cited working conditions.
But the government said there were now 13,000 more nurses working in hospitals in England than in 2010.
In April and May this year, there was a more dramatic fall in those leaving nursing and midwifery, with a further 3,264 workers going.
Other than retirement, the main reasons given for leaving were working conditions – including staffing levels and workload – personal circumstances and disillusion with quality of care to patients, according to an NMC survey of more than 4,500 leavers.
Other reasons included leaving the UK and poor pay and benefits.
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Saffron Cordery, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said: “These figures provide further evidence of the severe workforce problems NHS trusts face.
“This goes beyond the concerns over Brexit – worrying though they are.
“The reduction in numbers is most pronounced among UK registrants. And it is particularly disappointing to see so many of our younger nurses and midwives choosing to leave.”
She said a new staff retention programme would offer support to those NHS trusts with the highest leaving rates.
“However, until we address the underlying issues driving retention problems, including the pay cap and the unsustainable workplace pressures, these approaches will only have a limited impact.
Nurses protested against the 1% public sector pay cap in June
Analysis: Nick Triggle, BBC health correspondent
The figures being flagged up by the Nursing and Midwifery Council are for those registered to work in the UK.
That is, of course, important – without a ready supply, the NHS cannot recruit the staff it needs.
But the figure that is perhaps of most interest to the public is how many are actually working in the health service – and whether that is enough.
The Department of Health in England has made this point, highlighting figures showing there are more than 13,000 more nurses working in hospitals than there were in 2010.
But if you look at the overall number working in the NHS – once you include the likes of district nurses and those working in mental health – the number has risen by only 5,000 to nearly 286,000. That is because the rise in hospital nurses has been partly offset by a fall elsewhere.
What is more, if you consider the number the NHS wants to employ but cannot – by adding on the number of vacancies – you find that the health service is well short of what it needs.
Earlier this year, research by the Royal College of Nursing showed there were 40,000 unfilled posts – double the number from three years ago.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said poor working conditions and the “vicious cycle” of staffing levels had contributed to the number of nurses leaving the profession.
RCN chief executive Janet Davies added that the NHS had resorted to a “quick fix” by bringing in “people from overseas” to fill the gap left by the lack of British nurses. She believes the decision on how much nurses are paid is political.
She added: “[The government is also] removing the funding of the training of our future nurses.
“In September it will be the first time we see nurses coming in and having to take a loan.
“We know that’s put people off, we haven’t seen the actual figures but we know it’s really low in some places and of course that just went into savings.”
Nurses and midwives previously received bursaries during their studies, but the government announced it would cease the NHS bursaries system from 1 August 2017, meaning students in many healthcare fields will now have to repay the cost of their degrees.
The RCN called on the government to scrap the 1% public sector pay cap as a matter of urgency to prevent more health workers leaving.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: “We are making sure we have the nurses we need to continue delivering world-class patient care – that’s why there are almost 13,100 more on our wards since May 2010 and 52,000 in training.
“We also know we need to retain our excellent nurses and earlier this week we launched a national programme to ensure nurses have the support they need to continue their vital work.”
Credit: BBC News Health.
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Protesters in King’s Lynn fight against mental health service cuts
27th April 201627th April 2016
Sophie Biddle
Protesters took to the streets of King’s Lynn to voice their anger at what they described as “continuous” cutbacks to mental health services in west Norfolk.
Mental health cuts protest
A protest march against cuts to mental health services and the Fermoy Unit at the QEH took place in King's Lynn town centre. Picture: Matthew Usher.
More than 100 campaigners marched from The Walks through the town centre before finishing outside the Majestic Cinema.
Peter Smith, former parliamentary candidate for south-west Norfolk said: “We are in the fight of our lives here.”
The protest was triggered by the Fermoy Unit, an in-patient NHS facility in Lynn for mental health, which campaigners say faces an uncertain future. The unit was briefly closed to new admissions earlier this month, but reopened last week, albeit with fewer beds.
Mr Smith said: “In my lifetime we have never had to fight like this, but what is the alternative?”
But Debbie White, director of operations for Norfolk at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, said there were now no plans to axe the Fermoy Unit.
She added: “It is right that mental health services should be valued and funded on the same level as acute health services, and it is understandable people feel passionate about the Fermoy Unit remaining open.”
Labour party activist Jo Rust insisted the issue would not disappear. She said: “They have been talking about closing it for a long time. We will fight and we will not let them do that.”
Beth Anthony, 18 of Dersingham, said: “We are here to protest against the continuous cuts to the mental health service, we think it’s unacceptable. My younger brother suffers from poor mental health and has to travel to London... That is to the detriment of my family because we have to pay for him to go down by train every single month.”
Do you have a health story? Email nicholas.carding@archant.co.uk
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The Fabulously Eccentric Life of James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
BY Jenna Scherer
Gilded Age New York had more than its fair share of outlandish rich people. Take Evander Berry Wall, whose crazy fashion choices (including thigh-high patent leather boots for him and bespoke collars and ties for his dogs) earned him the nickname "King of the Dudes." Then there’s C.K.G. Billings, the industrialist who hosted a dinner party on horseback in a Fifth Avenue ballroom, during which guests drank champagne through rubber tubes. And let’s not forget Alva Vanderbilt, who went ahead and founded the Metropolitan Opera when she couldn’t secure a private box at the Academy of Music. But there is perhaps no high-society New Yorker who was as consistently and astoundingly eccentric—or as influential—as James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
The son of a fabulously wealthy newspaper magnate, Bennett makes the trust fund kids of today look positively tame by comparison. From epic yacht races and colorful journalism to naked carriage rides and public urination, the man did it all. It’s no wonder that “Gordon Bennett!” became a British slang exclamation of shock and awe.
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HERALD
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., a Scottish immigrant, founded the New York Herald in 1835, building the paper from the ground up. Within 10 years, the Herald had become the most widely read daily in America, thanks to its cheap cover price, up-to-the-minute news, and blatant sensationalism; Bennett Sr. once told a young staffer that “the object of the modern newspaper is not to instruct, but to startle and amuse.”
The elder Bennett’s fellow New Yorkers didn’t take too kindly to all the gossip-mongering; angry crowds regularly gathered outside the Herald's headquarters to the point that Papa Bennett kept a cache of weapons secreted behind the walls of his office—so it’s no surprise that he sent his son away to be educated in Paris.
Bennett Sr. continued to run the paper throughout the first half of the 19th century, sensationalizing the news while also pioneering the way it was reported. In 1836, he published what many historians believe was the first newspaper interview ever (the subject, naturally, was the madam of a brothel). So by 1886, when Bennett ceded editorial control of the paper to his then-25-year-old son, the Herald was well established.
THE LUCKY OWL
Bennett the younger first arrived on the New York scene as a teenager. Commanding a luxury yacht (courtesy of dad), he distinguished himself in the boating world at an early age and, at 16, became the youngest ever member of the New York Yachting Club. He took his ship to battle during the Civil War, spending a year at sea in the service of the Union. Legend has it that one night on the water, the warning hoot of an owl woke a sleeping Bennett and prevented his ship from running aground.
Whether the story is true or not, it was the catalyst for a lifelong obsession with owls. Bennett could not get enough of the predatory birds: he ran editorials on species preservation in the Herald and collected owls (both live and statuary) throughout his life. When he commissioned renowned architect Stanford White to design a new Herald building in the 1890s, it included plans to have the roof lined with bronze owl effigies—26 of them—whose eyes flashed at regular intervals with electric light.
Though the building was demolished in 1921, two of the owls now flank the Minerva statue (which also began life on the building’s roof) that stands in modern-day Herald Square—and their eyes still glow a ghostly shade of green.
There’s a reason why Bennett’s nickname around the NYYC was “The Mad Commodore.” Though he engaged in every rich-boy pastime under the sun—polo, ballooning, tennis—his lifelong passion was yachting. He won the first-ever transatlantic yacht race in 1866, guiding the Henrietta on a two-week voyage from the New Jersey coast to the Isle of Wight. Aboard his next vessel, a steam yacht called the Namouna, he entertained artists, painters, bon vivants, and even a very young Winston Churchill.
But they were all outdone by the Lysistrata, a 300-foot monster with such onboard amenities as a Turkish bath, a milk cow in a fan-cooled stall, a theater troupe, and a luxury automobile—which he drove across Bermuda in 1906, marking the first car ever to touch the island’s soil. His joy ride earned him the enmity of two prominent vacationers: Mark Twain and a pre-presidential Woodrow Wilson, who campaigned to have cars banned from Bermuda after they saw Bennett roaring around in his De Dion-Bouton.
It wasn’t all fun and boat cows, however. Bennett kept up his publishing duties throughout his life, rising at the crack of dawn to run the Herald via letters and articles cabled to him by his editors.
WHIZZER ABOUT TOWN
To say that Bennett lived it up would be an understatement. His partying ways were infamous, fueled by a seemingly infinite store of funds and a flair for the dramatic. One of his hobbies included driving a coach-and-four at breakneck speed through the streets—often in the wee hours of the night, and often in the buff. (He once ended up in the hospital after driving under a low archway in Paris and clocking himself on the head.)
Bennett was also a cocktail enthusiast, and his boozing landed him in a heap of trouble one notorious evening in 1877. The story goes that on New Year’s Day, the publisher got rip-roaring drunk, stumbled into a fete being thrown by the family of his then-fiancée Caroline May, and proceeded to urinate into the fireplace in front of everybody. The engagement was called off, but that wasn’t the end of it: Caroline’s brother, Frederick, attacked Bennett with a horsewhip the next day, and later challenged him to a duel. Pistols at dawn were considered archaic by the 1870s, but that didn’t stop Bennett and May. As luck would have it, both of them were such bad shots that they completely missed each other, and that was the end of that.
Which isn’t to say that Bennett wasn’t mortified by the whole incident. Shortly afterwards, he left New York in shame and spent most of the rest of his life in France and traveling the world aboard his many, many yachts, and eventually founding the Paris Herald. He also maintained lavish houses in New York, Newport, Paris, the French Riviera, and Versailles—in one of Louis XIV’s chateaus, naturally, where he played host to kings and dukes.
PAY DIRT, I PRESUME
Though Bennett lived in the lap of luxury himself, he funded the exploits of adventurers willing to get their boots dirty. Most prominent among them was Henry Morton Stanley, a regular correspondent for the Herald and legendary explorer. In 1871, Bennett bankrolled Stanley’s expedition to track down a beloved Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, in the jungles of Tanzania. And naturally, he traveled in style: an armed guard, 150 porters, and 27 pack animals, while a man in front carried the flag of—what else?—the New York Yacht Club.
Stanley tracked down his target after a six-month trek, at which point he allegedly uttered the famous line: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Livingstone wasn’t actually missing, per se, but it sure made for a good story—and one that sold a lot of newspapers.
So did the next epic journey that Bennett funded, though it proved to be far less successful for the explorers themselves. Bennett backed an 1879 expedition to the as-yet-undiscovered North Pole, led by U.S. Navy vet George Washington De Long. But the trip ended in disaster when De Long’s ship was crushed by ice in the Bering Strait, and the surviving crew was forced to trek overland. Only 13 made it back to civilization in Siberia, while 20—De Long included—perished.
THE MAUSOLEUM THAT WASN’T
As Bennett aged, his affinity for the insanely opulent never waned. He went back to Stanford White (who, besides being a prominent architect, was also Bennett’s drinking buddy) with an idea for his final resting place: a 200-foot-tall mausoleum built in the shape of an owl, to stand on a promontory in Washington Heights. Inside the owl, a spiral staircase would lead visitors to the bird’s eyes, which would be windows offering sweeping views of the city. When Bennett died, his body would be placed in a sarcophagus and suspended from the ceiling on chains, to dangle in the middle of the monument.
But Bennett’s ridiculous tomb never came to be. In 1906, White was murdered by his lover Evelyn Nesbit’s millionaire husband, resulting in a lengthy court case that the media (the Herald included) dubbed “The Trial of the Century.” Bennett scrapped his plans for the giant owl, depriving New York City of what could have been its weirdest landmark.
LAST COMES MARRIAGE
Though Bennett was a notorious playboy, he eventually did settle down—at the ripe old age of 73. His wife was Maud Potter, the widow of George de Reuter (of Reuters news agency). They were married until Bennett’s death five years later, when he passed away at his villa in the Riviera in 1918.
Sadly, Bennett's paper followed him to the grave; the Herald was sold off in 1920 and was absorbed into an amalgam that became the now-folded New York Herald-Tribune.
But perhaps Bennett always knew his baby was doomed to die with him. When he moved the Herald building uptown, he only signed a 30-year lease. When an underling questioned this decision, he was quickly told by the mercurial publisher that, “Thirty years from now, the Herald will be in Harlem, and I’ll be in Hell!”
Here’s hoping Bennett’s having an entertaining eternity down there in the inferno; otherwise, after a life like that, he’d get terribly bored.
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Ben backs Dons' progress
Ben Reeves feels MK Dons are heading in the right direction despite Saturday’s defeat at in-form Millwall.
Reeves & Co have progressed up the Sky Bet League One table in recent months, collecting points from 12 out of a possible 17 fixtures - seven of which have been wins.
His goal late in the first half looked to have secured his side at least a point from the fixture at The Den but Lee Gregory’s penalty in stoppage-time saw the men from MK1 leave the capital empty-handed.
“Of course we’re frustrated,” the midfielder told MK Dons PlayerHD. “It’s hard to take when you don’t get the result you deserve.
“I felt it was a good performance from us, in a scrappy game. Nobody really had too many clear-cut chances but I felt we got ourselves into better positions –we maybe even deserved more than a point.
“I felt they got lucky with a few decisions –the penalty was questionable. That tends to happen (at The Den) because the crowd play a good part.”
Despite the defeat, it was another positive performance from the Dons, who really appear to have turned a corner since the turn of the year – Reeves agrees.
“We’re getting better as a team. I don’t think there’s ever really been a problem with us going forward and teams can’t counter-attack on us anymore like they used to.
“I’m sure we’ll keep improving.”
The Dons will look to get back to winning ways this weekend when they entertain Rochdale at Stadium MK.
Reeves and his team-mates have won six of their last eight matches in Milton Keynes and the 25-year-old fully expects the team to give everything they’ve got to secure the three points.
“Every game from now until the end of the season, we’ve got to push and try to get every point that’s up for grabs,” Reeves said.
“We’re looking forward to the next game where three points would be important.”
Next up for the Dons is Saturday's Family Fun Day clash with Rochdale - don't miss the popular event! Activities get underway from midday, tickets start from just £1 for U18s and £12 for adults - click here, call 0333 200 5343 or visit Stadium MK/kiosk at centre:mk in person.
Report: Peterborough United 3-0 MK Dons
MK Dons fell to defeat in their first Sky Bet League One encounter of 2021, losing 3-0 to Peterborough United at the Weston Homes Stadium.
Report: Northampton 0-2 MK Dons
A Stephen Walker brace was enough to see MK Dons progress into the Quarter-Final stages of the Papa John's Trophy.
Report: Burnley 1-1 MK Dons (4-3 pens)
MK Dons bowed out of the Emirates FA Cup with their heads held high, after a penalty shoot-out defeat to Premier League Burnley at Turf Moor.
Report: Swindon Town 1-4 MK Dons
MK Dons made it back-to-back wins to end 2020, courtesy of a dominant 4-1 victory over Swindon Town at the Energy Check County Ground.
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The MCBA Prize is the first honor to recognize and promote excellence in new work from across the expressive spectrum of book art. Established in 2009, this biennial award is meant to represent the diversity of book art and encourage discussion rather than limit recognition to any one aspect of this vital field. Book art, broadly defined, includes work that embodies narrative, instruction, reference, mapping, guides, documentation, and more. It is work that engages the viewer and propels the experience forward through narrative, sequencing, spatial elements, visual or verbal language, temporal, mechanical, aural, typographic, symbolic or material means.
Forms, processes, traditions and approaches are open. Work may include unique book objects, altered books, graphic novels, ‘zines, concrete poetry, conceptual, visual and literary works. Processes may include any printing or printmaking methods such as photo-mechanical, hand-worked, analog/digital, relief printmaking, letterpress, intaglio, and screen-printing, as well as hand-lettering. Works may be in edition or unique. The finished work can depart from a bound book format to engage metaphors of the book in sculpture or installation. Work can be created collaboratively, but ultimately must result from an artist or artists’ vision and active participation.
In each biennial competition, integrity — a unity of form, materials and content that reflects an artist’s vision — will be a determining criteria in the winning works. The primary impetus for the creation of the work must come from the vision of the artist or artistic collaborators. Related works on paper (broadsides, prints, photographic portfolios), journals or diaries, scrapbooks and blank books will not be considered for the award, nor will video or film unless it is integral to an installation that embodies the qualities described above.
Work is judged by a jury of three experts in the field representing a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives. The jury is charged with narrowing the submissions to five finalists; of these finalists, one winner is then selected.
See below for past finalists and winners:
The MCBA Prize 2017
Tim Hopkins(London, United Kingdom), The Book of Disquiet
Ellen Knudson (Gainesville, Florida), Ingress/Egress
Hannah Batsel (Chicago, IL), Maneater
Ines von Ketelhodt (Flörsheim, Germany), Alpha Beta
Nader Koochaki (Beasain, Guipúzcoa, Spain), Soineko Paisaia / Dorsal Landscape 2009-2015
Jurors’ Special Recognitions of Merit:
Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner (Rosendale, New York), The Golden Rule
Christine McCauley (London, United Kingdom), Mist
Sue Huggins Leopard (Rochester, New York), This Past Winter
Jurors:
Simon Goode, co-founder of London Centre for Book Arts;
Steven Daiber, of Red Trillium Press / Aqui en la lucha in Massachusetts;
Karen Kunc, of Constellation Studios and Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Ken Botnick (St Louis, Missouri), Diderot Project
Sarah Bryant (East Sussex, UK) and David Allen (Middlebury, VT), Figure Study
Casey Gardner (Berkeley, CA), Matter, Antimatter, and So Forth
Sara Langworthy (Iowa City, Iowa), On Physical Lines
Robin Price (Middletown, CT), Love in the Time of War
Rhiannon Alpers (San Francisco, CA), Remnants
Candace Hicks (Nacogdoches, TX), String Theory: Volume III
Gabriella Solti (London, Ontario, Canada), The Book of Hours
Aaron Cohick, founder and proprietor of the NewLights Press, and Printer of The Press at Colorado College;
Daniel E. Kelm, book artist, and founder of the Garage Annex School for Book Arts;
Jae Jennifer Rossman, Assistant Director for Special Collections at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University
Clifton Meador (Chicago, Illinois), A Repeated Misunderstanding of Nature
Amy Borezo (Orange, Massachusetts), Labor/Movement (seven workers)
Inge Bruggeman (Portland, Oregon), the infinite between us
Aaron Cohick / NewLights Press (Colorado Springs, Colorado), What You Will
Barbara Tetenbaum (Portland, Oregon) and Julie Chen (Berkeley, California), Glimpse
Maureen Cummins (High Falls, New York), Accounting
Marlene MacCallum (Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), Glaze: Reveal and Veiled
Heidi Neilson (Long Island City, New York), Atlas Dream Sequence
Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow for Artists’ Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), University of the West of England;
Sandra Kroupa, Curator of Book Arts and Rare Books at the University of Washington Libraries;
Buzz Spector, book, installation and mixed media artist, and Dean of the College and Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sarah Bryant (Aurora, New York), Biography
Julie Chen (Berkeley, California), A Guide to Higher Learning
Brad Freeman (Chicago, Illinois), Wrong Size Fits All
Peter Malutzki (Florsheim am Main, Germany), Stundenbuch
Ines von Ketelhodt (Florsheim am Main, Germany), Die bessere Hälfte
Honorable Mention:
François Deschamps (New Paltz, New York), Drone/1,2,3
Ann Lovett (New Paltz, New York), Glass House
Veronika Schäpers (Tokyo, Japan), Yoko Tawada: Okonomiyaki
AnneDorothee “Doro” Boehme, Curator and Special Collections Librarian, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Barbara Tetenbaum, Associate Professor and Head of the Book Arts Department, Oregon College of Art and Craft
Philip B. Zimmermann, Professor of Visual Communications, College of Fine Arts of the University of Arizona
Veronika Schäpers (Tokyo, Japan), Durs Grünbein: 26°57,3’N, 142º16,8’E
Julie Chen (Berkley, California), Panorama
Clifton Meador (Chicago, Illinois), Avalanche
Jan Owen (Belfast, Maine), Requiem
Simon Redington (London, U.K.), Bomb
Scott McCarney, Artist, designer and educator
John Risseeuw, Artist and Professor, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
Ruth Rogers, Curator of Special Collections, Wellesley College Clapp Library
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Obama addresses war on terror: 'Freedom is more powerful than fear'
Obama: We are 'confronted by a cancer'
Dec. 7, 201513:01
Dec. 7, 2015, 1:17 AM UTC / Updated Dec. 7, 2015, 1:17 AM UTC
By Tim Stelloh and M. Johnson
In only his third address to the nation from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama reassured Americans on Sunday night that the United States is equipped to meet the dangerous and "evolving" threat of terrorism.
As U.S. and other Western responses have gained ground against organized, wide-scale terrorist attacks, "growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds" of home-grown attackers are evolving, the president said.
"As a father to two young daughters who are the most precious part of my life, I know that we see ourselves with friends and co-workers at a holiday party like the one in San Bernardino. I know we see our kids in the faces of the young people killed in Paris," Obama said.
"And I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure," he said, before answering: "The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it."
The president offered no new details on the investigation into the San Bernardino attack, saying that "so far, we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home."
Instead, Obama compared the mass killing to attacks in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Fort Hood, Texas; and Boston, where, he said, "terrorists turned to less complicated acts of violence" and where the Internet erased "the distance between countries."
Outlining the U.S. strategy against ISIS, which Obama described as a "cult of death" that "does not speak for Islam," the president cautioned against a "costly ground war," which he said would serve only as a recruitment tool.
"That's what groups like [ISIS] want," he said.
Obama said the United States and its allies would continue disrupting plots, targeting terrorist infrastructure and finances, and providing training and equipment to Iraqi and Syrian fighters. He said he would also pursue a cease-fire agreement in Syria, which would allow for a "common goal" between the United States and Russia to pursue ISIS.
At home, Obama said, the State and Homeland Security departments will review the visa program that allowed Tashfeen Malik — who with her husband carried out the San Bernardino attack — into the country to determine whether stronger screening is needed.
Obama also made a pitch for gun control, saying it "should be more difficult" to buy high-powered assault-style rifles — like those used in last week's attack — and that people on no-fly lists shouldn't be allowed to buy guns.
"What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon?" he said. "This is a matter of national security."
Obama's remarks came amid an acrimonious political campaign that has seen Republican presidential contenders blast him over his handling of groups like ISIS.
On NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Lindsey Graham said the president had been "overwhelmed by radical Islam," while Donald Trump suggested to the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington last week that "there was something going on" with Obama because he refused to use the term "radical Islamic terrorism," according to The Hill newspaper.
President Obama has finally been forced to abandon the political fantasy he has perpetuated for years that the threat of...
Posted by Jeb Bush on Sunday, December 6, 2015
Obama's address appeared to do little to persuade his Republican critics. On Twitter, Trump grumbled that the president still "refused to say (he just can't say it), that we are at WAR with RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS."
Well, Obama refused to say (he just can't say it), that we are at WAR with RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS.
In a statement, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was a little more measured, saying:
"The path laid out by President Obama and supported by Hillary Clinton has not worked, and ISIS has only gained in strength. The attacks in San Bernardino should serve as a wake-up call for Obama and Clinton that the way to victory is not through the status quo but refocusing our efforts to defeat ISIS."
Obama has rarely used the Oval Office — the most symbolic representation of his authority — to speak to the nation. He announced the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq from there in August 2010, and two months before that, he laid out his plans to secure American energy after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A senior administration official said that after the Paris terrorist attacks last month, followed by numerous thwarted ISIS plots and then the San Bernardino shootings, Obama decided he needed to address "the significant concerns and very real and legitimate fears in the United States and around the world."
The choice of the Oval Office for Sunday night's address reflected "the seriousness with which we are taking the issue," the official said. At the same time, the address was meant to "step back and provide context for people," not to announce new policies or strategies, the official said.
Obama referred to history in reinforcing the message Sunday night:
"Let's not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear, that we have always met challenges — whether war or depression, natural disasters or terrorist attacks — by coming together around our common ideals as one nation, as one people," he said. "So long as we stay true to that tradition, I have no doubt America will prevail."
Cris Jansing and Andrea Mitchell contributed reporting to this article. It originally appeared on NBC News.com
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Gov. Nikki Haley Just Called on South Carolina to Take Down the Confederate Flag
By Gregory Krieg
After five days of hesitation and confusion following the Charleston church massacre, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, called on Monday for the Confederate battle flag to be removed from the state capitol grounds in Columbia.
"It's time to move the flag," Haley said, to applause from the crowd gathered for her press conference. "That flag, though an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state."
Earlier in her remarks, Haley acknowledged the flag was, to many, "a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past." Haley also assured its defenders that she only opposed the symbol's presence in this particular public space.
"To those who wish to show their respect for the flag in their private property, no one will stand in your way," she said. "But the statehouse is different."
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The background: Calls to bring down the flag have grown as the public learned more about the fatal shooting of nine black men and women by a 21-year-old white suspect during a Wednesday night Bible study session inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The alleged gunman, Dylann Roof, published a racist manifesto online before the killings.
Segregationist Democratic Gov. Fritz Hollings first raised the flag over the Capitol in 1962. It wasn't until 2000 that business leaders and civil rights activists came together, lobbying for weeks and organizing a march of 46,000 protesters in order to have it moved. State legislators reached a compromise that affixed a smaller version of the flag over a memorial to Confederate war dead, but mandated that two-thirds of the legislature must agree to any future changes in how — or if — it is displayed.
South Carolina Republican Sens. Tim Scott, who is black, and Lindsey Graham, a GOP presidential candidate, were by Haley's side as she called for the flag's removal. Scott had been mostly quiet on the question until Monday, first saying he would wait until after the slain churchgoers were buried to give his opinion publicly.
Graham has been less circumspect, but no more clear. On Friday, he told CNN, "We're not going to give [the alleged killer] an excuse about a book he might have read or a movie he watched or a song he listened to or a symbol out anywhere. It's him, not the flag."
Graham issued a statement after Monday's press conference, explicitly calling for the flag's removal.
"Today, I am urging that the Confederate Battle Flag be removed from statehouse grounds to an appropriate location," he said. "After the tragic, hate-filled shooting in Charleston, it is only appropriate that we deal once and for all with the issue of the flag."
This wave of top state Republicans will join a number of prominent state legislators from their own party, notably including state Rep. Norman Brannon, a friend of state Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was among those killed at AME Emanuel.
Brannon explained his decision on Sunday.
"What lit the fire under this was the tragic death of my friend and his eight parishioners," Brannon told the New York Times. "It took my buddy's death to get me to do this. I should feel ashamed of myself."
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Behind the scenes with Thom Richard and the team at Warbird Adventures of Kissimmee, Florida as they prepare their P-51 racing Mustang "Precious Metal" for the 2013 50th Anniversary Reno Air Races. The all-volunteer team of pilots, engineers, & mechanics put in over 7,000 man hours over the course of the year to prepare Precious for the fastest motorsports race in the world. Precious Metal is a true one-of-a-kind, the world's only Rolls Royce Griffon powered P-51 Mustang. These images do not do justice to their dedication, long hours, tireless effort, blood, sweat, and tears, but gives the viewer a rare look at some of the folks who keep Thom & his bird in the air year after year. Unfortunately I could not follow with the team to Reno this year due to other commitments I had back in Florida at the same time as the races.
Check out the official Precious Metal Fan Page on Facebook!
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Precious-Metal-Air-Racing-Fan-Page
All photos © copyright 2013 Mike Killian Photography, all rights reserved.
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A startup accelerator for social good.
On a normal day I work with a variety of startups, especially in the fintech, enterprise technology and health tech spaces.
It is an amazing and exhilarating experience. But recently I had the pleasure to work as a mentor with Venturetec, mentoring a group of inspiring UNSW students from the Australian Graduate School of Management who are striving to win the Hult Prize.
The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator with a major difference. It’s a startup accelerator for social good and it’s the world’s largest student competition.
From the 25,000 global applications received from 500 colleges and more than 150 countries this year, 300 will compete in five cities around the world for a chance to win one of six places to pitch in the finals to secure US$1 million in startup funding.
This is all about social entrepreneurship; bringing together college and university students from around the world to identify and launch disruptive and catalytic social ventures that aim to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
It’s a joint initiative by Hult University and the Clinton Global Institute. Bill Clinton set this year’s challenge to double the income of 10 million people living in crowded urban spaces and will be on stage to present the award.
The judging panel includes some heavy hitters, such as past Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus.
Speak Up, Believe in Yourselves, Take Risks.
Introducing Bobbin
Bobbin (formerly solarweavers), comprising Ben Pask, Shalendra Ranasinghe, Lisa Shannon and Dimitry Tran, are the AGSM (UNSW) Hult Prize Finalists that are on their way to London for the Regional Finals in March.
The objective of Bobbin is to connect women in urban slums to a source of sustainable income. There is technology involved in their social enterprise, but this is not your usual high tech.It includes a solar panel (low power), sewing machines (low tech) and a cell phone for connectivity.
Their solution includes micro-financing but they are also exploring micro peer-to-peer lending.
Bobbin’s customers will be able to sew clothes from raw materials sourced locally, with sales into existing marketplaces and a new online solution.
I asked Trey Zagante, Venturetec CEO, to comment on why he was working with Bobbin, which is a departure from his normal enterprisetech focus:
"We chose to sponsor the Hult Prize @ UNSW to support social entrepreneurs who are driven to make a positive social impact that could potentially change the lives of tens millions people,” he said.
“The Bobbin team have really embraced the lean startup approach of Venturetec’s incubation program, and they’ll be going into the regional finals having rigorously tested and validated their business model”
A new online marketplace
This is about setting up a new marketplace in a country where online is not that commonplace.The product to be sold will be items of clothes. The phone’s camera will be used to snap the item, which will then be placed onto a new online marketplace.
Bobbin has partnered with technology provider Arcadier to develop their marketplace. At first I was surprised that Arcadier, which operates in advanced next-generation marketplaces, would be able to service outside of their comfort zone, but they are clearly comfortable in the social enterprise space, which can require less sophisticated technology.
Clearly there is a major assumption around when a tipping point that will see a move from 2G phones and increasing availability of smartphones. In developing world countries we are starting to see rapid adoption of cheap Android-based handsets.
Bobbin’s other partner is Barefoot Power, which deploys solar panels and has a great existing penetration of markets in countries like Kenya.They are also in talks with the Kenyan Federation of Women Entrepreneurs.
A startup empowering women
There is an underlying belief that education is the answer to breaking the poverty cycle.
The stated goal of Bobbin is to double the income of people living in crowded urban spaces. Bobbin is focused on helping women who are on home care duties with few prospects of working outside of the home to generate an income.
“Empowering women may be the single most poverty reducing factor in developing economies which can lead to significant macroeconomic gains.It is shown that women are also more likely than men to invest more of their income into their children’s education,” says Lisa Shannon.
The model is deliberately simple to ensure that it will work. They create a small craft industry for eight women to work in a sewing circle, with a leader to use phone to manage logistics and sell in the marketplace.
The provision of solar power to use the sewing machines also brings light and power for houses that would otherwise not have them. So the impact of this is remarkable.
It’s not technology; in actual fact, Bobbin’s secret sauce is ‘care’.
The secret sauce is Bobbin’s connection with community to enable the skills that already exist within these communities.It is also anticipated that when community pride is harnessed the default on microfinance loans will be minimal.
With care and connection, these small steps to create new work will start to change the world one solar panel and sewing machine at a time.
Disclaimer: Following article come from CW
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Home Top News TV depiction of revered Islamic figure causes stir
TV depiction of revered Islamic figure causes stir
CAIRO, July 23, 2012 (AFP)
A television series depicting a revered Islamic figure has caused a stir in the Arab world with thousands saying the show must be stopped because they believe such depictions are forbidden by Islam.
The historical drama, “Omar”, tells the story of Omar Ibn al-Khattab, a close companion of Prophet Mohammed and influential ruler who oversaw the radical expansion of the Islamic empire in the 7th century.
The show has been at the center of a controversy pitting Islamic conservatives against reformists.
The series is being aired during the holy month of Ramadan, when television viewing in the region peaks and advertisers pour large chunks of their budget into the small screen’s high season.
Saudi producers, the Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC), say it is the largest ever Arabic production, with 30,000 actors and a technical team from 10 different countries who toiled 300 days to make the 31-part series.
Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s main seat of learning based in Cairo, has issued a fatwa against the series saying that portrayals of Prophet Mohammed and his companions are forbidden.
Saudi Arabia’s Dar al-Ifta, the kingdom’s Islamic legal research center that issues religious edicts, has echoed the view.
Although visual depictions are not explicitly banned in the Koran, Sunni scholars have generally agreed that personifications of religious figures are banned because it can lead to idolatry, which is strictly forbidden.
Thousands have taken to social networking sites to denounce the series and call for it to be pulled off the air.
“The symbols of the Ummah (nation) are a red line,” said one Facebook user on a page called “No to airing Omar.”
The actors “will tarnish the image (of the prophets and companions) through their roles in other films and series and plays,” another said.
One page showed the actors’ faces with the text “Shame on Muslims! underneath in a large red font.
But the show’s producers say they received support from several leading clerics who also reviewed the historical accuracy of the series, including prominent Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi.
Egyptian television critic Tarek al-Shennawi says the presentation of Omar by a Saudi production company signals a defeat of official Islamic institutions like Al-Azhar and the Saudi Dar al-Ifta.
“Many of these institutions are stuck on their old positions, while other institutions have long ago approved such depictions,” he told AFP.
“In Islam, there is no sanctification, and presenting these figures (on-screen) is in line with that. It promotes a discussion of these figures, their religious and historical roles… which works towards intellectual development,” said Sanaa Hashem, associate professor at Cairo’s cinema
institute.
Omar Ibn al-Khattab was the second Caliph of Islam and one of the 10 close companions of Prophet Mohammed who were promised paradise, and was instrumental in the spread of Islam.
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Seaside Repertory Theatre
By Sam Sheppard
With Craige Hoover & Sean Sutherland
Directed by Mark Robinson
Photos by Jill Stapleton
Sam Shepard's play writing career-began in the mid-1960s when his often bizarre anti-realistic plays were produced in experimental off-off-Broadway theatres such as La Mama and Theatre Genesis at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. The launching of Shepard's play writing career is generally attributed to a 1967 review by Michael Smith in the Village Voice. Smith's enthusiastic appraisal of the first two of Shepard's early plays - Cowboys and The Rock Garden (both 1994) -- brought the playwright to the attention of mainstream critics and audiences. By 1976, Shepard had more than thirty of these mostly one-act plays to his credit and had become an established cult figure.
With Curse of the Starving Class (1977) and Buried Child (1978), Shepard began producing what are now considered his major plays, works defined by a clear focus on such topics as dysfunctional families and social fringe dwellers. These plays, in contrast to his earlier work also display a more conventional approach to plot and character. His popularity broadened and by the time True West appeared in 1980, many critics felt that Shepard was at the forefront of new American playwrights and, along with other dramatists such as David Mamet and Beth Henley, was defining a new decade of theatre.
While True West represents a continued movement in Shepard's drama toward realistic characterization, plot, setting, and dialogue, the play also has touchstones in his experimental days, retaining a number of. unusual, fantastical elements -- such as the grotesque violence and the startling transformations of its two main characters. Some commentators refer to these later plays as examples of “magical realism” because they begin with realistic characters and situations but gradually acquire more bizarre qualities until they finally seem to fuse realism and fantasy. In many circles True West was hailed as a breakthrough for Shepard, a work in which experimental drama was successfully melded with the more conventional elements of modern theatre. Though True West is one of Shepard's most accessible dramas, it retains the unmistakable signature of his earlier adventurous work.
-- Adapted from Richard Gilman's introduction to the anthology Sam Shepard : Seven Plays
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CHURCH LANE, STALLINGBOROUGH, GRIMSBY £95,000
MARTIN MASLIN ESTATE AGENTS ARE DELIGHTED TO OFFER A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE AN INDIVIDUAL PARCEL OF LAND TO ERECT ONE DWELLING WITH OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION
The land is approached from an existing shared driveway situated to the right hand side of 'Wayside' 16 Church Lane and will be accessed through gates onto a grassed building plot with some timber sheds forming part of the rear garden to the bungalow. Part of the site to the rear has some established trees which provides a pleasant backdrop for the discerning purchaser wishing to design their own dream home without builder ties.
The site is approximately 28.04m (92'0') x 17.07m (56'0'), 0.118 of an acre and is located to the rear of 'Wayside', 16 Church Lane. Stallingborough is a popular village on the B1210 providing easy access for the M180. The village lies 8 miles North...
CHURCH LANE, STALLINGBOROUGH, GRIMSBY
The site is approximately 28.04m (92'0') x 17.07m (56'0'), 0.118 of an acre and is located to the rear of 'Wayside', 16 Church Lane. Stallingborough is a popular village on the B1210 providing easy access for the M180. The village lies 8 miles North West of Grimsby and provides a regular bus service to the neighbouring towns and villages. It has a Train Station, a local Public House (Green Man), a village store and a primary school whilst being in the catchment for The Healing Science Academy for 12-16 year olds.
The site is Freehold - subject to Solicitors verification.
Outline Planning Permission was granted on the 25th February 2020 to erect one dwelling. The North East Lincolnshire Council planning application reference number is DM/0176/20/OUT and a copy of the decision notice is available on request from the vendors agents.
There are no services connected to the property although we understand they are available in the general area.
CONSTRUCTION AND PROCEDURE
The land is offered without builders ties and it will be the responsibility of the purchaser to erect feather edge fencing and comply with the conditions attached to the planning approval, to provide and/or connect the necessary services and apply for and secure all further permissions required. The property is offered for sale with Outline Planning Permission already granted with an illustrative layout. Any purchaser should be advised that a written scheme of investigation for Archaeological works will be required as part of any future detailed planning application. This will be the responsibility of the new purchasers. These quotations can be obtained via Ross Davy for this specialist work. Any potential purchaser wishing to make their purchase conditional upon the granting of an alternative or detailed planning permission should make this clear at an early stage.
DESIGN AND PLANNING CONSULTANTS
Mr Alan Scoffin
Ross Davy Associates
Pelham House, 1 Grosvenor Street
DN32 0QH
The illustrative design and layout have been produced by Ross Davy and would be more than happy to assist any potential buyers with further proposals leading to a full planning application.
By appointment through the Agents on Grimsby 311000.
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WATCH: What to expect at this year’s Broadbeach Country Music Festival
July 27, 2017 8:59 am in Entertainment, The Loop Lead by Carla Tooma
It’s time to start polishing off your boots and pulling out the akubra, because this weekend the Broadbeach Country Music Festival rides into town.
Streets, parks, bars and restaurants in Broadbeach will come alive with country tunes this Friday to Sunday, with some incredible acts set to perform for FREE.
Locals will be able to enjoy live performances by some of the best country music stars in the world, including international band ‘America’, Kasey Chambers and Troy Cassar-Daley to name a few.
Troy Cassar-Daley told myGC he loves performing at the event. “Other than the fact that it is free, I really love the spirit that gets going around Broadbeach. You can sit down for a nice meal and you’ve got live music blaring across a mall towards you,” he said.
CEO of Broadbeach Alliance Jan McCormick told myGC the festival is set to be bigger and better than ever before. “We have one of the best line-ups that a country music festival has had for a long time. We’ve got 12 stages operating, 110 hours of live music, 40 different acts – it’s going to be incredible.”
Get a taste of what you can expect at this year’s event by watching the video below:
For more information on the Broadbeach Country Music Festival, visit: broadbeachcountry.com/
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Carla Tooma
Carla is a full time journalist, presenter and announcer for 102.9 Hot Tomato and myGC.com.au, joining the team towards the end of 2011. When she is isn’t busy presenting all of myGC’s videos, bringing you the latest news or chatting live on air, Carla will often be found scoping out the hottest local events. Carla holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Bond University, where she graduated with number of First in Class and Dean’s List of Academic Excellence awards. Carla is also a well-regarded MC, singer and actor. Some of her credits include hosting the Australia’s Next Top Model Queensland Auditions for Foxtel, guest starring on Toybox for Channel Seven, and performing as Mrs Banks in The Arts Centre Gold Coast’s production of Mary Poppins.
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Uphold the three cardinal purposes of the Evangelical Church – Founders of New Life College to management
Source: Martina Bugri
11 September 2020 6:13am
The Founders of the New Life College and Evangelical Church of Ghana (ECG) School Complex, Rev Joshua and Caterina Siu have urged the new management of the institution to continue to uphold the three cardinal purposes of the Evangelical Church.
This, they said when successfully done will sustain the growth of the institution.
The couple made this call at the handing over ceremony of the New Life College and ECG school complex by the Worldwide Evangelization for Christ (WEC) Mission International to the Evangelical Church of Ghana.
Speaking on the sidelines of the ceremony, Rev Joshua and Mrs Caterina Siu said they decided to establish the institution in the region because of the disparity between the North and South in terms of education when they arrived into the country 30 years ago.
They said most people in the region lacked the fundamentals of education as compared to those in the south, therefore in 1995 they decided to establish the institution to help bridge the gap between the north and south.
They mentioned the provision of quality educational services for academic excellence, character development and ministering to the spiritual needs of individuals who go through the ECG educational system as the three cardinal purposes of the church.
According to them, it was also their hope to reduce the rural-urban migration of most northern youth who travel to the south for a better life. The couple said they chose education above others because they believe with education, other abilities can be achieved.
WEC International is an interdenominational missionary organization whose core mandate is to bring the gospel to the remaining un-evangelized people with the utmost urgency, to demonstrate the compassion of Christ to a needy world, and to inspire, mobilize and train for cross-cultural mission.
The General Secretary of the ECG, Rev Francis M. Zakaria said the New Life College and ECG school complex are among the significant contributions of WEC Mission International to the development of ECG and the country as a whole.
He also mentioned facilities in Kpandai and Koni, church planting activities across the country, construction of some church buildings in the Bolgatanga District and the facelift of the Conference and Training Centre facility in Nyankpala among others.
The Principal of New Life College Rev. Dr Daniel Gbande said the institution is made up of a creche, Primary, Junior High School and a College, with a total student population of 856.
He said the college currently has a student population of 262, with 15 teaching and non-teaching staff and run a diploma in the computer science program.
Rev Daniel Gbande said the school will in the next academic year introduce a registered midwifery course with the hope of attaining university status in the future.
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Correlates of Successful Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare Management: Clinician-driven Treatment, Home-based Strategies, and Medication Change.
Mahmoud, Taysir G1, 2
Huang, Jie3, 4
Frits, Michelle3, 4
Iannaccone, Christine3, 4
Bykerk, Vivian3, 4
Bingham, Clifton O 3rd3, 4
Weinblatt, Michael3, 4
Shadick, Nancy A3, 4
1 From the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York; Division of Rheumatology and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. [email protected]
2 T.G. Mahmoud, BA, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; J. Huang, MS, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; M. Frits, BA, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; C. Iannaccone, MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; V. Bykerk, MD, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery; C.O. Bingham III, MD, Division of Rheumatology and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; M. Weinblatt, MD, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; N.A. Shadick, MD, MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. [email protected]
3 From the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York; Division of Rheumatology and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
4 T.G. Mahmoud, BA, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; J. Huang, MS, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; M. Frits, BA, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; C. Iannaccone, MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; V. Bykerk, MD, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery; C.O. Bingham III, MD, Division of Rheumatology and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; M. Weinblatt, MD, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; N.A. Shadick, MD, MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.181160
Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
Describe strategies used to manage rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flares that contribute to a successful postflare outcome. Data were collected from the BRASS registry, including clinical and patient-reported outcomes, and a survey with a Likert scale assessing postflare symptoms (better, unchanged, or worse). A logistic regression analysis adjusting for age, sex, flare number in the past 6 months, flare pain severity, home management, clinical consultation, and medication change was performed to evaluate factors influencing flare outcome. Of 503 participants, 185 reported at least 1 flare that had resolved in the past 6 months, with median (interquartile range) 28-joint count Disease Activity Score based on C-reactive protein 3 score 2.1 (1.7-2.8). Compared with RA symptoms before the flare, 22 (12%) patients felt worse, 125 (68%) were unchanged, and 38 (20%) felt better. To manage flares, 72% of patients used home-based remedies, 23% sought clinical consultation, and 56% made medication change. Of 103 patients who changed medication, 70% did so without seeking clinical advice. Making a medication change (OR 3.48, 95% CI 1.68-7.21) and having lower flare pain (OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.71-0.97) were associated with better flare outcome. Flares occur frequently even in patients with low disease activity. Independent of home-based or clinically guided care, making a medication change and having less severe pain during a flare were associated with better flare outcomes. Of interest, the decision to change medications was frequently made without clinical advice. Future studies might address how best to intervene when patients experience flares and whether patient-initiated medication changes have adverse outcomes.
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This record was last updated on 01/04/2021 and may not reflect the most current and accurate biomedical/scientific data available from NLM. The corresponding record at NLM can be accessed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31203222
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Babies with bronchiolitis benefit from new oxygen therapy
A new therapy to help infants with acute respiratory infection will prevent thousands of infants with bronchiolitis from requiring escalation of care when admitted to hospital and save more than $200 million in hospital costs.
Bronchiolitis – caused by a viral infection in the lungs – is the most common reason for infants under 12 months to be admitted to hospital, with 10 per cent of them requiring intensive care.
Researchers at The University of Queensland Mater Research Institute (UQ-MRI) and Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital have developed high-flow oxygen therapy for children with bronchiolitis.
A study of 1472 infants with bronchiolitis across 17 hospitals in Australia and New Zealand found high-flow oxygen therapy reduced the need for further increased hospital care by 50 per cent.
UQ-MRI PhD student Donna Franklin said the study would change standard practice for caring and managing infants with bronchiolitis.
“This study found that a therapy which was previously reserved for intensive care units could be delivered safely in emergency departments and on general paediatric wards in a hospital,” Ms Franklin said.
“This will reduce the number of infants and their families from regional areas who need to be relocated to one of the major cities for the duration of their illness.
“Relocating a family means they are unfamiliar with their surrounds and don’t have access to their usual support network.
“Introducing high-flow oxygen therapy early in the illness means we can keep children in their own community hospitals, reducing the impact on the child and the family.”
High-flow nasal oxygen therapy works by delivering a higher volume of air and oxygen into the nasal passages to improve breathing.
(Source: University of Queensland, New England Journal of Medicine)
Posted On: 7 May, 2018
Modified On: 27 April, 2018
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We End 2010 on a Sad Note and A Holiday Wish
Changes at the National Alliance of Families…. The National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing of…. Is DPMO About to Make a Move on the Joint Commission Support Directorate (JCSD)…. The National Alliance Strenuously Objects…. Foreign Press Reports on POW Bowe Bergdahl…. MIA Issue Aided U.S.-Vietnam Relationship, Gates Says..... How Can Vietnam be "Fully Cooperating" on the POW/MIA Issue.... Israel Traded 52 Prisoners for Missing Airman's Gun…. We Won't Trade for a POW….. China Returns Escaped South Korean POW to North Korea…. Remember our POWs in Iraq and Afghanistan….. Please Note Our New Mailing Address….
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National Alliance of Families mourns the passing of..... Get Well Wishes to….. Book Corner - Beyond the Killing Fields by Sydney H. Schanberg and "Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from my BBQ Shack in Hackensack," by Bobby Egan and Kurt Pitzer…. The Deafening Silence…. BRAVO - Special Ops Team Defies Orders to Abandon Two of Its Own…. When Will They Ever Learn....? H.Res 111 Update... Look Who Is A POW.... Look Who Is Not A POW…. National Alliance of Families 21st Annual Forum
Your Help Urgently Needed... New Video of POW Bowe Bergdahl... Remains of Korean War POWs and MIAs Pawn in U.S./North Korean Negotiations.... South Korean POWs Still Held in North Korea.... Blast from the Past.... H.Res 111 Update…. National Alliance of Families 21st Annual Forum…...
The National Alliance of Families Mourns the Passing Of…. Tourison Wasn't The Only One…. Tourison and Lang Weren't the Only Ones…. Tourison, Lang and Kravitz Weren't the Only Ones…. H.Res 111 Update…. Where is Capt. Ara Mooradian ….. National Alliance of Families 21st Annual Forum…...
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Male contraceptive injection works – but side effects halt trial
Health 27 October 2016
By New Scientist and Press Association
The male contraceptive is administered as a jab
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An injected male contraceptive has been shown to be almost 100 per cent effective in a trial involving 320 men.
The hormone-based jab is designed to lower sperm counts by acting on the brain’s pituitary gland.
Over a year-long trial, the injection was effective in nearly 96 per cent of couples. However, researchers said more work was needed to address the treatment’s reported side effects, which included depression and other mood disorders, muscle pain, acne and increased libido.
The side effects caused 20 men to drop out of the trial. There was one case of depression, one intentional paracetamol overdose, and one case of an irregular heart rate – all judged as being possibly related to the injection.
The trial was eventually discontinued after an external panel of reviewers concluded that the risks to the study participants outweighed the potential benefits. Nevertheless, more than 75 per cent of men in the trial said they were satisfied with the injection and would continue to use it if it were available.
Mario Festin, from the World Health Organization said: “The study found it is possible to have a hormonal contraceptive for men that reduces the risk of unplanned pregnancies in the partners of men who use it.”
The injections contained a long-acting form of progestogen, a hormone that has the effect of blocking sperm production controlled by the pituitary gland. Testosterone was added to counter-balance reductions in levels of the male hormone resulting from the treatment.
After an initial period during which couples used both the injections and other birth control methods, the men entered the study’s “efficacy phase” and relied on the jabs alone.
Side effect concern
Throughout the efficacy phase, which lasted up to a year, the men were given injections every two months. During this time four pregnancies occurred among the partners of 266 participants – a rate of 1.57 per 100 users. The combined contraceptive pill, for comparison, has a rate of less than 1 pregnancy per 100 women who use it.
“More research is needed to advance this concept to the point that it can be made widely available to men as a method of contraception,” says Festin. “Although the injections were effective in reducing the rate of pregnancy, the combination of hormones needs to be studied more to consider a good balance between efficacy and safety.”
Chris Barratt, professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Dundee, said: “This is high-quality research from a very experienced group of investigators, and as there has been no progress in male contraceptives for 40-plus years this is a very significant and welcome development.”
Leading fertility expert Allan Pacey, from the University of Sheffield, said the evidence showed the injections to be “extremely effective” but he was concerned about the side effects. “For a male contraceptive to be accepted by men (or women) then it has to be well tolerated and not cause further problems. For me, this is the major concern of this study.”
Journal reference: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, DOI: 10.1210/jc.2016-2141
Magazine issue 3098 , published 5 November 2016
Super-cold winters in the UK and US are due to Arctic warming
Pirate party prepares for first major win in Iceland elections
A series of jokes that work best out of order
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Second Dallas Cowboys Player In DWI Accident In Two Months
February 1, 2013 | Mark Siesel
For the second month in a row, a Dallas Cowboys lineman was charged in a DWI accident case. On January 22nd, defensive lineman Jay Ratliff was driving his 2011 Ford pickup truck in Grapevine, Texas, when he apparently struck a semitrailer truck as he was changing lanes. Ratliff’s truck then turned sideways and struck a median before coming to a stop. Neither Mr. Ratliff nor the driver of the semitrailer were injured.
Police claimed that Mr. Ratliff failed field sobriety tests at the scene. Reports from the arresting officer Eric Barch state that Ratliff had a “moderate odor” of alcohol on his breath and blood shot, watery eyes. Ratliff refused to take a chemical test of his blood, but the police obtained a warrant to do so. Purportedly, the blood test revealed a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.16%, which is twice the Texas limit (as it is in New York) of 0.08%.
Ratliff was charged with DWI. There was no report as to his Court date. Fortunately, there were no injuries in the Ratliff accident, but tragically, the same cannot be said for the December 8, 2012 accident involving Josh Brent. Brent, a 24 year old nose tackle, was behind the wheel with his friend, college teammate and Cowboys practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown, when he lost control of his 2007 Mercedes S60 on Highway 114 in Irving Texas. Reports indicated that Brown was speeding, the vehicle stuck a curb, flipped several times, and skidded approximately 300 yards, the equivalent of 3 football fields.
When police arrived, Brent was pulling Brown out of the burning car. The two had been teammates for three years at the University of Illinois. Ironically, Brent pled guilty to a DUI in 2009 while in college. He was pulled over near the Illinois campus and arrested for DUI, driving with a suspended license, and speeding. He was sentenced to 60 days in prison, 200 hours of community service and two years probation. He was also ordered to attend a Victim’s Impact panel, which in New York is sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
All NFL players have a “safe ride program” service on their union card, by which they can be picked up anywhere in the United States or Canada for an hourly fee of $85.00. However, with the spate of recent drunk driving arrests of Michael Turner, David Diehl and Justin Blackmon, along with those of Brent and Ratliff, it appears that the players are not availing themselves of the service.
Brent was charged with one count of intoxication manslaughter, which is a second degree felony in Texas. If convicted, he could be sentenced to between 2 and 20 years in prison, a $10,000 fine and could also be sentenced to probation. He is free on bond of $100,000 and must wear an alcohol monitor.
Contact the Westchester County DWI lawyers online or toll free at 914-224-3086 if you are charged with a felony DWI, DWI under Leandra’s Law, a refusal to take a chemical test, or a traffic infraction, for a free initial consultation to discuss the specifics of your case and your rights and legal options.
Posted in: DWI In The News
Updated: February 1, 2013 3:47 pm
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Speedway going full throttle for 2018 season
By: Roger Amsden, Laconia Daily Sun
David McGrath, general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway, says that he and the staff at New England’s largest professional sports venue aren’t looking in the rear view mirror as the 2018 event season opens.
“We’re very focused on the events we’ll be hosting this year and maintaining the close relationships we have with our fans and the town of Loudon. We know how to host major events and make them enjoyable experiences. We’re a world class track and we’re engaged and hitting on all cylinders,” said McGrath.
He says NHMS moved quickly to fill in the hole left in its schedule by the loss of its September NASCAR race to its sister track in Las Vegas. This fall will mark the first time in 20 years that the track will have only one top-tier NASCAR race.
900 Degrees pizzeria to open in Portsmouth
By: SeacoastOnline.com
PORTSMOUTH -- 900 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria announced the opening of its newest restaurant in Portsmouth, marking the company’s third location in the state. The pizzeria at 2454 Lafayette Road is expected to open in the first week of May.
900 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria uses an authentic dough recipe and local, farm-fresh ingredients in a wood-fired brick oven. The restaurant embodies the rich tradition of true Neapolitan pizza making. In addition to pizza, menu offerings include appetizers, soups, fresh salads, house-made pasta dishes, sandwiches, desserts and more.
“I am excited and proud to open a third location in the incredible city of Portsmouth,” said owner Priscilla Lane Rondeau. “It has been my dream to bring 900 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria to the Seacoast of which I am so fond, and it is an honor to be a part of the city’s vibrant culinary culture.”
The Portsmouth location will offer a similar menu to its sister restaurants in Manchester and Epping. Guests can enjoy lunch, happy hour and dinner seven days a week and this location will also offer al fresco dining during warm weather months. Visit www.900degrees.com.
Read this article on seacoastonline.com.
The Carriage House in Rye reopens with new ownership
By KIMBERLEY HAAS
RYE — The Carriage House in Rye reopened this week with new owners.
The historic restaurant at 2263 Ocean Blvd., built in 1931, was sold to R.J. Joyce and James Woodhouse by longtime owner Paul Mackey when he retired earlier this year.
Renovations began in February after Joyce and Woohouse financed the purchase of the restaurant with a Small Business Administration loan from Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank.
Joyce and Woodhouse were forced to close Louie’s, an Italian restaurant in Portsmouth, last April because of damage from a fire at the neighboring State Street Saloon. The Carriage House marks the third restaurant for the duo, who have been best friends since high school. They greeted their first patrons at The Carriage House on Tuesday night.
The owners have been working to restore the two-story interior while adding some modern updates. The ground level was transformed into a light and bright space showcasing the beauty of Rye Beach across the road. The upstairs bar and dining room features new wood floors and steel gray walls where James Audubon’s “Birds of America” series is the focus. A wood-burning fireplace remains a cozy nook for a cocktail or dinner. Woodhouse said creating exceptional moments in hospitality is his team’s focus and that they hope to exceed everyone’s expectations.
Read more on the unionleader.com
L.L. Bean, Legal Seafoods among those eyeing Tuscan Village project, developer says
By MICHAEL COUSINEAU
SALEM — L.L. Bean, Legal Sea Foods and Boston Interiors are talking with the developer of Tuscan Village about possibly locating at the nearly $1 billion development.
“It gives New Hampshire a head start into creating its own economic bubble,” developer Joe Faro said during a tour of the site, in the shadow of the Mall at Rockingham Park.
The project, on the former Rockingham Park site, calls for 2.75 million square feet of new development on 170 acres, including 50 acres in North Tuscan Village.
It will create an estimated 6,000 jobs, Faro said.
Upward of 300 people are working on the site now, with 2,000 construction workers expected within the next year, said Faro, CEO of Tuscan Brands Development.
Faro, who lives in Hampton, said the property will produce $10 million in new property taxes yearly.
The first residents to move onto the property — in new apartments with a starting price of about $2,000 a month — are expected in August.
Read more www.unionleader.com
Lakes Region rest area proposed by builders of welcome centers in Hooksett
By JOHN KOZIOL
NEW HAMPTON — Alex Ray and Rusty McLear, the businessmen who built the New Hampshire welcome centers on Interstate 93 in Hooksett, are proposing a full-service rest area closer to their homes in the Lakes Region.
New Hampton Commons would be located on the north side of Route 104 in New Hampton. It would extend from just below the Exit 23 northbound onramp and stretch east to the current Irving gas station/Circle K convenience store, to which it would be linked by a connecting road.
Ray, who is the founder of the Common Man Family of Restaurants, and McLear, who developed the Inn at Mill Falls in Meredith as well as several other hotels in the town, said the proposal, which they presented to the NHDOT along with Brad Pernaw on Monday, is still in its earliest stages.
During a telephone interview, Ray said the idea for New Hampton Commons is something he’s had in mind for several years. In 2015 he presented a conceptual plan to both the New Hampton Planning Board and Board of Selectmen, said Town Administrator Barbara Lucas, with both boards responding positively and eager to learn more details.
At that time, however, Ray didn’t own the property that is crucial to his proposal — the historic Washington Mooney House, built circa 1796, that directly abuts the Exit 23 northbound onramp, and that until recently was owned by his longtime friends John and Nancy Conkling.
The plan is to move the house back away from Route 104 and to incorporate it into a development that Ray hopes will “look like a village after it’s done. I want it to be New Hampshire at its best.”
A rest area in New Hampton would serve travelers to both the Mount Washington Valley and the Lakes Region, he said, as well as those going west to Newfound Lake or simply north-south., and
“I like that corner,” Ray said of the parcel where the Washington Mooney House now sits, “and, frankly, I didn’t want to see the normal fast food place or another gas station on the highway.” Ray said he has been working with Irving, which operates the fuel concession at the Hooksett rest areas, on the New Hampton Commons project.
Subject to approval by Irving, he said a connector would be built between the gas station and the Commons, something which would reduce traffic from Route 104.
Situated on more than five acres, the Commons would feature a visitor’s center containing food, concessions and restrooms; four stand-alone buildings, three for retail and one that would sell ice cream; a courtyard; and a parking lot for RVs and 100 cars. A sketch submitted to the P3 Infrastructure Oversight Commission also shows what is described as a “future inn.”
Unlike the two Hooksett welcome centers, which each have a state liquor store, The proposed Commons would not contain a state liquor store, unlike the two Hookset welcome centers, although there is currently liquor store is less than a quarter mile east.
“I wanted the liquor store there,” said Ray, “but we could not move fast enough” before the state built its own.
Read on the www.unionleader.com
Restaurant owner teases redesign of former Shorty's on Route 101
BY: KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
BEDFORD — The owner of popular New Hampshire restaurants like T-Bones and the Copper Door promises to bring a “new restaurant concept” next year to the former location of Shorty’s Mexican Restaurant along Route 101 in Bedford.
Tom Boucher of Great NH Restaurants, owner and CEO of T-Bones, CJ’s, Cactus Jack’s and the Copper Door announced his plans for the site Monday night.
Boucher, a longtime Bedford resident, said he is confident his team at Great NH Restaurants knows what type of restaurant will thrive at the location — though he isn’t ready to share all the details just yet.
“We’ve always loved the location and have been developing several different concepts for some time now. This location will be perfect for one of the concepts,” said Boucher in statement. “It won’t conflict with our other popular concepts, Copper Door, T-Bones, or CJ’s.”
The new restaurant will be a “completely new concept”, according to Boucher, designed to be a “gathering place for the community,” featuring a “family friendly” menu.
The former Shorty’s location will undergo extensive renovations, with plans to open in the summer of 2019, said Boucher.
The Bedford Shorty’s closed its doors Jan. 1. The restaurant’s Manchester and Nashua locations remain open for business.
Read more on the www.newhampshire.com
Woodstock Inn Brewery tweaks recipes, introduces new products, edgier design
By: John Koziol
NORTH WOODSTOCK — To keep up with modern times and tastes, the Woodstock Inn Brewery has relaunched its popular and well-known brand with new brews, an edgier look — and cans over bottles.
The rollout will culminate, for folks who are 21 years or age and older, with a free Relaunch Party that will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the brewery.
Founded in 1996 by Scott and Peggy Rice — who a couple years earlier transformed a former train station on Main Street into the Woodstock Inn — the brewery spent more than a year and $100,000 to come up with the redesign.
“It’s a huge shift for us,” Scott Rice said, which essentially entailed “re-inventing the brewery.”
That said, the brewery will continue making its signature mainstays, Pig’s Ear Brown Ale, Red Rack Ale, 4000 Footer IPA and Woodstock Inn IPA, although the hops additions and yeast strains in them have been changed to reflect the evolving palates of consumers, said brewmaster Frank Heidenreich.
Additionally, the brewery will introduce a dozen new libations, some of which will be available exclusively at the brewery, while others also will be sold at retailers throughout New England.
All of the beers and ales coming out of the brewery will be in aluminum cans whose labels feature new art work and messaging; the brewery will be the only place where the beverages can be purchased in glass bottles.
New Hampshire Tourism Conference to Focus on 'Creative Economy'
This year's New Hampshire Governor's Conference on Tourism is focusing on Main Street.
The conference by the New Hampshire Travel Council is scheduled for May 14-15 in Concord.
A presentation on May 14 will focus on "New Hampshire Creative Economy: Prosperity Through Arts and Culture," followed by breakout sessions.
The latest tourism industry trends will be discussed May 15 at the Grappone Conference Center with the keynote presentation, "Adapting Geotourism Strategies."
State tourism officials say the travel and tourism industry in New Hampshire employs 68,000 people and contributes $315 million toward the state budget via the room and meals tax.
More than 39 million travelers visit New Hampshire every year, generating about $5.5 billion in spending.
Read this article on nhpr.org
White Mountain Hotel gives $15,000 to rec path
By: The Conway Daily Sun
The White Mountain Hotel and Resort has donated $15,000 to support the North Conway alternative transportation and recreation path project.
The proposed North Conway rec path project will cost $2.3 million to complete.
The MWV Trails Association Capital Campaign Committee has been hard at work raising money through grants and individual donors and has reached 80 percent of the project goal.
The committee said it is grateful for the support received from The White Mountain Hotel and Resort.
Hotel owner Gary Sullivan "is one of our enduring leaders in the Hotel industry here in the Mount Washington Valley," said Ted Wroblewski, co-chair of the MWVTA Capital Campaign Committee.
Ray, McLear seek to team up on another I-93 rest area
By: Michael Kitch, NH Business Review
A proposal by a private consortium to acquire the 89-mile turnpike system in New Hampshire has been shelved, but the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Commission last month agreed to consider plans for a full-service rest area at Exit 23 in New Hampton, similar to the ones on Interstate 93 in Hooksett.
The commission expressed interest in the proposal by Alex Ray of the Common Man family of restaurants and Rusty McLear of Hampshire Hospitality Holdings, the team that transformed the rest areas in Hooksett, to undertake a similar project further north at Exit 23, where the highway intersects with Route 104 leading west to Bristol and east to Meredith.
Ray told the commission that what the partners call “New Hampton Commons” could either replace or complement the existing rest areas in Canterbury and Sanbornton, both of which operate limited hours and offer sparse amenities.
He said that some years ago he purchased 5.5 acres at the interchange of I-93 and NH 104 abutting both a Department of Transportation facility, which includes a park-and-ride lot, and an Irving gas station.
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Free business start-up seminars presented by NCCC SBDC
By Corey Wright News Archive
The Niagara County Community College (NCCC) Small Business Development Center (SBDC) along with the Small Business Administration will be hosting a “Business Start-Up Double Header” this month. On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., a webinar entitled “Finding the Right Idea” will be held to help attendees capitalize on their skills and resources to turn an idea into a viable business concept. The second seminar, “Creating a Winning Business Plan” will be held on Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. This webinar will focus on helping attendees create a strategic guide for their business. Lenders require a business plan, making it an essential tool in a start-up venture.
To register for these webinars, or find out more about other services offered by the SBDC, visit https://www.niagaracc.suny.edu/sbdc/ or call (716) 210-2515. The Niagara SBDC remains open through the COVID-19 pandemic, assisting clients over the phone, via email, and in online meetings.
Media Contact Information
Sara Harvey
Assistant Director of Public Relations and Event Management
Email: saharvey@niagaracc.suny.edu
NCCC Begins Spring Semester on January 19
Niagara County Community College will begin the spring 2021 semester on January 19 at both the Sanborn campus and Niagara Falls Culinary Institute. Most classes will operate virtually through February 1 and a limited number of SUNY approved high-contact labs will take place in-person throughout the semester. As the pandemic continues, NCCC has elected to proceed with reduced in-person capacities in order to maintain a safe learning and working environment. The College will continue to follow all federal, state, SUNY, and local guidelines. Several measures will be in place for the spring semester in order to reduce density on campus and curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Students can expect many of their courses to pivot to a flexible learning option. There are several types of instructional modalities and they include: online, hybrid, blended, and face-to-face courses. The online courses are 100% virtual and flexible. Students can conveniently learn on their own schedule while also having access to their instructors and college resources. Hybrid courses combine online learning and in-person instruction. On-campus instruction or activity may be required for some of these courses. Blended courses are 100% online and require some or all of the online instruction to occur in real-time as scheduled. Every in-person meeting will guarantee classroom sizes which can facilitate physical distancing. Masks will be required for all who enter the campus.
Before teaching in an online or hybrid modality, faculty are trained and provided with abundant opportunities for professional growth in teaching in distance learning formats through NCCC’s departments of Online Learning and the Faculty Resource Center for Academic Excellence.
Returning to Campus:
Returning residents of NCCC’s Student Housing Village will be required to bring a hard copy of their negative COVID-19 test results taken within 72 hours of moving into the dorms. New residents will be required to bring a hard copy of their negative COVID-19 results taken within five days of moving into the dorms. All students, whether commuting or residing on campus, should refer to the Guidelines for Students on NCCC’s COVID-19 webpage for a full list of instructions prior to returning to campus.
Screening Procedures:
The College will continue the COVID-19 screening process for all who enter the premises. Individuals will be required to enter through the Learning Commons, have their temperature checked, and submit a health questionnaire upon arrival. Masks are required upon entering.
Student Services and Activities:
Faculty, staff, and student-centered departments will remain open and available from Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. Students are welcome to make appointments or visit various departments including Admissions, Career and Transitional Services, Cashier’s Office, Financial Aid, Henrietta G. Lewis Library, Records and Registration, Student Resource Center, Testing Center, and the Wellness Center to fulfill any need they may have as it pertains to their experience at NCCC.
The Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) will continue high-quality, professional tutoring services in both virtual and in-person sessions. Regardless of remote or on-campus learning, every NCCC student is welcome to utilize in-person ACE services. During the spring semester, ACE will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to tutoring services, students can utilize printers, computers, and web cameras for their online coursework. ACE’s online tutoring will begin on January 25 from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. and will run from Monday through Friday. STAR-NY tutoring, also available through ACE will begin on February 3 from 7 p.m. through midnight, operating Sunday through Thursday evenings.
Student activities will resume for the semester, though many will take place online. A limited number of in-person events for students will include cultural celebrations and awareness events, Wolf Pack Wake Up events, “Service with a Slice” community outreach, Taco Tuesdays, and Supermarket Sweep games.
NCCC plans to resume intercollegiate athletic competition in February 2021, beginning with its indoor sports of men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, and wrestling. Spring sports, including baseball, golf, and softball, along with the traditional fall sports of men’s and women’s soccer, are on track to begin competition in March.
Academic Calendar Changes
NCCC has eliminated their traditional Spring Break recess. The semester will operate steadily through May 2021, ending one week earlier than originally planned. This will mitigate the risk of travel and exposure to the COVID-19 virus and will also move Commencement to May 8, 2021.
NCCC will implement Commencement plans in accordance with New York State, SUNY, and Niagara County Health Department guidance. The College will adjust the method of the celebration based upon the conditions at that time.
The faculty and staff of Niagara County Community College are looking forward to working with returning students and are excited to welcome the newest cohort of freshman, transfer, non-matriculated, and international students. The College will continue to communicate COVID-19 related news in a timely, transparent, and understandable manner. NCCC’s Campus Safety Monitor and Vice President of Administration, Wayne Lynch, states “We are committed to exceeding safety standards just as we are committed to educational excellence.”
Denyel Beiter
Event Coordinator, Public Relations and Event Management
Email: dbeiter@niagaracc.suny.edu
NCCC student honored with statewide award
NCCC Student Elaine Champagne-Lewis, recipient of the 2020 Norman R. McConney, Jr. Award for EOP Student Excellence
On December 14, 2020, State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor Dr. Jim Malatras hosted a virtual Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Honors Awards Ceremony recognizing the achievements of 45 students from 49 SUNY campuses statewide. Elaine Champagne-Lewis of Niagara County Community College (NCCC) was chosen to receive the 2020 Norman R. McConney, Jr. Award for EOP Student Excellence, which celebrates EOP students who have overcome significant obstacles in life to achieve their educational and personal goals. The award is named after the late Norman McConney, one of the architects of the statewide EOP program and a champion of youth empowerment. The EOP program provides academic support services, counseling, advisement and financial assistance to historically under-served students from low-income families in New York.
A mother of two, Elaine is a non-traditional student who was motivated to pursue a degree in human services after working several minimum wage jobs while trying to support her family. “I struggled so much to get by, and I want to set an example for my kids,” says Elaine. A friend encouraged her to look into studying at NCCC and Elaine worked with an advisor who helped her through the process of enrolling. Once on campus, she saw that she met the qualifications for the EOP program and was accepted. “The EOP workshops helped me to learn balance and self-care, to ask questions when I don’t understand things and connected me to appropriate resources when I needed help.”
Since enrolling at NCCC, Elaine has excelled. “Elaine has consistently demonstrated the utmost commitment, perseverance, and resiliency in pursuing her academic goals. She has maintained a perfect GPA throughout two semesters of the pandemic while also working as a single mother to not only provide for her children, but help assist in their education as well. Her strength and dedication is an inspiration to me as her advisor and I believe her example can be an inspiration to others,” states Ted Mallwitz, the EOP Academic Support Specialist who nominated Elaine for the EOP Award for Student Excellence.
When asked if she had any advice for other non-traditional students in a similar circumstance, Elaine offered the following: “Ask questions and put in the effort, because it will pay off. There are so many people ready and willing to help you if you just ask. Going back to school feels like something you can’t do, but just put one foot in front of the other to make changes in your life.” Elaine expects to finish her degree at NCCC in the fall of 2021 and plans to continue her education at Buffalo State College studying social work. She currently participates in an internship with a local substance abuse and mental health organization where she hopes to gain full-time employment after graduation.
NCCC to Offer Course Examining Genealogical History
Niagara County Community College is offering a topical course entitled, “United States History Since 1865,” during the spring 2021 semester. The class is rich in genealogical research and will connect historic benchmarks of our nation to the way our ancestors and communities were locally affected.
NCCC students enrolled in the “United States History Since 1865” course will link their genealogical research to historical context.
Professor Don Fisher, who holds a Ph.D. and Master of Arts degree from SUNY at Buffalo, will lead the class through an in-depth look at the political, social, and economic history of the US from the end of the Civil War to the present. Students will be given free access to Ancestry.com and a plethora of other references to navigate their specific family history spanning many decades. Students will learn how to uncover information through interviews, photographs, newspapers, and other historic documents and then apply their research to a written account about the way their family’s story was shaped by America’s past. Discussions will be centered on topics regarding immigration, social mobility, military service, and education amongst other subjects. In addition to the extraordinary research resources and paper, students can also expect to participate in the course through traditional exams and lectures. Dr. Fisher states, “Scholarly history isn’t just for scholars. Everyone today has the tools at their fingertips to understand their genealogy against the backdrop of broader historical patterns and issues. Anyone who completes the course and paper would not merely have a family tree, but a meaningful contextualized history of their family.”
This class is open to current students and to the public. Those who are interested in taking the class but not currently enrolled in a degree or certificate program are welcome to apply to Niagara County Community College as a non-matriculated student. Seats are still available during three different times: 9:30 – 10:45a.m.; 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., and 12:30 – 1:45 p.m., all on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning January 19 and concluding on May 6, 2021. Classes will meet virtually via Zoom in order to maintain safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please visit https://www.niagaracc.suny.edu/spring/ for more information.
NCCC Announces Fall 2020
A total of 737 students were recently recognized for their outstanding academic achievements for the fall 2020 semester at Niagara County Community College. Both full-time and part-time students were honored for their scholastic successes by being named to either the Dean’s List or the Part-Time Honors list.
To be named to the College’s Dean’s List, a student must be enrolled full-time with 12 or more credit hours and have achieved a semester grade point average of 3.5 or better. Students are ineligible if they have incomplete course work, a grade of S, U, W or a grade below C.
To be eligible for the Part-Time Honors list, a student must be enrolled in six to 11 hours of course work and have a semester GPA of 3.5 or better. Students are ineligible if they have incomplete course work, a grade of S, U, W or a grade below C.
High School Students Get a Jumpstart on College at NCCC
At a time when the pandemic has brought challenges for many in the academic realm, Niagara County Community College (NCCC) is improving access to higher education for high school students through the College Acceleration Program (CAP). CAP allows students to take college courses at their own high school, following NCCC curriculum. In essence, the dual-enrolled high school students are getting a head start on their college careers.
By participating in CAP, high school students can concurrently enroll to take college courses while receiving both high school and college credit. As college costs and student debt is rising nationwide, the ability to save time and money through CAP classes while in high school is a huge advantage. According to former CAP student and current NCCC student Gabriela Bonura, “I would recommend high school students taking CAP classes because they are very affordable, and it does prepare you for the rigorous coursework when in college.”
The benefits of CAP are more than just financial savings, as high school students have an opportunity to lighten their course load when they do start college. This opens the door for students to explore more electives, earn a double major, complete an internship, or participate in a study abroad program. The experience of earning college credit while still in high school helps to further prepare students for the expectations they will face and the culture of a college environment. “Taking college courses in the comfort of my high school has made for a great transitional period prior to college,” states Lockport High School Senior Delaney Adams.
Currently, there are participating high schools within Western New York offering college credits through NCCC CAP at a discounted rate of $79 per credit. For the spring 2021 semester, a limited number of scholarships will be available to high school CAP students whose families faced financial hardships due to COVID-19. To learn more about CAP, visit https://www.niagaracc.suny.edu/academics/highschool/
Study Finds NCCC among Top NYS Community Colleges with High Employment Rates
In a Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) study conducted by the US Census Bureau, Niagara County Community College (NCCC) graduates have achieved a 76.8 percent employment rate five years after their graduation. That’s the second highest 5-year, post grad employment rate among community colleges in New York State. The study also revealed that the top grossing jobs were from alumni who earned an Associate degree in allied health, engineering, and computer information related programs at NCCC.
Dr. William Murabito, President of Niagara County Community College, states, “I am proud of our graduates and honored to be leading an education- and workforce-driven institution which has made a significant impact in our local economy.”
The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes data illustrates wages and employment flows for recent graduates of partner colleges and universities in Colorado, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. It includes graduates who are employed full-time on a yearly basis at the federal minimum wage and work three or more quarters in a calendar year.
NCCC Small Business Development Center Receives Impact Award
Lynn Oswald, Director of the Niagara County Community College (NCCC) Small Business Development Center (SBDC), along with the rest of her team, has been selected as the recipient of the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Impact Niagara award. The award will be presented to the SBDC during a special event hosted by the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce and M&T Bank via Zoom on December 14 at 9:00 a.m. There is no cost to attend but registration is required.
The Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce reports that Oswald and the SBDC staff have worked tirelessly through the COVID-19 pandemic, transitioning their services to an online format and continuing to provide one-on-one counseling as well as public workshops which focused on creating, operating, and growing small businesses. In addition, the NCCC SBDC staff facilitated information sessions covering COVID-19 related topics such as: safety protocols, New York State mandates, Federal Paycheck Protection Program, and re-opening training.
Oswald shares, “I’d like to thank the Niagara USA Chamber for recognizing the efforts of my team. We, at the Niagara SBDC, are proud of our collaboration with all the business resource partners in the County during the Covid-19 crisis. Since mid-March, the Niagara SBDC has assisted over 371 clients with 74 receiving disaster funding totaling over $16.6 million and saving/creating 1,609 jobs.”
Top Row L-R: Lynn Oswald, Val Hill, Bree Bacon
Second row L-R: Jack Dezik, Maureen Henderson, Deanna Alterio Brennen, Dinene Zaleski
Third row L-R: J Suzan Ben, Tom Bruss, Kelly Walck, Amy Stack
Following the award ceremony, Gary Keith, Vice President and Regional Economist for M&T Bank will discuss how current events will impact the future of the Western New York economy. Guest speakers Larry Mietus, founder of Speaking of Strategy, and Franklin Sciortino, Director of the US Small Business Administration, will be contributing to the online event as well.
To register, call (716) 285-9142 or e-mail ewoods@niagarachamer.org. The public is welcome to attend and those who are involved in any type of business, community leadership, or the local economy are encouraged to participate in this free event.
The Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce is a premier business advocacy organization which serves the interest of its members and the business community of Niagara County and beyond. This dynamic, non-profit organization is a voice for business which fosters leadership, advocates on behalf of its members, and promotes the greater Buffalo-Niagara region.
NCCC to Resume Intercollegiate Athletic Competition in February 2021
By Ryan Herman News Archive
Niagara County Community College plans to resume intercollegiate athletic competition in February 2021, beginning with its indoor sports of men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball and wrestling. To ensure a safe return to play, NCCC will continue to follow all federal, state and local guidelines put forth in regards to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
“Going off the success we have seen with mitigating risk during the fall semester, we feel as if we can move forward in providing a safe and worthwhile opportunity for our student-athletes,” NCCC Director of Athletics Amanda Haseley said.
According to Haseley, helpful tools in determining a return to play included: the New York State Supplemental Guidance for Athletics at Higher Education Institutions during the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency document, other local NCAA and USCAA schools successfully participating in multiple sports along with preseason scrimmages, practices and workouts held on NCCC’s campus throughout the fall semester.
Spring sports including baseball, golf and softball along with the traditional fall sports of men’s and women’s soccer are on track to begin competition in March. Earlier in the year, the NJCAA Board of Regents voted that all 2020-21 NJCAA sport seasons (fall, winter and spring) will not count towards student-athlete eligibility.
Nate Beutel
Sports Information Director
Email: nbeutel@niagaracc.suny.edu
NCCC unveils new EOP office and collaboration with Niagara Falls High School
While the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) has been around since former New York State Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve started the program in 1967, it is relatively new to Niagara County Community College (NCCC). The program started at NCCC in August of 2016 with the goal of providing academic workshops, tutoring, counseling, advisement and financial assistance to historically under-served students who require additional academic support.
Currently the NCCC EOP has funding through the State University of New York (SUNY) Office of Opportunity Programs to support 70 students. As of Tuesday, November 17, EOP students have a brand new space to call home as NCCC cut the ribbon on a larger, more student-friendly office. More important than the office is the people who run the program on campus. As an NCCC Alumna and former EOP student herself, Angela Jackson, EOP Coordinator at NCCC has a valuable perspective when it comes to the population she serves. “Being able to work at my alma mater is awesome in and of itself, however being a former EOP student and being able to oversee and help shape the new EOP at NCCC was a dream opportunity for me,” says Angela.
Not all high school students receive the guidance and support needed to pursue their goals in higher education, or may not feel they are “college material” according to Angela. Because of her own experience, she recognizes the importance of having a presence in high school to illustrate possibilities firsthand. As part of her duties, Angela will now spend one day a week on-site at Niagara Falls High School allowing her to have 1-on-1 time with students to share information about EOP and inform students on exactly what services may be available to them.
While COVID has transitioned many of the services typically offered on-campus to a virtual experience, EOP is still very active in making a positive impact in the lives of the students it serves. Angela notes that colleague Ted Mallwitz, Academic Support Specialist is amazing at disarming students and creating a safe space for them while directing them to the appropriate resources needed to assist them in their academic journey. When asked about the vision of the future of EOP at NCCC, Angela envisions the program doubling the population it serves and hopes to provide even more financial support for students. “The program has survived 52 years; I hope we have another 52.”
The NCCC Educational Opportunity Program helps through mentorship, academic programs, financial assistance, counseling/advising, and other campus support services to those who are first-generation college students, and/or from low-income and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. The comprehensive program of support services includes advising, learning skills development, tutoring, and academic advisement. For more information about the NCCC EOP Program, please call (716) 614-5977 or email: eop@niagaracc.suny.edu
Barbara M. DeSimone
Director of Public Relations and Event Management
Email: desimone@niagaracc.suny.edu
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Network News Music features news theme music from the broadcast networks, much of which has never been heard in its entirety. In an effort to highlight the wonderful qualities of the music and its composers, you can listen to the music in the way it actually was not intended to be heard: without voice-overs or fade outs to commercial.
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“Nightline” 1984 – 1989 Headlines
Nightline started out as a series of special reports to update viewers late at night on the Iranian hostage crisis. Those special reports were called “America Held Hostage” and anchored by Frank Reynolds, lead anchor of World News Tonight. But he did not like doing double duty and Ted Koppel started substituting regularly. When the program officially debuted as Nightline, Ted Koppel was officially the anchor. The program was known for covering just one topic per broadcast, which allowed it to go in depth like no other news program on network television. Nightline used the World News Tonight theme for its first few years. But in the eighties this pulsing music was played while Ted Koppel told us what’s coming up on the broadcast. It might have been intended to be a main theme for Nightline because after about a minute the music evolves into something that sounds like a main theme.
Score Productions – Nightline theme
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Michael McDermott talks about new release “Hit Me Back”
CHICAGO 'N BEYOND Posted On September 11, 2012
1.0 – Are you happy with how your new release Hit Me Back (Rock Ridge Music) has turned out?
Couldn’t be happier. Took a wee bit of a different approach than the prior albums….for example….there were certain artists we couldn’t reference….it was out of bounds so to speak…to reference some of the artists that most singer songwriters. Mkight refer to …you know a ” you know how on that Dylan record they did that thing with the keyboard?” Those types of statements were forbidden….. you know the line….”.if you always do what you always did, you will always get, what you always got .” That was kind of our launch pad.
2.0 – Who is it for?
The whimsical, the unwanted, the mourners, the isolated, the desperate, the devilish, the defeated, the kick-starters, the matador’s, the penniless poets, the dogged, the lovers on morning trains, the searchers, the seekers, the outcast, the count, the clown, the mistress, the widowed, the forgotten.
3.0 – Where did you record it? with whom?
CJ Eiriksson …who is fucking brilliant! I worked with him a few years back. Then on tour in Italy, I was in the back of a car and leafing through the U2 record liner notes and noticed CJ”s name all over the place…..I was thrilled for him. I figured he had graduated to a different level and would no longer work with low lifes like me…My wife Heather told me if i didn’t write him, she would…i still had his email address and i wrote him….and he was on the road with U2 for the 360 tour but it was wrapping up soon and I pitched him….
4.0 – How does it relate in your mind to your previous record, Hey La Hey?
It’s quite a departure. Songwriting is songwriting…at least mine is……but it’s really just what colors you use from your palette. We approached that record (HLH) with a band in the studio……this one…..it was me and CJ for the most of it.
5.0 – With so many records under your belt, does one develop a philosophy when it comes to going into the studio, or is that called ‘the budget’?
HA….well that certainly is a factor in the equation….truth be told it’s as confusing as ever…..we did this record with the help of Kickstarter so we did have it planned we had a certain amount of time and come hell or high water…..it had to be done….so our philosophy was…….work quickly !
6.0 – Did you have sound or general attack in mind going in for Hit Me Back or did it evolve as the material took shape?
I think the songs really dictate what you do. I had a batch of songs that I thought were ready and then I sent them to CJ and he started working on loops from Texas and we kind of molded the record over the internet……then he came to town and we did it in 8 days.
7.0 – Is it all new material or did any older, previously unrecorded songs bubble up to the surface as well ?
There was one song, ” She’s Gonna Kill Me “, that we recorded for Hey La Heyand weren’t quite happy with it……so that one kind of stuck around…..another song ” Scars From Another Life” was a few years older….and one we would play live…..but when I sent CJ 40 songs or so…..he gravitated to that one…..he rearranged it and it came out amazingly well……it’s really having trust in your producer that he knows what he’s doing…..and you gotta be willing to walk the plank with him.
8.0 – Do you have a favorite track (or tracks) on the disc or should we assume that’s the ‘titled cut’?
That’s certainly one cuz it’s probably the most ” fun ” song I’ve ever done……we thought we could hide it on the record and start it with more serious stuff but, wanted to come out with a smile…..I wrote that song in the car on the way to and from the hospital to see my dying mother….worst time in my life…..so for the sheer sake of my sanity i wrote a pretty funny and light hearted tune.
9.0 – Any new influences reflected on the disc that you hear as the author?
Being referential to an earlier question…….we tried to use female influences more than male references……we put to rest all the old ” Gods ” the old ” Legends” and would be more influenced by Sinead, Dido, Florence, Sarah, then say Dylan, Bruce, Waits, Van, U2
10.0 – Is ‘Hit Me Back’ a threat? kinky chatter? the facts of life or just a text message? what does it mean to you?
Great question…..well it was strictly a lyric in relation to my hangover that my head was hurting so bad it felt as if the bottle literally hit me back. But just those three words have a very ambiguous connotation which i love……it’s the masochist the fighter, the lover, the loser……all things which I know quite well.
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Council warning to Torridge landlords
Published: 10:11 AM February 12, 2010 Updated: 4:01 PM November 7, 2020
TORRIDGE District Council is urging landlords and property agents to make sure their properties are in good order – or face the consequences. The council has adopted a new policy for dealing with landlords and agents who fail to keep their properties up
TORRIDGE District Council is urging landlords and property agents to make sure their properties are in good order - or face the consequences.
The council has adopted a new policy for dealing with landlords and agents who fail to keep their properties up to standard. The Housing Act 2004 permits the council to charge for costs it incurs in carrying out certain duties.
Charges would only normally be levied where the owner fails to co-operate with the council, resulting in the service of notices. In addition, charges could be levied where there is a continued lack of co-operation and this results in the need to review a notice.
The Act also allows for the owner/agent to appeal to a Residential Property Tribunal, either against the notice or arguing that the level of the charge is unreasonable.
Lead member for housing Councillor David Lausen said: "Torridge must continue to do all it can to educate, inform and encourage property owners to undertake their responsibilities. However, firm enforcement action to protect the health and safety of tenants, occupiers and others will sometimes be necessary.
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Last tree planted in Roundswell quiet area
Published: 11:07 AM March 26, 2009 Updated: 5:48 PM December 11, 2020
THE final tree has been planted to mark the completion of a �3,500 transformation of a Roundswell recreation area. The ornamental tree-planting scheme at Cedar Grove incorporates a variety of apple trees, while parts of a damaged hedgerow have been cleare
THE final tree has been planted to mark the completion of a �3,500 transformation of a Roundswell recreation area.The ornamental tree-planting scheme at Cedar Grove incorporates a variety of apple trees, while parts of a damaged hedgerow have been cleared and replanted. There has also been emphasis on encouraging wildflowers to grow in the open space.The work follows a survey that was carried out in the area at the start of the year, where local people were asked what improvements they wanted. A number of other suggestions are still being considered for a later date, should the project prove successful.The open space enhancement programme has been funded by a Community Councillor Grant from North Devon Councillor Rodney Cann.Cllr Cann said: "I am delighted to have driven this project forward, using my Community Councillor Grant funding. "This was in direct response to the wishes of local people, who asked me for an area of quiet reflection and relaxation. "I hope the community will agree we have now achieved this and will enjoy the open space for many years to come.
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Royal retirement for Barnstaple nurse
Published: 10:22 AM July 1, 2009 Updated: 3:59 PM November 7, 2020
BARNSTAPLE nurse Liz Oldfield celebrated her retirement in style – with a date at Buckingham Palace. Liz, the Lead Outpatient Nurse at the North Devon District Hospital, was invited to a royal garden party at the palace in recognition of her 34 years ser
BARNSTAPLE nurse Liz Oldfield celebrated her retirement in style - with a date at Buckingham Palace.
Liz, the Lead Outpatient Nurse at the North Devon District Hospital, was invited to a royal garden party at the palace in recognition of her 34 years service in the National Health Service.
She was nominated for a palace invitation by colleagues at the hospital, where she has worked for past 25 years, after first joining the NHS in Staffordshire.
The long-serving nurse started her career working two nights a week as a healthcare assistant and quickly became hooked on the job.
"I enjoy looking after people. If someone's hurting, I find it easy to comfort them," she said. "When I came to North Devon as a healthcare assistant in 1984, I got a lot of encouragement to do my nursing training. The NHS has changed so much - as nurses we've had move forward at the speed that medicine changes and to embrace that change. There's more paperwork now and we see patients in less time. But patient care is always the first priority of nursing - and this will never change.
"I was over the moon when the invitation came through from Buckingham Palace. It was a lovely day. In fact, it's been such an exciting end to my career, with a garden party at the palace and to go out thinking that I still love my job."
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First COVID vaccines won’t be recommended…
First COVID vaccines won’t be recommended for children
In this photo provided by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, clinical research coordinator Tammy Lewis-McCauley administers an injection to Katelyn Evans, a trial participant, as part of the hospital’s clinical trial of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center via AP)
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PUBLISHED: October 21, 2020 at 2:37 p.m. | UPDATED: December 31, 2020 at 2:55 p.m.
By LAURAN NEERGAARD | AP Medical Writer
The global hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine for kids is only just beginning — a lagging start that has some U.S. pediatricians worried they may not know if any shots work for young children in time for the next school year.
Older adults may be most vulnerable to the coronavirus, but ending the pandemic will require vaccinating children, too. Last week, Pfizer Inc. received permission to test its vaccine in U.S. kids as young as 12, one of only a handful of attempts around the world to start exploring if any experimental shots being pushed for adults also can protect children.
“I just figured the more people they have to do tests on, the quicker they can put out a vaccine and people can be safe and healthy,” said 16-year-old Katelyn Evans, who became the first teen to get an injection in the Pfizer study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Multiple vaccine candidates are in final-stage studies in tens of thousands of adults, and scientists are hopeful that the next few months will bring evidence that at least some of them are safe and effective enough for widespread use.
But when the first shots arrive, they’re unlikely to be recommended for children. Vaccines can’t be given to youngsters unless they’ve been tested in their age group — a major hurdle in efforts to reopen schools and resume more normal activities that are critical to families’ well-being.
“The public doesn’t understand that,” said Dr. Evan Anderson of Emory University, who has been pushing for pediatric testing of COVID-19 vaccines. While he’s encouraged by Pfizer’s study in adolescents, he finds it “very concerning” that children younger than 12 may not have a vaccine by next fall.
Children represent about 10% of COVID-19 cases documented in the U.S. And while children are far less likely than adults to get seriously ill, about 120 have died in the U.S. alone, according to a tally by the American Academy of Pediatrics. That’s about how many U.S. children die from flu in an average year. Additionally, a small number have developed a serious inflammatory condition linked to the coronavirus.
Overall, Anderson says COVID-19’s impact on children is greater than some other diseases that require routine pediatric vaccinations.
Aside from their own health risks is the still unanswered question about how easily children can infect others. In a letter to federal health officials, the AAP cited recent evidence that those over age 10 may spread the virus just as easily as adults do.
Add missing school and other factors unique to children, and it’s unethical “to allow children to take on great burdens during this pandemic but not have the opportunity to benefit from a vaccine,” Dr. Sara Goza, president of the pediatrics academy, wrote.
Globally, pediatric studies are only hesitantly emerging. In China, Sinovac and SinoPharm have opened studies that can test children as young as 3.
A British study of a vaccine by AstraZeneca allows for testing of a low dose in certain children but the company says it won’t be recruiting youngsters until it has “sufficient” safety data in adults.
In the U.S., Moderna Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Novavax all hope to begin some pediatric research later in the year, in varying age groups.
Doing so is critical, said Dr. Robert Frenck, who directs the Vaccine Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s.
“If we immunize adolescents — and potentially move down into younger children — we’re going to have the effect of keeping those children from getting infected. But then also they don’t bring the infection home to parents and grandparents,” he said.
Frenck is finding lots of interest in Pfizer’s adolescent testing, with 90 families seeking more information in just a week after his team issued a call for 16- and 17-year-old volunteers. The researchers plan to enroll 12- to 15-year-olds soon.
Katelyn, the suburban Cincinnati volunteer, doesn’t know if she got a dummy shot or the real vaccine. But the high school junior is excited to be part of the study. And with science class still fresh, she grasped the researchers’ explanation of how Pfizer’s vaccine works — using a piece of genetic code to train the body to recognize if the coronavirus comes along.
“I’ve learned about DNA and RNA and all that stuff in biology in freshman year. And I guess I didn’t really know, like, how it applied to the real world until now,” she said.
It makes sense to start pediatric testing in teenagers and gradually work down in age, Frenck said, because adolescents usually receive adult-sized doses of other vaccines — and so far with Pfizer’s shots, serious safety problems haven’t emerged in adult testing.
Assuming Pfizer’s shot is proven to work in adults, Frenck said the key will be if the vaccine revs up adolescents’ immune systems the same way — without different side effects. He said if all goes well, it’s possible scientists may have an answer about the 12-and-older group by spring.
But younger children need their own testing. Anderson, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, said those studies may be more complex because smaller tots may need different doses or, because of their typically more robust immune systems, show different reactions to the shots.
“It is quite important for us to begin the process because this will take some time to do the studies the right way,” he said.
AP video journalist Kathy Young contributed to this report.
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Man arrested with gun, 500 rounds of ammunition at D.C. checkpoint ahead of inauguration
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About Owen Sweet Design
Owen Sweet jewelry encompasses the perfect union of nature, music and sculptural design. Incorporating the human form as an element of his designs, Owen’s artistry poetically joins forms of nature with a sophisticated aesthetic sensibility.
Owen’s profession as a jewelry designer was a natural transformation for his career. From an early age, Owen tapped the currents of rhythm in his surroundings and expressed what he saw and felt through his fingers; he continues to tap these same currents as a source of inspiration for his designs. Owen embodies the essence of his inspirations in wearable art, which he refers to as “Silhouettes of Nature”.
Owen is attracted to the malleability of 18-karat gold into fluid designs that are both comfortable and sensual. Born and raised in South Africa, Owen was surrounded by the beauty and luster of Diamonds and Precious Gems he incorporates Diamonds, as well as semi-precious stones. His South African heritage is also an influence in his designs’ minimalist simplicity, their clean lines and understated femininity.
Though still inspired by his native land, Owen also gains inspiration from the places in which he now dwells: The urban landscape of his current home, St Petersburg Florida, offers a palatable zest of beats and rhythms that Owen subtly reflects in his designs.
After coming to the U.S.A. in 1980, Owen has continued to pursue his decade-long passion for art jewelry and design. Working first under some of Europe’s great designers, his distinctive style flourished, which testifies to the masters he has worked under. After working in the U.S. for 10 years with some large retail shops and small jewelry art shops, Owen has gone out on his own. His geometric streamlined jewelry has unquestionably become his signature. To put it in his own words, “To my mind a piece of jewelry is a sculpture in miniature against a human background.”
Art jewelry in the U.S.A today reflects the inner social and emotional feeling of our society. Art jewelers have been growing under direct influence of the international art jewelry of our century. In Owen Sweet we find a creative artist whose jewelry reflects a special dynamic movement, which is both daring and romantic. His jewelry speaks in a very emotional and almost African language. The viewer immediately responds to his jewelry, and through this response experiences pleasure. Owen fashions gold into smooth geometric forms or ever crude African sculptures which shows the bridge he has built between his birth place and his new home in Florida.
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Developed by the team behind Star Wars: Empire at War, Universe at War: Earth Assault is a real-time strategy game featuring three alien factions. The Hierarchy uses brute force to crush its foes, literally, with massive walkers. The Novus weakens its enemies using hit-and-run tactics, while the Masari channels mystical powers to obliterate those in its path. Your goal as each faction is nothing short of world domination, which means battling Earth's pesky resistance movement as well as rival aliens.
Set in the year 2012, Earth Assault offers the opportunity to raze such real-world locations as Washington, DC, and Egypt. One of the game's other distinguishing features is its on-the-fly customization system, where players can switch weapons, adjust tech trees, and even replace unit types in the heat of battle. In-game achievements award medals for faction-specific boosts, while a persistent online profile tracks conquered territories, statistics, and milestones. Cross-platform support allows Xbox 360 and PC owners to compete against each other across multiple game modes.
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Greg Schmidt (1947-2016)
August 25, 2016 By Alex Vassar
What a terrible loss. Greg Schmidt, the 18-year Secretary of the Senate, died this week in Sacramento. It’s hard to explain the impact he made through the advice he gave to legislators and the mentorship he gave to staff.
I met Greg in 2007, while I was a Senate Fellow in the office of a member of the Senate Rules Committee. The first time I ever met him, I told him that I was a student of legislative history and a big fan of his work on the 2000 California Blue Book. Immune to flattering words and people claiming to share his interests, he replied; “You can’t bullshit a bullshitter.”
Surprised by his direct manner and not having any idea how to respond, I blurted out, “I found an error.”
“Come with me,” he said, and led me to his office on the 4th floor. Dropping a copy of the massive book on a small table in his office, Greg pointed to it and said “Show me.”
In the years after, we occasionally talked as my research took me into what seemed like dead ends. After getting approval from his gatekeeper, I’d head up the stairs to his office and ask if he had time to talk. He would rarely give me the answer I was looking for, but would frequently point me in a new direction that I hadn’t thought of and send me along on my way.
Educated as a historian, he understood the thrill of diving into old books to learn stories that were forgotten by almost everyone. His training also helped him understand (better than most who work in Capitol) exactly how he fit into the history of the institution that he loved. He knew that the building had stood for a century before he arrived. You don’t even want to know how many legislators his tenure in the legislature overlapped with. It was a lot.
It can be hard for politicians and staffers to understand that, with all of the bustle and racing confusion of the session, this really isn’t the end of the story. Seeing members come and go, Schmidt understood that we get some time to make a difference and then we depart. History is a chain and the people in office now are not the final link. Although we can’t see it, the chain will continue after us and it’s our duty to do the best job we can while we’re here.
In his subtle ways, he left clues throughout the Chambers. In the hallway that runs from the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms office to the back of the Senate Chambers are the photographs of the California Senate’s Presidents pro Tempore. Not just one, but all of them, back to 1849.
On the hall opposite the entrance to the Members’ Lounge are panorama photos of the chamber filled with Senators of different sessions. Even on the Senate Floor itself, he placed a bust of an early Senator on a pedestal. I always enjoyed this quiet symbolism; to this day, every session is watched over by a 41st Senator who ties the modern institution to its humble roots.
Greg Schmidt was a man who, for the time he was able, kept the Senate connected to its roots.
Filed Under: Current Research, Deaths, Editorial, State Senate, Top Stories
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Migration Statistics Quarterly Report
Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: February 2018
A summary of the latest official long-term international migration statistics for the UK for the year ending September 2017 published by Office for National Statistics (ONS). The report also includes data from the Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for the year ending December 2017.
A correction has been made to the data contained within the Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: February 2018. During a review of the unpublished October to December 2017 International Passenger Survey data, an error was identified in the processing system which also affected the July to September 2017 data. This was due to the way data collected on paper questionnaires were merged and processed with data collected on tablets.
The corrected data for year ending September 2017 can be found in our “Provisional Long-Term International Migration estimates” tables.
The data in the original release has not been corrected due to the next quarterly release, for the year ending December 2017, being published on 16 July 2018 which includes all the corrected data.
View superseded version
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Statistician’s comment
Net migration continues to add to the UK population
Differing migration patterns seen for EU and non-EU citizens
Fewer EU migrants coming to the UK for work
Study is the second most common reason to come to the UK
Work is the most common reason people leave the UK
In the year ending September 2017 net migration was at a similar level to early 2014 with 244,000 more people coming to the UK than leaving, so still adding to the UK population. This follows record levels of net migration during 2015 and early 2016.
The latest headline estimates are similar to last quarter (published 30 November 2017).
EU net migration has fallen over the last year, as fewer EU citizens are coming to the UK and the number leaving the UK increased. However, there are still more EU citizens coming to the UK than leaving.
The number of EU citizens coming to the UK for work-related reasons has fallen over the last year, in particular, those coming to the UK “looking for work”.
Non-EU net migration increased over the last year. This time last year we saw a decrease in the number of non-EU citizens arriving to study, which was not reflected in the most comparable Home Office’s student visa data.
The latest ONS estimate of non-EU citizens arriving to study shows a return to the level before this decrease, therefore any interpretation of this latest increase in non-EU citizens arriving to study should be made with caution.
In 2017, the UK granted asylum, alternative forms of protection or resettlement to almost 15,000 individuals, 40% of who were under 18 years of age.
This quarter we also release a blog to explain more about what you need to know about the latest figures.
2. Statistician’s comment
“Today’s figures show that 244,000 more people are coming to the UK than leaving so net migration is adding to the UK population and is at a similar level to early 2014.
“Looking at the underlying numbers we can see that EU net migration has fallen as fewer EU citizens are arriving, especially those coming to look for work in the UK, and the number leaving has risen. It has now returned to the level seen in 2012.
“The figures also show that non-EU net migration is now larger than EU net migration, mainly due to the large decrease in EU net migration over the last year. However, migration of both non-EU and EU citizens are still adding to the UK population.
“Brexit could well be a factor in people's decision to move to or from the UK, but people’s decision to migrate is complicated and can be influenced by lots of different reasons.”
Nicola White, Head of International Migration Statistics, Office for National Statistics.
Follow ONS Director of Migration Statistics @JayLindop_ONS
The reporting period for the International Passenger Survey (IPS) and Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) data in this release is year ending (YE) September 2017. Entry clearance visas and other Home Office statistics, National Insurance number (NINo) and labour market data are available to the end of December 2017.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) migration statistics use the UN recommended definition of a long-term international migrant: “A person who moves to a country other than that of his or her usual residence for a period of at least a year (12 months), so that the country of destination effectively becomes his or her new country of usual residence.”
Due to the nature of illegal migration it is not possible to quantify accurately the number of people who are in the country illegally. For this reason, ONS does not produce estimates on the size of the illegal migrant population. However, while our data do not identify illegal migrants separately, some will be included in the stocks and flows of migrants in our data.
The Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) estimates methodology describes how data from the IPS and other sources are used to create LTIM estimates. LTIM estimates are based on IPS data, but with additional adjustments made for migrants not included in the survey, such as asylum seekers. Some estimates are only available based solely on IPS data. Differences between ONS, Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and other sources are described in Comparing sources of international migration statistics.
Specific notes for this release:
all of the changes detailed in the release are statistically significant unless specifically stated otherwise
EU estimates exclude British citizens; citizens of countries who were EU members prior to 2004, for example France, Germany and Spain, are termed the EU15; Central and Eastern European countries who joined the EU in 2004, for example Poland, are the EU8; EU2 comprises Bulgaria and Romania, who became EU members in 2007
rolling year estimates for LTIM and IPS are produced quarterly for year ending (YE) March (Quarter 1), YE June (Quarter 2), YE September (Quarter 3) and YE December (Quarter 4)
LTIM and IPS data for 2017 are provisional, there is minimal change between provisional and final data
Full details of terms and definitions can be found in the International Migration – terms, definitions and frequently asked questions.
4. Net migration continues to add to the UK population
Net migration, the difference between those coming into the UK and those leaving the UK is positive, meaning that migration is adding to the UK population – with 244,000 more people arriving in the UK than leaving. The latest headline estimates are similar to last quarter (published 30 November 2017). (Table 1)
Table 1: Latest estimates of long-term international migration
UK, year ending September 2017
YE Sept 2017
Change since YE Sep 2016
Net migration +244 +/-42 -29
Immigration 578 +/-35 -20
Emigration 334 +/-23 +9
Source: Long-Term International Migration, Office for National Staistics
1. The estimates given are the sum of the EU, non-EU and British citizenship groupings.
2. 2017 estimates are provisional.
3. CI is Confidence Interval.
4. None of the changes are statistically significant at the 5% level.
Download this table Table 1: Latest estimates of long-term international migration
In the year to September 2017, net migration was at a similar level to early 2014, following the record levels of net migration from year ending March 2015 to year ending June 2016 (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Long-Term International Migration
UK, 2007 to 2017 (year ending September 2017)
Source: Long-Term International Migration, Office for National Statistics
Figures for 2017 are provisional. In this chart provisional estimates are shown in a shaded area.
Download this chart Figure 1: Long-Term International Migration
Net migration over the past 10 years has ranged from a low of +154,000 in 2012 to a high of +336,000 in 2015. Further historical trends from 1964 for long-term international migration to and from the UK show that net migration has been continually positive since 1994.
More detailed Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) estimates of immigration, emigration and net migration over time, along with confidence intervals around all of the estimates can be found in Table 1 and Chart 1TS in the accompanying datasets.
5. Differing migration patterns seen for EU and non-EU citizens
Non-EU net migration (+205,000) is now larger than EU net migration (+90,000), mainly due to the large decrease in EU net migration over the last year. Net migration of EU citizens has fallen by 75,000 over the last year, returning to the level seen in 2012. However, there are still more EU citizens coming to the UK than leaving. For non-EU citizens net migration increased by 40,000 over the last year and is now similar to the level seen in early 2016 (Figure 2 and Table 2).
Figure 2: Net migration to the UK by citizenship
Download this chart Figure 2: Net migration to the UK by citizenship
Falls in EU net migration are seen particularly for EU15 and EU2 citizens, although falls were seen for EU8 citizens in previous periods. The increase in non-EU net migration is mainly accounted for by the increase in net migration of Asian citizens, many of whom are coming to study (Table 2) (see section 7 for further details).
Table 2: Net migration by citizenship
YE Sep 2017
Total +244 +/-42 -29
British -52 +/-19 +4
EU +90 +/-28 -75*
(of which) EU15 +41 +/-20 -40*
(of which) EU8 +12 +/-14 -7
(of which) EU2 +34 +/-13 -30*
Non-EU +205 +/-24 +40*
(of which) Asia +135 +/-18 +29*
(of which) Rest of World +60 +/-14 +16
1. EU other and Other Europe citizenship groupings are not included as separate groups in the table but are included under the EU and non-EU totals.
5. Statistically significant change at the 5% level is indicated by an asterisk.
Download this table Table 2: Net migration by citizenship
Fewer EU citizens are coming to the UK, and the number leaving the UK has risen
Figure 3: EU Long-Term International Migration
Download this chart Figure 3: EU Long-Term International Migration
The number of EU citizens coming to the UK (220,000) decreased by 47,000 over the last year and is now at a level comparable with 2014 (Figure 3 and Table 3). The number leaving the UK (130,000) is the highest recorded level since 2008. As a result, EU net migration has now returned to the level last seen in 2012.
Citizens from the EU15 and EU2 groups have driven the fall in EU net migration in the latest period, with the number of each group leaving the UK increasing and now at the highest levels recorded. There were also fewer EU15 and EU2 citizens arriving in the UK, although the decrease for EU15 citizens was not statistically significant. Previous periods also saw large changes for EU8 citizens.
Table 3: Immigration and emigration to and from the UK by citizenship
Total 578 +/-35 -20 334 +/-23 +9
British 73 +/-15 +1 125 +/-12 -3
EU 220 +/-23 -47* 130 +/-17 +28*
(of which) EU15 111 +/-16 -22 70 +/-13 +18*
(of which) EU8 51 +/-11 -6 39 +/-9 +1
(of which) EU2 53 +/-11 -21* 20 +/-8 +10*
Non-EU 285 +/-22 +26 80 +/-9 -15*
(of which) Asia 180 +/-17 +21* 45 +/-6 -7
(of which) Rest of World 88 +/-13 +5 28 +/-6 -11*
4. CI is the confidence interval.
Download this table Table 3: Immigration and emigration to and from the UK by citizenship
Net migration of non-EU citizens similar to early 2016
Net migration of non-EU citizens has increased by 40,000 over the last year. Whilst the overall increase in immigration (up 26,000) was not statistically significant, the increase seen for Asian citizens arriving to the UK was statistically significant (up 21,000) (Table 3).
The number of non-EU citizens leaving the UK has decreased over the last year. This decrease in emigration, along with the increase in immigration, led to the increase in net migration for non-EU citizens.
It should be noted that this latest increase follows a low level of non-EU immigration in the year ending September 2016. Looking at the underlying reasons why non-EU citizens arrived in the UK, this low level was due to a fall in non-EU citizens coming to the UK to study which was not reflected in the most comparable visa data (further details can be found in Section 7). Therefore, any interpretation of the latest increase in non-EU immigration and net migration should be made with caution and the longer-term trends assessed rather than just the year on year change.
More detailed Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) estimates of immigration, emigration and net migration by citizenship over time, along with confidence intervals around all the estimates can be found in Table 1 and Chart 1TS in the accompanying datasets.
6. Fewer EU migrants coming to the UK for work
The total number of people coming to work in the UK was 248,000 in the year ending September 2017, a decrease of 45,000 on the previous year and comparable to the level seen in 2014. This decrease is driven by fewer EU citizens coming to the UK looking for work.
In the year ending September 2017, the number of EU citizens coming to work in the UK has fallen by 58,000, driving the decrease in EU immigration. The most noticeable changes are seen for:
EU15 citizens (down 24,000) – lowest estimate since 2013
EU8 citizens (down 18,000) – lowest estimate for both work-related and looking for work since their accession
The numbers of EU citizens arriving with a definite job saw a small decrease over the last year (not statistically significant) (Figure 4a). The number of EU citizens coming to the UK looking for work decreased by 35,000 over the last year, again particularly driven by EU15 and EU8 citizens (Figure 4b), continuing a fall which began in the year ending September 2016. Estimates for EU2 citizens also decreased over the last year but the change was not statistically significant.
Figure 4a: EU citizens coming to the UK with a definite job
Download this chart Figure 4a: EU citizens coming to the UK with a definite job
Figure 4b: EU citizens coming to the UK looking for work
UK, 2007 to 2017 (ar ending September 2017)
No contact was made with an EU2 citizen arriving in the UK ‘looking for work’ in YE Dec 07 or YE Jun 08, and so data cannot be displayed for these periods.
Download this chart Figure 4b: EU citizens coming to the UK looking for work
More detailed estimates over time by main reason for migration can be found for Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) in Table 2 and by citizenship and main reason for IPS in Table 3 in the accompanying datasets.
In order to work in the UK, a person requires a National Insurance Number (NINo) and, if a citizen from a non-European Economic Area (EEA) country, a valid work visa (dependent on type of work and length of stay). These administrative requirements provide additional data sources and can be used to help build a more comprehensive picture of those arriving to the UK for work. Although not directly comparable to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates, due to differing definitions, these sources provide a more timely indication of the pattern for long and short-term immigration for work.
Work visas are issued to non-EEA citizens only. Figures are for both short-term and long-term visas (including dependants) and so the total figures published are higher than the ONS estimates for non-EU citizens immigrating to work. Latest figures for the year ending December 2017 show the total number of work-related visas granted slightly increased to 165,131 (a 1% increase). The majority of these were Skilled (Tier 2) visas granted (94,247) up 1% over the year.
Indian nationals accounted for over half of all skilled work visas granted, whilst 40% of sponsored visa applications were from within the Information Technology sector.
More detailed statistics by visa category, citizenship, industry sector and the underlying data can be found in the Home Office Immigration Statistics release.
NINo registrations, from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), are for all nationalities and include both short and long-term migrants and so the figures are much higher than the ONS estimates. Although not directly comparable they can provide useful insights into trends of different nationalities1.
Latest figures for the year ending December 2017 show there were 683,000 NINo registrations overall (a decrease of 17% over the year):
497,000 from EU citizens (down 21% over the year), including 188,000 EU15, 113,000 EU8, and 193,000 EU2
185,000 from non-EU nationals (down 7% over the year).
Within the EU and non-EU, specific citizenship groups account for larger numbers of NINo registrations (Table 4).
Table 4: Top five individual nationalities, registrations in year to December 2017 (thousands) and the % change from previous year
Romania 154 (-19%) India 32 (-10%)
Poland 62 (-34%) Pakistan 12 (0%)
Italy 51 (-19%) Australia 11 (-12%)
Bulgaria 39 (-8%) China 11 (-15%)
Spain 36 (-25%) United States 10 (-2%)
Source: National Insurance number registrations to adult overseas nationals, Department for Work and Pensions
Download this table Table 4: Top five individual nationalities, registrations in year to December 2017 (thousands) and the % change from previous year
NINo summary tables provide more detail by nationality and location of registrations in the UK. Further information including detail on data sources, uses and limitations of the series is provided in the background information.
Differences between the data sources are described in Comparing sources of international migration statistics.
EU nationals more likely to be in employment than UK and non-EU nationals
Estimates of the labour market activity of the resident population in the UK by nationality and country of birth are published quarterly and measure the net change in employment, unemployment and inactivity. They are not designed to provide a measure of migration flows.
These statistics are derived from the Labour Force Survey up to the latest period, that is, October to December 2017. The latest estimates show that2:
there were 2.35 million EU nationals working in the UK, 101,000 more than for a year earlier
there were 1.17 million non-EU nationals working in the UK, 68,000 fewer than for a year earlier
the employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 years who were in work) was 81.2% for EU nationals, higher than that for UK nationals (75.6%) and higher than that for non-EU nationals (63.2%)
These data include people resident in the UK for many years as well as more recent arrivals, and also include those who are moving in and out of employment or between labour market statuses. Changes in the labour market stock cannot be directly compared with long-term net migration, and so the best measure of total migration flows into and out of the UK is the International Passenger Survey (IPS) and the Long-Term International Migration estimates.
The flows show that more people are arriving in the UK than leaving meaning that net migration is above zero. This means that migration is adding to the non-UK population, which is reflected in the increasing numbers of non-UK workers.
Notes for: Fewer EU migrants coming to the UK for work
National Insurance number (NINo) registrations and IPS estimates should not be directly compared. The figures are based on the recorded registration date on the National Insurance Recording and Pay As You Earn System (NPS) (after the NINo application process has been completed). See note on the difference between NINo and long-term international migration. NINo allocations to adult overseas nationals and nationality at point of NINo registration of DWP working age benefit recipients (NINo benefit claimants) are no longer badged as National Statistics. The statistics continue to be published as official statistics following Office for Statistics Regulation reassessment of the statistics. The full assessment can be found on the UK Statistics Authority website in a report on the reassessment of the NINo statistics.
Statistical significance testing is not available for EU and non-EU breakdowns.
7. Study is the second most common reason to come to the UK
Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) estimates showed that immigration for study (163,000) increased by 29,000 compared with the previous year and is now at a similar level to that seen in early 2016. Of those whose main reason for long-term immigration was study, almost three quarters (113,000) were non-EU citizens, which saw an increase of 26,000 compared with the previous year, returning to the level seen in early 2016 (Figure 5).
However, this time last year we saw a decrease in the number of non-EU citizens arriving to study, which was not reflected in the most comparable Home Office’s student visa data. So, this year’s increase appears to be driven by the unusual dip we saw last year, as the latest estimate shows a return to the level before this dip. Therefore, any interpretation of this latest increase should be made with caution and the longer-term trends assessed rather than just the year on year change.
Student immigration follows a seasonal pattern, with the majority of international students arriving between July and September (the start of the academic year). As such, annual figures typically change most in the year ending September period. The increase in the numbers coming to study seen in the latest figures will reflect intake for the 2017 to 2018 academic year.
The number of long-term Home Office student visas (for 12 months or more) issued over the year to September 2017 to main applicants increased 8% compared with the previous year.
Figure 5: EU citizens coming to the UK for study
Download this chart Figure 5: EU citizens coming to the UK for study
The long-term trend in non-EU student immigration is influenced by policy. Since 2010, the Home Office have implemented a range of measures to improve compliance within the sponsored study route for non-EU nationals. These changes are reported in the Second report on statistics being collected under the exit checks programme (page 7) and will have influenced the decrease seen in the IPS figures from 2011 (Figure 5).
Study visas are for non-European Economic Area (EEA) citizens only, but figures include both short and long-term visas. The figures published by the Home Office are therefore higher than the ONS estimates for non-EU citizens. Although not directly comparable, due to differing definitions, the Home Office visa data provide a more timely indication of the pattern for long and short-term immigration for study for non-EAA citizens.
In the year ending December 2017, there were 223,536 study-related visas granted (including dependants), an increase of 8%. This excludes the short-term study category.
Three nationalities (China, United States and India) accounted for over half (53%) of the study-related visas granted in 2017, with the largest number going to Chinese nationals (88,456 or 40% of the total).
The latest research on understanding international student migration was published in August 2017. Differences between ONS and Home Office data are explained further in Comparing sources of international migration statistics.
More detailed estimates over time by main reason for migration can be found for LTIM in Table 2 and by citizenship and reason for IPS in Table 3 in the accompanying datasets. More detailed statistics and underlying data on visas for study reasons and by sector can be found in the Home Office Immigration Statistics release.
8. Work is the most common reason people leave the UK
Migrating to the UK for work or study are the two most common reasons for coming to the UK. Work-related reasons are also the most common reason for people leaving the UK (two-thirds of whom have a definite job to go to).
There are other reasons why people come to, or leave, the UK, including accompanying or joining others already in the UK or abroad. Total emigration figures include UK citizens moving overseas as well as foreign citizens who were previously resident in the UK returning home or moving to a new place to live (Table 5).
Table 5: Immigration and emigration to and from the UK by main reason
UK, year ending (YE) September 2017
Work 248 +/-24 -45* 179 +/-15 +12
Definte Job 173 +/-21 -17 118 +/-12 +13
Looking for Work 75 +/-12 -28* 62 +/-8 0
Study 163 +/-19 +29* 22 +/-5 -1
Accompany or Join 81 +/-13 +7 25 +/-5 0
Going home to live 15 +/-6 -3 53 +/-13 +5
Other 21 +/-10 +5 20 +/-6 -4
No reason 9 +/-4 -6 18 +/-6 -9
Source: Long-Term International Migration and International Passenger Survey, Office for National Statistics
1. Figures for 2017 are provisional.
2. Accompany or join means accompanying or joining others and includes those migrating to “accompany or join” a partner or immediate family; it includes those migrating to get married and those who, on prompting, gave no further reason of their own for migrating.
3. The breakdowns ‘Going home to live’, ‘Other’ and ‘No reason’ are IPS only data as such this table will not sum to the adjusted LTIM estimate.
4. ‘Other’ includes any other stated reason, for example, working holidaymakers, those visiting friends and family, anyone taking a long holiday as well as migrants who are travelling for religious reasons.
5. ‘No reason’ includes non-responses and the response "Emigrating or Immigrating".
Download this table Table 5: Immigration and emigration to and from the UK by main reason
More detailed estimates over time can be found for Long-Term International Migration (LTIM) in Table 2 and for International Passenger Survey (IPS) in Table 3 in the accompanying datasets. More detailed statistics and underlying data on visas for family reasons can be found in the Home Office Immigration Statistics release.
How many people are granted asylum or protection in the UK?
Long-term international migration estimates are adjusted to include refugees and asylum seekers.
In 2017, there were 14,767 grants of asylum, alternative forms of protection and resettlement (40% of who were under 18 years of age), compared with 15,156 in the previous year. This comprised of:
7,469 grants of asylum to main applicants and dependants (down 11%)
1,086 grants of alternative form of protection to main applicants and their dependants (down 29%)
6,212 people provided with protection under a resettlement scheme (up 19%).
Additionally, 5,218 family reunion visas were issued to partners and children of those granted asylum or humanitarian protection in the UK, a 14% decrease since last year.
These data are provided by the Home Office and more detailed statistics and underlying data on asylum and protection can be found in the Home Office Immigration Statistics release.
9. Links to related statistics
This publication is one of a suite of migration-related statistics and analysis, which together give a more comprehensive view on migration into and out of the UK.
Today (22 February 2018) the regular quarterly outputs are released across the Government Statistical Service:
this jointly published Migration Statistics Quarterly Report (MSQR) and Office for National Statistics accompanying datasets
Home Office Immigration Statistics, October to December 2017
Department for Work and Pensions National Insurance Number allocations to adult overseas nationals to December 2017
This quarter ONS also release a blog to explain more about what you need to know about the latest figures.
The Home Office are also releasing Statistics on changes in migrants’ visa and leave status: 2016.
If you are new to migration statistics, you might find it helpful to read the Migration Statistics First Time User Guide.
There are many sources of official statistics that measure the number and characteristics of international migration into and out of the UK (flows) as well as the migrants who have settled in the UK (stocks). Taken together they provide a rich picture of migration in the UK. The ONS international migration and the Home Office migration research and analysis pages provide links to further publications. Differences between these sources and the definitions used are described in the summary note Comparing sources of international migration statistics.
Government statisticians are responding to demand for more information on the impact of migration by collaborating and data sharing across government to improve the information that is currently available. International migration data and analysis: Improving the evidence describes our future work programme. A further update on progress of this collaboration was published in a blog from the Deputy National Statistician for Population and Public Policy in ONS forum signals new era for migration statistics.
If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, please send an email to pop.info@ons.gov.uk with the subject title “Subscribe to ONS Population Statistics Newsletter”, or you can also follow our Director of Migration Statistics @JayLindop_ONS on Twitter for the latest population statistics news and updates and to join in the conversation.
The Long-Term International Migration Quality and Methodology Information report contains important information on:
For more detailed information on our migration statistics methodology please see International migration methodology.
A note on the accuracy of long-term migration estimates
Surveys gather information from a sample of people from a population. Using the International Passenger Survey (IPS) as an example, the population is passengers travelling through the main entry and exit points from the UK including airports, seaports and the Channel Tunnel. The estimates produced are based on only one of a number of possible samples that could have been drawn at a given point in time. Each of these possible samples would produce an estimated number of migrants. These may be different from the true value that would have been obtained if it were possible to ask everyone passing through about their migration intentions. This is known as sampling variability.
A confidence interval is a measure of the uncertainty around the estimate. Confidence intervals are reported in the accompanying datasets. Users are advised to be cautious when making inferences from estimates with relatively large confidence intervals. For immigration and emigration estimates where the lower confidence interval is below zero, users should assume the estimate is above zero. Estimates from a survey could change from one period to the next simply due to sampling variability. In other words, the change may be due to which individuals were selected to answer the survey and may not represent any real-world change in migration patterns.
For further information on confidence intervals, the accuracy of these statistics, comparing different data sources, and the difference between provisional and final figures, please see International migration methodology.
The quality of the long-term student migration statistics – former student emigration estimates are now labelled as Experimental Statistics. As part of the ONS work plan on student migration the latest research on understanding international student migration was published in August 2017. This report focuses on analysis of Home Office exit check data for non-EU students and the results of a new student survey exploring student intentions on completion of study.
Revisions to net migration estimates in light of the 2011 Census
In April 2014, we published a report examining the quality of international migration statistics between 2001 and 2011, using the results of the 2011 Census. As a result, we published a revised series of net migration estimates for the UK. Published tables have been updated to include the revised estimates. The report, a summary and guidance on how to use these revised figures are available. No revisions were made to separate immigration and emigration estimates at the time the net migration estimates were revised.
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International migration statistics first time user guide
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International Migration: Table of Contents
Home Office – Immigration statistics quarterly release
Department for Work and Pensions – National Insurance number allocations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK
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Charley Pride Photo Credit: Joseph Llanes
Charley Pride’s family makes funeral and services announcement
Nashville, Tenn. – Charley Pride, whose rich baritone voice and impeccable song-sense altered American culture, passed away Saturday, December 12, 2020, in Dallas, Texas of complications from COVID-19 at age 86.
Charley Pride’s family and close friends will hold a private wake and memorial in Dallas this week, with future plans for a public celebration of life memorial ceremony to be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to The Pride Scholarship at Jesuit College Preparatory School, St. Phillips School and Community center, any local food bank, or the charity of your choice.
As part of a special tribute announced today by CMT, ‘ CMT Remembers Charley Pride’ is a celebration honoring the extraordinary life and legacy of one of the most influential, decorated, and impactful country artists in the history of the genre. Featuring three decades of interviews and commentary from Pride himself, blended alongside archival footage of his greatest hits and most memorable performances, the half-hour event follows the Country Music Hall of Famer from his humble beginnings in Mississippi to his rise to CMA Entertainer of the Year with an unprecedented string of hits. Despite facing pervasive racism throughout this legendary career, Pride’s perseverance and unmatched talent transcended generations, broke down barriers, and blazed a new path for black country artists.
The special will include appearances and footage from some of Pride’s closest friends, colleagues, and admirers, including Darius Rucker, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Tim McGraw, Shania Twain, and more, alongside his beloved family, his wife Rozene, son Dion, sister Maxine and his brother Joe.
This will air Wednesday, December 16th at 8 PM ET / 7 PM CT on CMT. The special will receive two encore presentations: Thursday, December 17th (9 AM ET / 8 AM CT) and Saturday, December 19th (12 PM ET/11 AM CT).
Charley Pride celebrated more than 50 years as a recording artist. He enjoyed one of the most successful careers in the history of country music and is credited with helping to break color barriers by becoming the first black superstar within the genre. A true living legend, he sold tens of millions of records worldwide with his large repertoire of hits. A three-time GRAMMY® award and Recording Academy “Lifetime Achievement Award” winner, Pride garnered no less than 36 chart-topping country hits, including “Kiss An Angel Good Morning,” a massive #1 crossover hit that sold over a million singles and helped Pride land the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” award in 1971 and the “Top Male Vocalist” awards of 1971 and 1972. A proud member of the Grand Ole Opry, Pride performed concerts worldwide and has toured the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand over the last several years. He received the Crossroads Of American Music Award At the 2019 GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi Gala in November of 2019, and the Country Music Association’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award one year later in November 2020. On December 12, 2020, Pride died at the age of 86 from complications due to COVID-19. His memory and storied legacy will live on through his vast library of stories and songs, with forthcoming plans for a final album release, public celebration of life ceremony, tribute concert, and biopic film.
CMT is the leading authority on country music and lifestyle, offering a mix of original series, music events, and specials. CMT is everywhere its fans are including two cable channels (CMT and the 24-hour music channel, CMT Music), radio (CMT Radio), digital (CMT.com), and social (@CMT on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube). CMT is a unit of ViacomCBS Inc. (Nasdaq: VIACA, VIAC) (“ViacomCBS”). For more information, please visit cmtpress.com.
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The Huronia
Regional Centre
The vision for the Orillia Centre of Arts + Culture originally focused on repurposing the Huronia Regional Centre.
The Ontario government first established a convalescent hospital in Orillia in 1861 in a converted hotel which stood in what is now Couchiching Beach Park. The outline of the foundation of the original building is visible during dry weather. It is located next to the Champlain Monument in the park. Between 1885 and 1891 the institution expanded to its current site on the shores of Lake Simcoe.
While the growth of the Centre was continuous through the next half-century, by the early 1960s overcrowding and dilapidation were now taking a toll on the facility and its residents. The 1970s saw a change in attitude toward those with developmental disabilities—from institutionalized care to community inclusion.
The number of residents of the Huronia Regional Centre declined from nearly 3,000 residents in 1968 to less than 350 by the time the Centre was closed in March of 2009.
In 2010, former residents of the Centre started a class-action lawsuit against the government alleging that the Centre’s staff perpetrated systemic physical, sexual and emotional abuse against the residents. The lawsuit was settled with a financial payment and formal apology to the affected residents.
Today, the site houses the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Headquarters. Other buildings have been converted to a Courthouse and the OPP Academy.
The original farm is now the site of Georgian College’s Orillia Campus.
A collection of artwork by former residents of the Huronia Regional Centre is part of the permanent collection of the Creative Spirit Art Centre in Toronto. Former residents of the Centre continue to share their stories so that we may all continue to learn from their experience.
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Home > In the News > Benjamin Franklin, the First IP Pirate?
Benjamin Franklin, the First IP Pirate?
Thom Holwerda 2010-09-20 In the News 21 Comments
“What would Benjamin Franklin have thought about P2P file sharing? We’ll never know, but a new book portrays him as a skeptic of intellectual property and an advocate for the common ownership of inventions and ideas.” What a surprise. A person with brains favouring loose IP laws. Anyone with two braincells to rub together understands that a free flow of information and knowledge is beneficial to human development.
nt_jerkface
Like many of the founders of this country, Franklin didn’t really see copy or patent rights as “rights,” Hyde contends. He saw them as temporary monopoly privileges, designed to encourage writers and inventors to produce things that would ultimately accrue to the common good. To the extent that he supported these sort of monopolies, it was to coax the best out of people.
We already have that, copyrights do not last forever and the works eventually become public domain.
What a poorly written article.
Lifetime + 70 years. That’s temporary in the same way 6 billion is a few.
Sure, you disagree with it. As such, it MUST be poorly written. Could also be that one of the brightest men in our history is more likely to be right than some random guy on the internet such as yourself (or myself).
That isn’t eternal which is what Franklin was against. Patents only last 20 years which the author didn’t bother to mention.
http://law.freeadvice.com/intellectual_property/patent_law/patent_d…
Sure, you disagree with it. As such, it MUST be poorly written.
No it is a poorly written article because he does not support the thesis. He never showed how Franklin was in any way a pirate. Franklin wanted a temporary monopoly to support intellectual property development and we have that. Pirates do not follow IP laws by definition.
UltraZelda64
It might as damn well be eternal. Lifetime+ 70 years is enough time not only for the creator to be dead several times over, but also everyone else who was alive during his (or her) life, as well as several generations before and after. And if everyone’s dead, then what is the point in having it public domain? It’ll be so damn old, no one in the future will care or even remember it anymore. It’ll be news that’s so unheard of at the time, no one will even know. Everyone who would have known… will be dead.
Kind of goes against the whole idea of knowledge going back to the public.
vodoomoth
And if everyone’s dead, then what is the point in having it public domain? It’ll be so damn old, no one in the future will care or even remember it anymore.
That would have been true if humanity used to relearn, recreate everything from scratch each 20 or 25 years. Things are not so. We all hear Bach or Mozart each year. Anyone can play that music wherever they like and in front of as many people as they like without infringing on a copyright.
The point in having it in public domain is that a few people get the legal right to use it as they wish. You can’t do the same with Albeniz’s music. And yes, I do think that 70 years is ridiculously long.
I also think that the “copyright” concept has been abused. Here’s an anecdote: there’s been an example here in France, a few months/years ago, when kids sang a song at a fair (“kermesse” as we say here) organized by their school. A few days later, the national pseudo-equivalent of the RIAA asked the school to pay fees for the song the kids sung… a song that everybody knows here. The school refused, the others insisted. In the end, the artist whose song it was offered to pay the fees. End of story. I’m not sure copyright was meant for asking fees from primary schools or people who gather around a fire and strum guitars. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to just quote authors.
It’ll be news that’s so unheard of at the time, no one will even know. Everyone who would have known… will be dead.
This is not about news, it’s about intellectual creation… books, music, and what else. News get stale quickly by nature. I don’t think copyrighted material have the same defect.
We all hear Bach or Mozart each year. Anyone can play that music wherever they like and in front of as many people as they like without infringing on a copyright.
We do? I don’t know, the “popular” crap gets rammed in my ears so hard and often I can’t recall the last time I heard Bach or Mozart. When I was in school, in music class, maybe? Okay, I admit, I don’t like classical music either.
Maybe “news” was the wrong word. But my point still stands: people will not even know WTF a lot of stuff even is by the time it reaches the public domain, if they even hear about it at all. And they might not, being deafened by the latest pop, or the “Britney Spears” of ~140 years from now [using that number as an example, assuming the creator lives to see around 70 and then dies]. Same goes for movies and video games–by the time any of those hit the public domain, they’ll have been long forgotten and the advertisement companies will further help (hurt?) the cause by overloading people with ads of the “latest and greatest”.
Corporations want people to forget, and with their advertising $$$ coupled with the obscene length of copyright, people WILL forget.
The original versions of ‘The House on Haunted Hill’ and ‘Night of the Living Dead’ are two movies which are (surprisingly) apparently in the public domain (full movies for free on archive.org btw, in case anyone is interested…), but most people probably don’t know that. And even then, both are still being sold on modern video formats, further hiding the fact. If that’s the case for some oddball 42-51 year old movies, then just imagine what it will be like in just two or three more decades… and that’s still not near the hypothetical 140 years, using the above 70-year-life-of-creator example.
I smell a blowhard
crazed-glue
There’s a little more context that the article didn’t give that’s worth mentioning. Regarding Franklin’s Irish example, Ireland was infamous for pirating books and undercutting English and Continental publishers. Ireland was also well known for printing banned books or highly controversial pamphlets, which goes along with the whole pirate ethos. So for Franklin to specifically praise Irish publishing comes pretty close to being a pirate. Without a photo of him actually buying a pirated copy, however, I guess the RIAA can’t legally exhume his body to serve him a court order.
Neolander
A patent lifetime of 20 years is HUGE. It was okay when programmable devices did not exist, but now it’s just ridiculously high.
Consider that if something was copyrighted in Windows 1, the copyright was valid until 2007. As an example, if tiled windows were copyrighted, some hobby OS using it in 2004 would have to pay patent fees because of a long-forgotten OS which had an extremely poor reception and was ditched a few years after anyway. That’s just ridiculous.
Things go in the same way about the 70 years copyright lifetime. See the kid example of vodoomoth. Consider also that it means that some kid whose sole merit was to be the son of a long-dead artist can claim ownership on his father’s songs and endlessly sue people about it.
Oh please, ever heard about the Copyright Extension Act (also known as ‘Mickey Mouse Protection Act’? Politicians will continue to be bribe…lobbied, and copyright will continue to be extended.
jabbotts
“copyrights do not last forever”
Well, that may not have been the original intention but we’re seeing businesses renew copyright and in some cases reverse public domain; item outlives it’s copyright and becomes public property and then magically, it’s copyrighted again. Disney is one of the media companies that’s pulled that trick off I believe.
Under the current litigious mess we live with, copyright can be made to last forever.
jefro
It used to be that the Government protected works for only a short amount of time. That time was to allow the inventor or creator time to at least make some money. Then the work was to be turned over to the public to enrich the nation. Sadly crooks have stolen from the people. The crooks are in Congress and in Big Companies.
Almafeta
It used to be that the Government protected works for only a short amount of time.
It used to be that governments didn’t protect works at all, except perhaps from other governments. Granted, this was around the same time where if you sold a piece of land, all the people that lived on the land went with the sale. It used to be that all rights (including copyright) were possessed by the head of state and franchised out individually; if the ruler didn’t approve of your work, of course you weren’t allowed to print it, much less make a profit off of it.
Of course, this changed once nations began creating constitutions (or equivalent legal precedents) that granted the franchise to create and own property (whether intellectual or physical) back to the people. The idea of your ownership of your own creation expiring, rather than being passed according to one’s wishes, is a throwback to the days where the people were owned by the Government.
bannor99
These should give a bit more insight into the character of one of America’s Great Men:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_Proudly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistr…
Ciremun
And what exactly are you trying to bring forth with these wikipedia articles? That Franklin could also write witty satire? That he was also capable of producing text of sexual nature? In what way are these works of his not intellectual?
Even if he did produce something unintellectual – and who would believe otherwise – what would it prove? That he’s a man? Why would he lose any credibility even if it was discovered that he wrote a poem consisting of only profane words and illustrated it with a crude sketch of a penis?
Clearly, you’re no Ben Franklin. Please duck when you hear the whooshing sound passing overhead.
Sheesh!
Nice retort, clearly shows what your mind’s capable of.
I’m guessing I should take cover while I’m at it as it seems that’s all I’m getting from you.
Considering that it looks like you signed up to OSnews ( or created a duplicate account) specifically to respond to my post, it looks like you’ve already taken cover.
And, you’re the one who came out swinging. As any good boxer will tell you, if you do that, and forget to duck, expect to get clocked.
For the record, I’ve been an admirer of Mr Franklin since I first read about the man decades ago. And discovering his wit only made me like him more.
Tuishimi
He had quite the sense of humor. He was also quite the “ladies man.”
mrhasbean
Anyone with two braincells to rub together understands that a free flow of information and knowledge is beneficial to human development.
Certainly in a Utopian society where everyone has everything they need to exist and can dedicate their lives to the betterment of humanity the “free flow of information and knowledge” could exist. Unfortunately we don’t live in that world. We do live in the one where you have to pay to eat and live. When you have a family to feed and bills to pay you simply cannot afford to do it gratis.
That said, the current system is also broken, the timeframes are too long and trolling is too easy. There has to be a middle ground – finding it will be the challenge.
What a weird assumption…
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Advance Your Career! One Student’s Journey to a Paralegal Certificate.
Posted by Katie Fridsma
Sep 11, 2013 10:32:00 AM
David Mosier had already been working as a paralegal for decades when he enrolled to be a student at Center for Advanced Legal Studies. David was in the litigation support industry, and the job prospects were withering due to a declining economy. As an independent contractor, it was becoming increasingly difficult to land jobs.
A Legal Background
Ironically, David's father is one of the most prominent real estate attorneys in Harris County. Why did David not follow the well-worn footsteps of his father and become an attorney?
It certainly wasn't for lack of trying on his father's behalf. When David was in high school, he would help out at his father's busy law practice. He learned how the office ran and a little bit about the practice of law. But David went to college for music education, until life happened and he needed to drop out of school to take care of his new family. His father encouraged him to finish college and then go on to law school so David could carry on the family business.
But David chose a different path to the legal field. Since he already had a “mild background in the legal industry,” he and his brother started a litigation support business. For 25 years, that was enough, but five children later, David needed better security and a chance to make a better living.
A School Chosen by Legal Professionals
David's father suggested that he pursue formal training in the legal field, and David could see the logic in the suggestion. Getting his Paralegal Certificate would enable him to advance the career he already had.
Already a professional in the legal field, he wanted the very best education he could get, and thoroughly researched his options for paralegal education. Center for Advanced Legal Studies (CALS) stood out as an institution that concentrated solely on training paralegals and doing that job well. The reputation of CALS impressed David and he signed up.
Reinforcing Legal Knowledge and Adding Skills
Being familiar with the law and the role of paralegals might have made classes at CALS repetitive for David. At that time, he was working for Child Protective Services of Harris County, and he already knew a lot about family law.
But he said this of his paralegal classes: “A lot of the stuff that I was doing on a daily basis, I went over in class. I saw the practical applications of the theory in my job, and it reinforced what I was doing at work.” He was especially intrigued by Immigration, Intellectual Property, and Criminal Law. These were areas that David knew little about and exposure to them has allowed him to expand his career opportunities. Even though David had been most recently employed in the family law arena at the Harris County's Attorney's office, after graduating from CALS, he is now employed in the real estate industry.
Unforeseen Benefits for Paralegal Students
As a mature student and a legal professional, his goal was clearly in mind: He'd do his work, get his certificate, and get out. Working full time, seeing to his hectic family, and going to school in the evenings did not allow for a lot of social time. But even though making new friends was not a priority for David, there were a few fellow students in his classes that bonded over their work, their shared challenges, and the pressure of managing everything on their plates. They graduated together, remained friends, and now commiserate over work and life. David didn’t realize at the outset the friends and colleagues he could gain over the course of his paralegal studies.
Paralegal Training Increases Self-Confidence
Not only does he have a ready-made support group and a better job, but since attending paralegal classes at Center for Advanced Legal Studies, David has grown in self-assurance. “I'm a lot more confident in my job. I take the initiative and offer my opinion. I can express myself succinctly to my peers and superiors, and I sound like I know what I'm talking about. I've only been here [at my job] for six weeks, but I'm already producing good work for the firm.”
Are you interested in advancing your career through paralegal training? Contact us at info@paralegal.edu or 1.800.446.6931 for more information about our programs. We are here to help you succeed!
Joy Oden is an Adjunct Professor at Center for Advanced Legal Studies and a Guest Blogger for CALS. She writes about her students because she is continually amazed at their desire to change their lives, their ability to overcome difficult circumstances, and their determination to help others.
Topics: paralegal certificate, paralegal degree, graduates and alumni, career, certification, education and training
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Will Virtual Reality go beyond gaming to be widely accepted in media and entertainment?
The introduction of Virtual Reality (VR) devices has begun to reshape the way people consume media, allowing users to be completely immersed in a virtual world through graphical and auditory inputs. As VR hardware prices drop, uptake will increase, with Tractica estimating VR revenue to grow to $21.8 billion worldwide by 2020 at a CAGR of 142%.
That said, the future of VR like many new technologies is still uncertain. While VR offers a new experience, the discomfort of wearing a heavy head gear and reported cases of motion sickness in some users may dampen VR’s rapid proliferation. The last “big” entertainment revolution that required wearable devices, 3D, never met its hyped potential for various reasons such as the lack of 3D content, discomfort of 3D glasses and the need to purchase new 3D-enabled TVs.
Is VR going to be more than a hardware play? Can VR be a major disruptor of the media and entertainment industry? For this to happen, we believe VR must first succeed in the gaming industry which it has the most obvious near term implications on, in order to build enough traction to make an impact on mainstream media.
Satisfying (demanding) gamers’ needs will help in positioning it for mainstream media.
Gamers demand much higher specifications and quality (of gaming) to address issues such as latency and motion sickness, as compared to consumers who sit back to consume entertainment. This can lead us to believe that at the tipping point whereby VR technology becomes good enough to satisfy gamers’ needs, it would also be more than sufficient to cater to mainstream entertainment. That said, VR gaming is still in its infancy stage but demand appears to be positive among the early adopters – with an ever-growing pool of developers building up a library of VR games through open source VR platforms such as Unity and Unreal. The gaming community also has high expectations of VR, with a strong belief that it would revolutionize the future of gaming. According to a report from SuperData Research, video games will be the key driver of virtual reality hardware in 2016 – consumers are expected to spend US$5.1B on virtual reality gaming hardware, accessories and software in 2016, up from US$660M spent in 2015.
The VR hardware ecosystem is developing at a fast pace, and VR devices are becoming more affordable and less clunky.
With VR devices ranging from the affordable Google Cardboard to the mid-tier Samsung Gear VR, up to the top-of-the-range HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, consumers across various market segments would have VR device options within their budget. There has also been multiple iterations for most of the VR devices launched in the market so far (mostly developer kits), improving on the comfort level of the headgear as well as their technical specifications. The Oculus Rift was first introduced to the market via Kickstarter in 2012 and raised US$2.4M, almost 10 times more than the funding it was seeking. Facebook’s subsequent acquisition of Oculus at US$2B in 2014 in turn helped Oculus accelerate their product development and partnerships, with the goal of expanding the applications beyond gaming to entertainment, education and communications in the future.
Media companies and startups alike have also started to experiment with VR content.
NBC Olympics has partnered with Samsung to broadcast 85 hours of VR content from the Rio 2016 games, allowing NBC Sports app users with compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphones and Samsung Gear VR headsets to view footage from the opening and closing ceremonies as well as sports events. Owners of the Samsung Gear VR headsets also can watch content in a virtual environment (e.g. living room/ cinema) on their Netflix VR and Hulu VR apps.
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One up, two down…
All is not as it seems
This could be the quickest market crash in history
Two crash warning signs
Stocks up again overnight.
But wait. Not all is as it seems.
The price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.17%.
The market capitalisation-weighted S&P 500 was only up 0.2%.
And the market cap-weighted NASDAQ Composite index was actually down 0.81%.
One index up. Two indices down.
Has the ‘Trump Effect’ worn off already?
Maybe. We’ll look at how and why below…
Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up by 218.19 points, or 1.17%.
The S&P 500 gained 4.22 points, or 0.2%.
In Europe, the Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 9.7 points, or 0.32%. Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 lost 1.21%, and Germany’s DAX index lost 0.15%.
In Asian markets, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index is up 28.69 points, or 0.17%. China’s CSI 300 is up 0.65%.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 is up 41.87 points, or 0.79%.
On the commodities markets, West Texas Intermediate crude oil is trading for US$44.44 per barrel. Brent crude is US$45.84 per barrel.
Gold is US$1,259.45 (AU$1,654.29) per troy ounce. Silver is US$18.62 (AU$24.46) per troy ounce.
A 200-plus point gain on the Dow Jones Industrial Average usually means it’s a big day for the market.
But when you look at the tiny 0.2% gain for the S&P 500, it’s easy to see that things aren’t quite as they seem.
We won’t go into a long treatise about the benefits or otherwise of a market cap-based stock index over a price-based stock index, except to say that the former is generally more representative of the true market action than the latter.
For instance, the two biggest movers in the Dow were JPMorgan Chase & Co [NYSE:JPM], which was up 4.64%, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. [NYSE:GS], which was up 4.28%.
Combined, they contributed nearly 80 points of the Dow’s 218 point rise.
Yet their combined market capitalisation is around US$350 billion.
Meanwhile, General Electric Company [NYSE:GE], which gained a not-insignificant 2.63% for the day, contributed just five points to the Dow’s rise. It has a market cap of US$269 billion.
The reason is that Goldman Sachs’ share price is US$200.87; JP Morgan’s share price is US$76.65, while GE’s share price is just US$30.41.
When it comes to the Dow, the share price — not market capitalisation — matters.
The disparity is clearer when you compare those gains to some of the big losing stocks.
Apple Inc. [NASDAQ:AAPL] has a market cap of US$574.7 billion. That’s nearly as big as the three previously mentioned companies combined. Yet, because its share price is US$107.79, its 2.79% fall only shaved 21 points off the index.
The net result is that three stocks with a market cap of US$619 billion added 85 points to the index, while one stock with a market cap of US$574 billion only deducted 21 points from the index.
That doesn’t mean the Dow is irrelevant. But it does mean you have to take it with a grain of salt when it gains big, and the S&P 500 barely ekes out a gain at all.
What’s more, there’s another reason to be wary when the two biggest gainers are both bank stocks: JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. And the third biggest gainer is big pharma company, Pfizer Inc. [NYSE:PFE].
Also, on the downside, among the big losers were dividend paying stocks such as Proctor & Gamble Company [NYSE:PG], Coca-Cola Company [NYSE:KO], and Verizon Communications Inc. [NYSE:VZ].
That gives you another clue about interest rates. It means that in order for dividend-paying stocks to remain attractive to investors, share prices need to fall, or dividend payouts need to rise.
If they don’t, investors will ditch those stocks for other, better yielding investments.
You can also see that play out in the sector moves for the S&P 500. Financials were up the most. Dividend paying sectors, such as utilities and consumer staples, were down.
Don’t get us wrong. We love a stock market rally as much as the next investor. But we’re not keen on stock market rallies when it’s only rallying because investors believe stocks will rise, rather than a genuine belief that it’s the result of a strong economy.
What could rising interest rates mean for stocks?
If the last bull market from 2003 to 2007 is anything to go by, then it means nothing but good things for stock prices. Check out the chart below:
The white line is the US S&P 500 index. The red line is the US Federal Reserve’s Fed Funds Rate.
From the low in 2003, to the peak in 2007, the S&P 500 gained 95.5%. That’s a big move. However, by the time the Fed started to raise interest rates, the index had only gained around 42%.
Not only that, but that period of ultra-low interest rates, from the bottom of the market to the first rise, was only a year.
Compare that to what has happened since 2009. As of today, the S&P 500 is up 219%. And the ultra-low interest rates, even if we stop counting from last December’s rate rise, lasted more than seven years.
If we look at the last bull market in isolation, it’s easy to say that higher interest rates don’t necessarily mean stock prices will fall.
But you have to look at the comparison. Stock prices have gone up much more because interest rates were held down for much longer.
So there are two ways you can look at this. There’s the bullish way and the bearish way.
The bullish way would say that if low interest rates created a big bull market last time, then the much longer period of low interest rates should create an even longer lasting bull market this time — after interest rates start to rise.
One year of low interest rates last time resulted in three more years of higher stock prices. They could argue (and we’re sure some will), that seven years of low interest rates should mean 21 more years of higher stock prices!
The bull market will end in 2037.
The bearish argument, as you can guess, will be somewhat less optimistic.
The bearish case will say that you greedy stock investors have already had your bull market. The market only kept rising because it seemed as though interest rates would stay low forever.
The bearish case will say that low interest rates created a whole bunch of malinvestments, which will go sour as soon as rates start to meaningfully rise.
The bearish case will say that if you thought the 2008 market collapse was painful, the next crash will be excruciating.
Oh, and don’t think you have to wait until 2037 for the crash to happen. Bears will argue that once the market hits the peak, the crash will be exponentially quicker than the last one, due to the much larger gain.
As for the timing, we’ll make a bet that Trump’s first nine months in office will be a dream for the markets. Next October, however, that’s when all heck will break loose.
You can quote us on that, too.
Whenever we get worried about the markets, we like to look at two charts. The first is the SPDR BBG Barclays High Yield Bond ETF [NYSE:JNK]. This ETF contains bonds rated below investment grade.
We like to look at this chart because we see it as an early warning sign for a broader market selloff.
The ETF is the white line; the S&P 500 is the yellow line. You’ll notice in 2008 and in 2015, the ETF began to fall before the index.
Interestingly, as the index has gained in the past couple of days, the ETF has fallen. That’s due to the prospect of higher interest rates.
Could it also have something to do with the high-risk nature of the bonds within the index…and the viability of the companies standing behind them? We think it possibly could.
The other chart we look at is the Dow Jones Industrial Average compared to the Dow Jones Transportation Average. Here it is:
This is relevant to the Dow Theory. The theory suggests that if the Industrial Average hits a new high, but the Transportation Average doesn’t, then it hasn’t confirmed a bull market.
The Industrial Average hit a new high overnight. The Transportation Average is still nearly 6% below its high.
That doesn’t mean stocks will crash. If the Transportation Average gains ground and hits a new high, then the Dow Theory says that this confirms a bullish market.
Until then, we shall watch and see.
Many stocks were up overnight. One in particular was down: Amazon.com Inc. [NASDAQ:AMZN].
It has been down since Donald Trump won the presidential election.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos supported Hillary Clinton, as did the newspaper he bought a couple of years ago, the Washington Post.
Last December, Mr Bezos posted this on Twitter:
During the election campaign, Trump voiced his displeasure at Amazon. Trump doesn’t like how many of its products are made overseas. He doesn’t like the dominance Amazon has on the online retailing industry.
He promised to look at ways to curtail Amazon if he became president.
It’s no longer an ‘if’, so now it’s a case of whether he’ll do anything or not. The Amazon.com stock price is down 6% since Tuesday’s close.
But, an olive branch appears. Not from Trump, but from Bezos. Jeff Bezos posted this to Twitter yesterday:
Based on the comments from his followers, it looks as though Mr Bezos and Amazon may have lost more customers from this Tweet than they have gained.
The Washington Post reported this week:
‘The Navy called USS Zumwalt a warship Batman would drive. But at $800,000 per round, its ammo is too pricey to fire.’
The US Defense Department had planned to build 32 of the futuristic looking Zumwalt-class ships. But as the costs rose, the number of orders dropped. First to 24…then to seven…and now, finally, to just three.
So far, the USS Zumwalt is the only one to have been completed.
That’s not surprising, at a price tag of US$4.4 billion per ship. Because of that, the amount of artillery required will be significantly less.
Original estimates were that each round of ammunition would cost a staggering US$50,000. But that was predicated on building 32 shops, and stocking each with 600 rounds.
But now the US Navy only needs (or should that be ‘wants’) three ships, the cost per round of ammunition has skyrocketed to US$800,000. That’s the good old laws of supply and demand for you.
Statists will argue that only a national government can be trusted with national defence. We’ve long disputed that claim. This story only confirms that there is nothing — nothing — that the public sector can do better than the private sector.
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Plymouth landlord admits gas safety offences at home he rented out
Thomas Brumby, aged 42, failed to get appliances checked in rented property
A landlord has pleaded guilty to failing to get the gas appliances checked in a home he rented out.
Thomas Brumby, aged 42, attended Plymouth Crown Court to admit two counts of breaching health and safety laws.
He pleaded guilty to going at least a year without having his appliances and flue checked between 2015 and 2018.
Barrister Sam Jones, for the Health and Safety Executive, said that Brumby had submitted a basis of plea – or his version of events.
He said: “He says that he made efforts to contact the defendant to arrange for an inspection of the boiler to take place in the course of the tenancy.
“The prosecution written response does not accept that.”
Judge Paul Darlow said that case would have to be adjourned for a Newton hearing – or a fact-finding hearing without a jury.
Brumby, of Canterbury Drive, Whitleigh, was released on bail for a date to be fixed.
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Iran’s neo-liberal agenda
June 11, 2010 3:10 PM CST By Jamshid Ahmadi
On the first anniversary of the fraudulent election that secured Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s second term as president, Iran is once again under the international media spotlight. Barely three days after the United Nations Security Council imposed devastating fourth term sanctions on Iran, the fundamentalist regime has clamped down on its seething population and banned the anticipated mass protest demonstrations planned for Saturday June 12, the anniversary of the election. As the world public struggles to balance its total opposition to the UN sanctions and threats of military attack by the U.S. and its allies with its abhorrence of the theocratic dictatorship and the adventurous and ill-thought pronouncements and actions of the Ahmadinejad and his courtiers, this article exposes the true anti-popular roots and intentions of the regime and its continuing impoverishment and subjugation of the Iranian people.
As seen from the outside, Iran’s Islamic regime is superficially characterised by its anti-Western foreign policy and particularly by its verbal attacks against the U.S. and Israel. There is a spectrum of opinion that interprets the regime’s belligerent stance as “anti-imperialist” or rather “anti-American.” However, the vast majority of progressives rightly recognize that beneath its sloganeering facade lies a theocratic and reactionary regime fronted by Ahmadinejad’s illegitimate government. Less noted is the regime’s neo-liberal economic doctrine and its impact on the majority of the population, the working people and the poor.
Since the ending of the Iran-Iraq war in summer 1988, the first peacetime government under Hashemi Rafsanjani, with the support of the spiritual leader (Ayatollah Khamenei), embarked on an IMF-based restructuring of the economy. Rafsanjani’s era, dubbed the “Restructuring Epoch through Economic Adjustment,” was based on the free market mechanisms of privatization, deregulation of the labor market, floatation of the currency and deregulation of prices. This soon left Iran’s economy shattered with 49.5 percent inflation, $34 billion national debt and $22.5 billion trade deficit. At the same time, the rich got richer while the standard of living of the majority of Iran’s population fell massively and structural poverty grew.
In spite of this, neo-liberal economic theory became predominant within various factions of the regime and those in power ignored the mass impoverishment they were creating. Eight years of reformist government, from 1997, led by President Mohammad Khatami, continued on the same damaging neo-liberal path, trying to create investment incentives and a secure climate for private capital in conjunction with deregulation of the labor market. However, increased private sector investment was largely concentrated on non-productive activity, chiefly the import of goods and property speculation, and the free market orientation resulted in more and more painful economic hardship for working people and increased unemployment.
These grave consequences of neo-liberal economics massively discredited the Reformist forces in the eyes of ordinary Iranians and Reformists’ efforts to promote democratic changes and civic society paled into insignificance compared to the deepening poverty suffered by the majority of the people. The Reformists’ unwillingness to confront economic-political corruption and the way in which the rich continued to get richer further fuelled people’s mistrust.
Ahmadinejad, representing one of the most socially reactionary and economically conservative groupings within the regime, was able to capitalize on the adverse and unpopular consequences of the Reformists’ neo-liberal policies and in 2005, backed by the spiritual leader and the “Islamic Guard Corps,” was able to rig the election. At the same time, the Reformists, having lost credibility with the poor and marginalized, were unable to confront the new government.
At the outset, Ahmadinejad’s populist slogans and attacks against the Reformists’ economic plans proved popular among the marginalized and poor and certain disorganized sections of the working people, and his propaganda enabled him to pose as the people’s champion, promising to alleviate chronic poverty, fight corruption and challenge the super-rich. However, it soon became clear that this rogue champion of the people had no intention of reversing the regime’s neo-liberal economic plans. Unrestrained privatization and deregulation of the labor market continued at an even faster pace and workers’ protests were crushed. Behind the smokescreen and his bogus anti-American and anti-corruption ranting, Ahmadinejad intended only to re-brand the regime’s neo-liberal economic orientation, not change it.
Since Ahmadinejad’s first term in office there have been no significant increases in productive investments. The economic growth continues to be based solely on the export of crude oil and a form of parasitic capitalism which is engaged in speculation. The net result has been increasing hardship for working people and the poor. The key difference of Ahmadinejad’s economic program with the one operating before is solely the shifting of the dominant economic beneficiaries within the regime’s elite. His free-market-based economic policies are designed to maximize profit and divert it towards new leading groupings in power.
Given Iran’s under-developed and warped capitalist framework, the adoption of the neo-liberal economic model has been likewise distorted. However, Milton Friedman would have immediately recognized and admired certain fundamentals that are doggedly pursued by Ahmadinejad’s government. Growing privatization of key public assets and the development of a “small government” that shrugs off direct responsibility for national economic development but strictly enforces a non-unionized and cheap labor workforce are examples to note.
What is missing in Iran from Friedman’s neo-liberal model is a totally open competitive market. This is not because of Ahmadinejad’s “anti-capitalist” outlook but because the open market has been deliberately avoided in order to preserve the interest of the oligarchs within the Islamic regime’s ruling circles. The “Islamic Guard Corps” is the key political supporter of Ahmadinejad and its high command has been the main economic beneficiary of the massive privatizations under Ahmadinejad. The Guard’s high command, along with its associated cronies in the regime, is now the powerful and the dominant oligarch in Islamic Iran. It will do anything lawful or unlawful to expand its economic empire, including using intimidation and direct force.
It was during Ahmadinejad’s first term in office that, with the active support of Ayatollah Khamenei, the constitution was amended to require the government to privatize key state assets through Tehran’s Stock Exchange. The lucrative parts of the oil industry, mines and the national telecommunication infrastructure have been the key areas targeted by the commanders of the Islamic Guard. Wherever possible Ahmadinejad’s government has created single-bidder tenders with the Islamic Guard or one of its umbrella organizations as the only contender. To justify this wholesale privatization, Ahmadinejad described it as “giving people’s affairs back to people” and dubbed the privatization as the distribution of “Justice Shares” where ordinary people can become share owners! This is reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher’s “share owning democracy” where, as intended, few shares at all ended up with the people.
In dealing with the government’s economic problems and in particular the growing budget deficit, during the last 12 months Ahmadinejad’s government has embarked on its extremely right-wing “economic shock therapy” which it has dubbed the “great surgery”!
Ahmadinejad’s plans aim to remove all major price subsidies and instead use this money to provide “cash payments” to the disadvantaged. This is one of the main planks of neo-liberal economics advocated by the IMF. This dangerous plan was even opposed by the Parliament that is dominated by the supporters of Ahmadinejad’s rigged election. The legislation had to be forced through with the help of the spiritual leader. All experts are warning that the resulting massive inflationary rise will hurt the working people and the poor. It should be noted that Iran lacks the necessary infrastructures in order to be able to divert the so-called “cash payments” towards those in need.
Ahmadinejad’s government, like its predecessors, sees neo-liberal economics as the remedy to all Iran’s economic problems, while at the same time allowing the regime to protect the economic interests of its elites. Like its predecessors, Ahmadinejad’s government sees the workers of Iran as a dangerous force that needs to be contained in terms of its economic demands, desire to get organized and political activities.
The brutal crackdown by the Islamic Guards on those protesting against the illegal election of Ahmadinejad and continuing imprisonments and executions are not the actions of a state protecting itself against foreign interference. It simply represents the actions of a dictatorship using brute force to protect the political power and massive economic interests of its new oligarchs.
Jamshid Ahmadi is the assistant general secretary of CODIR, Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights. For further information on Iran, visit www.codir.net or contact codir_info@btinternet.com.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightquill/1435157946/ cc 2.0
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New Haven Firebirds struggle for everyone
March 8, 2010 8:40 AM CST
NEW HAVEN — The continued need for affirmative action to achieve fairness and equality for everyone, and to address the economic crisis, won support last weekend at African American History Month events in Hartford and New Haven addressed by Dr. Gerald Horne and the New Haven Firebirds.
The “Working Together for Justice” events hosted by the People’s World drew large multi-racial turnouts. The New Haven overflow event also highlighted the writing and artwork of high school students about racism and stereotyping in their schools, and music and poetry for Haiti by Baub Bidon, Ras Mo Moses, Jeff Fuller and Richard Hill.
In appreciation of the Firebirds, Dr. Horne, professor of African American studies at University of Houston said, “In fighting against tests not related to the job at hand, these heroic New Haven firefighters were simultaneously fighting for a better world, where workers would not be subjected to subjective, unfair and ultimately discriminatory criteria for evaluation.”
He called the battle to protect and extend affirmative action “one of the most profound and important struggles of our time…. to attack the poison that is racism and sexism, which is critical if the class struggle is to be accelerated.”
Accepting an appreciation award and Aldermanic Citation, Firebirds president Gary Tinney, who was at the U.S. Supreme Court for the case of 6,000 African American Chicago firefighters, said the media ignored that case while giving national headlines to 19 white firefighters from New Haven whose case was used unsuccessfully to try to strike down affirmative action and block Sonia Sotomayor from appointment to the Court.
Also awarded were Ron Benson, Firebirds president in the 1990’s and George Sweeney the first African American firefighter in New Haven.
Benson recounted previous court cases in which he was involved that struck down discriminatory practices. A case in 1989 halted promotions to not-yet vacant positions. In 1998 the practice of “under filling” which facilitated promotion of lower rank candidates was ruled to be a violation of civil service laws and intentional discrimination against Black firefighters.
Sweeney, hired onto the force in 1957, was deeply moved. He recalled his first day on the job when no one would acknowledge his presence, and commended ongoing efforts to achieve equality.
In a shocking expose of discrimination against hiring of Black, Latino and women firefighters in departments across the country, Horne emphasized the need to continue organizing around this issue. Even after the US Supreme Court ruled against New Haven, lower courts have upheld correction of discriminatory test results. In New York, a federal judge ordered the Fire Department to give hundreds of Latino and African American applicants jobs, retroactive pay and compensatory damages.
In his remarks, Horne put the issue of affirmative action into the context of the current economic crisis, showing that the racist practice of redlining was a “pivotal reason” for the collapse of the housing bubble in the fall of 2008.
“In Memphis,” he said, “city officials have filed a lawsuit against the banking giant Wells Fargo arguing that this form offered one mortgage to whites and another to Blacks, leading one in eight African Americans to foreclosure as compared to one in 59 for whites.
“When these homeowners are foreclosed, this means fewer property taxes – and layoffs of city workers and more foreclosures as homeowners cannot pay their mortgages – as the economy enters a death spiral,” he concluded.
The need for special targeting of communities hardest hit by the economic crisis for job creation and federal assistance is a logical conclusion.
An inspiring highlight of the afternoon were the essays, poetry and artwork of high school students who entered the competition associated with the event around the theme “Working Together for Justice.” Teachers, parents and siblings came to hear the winning entries and see all the participants receive certificates. Prizes were donated by the Afro-American Cultural Center, African American Studies Department at Yale, Amistad Committee and Peabody Museum. The work can be viewed at ctpeopolebeforeprofits.blogspot.com along with the full text of Dr. Horne’s address.
Also on exhibit were drawings on the same theme made on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at the People’s World table at the Peabody Museum’s event.
The 36th annual celebration raised $2500 toward the Connecticut fund drive for the People’s World.
Photo: Art Perlo
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There is one Poland, president says on Independence Day
Historians say that today's Poland is the most independent, wealthiest and safest Poland since the 17th century, President Andrzej Duda said in his speech at Pilsudskiego Square in Warsaw on Monday, as the country marked its Independence Day.
The main ceremonies took place in Warsaw's central square that bears the name of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the mastermind of Poland's 1918-regained independence. The ceremonies started with the singing of the national anthem. It was sung simultaneously in several hundred locations throughout Poland and abroad. Apart from the president, the observances were also attended by PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Sejm and Senate Speakers Elżbieta Witek and Stanisław Karczewski, respectively, government, army and church officials as well as Poles from all over Poland.
See also: We are Poles and we have Polish responsibilities. From right to left Addressing the gathering, President Duda said that entire generations of Poles did not have the luck we have today, "especially those young people born after 1989 because they do not remember the times when Poland was not fully independent and not fully free."
The president stressed that he was very glad that better understanding our difficult history, "we have been growing more mature as both the state and the Polish nation."
Recalling November 11, 1918, when Poland returned to the map of the world, President Duda emphasised that much blood had to be shed after that date in order to make it possible for Poland to stabilise and have strong borders. In this context he mentioned the Wielkopolskie Uprising, the 1st Silesian Uprising as well as the war against the Soviets with the victorious 1920 Battle of Warsaw, in which the Polish army halted the westward-advancing Red Army on the outskirts of the Polish capital.
President Duda stressed that "we are the Polish people since we have come from this land, irrespective of our nationality."
"We are the Polish people when there is Poland and Polish tradition living in us," the president said, adding that all Poles have responsibilities towards Poland, "from the left to the right."
President Duda underlined that current and future generations should learn a lesson from the fact that Poland develops fastest and is strongest when its citizens realise they have to run Polish matters together.
The head of state also emphasised that the number of Polish people going to the polls during parliamentary and European elections should be going up because "Poland needs this." "High election turnout means that we ever better understand modern democracy and implement it."
"There is one Poland, and there will be one Poland, with all of us serving it. And I deeply believe that we will continue serving it, just like the next generation will do," he said.
President Duda lauded Poland's successes of the last three decades, with special emphasis on the economic situation as well as Poland's membership of the EU and NATO.
"We are a state and a nation, which are respected not only in Poland; our representatives are respected outside its borders," he said, expressing his thanks to his compatriots in Poland and abroad. "This is your achievement. Poland would not look like it does today if it were not for your hard work and effort," he concluded.
Earlier on Monday, President Duda laid flowers at monuments of the six Fathers of Polish Independence and attended, together with his wife, a mass for the homeland, celebrated at the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw. He also awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest distinction, to Professor Andrzej Nowak, a historian, and Professor Grazyna Swiatecka, a cardiologist, and presented state distinctions to several dozen other people. Nowak is the author of the monumental work The History of Poland. Swiatecka was the creator of Anonimowy Przyjaciel (Anonymous Friend), a helpline for people experiencing problems.
Poland regained independence on November 11, 1918, after 123 years of partitions. (PAP)
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After the illegal experiments at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb, Animal Friends invites you to a protest against the beagles torturer
Four months ago, at the time when the general Croatian public was already informed about the dirty affairs at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the beagles kept in smelly, narrow cages, dr Antun Brkic had the nerve to perform arbitrary and ruthlessly arrogant experiments on dogs that were officially in quarantine, during which he and his co-workers fractured bones of 22 beagle dogs. The bone fracturing was performed despite the fact that this "scientific" project was not ratified by the ministries in charge and against the decisive protest of societies for protection of animals' rights, celebrities, Croatian media, and general public. Nevertheless, Antun Brkic is still holding his teaching position at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
Animal Friends invites all citizens to a protest, demanding that all those who are responsible for the beagle affair finally be punished. Antun Brkic should immediately be suspended from his teaching position at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
We also demand that Antun Brkic be expelled from the academic and scientific community, which has, because of its inertia, tolerated among its ranks a failed, would-be scientist, who claims to be morally and ethically justified in torturing and abusing animals.
The protest with banners and a megaphone will take place on Saturday, November 26, 2005, at 12:00 noon, in front of the building in Dugave, Hribarov prilaz 9, where Antun Brkic lives. The rescued beagle dogs, which suffered by having their bones sawed by Brkic and were meant to be killed after several months of experiments, will be present as well.
Antun Brkic has been suspended only from the position of the Director of the Surgery Clinic and the Head of the Clinics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, but he is still working and teaching at the Faculty despite the fact that:
Ljiljana Pinter, the Dean of the Faculty, stated in writing that she would suspend him from all positions at the Faculty until the Ethical Committee has reached its decision
Criminal investigation of the case has not been concluded and the ethical committee has not met in session
During the official quarantine, Brkic and his co-workers have violated the Law on Veterinary Care and the Regulations on the Conditions and Duration of Quarantine for Imported Animals, because of which the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports pressed charges against Brkic with the District and State Attorney's Office, while the Zagreb Association of Animal Welfare Organizations sued him for abusing and injuring animals
The whole procedure contained serious formal and legal flaws, which are currently under investigation by the District and State Attorney's Office
Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports never approved of financing the project entitled "The Efficiency of Blood Clot as the Carrier of BMP in the Healing of Long Bones," which included experiments on rabbits and dogs
Several regulations of the Statute of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb have been violated
The Faculty has not approved of establishing the quarantine for imported beagle dogs on its premises
Experiments of bone fracturing with the purpose of investigating the Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) have already been performed on animals, which violated the Article 28 of the Animal Welfare Act, and three years ago they were performed on humans as well
According to the mentioned law, experiments on animals are admissible only if the supposed pain, suffering, or injury inflicted upon them can be ethically justified through the expected results, which should be of significance to humans or animals, i.e. science, which was not the case.
Such crime, which has no precedents in the history or practice of Croatian veterinary medicine or science, undoubtedly points to the circumstance that the existing flaws in the present Animal Welfare Act are being used in order to torture animals for personal interests.
Therefore, we demand that the prospective Animal Welfare Act should include establishing an Ethical Committee, which would control all experiments and thus be able to use the law in order to prevent and rigorously punish arbitrary and cruel torturing of animals.
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No "additional risk" from curling event, NH says
Hosting the 2020 Women's World Curling Tournament poses little health risk to the city, according to Northern Health.
Northern Health medical health officer Dr. Rakel Kling said the health authority has been monitoring the global outbreak of COVID-19, also known as the corona virus, and currently the risk to Canadians and British Columbians remains low.
"We know that the situation with COVID-19 is changing rapidly," Kling said. "(But) we don't feel there is any additional risk from hosting this event."
While there will be people coming internationally to attend the event, people are arriving in B.C. every day from all over the world through the Vancouver Airport, she said.
Northern Health is in communication with provincial and federal public health authorities, Kling added, and they've been advised there is no reason to cancel planned public events at this time.
The best defense against COVID-19 is good basic hygiene and using the same measures, which are effective against colds and flu, she said.
"The most important thing is washing hands regularly... (And) especially staying home if you're sick," Kling said.
Northern Health spokesperson Eryn Collins said Northern Health routinely works with event organizers to assess potential public health risks. That assessment process builds on work that was done ahead of the 2015 Canada Winter Games, she said.
"We look at things like are they going to be group housing people and mass-feeding them... the venue, is it indoors or outdoors? It looks at all of those things," Collins said. "The focus is very much about having a safe, healthy event."
Curling Canada event manager Terry Morris said the organizers are taking the issue of COVID-19 seriously and is working actively with Northern Health to ensure the event is as safe as possible.
"I discuss corona virus with Curling Canada every other day. It's not something they are taking lightly," Morris said. "The athletes that are taking part in this event are all sanctioned to travel."
The majority of teams are already in Canada, he added. The Italian team is training in Calgary, Japan and South Korea are both training in Vancouver and team China is also in Canada. The Chinese team has been training in Europe since October-November of last year.
The organizers will be distributing Northern Health's information about preventing the spread of COVID-19 to all the teams, volunteers, sponsors and staff, he said.
Each of the teams is made up of five athletes, plus three to five additional support staff, he said. However, the teams may be bringing a number of followers who have purchased tickets as individuals.
"We don't know all the followers who will be coming," Morris said. "Scotland is bringing some followers. The U.S. is bringing some."
However, he said, any people coming to attend the event from outside Canada will have to be screened at the airport in their own country and may be screened upon arrival in Canada as well.
"We know that potentially they are not going to get out of their own country with the virus," Morris said.
CN Centre general manager Glen Mikkelsen said CN Centre and the Kin centres will have additional hand sanitizer stations and signage developed by the World Health Organization. City staff will be cleaning the facilities regularly, to reduce the risk of disease spreading.
Mikkelsen said he's confident the event can be held successfully and safely.
"I was in communication with the general manager of the Brier out in Kingston (Ontario)," he said. "Their event was tremendously successful with full houses for at least the last five draws."
Currently almost 400 volunteers are preparing to host the World Curling Tournament, he added.
"We've only had a couple folks say they're not able to assist because of pre-existing health issues," Mikkelsen said "We're really encouraged by the enthusiasm."
Coun. Kyle Sampson said city council has been hearing from members of the public with the safety of hosting the event, and hearing directly from health officials that there is no additional risk will hopefully allow members of the public to "rest assured this is safe event for Prince George to undertake."
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West Coast Olefins eyeing Summit Lake, Bear Lake sites
This map, provided by West Coast Olefins to McLeod Lake Indian Band members, shows two potential sites for a $5.6 billion petrochemical complex near Summit Lake. Two other locations near Bear Lake are also under consideration.
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West Coast Olefins has identified two potential sites near Summit Lake, and two others near Bear Lake, for its proposed $5.6 billion petrochemical complex.
In a live-streamed presentation to McLeod Lake Indian Band members on Thursday, West Coast Olefins president and CEO Ken James and band representative Terry Kuzma briefed members about the project.
"I see this this as the first step of starting the dialog," James said. "We are trying to get collaboratively ahead, before we start the regulatory process."
Slides made available to McLeod Lake members through Facebook show the two proposed complex sites near Summit Lake, approximately 50 kilometres north of the city. Two other locations near Bear Lake are under consideration, Kuzma said.
The company had initially planned to build the complex at a 300-acre site in the BCR Industrial Site, but after public concerns about air quality were raised the company announced earlier this month it will look locate north of the city instead.
The sites are close to the Enbridge West Coast natural gas pipeline that will provide the feedstock for the plants. The three-part project is expected to include an ethylene plant, ethylene derivatives plant and a natural gas recovery system and produce about one million tonnes per year of polymer-grade ethylene. The majority of that would be used in the adjacent ethylene derivatives plant to produce polyethylene – plastic pellets – and possibly mono-ethylene glycol to be used as antifreeze and heat transfer fluid.
"The pipeline was there, but if you noticed the rail line, the highway and the BC Hydro lines are all through there," James said.
A project like West Coast Olefin's needs access to affordable feedstock, water for cooling towers, power for the compressors and access to Asian markets to succeed, James said. The locations they are looking at meet all of those needs, he said.
The plants would have an approximately 100-acre footprint, and occupy a 300-acre site to allow for setbacks, James said.
The Summit Lake locations are preferable from a business logistics point of view because they are closer to Prince George, Kuzma said.
"From a McLeod Lake perspective, I don't think there's been a green-light on any of the four sites. These sites have not been vetted through the McLeod Lake lands department," Kuzma said. "One of the key milestones will be site selection."
The band's negotiations with the company are subject to a non-disclosure agreement, Kuzma said, but any agreement would include an equity stake for the band and employment opportunities for band companies and members.
"We're very passionate about the Duz Cho group of companies. We have the know-how, we can do the work," Kuzma said. "We want to be part of the front-end of this project."
According to West Coast Olefin's application to the EAO, the first phase of the development would cost about $2.8 billion and create 2,000 to 3,000 jobs during construction from 2021 to 2023. Once complete, the ethylene plant would employ 140 to 180 people directly, and 25 to 50 additional contract employees.
Once all three phases of the complex are complete, they are expected to employ approximately 1,000 people.
James said he expects the majority of the workforce, both during construction and operation of the plant, will come from Prince George.
"The best, most stable workforce is you train the local people. Their families are here," James said. "(At Nova Chemical's Red Deer plant) the farmers we trained to run a petrochemical plant, they stayed for 40 years."
James did not return calls from the Citizen on Friday to provide any further detail about the locations considered.
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Pivot Energy and Joliet Junior College Flip the Switch on New Campus Solar System
America's first community college bolsters commitment to sustainability
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JOLIET, Ill., Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Pivot Energy and Joliet Junior College (JJC) announced today the completion and activation of a 1.3-megawatt (MW) onsite solar system at JJC's Main Campus. The solar array, which consists of 3,542 solar panels, was installed by national solar developer Pivot Energy and will save the college more than $1.6 million in electricity expenses over 25 years.
Over the life of the solar system, it is estimated to produce 61,836,250 kilowatt hours of clean and reliable electricity, enough energy to power more than 5,000 Illinois homes.
The college is expected to offset its total energy consumption by 22.5%, making the campus one of the greenest in the state.
Over the life of the solar system, it is estimated to produce 61,836,250 kilowatt hours of clean and reliable electricity, enough energy to power more than 5,000 Illinois homes. JJC is expected to offset its total energy consumption by 22.5%, making the campus one of the greenest in the state.
The panels were provided by retired Joliet oncologist Dr. Sarode Pundaleeka with Sunlarge Industries. Over the first 10 years, JJC will pay a reduced rate for the energy generated by the panels, after which they will be donated to the college.
"JJC has consistently invested in sustainable practices since our first college campus was completed in the early 1970s," Dr. Judy Mitchell, JJC's president, said. "Not only are we grateful for Dr. Pundeleeka's investment in our institution and sustainable values, but we are ready to take this to the next level, supporting renewable energy and building academic and training opportunities around it."
"Joliet Junior College's longstanding commitment to sustainability is impressive. Thanks to the gracious Dr. Pundaleeka, the college is able to realize cost-savings from day one without any upfront capital needed to pay for the system, and showcase to its student body what good environmental stewardship looks like," said Liz Reddington, director of project development at Pivot Energy.
Pundaleeka hopes the solar array will inspire future generations to pursue careers in clean energy and convey the importance of sustainability to all campus visitors.
"It is phenomenal to see this project completed. This gives a very distinct and progressive look to the campus," Pundaleeka said. "JJC will be in sound economic state without the escalating energy costs."
Since 2000, JJC has completed over 50 sustainability projects, including opening multiple LEED-certified buildings. In addition to the solar project, a pollinator habitat mixture will be planted around the panels using native grasses and forbs, which will support bee and butterfly habitats and aid in drought and stormwater mitigation.
About Pivot Energy
Pivot Energy is a Denver-based solar energy company that is focused on helping accelerate the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a grid that is more decentralized and cleaner. Pivot offers a distributed energy platform that includes a range of services and software aimed at serving the full commercial solar ecosystem, including retail customers, project developers, system operators, utilities, and financiers. The company develops, finances, builds, and manages community and commercial solar projects around the country. Pivot operates on a triple bottom line basis, measuring success by the positive impact to people, planet, and profit. Learn more at www.pivotenergy.net.
About Joliet Junior College
Located in the south Chicago suburbs, JJC is the nation's first public community college, with six campuses and education centers that serve approximately 27,000 students annually. JJC's nine academic pathways offer customized, affordable certificate and associate degree options for immediate career placement or seamless transfer capabilities. JJC students also benefit from a collective $13 million in state and federal grants, and scholarship assistance in excess of $750,000 each year. Learn more at www.jjc.edu.
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When a Psychiatrist Kills: The Ultimate Violation of Do-No-Harm at Fort Hood
Arline Kaplan
Psychiatric Times, Psychiatric Times Vol 26 No 12, Volume 26, Issue 12
The details may, by now, be familiar but they are no less shocking: Army psychiatrist, MAJ Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, accused of killing 13 people and wounding 33 others-including fellow behavioral health providers- is recovering from gunshot wounds and meeting with his attorneys.
The details may, by now, be familiar but they are no less shocking: Army psychiatrist, MAJ Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, accused of killing 13 people and wounding 33 others-including fellow behavioral health providers- is recovering from gunshot wounds and meeting with his attorneys. The Army Criminal Investigation Command, the FBI, and the Department of Defense (DOD) continue their investigations into the November 5 shootings at Fort Hood, Tex, and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs began its own hearings.
Authorities have identified Hasan as the only suspect in the rampage, and the military has charged him with 13 counts of premeditated murder. As of press time, Hasan has not disclosed his motives. The Senate investigation “is about understanding the factors that led Major Hasan-a senior Army officer and a psychiatrist trained to ease human suffering-to kill and injure so many of his fellow soldiers,” said Ranking Committee Member Susan Collins (R-Me).
Hasan, 39, had reported for duty as an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist at Fort Hood’s Darnall Army Medical Center in July, after working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, DC, for 6 years. He received his medical degree from the military’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in 2001 and then pursued a career in psychiatry at WRAMC, where he worked as an intern, a resident, and as a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. He was promoted to the rank of major in April 2008.
At Darnall, Hasan appeared to be a dedicated professional and “had been performing quite well,” COL Kimberly Kesling, MD, deputy commander of Darnall’s clinical services, told TheWall Street Journal.
Earlier, he encountered some trouble. In 2007, according to a November 18 National Public Radio report, a “Memorandum for: Credentials Committee,” signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at WRAMC, MAJ Scott Moran, MD, warned that “the Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan’s professionalism and work ethic.” It cited proselytizing patients, mistreating a homicidal patient and allowing her to escape from an emergency room, and not answering the phone while on call for emergencies and possibly placing the patients in danger. But the memo also said that Hasan was able to self-correct with supervision and was competent enough to graduate.
That same year, according to TheWashington Post, Hasan at the culmination of his residency delivered an hour-long PowerPoint presentation on “the Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the US Military.” He lectured supervisors and other mental health staff on Islam, suicide bombers, and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also recommended that the DOD allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released as “conscientious objectors to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.”
While Hasan’s performance and religious views concerned some at WRAMC and USUHS, a military official recently told the Associated Press that the group saw no evidence that Hasan was violent or a threat. They decided to send him to Fort Hood, where his performance would be monitored and where others could assume his workload if necessary.
Whatever Hasan’s superiors thought, one of Hasan’s former patients at WRAMC described him as “far and away one of the best psychiatrists I ever dealt with.”
So far, the reports from military sources and from those who know Hasan characterize the Virginia-born psychiatrist of Jordanian descent as a deeply religious man who opposed his country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; an unmarried loner who had endured name-calling and harassment about his Muslim faith while in the Army; a visitor to Islamist Web sites; someone with questionable links to Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, a supporter of Islamist jihad; a psychiatrist shaken by the horrors his patients described; and a soldier so anxious about his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan with Madison, Wisconsin’s 467th Medical Detachment that he had hired a lawyer to try to get him a discharge.
Hasan’s relatives insist Hasan was a good doctor, and that if he was the shooter, he must have “snapped.”
Their comments raise questions about whether there is sufficient monitoring and caring for the behavioral health caregivers of service members and their families.
Although Darnall’s Kesling said she saw no sign that Hasan was experiencing burnout, she acknowledged that his job as a psychiatrist was intense. She told TheWall Street Journal that some Army mental health professionals experience burnout from the burden of hearing so many stories from traumatized veterans.
Military behavioral health providers describe crushing schedules with 10 or more patients a day, most of whom experienced devastating trauma or mutilation, according to a New York Times report.
The Army’s Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) survey of behavioral health personnel serving in Iraq or Afghanistan showed that the number of behavioral health personnel who reported high levels of burnout increased from 27% in MHAT-IV to 33% in MHAT-V. Results from MHAT-VI have not yet been released.
“Behavioral health providers facing deployment experience stress just as soldiers do,” said MAJ Christopher Warner, chief of behavioral medicine at Winn Army Community Hospital at Fort Stewart, Ga, who served 2 tours in Iraq as division psychiatrist for the 3rd Infantry Division.
“They must leave family and friends and be in harm’s way, plus they are charged with helping keep soldiers mentally healthy. Often, they face multiple deployments and feel as if their job is never done.”
Inadequate staffing is viewed as an additional stressor. Currently the Army has 194 civilian, 121 military, and 93 contract psychiatrists available to its population of more than half a million people, according to the surgeon general’s office.
A DOD Task Force on Mental Health, which heard expert testimony and made site visits to 38 military installations, warned in its 2007 report of increasing stress on mental health personnel because of shortages and high attrition rates.1
Psychiatrist Layton McCurdy, MD, distinguished professor and dean emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina, and a DOD task force member, told Psychiatric Times that personnel shortages were the primary psychological stressor for behavioral health providers.
The combined military-civilian taskforce, McCurdy said, advised the DOD that it faced an “impending workforce train wreck” and needed to recruit more doctors and psychologists to address the increasing demand for services.
McCurdy said he personally talked with many psychiatrists and psychologists who joined the Armed Services with the anticipation of staying 20 years, retiring, and receiving a pension and who decided to explore something else careerwise.
These were young psychiatrists and psychologists who had children and who were experiencing multiple deployments as well as disruptions from being deployed for up to 15 months, McCurdy said so many were deciding not to re-up.
Questions about screening behavioral health professionals and providing them with adequate support have also arisen in the wake of the Fort Hood tragedy.
Warner, a USUHS graduate who completed his residency training in family practice and psychiatry at WRAMC, said, “Psychiatric residency training at Walter Reed Army involved frequent supervision by the senior resident, the attending physician, and videotaped counseling sessions, so there was one-to-one monitoring.”
There are 3 routes by which a troubled behavior health provider can obtain help, according to Warner. “Any soldier or military family member, including behavioral health professionals and other medical providers, is eligible for care through military medical services, the TRICARE network of civilian mental health providers, and the TRICARE Online counseling services,” he said.
In addition, the provider can use Military OneSource,2 a round-the-clock crisis intervention program that supports active-duty, National Guard, and Reserve service members and their families, both in the United States and abroad. Professionally trained consultants assess a caller’s needs and can refer him or her to health care professionals for follow-up, face-to-face counseling, or online counseling. Counseling sessions are kept confidential within certain guidelines.
More specifically, Warner said, providers can use the Provider Resiliency Training program established in 2007. Initial groundwork for the program was done at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where behavioral health providers were working with evacuees from Iraq and Afghanistan. That program is now available at each of the Army installations.3
The Provider Resiliency Training program involves a 3-step process that all medical personnel must complete:
• The provider is required to take the professional quality-oflife assessment at http://www.behavioralhealth.army.mil.3 The assessment is an online scientific instrument that looks at burnout and compassion fatigue as well as job satisfaction.
• Once the assessment is complete, the provider receives an educational session on the most advanced research, concepts, and theories as they relate to self-care. The focus is on identifying the internal and external stressors that contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue.
• The trainer meets individually with medical personnel to review their professional quality-of-life assessment results and to help develop a personalized resiliency plan.
Warner concluded, “It is important we recognize that just as stigma sometimes keeps our soldiers from seeking help, it can also be an issue for behavioral health professionals working with them. We need to talk with colleagues and look out for each other.”
1. Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health. An achievable vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health. http://www.health.mil/dhb/mhtf/MHTF-ReportFinal.pdf. Published June 2007. Accessed November 16, 2009.
2. Department of Defense. Military OneSource Web site. http://www.militaryonesource.com. Accessed November 16, 2009.
3. Provider Resiliency Training. Army Medical Department Web site. http://www.behavioralhealth.army.mil/prt/index.html. Accessed November 16, 2009.
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Now in its second year of sponsoring a mentorship program for diverse writers, The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary has selected three children’s writers to partner with editors from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to revise and fine-tune their manuscripts. Denise Adusei, a Cape Verdean expat living in New York City who aspires to create picture books, will be working with Andrea Spooner, editorial director of picture books at Little, Brown. Dionna L. Mann of Virginia will work on her middle grade fiction manuscript with editor-in-chief Alvina Ling. And Mexican-American writer Rosario Martinez, who lives in Dallas, will work on her YA science fiction/fantasy novel with associate editor Nikki Garcia.
This year’s sole adult fiction mentee, Nigerian writer Samuel Kóláwolé, will work with Amber Oliver, an assistant editor at Harper Perennial.
Under the auspices of the Denver-based project—associated with Fractured Atlas, a national nonprofit arts service organization—these four aspiring writers from marginalized backgrounds will not only partner with the editors to prepare their manuscripts for submission to agents and editors, but also will be advised on best practices in submitting their work via traditional channels.
The program is free to the accepted applicants and editors are volunteering their time.
“The program is meant to help [writers] bring their work into its final form and then get them into the publishing pipeline,” founder and executive director Viniyanka Prasad told PW. Disclosing that 150 writers—about 50 in each category—applied to the program in its inaugural year, and “several hundred” this time around, Prasad explained that applicants answered four short essay questions and also provided 40 pages of their manuscript to be considered. Three finalists in each category were chosen from the pool of applicants, and asked to send on the entire manuscript. Each editor then made the final decision on whom they wished to mentor.
Reflecting upon the growth of the program since its launch, Prasad observed, “There is a large, vibrant community of writers from underrepresented communities who are clearly being missed by traditional submissions channels.”
There are no restrictions as to subject matter, Prasad said, “Often writers [from marginalized communities] are asked to write about their pain. We don’t tell them what to write. We want them to have the freedom to share what they want to share.”
Prasad, a lawyer, disclosed that she founded The Word in 2016 to promote more inclusive representation in literature that reflects the diversity of people’s lives and experiences, after serving as a public defender in Denver for many years. “A big part of my job was to tell other people’s stories,” she said. “I was aware of my power and thought about how much power these people would have if they could tell their own stories.”
Due also to having two sisters who are writers, Prasad said that she was made aware that the publishing process presents obstacles for writers from marginalized backgrounds, and thus was inspired to address this issue as well. “I wanted to focus on opening the pipeline, to change the nature of which books are making it through.”
There were three mentees last year, two of them working on children's books, one on adult fiction. Nadine Johnson, an expat of Jamaica who lives in South Carolina and has self-published 10 picture books, worked with Scholastic editor Andrea Davis Pinkney—who is herself an award-winning children's book author—on her middle-grade manuscript, Me and My Drum.
Johnson described the program as "a priceless opportunity" for her. Pinkney gave her "great advice" she said, which strengthened and tightened up her writing.
"Writing is challenging," Johnson wrote in an email to PW, "so it’s extremely beneficial to get constructive feedback from professionals in the industry." Johnson is currently querying agents, which she describes as "a long process." In a recent email, however, she promised "a great update" that she will be able to share at a later date.
Mentoring, Pinkney explains, "is a two-way street;" she said that she learned just as much from this experience as did Johnson. “It’s about co-creation,” she noted. "My role is to hold the flashlight while the mentee does the digging. [Johnson] made tremendous progress: she was so wide open. She really went for it, and I think it paid off. It was so inspiring to see someone take suggestions and run with them."
Maleeha Siddiqui, a Virginian who is the child of Pakistani immigrants, worked with Taylor Norman, a children’s book editor at Chronicle Books, on her contemporary YA novel, Holy Treachery.
"The experience was fantastic and eye-opening for me," said Siddiqui, who is working on her M.S. in biotechnology, and describes herself as hesitant to effectively revise drafts. Siddiqui emphasized that she has "so many good things to say" about Norman. "She was always a quick responder," Siddiqui said. "Taylor lay the groundwork for how I would learn to revise in general and helped me understand how to tackle all the aspects of strong storytelling. The whole experience felt so personal and one-on-one."
Norman confirmed Siddiqui’s assessment, telling PW in an email, "It was definitely worth my time. I learned a lot both practically and intangibly. My future- and current-selves are so glad my past-self said yes."
Siddiqui reported that she subsequently "set the manuscript aside," and is currently working on another novel.
For those participating in this year’s mentorship program, Siddiqui offers up some advice: "Learn what you can from your mentor because they know what they’re doing. After all, they’re professionals in their field. But also don’t rely on your mentor to help you fix everything. Take the time to hone your writing skills by watching videos and reading books on craft. There’s always something new out there to learn."
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FIA to Investigate Pilots Possessing Fake Licenses
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Pakistan has been given strict orders by the government. The agency has been told to start criminally prosecuting 50 commercial pilots who are carrying fake licenses. These licenses were suspended by the relevant authorities soon after an inquiry was carried out into the plane crash in the city of Karachi. All 50 of these pilots had licenses that could not be verified.
The federal government presented a written statement to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) regarding this matter. It stated that 172 from a total of 262 pilots have been deemed as trained professionals, fit to fly planes.
They had been previously thoroughly investigated due to the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crash on the 22nd of May. However, the inquiry was completed just recently and all these pilots were cleared after being verified.
The statement further added that the licenses of the remaining 50 pilots have been canceled because they could not be verified by the authorities. The federal cabinet went on to approve an in-depth summary of the reason behind the cancellation of these licenses.
The government additionally informed the IHC that the FIA has been told about these recent developments and thus, entrusted with the authority to investigate them further. They further outlined that the FIA will consequently begin criminal proceedings against the concerned pilots. Moreover, no pilot with a fake license is going to be granted any sort of relief or leniency as per Article 199.
On the 22nd of May, a plane belonging to PIA crashed a few kilometers away from the runway. The devastation was borne by a densely populated residential area in the city of Karachi. The plane had been trying to make an emergency landing after failing once before. 97 casualties occurred from a total of 91 passengers and 8 members of the crew.
On the 26th of June, Ghulam Sarwar, the Minister for Aviation, had made an announcement. He reported that investigations were being conducted during which, 262 pilots had been banned from flying. This was because their credentials had come under suspicion and required to be thoroughly vetted.
The pilots that came under scrutiny included 10 belonging to Serene Airlines, 141 from the PIA, along with 9 from Air Blue. The rest did not belong to any airlines rather, to chartered plane services and flying clubs.
International publications spread the word about the plane crash and the consequent suspension of pilots. This caused the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to ban PIA from operating in Europe for at least six months.
The US department of transportations also did not hold back from suspending authorization of the PIA to operate in the country. On the 9th of July, the relevant department suspended the company’s special permit after citing concerns related to the flag carriers’ pilots’ involvement in fake licenses. The department was also unsatisfied with the PIA’s safety measures in case of an emergency.
The statement informed the IHC that the restrictions placed by EASA will only be lifted after it conducts a remote or onsite audit of the national flag carrier. This audit has been scheduled to take place in January of next year.
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Author: Fredrik Backman
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths. First is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Now, she's obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live--and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. Then there's Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don't know how to fix their own failing marriage. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can't agree on anything. And there's Estelle, an eighty-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. And despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn't really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn't outside parking the car. As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people. Rich with Fredrik Backman's "pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature" (Shelf Awareness), Anxious People's whimsical plot serves up unforgettable insights into the human condition and a gentle reminder to be compassionate to all the anxious people we encounter every day.
Imprint : Michael Joseph
Author : Fredrik Backman
Edition : proof
Reading Level : near fine
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700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1444
www.pepsico.com
PepsiCo headquarters, Purchase, New York.
Reproduced by permission of Corbis Corporation (Bellevue).
With strong management and unique vision, PepsiCo, Inc., is not only a leader in the beverage and snack industry, it is one of the most successful companies in the world. Much of the company's success comes from the fact that it consistently stays in touch with changing trends and lifestyles, and gives consumers the tastes and conveniences they desire.
Over one hundred years after the first Pepsi was bottled, PepsiCo now offers thirty-two different kinds of carbonated and noncarbonated drinks with Pepsi-Cola beverages sold in 170 countries around the globe. It also produces thirty different kinds of snack foods and twenty-one cereals and other grain-related foods through its subsidiaries, Frito Lay and Quaker Oats. And, of course, the company continues its "cola war," battling rival Coca-Cola Company (see entry) to produce the beverage of choice.
Battle of Beverages
In 1893, Caleb "Doc" Bradham (1867-1934) opened a pharmacy in New Bern, North Carolina. Bradham was studying to be a doctor, but he was forced to leave medical school when his father lost his job. Many residents of the southern town frequented his drugstore, not only for the medicines Bradham provided but also to meet and talk with friends at the store's soda fountain. His customers especially enjoyed a beverage called "Brad's Drink," a combination of sugar, vanilla, oils, spices, the African kola nut, and carbonated water. Doc Bradham said the drink would help relieve the symptoms from dyspepsia, or an upset stomach, and ulcers.
It is not known if Doc Bradham had tasted a Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, where the drink, also sold as a medicinal beverage, had been invented several years earlier. Perhaps he heard about it in medical school. In any case, Bradham knew about "Coke" and succeeded in making a similar carbonated drink that brought customers to his store.
In 1898, Bradham changed the name of his popular drink to Pepsi-Cola and started his beverage business. At first, he mixed the syrup in his drugstore and shipped it in barrels to soda fountains where the carbonated water was added. He also bottled and sold Pepsi himself. After four successful years of distributing his new drink, Bradham patented the Pepsi-Cola trademark and closed his drugstore to devote all of his time to making, bottling, and selling Pepsi. By 1905, he had established his first two bottling franchises, or companies who purchased from him the right to bottle and sell Pepsi. In 1910, there were 250 Pepsi-Cola bottling franchises across the United States.
PepsiCo at a Glance
CEO: Steven S. Reinemund
Subsidiaries: Pepsi-Cola Company; Frito-Lay, Inc.; Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.; Quaker Oats Company; South Beach Beverage Company; Tropicana Products, Inc.
Major Competitors: Coca-Cola Company; Cadbury Schweppes; Kraft Foods
Notable Products: Pepsi; Pepsi Twist; Pepsi One; Pepsi Blue; Diet Pepsi; Mountain Dew; Sierra Mist; Aquafina water; Lipton Brisk tea; FruitWorks fruit drinks; Doritos; Fritos; Ruffles potato chips; Tropicana orange juice; Quaker oatmeal; Life cereal; Aunt Jemima syrup; Gatorade
Pepsi-Cola's growth came to an abrupt end four years later when the price of sugar, one of Pepsi's key ingredients, skyrocketed because of rationing during World War I (1914-18). This means that sugar could be used only in small amounts. By 1922, the company had lost so much money that Bradham went bankrupt. In order to make enough money to pay off his debts, he had to sell the rights to the Pepsi-Cola formula. Bradham returned to his drugstore where he died twelve years later.
Caleb Bradham invents Pepsi-Cola.
PepsiCo, Inc., is founded by Pepsi-Cola CEO Donald M. Kendall and Herman W. Lay, CEO of Frito-Lay.
Pepsi Generation advertising campaign begins.
The Pepsi Challenge becomes a national campaign after its introduction in Dallas, Texas, a year earlier.
Frito-Lay begins nutritional labeling.
Michael Jackson becomes the spokesman for "The Choice of a New Generation."
Frito-Lay's Doritos becomes the world's largest selling snack chips.
Commercials feature singer Ray Charles and the Uh-Huh Girls.
Pepsi-Cola introduces freshness dating.
Pepsico.com and Pepsi Stuff are unveiled.
Pepsi Challenge is revived.
PepsiCo introduces Gatorade ICE, Go Snacks, and Pepsi Blue.
Survive and Conquer
The ownership of Pepsi-Cola changed hands several times over the next ten years, barely surviving a second and third bankruptcy. It finally rested with Charles Guth, the owner of a New York-based candy and fountain store called Loft, Inc. Guth had been selling Coca-Cola, but became angry when Coke would not allow him to buy a large amount of syrup at a discounted price. He decided to switch to Pepsi although his customers were not sure they liked the new cola.
The first Pepsi home office and bottling plant in New Bern, North Carolina, opened April 5, 1905.
Reproduced by permission of AP/Wide World Photos.
In 1934, sales of Pepsi increased mainly because of an important decision made by Guth. The United States was experiencing a devastating Depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s, and caused millions of people to be out of work. Guth decided to offer a twelve-ounce bottle of Pepsi for five cents—the same price as only six ounces of Coke. This was quite a bargain for people who were counting their pennies.
For the next two decades, the Pepsi-Cola Company, established in 1941, experienced steady growth due to continued good management and creative advertising. By 1954, the company was led by a former Coke employee, Alfred N. Steele (1901-1959), whose strength was in marketing. He also happened to be married to movie star Joan Crawford (1908-1977). The famous actress mentioned Pepsi during television interviews, and sometimes the product's vending machines and trucks were included in her movies. By 1960, Pepsi profits reached $14.2 million and the company was advertising their soft drink to "Those who think young."
An ad from the 1930s, when Pepsi was sold in twelve-ounce glass bottles.
Reproduced by permission of Archive Photos, Inc.
Pepsi Generation
Pepsi-Cola enjoyed extraordinary success during the 1960s and 1970s mainly because of its new man in charge, Donald M. Kendall. Kendall was noted for leading his company in five major areas during this period: massive advertising; the introduction of new soft drink brands; creative packaging; overseas expansion; and product line expansion.
In 1963, Kendall and Pepsi made marketing history when the company changed the way it advertised its product. Instead of focusing on Pepsi the beverage, its television campaigns appealed directly to a specific group of people—baby boomers. Baby boomers were children born immediately after World War II (1939-45), between 1946 and 1964, and they numbered in the millions. Pepsi told them to "Come alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation." Advertising slogans that followed continued to target the energetic, youthful lifestyles of baby boomer teens. They also advised a generation of viewers who were experiencing significant social changes: "You've got a lot to live. Pepsi's got a lot to give" and "Join the Pepsi people, feelin' free."
As successful as Pepsi was during the 1960s, it was still trailing behind Coke. In response, Kendall thought it was important to expand the company' product line beyond soft drinks. At a grocer's convention in 1960, he met Herman W. Lay, the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Frito-Lay, the nation's leading manufacturer of such snack foods as Lay's potato chips, Cheetos, Ruffles, and Rold Gold pretzels. The two decided to merge companies, and in 1965, PepsiCo, Inc. became the name of the new company. A year later they introduced Doritos, which eventually became the most popular snack chip in the United States.
By the 1980s, PepsiCo had become a major competitor in the fast food, snack food, and beverage market. They had acquired three restaurant chains, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, which they later sold in 1997; introduced several new soft drinks, including Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Free, and Slice; and signed one of the world's most exciting and talented superstars, Michael Jackson (1958-). This alliance began a long line of pop stars who used their talents to promote PepsiCo products.
Along with its successes, the company went through a period of uncertainty and scandal in the 1980s. In the Philippines and Mexico, PepsiCo employees had been caught using false documents to make it look like the company was making more money than it really was. The publicized scandal caused PepsiCo's 1982 profits to plunge by 25 percent. Profits continued to decrease in 1983 when the value of the peso, Mexico's currency, dropped dramatically. At that time, Mexico provided PepsiCo with the largest sales of soft drinks and snacks in the international market.
In 1940, Pepsi introduced the world's first radio jingle. Called "Nickel, Nickel," the catchy tune explained that: "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot/Twelve full ounces that's a lot/Twice as much for a nickel, too/Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you."
But help was soon on the way for PepsiCo. In the summer of 1985, Coca-Cola decided to change the recipe of their century-old syrup. They introduced a new and improved taste called New Coke, saying it had a milder taste than the original version. According to PepsiCo, the rival company was trying to make Coke taste more like Pepsi. PepsiCo anticipated that the new formula would entice consumers to finally switch brands, so they released full-page Pepsi advertisements on the day it was announced that New Coke would replace the old. What happened surprised everyone. Instead of die-hard fans switching colas, they demanded their old Coke be returned. After only ninety days on the market, New Coke was canned, and Coca-Cola introduced the restored formula in Coca-Cola Classic. During this brief period, while tasters were trying to make up their minds, Pepsi enjoyed a brief lead in the cola wars.
Beverages and Beyond
For the next decade and through the turn of the century, PepsiCo expanded to include products that would keep it competitive in a continually growing and changing market. As consumers became more and more conscious of their health and eating habits, PepsiCo answered their needs. In the late 1990s, they introduced Aquafina bottled water, acquired Tropicana fruit juices, bought the South Beach Beverage Company, which manufactures SoBe juice blends, and acquired the company whose name is synonymous with healthy eating, Quaker Oats. Healthy food was not the only benefit in this merger. It just so happened that Quaker owned the sports drink, Gatorade.
In 1976, PepsiCo launched a head-to-head combat with Coke by offering drinkers a blind taste test to see whether they could tell the difference between the two colas. The marketing campaign, known as the Pepsi Challenge, was so successful, the company decided to revive it in 2000.
PepsiCo also answered the needs of the growing ethnic population of the United States. According to Tom Pirko, president of beverage consultant Bevmark, in a 2001 Advertising Age article, "More than one third of America's youth are Hispanic or black. Soft drinks are more popular among minorities than Caucasians and among youth than their parents." In response, PepsiCo launched three new drinks to meet these demands: Sierra Mist (a lemon-lime soda), Mountain Dew Code Red, and Pepsi Blue (a cola and berry beverage). According to a 2002 New York Times article, "Both Code Red and Pepsi Blue have sixteen-year-old males as their target consumer."
Promoting Pepsi
Many consumers enjoy PepsiCo's products because of the company's entertaining and memorable commercials. Some of the most well-known include "Apartment 10G" starring Michael j. Fox (1961-); "You Got the Right One Baby, Uh-Huh!" sung by Ray Charles (1930-) and the Uh-Huh Girls; "Joy of Cola" featuring a little girl named Hallie Eisenberg; "Joy of Pepsi" with Britney Spears (1981—); and "A Twist on a Great Thing," which paired Mike Meyers (1964-) as Austin Powers with pop sensation Spears.
The launch of a new Pepsi commercial eventually became a much anticipated event that millions tuned in to watch. Savvy Pepsi marketers usually guaranteed an already big audience by debuting their ads during top-rated television programs. For example, Pepsi spent $6 million to advertise during the Super Bowl in 1992. In 2002, PepsiCo reportedly paid $200 million for a five-year deal to advertise during NFL events such as the Super Bowl and Pro Bowl.
Pepsi's advertising is not limited to television. In 2000, PepsiCo teamed with one of the Internet's largest navigation companies, Yahoo, to promote its products. A year later on PepsiStuff.com , consumers could redeem points from Pepsi packages to get "more than a half a million cool prizes."
As Pepsi introduced new products to keep up with the times, it also continued to be neck and neck in the cola race. According to the 2002 Soft Drink Report published in Beverage Industry, Pepsi-Cola had 34.5 percent of the United States market for carbonated beverages while Coca-Cola had 36.2 percent. The fight goes on, but the gap draws ever closer. As former PepsiCo CEO Roger Enrico said in his book The Other Guy Blinked: How Pepsi Won the Cola Wars, "At Pepsi, we like the Cola Wars.… Without Coke, Pepsi would have a tough time being an original and lively competitor. The more successful they are, the sharper we have to be."
PepsiCo, Inc. forum
Knight, Phil Kendall, Donald M.
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Saint Onesimus, Bishop, Martyr
February 15, 2019 February 16, 2018 by Eddie Masters
Today is the feast day of Saint Onesimus. Ora pro nobis.
Saint Onesimus [also know as Saint Onesimus of Byzantium and the Holy Apostle Onesimus (4)] was a slave of Philemon, a person of note of the city of Colossae in Phrygia who had been converted to the faith by St. Paul. Having robbed his master, and being obliged to fly, he met with St. Paul, then a prisoner for the faith at Rome, who converted and baptized him, and entrusted him with his canonical letter of recommendation to Philemon. By him, it seems, Onesimus was pardoned, set at liberty and sent back to his spiritual father, whom he afterwards faithfully served, for apparently St. Paul made him, with Tychicus, the bearer of his epistle to the Colossians, and afterwards, as St. Jerome and other fathers witness, a prescher of the gospel and a bishop. (2)
Later, as Saint Jerome and other Fathers testify, he became an ardent preacher of the Gospel and a bishop. It is he who succeeded Saint Timothy as bishop of Ephesus. He was cruelly tortured in Rome, for eighteen days, by a governor of that city, infuriated by his preaching on the merit of celibacy. His legs and thighs were broken with bludgeons, and he was then stoned to death. His martyrdom occurred under Domitian in the year 95. (1)
Image: Painting depicting death of Onesimus, from the Menologion of Basil II (c. 1000 AD) (6)
Research by Ed Masters, REGINA Staff
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Languedoc Roussillon History
Languedoc is a major touristic area for French people and foreigners. It has become a worldwide center for festivals and holidays. Here is a short summary of the region history that should help us to understand its origins...
The Greeks, Phoenicians settled first in Languedoc. The region was later invaded by the Alamanni, Vandals, Visigoths and Saracens.
During the Middle Ages, Languedoc was known as the "county of Toulouse". It was indeed an independent county which was supposed to be part of the kingdom of France.
In the 12th century, the Cathar religious movement came from Languedoc. The Albigensian Crusade wiped them out since it had been declared heretics by the Church. That is why the county of Toulouse was taken by the crown of France in 1271. It has been part of France ever since.
The name later given to the area was Languedoc, meaning "language of oc" in the local Occitan language. The kings of France made Languedoc one of the provinces of the kingdom.
Later the parliament of Languedoc was established in Toulouse. The French Revolution abolished the parliament and the province.
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The Path to Victory, Part III
Oklahoma Christian's quest for the 2011 NAIA national championship
By Colin Raunig
[Editor’s note: This is the third part of a four-part series on the Oklahoma Christian men's cross country team’s quest for a NAIA cross country championship on Nov. 19 in Vancouver, Wash. The NAIA's top-ranked team most of the season, the OC Eagles won the Sooner Athletic Conference Championships on Nov. 5 in Shawnee, Okla., and won the NAIA title on Nov. 19.]
Ninety minutes before the start of the Sooner Athletic Conference cross country championships on Nov. 5, the Oklahoma Christian men’s team is sprawled throughout their 40-passenger bus, lounging in their unassigned seats and keeping themselves protected from the elements.
The bus is parked adjacent to the Gordon Cooper Technology Center, a small, weathered brick school building on the campus of Oklahoma Baptist University that acts as a pivot point for the 8K cross country course. The runners are hunkered down in the bus because it’s only 8:45 a.m. and it’s 45 degrees and a bit damp and gloomy outside.
To any cross country runner, this is the waiting — the unglamorous but important period between the time the bus arrives at a meet and the time the runners venture out to start loosening up.
Although some are listening to music, some are talking about various races and runners, some are idly looking out the window and a few appear to be sleeping, every runner is going through his own routine to get ready for the race.
“Some people have to slink around for a few days before the race, and when they get to the starting line they unleash. Other people need to be light and joking,” Oklahoma Christian coach Mark Thompson says. “We need to accommodate for that. Prepare yourselves individually and know that everyone is preparing in their own way.”
Thompson wants his team to run well and he knows his team wants to run well, too. More than that, he knows they need to run well. Although the Eagles have been the NAIA’s top-ranked team for most of the season, the team’s only guaranteed entry into the Nov. 19 national championship in Vancouver, Wash., is to win the conference meet.
On the bus ride to the race, junior Geoffrey Njonjo, the team’s No. 2 runner most of the season, heads to the back of the bus and stays true to his ritual: He puts his head down and his feet up and sleeps. Junior David McWilliams is quiet. Senior Nate Mesta, almost as much.
But Brayden Barrientez wants to make sure the race goes exactly as planned and gets vocal. “All right, guys, it’s time to get Pre-Diculous!”
The team finds interest in the word, and crowds around Barrientez, as they begin an often-practiced and never discussed pre-race ritual of predicting the results of the women’s cross country team. They borrow a pen and some paper and scratch down how each thinks the Eagles’ women will run as their race gets underway in a few minutes. They are excited and hushed about their predictions.
“Pre-Diculous: It’s a mix of predictions and being ridiculous,” Barrientez says. “You should see Pre-Diculous during track season. That’s when it gets really ridiculous. We’re talking splits, finish times, finish places, all that.”
What does the winner get? Or, in other words, what’s the bet?
“The loser sucks,” Barrientez says. “That’s what’s at stake.”
At first glance this ritual may appear to be slightly derisive, but it’s really the opposite. They have a vested interest in how the women’s team performs, because although they do not write down any Pre-Diculous for how the men’s team performs today, it’s written in the subtext. They want the women to compete, not only against the other competitors, but against each other, and against themselves. Such competition breeds excellence. Pre-Diculous is not a game to pass the time; it’s recognition of their communal charge for the day, a tribute to the task of achieving victory.
The possibility of winning is exciting, and today it’s also expected. During his pre-race speech, Thompson passes out a piece of paper to each runner that says “OCXC Victory Plan,” a document that designates how he wants each individual to run, which members of the team he wants to run together and what individuals from the other teams he expects to be close to them.
“We’ve never done this before,” Thompson says, “but I want Silas (Kisorio) and Geoffrey to run together for a couple of miles. There’s no need to go out at a pace that you can’t handle. Pace yourselves evenly.”
The reason for the joint effort? There are two: Kennedy Kithuka and Edward Taragon, the top runners for Wayland Baptist University. Kisorio beat Kithuka at the OSU Cowboy Jamboree 24:08 to 24:34, but the word is that Kithuka didn’t have his best day. Not only will Kisorio and Kithuka be competing for the individual conference title, they are also two of the runners in contention for the individual national title. Kisorio won the national cross country championship in 2009, while Kithuka won in 2010.
In 2011, there is no doubt that Kisorio wants to be the first to break the tape. What Thompson really wants is Kisorio and Njonjo to finish 1-2 in the race.
“We need a split decision or better,” Thompson says. “If we go 1-4 and they go 2-3 that’s 5 points to 5 points right there. If we go 1-2 and they go 3-4, well, we’re on top. We just need to be smart about it.”
Kisorio and Njonjo, while both Kenyan, and both very fast, wear their burden of competition differently. Before a race, Kisorio’s demeanor is serene, calm. His face belies the hint of a smile. His appearance can be deceiving to his true intentions. Before OC’s last big race, the Oct. 15 Chile Pepper Invitational at the University of Arkansas, Kisorio wrote on his Facebook wall that he hoped he “doesn’t get last.” He was sixth, just 13 seconds behind winner Cam Levins of Southern Utah, and 5 seconds back from Oklahoma State phenom German Fernandez. Kisorio is humble in his words, but merciless on the race course.
Njonjo can appear more serious about the task at hand. If confronted ahead of time, he will remain optimistic if not somewhat abstract. On the team’s individual potential and his own at conference, he smiles and says, “I think that I will do well and everyone will do well. All things cannot stop us from doing well.”
Sometimes, after running 5:09 pace on the undulating back roads of Oklahoma, he will seek out the coaches to talk about his ambitions. “I run fast today,” he said to assistant coach Wade Miller, one week before Oklahoma State’s Cowboy Jamboree on Oct. 1 in Stillwater, Okla., a meet that includes many top Division I teams and individuals. “I think I can run under 24 minutes for 8 kilometers.”
“Then do it,” Miller responds.
“Yes,” Njonjo responds, “I will.”
Although he didn’t run under 24 minutes at the OSU meet, he ran 24:22, which placed him 14th in the meet, fast enough to beat both Kithuka and Tarragon.
An hour before the conference race, the team leaves the bus to warm up. They cover the course for a few miles, pointing out the turns, the “first” and “second” loops of the course, and noting the potholes, divots and telephone poles that act as obstacles throughout. At this point, as they say, the hay is in the barn. They have done the 10-mile maintenance runs at a conversational pace. They have done countless mile repeats, using the interval to spit truncated words of encouragement to each other. They have performed scheduled core workouts. They have allotted enough of the right food to fuel their systems, and they have allowed themselves enough sleep every night so they are recovered for the next day’s run, whatever that may entail. They have been disciplined. But it takes more than physical strength to run a fast time, or to win a race.
Four days earlier, they ran their last hard workout: 16 x 400m on a grass loop. They weren’t timed, but instead Thompson had them play a game of “cat and mouse.” Before every repeat, a different runner would act as mouse and leave 5 seconds before the rest of the runners, who would act as the cat and chase down the guy out front.
“It doesn’t mean we’re running easy. It’s not about time; it’s about place. That’s the only thing that matters,” Thompson says. “In your mind, that mouse in front of you is a runner from Wayland Baptist or Oklahoma Baptist. That’s a team workout. We’re not a bunch of individuals.”
In essence, Oklahoma Christian is the mouse of the NAIA. Everyone else is the cat, looking for a swipe at the title. After finishing eighth overall at the Oct. 1 Cowboy Jamboree — and beating several DI, DII and DIII schools — OC has been ranked No. 1 in the NAIA.
“We have a target on our back,” Thompson admits. “That’s not a bad thing. It means we can’t get complacent.”
Their first test against their main competition was the Oct. 15 Chile Pepper Invitational, where they finished seventh overall and 240 points higher than second-ranked NAIA school Shorter University.
“Are we beatable at conference?” Coach Thompson asked the team the day before the Sooner Athletic Conference meet in Shawnee. “Not if we execute.”
A year ago, with most of the same runners, Oklahoma Christian came up just short at conference, losing to Wayland Baptist 30-39.
After a couple of miles of easy jogging, members of the group start peeling off one by one, seeking the solace of their own ritual. For many members, this includes cheering on the girls team, which is in the process of running their 5K championship race. Just 15 minutes before the men’s race, Njonjo can be seen flailing his arms and screaming to encourage the OC runners to go faster. Moments later, Jacqueline Hallam and Erin Sesemann kick down the home stretch, taking third and seventh, respectively, on their way to individually qualifying for the NAIA national championship. The OC women’s team placed second to Wayland Baptist in the team standings.
The men’s team continues its warm-ups, stretching and strides. Five minutes before the race, the team forms a circle 50 meters from the start. Coach Thompson gives his final words of advice, easing the tension with clear and concise instructions.
“Do your thing. You all know what you’re supposed to do. If we go out and execute the way we’re supposed to, it’s ours for the taking,” he says. “I want this championship bad. And I know you want it. Treat this like a championship race. OK, let’s pray: Heavenly Father … ”
In unison, they bow their heads.
After the gun goes off, the race begins according to plan amid cool but sunny conditions. Kisorio, Njonjo, Kithuka and Taragon are in a tight pack passing the 1-mile marker in 4:44. McWilliams leads the chase pack, passing 1 mile in 5:05. Austin Simkins, Barrientez, Mesta and Roberto Diaz are in tow, also according to plan. At 2 miles, Kisorio and Njonjo are still running side by side, but Kithuka has gapped them by 10 seconds, running a split of 9:19 to their 9:29. At 3 miles, Kithuka has 20 seconds on Kisorio, who comes through second in 14:20, a few strides ahead of Taragon. Njonjo follows, in fourth, in 14:33. McWilliams, in sixth, splits 15:14. Simkins, Barrientez, Diaz and Mesta are still together with the chase pack with a time of 15:31.
The course is such that the athletes can never be complacent with the scenery; the elevation is consistently fluctuating, and the difficulty of these rolling hills are accentuated by the un-manicured grass and long stretches of gravel gulleys that form the path for the runner's footsteps. It's a course that tests the athlete's will as much as it does their ankle strength.
By 4 miles, the race is in question. Kisorio splits 19:04, but he’s 30 seconds behind Kithuka. He is well ahead of Taragon, though, who is well ahead of Njonjo. Wayland Baptist is now running 1-3, OC 2-4, but the depth of OC’s pack is running well. The pack that split 15:31 for 3 miles is still on pace at 4, and it’s obvious that they will earn the points that Thompson needs from them. But the team title is not yet decided. The runner that’s still in question is McWilliams. He splits 20:05, with Hildon Boen of Wayland Baptist churning in his wake. “David! David!” screams OC assistant coach Miller, trying to find the attention of his athlete. “You have to go, David! You have to!”
The final turn around a tall oak tree begins the quarter-mile stretch to the finish line. Kithuka makes the turn well ahead of the competition, cruising to first in 23:29. Kisorio, looking tense but still serene, motors in for second in 23:57. Then Taragon in 24:06. Then Njonjo in 24:33. Then Cordell Baker of Oklahoma Baptist. The next person to emerge behind the tree is McWilliams. He didn’t just gap Boen; he removed the question of Boen from the equation, putting 10 seconds on him over the final mile.
McWilliams crosses the line in 24:57, his first time under 25-flat for 8K. Barrientez finishes eighth, while Diaz (11th) and Simkins (13th) round out the top seven for Oklahoma Christian. A quick tally of numbers says OC has gotten the job done. Wayland Baptist’s fourth runner, Art Parra, winds up 16th, while its No. 5 runner, Victory Lemay, comes in at 25th. There’s a giddy weariness among the OC runners as they congregate near the bus and start their cool-down jog, but the celebration will have to wait.
Later, at the awards ceremony inside the clubhouse overlooking the Oklahoma Baptist basketball court, the all-conference runners are called to the front of the room in descending order starting with 15th place. As Simkins, Diaz, Barrientez, McWilliams, Njonjo and Kisorio take their place in the front of the room, their black OC warm-ups dominate the scene.
Coach Thompson is then awarded the Sooner Athletic Conference men’s coach of the year. Then the most coveted prize: The team championship trophies are handed out. The final score didn’t turn out to be close at all: Oklahoma Christian accumulated just 31 points, easily besting Wayland Baptist (50) and Oklahoma Baptist (59).
After the ceremony, Kisorio is walking with assistant coach Sam Dech, a 4:01 miler and frequent workout partner of Kisorio. Dech asks Kisorio what he thinks about nationals.
Kisorio answers in a way that only appears to be mock exasperation.
“I want the team title, Coach Dech! I need it!” Kisorio says. “It’s the one thing we don’t have.”
On Nov, 19 in Vancouver, Wash., they’ll have their chance. Let the Pre-Diculousness begin.
[Editor’s note: This is the third part of a four-part series on the Oklahoma Christian men's cross country team’s quest for a NAIA cross country championship. Check back to runningtimes.com/college for additional stories in this series.]
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7 of the Safest Cities to Retire in the U.S.
Jalesa Campbell
Settling down in a safe place for retirement is important. We’ve analyzed and rounded up seven of the safest cities to retire in America.
Finding the Right Place to Call Home in Retirement
One of the biggest concerns most people have about retirement is affordability — making sure they’re able to retire comfortably. Another concern older adults have is their safety. In our 2019 Home Security Report, we found that 61% of adults aged 55 and older said they purchased a home security system to “add security to [their homes].” While having a security system can help bolster retirees’ safety, it’s also good to make sure that where they live is safe.
We’ve pinpointed several safe cities across the U.S. with the help of data from the FBI’s 2018 Uniform Crime Report.
7 Safest Cities to Retire in the U.S.
1. Zionsville, Ind.
Safer Than* Total Violent Crimes Violent Crimes per 1,000 Total Property Crimes Property Crimes per 1,000
95% of U.S. cities 0 0 60 Less than 3
Located about 17 miles north of Indianapolis, Zionsville is one the U.S.’ safest communities to live in. The city was named one of the “Most Charming Small Towns in Every State” by Reader’s Digest and is bicycle friendly with a Bronze level award from the League of American Bicyclists.
According to NeighborhoodScout, Zionsville is safer than 95% of American cities. In 2018, the FBI reported nearly zero violent crimes and less than three property crimes per 1,000 people, which are exceptionally low rates.
The average income per capita is $56,105, which is about 88% higher than other cities in the U.S. (AreaVibes). The town has a village feel with numerous places to shop and eat that can be enjoyed. If you like warm summers and don’t mind cold winters, Zionsville may be a great place to consider.
2. Hutto, Texas
91% of U.S. cities 11 less than 1 87 Less than 4
Located about 28 miles north of Austin, Hutto has a small-town feel and interesting history. A hippo purportedly escaped a train that had stopped in the town in 1915. Now, you can find several statues of hippos throughout the town. As a few fun things you can do, you can enjoy the downtown shops and restaurants.
NeighborhoodScout reports Hutto as safer than 91% of other American cities. The town had less than one violent crime per 1,000 people and less than four property crimes per 1,000 (FBI).
The weather in Hutto during the summer is hot, and winters are mild. The average income per capita in Hutto is $24,236, which is about 19% lower than in other U.S. cities (AreaVibes). Retiring in Hutto is much more affordable compared to other cities on our list.
3. Milton, Ga.
69% of U.S. cities 11 Less than 1 288 Less than 8
Located about 33 miles outside of Atlanta, Milton sits closer to cities like Alpharetta and Roswell. It’s known more for its small-town feel compared to nearby cities. Incorporated in 2006, the city was named “Georgia’s Best City to Live In” in 2019 for its quality of living, affordability, and more.
Milton is ranked as being safer than 69% of other American cities. It saw less than two violent crimes per 1,000 and less than eight property crimes per 1,000 (FBI).
Milton experiences hot and muggy summers with more mild winters. The average income per capita in Milton is $56,635, which is about 90% higher than in other cities (AreaVibes).
4. Bella Vista, Ark.
68% 53 Less than 2 193 Less than 7
Bella Vista sits at the northwestern Missouri-Arkansas border and offers scenic and beautiful views. The city is known for the number of recreational activities it has to offer: biking, hiking, swimming, golfing, camping, and much more.
Ranked safer than 68% of U.S. cities, Bella Vista saw less than two violent crimes per 1,000 and less than seven property crimes per 1,000 in 2018 (FBI).
Bella Vista has hot summers and cold winters, seeing an average of 11 inches of snow each year, according to BestPlaces.net. The average income per capita for Bella Vista is $32,632, which is just 9% higher than most U.S. cities (AreaVibes).
5. Winter Springs, Fla.
Winter Springs is about 15 miles north of Orlando, offering a relatively short drive to enjoy the wonders of Disney World. There are lots of things retirees can do in Winter Springs, including visiting local parks and enjoying the surrounding views Lake Jesup has to offer.
Winter Springs is ranked safer than 66% of other American cities and had less than one reported violent crime per 1,000 and less than eight property crimes per 1,000 in 2018 (FBI).
When it comes to weather, the summers are hot and humid while the winters are mild. The income per capita for Winter Springs is $36,859 (NeighborhoodScout).
6. Blacksburg, Va.
One of Virginia’s mountain towns, Blacksburg is just between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. Blacksburg is also a college town, home to Virginia Tech. There are plenty of activities retirees can enjoy, including local stores, historic buildings, hiking, and more.
Blacksburg currently ranks 60% safer than other cities in the nation, with only one violent crime reported out of 1,000 and less than eight property crimes per 1,000 in 2018 (FBI).
In terms of climate, Blacksburg has hot and humid summers with mild winters. The income per capita for Blacksburg, VA is $20,141, which is 32% lower than the national average (AreaVibes). Retiring in Blacksburg is much more affordable compared to other cities on our list.
7. Brentwood, Tenn.
59% of U.S. cities 35 Less than 1 403 Less than 10
Located just about 10 miles south of Nashville, Brentwood provides a range of things to do and enjoy. There are lots of different restaurants, outdoor scenery, and museums to explore.
NeighborhoodScout ranks Brentwood as safer than 59% of other cities. As with many of the cities on this list, Brentwood saw less than one violent crime per 1,000 people in 2018 (FBI). Less than 10 property crimes per 1,000 were reported as well.
When it comes to weather, summers are very hot in Brentwood and the winters are mild. The income per capita for Brentwood, TN is $64,607, which is more than 100% higher than the national average. Retiring in Brentwood will be more expensive compared to other cities on our list.
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Jalesa is one of Safety.com's staff experts on home security, natural disasters, public safety, and family safety. She's been featured on Today.com and elsewhere.
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Doris Collins
Doris has be with our firm for over 25 years .She farmed with her late husband Ray until they retired. She is a member of the First Baptist Church in Maysville. She has five children, 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Elwood Morris
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Elwood is a native of Stella but has lived in Maysville for most of his adult life and is retired. He and his wife Jackie have two sons and a grandson. Elwood is very active in the Maysville United Methodist Church and serves on the board of the Jones County Community Foundation.
George has been associated with us for over 30 years part time. He is retired from the automotive field. He and his wife Linda Parker Johnson have two children, George, Jr. of Greenville and Jamie Johnson of Belgrade and a grandson, Parker of Greenville.
Wayne Sayland
Wayne is the owner of Sayland Funeral Home. He is a licensed funeral director and embalmer. He is very active in the Maysville community giving his time to serve his fellow citizens. In his younger days he was a vital member of the Rescue Squad ; he serve 39 years in the Maysville Rotary Club helping raise funds for scholarships and other projects . He served on the town board for two years and was Chairman of the Planning Board for 10 years. He served on the Jones County Habit for Humanity Board and help built the first house in Maysville. He currently is President of the Maysville Development Corp. and the Maysville Community Service Assoc. which owns the community building. He has always believe in giving back to his community and making it a better place for all . Wayne had two sons, his son Anthony died in 2012. His son Bobby lives near Hookerton. Wayne is blessed with four granddaughters , Jenna, Emily , Kara and Ava.
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Dan Ryan has been assisting with funerals for our firm for several years. He is a retired Marine Corps Major. He and his wife Dorothy have three children Bill; and twins Gina and Katy. Dan is very involved in our community having served as the President of the Jones County Habitat for Humanity and past member of the Maysville Planning Board . He along with Wayne and Reta Britt helped with the formation of the Jones County Community Foundation. Dan is currently serving as a member the Maysville Town Board. One of his and Dorothy's first pet projects was the improvements of our town park and the creation of the William Frost Park Endowment.
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