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Koreless and Lapalux added to Tate Modern showcase
Highly touted UK producers Lapalux and Koreless will join Werk Discs chief Actress at this month’s Infinite Kusama showcase at Tate Modern in London.
The event will take place on Saturday, March 24 from 3-6pm at the museum’s Turbine Hall. An extension of the current Yayori Kusama exhibition, it’s being billed as “a day of the immersive, the hallucinatory and the expansive”. This will include a Kusama UV silent disco – that’s presumably where Actress, Koreless and Lapalux come in.
All three producers are in the midst of a big 2012; Lapalux (real name Stuart Howard) has just released his debut album on Brainfeeder, Actress has an LP on the way for Honest Jon’s and Koreless recently dropped a collaborative track with Canadian producer Jacques Greene.
The event is free to those aged 15-25. More information can be found at the Tate Modern website here.
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Modern Classics: Teenage Engineering OP1 reviewed
Ten years on since its release, Teenage Engineering’s mini synth workstation remains as enigmatic, as inspirational and as controversial as ever. In the first of a new series, we look back at one of the instruments that has helped define 21st-century music making.
This month marks ten years since Teenage Engineering unveiled a working prototype of the OP-1 at the 2010 winter NAMM trade show in Anaheim, California. We’d already seen a non-functional unit at the 2009 Frankfurt Musikmesse show, but to put the shockingly original design into context, it was widely believed that the OP-1 would prove to be vapourware: bold promises that would never be backed up by a real product.
Teenage Engineering was an entirely unknown company at this point, purportedly operating out of a garage on the outskirts of Stockholm and run by someone from the fashion industry (company co-founder Jesper Kouthoofd was formerly an ad agency art director and also one of the founders of Swedish fashion label Acne). A fairly large proportion of tech journalists doubted that the OP-1 would ever actually go on sale; surely there was no way this bunch of newcomers could follow through with their claims that they’d be able to pack synthesis, recording, sampling, sequencing, drums and effects into this tiny little box?
Looking back, it’s notable that the 2010 prototype – and, indeed, the 2009 mock-up – look almost identical to the finished product that’s still on sale today. The machined aluminium body of the unit gave it the kind of build quality and luxurious feel you’d expect from a MacBook rather than a portable instrument; it still feels like a premium product, light years ahead of almost every other synth on the market. The design was strikingly original back then, and still stands out as something unusual, with a colour-coded control system for the key parameters, built-in speaker and microphone, and a stark function-over-form aesthetic that breaks with vintage synth traditions; it’s safe to assume that the design reference points were Dieter Rams or Bauhaus rather than old Moogs and Rolands.
The AMOLED screen is the key to the unique musical approach of the OP-1, giving crisp, clear feedback on all the functions via a series of unorthodox line drawings and diagrams. It’s like a parallel universe in which synths have a sense of humour and a playful approach. Arpeggiators are represented by a pair of Kraftwerkesque characters robotically prodding at keyboards; drum sequencing is a pair of gorillas sitting at drum kits; recording, looping and sequencing are handled by a virtual open-reel tape machine. All of this is backed up by a comprehensive array of digital synth modes split into a series of contrasting engines (FM, physical modelling, virtual analogue and so on), plus versatile sampling options and effects.
It’s hard to assess the impact of the OP-1 on the way we make music. Although it would certainly be entirely possible to create music from start to finish with the instrument, like some kind of mad twist on the old 80s workstation concept, it’s likely that the majority of owners use it more like a sketchpad for hashing out rough ideas, making music while travelling or breaking out of creative ruts.
Perhaps the bigger impact is in terms of how the OP-1 has influenced other products. The playful approach has filtered down to Teenage Engineering’s own Pocket Operator instruments, of course, but can also be seen in software plugins, creative iOS apps and even the occasional hardware instrument. Anecdotally, the OP-1 regularly crops up in conversations with synth designers and software developers, hailed as an example of innovative, forward-thinking design and unbounded creativity.
You can quite easily read through the OP-1’s spec sheet and question the omission of features you’d find as standard on much cheaper instruments: the unusual push-button keys aren’t velocity-sensitive, there’s no traditional sequencer as such and the tape-based approach requires you to edit and splice like an old-school tape op. To criticise on that basis would be to miss the point entirely; conventional synths already dominate the market, but the OP-1 is a conscious effort to rethink all the conventions. How many synths can you name with an FM radio to sample from, a dedicated Help button to show real-time tips about every feature, or a gyroscope to control physics-based sequencer engines? There are also aspects of the OP-1’s approach to sustainability and inclusivity that still feel ahead of the curve, from the recycled Paperfoam packaging the unit ships in to the braille inscription on the back panel to aid visually impaired users.
When the OP-1 briefly went off sale in late 2018, there were rumours that the model had been discontinued and secondhand units began to change hands on eBay for more than their original retail price. The truth was that the tooling and manufacturing had become outdated and the company were rejigging their process to ensure the OP-1 could remain in production for years to come. When the model returned in early 2019, the only real criticism was that the price had been increased to reflect inflation and exchange rate fluctuations. The OP-1 has never been a cheap instrument, and cynics always argued that it was a bit of a luxury toy for wealthy producers. To some extent that might be true, but for those who click with its approach, it’s also a genuinely inspiring and usable instrument.
The OP-1 is completely unique. At the time of its release, we knew we were in the presence of something unusual, but little did we know just how much it would stand out on its own a decade on. The rest of the industry still hasn’t really caught up.
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Times Union: Overdose Awareness Day, a call for wider access to addiction medicine, opioid antidote
Overdose Awareness Day, a call for wider access to addiction medicine, opioid antidote
By Bethany Bump | August 31, 2018
ALBANY — "After we take a moment of silence," Keith Brown told the group huddled at the top of the West Capitol Park staircase, "we're going to break it by saying their name — the name of the person you love who's no longer here because of overdose."
There would be no shortage of names, for the death toll keeps rising: a record 72,000 Americans died of a drug overdose last year, up 10 percent from the year before and, in New York at least, the seventh consecutive year of increasing overdose deaths.
Chris. Mike. Joe. Renee. J-Bone. Angelina. Omar. Amber.
The names continued — some said shyly, others proudly, others hoarsely as a voice croaked and hot tears fell — all reminding the speaker why they stood where they stood on this Friday before a long weekend. There were roughly 50 of them: friends, family members and advocates standing shoulder to shoulder at the state Capitol on International Overdose Awareness Day to demand Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders take action to prevent further deaths.
"These are folks who are no longer here, not because they are bad people and not because they made bad decisions," said Brown, whose nonprofit, the Katal Center for Health, Equity and Justice, advocates for a harm reduction ("any positive change") approach to illicit drug use.
"We know that bad policy and bad public health and the poor decisions of our federal, state and local government agencies are largely to blame for a lot of those deaths," he said. "Those people did not have to die."
While New York has taken steps to fight a drug epidemic fueled part by opioids — by strengthening its prescription monitoring program, expanding the types of health care workers permitted to prescribe addiction medicine and removing restrictions for hospitals to provide detox services — advocates say it's not nearly enough to put a dent in the fast-rising death toll from drugs.
According to preliminary estimates from the CDC released earlier this month, the fastest-growing drug category to contribute to overdose deaths in 2017 was not heroin, but powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which are being brought in from China and laced into heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine and marijuana.
Several measures could help curb the public health crisis, advocates say, including widespread availability of the overdose-reversing drug, naloxone, and an expansion of pre-arrest diversion programs — like one currently operating in Albany that gives law enforcement the discretion to connect a drug user who has committed a minor offense to services, rather than jail.
Universal access to medication-assisted treatment could have the single largest impact, many argue, especially if it were made available in jails, prisons and hospitals. Such treatment, though recommended by addiction medicine specialists, is controversial because the medications used to curb opioid withdrawal, including buprenorphine and methadone, are opioids themselves — just weaker and without the high-producing effects.
If they keep someone alive and help them to lead a productive life — as many people in recovery from opioid use disorder say they do — that shouldn't matter, advocates say.
"I have a lot to be grateful for," said 56-year-old Christopher Evans, of Schenectady, who enrolled in an Albany-area methadone clinic more than two years ago.
It took him several months, even after the methadone, to stop using heroin, as he waited for his dosage to adjust to the lifetime he had spent using drugs on and off, he said. In his later years, he abused drugs to cope with the pain of losing a daughter to cancer, he said. After he adjusted to the methadone, he said, he was able to give up heroin and regain his self-esteem, and today volunteers at the clinic.
"I don't know where I would be without giving myself over to this program," he said.
One of the most controversial initiatives that harm-reduction experts continue to fight for is safe consumption sites — legally sanctioned facilities where someone can consume pre-obtained drugs with clean equipment under the supervision of trained staff. Such sites exist in Canada and Europe, and have been shown to prevent deaths while connecting people to services and addiction treatment when they're ready.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this spring agreed to a plan to open four such sites as part of a pilot program, but the initiative has yet to move forward.
"You can't say, 'I'm tired of people shooting up in the park,' and say, 'I'm not open to safe consumption spaces,'" said Brown. "That's just stupid. You can't say, 'We're tired of picking people up when they OD out of Stewart's bathrooms and say, 'Naw, safer consumption spaces are a bridge too far.'"
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Suspect in custody after shooting officer in Albert Lea; body found while evacuating apartment building
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Created: November 29, 2020 07:41 AM
A 21-year-old man has been taken into custody after a police officer was shot and two other men were injured early Sunday morning in Albert Lea.
According to Albert Lea Police Department, at 2:18 a.m., the Albert Lea Police Department responded to a report of a possible noise complaint or weapons violation. It was reported that fireworks or gunshots were heard in the area of an apartment building at 800 S. Fourth Avenue.
As an officer was arriving at the Shady Oaks apartment building, Devin Weiland, 21, of Albert Lea shot at the officer multiple times, two shots impacting the squad vehicle and one-shot impacting the officer. According to the police department, the officer was able to relocate to a safe zone, assess possible injuries and drive directly to the ER.
Additional officers responded and established a perimeter. SCDIU SWAT was also activated along with supporting SWAT Teams (Mankato & Austin). At one point, a Minnesota State Patrol trooper shot at Weiland.
Weiland surrendered to law enforcement and was taken to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening shrapnel injuries, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a news release. It is unknown whether he was shot. The state trooper who discharged their firearm is on standard administrative leave.
Two bystanders were also shot. A 52-year-old man and a 38-year-old man were both airlifted to Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester. The officer who was shot had an injury to the chest but was treated and released later on.
While clearing the apartment building to collect evidence, a tactical team found the body of a deceased person unrelated to the standoff between the suspect and law enforcement. The remains were taken to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office to determine the person's identity and the cause and manner of death.
During the morning a shelter-in-place was activated but was lifted around 11 a.m.
Most residents in the apartment building who were evacuated so investigators could process the crime scene have already returned to their homes, the BCA said. All other residents will have hotel accommodations for the night.
Gov. Tim Walz issued the following statement regarding the shooting in Albert Lea:
"Our thoughts are with the Minnesotans who were hurt in the shooting in Albert Lea this morning.
"Thank you to the law enforcement officers, including both local teams and our State Patrol troopers and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents, who worked to keep Albert Lea residents safe from further harm. This situation could have been significantly worse, but the suspect is now in custody.
"We know that one Albert Lea police officer was injured today, and the First Lady and I wish them a quick recovery. Thank you for your bravery and service."
This is a developing news story. KSTP is working to get more details on this story and will post updates as more information becomes available.
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Montana Lottery takes public comment on draft sports betting rules
By: Jonathon Ambarian
Posted at 6:49 PM, Oct 28, 2019
The Montana Lottery gave the public a chance to give input on proposed rules to bring legalized sports betting to the state Monday morning in Helena.
“We want the public to be involved. That’s very important to us, and it’s also our legal requirement,” said Jennifer McKee, the lottery’s communications manager. “Today’s hearing was the chance for people to say in-person what they thought about the rules.”
During this year’s legislative session, state lawmakers passed House Bill 725, which authorized sports wagering under the authority of the Montana Lottery. Earlier this month, the state lottery commission unveiled draft rules to implement the program.
The proposed rules would allow sports betting only at businesses with gambling operator licenses. The state currently has just over 1,400 active operators.
Players would be able to bet in person at licensed facilities, or they could create “sports wagering accounts” with the state that would allow them to bet using electronic devices.
Players would also be able to set limits on the accounts to encourage responsible gambling, including spending, deposit and time-based limits. People who wanted to refrain from gambling altogether could file a form to keep an account from being created in their name.
One point of discussion Monday was over a proposed rule that sports betting could only be offered at businesses that hold a liquor license as well as a gambling operator license. In its explanation of the rule, the lottery said that would help ensure a balanced distribution of sports-wagering facilities based on population.
Supporters, including the Montana Tavern Association, said this provision was an important limitation.
“It’s clear through the legislative process that this sports betting product was designed to be in bars, restaurants and taverns that held an appropriate alcohol license and that are licensed gaming operators,” said John Iverson of the Montana Tavern Association.
But opponents said the rule was creating an additional restriction that wasn’t part of the actual law.
“You’ve got to have a liquor license; well, that would exclude establishments such as bingo,” said Lyndon Scheveck, an attorney representing the Arete Group in Billings.
McKee said, while the rulemaking process has been going forward, the lottery has also been working to get the other aspects of the sports betting program ready for launch.
“We’ve also been working on a product launch and naming it and the terminal and what will be offered and how we’ll market it,” she said.
She said the Montana Lottery still plans to roll out sports betting around the end of the year.
The state lottery commission is still accepting written and online comments on the proposed rules through Monday, Nov. 4. You can find links to the full rules and information on how to comment on the Montana Lottery website .
The commission is set to consider action on the rules at their meeting on Nov. 21.
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Toejam and Earl
One of the iconic duo's from the 90's era of gaming is making a return later this year on Xbox One, with a piece of news related to the game being released this last week, from the founder of HumaNaTURE Studios.
Greg Johnson, founder of HumaNature Studios and one of the original creators of ToeJam & Earl, has issued a statement that can be found below my email signature, stating they are now targeting a fall launch and Adult Swim Games will no longer publish ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove.
No reason has been given for Adult Swim Games no longer publishing the title, but if we get any more news in the meantime, I will be sure to keep you updated about it.
In the meantime, cast your eyes over the screenshots and trailer below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnIdEteUblc
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Illusion: A Tale of the Mind - A KGK Review
I love a good story in video games. Something with a good narrative, storytelling or just a unique idea suits me more than graphics. Although the latter is a sweet bonus. Step forward Illusion: A Tale of the Mind. Featuring a young white haired girl by the name of Emma, and her sentient pet rabbit, Topsy. Illusion offers a touching, heart-felt story from the perspective of the young girl, with some movie villain bad guy moments. But can the rest of it step up to the mark? Let’s find out.
The world of Illusion is a warped sense of reality, that there is no doubt. Stuck in the mind of Emma’s father, Euclid at the turn of the twentieth century, she has to find out who she is, who the memories belong too and more as she unravels the events that have transpired, solving puzzles, collecting pictures to job Euclid’s memory and listening to gramophones to flesh out the story make for a dark and gritty story, filled with a love between a father and his daughter. But one flaw I couldn’t shake off, was that Euclid speaks with a heavy French accent, as does the villain. But Emma? Nothing shouted out French in her accent.
The game spans a trio of chapters, as you dive into the psyche of your father as he battles the horrors of war that plague his subconscious mind, and his depression over the loss of his wife and daughter. Warping everything in the process. While the graphics aren’t of the highest quality, they’re above average and do the job in the dark recesses of Euclid’s mind.
The puzzles are interesting enough as you search for glass shards to fill in the gaps of a broken mirror, or pieces of a puzzle that once in a certain position form a shadow in the light to complete that particular puzzle. Lastly, and one that I really enjoyed was where I was required to position the camera to form the shape of an object from debris that floats statically in mid-air. Trial and error plays a part here, but there is always a clue nearby to help you along the way.
One major pain in my backside though, was the game’s camera that is fixed to whatever location you happen to be in, and this caused many a problem for me as I played through Illusion. I get that it’s trying to play a part in creating mood and atmosphere. But more often than not I found this to be more of a hindrance than a help. Especially during a chase scene or when trying to fine tune my position ready for moving around at the end of chapter two.
Illusion is a game that will be seen as average by many gamers, or a little bit above average. The story is genuinely good, and dialogue from Euclid presents a heart broken man in search of his loved ones as he battles his inner demons. Despite a wonky camera, the controls are thankfully responsive enough to function as they should, in a dark and dreary world set in the mind of Emma’s father. It is a fairly short experience that presents puzzles that can be overcome with a bit of thought, and there really isn’t too much in the way of aimless wandering to pad the game out. The execution isn’t perfect by any means, what with the aforementioned camera and graphics that could have used a bit more polish in places. As for the audio, it is pleasant to listen too, and the creepy videos from incidental pieces really give it an edge to spook you out just enough without it being treated as a full on horror.
Illusion is one of them games that once you play it, you will see it for all its faults, which is a shame, as deep down there is a touching story between Emma, Topsy and Euclid as they battle to overcome the dark force that is your protagonist. You’ll like it more than dislike it, but the story will shine through enough to satisfy.
Developer: Frima Games
Publisher: Ravenscourt
Release Date: 1st July 2018
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Maradona's close pal claims he has two children living in Spain
Carlos Ferro Viera who is a close friend of late Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has claimed that his pal has another two children who are living with their mother in Spain.
Viera lived in Cuba with the 1986 World Cup winner after he moved to the Caribbean island in February 2000.
According to the report on Mirror, Viera claimed that Diego Maradona dated during his stay and had two children even though re refused to reveal their names.
Interestingly, Carlos Ferro Viera was reported to have identified the name of the mother as Laura Cibilla.
She was a waitress then and the only woman who lost a paternity suit against Maradona after he agreed to take a DNA test 10 years ago to prove he was not the father of her son.
The test is said to have come back negative but Carlos is insisting the woman had another two children for the football legend.
Although, Laura is said to be living in Spain, but her actual location is not known according to the report.
Before his death last week Wednesday, Diego Maradona reportedly claimed that he is the father of only five children.
Maradona played 91 games for Argentina and his last international match was against the Super Eagles of Nigeria at the 1994 World Cup in USA.
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Let the dead rest in peace Biko
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FAST TIMES IN PHARMACEUTICALS
Merger puts Japanese exec atop industry
by Will Hollingworth
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Tadataka Yamada is set to become one of the most powerful players in the global pharmaceutical industry with an annual budget of 2.5 billion British pounds (about 425 billion yen) at his fingertips and a highly talented workforce in Europe and the United States under his command.
If the planned merger between SmithKline Beecham PLC and Glaxo Wellcome PLC is given the OK this summer by regulators, Yamada will take control of the new company’s massive research and development facilities.
Yamada, who currently heads the research and development department at SmithKline Beecham, is already one of the highest-ranking Japanese executives working for a British company.
The merger of the two British companies into Glaxo SmithKline PLC — the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company in terms of share price and market share — will cement this position.
The 54-year-old Tokyo native believes the merger will allow him and his team to fully exploit the human genome — the blueprint of human life currently being mapped out in detail by scientists across the world — and find new drugs to treat a whole range of illnesses. He says he looks forward to the new challenges ahead.
“I have a great driving ambition to create products for the relief of human suffering as quickly and efficiently as possible. I believe that with a 2.5 billion pound budget every year I’m going to have the tools that I’ve never had before,” he said.
“We have to rethink and take full advantage of the windfall, not only of the dollars, but also the enormous talent of the people,” he said.
He feels that the “windfall” has come at just the right time to allow him to capitalize on recent key scientific developments.
“If it (the merger) had come a year or two later we might not have been able to capture that value from the genome sequence, which pretty much will be finalized within the next couple of years,” he said.
He explained that since the genome map will contain every target for pharmaceutical invention in man, those companies with a critical mass of expertise and scale stand to reap the greatest gains from that window of opportunity.
Yamada has followed an untypical career path to the boardroom of one of Britain’s top companies — leaving academia for the private sector just four years ago.
Born in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, Yamada was 15 when he left Japan to study in the United States. In 1983 he joined the University of Michigan as professor of internal medicine, serving as chairman of the department between 1990 and 1996, after which he joined SmithKline as an executive director.
While admitting to having a few regrets about having spent all his working life outside Japan, he believes he would not have been as successful had he stayed in his home country.
“Although I had offers to go back to Japan to work when I was younger, it seemed that the opportunities were more flexible for young people in the United States than they were in Japan, particularly in the academic field,” he said.
“I was 50 when I joined SmithKline at a senior level. Part of that was the fact that I was an outside director and most Japanese corporations don’t have them. They have outside representatives but not real outside directors,” Yamada said.
During his first two years at the company as a nonexecutive director, he said the senior executives got to know him well enough to feel comfortable about bringing him into a more senior position. “I doubt that that would have occurred in Japan,” he said.
At SmithKline, Yamada has around 8,000 employees under his control and a budget of around 1 billion pounds (170 billion yen) to research new drugs.
He spends about 40 percent of his time in London, 40 percent in Philadelphia and the remainder “on the road.” He says the company sees itself as being thoroughly global, which is reflected in the rich mix of nationalities on its board.
Yamada feels that if Japanese pharmaceutical companies are to grow, they should adopt a more global perspective.
“The Japanese have a strong pharmaceutical industry, but its primary market has been domestic and this is regulated in terms of pricing by the government. The net effect is that all the companies face zero growth unless they can expand their horizons beyond Japan,” he said.
He predicted that Japanese pharmaceutical companies will in the future be looking at developing their own sales organizations within the U.S. and Europe rather than relying on licensing agreements.
Yamada is excited about the future of the pharmaceutical industry and says that as science progresses we will see new treatments develop as well as cures for some of the biggest killers.
“I think that cures for certain diseases are a possibility as we learn more about the fundamental biochemical basis for human disease,” he said.
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BERKELEY – Right now, it’s difficult for area swimmers to find a full-sized pool unless they live in Toms River or farther south in Ocean County.
But that may change, if a proposed pool to be built near the Central Regional school district and Veterans Park becomes a reality.
The $2 million pool will be built at no cost to taxpayers, by a medical investment group, Central Regional Superintendent Triantafillos Parlapanides said after the Jan. 3 Board of Education reorganization meeting.
The pool would be located on the Craig Estate property between Veterans Park and Central Regional, he said.
The investment group will own the pool. Central Regional, including the swim team, will be given pool time. Students in all of the district’s fourth grade sending schools would also be given swimming lessons, Parlapanides said.
Senior citizens who want to join the pool will be billed $10 a month. Everyone else will pay $15 a month. Anyone who just wants to swim for a day will pay $4, he said.
“To be safe, we are looking for a fall 2020 date for the opening of the pool,” Parlapanides said.
The investment group will pay taxes to the township and a percentage of the net profits during the course of the 20-year agreement.
“It’s more of an agreement between the investment group and the Berkeley Township mayor and council,” he said. “I’m just working with Mayor (Carmen) Amato and the council to help get the project completed…we all agree it would be great for the community and the schools.”
Plans for a previous fitness and wellness center to be built by a different investment group a few years back were determined not to be feasible. That center would have included an Olympic-size swimming pool, gym facilities, cardiac rehab, physical therapy, fitness classes, personalized health assessments, wellness programs, a restaurant, and a daycare center.
The new project would only include a six-lane swimming pool and locker rooms, Parlapanides said.
In other business, the board voted unanimously to reappoint board member Louis Tuminaro to serve as board president this year and board member Denise Pavone-Wilson to serve as board vice-president.
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Why transparent property markets matter to the man on the street
Property markets often appear as complex webs of regulations and transactions far removed from the daily lives of billions of people on this planet.
Now, a growing emphasis on transparency in real estate is having a noticeable effect around the world whether through the construction of more energy efficient buildings in Dubai, job creation in Shanghai or basic civil rights in Peru.
“Real estate transparency is fundamental to people’s livelihoods and quality of life, particularly in developing markets,” says Jeremy Kelly, Director of Global Research at JLL. “Part of it is about having legal and regulatory frameworks that provide basic property rights. That means you would have security of ownership and compensation if your house is going to be knocked down to build a motorway.”
In addition, countries with good levels of transparency tend to offer better protection for citizens. Such measures include a well-functioning property market served by honest professional advisers; financial disclosure regulations for property investment vehicles and a wealth of accessible data (such as monthly house price indicators). These help to build trust and feed through into helping people to make informed, sensible decisions about the buildings in which they live and work.
However, things are changing. From Mexico to Malaysia, better legislation and improved access to independent market data are enabling ordinary people to demand higher safety standards in buildings and to feel more confident in home-buying decisions.
At the opposite end of the scale, a lack of transparency can kill – as shown by the continuing toll of buildings collapses. A failure by regulators to check for the use of counterfeit materials contributed to four deaths in Uganda when a six-storey development gave way in April, according to the mayor of the capital, Kampala.
Moves to take on corrupt practices
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is one of a growing number of bodies pushing the transparency agenda. In a pilot research study in India’s Maharashtra state, it found a real estate sector enmeshed in corrupt, non-transparent practices. Procedures for getting licenses and permits were so opaque that bribes, often worth half the final project cost, became routine. The researchers have now designed some relatively simple solutions including the use of e-procurement to make tender and payment processes public and visible. These are now also being tested in Africa and Latin America.
Peru, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, has reduced its poverty rate 28 percent since 2002 partly because a local think tank recognized that a lack of transparency in the property sector was holding back growth. The Institute for Liberty and Democracy, realized that ordinary Peruvians would be far more able to save, borrow and start businesses if they could buy their homes and be sure that the state or a local tyrant would not repudiate their ownership. The Institute successfully pushed for the introduction of a reliable land registration system as part of a package of “legal tools and institutions required for citizens to participate in the formal national and global economy”.
They’re far from being the only countries who are taking steps to address transparency issues. Two-thirds of 109 property markets around the world have made progress since 2014, according to JLL’s 2016 Global Real Estate Transparency Index.
And better transparency is often accompanied by higher levels of business activity and investment. In Shanghai, for example, transparency advances – such as providing better data on supply, demand and valuations – have gone in parallel with a tenfold increase in real estate investment over the last decade and a fivefold increase in the take up of new office space. In 2015 alone, nearly 600,000 jobs were created.
The link between transparency and investment could be crucial in the next decade, says Kelly. ”Within the next decade we could see annual direct investment into commercial real estate assets hitting in excess of US$1 trillion across the globe and investors, developers and occupiers want to know exactly where their money is going.”
Harnessing the power of data
While governments and the real estate professions are playing a major role in putting transparency on the agenda, technology and sustainability are also key.
As information and data becomes more widely available and easier to analyze in the public domain, people, companies and governments can be more easily held to account for their actions. In its Maharashtra pilot, the WEF wants the public to read and scrutinize bids and deals and act as informal ‘social’ auditors who will blow the whistle if the deals look suspect.
Meanwhile, property market apps, help consumers make informed decisions about properties they buy, rent or invest in using comparative data. “Technology has made possible the biggest transparency gains of the past two years,” says Kelly. “These relate to ‘market fundamentals’ – the access, depth and quality of aggregated and disaggregated data on real estate market conditions and it’s set to increase as technology evolves.”
As sustainability gains ground, it’s supporting transparency. Required to make detailed disclosures on materials and emissions, sustainable developers are obliged to be more transparent than their traditional counterparts. The Dubai Smart City project is a pioneer, with plans to become the “innovation benchmark for smart cities seeking global sustainability and competitiveness”.
The Panama Papers effect
Transparency issues are far from resolved – even in developed markets such as Miami, New York, Vancouver and London. In the wake of the Panama Papers scandal, markets with a large selection of luxury residential units are under scrutiny for potential money laundering with unscrupulous organizations and individuals looking to exploit any weaknesses in beneficial ownership disclosure, vetting and regulatory oversight and enforcement.
Requirements from the UK and Canada for estate agents to perform detailed identity checks have not deterred the money launderers. Following the April revelations about secret, offshore investing, steps are being considered in Miami, Manhattan and the UK among others to force disclosure of beneficial owners.
But why are so many scandals being unearthed if such broad progress is being made? “Corruption scandals tend to be uncovered when markets become more transparent,” says Kelly. “In opaque markets scandals don’t become exposed at all.”
For now, transparency is a long term goal reached by taking small steps. Both public and private sector have crucial roles to play in improving transparency and, therefore, in making their real estate sectors more vibrant and supportive of local economies. They have a lot to gain: there is a strong likelihood that the markets which flourish most will also be the most transparent.
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DOM 13.10.2013 | NEWS
Jaén, the first team to take a point at El Molinón
The side from Andalusia drew 1-1 on their visit to Sporting, who until this fixture had won all Liga Adelante games at home this season
Matchday 9 | DOM 13.10.2013
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Real Jaén CF became the first visiting side to take any points from El Molinón this season after holding Real Sporting de Gijón to a 1-1 draw.
In a first half of few opportunities, the best fell to the visitors, however Jozabed wasn’t able to score when one on one with goalkeeper Iván Cuéllar. Indeed, Sporting didn’t have to do much to go ahead in the game. A cross that looked simple enough came towards the Jaén goal, however goalkeeper Toni García somehow contrived to put the ball into the back of his own net.
In the second half, it was Jaén who created the better of the openings, and hard work paid off for the Andalusian outfit in the 68th minute. Jona making no mistake having snuck in behind the home side’s defence.
The team from Asturias tried in vain to find a winning goal; however there was to be no way past Toni García for a second time. This means that Sporting’s run of winning every game at home in the 2013/14 Liga Adelante season has come to an end, however they remain in the mix at the top of the table. Jaén, who had a golden opportunity to win it in added time, remain in the relegation places despite securing their first point away from home.
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Muniain re-signs for Athletic until 2017
The footballer has extended his contract for two seasons.
Iker Muniain and Athletic Club de Bilbao have agreed that the Navarrese player will wear the club's red and white shirt until June 2017. The extension to the contract was announced by the club chairman, Josu Urrutia, who underlined that "it's good news, it's an exciting year for everyone".
In addition to the re-signing, the striker's buyout clause goes from 37.5 to 45 million euros. Aged 21, Muniain is a product of the Athletic academy. With his debut in the Liga BBVA in August 2009, he went down in the club's history as the youngest footballer to play in a Liga BBVA match and, in October of the same year, he was the youngest to score a goal in the top division. Last season he played in 39 matches and scored 9 goals.
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McDonald’s workers file $500 million sexual harassment lawsuit
On behalf of Law Offices of Levi Williams, P.A. | Apr 20, 2020 | Employment Litigation
Two women in Sanford, Florida have filed a $500 million class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s, the world’s second-largest private employer. The lawsuit alleges that the fast-food giant has cultivated a “systematic sexual harassment problem” dating back to 2016.
The two women filed the suit on behalf of 5,000 other women who worked at one of the 100 McDonald’s locations in Florida and experienced harassment on the job. The two women named claim that they faced physical assault, verbal abuse, groping and sexually charged comments from their male coworkers.
What’s more, is both women reported the harassment to their managers, who didn’t take appropriate action. In fact, according to the complaint, McDonald’s gave both of the women fewer hours after reporting the behavior. The restaurant chain also eventually fired one of the women as a result.
A culture of harassment
In the past three years, McDonald’s workers have filed more than 50 sexual harassment complaints against the company. According to a 2016 survey from Hart Research, 40% of women working in the fast-food industry have experienced sexual harassment on the job.
The women filing the lawsuit have joined forces with the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. Founded in 2018, Time’s Up emerged during the rise of the #MeToo movement, which shed a light on the rampant culture of workplace harassment and exposed powerful abusers such as Harvey Weinstein.
In an open letter from Time’s Up, they called upon McDonald’s to improve their sexual harassment training and ensure that there is a lawful process for both reporting abuse and preventing retaliation. In a statement, McDonald’s has addressed the issue by rolling out a new anti-harassment training program to its restaurants.
Under federal laws, sexual harassment in the workplace is an illegal form discrimination. It is also illegal for an employer to retaliate or discriminate against the person who filed the harassment charge.
Employers have a legal obligation to ensure that all of their employees are safe from harassment and bias at work. While sexual harassment in the workplace is alarmingly pervasive, the #MeToo era and organizations like Time’s Up are helping to ensure workplace harassers are held accountable.
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Drinker Biddle to Add 11 Lawyers From Small Firm in L.A
Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath has announced it will add 11 attorneys from 16-lawyer Reish & Reicher in Los Angeles, including the firm's two name partners, on March 16. The rest of the Reish & Reicher attorneys will be going to another small firm, Silver & Freedman.
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Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath has announced it will add 11 attorneys from 16-lawyer Reish & Reicher in Los Angeles, including the firm’s two name partners, on March 16. The new group will join the firm’s office in Los Angeles’ Century City district and will include Reish & Reicher’s entire employee benefits and compensation practice, as well as attorneys who focus on labor and employment, litigation, corporate and estate planning.
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Does Sense of Smell Impact the Onset of Dementia?
Seniors who can identify smells like roses, turpentine, paint-thinner and lemons, and have retained their senses of hearing, vision and touch, may have half the risk of developing dementia as their peers with marked sensory decline.
In a study by the University of California-San Francisco, researchers monitored about 1,800 participants in their 70s for a period of up to 10 years to determine, if their sensory functioning could be linked with the development of dementia. At the time of enrollment, all participants were dementia-free, but 328 participants (18%) developed dementia during the course of the study.
The University of California – San Francisco’s July 20 press release “Older Adults Who Can Really Smell the Roses May Face Lower Likelihood of Dementia” explains that of those whose sensory levels ranked in the middle range, 141 of the 328 (19%) developed dementia. This compares with 83 in the good range (12%) and 104 (27%) in the poor range, according to the study, which was published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Prior studies looked at the link between dementia and individual senses, but the UCSF researchers’ focus was on the additive effects of multiple impairments in sensory function, which emerging evidence shows are a better indicator of declining cognition.
“Sensory impairments could be due to underlying neurodegeneration or the same disease processes as those affecting cognition, such as stroke,” said first author Willa Brenowitz, PhD, of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. “Alternatively, sensory impairments, particularly hearing and vision, may accelerate cognitive decline, either directly impacting cognition or indirectly, by increasing social isolation, poor mobility and adverse mental health.”
While multiple impairments were important to the researchers, the authors noted that a keen sense of smell, or olfaction, has a stronger association against dementia than touch, hearing, or vision. Those in the study whose smell declined by 10% had a 19% higher chance of dementia, versus a 1-to-3% increased risk for corresponding declines in vision, hearing, and touch.
“The olfactory bulb, which is critical for smell, is affected fairly early on in the course of the disease,” said Brenowitz. “It’s thought that smell may be a preclinical indicator of dementia, while hearing and vision may have more of a role in promoting dementia.”
The participants underwent multisensory testing in the third-to-fifth year and included hearing (hearing aids were not allowed), contrast-sensitivity tests for vision (glasses were permitted), touch testing in which vibrations were measured in the big toe, and smell, which entailed identifying distinctive odors like paint-thinner, roses, lemons, onions and turpentine.
The study showed that those who stayed dementia-free, generally had higher cognition at enrollment and were apt to have no sensory impairments. Those in the middle range tended to have multiple mild impairments or a single moderate-to-severe impairment. Participants at higher risk had multiple moderate-to-severe impairments.
The 780 participants with good multisensory function were also more likely to be healthier than the 499 participants with poor multisensory function. This suggested that some lifestyle habits may play a part in reducing risks for dementia.
Reference: University of California – San Francisco (July 20, 2020) “Older Adults Who Can Really Smell the Roses May Face Lower Likelihood of Dementia”
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National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993
National Commission for Backward Classes Act
An Act to constitute a National Commission for Backward Classes other than the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
1. Short title, extent and commencement
3. Constitution of National Commission for Backward Classes
4. Term of office and conditions of service of Chairperson and Members
5. Officers and other employees of the Commission
6. Salaries and allowances to be paid out of grants
7. Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of the Commission
8. Procedure to be regulated by the Commission
9. Functions of the Commission
10. Powers of the Commission
11. Periodic revision of lists by the Central Government
12. Grants by the Central Government
13. Accounts and audit
14. Annual report
15. Annual report and audit report to be laid before Parliament
16. Chairperson, Members and employees of the Commission to be Public Servants
17. Power to make rules
18. Power to remove difficulties
19. Repeal and saving
This Act may be called the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993.
It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of February, 1993.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
"Backward classes" means such backward classes of citizens other than the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, as may be specified by the Central Government in the lists;
"Commission" means the National Commission for Backward Classes constituted under section 3;
"lists" means lists prepared by the Government of India from� time to time, for purposes of making provision for� the reservation� of appointments or posts in favour� of� backward classes of citizens which, in the opinion of that Government, are� not� adequately represented in the� services� under� the Government� of India and any local or other authority� within the territory of India or under the control of the Government of India;
"Member" means a Member of the Commission and includes the Chairperson;
"Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
The Central Government shall constitute a body to be known as the National Commission for Backward Classes to exercise the powers conferred on, and to perform the functions assigned to, it under this Act.
The Commission shall consist of the following Members nominated by the Central Government:-
A Chairperson, who is or has been a Judge of the Supreme Court or of a High Court;
a social scientist;
Two persons, who have special knowledge in matters relating to backward classes; and
a Member-Secretary, who is or has been an officer of the Central Government in the rank of a Secretary to the Government of India.
Every Member shall hold office for a term of three years from the date he assumes office.
A Member may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Central Government, resign from the office of Chairperson or, as the ease may be, of Member at any time.
The Central Government shall remove a person from the office of Member if that person-
becomes an undercharged insolvent;
Is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which, in the opinion of the Central Government, Involves moral turpitude;
Becomes of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;
refuses to act or becomes, incapable of acting;
Is, without obtaining leave of absence from the Commission, absent from three consecutive meetings of the Commission; or
Has, in the opinion of the Central Government, so abused the position of Chairperson or Member as to render that person's continuance in office detrimental to the interests of backward classes or the public interest:
Provided that no person shall be removed under this clause until that person has been given an opportunity of being heard in the matter.
A vacancy caused under sub-section (2) or otherwise shall be filled by fresh nomination.
The salaries and allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions of service of, the Chairperson and Members shall be such as may be prescribed.
The Central Government shall provide the Commission with such officers and employees as may be necessary for the efficient performance of the functions of the Commission.
The salaries and allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions of service of, the officers and other employees appointed for the purpose of the Commission shall be such as may be prescribed.
The� salaries and� allowances� payable� to� the� Chairperson� and� Members� and� the administrative� expenses, including salaries, allowances and� pensions payable to the officers and other employees referred to in section� 5, shall� be� paid out of the grants referred to in� sub-section� (1)� of section 12.
7. Vacancies,�� etc., not to invalidate proceedings�� of�� the Commission.�
No act or proceeding of the Commission shall be invalid on the ground merely of the existence of any vacancy or defect in the constitution�� of the Commission.
The Commission shall meet as and when necessary at such time and place as the Chairperson may think fit.
The Commission shall regulate its own procedure.
All� orders� and� decisions� of� the� Commission� shall�� be� authenticated� by� the Member-Secretary or any other� officer� of� the� Commission duly authorised by the Member-Secretary in this behalf.
9. Functions� of the Commission.
The Commission shall examine requests for inclusion of any class of citizens as a backward class in the lists and hear complaints of over-inclusion or under-inclusion of any backward class in such lists and tender such advice to the Central Government as it deems appropriate.
The advice of the Commission shall ordinarily be binding upon the Central Government.
10. Powers�� of�� the Commission.
The� Commission�� shall,�� while� performing� its functions under sub-section (1) of section 9, have� all� the� powers� of� a civil court trying a suit� and� in� particular,� in� respect of the following matters, namely:-
Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person from any part of India and examining him on oath;
Requiring the discovery and production of any document;
Receiving evidence on affidavits;
Requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office;
Issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses and documents; and
Any other matter which may be prescribed.
The Central Government may at any time, and shall, at the expiration of ten years from the coming into force of this Act and every succeeding period of ten years thereafter, undertake revision of the lists with a view to excluding from such lists those classes who have ceased to be backward classes or for including in such lists new backward classes.
The Central Government shall, while undertaking any revision referred to in sub-section (1), consult the Commission.
The� Central� Government� shall,� after� due� appropriation made by Parliament by� law� in� this� behalf,� pay to the Commission by way of grants such sums of money� as� the �Central� Government� may think fit for� being� utilised� for� the� purposes of this Act.
The Commission may spend such sums as it thinks fit for performing the functions under this Act, and such sums shall be treated as expenditure payable out of the grants referred to in sub-section (1).
The Commission shall maintain proper accounts and other relevant records and prepare an annual statement of accounts in such form as may be prescribed by the Central Government in Consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
The accounts of the Commission shall be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor-General at such intervals as may be specified by 5 him and any expenditure incurred in connection with such audit shall be payable by the Commission to the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
The Comptroller and Auditor-General and any person appointed by him in connection with the audit of the accounts of the Commission under this Act shall have the same rights and privileges and the authority in connection with such audit as the Comptroller and Auditor-General generally has in connection with the audit of Government accounts and, in particular, shall have the right to demand the production of books, accounts, connected vouchers and other documents and papers and to inspect any of the offices of the Commission.
The Commission shall prepare, in such form� and� at� such� time,� for each financial year, as may� be� prescribed,� its� annual� report,� giving a full account of its� activities� during� the� previous� financial� year and forward a copy thereof� to� the� Central� Government.
The Central Government shall cause the annual report, together with� a� memorandum� of action taken on the advice tendered by� the� Commission� under section 9 and the reasons for the non-acceptance, if any, of any� such� advice, and the audit report to be laid as soon as may be� after� they are received before each House of Parliament.
The Chairperson, Members and employees of the Commission shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: -
Salaries and allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions of service of, the Chairperson and Members under sub-section (5) of section 4 and the officers and other Employees under sub-section (2) of section 5;
The form in which the annual statement of accounts shall be prepared under sub-section (1) of section 13;
The form in, and the time at, which the annual report shall be prepared under section 14;
Any other matter, which is required to be or may be prescribed
Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to it to be necessary or expedient, for removing the difficulty:
Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of two years from the date of commencement of this Act.
Every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before each House of Parliament.
The National Commission for Backward Classes Ordinance, 1993 (Ord. 23 of 1993) is hereby repealed.
Not with standing such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
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According to their website, "The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive." The Nature Conservancy is an international organization, but you can find information about local chapters on Long Island at http://linature.org.The chapter on Shelter Island serves the sprawling Mashomack Preserve.
North Fork Environmental Council
The NFEC is a grassroots organization, having over 1200 members, supporters and volunteers dedicated to the preservation of the quality of the resources and way of life that make the North Fork a unique place to live, work and visit.
North Shore Land Alliance
The North Shore Land Alliance is a not-for-profit land trust formed to protect and preserve, in perpetuity, the green spaces, farmlands, wetlands, groundwater and historical sites of Long Island's north shore for the enhancement of quality of life and benefit of future generations.
Peconic Land Trust
The Peconic Land Trust works to conserve Long Island's working farms and natural lands. Their work encompasses working farms, natural lands and wildlife habitats, watershed and bays, walking trails and more.
Preserve Plum Island Coalition
TThe goal of the Preserve Plum Island Coalition is to secure the permanent protection of the significant natural and cultural resources of Plum Island..
Perfect Earth Project
Perfect Earth Project (PEP) promotes toxin-free lawns and landscapes for the health of people, their pets, and the planet. PEP raises consciousness about the dangers of synthetic lawn and garden chemicals and educates homeowners and professionals about natural, PRFCT (toxin-free) techniques that provide beautiful, safe results at no extra cost. Sign up for their newsletter to receive weekly tips on maintaining your own landscape without toxic chemicals.
Renewable Energy Long Island
Renewable Energy Long Island (reLI), established in 2003, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization promoting clean, sustainable energy use and generation for Long Island. reLI conducts effective outreach and education activities and provides consumer-friendly information resources such as its SunshineIsFree.org solar calculator and contractor locator, and publishes the Long Island GreenGuide in print and as an online edition with a green business directory.
Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation
The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation is the only organization in New York State that is authorized to rescue and rehabilitate sick or injured marine mammals and sea turtles. They conduct research on marine life and also operate a 24-hour hotline at (631) 369-9829 for reports of sick or stranded marine mammals or sea turtles.They also offer seal cruises out of Freeport during the winter months.
Seatuck Environmental Association
Seatuck operates two nature centers on the South Shore and manages an outdoor education program at a third site on the North Shore. The three facilities – the 70-acre Suffolk County Environmental Center in Islip, the 200-acre South Shore Nature Center in East Islip, and the 80-acre Sherwood Jayne Farm in East Setauket – provide sanctuary and habitat for a diversity of wildlife and are open to the public for many activities, including hiking, bird watching, photography and self-guided nature exploration. Each of the properties also hosts a full schedule of Seatuck’s nature based programs throughout the year. Click on the links below to learn more about each of these unique facilities:
Sustainable Long Island
Rethink. Rebuild. Renew.Sustainable Long Island is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote economic development, environmental health, and social equity for all Long Islanders, now and for generations to come.Sustainable Long Island is a catalyst and facilitator for sustainable development. We cultivate the conditions, identify resources, and provide tools to advance sustainability on Long Island.
According to their website, "The Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots, non-profit,environmental organization that works to protect our oceans, waves, and beaches. Surfrider’s coastal environmental work is carried out by Surfrider Foundation’s 60 chapters located along the East, West, Gulf, Puerto Rican, and Hawaiian coasts. The Eastern Long Island chapter is dedicated to maintaining and acquiring beach and ocean access rights, to preserve our coastline and improve the overall quality of Long Island’s coastal environment.There are two Surfrider chapters on Long Island: The Surfrider Foundation - Eastern Long Island Chapter and The Surfrider Foundation - Central Long Island Chapter.
Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center
The Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center was established in 1923 as the first Audubon Songbird Sanctuary in the United States. According to their website, "The Mission of the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center is to connect people with nature while promoting a sense of environmental stewardship through natural science educational programs." They offer nature programs for adults and children and they also conduct research on birds and their habitats. They provide a home for injured birds of prey including hawks, owls and falcons that cannot be released into the wild.
The Peconic Estuary Program (PEP)
As per their website, Peconic Estuary Program (or PEP) "acts as a bridge at the boundary between science and policy, and ensures that an informed citizenry, along with all other stakeholders, have a voice in the decision-making process.". The program's outreach has various divisions focusing on monitoring estuary health, scientific research, public awareness & education and collaborating with political officials and scientists to bring about policy that protects the estuary.
Colleges offering Environmental Programs
Molloy College: The Sustainability Institute at Molloy College
This is Long Island's first-ever venture housing sustainability education and policy analysis within an academic institution. The Sustainability Institute team - headed by Executive Director Neal Lewis, formerly of the Neighborhood Network --- will provide community education and advocacy on key issues related to sustainability. There is also a student education component, including classes taught by Sustainability Institute staff.
Sustainability Studies program at Stony Brook University
The Sustainability Studies major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to understand and address the environmental, social, political, economic and ethical issues related to the transformation of our current societies to ones that are sustainable. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities.
M.S. in Environmental Sustainability at LIU: Post
The M.S. in Environmental Sustainability is a Masters degree program under the Earth & Environmental Science field at LIU Post. A 33 credit course.
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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
PG. Somehow, this is the movie that is rated PG. Again, my big argument on this page is that the MPAA is rating for intended audience, not for actual content. I think that Detective Pikachu, while being mostly fine for my kids, is on par in terms of questionable content as any superhero movie that comes out. Pikachu himself has really questionable language choices. There's some straight up scary scenes in the film. Some of those Pokemon are possessed and become fast running zombies, for goodness sake. While this is PG, it's a very pushing-it PG.
DIRECTOR: Rob Letterman
I never got into Pokemon. I can prove it because I didn't put the proper accent on the word "Pokemon". It seems like a lot of work at this point, especially considering I'm going to write that word over-and-over before this analysis is done. But my kids are kind of into it. I don't know how they got into besides playing Super Smash Bros. which in retrospect makes sense. I never really let them watch the show. They've seen episodes, but not under my watch. Part of me never understood how Pokemon got around the dog-fighting angle. Apparently, the Pokemon like fighting? I don't think that's a very healthy attitude to have. I mean, the Ood like being slaves, but at least they address the questionable morality of enslaving the Ood on Doctor Who. I don't know. I've never been a fan of Pokemon, so I can't spout off what canon explains it all.
The thing that broke my heart most about this movie is Bill Nighy having to be in this movie and having him say the word "Pokemon." Bill Nighy, in my head, is super respectable. He's a classy old British gentleman who comes to play from time-to-time. I know that he's not above projects. But usually those projects have to be tongue-in-cheek about their subject matter. I'm thinking of him in Shaun of the Dead, which actually introduced me to the actor. But having Bill Nighy, with no sense of irony, having to say the word "Pokemon" a billion times, it depressed me. I'm probably reading into that way more than Bill Nighy ever did. But thinking about it is a bummer. That's about what I want to say about that because it's almost a miracle that this movie turned out to be pretty decent. Right now, I'm making the comparison between Michael Douglas being in Ant-Man and Bill Nighy being in Detective Pikachu. With the case of Michael Douglas, I got the vibe that he was somehow above the content that he thought the movie was going to be. With Nighy, he seems pretty comfortable in the spot he signed up for. Both movies, although I'm not the biggest Ant-Man fan in the world, were pretty huge films. That's kind of what makes Detective Pikachu an enigma in my head.
We've probably all been waiting for a truly great comic book movie. The closest thing that has been really good compared to this is the Castlevania Netflix show, which we have to admit is kind of cheating. 1) It's a show. and 2) It's animated. The next contender, from a distance, is Resident Evil, and that franchise just drove itself into the ground. Video game movies don't work for a very specific reason. While some video games have some pretty great stories, mostly we get these moments through cut scenes. To view a cut scene, you have to kind of earn it. There's hours of gameplay and frustration and that moment of storytelling is coupled with a shot of dopamine to the brain. We are excited to see what happens next because we somehow earned that expository glance into the world. As part of that, we probably get really excited for it. I'm not saying that the story is bad or anything, but we probably are more forgiving of what we are watching because it is in the context of a moment of success and personal victory. I was thinking about Max Payne, the film, (yup) and I wondered why it really didn't work. I mean, it had the look of the game. It actually followed the narrative remarkably closely. But that movie was ridiculously bad. None of those moments felt earned. On top of that, the pacing of a video game is drastically different than that of a film. A small video game experience is ten hours. Many games dwarf that. The narrative has to accommodate a lot of story over a long period of time. That's where Detective Pikachu is kind of smart.
Really Detective Pikachu isn't a traditional video game adaptation. Pokemon is more of a cultural phenomenon. Rather than simply being an adaptation of a video game, Detective Pikachu is more of an adaptation of a concept. I'm sure that there are many people out there that don't think of Detective Pikachu as a video game movie. I don't really blame them. With the cultural impact of the Pokemon anime series, the brand Pokemon has eclipsed its origins. That kind of leaves Detective Pikachu to be its own thing. Now, before I dive too deep, I understand that there is a game called Detective Pikachu. I have not played it nor do I really plan to play it. Maybe one day, I'll explore the Pokemon phenomenon, but it doesn't look likely right now. But the film kind of banks on the idea that most people know only the general concept of Pokemon and the film never really asks an audience to know the world too closely beyond that. The film actually fills in a lot of gaps in storytelling. What little needs to be known about the world of Pokemon is filled in pretty quickly either through direct exposition or context clues. I imagine that it might be hard for a director to fill in a lot of gaps, but that kind of seems necessary for a wide release. What's odd, is that this world kind of comes across as the same environment as Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. The world of Pokemon is full of all of these creatures that just seem normal. It seems larger than life for us. The environment of Ryme City is a fairy wonderland. There are creatures everywhere and they color the landscape. Think about how the toons in Roger Rabbit let us understand the importance of setting based on how otherworldly creatures treated the mundane. The same is true for Ryme City.
As a film, the movie gets it mostly right. It presents a story that has kind of a decent mystery. It seems odd to think that an adorable Pikachu is going to solve a murder mystery, but coupling Ryan Reynolds with Pikachu actually makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I wanted Danny Devito too, but Reynolds is consistently charming so I get it. In terms of tone, the movie really nails it. The movie is a summer blockbuster with mildly decent acting and funny jokes. The mystery, unfortunately, is where all the weaknesses lie. The movie stresses that Pikachu is a detective. Why is the mystery so weak? I know. There's supposed to be a big Mewtwo reveal. That means nothing to me, by the way. I know that he's a big character because of one of the other Pokemon films, but I really don't care. The mystery at the beginning of the film is supposed to be grounded. The protagonist's father's car is flipped and the protagonist is killed. The entire point of the movie is to find Harry's body and to try to find out if he's alive. I know I wrote that weird, but I don't have the patience to rewrite it. That's fine. I know that the mystery is in a fantasy world, but the concept behind the film is supposed to be grounded. Why bring in such a noir premise only to have it all sci-fi'ed midway through? The movie can't actually solve its own mystery. I mean, I figured out the bad guy the second he got on screen. (Sorry, spoiler about the gender. But why are you reading this if you were afraid of spoilers?) But the means there is actually impossible. At one point, the movie introduces secret holographic reconstruction. That seems like a bit of a cheat. (I'm also looking at you, Bones.) Whatever happened to allowing the audience to solve the mystery in tandem with the protagonists? Isn't that why we go to mysteries? Detective Pikachu is a fun Pokemon movie, but it is an absolutely awful mystery. That's actually where it makes the movie feel silly. I love the characters and the jokes and the overall vibe of the movie. It's just that, when discussing Pokemon and sci-fi mumbojumbo as part of a crime, that's where the movie kind of falls apart. Yeah, it is a plot that can grafted onto the world of Pokemon without getting boring, but it is also super lazy.
I don't think I loved Detective Pikachu mostly because I'm not a fanboy. Do I get why people like it? Sure. I can even say that I had a moderately good time watching this movie. But a great genre film will recruit new fanboys and I'm nowhere near that. Ryan Reynolds is being Ryan Reynolds, which is fun. But I also don't feel the personal commitment to a project. A lot of that comes from the fact that the movie is so reliant of CG and animation. Yeah, it's fun. But I kind of wished I watched something with more substance. Also, the reveal at the end of is kind of meh.
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Matt Stromberg
Matt Stromberg is a freelance visual arts writer based in Los Angeles. In addition to Artbound, he is a contributor to Hyperallergic, Daily Serving, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and Artsy. Born and raised in New York City, he lived in San Francisco for over a decade where he was manager of William Stout Architectural Books. He received his M.A. in Specialized Journalism (The Arts) from USC.
Lowriders, Aliens and the Blending of L.A. and Latin America in the Work of Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Through Ruben Ortiz-Torres' own work over the past three decades, the artist has grappled with and celebrated themes of hybridity, identity and cultural transmission that weave through many of the exhibitions now on view on Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
California Arts Council Report Announces Reinstatement of $200,000 Nonprofit Media Grant Program
A report released by the California Arts Council illustrates the challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit media coverage of the arts. After reviewing the study, the council voted in favor of renewing a $200,000 arts and public media program.
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Mariachi Music for the Soul
Despite its regional origin, mariachi music is a truly pan-Mexican phenomenon, fusing European, African, and indigenous rhythmic elements. In addition to embodying a sense of Mexican identity, the musical tradition also reflects pride.
October 26, 2016 at 2:10 PM PDT
These Latino Comic Book Artists Create their Own Superheroes
July 22, 2016 at 9:47 AM PDT
How Los Angeles Artisans Connect to Their Mexican Roots
May 16, 2016 at 5:00 AM PDT
Paul Clemente and the Art of Coachella
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Life After Mattress Girl: Emma Sulkowicz Reclaims Her Identity
March 28, 2016 at 3:27 PM PDT
Are Art Fairs Necessary?
February 4, 2016 at 1:00 AM PST
Art of The Possible: A Reappraisal Of The Eugenia Butler Gallery
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London Stock Exchange welcomes The Paragon Group of Companies to ORB
Wednesday 6th March 2013
London Stock Exchange welcomes The Paragon Group of Companies, the specialist buy-to-let and consumer finance group, to its Order Book for Retail Bonds, with the launch of its 6% 2020 debut retail bond, which raised £60 million.
Paragon, a leading independent UK specialist buy-to-let lender, is engaged in the provision of consumer loans and the buying and servicing of loan portfolios. A FTSE250 company with £9.6 billion of loan assets under management, Paragon has operated in the UK markets for over 25 years and has serviced more than one million loan accounts. The credit performance of its £8.2 billion buy-to-let mortgage portfolio is exemplary, with arrears over three months of 0.44% as at 31 December 2012, compared with the latest Council of Mortgage Lenders' data at 1.51%.
Nigel Terrington, Chief Executive of Paragon, said:
"We are very pleased at the success of our first retail bond. We believe that strong demand for the bond from investors demonstrates the long term strengths of our business. We are delighted to have successfully accessed a new source of finance and diversified our debt financing profile.”
Gillian Walmsley, Head of Fixed Income at London Stock Exchange, said:
“We are delighted to welcome Paragon to London Stock Exchange following the successful issue of their first retail bond. Paragon joins a growing number of companies who have issued bonds onto ORB, responding to strong private investor demand for greater access to fixed income products”
Henrietta Podd, Head of Debt Advice and Origination at Canaccord Genuity Limited, said:
“We were very pleased to work with Paragon in bringing this issue to the ORB and enabling the business to diversify its sources of funding. Demand for the bond was very strong, reflecting the strong balance sheet that the company has and its stable business model, which make for a good fit for the market.”
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Common rules will strengthen the development of data economy
Minister Hanna Kosonen, Director-General Roberto Viola from the European Commission, Minister Sanna Marin and Minister Sirpa Paatero. (Foto: LVM)
Finland wants to strengthen the development of data economy and harmonise the development work across different sectors. The key aims for data economy both in Europe and globally are a human-centred approach and sustainability.
At a High-Level Conference on Data Economy held in Helsinki today, Minister of Transport and Communications Sanna Marin, Minister of Local Government and Ownership Steering Sirpa Paatero and Minister of Science and Culture Hanna Kosonen called on Europe to seize the opportunities offered by data economy.
At the conference, the Ministers also published the principles for European data economy, drawn up under the leadership of Finland. The principles aim to guide data economy to a human-centred, successful and balanced direction.
A wide array of representatives of EU countries, European companies, public authorities, research institutes and interest groups have participated in the drafting of the principles for data economy. The principles for data economy involve access to data, sharing of data, capabilities of individuals, innovation, trust and learning. The project has been open to all interested parties.
In addition, the Ministers and Director-General Roberto Viola from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Contents and Technology (DG Connect), received a proposal by industry for codes of conduct on data portability. Such codes will facilitate the transfer of information between different service providers.
These codes of conduct are based on EU legislation on safeguarding the free movement of data within the Union. Facilitating the free movement of data is a key part of the digitalisation of the internal market.
“European values make for a solid foundation for a data economy that respects citizens’ rights. Data must be processed in a human-centred manner, respecting the rights of individuals,” says Minister of Transport and Communications Sanna Marin.
"The development of public administration is interlinked with the development of data economy. It is possible to make more efficient use of our information resources, for example in the development of services in the private and public sectors. With the help of information produced by public administration new business can be generated. In addition, the principles we have drawn up serve our objectives by, for example, assuring citizens that their fundamental rights will be safeguarded as the data economy develops," says Minister of Local Government and Ownership Steering Sirpa Paatero
“It is important that we promote the openness and reuse of data for the benefit of research, creative industries and society as a whole. The principles announced at the Conference will have a key impact on the development of the European data economy,” says Minister of Science and Culture Hanna Kosonen.
“The European Commission welcomes these Codes of Conduct, which have been drawn up in response to the Free Flow of non-personal Data Regulation. It is important for us that both cloud service providers and users have worked together with the support of the Commission to reach agreement. The Codes must now be implemented quickly so that by 2022, as required by the Regulation, the Commission can evaluate their impact and, in particular, whether they have had the positive effect on the cloud market that was intended”, says Roberto Viola, Director-General of DG Connect.
The High-Level Conference on Data Economy has been organised by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education and Culture. The event is part of the programme of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Guiding principles for an ethical data-driven society briefly
Access by default. Access to data according to various access rights (e.g. business-to-business, business-to-government) should be facilitated by technical or legal solutions and support.
Reusable by default. Data sets need to be interoperable and harmonised in a structured format to enable the flow of data in automated processes.
Human-centric by default. Individuals are guaranteed access to their personal data and the means to manage the reuse of their data without lock-ins or impediments that inhibit access or portability (e.g. timeliness).
Ethically sustainable by default. Building trust in data use and data-driven technologies requires strong respect for human rights, and transparency, reliability and the inclusion of all stakeholders. Data security and privacy by design should be integral parts of business and service development practices.
Level-playing field by default. Data market access should be open to all on a fair and non-discriminatory basis for the benefit of everyone. Undistorted competition in data markets should be guaranteed.
Renewal by default. A thriving data economy requires societal change and constant re-evaluation and up-scaling of people’s skills and organisational capabilities.
Laura Vilkkonen, Director General, Ministry of Transport and Communications, tel. +358 40 500 0817
Olli-Pekka Rissanen, Chief Specialist, Ministry of Finance, tel. +358 295 530 364
Viveca Still, Copyright Counsellor, Ministry of Education and Culture, tel. +358 295 330 297
Principles for a human-centric, thriving and balanced data economy
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Links to other web sites:
EU2019.fi: High-Level Conference on Data Economy
Video (YouTube): Video (YouTube): Principles for a human-centric, thriving and balanced data economy
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Macquarie Lending acts as Lead Arranger and Provider of Finance to support acquisition of NEC Group by LDC
London, 16 January 2015
Macquarie Lending (Macquarie) has acted as Lead Arranger of debt financing for around £307 million acquisition of the NEC Group by LDC from Birmingham City Council.
Macquarie originated and structured the financing as a bespoke unitranche loan with a 6½ year maturity. Macquarie introduced RBS to the syndicate pre-closing with RBS also providing a working capital facility. Macquarie intends to retain a significant holding until maturity.
The NEC Group comprises the UK’s leading live exhibition, arena and conference venues; the National Exhibition Centre itself, the Genting Arena, the Barclaycard Arena (formerly the National Indoor Arena) and the International Convention Centre, as well as the NEC’s other commercial activities including The Ticket Factory, specialist catering business, Amadeus and the NEC’s third party venue management operations.
The NEC Group is the UK's premier venue for trade and consumer shows, with more than 140 events attracting 2.1 million visitors a year, as well as hosting significant political and trade conferences, some of the biggest music and comedy acts and various top class sporting events
Adam Joseph, Managing Director, Macquarie Lending, commented: “The NEC Group is a landmark asset in the UK, with a strong heritage in hosting world-class events as well as being a significant contributor to the West Midlands economy. The business and its venues are key to the wider development plans of Birmingham and Solihull Councils, centred around and linked to the airport expansion and City Centre and HS2 developments. Macquarie brings expertise in structuring and underwriting deals of this nature, as well as financing specialist assets in the real estate, hospitality, and corporate sectors.”
Martin Draper, Chief Executive Officer, LDC commented “Macquarie has played a key role in co-ordinating and as lead participant of our financing arrangements and has been instrumental in completing this deal. They worked alongside us in a very flexible way, within tight deadlines whilst still taking the time to understand the business, develop a bespoke financing structure and source appropriate co-lenders. We are looking forward to working with them going forward”
The transaction was structured to address the specific requirements of LDC as well as the unique nature of the underlying business.
Jones Day and Linklaters acted as legal advisors to Macquarie.
About LDC
LDC is the leading private equity company in the UK mid-market. LDC is part of the Lloyds Banking Group and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. It has completed over 485 investments and has ongoing interests in over 85 businesses in the UK.
With a UK regional network, LDC invests up to £100m in MBOs, IBOs and Development Capital transactions in a broad range of sectors including Construction & Property, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, Retail & Consumer, TMT, Travel & Leisure and Support Services. Recent transactions include investments with Waterfall Services, Capital Economics, Eley Group, Adler and Allan, Clifford Thames, Anite Travel and Stroma. For further information visit www.ldc.co.uk.
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Inter Maritime Services Limited
Inter Maritime Services Limited is a household name in Marine Bunkering and Support Services in Ghana. We have been doing real business in servicing and supplying various fleets of vessels with marine fuels, lubricants, and total logistics support operations.
Inter Maritime Services Limited was established in 1995 by David Ameble as a fully Ghanaian owned and operated private company based in Tema and Takoradi. and was incorporated on October 25th 1995, under Ghana’s Company code, 1963 Act [197] as a Private Limited Liability Company.
IMSL has carved a niche for itself in operational service delivery with a breakthrough as the first indigenous company to service FPSO Vessel Kwame Nkrumah with Lubricants.
http://imsghana.com/
2nd Floor, Obuowe Building, Inner Fishing Harbour, Tema, Ghana
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“Ry Cooder: Soundtracks” ($42.98, seven CDs). This seven-disc boxed set provides an extreme close-up of Cooder’s cinematic work in the ’80s and early ’90s. The set includes the soundtracks for such films as 1980’s “The Long Riders” and 1984’s “Paris, Texas.”. “Black Sabbath: The Complete Studio Albums (1970-1978)” ($64.98, eight CDs). I’m more than a little hesitant to tell you just how much time I devoted to this epic eight-disc set in 2014. Suffice it to say that it was a lot — multiplied by a bunch. Yet it was time well spent, allowing ample opportunity to bask in the glory that was Sabbath’s original lineup. These eight albums vary greatly in quality — from absolute masterpieces to maddening mediocrity — but they are all important chapters in heavy metal history.
The show includes works by Stuart Givot in watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite, They vary from pieces done in plein air to scenes from his own imagination, including a watercolor print of the San Francisco skyline, a graphite plein air view of the gazebo in San Mateo’s Central dance shoes from australia Park, and what he calls “an imagined cityscape” in pen and ink, The exhibit also includes work by Lury Norris, who has taught drawing for several years and has been doing pastel street painting for about five years, and pieces by abstract artist Gail Mintz and expressive painter Brenda Bennett..
You can see the exhibit at 1880 S. Grant St., San Mateo. Gallery hours are 2 to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Call City Arts at 650-522-7522, extension 2787. The exhibit was designed to provide information about the prevalence of childhood hunger in Northern California. Statistics show that 25 percent of children in the Bay Area are living in families that are food insecure — that is, their families lack money to buy adequate food. Ande captured the images in a variety of San Francisco neighborhoods, family homes and the Tenderloin Health Fair. All images were taken with signed parental consent.
Twenty children were photographed in this exhibit, half of them from food insecure families, the other half from food secure families, Neither group is identified in the show, The photography project was spurred by pediatrician Dr, Lucy Crain, who was seeking ways to encourage physicians to screen for food insecurity and to dance shoes from australia raise public awareness about the issue, The Mercy Center is at 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame, Hours are 9 a.m, to 5 p.m, daily, Call 650-340-7474 or visit www.mercy-center.org..
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Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer)
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Terence T. Sio, M.D., M.S.
IMRT, Stereotactic radiosurgery, Proton therapy, Intraoperative radiation therapy, Brain stereotactic radiosurgery, Rad...iation therapy, Stereotactic body radiotherapy, Liver cancer, Ependymoma, Gallbladder cancer, Neurofibroma, Anal cancer, Stomach cancer, Brain metastasis, Brain cancer, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Rectal cancer, Cholangiocarcinoma, Meningioma, Glioma, Glioblastoma, Colon cancer, Brain tumor, Oligodendroglioma, Esophageal cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Choroid plexus papilloma, Neuroendocrine carcinoma, Astrocytoma, Pituitary tumor, Ampullary cancer, Neurofibromatosis, Lung cancer, Small bowel cancer, Spinal tumor, Acoustic neuroma, Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, Chordoma, Spinal cord tumor
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Rory L. Smoot, M.D.
Minimally invasive intestinal surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Soft tissue tumor ablation, Paracentesis, Splenectomy, Hep...atobiliary disease postoperative care, Minimally invasive surgery, Hepatobiliary disease evaluation, Gastrectomy, Irreversible electroporation, Minimally invasive pancreas surgery, Microwave ablation for cancer, Liver resection, Liver cyst fenestration, Small bowel resection, Bile duct resection, Minimally invasive liver surgery, Liver tumor ablation, Pancreatectomy, Cryoablation for cancer, Soft tissue sarcoma surgery, Whipple procedure, Liver cyst removal, Cholecystectomy, Portal hypertension management, Bile duct stone removal, Pancreatic enucleation, Radiofrequency ablation for cancer, Cancer treatment, Peritoneal cancer, Enlarged spleen, Bile duct stone, Polycystic liver disease, Liver tumor, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Carcinoid tumor, Bile duct stricture, Recurrent cancer, Retroperitoneal sarcoma, Bile duct cyst, Soft tissue sarcoma, Small bowel cancer, Hilar cholangiocarcinoma, Gallbladder cancer, Liver cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Liver cyst, Appendix cancer, Metastatic colorectal cancer, Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, Sarcoma, Gallbladder polyps, Duodenal cancer, IPMN, Pancreatic cyst, Immune thrombocytopenia, Stomach cancer, Cholangiocarcinoma, Ampullary cancer, Pancreatitis, Bile duct injury, Liver hemangioma, Biliary obstruction
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Mohamad (Bassam) B. Sonbol, M.D.
Cholangiocarcinoma, Small bowel cancer, Carcinoid tumor, Pancreatic cancer, Stomach cancer, Esophageal cancer, Gallblad...der cancer, Liver cancer, Rectal cancer, Neuroendocrine carcinoma, Colon cancer
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Graves' disease, Parathyroid cancer, Hyperparathyroidism, Thyroid cancer, Neuroendocrine carcinoma, Sarcoma, Gallbladde...r cancer, Benign adrenal tumor, Adrenal cancer, Thyroid nodule, Liver cancer, Goiter, Cholangiocarcinoma, Pancreatic cancer
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Beau Toskich, M.D.
Ablation, Portal hypertension management, Brachytherapy, Chemoembolization for liver cancer, Biliary stenting, Arteriov...enous malformation surgery, Venous thrombolysis, Venous angioplasty, Prostate artery embolization, Biliary drainage, Embolization therapy, Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, Radioembolization for liver cancer, Venous sampling, Sclerotherapy, Venous stent procedure, Arterial thrombolysis, Cholangiocarcinoma, Arterial embolism, Neuroendocrine carcinoma, Portal hypertension, Liver cancer, Arterial aneurysm, Varicocele, Benign prostatic hyperplasia, Arteriovenous malformation, Metastatic colorectal cancer, Kidney cancer, Venous thrombosis, Inferior vena cava occlusion, Pelvic congestion syndrome, Lung cancer, Biliary obstruction, Hepatocellular carcinoma
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Mark J. Truty, M.D., M.S.
Liver cyst removal, Splenectomy, Whipple procedure, Hepatobiliary disease postoperative care, Liver resection, Soft tis...sue tumor ablation, Minimally invasive liver surgery, Cholecystectomy, Minimally invasive surgery, Microwave ablation for cancer, Laparoscopic surgery, Cryoablation for cancer, Pancreatectomy, Bile duct stone removal, Radiofrequency ablation for cancer, Minimally invasive pancreas surgery, Bile duct resection, Gastrectomy, Liver cyst fenestration, Cancer treatment, Small bowel resection, Soft tissue sarcoma surgery, Hepatobiliary disease evaluation, Liver tumor ablation, Paracentesis, Portal hypertension management, Minimally invasive intestinal surgery, Pancreatic enucleation, Irreversible electroporation, Gallbladder cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Ampullary cancer, Retroperitoneal sarcoma, Liver tumor, Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, Appendix cancer, Enlarged spleen, Pancreatitis, Carcinoid tumor, Bile duct injury, Gallbladder polyps, Stomach cancer, Cholangiocarcinoma, Peritoneal cancer, Metastatic colorectal cancer, Liver cancer, Immune thrombocytopenia, Biliary obstruction, Recurrent cancer, Pancreatic cyst, Soft tissue sarcoma, Liver hemangioma, Bile duct cyst, Hilar cholangiocarcinoma, Bile duct stone, Small bowel cancer, Liver cyst, Polycystic liver disease, Sarcoma, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Bile duct stricture, IPMN, Duodenal cancer, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
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Bile duct cancer researchers
Doctors and scientists work together to develop new options for people with bile duct cancer.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic are studying new ways to diagnose and treat cholangiocarcinoma. This research is conducted as part of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program and in coordination with the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and is an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center — recognition for an institution's scientific excellence and multidisciplinary resources focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Areas of research include:
Discovering that aspirin use may help prevent bile duct cancer
Studying the molecular genetics of a tumor and identifying biomarkers, which may aid in early diagnosis or lead to new targeted therapies
Doing clinical trials for new targeted therapies, which is possible because of Mayo Clinic's high patient volume for primary sclerosing cholangitis and bile duct cancer
Improving safety of procedures and developing new ones
Proving that a biomarker called CA 19-9 is useful in staging a tumor
See a list of publications on cholangiocarcinoma by Mayo Clinic doctors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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Call of Duty: Mobile and PUBG Mobile boost Tencent’s revenues
Vikki Blake 14th November 2019 Business News
Chinese megacorp Tencent is reporting a boost in year-over-year revenue thanks to the performance of its mobile division, including PUBG mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile, the latter of which exceeded 100 million downloads within a month of launch.
In Tencent’s quarterly earnings call, the company revealed its overall revenues were up 21 per cent YoY to RMB 97.2 billion ($13.9 billion) and profits up 23 per cent to RMB 25.1 billion ($3.6 billion), due largely to the two mobile shooters. Despite a 7 per cent YoY drop in PC software sales, the company was nonetheless boosted by a 25 per cent YoY uptick due in part to the success of its mobile business.
“We have made encouraging progress toward globalising our business, particularly for online games, where we created, published and operated some of the most popular mobile games outside China,” said Tencent President Martin Lau. “In the most recent quarter, Call of Duty: Mobile, which we co-developed with Activision Blizzard, gained more than 4 million five-star reviews on Google Play and a 4.9 rating on iOS following its October launch, which has become one of the most successful mobile game launches in the past couple of years.”
“We are increasingly developing games that become global hits,” added Tencent chief strategy officer James Mitchell during the Q&A session of the earnings conference call. “Call of Duty: Mobile exceeded 100 million downloads within a month of its launch, making this game among the highest impact mobile game launches in recent history.”
“Since the founding of Tencent, we have always sought to provide the best products and best experiences to our users,” said Tencent chairman and CEO Ma Huateng.
“Now, as the Internet becomes more pervasive in everyday life, we believe it is important to explicitly state our values and motivations, so our colleagues, partners, and users understand the standards to which we aspire. Consequently, we have just announced our new corporate mission: ‘Value for Users, Tech for Good’. We believe these are not new principles but rather a reiteration of what we have always believed and how we have always sought to behave.”
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It took 15 years of civil service monotony for Vikki to crack and switch to writing about games. She has since become an experienced reporter and critic working with a number of specialist and mainstream outlets in both the UK and beyond, including Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, IGN, MTV, and Variety.
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Detecting Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses: From Bulk Populations to Single Cells
Overnutrition Determines LPS Regulation of Mycotoxin Induced Neurotoxicity in Neurodegenerative Diseases
From Genome to Structure and Back Again: A Family Portrait of the Transcarbamylases
Combination of Aβ Secretion and Oxidative Stress in an Alzheimer-Like Cell Line Leads to the Over-Expression of the Nucleotide Excision Repair Proteins DDB2 and XPC
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Farmer, K.
Smith, C. A.
Hayley, S.
Major Alterations of Phosphatidylcholine and Lysophosphotidylcholine Lipids in the Substantia Nigra Using an Early Stage Model of Parkinson’s Disease
Kyle Farmer
Catherine A. Smith
Shawn Hayley
Carleton University Department of Neuroscience, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Life Sciences Research Building, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Carleton University Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Steacie Building, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Academic Editor: G. Jean Harry
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2015, 16(8), 18865-18877; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms160818865
Received: 18 June 2015 / Revised: 6 August 2015 / Accepted: 6 August 2015 / Published: 12 August 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Research in Neurotoxicology)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting the nigrostriatal pathway, where patients do not manifest motor symptoms until >50% of neurons are lost. Thus, it is of great importance to determine early neuronal changes that may contribute to disease progression. Recent attention has focused on lipids and their role in pro- and anti-apoptotic processes. However, information regarding the lipid alterations in animal models of PD is lacking. In this study, we utilized high performance liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS/MS) and novel HPLC solvent methodology to profile phosphatidylcholines and sphingolipids within the substantia nigra. The ipsilateral substantia nigra pars compacta was collected from rats 21 days after an infusion of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), or vehicle into the anterior dorsal striatum. We identified 115 lipid species from their mass/charge ratio using the LMAPS Lipid MS Predict Database. Of these, 19 lipid species (from phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphotidylcholine lipid classes) were significantly altered by 6-OHDA, with most being down-regulated. The two lipid species that were up-regulated were LPC (16:0) and LPC (18:1), which are important for neuroinflammatory signalling. These findings provide a first step in the characterization of lipid changes in early stages of PD-like pathology and could provide novel targets for early interventions in PD. View Full-Text
Keywords: lipidomic profile; Parkinson’s disease; early stage model; 6-hydroxydopamine; HPLC-ESI-MS/MS lipidomic profile; Parkinson’s disease; early stage model; 6-hydroxydopamine; HPLC-ESI-MS/MS
Farmer, K.; Smith, C.A.; Hayley, S.; Smith, J. Major Alterations of Phosphatidylcholine and Lysophosphotidylcholine Lipids in the Substantia Nigra Using an Early Stage Model of Parkinson’s Disease. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2015, 16, 18865-18877.
Farmer K, Smith CA, Hayley S, Smith J. Major Alterations of Phosphatidylcholine and Lysophosphotidylcholine Lipids in the Substantia Nigra Using an Early Stage Model of Parkinson’s Disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2015; 16(8):18865-18877.
Farmer, Kyle; Smith, Catherine A.; Hayley, Shawn; Smith, Jeffrey. 2015. "Major Alterations of Phosphatidylcholine and Lysophosphotidylcholine Lipids in the Substantia Nigra Using an Early Stage Model of Parkinson’s Disease" Int. J. Mol. Sci. 16, no. 8: 18865-18877.
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New guidance to help universities comply with counter terrorism act
Protocols developed by Cardiff Metropolitan University to prevent radicalisation on campus have been approved by the Home Office and are to be rolled out to universities across the UK.
The Prevent policy document lays out the university’s approach to risk assessment, vetting external speakers, staff training, rules around the use of prayer rooms and how to support national and international students from conflict zones who are considered vulnerable to radicalisation or manipulation.
It has been validated by the Home Office which will distribute it to all UK universities to help them comply with the new duties in the Counter Terrorism and Security Act which comes into effect from April.
The Act requires all universities to appoint a “prevent co-ordinator” and draw up their own counter-terrorism policies.
Cardiff Metropolitan’s protocols are already being introduced across universities in Wales by The South Wales Radicalisation Working Group, chaired by the Rev. Dr Paul Fitzpatrick, chaplain and prevent co-ordinator at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
"University students are often susceptible to new ideas and are engaging with them. They therefore represent an area of vulnerability,” said Rev Fitzpatrick.
"Prevent incorporates a range of different actions and is first and foremost about protecting students. Each university has to have its own risk assessment. At Cardiff Met, we have a lot of international students, so training for international welfare staff has been important. If students from high risk conflict zones come to student services, they are seen more quickly for example.”
The framework was developed after a research project by Cardiff Met’s multi faith team, which includes Laura Jones, the UK’s only fully qualified Muslim female chaplain. Published later this year, the study looks at the psychology of radicalisation and how dangerous groups potentially infiltrate universities to groom and recruit students.
Protocols include a nine-point plan covering the vetting of external speakers, events, conferences and student societies. There are sections on the requirements of the Act for staff training and awareness and how to deal with request from the police/security services and the sharing of information.
A “prayer room protocol” is also provided which bans the use of written materials in languages other than English and Welsh, with the exception of prayer books and scripture.
The policies and training packages devised by Dr Fitzpatrick, in partnership with the Home Office, will be used as a template by prevent co-ordinators at other UK universities. Under the new legislation, each must adopt a unique, risk-based package which reflect the particular challenges faced by each institution.
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Admissions Feedback 2020-21
Most of these reports have been prepared by the College but they incorporate or refer to departmental and faculty reports where these are available. They are intended to inform those planning applications in the future and also to provide to unsuccessful candidates, their referees, schools and families an indication as to the most likely reasons they were not selected in this round. The vast majority of our applicants are very talented, with exemplary academic backgrounds. The most common reason for non-selection is simply that it is an exceptionally competitive process. Some more specific indications of what tutors in particular subjects are seeking, and the processes and competition in each area, can be found under each subject header. It is important to remember both that Oxford makes its selection on academic criteria alone, and that interview performance is only one of the elements which tutors take into account when evaluating an application.
If you have been a referee for an unsuccessful candidate, we encourage you to continue to send your students to us, taking into account the comments here regarding any of the subject areas in which they may be interested. You may also wish to consult the pages on specific subjects. Merton's Schools Liaison and Access Officer will be pleased to provide any advice on supporting applications or you may wish to contact the Oxford college linked to your area under the University's Regional Outreach Scheme.
Merton received 680 applications in this admissions round. 98 candidates have been made an offer by the College for 2021 entry, including six open offers. A number of offers were also made to applicants under the recently launched Opportunity Oxford scheme. Two offers were also made for deferred 2022 entry.
This year there were 728 applicants across the University for direct entry (an increase of 34 on the previous year) and 10 for deferred entry to study Biochemistry. We had 101 places available for entry next year and made 101 college offers, 11 open offers (where a University place is guaranteed if the conditions are achieved but the College place will be allocated in August) and 2 offers for deferred entry. The Departmental policy is that conditional offers should normally be set at A*AA at A2-level with the A* in a science or maths, or the equivalent. As in previous years the UCAS forms of all applicants were read and graded centrally, by the Biochemistry Department, prior to short-listing (we aim to shortlist approximately 3 applicants per place); all short-listed applicants were interviewed by two colleges (remotely this year); the applicants were ranked according to their UCAS and both interview grades; and the final decisions were made at a meeting of all College tutors. Of the 738 applicants, 339 applicants were short-listed. Of these, 333 received an overall grade of 4.5 or better out of 7 (with 4 being “worth careful consideration” and 5 being “worth a place if one is available”) and 288 received an overall grade above 5, so being made an offer of a place is a very considerable achievement.
Departmental policies for shortlisting and decisions
Deferred candidates arriving in 2021 - three
Opportunity Oxford nominations - seven
Biochemistry admissions round 2020/2021 – some initial statistics
(excludes applicants who withdrew before interview)
APR region
Male Female Home EU Overseas State Independent Other2
Number of applicants
64 273 461 366 65 303 247 132 355
58 112 227 241 19 79 174 71 94
91% 41% 49% 66% 29% 26% 70% 54% 26%
27% 16% 15% 24% 9% 6% 23% 23% 7%
Number 9/8/A* at GCSE3
5.6 7.2 7.6 7.7 not applicable4 6.2 7.2 8.8 6.0
6.1 8.2 8.3 8.3 not applicable 7.6 7.8 9.8 7.4
8.1 9.1 9.7 9.4 not applicable 9.6 8.9 10.3 9.8
Number A-levels taken
Number predicted/achieved A* at A-levels in sciences5
State school
Independent school
Male Female Male Female
Percentage shortlisted
Percentage offer
1 Band A applicants.
2 Apply Online UK and Apply Online Overseas.
3 For applicants taking six or more GCSEs.
4 Too few applicants taking GCSEs or A-levels to give meaningful numbers.
5 For applicants taking three or more A-levels/pre-U.
In the 2020-21 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 6.0:1. Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria. Biology did not use an aptitude test. Across Oxford, the subject aimed to interview approximately three candidates for every place available. A central panel made shortlisting recommendations for most of the interview slots available. The recommended candidates were those with GCSE results at the highest level in relation to the field, plus A-level or equivalent predictions at the offer level for Biology or those who had already achieved the required offer standard. College tutors reviewed the panel’s recommendations and made their own selections of additional candidates from those without GCSEs and those with fewer A*s at GCSE, so that overall three candidates were interviewed for every place available.
Candidates received an online interview at Merton, and a second online interview at another college. Each individual candidate’s Merton interview consisted of an approximately 30-minute discussion with four people: Professor Tim Guilford, Professor Tom Richards, Dr Fiona Savory, and Dr Oliver Padget. Questions ranged from those based on information supplied in the personal statement, to questions requiring interpretation of previously unseen biological data provided in various formats (photographs of biological objects or phenomena, verbal descriptions), and in various subject areas (for example, cell biology, genetics, evolution, physiology, ecology, animal behaviour, probability). Candidates were each asked the same or similar questions and the questions were chosen to allow interpretation of the information provided rather than requiring significant prior knowledge. At the end of the interview the candidate was given the opportunity to ask their own questions.
The key things that we were looking for were an enthusiasm for the subject area, evidence of independent thought and the ability to interpret and view biological data critically.
Admissions Feedback from the Department of Chemistry
Information about the 2020-21 selection process for Classical Archaeology and Ancient History will be available here shortly
In the 2019-20 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 4.2:1. Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria.
The majority of candidates who applied were called for interview. Shortlisting decisions are taken by the tutors in each college but any decision to deselect a candidate is checked by tutors in other colleges; the CAAH tutors in all colleges which admit for the subject have access to the application materials of all candidates and are able to call to interview any candidate not called by the first choice college.
All candidates summoned for interview received two interviews in their first choice college. At Merton (as at many other colleges) one of these interviews was with a pair of ancient historians and the other was with a pair of archaeologists. For the Ancient History interview, all candidates were given a short passage (in English) from an Ancient Historical source to read for 15 minutes in advance of the interview. This passage then formed the basis for a discussion in the main part of the interview: we were assessing what candidates found interesting about the passage, how critically they were able to read it, and to what extent we could develop ideas about the text which might be of historical interest. For the Archaeology interview, candidates were presented with one or two pieces of archaeological material or images and plans of archaeological remains during the interview, and part of the interview focused upon that material. In neither case was any prior knowledge of the material expected; the interviews were not tests of knowledge, but of candidates’ powers of observation, analysis and enquiry. After the first interviews the CAAH tutors from all colleges which admit for the subject met to compare the entire field, and candidates were ranked on the basis of interview performance, written work and their UCAS application. Higher performing candidates were given a further Faculty-organised interview and many candidates also received at least one additional interview at another college in order to enable tutors to compare candidates fully.
Final selection was based upon a combination of all the elements available: candidates’ academic record and predicted grades, UCAS statement and reference, written work, and interview performance. Throughout the process, tutors were looking for clear evidence of enthusiasm for the course, combined with an inquiring mind, analytical skills, intellectual ambition, commitment and motivation.
Classics and joint schools
In the 2020-21 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 2.21:1 for Classics.
Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria for Classics (and for Modern Languages in the case of Joint School applicants). The majority of candidates who applied were called for interview.
Classics Admission Test results are not published automatically, but candidates may request their test score from Merton.
Each candidate for Classics had two interviews with Merton, each lasting about 25 minutes.
In the interview with tutors in Classical Languages and Literature, questions were asked about the texts which candidates had been reading (whether in the context of their taught syllabus or on their own). We were interested in ascertaining how candidates engaged with and thought about the literary texts, rather than in testing factual recall. For candidates with no previous knowledge of Greek or Latin, we asked about their experience of learning other languages (where appropriate) and what prompted them to embark on learning Greek or Latin at degree level. All candidates were given a short passage (in English) from an ancient poem to read for 15 minutes in advance of the interview. Candidates were given the opportunity to ask questions about the passage; our questions in turn aimed to find out what the candidates found interesting about the passage and how well they developed new ideas in response to new information about it.
The other Merton interview was with tutors in Ancient History and Philosophy, and was designed not to probe knowledge in disciplines of which most candidates have no previous experience, but to try to gauge candidates’ aptitude for these subjects. For Ancient History, all candidates were given a short passage (in English) from an Ancient Historical source to read for 15 minutes in advance of the interview. This passage then formed the basis for a discussion: we were assessing what candidates found interesting about the passage, how critically they were able to read it, and to what extent we could develop ideas about the text which might be of historical interest. For Philosophy, all candidates were presented with a very short exercise designed to test their ability to assess, evaluate and criticise arguments, as well as to think through philosophical problems systematically and rigorously.
Candidates applying for Classics Course II also had a short central interview (15 minutes) at the Classics Faculty with members of the Faculty’s language teaching team, where questions were asked based partly on their Language Aptitude Tests.
Candidates for Classics and Modern Languages had a Classics interview lasting about 25 minutes. This was the Languages and Literature interview outlined above. In addition to their Classics interview, candidates for the joint school were also interviewed in their chosen Modern Language. (For further information please consult the relevant Modern Languages section.)
All candidates are assessed on a broad range of criteria. As well as the interviews themselves, we consider a candidate’s GCSE results (and subjects covered), the personal statement and reference on the UCAS form, the pre-submitted written work, the results of the test scores, and (where appropriate) the feedback from other colleges where candidates are interviewed. We stress that all of these elements in combination form the basis of our difficult decisions, and that underperformance or an excessively good performance at interview is not on its own a decisive factor in them.
Some candidates attend additional interviews at other colleges. This is part of a broader process to ensure that all candidates are assessed equitably across the entire field. It is one consequence of that process that some candidates may receive an offer of a place from another college instead of their first-choice college. No decisions are taken until the final admissions meeting after all candidates have left; when additional interviews are set up, this is to make sure that other colleges to whom candidates have been assigned have a chance to consider them in the context of their own admissions process.
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Computer Science and Joint Schools Admissions 2020
Application statistics
In 2020 a total of 1596 UCAS applications were received across the three undergraduate Computer Science degrees, for entry in 2021 or deferred entry in 2022. 306 applicants were shortlisted, and 111 were offered places for entry in 2021 or deferred entry in 2022. Table 1 shows the breakdown by course applied for at each stage of the admissions process.
Table 1: Number of applicants, shortlisted applicants, and offers made, by course applied for
Computer Science and Philosophy
The number of applications for Computer Science and for Mathematics and Computer Science continues to rise, with a slight decrease in applications for Computer Science and Philosophy. This year saw a particularly strong field for Mathematics and Computer Science, and there was a corresponding change in the proportion of candidates offered places for Mathematics and Computer Science compared with the other two Computer Science degrees. Across the three Computer Science degrees, applications have almost doubled since the 2016/17 admissions cycle, but the number of places has not kept pace with this. As a result, many very able applicants were not offered a place.
Of those 1596 applicants,
1543 (96.7%) successfully registered to sit the Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT) by the registration deadline, which was at 18:00 GMT on 15 October 2020.
25% of applicants submitted an open application.
909 applicants (57%) offered A-levels.
Applications for deferred entry
16 applicants applied for deferred entry in 2022. Of these, 7 were shortlisted and interviewed. A small number of these were offered places.
381 applicants were female (23.9% of the total). A small number of applicants did not specify their gender.
Of the 381 female applicants, 59 were shortlisted and invited to interview, comprising 19.3% of the total shortlisted applicants.
25 shortlisted female applicants were offered places, making up 22.5% of the total offers.
47.9% of all applicants were domiciled in the UK; 11.8% were domiciled in the EU not including the UK; 40.3% were domiciled outside the EU.
51% of shortlisted applicants were domiciled in the UK; 9.5% were domiciled in the EU not including the UK; 39.5% were domiciled outside the EU.
51.4% of students who were offered places were domiciled in the UK; 13.5% were domiciled in the EU not including the UK; 35.1% were domiciled outside the EU.
Admissions Processes
All applicants are expected to sit the Mathematics Admissions Test prior to shortlisting. This year the test was taken on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Of the 1543 applicants who successfully registered to sit the test, 1514 sat it on the day. Most applicants sat it in their school or in another registered test centre, with a small number sitting the test via remote invigilation where Covid-19 conditions meant the test could not safely be taken in school or at a test centre, and where it was possible to arrange remote invigilation.
The 29 applicants who successfully registered for the test but were unable to sit it due to unexpected circumstances beyond their control were considered on the basis of their UCAS form. 4 were invited to interview, and were invited to sit a short MAT-like multiple choice paper via remote invigilation prior to their interviews.
Table 2 gives the mean score by course applied for at each stage of the admissions process.
Table 2: Mean MAT scores of applicants at each stage of the selection process
All applicants
Shortlisted applicants
Offer holders
Figures 1 and 2 show admissions outcome by MAT score for the 1514 applicants who sat the MAT on Wednesday 4 November 2020. Applicants for Computer Science and for Computer Science and Philosophy are asked to attempt MAT questions 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. Applicants for Mathematics and Computer Science are asked to attempt questions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6.
In light of the competition for places, the purpose of shortlisting is to identify those applicants who are most likely to succeed in the rest of the selection process, giving interviewers time to consider each shortlisted applicant carefully. The number of shortlisted applicants was therefore restricted to slightly less than 3 for each quota place.
Shortlisting was performed in accordance with the stated admissions criteria. All applicants are expected to sit the Mathematics Admissions Test prior to shortlisting, including questions designed to assess aptitude for Computer Science. Details of the test and several past papers and specimen papers with solutions can be found online. Tutors are guided by a statistically validated score derived from the MAT and the applicant’s performance at GCSE relative to other students at their pre-16 school; they exercise discretion within thresholds determined for each degree subject by the subject coordinator. They take into account all information from the UCAS form and any relevant contextual information such as educational background or extenuating circumstances. Shortlisting decisions are reviewed by the subject coordinator in order to ensure consistency between colleges.
Among this year’s 306 shortlisted applicants,
172 (56.2%) had taken five or more GCSEs. Among those candidates, the mean number of GCSEs at grades 9/8/A* was 8.
176 (57.5%) offered A-levels:
All shortlisted A-level applicants offered A-level Mathematics.
162 (92%) offered A-level Further Mathematics.
117 (66.5%) offered A-level Computer Science or Computing.
After shortlisting takes place, if an individual college has an unusually high number of shortlisted applicants per place, that college may opt to reallocate a proportion of those applicants to a college with fewer shortlisted applicants per place (assuming that there exists such a college which is willing to receive the shortlisted applicants). The aim of this process is to increase fairness for applicants by evening out competition across colleges and ensuring that shortlisted applicants’ chances of an offer are not affected by having applied to a heavily oversubscribed college. In December 2020, 9 shortlisted applicants were reallocated via this procedure, and 3 of those applicants were subsequently offered places by the colleges to which they were reallocated.
All shortlisted applicants were invited for interview in mid-December. This year, due to Covid-19, all interviews took place remotely by video call or telephone, often using a shared virtual whiteboard. Each applicant is associated with a first college, either of their choosing, or selected for them in a way that aims to even out the competition for places across the colleges. Each applicant is also associated with a second college chosen randomly with the same aim.
Applicants were interviewed by both their first and second colleges, and a small number were invited to further interviews at a third college. Applicants for joint degrees are typically given separate interviews in the two subjects. In December 2020 most applicants were interviewed twice by their first college and once or more by their second college.
Interviews are academic and subject-focused in nature. The applicant’s performance in each interview is judged according to the admissions criteria, codified on a numeric scale against agreed descriptors, and shared among all tutors involved in admissions, together with the applicants’ UCAS forms and their test results.
Making offers
The colleges use various procedures in a coordinated effort to ensure that the strongest applicants are admitted across the University irrespective of the college considering their application. These include complete transparency of all information gained about each applicant, supported by an online information system, and a final meeting where the strongest unplaced applicants are identified and open offers are agreed. This year, 29.7% of offers made came from a college other than the applicant’s application college, or are open offers (meaning that the applicant is offered a place at Oxford at a college that will be determined in August).
Where an applicant for a joint honours degree has performed strongly in one of their subjects but will not be made an offer for the joint degree, tutors may consider offering them a place for a relevant single honours degree. A small number of applicants for joint honours courses were offered places for single honours courses.
Where an applicant is eligible and would benefit from it, tutors may nominate them for the Opportunity Oxford scheme. A small number of applicants were offered places through Opportunity Oxford.
Following the end of the selection process, colleges write to applicants via UCAS with the results of their application. Standard conditions apply to those taking A-levels, the International Baccalaureate or Scottish Highers; for other applicants, tutors will seek advice from the subject coordinator or the college’s admissions tutor in determining a comparable set of conditions.
MAT results and feedback
MAT scores are not released to applicants until the selection process has concluded and they have received their decision. Scores will be sent to applicants via email by the Department of Computer Science in January, shortly after colleges have communicated application outcomes.
Other than the release of MAT scores, feedback to applicants is a matter for individual colleges. Most do not automatically send feedback apart from the decision itself. Applicants may seek feedback from their first college about any aspect of the admissions process, but should wait until the process is complete and they have received their decision before doing so. Details of the procedure for requesting feedback may be found on the University's website.
English and joint schools
Thank you for applying for a place on BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at University of Oxford. This year has presented us all with many challenges and difficulties and we appreciate the time and effort you put into making an application under the exceptional circumstances caused by COVID-19 pandemic. We had a high number of applicants for English Language and Literature, and many of them made very good applications. Every year we have to make many difficult decisions. These figures might help you understand this year’s process. (The figures are preliminary.)
Total number of applicants 935
Not invited to interview (or withdrew) 326
Interviewed 609
Places offered (including 8 Open Offers) 231
Approximate ratio of applicants to offers 4:1
We cannot interview all applicants, so we have to make decisions on whom to shortlist, based on the information on your UCAS form (past and predicted exam results, academic reference and personal statement), your submitted written work, and your result in the ELAT (English Literature Admissions Test). For UK candidates we also use contextual data, such as school performance and postcode data, as outlined on the Oxford Admissions website.
The ELAT is a 90-minute test requiring an essay which responds to passages of literary material on a given theme. Results were released to candidates on 11 January 2020 and you can find more information about this on the ELAT webpage.
Applicants who are most likely to be invited for an interview score well in the ELAT, and have good exam results, written work, and references. Applicants with low scores in some aspects of their application will only have been invited for interview with special consideration of other factors.
The number of applicants to individual colleges varies from year to year, so a number of shortlisted candidates are redistributed from the most oversubscribed colleges to those with a lower ratio of candidates to places. Those applicants who make open applications are similarly allocated to the less oversubscribed colleges. After first college interviews, around 100 candidates had additional interviews at a second college, to give them the best chance of receiving an offer. We also made 8 Open Offers. Candidates who receive an Open Offer will be told which college they will go to after examination results are released in August 2021.
We know how disappointing it is for applicants, their families, and their schools when despite being well-qualified and submitting a strong application, you don’t receive an offer from us. As you can see, the standard is very high, and each year we are conscious that we do not have room for all applicants with exceptional academic records, and who have excellent potential as students of English Literature. We thank you for your patience with our application process, and wish you well for the future.
Admissions Feedback from the Department of Economics
In the 2020-21 admissions round the estimated competition for places in Economics and Management across Oxford was 19:1.
Economics and Management tutors worked together across Oxford to ensure the strongest candidates were admitted. Colleges were set a target number of interviewees to nominate, based on the number of places they had to offer and ensuring that the total number of interviews across Oxford would equate to three per place.
Candidates were selected for shortlisting using the selection criteria for Economics & Management. All possible information was used for shortlisting and admissions offers. For shortlisting, GCSE scores, A-level predictions (or the equivalent), and TSA scores on Critical Thinking and Problem Solving were weighted most heavily, whilst AS-level scores, personal statements, and TSA essay marks were considered, but weighted more lightly. The target of three candidates for every place available meant that many good candidates were not shortlisted.
After shortlisting, the Admissions Co-ordinator ran a reallocation exercise across all colleges to ensure that candidates were not disadvantaged by applying to a specific college.
All shortlisted Merton candidates had two interviews in the college, one focusing on the Management aspect of the course and the other on the Economics aspect. Candidates were not expected to have studied either subject at A-level, but to have a good general knowledge, and to demonstrate interest in and enthusiasm for studying both business and the economy, to demonstrate logic and critical thinking, and to communicate clearly and effectively.
For the Economics interview, candidates were asked to use logical reasoning and quantitative skills to work through a problem related to topics in game theory and to broader economic principles. For the Management interview, candidates were set a brief pre-interview reading from a broadsheet that assessed interest in Management and the ability to identify and discuss issues from a general management perspective.
Most candidates were reasonably well-prepared for the interviews, and were able to discuss both Management and Economics topics knowledgeably and fluently. Good candidates were able to revise their arguments to take account of new information, to provide examples and counter-arguments, and to defend their conclusions. Weaker candidates did not display in their interviews an ability to analyse businesses and organisations from a managerial perspective, nor a sufficiently keen interest in doing so, or they performed poorly in general quantitative analysis and reasoning.
Following the first College interviews, the Admissions Co-ordinator allocated three candidates per college for second college interviews. A number of candidates above the three were also interviewed in second colleges.
TSA results will be available online from early January.
History and joint schools
Admissions Feedback from the Faculty of History
Applicants per place 2020 (Oxford)
History 3.9
History and English 8.4
History and Modern Languages 3.8
History and Politics 8.3
Ancient and Modern History 3.7
Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria for History and the relevant joint schools.
History aimed to interview 2.5 candidates per place. Shortlisting decisions were based on a score calculated from the History Aptitude Test (HAT) results and, where candidates have done GCSEs, contextualised A* GCSE scores (that is to say a count of the candidate’s top 8 results at GCSE which takes into account the academic attainment of the GCSE cohort at the school attended, to identify pupils who have outperformed their peer group). In the History Joint Schools, the same process was used to select candidates for interview, with additional input from non-history subject tutors, who assessed candidates’ non-history written work where this was submitted.
HAT scores are not made available to candidates automatically but can be provided on request from the Faculty or the College. Candidates who took the test in November 2020 and those intending to take it in the future may wish to look at the marking scheme used, once it has been published.
The number of applicants to particular colleges varies from year to year, so candidates that are judged worthy of an interview are reallocated from the oversubscribed colleges of that year to the undersubscribed colleges. In all colleges, therefore, candidates at interview will have the same chance of being offered a place. Merton was a college with an above-average number of strong candidates in most of the degrees involving History, and so 6 of our History and Joint Schools candidates were reallocated to other colleges (2 History, 4 History and English) while 2 candidates in History and Politics were reallocated from other colleges to Merton.
Students shortlisted at Merton were interviewed on Teams. One part of each interview centred on their broad historical interests, which had often been indicated on their UCAS personal statements, though the interviews were not restricted to the content of these statements. The longer part of the interview involved more detailed discussion of the historical periods and problems that candidates were currently studying, or had recently studied. Such interviews began by discussing candidates’ submitted written work, but sometimes moved onto related historical questions and topics, or other parts of their syllabus. In both interviews, we were looking for evidence of analytical ability, clarity of argument, the ability to support arguments with relevant evidence, intellectual flexibility, and enthusiasm for historical study.
In addition to their History interviews, candidates in the Joint Schools also received an interview in their other chosen subject. (For further information please consult the relevant subject sections.)
Final decisions were made after we had carefully taken into account all the information available to us, not just interview performance. This information included school UCAS references, HAT scores, submitted written work, predicted or achieved final school examination results, and, where available, contextualised GCSE results (see above). This year we also took account of information we had been given about educational disruption caused by COVID-19.
We were very impressed by the overall calibre of our applicants this year. In the end we made ten offers to candidates in the main History school (including one open offer) and five to candidates in the Joint Schools. Candidates highly placed in the cross-college rankings but not certain to be offered a place at their first choice college were allocated by the Faculty to other colleges for further interviews. Three Merton applicants were made an offer by other colleges and one applicant to another college was offered a place at Merton.
Law and Law with Law Studies in Europe
In the 2020-21 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 8.1:1 for Law and 7:1 for LSE.
Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria. Law aims to interview around 3 candidates for every place available.
Law tutors worked together across Oxford to ensure the strongest candidates were admitted. Colleges were able to nominate up to two of their first-choice applicants per available place and then a Faculty Selection Committee identified further candidates to be reallocated to colleges.
The assessment of candidates at the pre-interview stage is based on the following:
academic performance to date;
predicted grades;
reference;
the LNAT multiple choice test; and
the LNAT essay.
It is important to note that weakness in one of these areas may be compensated by exceptional strength elsewhere, as well as by extenuating circumstances (medical conditions, recent bereavements, etc.). Contextual data is taken into account in making our assessment.
LNAT results will be emailed to candidates by Pearson Vue in early February 2021.
Given the circumstances, we could not hold an in-person welcome meeting. Instead, we held an online pre-interview meeting to allow the applicants to see who would be interviewing them, to explain the interview process and answer any questions. Interviews started shortly afterwards. Each candidate received two interviews.
Six candidates were offered a college place at Merton this year, and one candidate was made an open offer.
Mathematics and joint schools
Summary of the 2020/21 University of Oxford Admissions Process for the subjects; Mathematics, Mathematics & Statistics, Mathematics & Philosophy, and Mathematics & Computer Science
These data refer to applicants in the “2020/21 cycle” who applied in 2020 for the Oxford course starting in 2021 or in 2022 (deferred entry). All figures in brackets relate to the previous admissions cycle, 2019/20.
Overall Application Statistics
1,848 (1,828) 605 (559) 189 (206)
261 (230) 47 (33) 10 (12)
Mathematics and Philosophy
603 (505) 134 (118) 60 (49)
19.2% of applications made were open applications (17.5%).
28 applicants applied for deferred entry (15). Of these, 10 were interviewed and 3 were offered places.
32.5% of applicants were female (32.8%) and 29.0% of those offered a place are female (27.1%).
1,469 applicants were studying A-levels in the UK (1,427). Of these, 93% were taking Further Mathematics as a full A-level. Of the 105 applicants studying A-levels in the UK who weren’t taking Further Maths as a full A-level, fewer than 3 were shortlisted for interview, and fewer than 3 were offered a place.
There were 1,123 non-EU international-fee-paying applicants (994).
Mathematics Admissions Test
All applicants are expected to sit the Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT), or must seek permission in exceptional circumstances from the subject Admissions Coordinator to be exempted from the test. In 2020 the test date was 4 November. In this cycle, 2,808 applicants successfully registered for and sat the MAT (2,628).
Seven applicants who, due to exceptional circumstances, either failed to register for the test or could not sit the test, were invited to take a separate mathematics test after shortlisting. Others who failed to register or who did not sit the test – and did not have exceptional circumstances – were notified that their application was no longer under consideration.
Details relating to the MAT, including several past and specimen papers, can be found at: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/maths-admissions-test
The average score for Oxford applicants answering questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 was:
57.9 (44.9) amongst all applicants;
75.2 (63.6) amongst shortlisted applicants;
81.7 (69.3) amongst successful applicants.
In light of the competition for places, the purpose of shortlisting is to provide time during the December interview window to interview all shortlisted applicants.
Shortlisting is performed in accordance with the stated admissions criteria on the basis of all currently available and relevant data: in particular these data include an applicant’s score from the MAT, all aspects of the applicant’s UCAS form and any further relevant contextual data specific to the application.
As guidance, and on the basis of a validated weighted combination of the test score and contextualised GCSE score (where applicable), the Admissions Coordinator advises college tutors as to a calculated upper threshold score and a calculated lower threshold score. All candidates above the upper threshold were recommended to be shortlisted, and candidates below the lower threshold were recommended not to be shortlisted, except in the case of exceptional circumstances. Around two-thirds of the candidates between the two thresholds were shortlisted for interview, resulting in around 3 applicants per place.
Throughout the process all UCAS forms, test scores, contextual information, comments, and interview grades, are easily accessible to all college tutors involved with admissions via a web-based database.
College tutors review the UCAS forms and any other information relevant to individual applications, and in light of all information enter their provisional shortlisting decisions in the web-based admissions database. In light of further information a college may reverse the default shortlisting decision, making known the reasons for their decision to the Admissions Coordinator. Provisional shortlisting decisions will become final by an agreed deadline unless appealed by another college or the Admissions Coordinator. Letters and/or emails are then sent to candidates informing them of the outcome of the shortlisting exercise.
Interview stage
Each applicant has a first-assigned college, which is either the college to which they applied or, in the case of open applications, a college randomly assigned by the University Admissions Office in such a way as to even out the number of applicants per place across colleges. Each shortlisted applicant is also randomly assigned a second college by an algorithm aiming to equalise across colleges the interview load per place ratio.
In cases where a college is particularly over-subscribed (more than four shortlisted applicants per place), a college must reallocate a fraction of their candidates. These candidates are then assigned at random to other colleges. In this admissions cycle, 30 candidates were reallocated to a different first college.
In December 2020 all interviews were carried out remotely. Most applicants were given interviews by at least two different colleges (their first- and second-assigned colleges). Applicants may also have been interviewed by other colleges. Applicants to joint degrees typically have separate interviews in the two disciplines.
Interviews are academic in nature. An applicant’s performance is judged according to the admissions criteria and graded on a scale of 1-9 against agreed descriptors. The score and any comments are added to the shared web-based database.
The Admissions Group operates various procedures in a coordinated effort to ensure that the strongest applicants are admitted to the University irrespective of college choice; these include transparency of all test results, interview grades, and UCAS forms amongst all tutors involved with admissions, and a final meeting of tutors at which the strongest unplaced applicants are collectively discussed and open offers are made by the Admissions Group. Around 28% of offers (30%) made in this cycle were either open offers or made by a college other than the first college considering the applicant.
Colleges may make offers conditional on the Opportunity Oxford bridging programme to eligible students who would not otherwise have been admitted. In this cycle, 9 such offers were made for Maths or joint honours courses.
Decisions are deemed to be official at the end of the Group’s final meeting and the shortlisted applications are assigned a final overall grade. These decisions are then conveyed by tutors to their respective college offices for dissemination to shortlisted applicants. The Admissions Group has standard offers for those taking A-levels, the International Baccalaureate or Advanced Highers; college tutors will seek advice from admissions tutors or the Admissions Office in making other offers.
All candidates for Maths, Maths & Statistics, Maths & Philosophy who took the MAT, and who have not withdrawn, will have their MAT score emailed to them automatically by the Admissions Coordinator at the end of the admissions process. Similarly, the Computer Science department will send out MAT scores to Maths & Computer Science applicants.
Other feedback will not automatically be sent out, but applicants may seek feedback from their first-assigned colleges about any aspect of the admissions process. Feedback will not usually be sent out until the new year, once the admissions process is complete.
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division - Shortlisting Process and Admissions Statistics
Modern Languages and joint schools
Modern Languages 2.2
Modern Languages and Linguistics 2.3
Classics and Modern Languages 2.3
English and Modern Languages 2.7
Philosophy and Modern Languages 3.3
Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria for Modern Languages and the relevant Joint Schools.
Candidates took a range of pre-admission tests depending on their choice of course. The results were taken into account by tutors when deciding who to call to interview, along with written work scores and the information in the UCAS form including past examination achievement and predicted grades. The majority of applicants were called to interview.
English Literature Admissions Test (ELAT) scores for English and Modern Languages candidates are available online but Modern Languages Admissions Test (MLAT), History Aptitude Test (HAT) and Classics Admissions Test (CAT) scores are not made available to candidates automatically. They can be provided on request from the College.
Candidates who took the HAT in November 2020 and those intending to take it in the future may wish to look at the marking scheme used, with reference to the test paper expected to be published in January 2021.
All candidates were given at least two interviews in which they were tested against the agreed Modern Languages admissions criteria. Candidates’ responses to an unseen literary text were tested in all cases, and part of at least one of the interviews was conducted in the relevant language(s) applied for (where candidates were not ab initio applicants). Interviewers’ questions also frequently dealt with responses to works mentioned by candidates on their UCAS personal statements. At all times the interviewers were looking for candidates’ potential to thrive in a future engagement with both the linguistic and literary elements of the Modern Languages course.
The tutors were hugely impressed by the candidates who applied to study Modern Languages and Modern Languages Joint Schools in this round. Eight candidates were offered places at Merton, subject to satisfying their offer conditions, and a further two candidates for whom Merton was the first-choice college were offered places at other colleges.
In the 2020-21 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was approximately 21.8:1.
Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria.
The majority of candidates who applied were called for interview. Shortlisting decisions are initially taken by the tutors in each college, but the Music tutors in all colleges which admit for the subject have access to the application materials and are able to call to interview any candidate not called by the first-choice college. Decisions are reviewed by the Faculty Admissions Coordinator in conjunction with the relevant college tutors. Music does not use an aptitude test. However, it does request written work in advance (two essays, one of which should normally be on Music, plus some harmony and counterpoint and/or composition). The written work is double marked centrally within the Faculty and also by the first-choice college tutor. Grades form part of shortlisting discussions and also final decision meetings, alongside a range of other data (including personal statements, references, academic track record and predicted grades where applicable). The Faculty additionally operated a co-ordinated reallocation procedure, in accordance with the University’s Common Framework for Admissions, designed to ensure that the best candidates stood an equitable chance of being offered an academic place at Oxford, irrespective of their college preference. This meant that candidates from a number of oversubscribed colleges were reallocated to other colleges for interview.
Merton-hosted candidates were given two interviews at Merton, lasting approximately 20 minutes each, and candidates were given 30 minutes to prepare material before the start of each interview. The materials consisted of a short piece of writing on music, plus two unseen extracts of music. Candidates were asked to summarise the prose extract, and then discuss some of the critical issues within the text. They were also asked to make some salient observations about the music extracts (though they were not expected to recognise the piece or the composer). Questions tended to focus on matters of texture, form, harmonic structure, articulation, style and affect. There was an opportunity for candidates to ask questions at the end of the interview, although this did not form part of the formal assessment process. Merton interviews were conducted by Dr Sebastian Wedler and Dr Matthew Thomson.
Candidates were also invited to submit a recording of a short recital. These were assessed by Benjamin Nicholas and Dr Matthew Thomson.
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
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Admissions statistics
This year the number of applicants was 2298. The number of applicants per place was 8.9. There were 407 open applications and 57 deferred entry applications. There were 1021 female and 1276 male applicants. There were 1045 home, 356 EU and 897 overseas applicants. 708 applicants were shortlisted and 257 were offered places.
The selection criteria for PPE are on the course website. The shortlisting criteria are described on the course website as follows:
We only interview those who have a realistic chance of getting in, when judged by past and predicted exam results, school reports, personal statements and the pre-interview test. Applicants who do not take the pre-interview test will not normally be shortlisted for interview.
Colleges are set deselection targets so that across all colleges at least 2.75 applicants per place are shortlisted. When making shortlisting decisions admissions tutors give the following weighting to the various elements of each application.
Pre-Interview Admissions Test Yes
GCSE (or equivalent) profile Yes
Predicted (or actual) performance at
A-Level (or equivalent) Yes
UCAS teacher’s reference Yes
AS-Level module grades Yes
UCAS personal statement Yes
See the PDF version of this feedback for graphs on the GCSE scores, cGCSE scores, and A-Level scores of applicants at different stages.
After colleges have deselected their target number of applicants, some shortlisted applicants are reallocated. They are sent to the college where they will have the best theoretical chance of success, based on where they will be ranked highest within the existing cohort of the college. They are ranked according to a reallocation score which is based on TSA section 1 results and contextualised GCSE data where available. After the reallocation has taken place colleges can choose to rescue deselected applicants.
Applicants will normally have at least two interviews at their first college, although some colleges may have a single longer interview. Most colleges will have a minimum of two interviewers per interview. Colleges normally wish to involve tutors from all three subjects, but since there are no specific subject requirements and the content of the interviews is not subject-specific, this is not necessarily the case.
The interview is described on the course website as follows:
The interview is aimed primarily at assessing the candidate's potential for future development. Interviewers will be looking for evidence of genuine interests and enthusiasms, and the motivation to work hard at them. The candidates should listen effectively, absorbing facts and ideas presented to them and assessing their relevance. They should be ready to respond to problems and criticisms put to them. They should present arguments and reasoning in a clear and carefully articulated manner. The interview is not primarily a test of existing knowledge, and in particular, is not a test of philosophy, politics or economics, unless these subjects have been followed at school. The candidates are expected to show reasons for their expressed interests in PPE. Candidates' general accomplishments are not relevant except insofar as they bear on one or more of the general admissions criteria.
Colleges assign candidates up to three interview scores. These do not have to be subject-specific. Interviews are marked on a 1-100 scale:
70-100 Excellent A mark above 70 is a strong indicator for admission
65-69 Positive Most candidates admitted will have interview scores above 65.
60-64 Neutral
50-59 Weak A candidate with interview and test marks consistently below 60 is in a weak position
49 or less Very poor Interview strongly suggests that the candidate is not suitable
After colleges have entered their first interview scores and decisions candidates are ranked according to a post-first interviews score which is based on interview scores, TSA scores, and contextualised GCSE information where available. Colleges then select second interviews using all information available for each candidate.
This year 37 candidates were selected for second interviews. After second interviews have taken place, colleges make their final decisions, based on all information available for each candidate at this stage.
Pre-interview admissions test
TSA results were released on 11 January 2021. They can be accessed via Cambridge Assessment’s Results Online system. The average test performance of applicants at the different stages is set out in the graphs in the PDF version of this feedback.
In the 2020-21 admissions round Merton received 87 applications for Physics and Physics & Philosophy in total, i.e. ten candidates per place. The ratio of candidates to places in these subjects across Oxford as a whole was 9.0:1 for Physics. 12 candidates who applied to Merton were ultimately offered a place at Oxford, which reflects the high standard of applications to Merton. Further details are given below.
Candidates were selected using standard selection criteria and admissions procedures.
The Physics Department’s Report on the Physics Admissions Exercise 2021 provides details of the shortlisting procedure, including statistics from the Physics Aptitude Test (PAT).
Test scores are not made available to candidates automatically but can be provided by the College on request.
After initial shortlisting, two candidates who had applied to Merton were reallocated to different colleges for interview, to ensure that each college had approximately the same number of candidates per place, and hence that an applicant's chance of obtaining a place was as far as possible independent of the college handling the application.
All interviews this year were undertaken online. During the interview, candidates and interviewers used a shared electronic whiteboard (Miro) to exchange visual information (e.g. sketches and equations). These systems worked well. In the very few cases in which technical issues did occur, candidates were given additional time or the interview was rescheduled.
Merton’s shortlisted candidates for Physics were given two interviews by Merton on Physics and Mathematics and at least one other interview by tutors at another college; candidates for Physics & Philosophy were given an additional interview by Merton on Philosophy.
Of the 20 first-college candidates interviewed by Merton, six were offered a place at Merton, and three were offered a place at another college. One candidate reallocated prior to interview was also offered a place at another college. Merton offered places to two candidates who had applied to a different college.
Prospective applicants may be interested in the suggestions on how to prepare for the admissions process available on the Physics Department website.
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Iran FM voices support for Turkey-backed Libya government
June 17, 2020 at 12:17 pm | Published in: Africa, Europe & Russia, Iran, Libya, Middle East, News, Russia, Syria
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at the Raisina Dialogue 2020 in Delhi, India, on 15 January 2020 [Imtiyaz Khan/Anadolu Agency]
Iran has announced its support for the Turkish-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) based in the capital Tripoli.
The declaration was made on Monday by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, during a visit to Istanbul. It was also Turkey's first time hosting a foreign minister in months since the coronavirus outbreak.
"We seek to have a political solution to the Libyan crisis to end the civil war," said Zarif. "We support the legitimate government in Libya, and it is able to end the ongoing war. We have common views with the Turkish side on ways to end the crisis in Libya and Yemen," he added.
For his part, Cavusoglu reiterated Turkey's opposition to US sanctions on Iran. "Iran's stability and peace is important for us," he said. "We oppose unilateral sanctions. In fact, the pandemic has taught us that the world needs greater cooperation and solidarity."
READ: Libya parliament demands probe into mass killings
Yesterday Zarif left Istanbul for Russian capital Moscow, where he met with the country's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who reiterated Russia's promise to stand by Iran over its nuclear programme. Lavrov also said that Ankara, Moscow and Tehran – who form the Astana trio – will be holding a video conference to discuss Syria, followed by a summit held in Tehran.
Iran's support for the GNA differs from its ally Syria, who is currently in an alliance with the Tobruk-based Libyan government. Despite the shared stance on Libya, Turkey and Iran back opposing sides in the conflict in Syria.
Zarif's visits to Turkey and Russia would be his second diplomatic trip following a visit to Syria last month to discuss bilateral relations amid the coronavirus pandemic and US sanctions on Syria, which have now come into effect.
READ: After Tripoli defeat, Haftar's forces to 'restructure main operations room'
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VOODOO PRIEST ARRESTED BY THE FBI AFTER BUYING A LOCK OF DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR ON CRAIGSLIST
A famous Voodoo priest from New Orleans was arrested this morning by the FBI after paying an impressive $25,000 for a few strands of President Trump’s hair in order to inflict physical harm on him and control him through a voodoo doll.
31-year Old Moses Philossaint, an important religious leader of the Louisiana Voodoo community, was arrested in possession of eight grams of what is believed to be Donald Trump’s hair.
The provenance of the lock of hair is yet to be clarified, and it has been sent to an FBI lab for DNA analysis, but investigators claim they have strong evidence suggesting it’s authentic.
According to FBI spokesman Bobby Miller, the accused paid $25,000 on Craigslist for the hair, which he intended to use to create a type of magical effigy.
“He openly professed to worshippers that he intended to use magic to influence American policy and force the American president to do as he wishes. The method used may be unusual, but the intent makes it a federal crime.”
Mr. Miller insisted that the FBI doesn’t believe in magic or voodoo, but acted to condemn the accused’s criminal intent and qualm rumors before they started.
“We know these dolls are probably powerless. But there are enough rumors already about the President being controlled by the Russians, Freemasons or even Reptilians. We don’t want new ones about him being a voodoo puppet.”
FBI spokesman Bobby Miller says the accused plotting to force the President to overthrow the Haitian government and also offer public funding to various voodoo churches.
Mr. Philossaint is accused of conspiracy to corrupt a government official, conspiracy to commit treason and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism.
If found guilty on all charges, he could face the death penalty or a minimum of 95 years of imprisonment.
His lawyer, Iakob Bronstein, has already announced that they would plead that Mr. Philossaint’s actions are protected by his freedom of religion.
According to Mr. Bronstein, his client’s actions are “no different than when Christians ask God to influence the President.”
Mr. Philossaint was refused bail a few hours after his arrest and will remain behind bars until his trial in March.
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To shield Trump, GOP quietly abandons its own standards, principles
Asking Republicans to honor the principles and standards that Republicans themselves espoused a few months ago is hardly outrageous.
Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Jan. 29, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 29, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC
It was four months ago when Steve Doocy, a co-host of one of Donald Trump's favorite Fox News programs, delivered one of the most memorable lines of the entire Ukraine scandal. Just as the scope of the controversy was coming into focus, Doocy declared, "If the president said, 'I'll give you the money, but you've got to investigate Joe Biden,' that'd be off the rails wrong."
The comment came at a point at which there was still some uncertainty about what, precisely, Trump had done, and when and why he'd done it, and the White House's allies were still operating under the assumption that the story would soon fizzle. After all, it wasn't as if the public would soon confront evidence that the president was directly responsible for orchestrating an illegal extortion scheme, undermining U.S. national security, all in the hopes of cheating during his re-election campaign, right?
It was just this week, in the face of insurmountable evidence, that Doocy adopted an entirely new posture, which contradicted the one he espoused in late September, though it'd be unfair to single out the Fox News host as a uniquely brazen figure. He had plenty of company.
"If you could show me that Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call," [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham] said, "that would be very disturbing." [...]
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), for example, was explicit after the rough transcript came out. "There was no quid pro quo," he said to reporters. "You'd have to have that if there was going to be anything wrong." Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said something similar: "It would be troubling if any president did a quid pro quo with tax dollars ... but so far we don't have evidence that's happened."
The Washington Post analysis counted at least 10 Senate Republicans who expressed "at least some concern about a quid pro quo in relation to Ukraine."
It was around this same time that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) conceded that there was "terrible stuff" in the call summary documenting Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Nebraska Republican added, "Republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons and say there's no 'there' there when there's obviously a lot that's very troubling there.."
That was before former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, a far-right voice whom Republicans have trusted for decades, appears to have written a book that says the president told him he was withholding congressionally approved military assistance precisely because he hoped to coerce our vulnerable ally into going after his domestic political rivals.
And it was at that point that Republicans moved the goalposts.
To suggest that GOP lawmakers adopt Democratic principles and standards is unrealistic, but to ask Republicans to honor the principles and standards that Republicans themselves espoused a few months ago is hardly outrageous.
Indeed, the larger dynamic began over the summer, when Congress discovered that the administration withheld the aid to Ukraine -- at the time, for reasons unknown. As Rachel explained on the show last night, the initial Republican response wasn't that Trump should simply do whatever he wants; it was actually far more respectable: several prominent GOP lawmakers insisted that the White House follow the law and deliver the security assistance.
The president, faced with bipartisan pushback, backed down and Kyiv received its aid.
The point is, however, that Republicans saw what Trump was doing, and even if they didn't initially know why, they said it wasn't right. Soon after, many of these same GOP officials and their partisan brethren said a quid pro quo, trading military aid for campaign assistance, wouldn't be right, either.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said in September, "I think it would be wildly inappropriate for an American president to invite a foreign country's leader to get engaged in an American presidential election. That strikes me as entirely inappropriate."
A few days later, a Republican told the Washington Examiner, "If there is evidence of a quid pro quo, many think the dam will start to break on our side."
In October, then-Ambassador Bill Taylor, Trump's top diplomat to Ukraine, delivered brutal testimony to Congress, supported by extensive contemporaneous notes, in which he described the president's involvement in an explicit scheme to leverage both military aid and a White House meeting as part of a plan to coerce Ukraine into participating in a domestic political scheme. Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) conceded the next day, "The picture coming out of [the hearings] based on the reporting we've seen is, yeah, I would say is not a good one."
But when reality got in the way, Republicans didn't abandon Trump; they abandoned everything they'd said in September and October.
MORE: Today's Maddowblog
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Al-Zarqawi autopsy details released
Col. Steve Jones, an Army command surgeon, on Monday explains a diagram showing injuries sustained by al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.Khaid Mohammed / AP
June 12, 2006, 1:02 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of extensive internal injuries consistent with those caused by a bomb blast, the U.S. military said Monday.
Col. Steve Jones, command surgeon for Multinational Forces, said an autopsy concluded that al-Zarqawi died from serious injuries to his lungs in Wednesday’s airstrike. An FBI test positively identified al-Zarqawi’s remains.
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, said U.S. forces arrived about 28 minutes after a fighter jet bombed al-Zarqawi’s hideout outside Baqouba. Medics secured al-Zarqawi’s airway but his breathing was shallow and labored, and he expelled blood from his mouth.
“It was very evident he had extremely massive internal injuries,” Caldwell said.
Al-Zarqawi died 24 minutes after coalition forces arrived, he said.
Jones said the autopsy conducted Saturday showed that al-Zarqawi died from injuries to his lungs.
“Blast waves from the two bombs caused tearing, bruising of the lungs and bleeding,” he said. “There was no evidence of firearm injuries.”
The al-Qaida in Iraq leader also suffered head and facial wounds, bleeding in his ears and a fracture of his lower right leg.
Dozens detained or killed
Caldwell also said 140 military operations were carried out since al-Zarqawi’s death and 32 insurgents were killed and 178 detained. He said 11 raids were directly connected to a “treasure trove” of intelligence gleaned from raids since al-Zarqawi’s death.
“As far as the al-Qaida network, we are cautiously optimistic that we have been very successful thus far in the ongoing operations in last five days. We know this is not going to end the insurgency. it will take the people of Iraq to make that decision with their Iraqi security forces,” Caldwell said.
He said an F-16 dropped a 500-pound bomb on al-Zarqawi’s hideout at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday. A second bomb followed immediately after.
U.S. troops arrived at 6:40 p.m. and found Iraqi police at the site. He said a coalition medic treated al-Zarqawi, who lapsed in and out of consciousness.
“At 7:04 p.m. on 7 June, Zarqawi was dead,” Caldwell said.
He said al-Zarqawi’s spiritual adviser, Sheik Abdul-Rahman, was killed instantly in the airstrike.
Jones and a medical examiner who was not identified said al-Zarqawi had “no evidence of beating or any firearm injuries.”
“These autopsies were performed to make a definitive determination as to the cause of both Zarqawi’s and Rahman’s deaths,” Caldwell said. “The scientific facts provide irrefutable evidence regarding the deaths of terrorists will serve to counter speculation, misinformation and propaganda.”
An Iraqi man raised questions about al-Zarqawi’s death, telling AP Television News he saw U.S. soldiers after the airstrike beating an injured man resembling the dead terrorist until blood flowed from his nose.
Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has dismissed that claim as “baloney.”
No decision about remains
Caldwell added that no decision had been made on what to do with the remains of al-Zarqawi and Rahman.
“Right now we’re still in discussions with the government of Iraq. They’re still currently under coalition control,” Caldwell said.
Caldwell said that two women and a young girl killed at the scene were turned over to Iraqi authorities as had the body of another man. None had been identified.
According to Caldwell, al-Zarqawi was not wearing an explosives vest. The Jordanian-born al-Qaida leader often claimed he wore one to prevent capture.
“He was wearing some black outfit. There is nothing that said he was wearing a suicide belt on,” Caldwell said.
He added that a timeline of events he had promised would be ready in the next few days. Because of the confusion over the sequence of events following the bombing, the military has promised to release a chronology.
At least one U.S. officer said American troops responded quickly, while a senior Iraqi official said Sunday that they may have arrived as much as an hour after the attack.
“After the national Iraqi police arrived to the scene and got the injured, got the dead sorted out. In an hour or so, I think, coalition forces have arrived to the scene also to help in the logistics of the operation afterward,” Iraqi national security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told CNN.
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Gays in military: Do allies' experiences matter?
Military personnel join the march during an annual gay pride parade in central London organized by Pride London in July 2009. Most of America's closest allies opted years ago to allow gays to serve openly in their militaries. As U.S. policymakers wrestle with the issue, there's sharp disagreement over whether those allies' experiences are relevant to the debate. Akira Suemori / AP
Nov. 1, 2010, 9:02 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
By DAVID CRARY
Most of America's closest allies opted years ago to allow gays to serve openly in their militaries. As U.S. policymakers wrestle with the issue, there's sharp disagreement over whether those allies' experiences are relevant to the debate.
More than 25 countries let gays serve openly, including Israel's battle-tested forces and nearly every NATO military except Turkey and the U.S. In each case, there have been too few problems to prompt any high-level talk of abandoning the policy.
Is that track record evidence that the U.S. could and should follow suit? Or is America's military so different, in terms of its size, culture and global mission, that foreign examples are beside the point?
Among those pressing the case for irrelevance is Tony Perkins, a former Marine who is president of the conservative Family Research Council.
"The European culture is more permissive than ours," he said. "And no other military does the work that ours does. When you're looking at a military that has the burden we carry, we can't afford to get this wrong."
Despite such warnings, the U.S. now seems closer than ever to following its allies' examples. A federal judge has ruled the "don't ask, don't tell" policy unconstitutional, and the Obama administration — even while appealing that ruling — wants Congress to repeal the 17-year-old policy that in effect makes gay and lesbian service members stay in the closet to avoid discharge.
The Palm Center, a think-tank at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that supports repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," acknowledges that the U.S. military differs in many ways from its allies, but says their experiences with gays are relevant.
"The question is not how similar our missions or culture are to those of other nations but whether the United States is any less capable than other nations of integrating gays into its military," the center said in a recent report.
The collective experience of those countries "shows that if the U.S. were to lift its ban, American military performance would not decline," the center said.
To some conservatives, the NATO allies are flawed role models.
"Once a military force puts liberalization above military effectiveness, hallmarks of 'success' only relate to social goals," argues Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness. "Our politically correct, socially liberal allies ... should be following the lead of the United States armed forces — not the other way around."
Donnelly notes that the countries still barring gays from their militaries include America's Muslim allies and potential rivals such as North Korea and Iran.
Bob Maginnis, a retired Marine colonel who's a national security analyst with the Family Research Council, says U.S. commanders would do their best to comply if ordered to let gays to serve openly. But he argues that step would be risky because of differences between the U.S. and its allies.
One difference, he contends, is a more active and litigious gay-rights movement in the U.S. — ready to place political and legal pressure on the military "no matter the consequences for combat effectiveness."
Maginnis also says the U.S. military, in contrast to its NATO allies, has large portion of personnel from conservative religious backgrounds who might object to serving with gays in what he terms "forced intimate situations."
"We have an overstretched volunteer force, and a lot of people are staying in just because the economy is bad," Maginnis said. "You add an additional couple of straws (by repealing "don't ask") and you're going to chase out a lot of people we can't afford to lose."
Some gays who have served in the military reject those arguments.
Jonathan Hopkins, a West Point graduate who served as an infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, contended that U.S. service members, on the whole, are less hostile to gays than soldiers from other nations.
"It's the generals who aren't ready for" repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," he said.
Alex Nicholson, who was ousted from the Army nine years ago under "don't ask, don't tell," now heads Servicemembers United, a national organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans.
Though he was discharged, he says many gays and lesbians currently in the ranks are "out" to some of their peers and commanders, and "the problems that are hypothesized do not materialize."
"The generation going into the military today is much more accepting of people different from them," Nicholson said. "They want to blow things up. They want to get away from home. ... It's ridiculous to try to paint them as churchgoing religious zealots."
David Segal, a University of Maryland sociologist who has studied military personnel policies, says the U.S. military is unique in its use of expeditionary forces to fight far-flung, long-lasting wars — yet he believes the experiences of U.S. allies in allowing gays to serve openly are instructive.
"Many of the nations that lifted their bans heard the same arguments," he said. "They all expected it would undermine unit cohesion, hurt recruitment and retention. ... None of that happened."
Some of them did encounter complications related to benefits and housing for same-sex couples, said Segal, who commended the Defense Department for examining these issues as part of an ongoing review.
"I do not anticipate it being perfect," Segal said.
"Our military resisted racial integration, it resisted gender integration," he said. "In both cases, the military kicked and screamed and said it would undermine our effectiveness. Once the decision was made, they saluted and followed in line."
Nicholson, of Servicemembers United, disagrees with all the arguments against allowing gays to serve openly, yet says he understands why some conservatives are waging such a vigorous campaign to prevent that.
"The military is such a large and fundamental institution in American society," he said. "There's a fear on the far right that once you stop using it as a tool to discriminate, it will be the domino that really accelerates the fall of the rest of the dominos."
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NetSuite announces record fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 results
Q4 Marks First Quarter of Profitability in Company History by both Non-GAAP Operating and Non-GAAP Net Income Measures
Record 2008 Revenue of $152.5 Million, an Increase of Over 40% Year-over-Year
SAN MATEO, Calif.—February 10, 2009—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software suites for mid-market enterprises and divisions of large companies, today announced operating results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.
Total revenue for the year was $152.5 million, a year-over-year increase of 40.5%. Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $41.4 million, a 30.5% increase over the fourth quarter of 2007.
On a GAAP basis, net loss for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $(4.5 million), or $(0.07) per share, compared to $(3.3 million), or $(0.22) per share in the fourth quarter of 2007. On a GAAP basis, net loss for the year ended December 31, 2008 was $(15.9 million), or $(0.26) per share, compared to $(23.9 million), or $(2.45) per share in 2007.
Non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2008 was $534,000, or $0.01 per share, as compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $(1.7 million), or $(0.03) per share, for the third quarter of 2008 and compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $(842,000), or $(0.01) per share, for the fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP net loss for the year ended December 31, 2008 improved 56% to $(2.5 million), or $(0.04) per share, compared to $(5.7 million), or $(0.10) per share in 2007.
Items presented on a non-GAAP basis exclude expenses related to stock-based compensation and the amortization of intangible assets. A reconciliation of GAAP net loss to non-GAAP net income/(loss) is provided below in a table immediately following the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, along with an explanation of why these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors and how they are used by management.
Revenue from the Americas for the year ended 2008 was $123.4 million, while revenue from international regions was $29.1 million. NetSuite added approximately 350 new customers in the fourth quarter and ended the year with over 6,600 active companies.
"I'm delighted that NetSuite delivered one of our best quarters to date in what has been a very difficult economic environment. I am especially excited that we posted the first non-GAAP profitable quarter in the Company's history even against the headwinds of global economic challenges," said Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite. "Furthermore, we posted record quarterly and annual revenue, reached a record average selling price and grew our bookings significantly quarter over quarter. This is a strong performance in any quarter, and is especially impressive with business spending on equipment and software falling 27.8%, the worst in a half century."
"What led to this remarkable success in the fourth quarter and fiscal 2008, and what we believe will drive the Company in 2009, is our unique business strategy and great tactical execution. Our strategy of providing an integrated suite of applications delivered on-demand to small- and medium-sized businesses is even more applicable in times when cost-reduction and productivity improvements are necessary for survival," concluded Nelson.
NetSuite's Fourth Quarter 2008 Highlights Include:
Entered into strategic partnership with Hewlett-Packard Company ("HP") to deliver software as a service ("SaaS") business applications to the small and mid-size business ("SMB") market. This enables the HP channel of 15,000 value-added resellers in the United States to offer cloud computing services to SMB customers.
Continued rapid international adoption with international revenue growing 51% in absolute dollars over the prior year.
Launched NetSuite Release J, to our knowledge the first available SaaS enterprise resource planning ("ERP") suite for the Japanese market.
Introduced "Business ByNetSuite" Program to offer current SAP customers the opportunity to cut costs by 50% or more.
Received several awards including: 2008 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for NetSuite OneWorld; "Customers' Top Choice" in UK's Software Satisfaction Awards 2008 for NetSuite CRM+; inclusion in Accounting Today's Top 100 Products for 2008 within the "High-End and Mid-Market Accounting" category; and ranked number 22 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Software and Information Technology Companies.
Unveiled the industry's first and only on-demand enterprise application for Services Resource Planning ("SRP").
Hosted OpenAir User Summit 2008.
In conjunction with this announcement, NetSuite will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) today to discuss the Company's fourth quarter and year ended 2008 financial results. A live audio webcast and replay of the call, together with detailed financial information, will be available in the Investor Relations section of NetSuite's Web Site at http://www.netsuite.com/investors. The live call may be accessed by dialing 877-852-6576 (domestic) or 719-325-4834 (international) and referencing passcode: 472-4872. A replay of the call can also be accessed by dialing 888-203-1112 (domestic) or 719-457-0820 (international), and referencing passcode: 472-4872.
NetSuite Inc. is a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software suites for mid-sized businesses and divisions of large companies. NetSuite enables mid-market companies to manage core business operations in a single system, which includes accounting/ERP, customer relationship management ("CRM"), and Ecommerce. NetSuite's patent-pending "real-time dashboard" technology provides an easy-to-use view into up-to-date, role-specific business information.
This press release and the scheduled conference call contain forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans, prospects, or financial results for NetSuite, including our stated expectation for future earnings, revenue and market share growth. These forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and beliefs of NetSuite's management as of the date of this release, and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and NetSuite disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements: the market for on-demand services may develop more slowly than expected or than it has in the past; continued adverse and unpredictable macro-economic conditions or reduced investments in on-demand applications and information technology spending; quarterly operating results may fluctuate more than expected; unexpected disruptions of service at the Company's data centre may occur; a security breach may impact operations; risks associated with material defects or errors in the Company's software or the effect of undetected computer viruses could impact operations; the risk of technological developments and innovations by others; our ability to successfully identify other businesses and technologies for acquisition that will complement our business and the ability to successfully acquire and integrate those businesses and technologies; the risk of loss of power or disruption in Internet service; failure to manage growth; the ability to manage operations when faced with competitive pricing and marketing strategies by competitors or changing macro-economic conditions; the risk of losing key employees; increased demands on employees and costs associated with operating as a public company; evolving government regulation of the Internet and Ecommerce; changes to current accounting rules; and general political or destabilising events, including war, conflict or acts of terrorism; and other risks and uncertainties.
Customers who purchase our service should make sure the decisions are based on features that are currently available. Please be advised that any unreleased services or features from NetSuite referenced in today's discussion or other public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all.
For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 13, 2008, and any subsequently filed reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. All documents are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system ("EDGAR") at www.sec.gov or NetSuite's Web site at www.netsuite.com.
The Company's stated results include certain non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP operating income/(loss), net income/(loss), weighted average shares outstanding, and net income/(loss) per share. Non-GAAP net income/(loss) excludes expenses related to stock-based compensation expense and the amortization of intangible assets. Non-GAAP net income / (loss) excludes these expenses as they are non-cash items, are often excluded by other companies to help investors understand the operational performance of their business, and in the case of stock-based compensation, can be difficult to predict. Additionally, non-GAAP weighted average shares outstanding, the denominator for the non-GAAP net loss per share calculation, for the periods during 2007 assumes that the conversion of preferred stock and the issuance of common stock as part of the Company's Initial Public Offering had occurred at the beginning of the applicable period. The Company considers these events to be non-routine, and believes these adjustments provide useful comparative information to investors.
The Company considers these non-GAAP financial measures to be important because they provide useful measures of the operating performance of the Company and are used by the Company's management for that purpose. In addition, investors often use measures such as these to evaluate the financial performance of a company. Non-GAAP results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only for understanding the Company's operating results. The non-GAAP results should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
A copy of this press release can be found on the Company's Investor Relations Web site at www.netsuite.com/investors. The contents of the website are not incorporated by reference into this press release.
Click here to download the press release, financial tables, and non-GAAP reconciliation.
NOTE: NetSuite and the NetSuite logo are registered service marks of NetSuite Inc.
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Coronavirus: NZ 'not interested in blame or a witch hunt' as country joins call for inquiry into COVID-19's origins - Ardern
Watch: The PM spoke to The AM Show on Monday about reports that NZ is backing Australia's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. Credits: Video - The AM Show; Image - Getty
New Zealand has reportedly become one of 62 nations backing Australia's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus - but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has reiterated that the country is "not interested" in placing blame or joining a "witch hunt" amid the increasing calls for answers from China.
Speaking to The AM Show on Monday, Ardern addressed a report by The Australian claiming that New Zealand is backing Australia's call for the World Health Organization (WHO) to "initiate an impartial, independent, comprehensive evaluation" into the origins of COVID-19.
The deadly disease, which has killed more than 314,000 people worldwide, is widely believed to have originated in Wuhan, a city in China's Hubei Province in which the first reported cases of COVID-19 emerged in December. Despite theories that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans, the exact cause of the outbreak and the disease's inception remains unclear.
China refused WHO requests to take part in COVID-19 investigation - official
Ardern says New Zealand is "part of a sensible call" which will allow us to "learn what we can" from the pandemic.
"I think everyone would be of the view that if we want to prevent this from happening again, we do need to learn lessons," she told The AM Show host Ryan Bridge.
"What I am very clear on is that we're not interested in blame or any kind of witch hunt - we're just interested in learning and I think most New Zealanders would agree with that."
Bridge questioned why Ardern had not mentioned China in her response, acknowledging reports that the word "China" has been removed from the inquiry's draft.
Ardern swiftly said she had no comment as she is not involved in the drafting process.
"I think there are things to learn from other countries' responses [and] I would include China in that - they were obviously the first to use lockdown and I think that has saved lives globally.
"Equally I've also said there are other places we can learn from, and we've included Taiwan in that... for us, we take a very pragmatic view. We need to learn, but we're not interested in blame."
Ardern's comments follow a terse back-and-forth exchange between Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Chinese officials last week. After airing his "personal" view that Taiwan - considered by the Communist Party of China (CCP) as the Republic of China and an extension of Chinese territory - should be given a seat at the WHO's table, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry rebuked New Zealand for violating the "one China" policy.
"We express our strong dissatisfaction with the statements and resolutely oppose it, and we have already made stern representations with New Zealand," the spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said during a news conference in Beijing.
"China urges New Zealand to strictly abide by the 'one China' principle and immediately stop making wrong statements on Taiwan, to avoid damaging our bilateral relationship."
In an interview with MagicTalk host Peter Williams, Peters flatly denied the possibility of New Zealand's relations with China being under stress in the aftermath of his comments. Last Monday, China threatened Australia with an 80 percent tariff on barley imports, the move coming within weeks of the country's call for the probe into COVID-19's origins. This recent development is an example of the CCP's tendency to "bully" its trading partners, Williams said, suggesting it may not be a wise tactic to inflame an already tense relationship with New Zealand's biggest trading partner.
"I have framed the conversation to say this humanitarian disaster deserves a worldwide answer... on where COVID-19 came from, it's inconceivable that if you want to help the world, that you wouldn't find out every detail of how it came in the first place... if we [have to have] a disagreement with the Chinese people on that, so be it," Peters said.
"All I'm saying is, when we are going to be fighting a worldwide enemy called COVID-19, we need the best resources of every population - particularly one that has had a stand-out success record like Taiwan."
When asked by Bridge if she believed China had hidden the true origins of COVID-19 in an elaborate cover-up, Ardern said it was not a theory she had spent much time thinking about.
"To be honest, that's not something I've spent a huge amount of time in recent weeks or months delving into," she told Bridge.
"There are others I think would be better placed to look into the passage of time, what happened, [its] origins - we have supported looking into those issues independently but again, not for the purposes of a witch hunt - just for learning.
"I'm careful about the advice I receive but I'm speaking quite frankly, it's not something I've spent much time on... supporting that independent look into what has happened I think is the best way and the best forum for us to have these conversations, rather than just the reckons of one country or one person."
In an article published on Monday, The Australian reported: "A draft resolution calling for impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation of the responses to the pandemic has been co-sponsored by 62 countries, including India, Japan, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia, Russia and all 27 EU member states".
Australian foreign minister Marise Payne said it's crucial to review the events of this year to avoid a repeat pandemic in the future.
"There is positive support for an independent review into the pandemic to help the world learn the lessons necessary to protect global health," Senator Payne told The Australian.
"This is about collaborating to equip the international community to better prevent or counter the next pandemic and keep our citizens safe."
China promises not to punish NZ for joining Australia's inquiry into COVID-19 origins - Peters
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Angie Skerrett
A lack of workers is one of the challenges facing the horticulture sector. Credits: Video: Newshub Image: Supplied/Getty
A former boss at Plant and Food Research has been appointed to the board of Horticulture New Zealand.
Dr Bruce Campbell, of Tai Tokerau Northland, was Chief Operating Officer at the New Zealand Crown Research Institute until 2018.
'Extraordinary growth': New report shows booming horticulture sector
New HortNZ president excited about the future
He has experienced in governance, innovation, talent development and the future development of a wide range of horticulture sectors.
He has a particular interest in building partnerships with Māori to create new food businesses and also in growing career pathways to get talented people into horticulture.
Dr Bruce Campbell accepting the Prime Minister's Science Prize in 2017 for the work done by Plant & Food Research, for its rapid and successful response to the kiwifruit vine disease, PSA. Photo credit: Mark Tantrum/Prime Mnister's Science Prize
HortNZ president Barry O'Neil said Dr Campbell was a welcome addition to the board.
"Dr Campbell is recognised as an award-winning strategist and leader with success in innovation and governance," he said.
"His dedication to the industry over the years has been unwavering and he brings to the table a solid resource in research and development and established relationships with key industry stakeholders," said O'Neil.
Horticulture New Zealand represents over 5,000 commercial fruit and vegetable growers who employ about 60,000 people, making a significant contribution to New Zealand's economy.
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This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.
General Secretary of the
Workers Party of Korea
President of North Korea (Eternal President of the Republic since 1994)
the only – present
Choi Yong-kun
Prime Minister of North Korea
Kim Il
Pyongyang, Japanese occupied Korea
Pyongyang, North Korea
Kim Il-sung (April 15, 1912 – July 8, 1994) was the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) from late 1945 (prior to the state's 1948 founding) until his death, when his son, Kim Jong-il, succeeded him. In his early years, Kim was a well-known anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter while Korea was colonized by Japan. Installed as leader of the North by the Soviets in late 1945, he became Premier from 1948 to 1972, and then President from 1972, until his death. He was also General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea, and exercised dictatorial power in all areas of life. As leader of North Korea, he went beyond Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, and even Maoism, to create the nationalistic and isolationist Juche ideology of "self-reliance," and established the most pervasive personality cult in history, characterized by deification, and the only dynastic succession in a communist regime. Although North Korea was formed with significant Soviet guidance and assistance, and initially Kim was a Soviet surrogate, it evolved into a unique nation, particularly after Stalin's death, molded by Kim's exercise of power for nearly 50 years.
North Korea, along with Cuba, are the two main unreformed remnants of the communist world since the fall of the Soviet Union. The DPRK, even under Kim's grandson, remains among the most closed and repressive regime in the world. Nonetheless, when Kim died he appeared to have sought normalization of relations with the United States—its enemy from the 1950-53 Korean War to the present—as a means of balancing North Korea's relations with its neighbor, China, in a post-Soviet world.
1 Early years
1.2 Kim becomes a communist
1.3 Leadership in the Korean Communist Party
2 Korean War
2.1 Soviet role in the war
2.2 Chinese role in the war
3 Leader of North Korea
3.1 Kim's orthodox communist posture
3.2 Stepped up campaign of aggression
3.3 Kim Jong-il Heir
4 Later years
4.1 Economic Ruin
4.2 Personality cult
4.3 Influence of religion on Kim in later years
5 Family life
9.1 Books
Kim Il-sung, who was the world's longest-serving head of state when he died, is officially referred to as the "Great Leader" and the DPRK constitution has designated him "Eternal President."
Chosŏn'gŭl 김일성
Hancha 金日成
McCune-Reischauer Kim Ilsŏng
Revised Romanization Gim Il-seong
Much of the early records of Kim Il-sung's life comes from his own personal accounts and official North Korean government publications, which often conflict with independent sources. Nevertheless, consensus exists on at least the basic story of his early life, corroborated by witnesses from the period. He was born to Kim Hyŏng-jik and Kang Pan-sŏk, who named him Kim Sŏng-ju. He was born in Nam-ri, Taedong County, South P'yŏngan Province (currently the Mangyŏngdae area of P'yŏngyang), then under Japanese occupation.
The deification of all things related to Kim in North Korea has obscured the exact history of Kim's family. The family always seemed close to poverty. Kim's family had strong ties to the Protestant church: His maternal grandfather served as a Protestant minister, his father had gone to a missionary school, and both his parents reportedly played very active roles in the religious community. According to the official version, Kim's family participated in Japanese opposition activities, and, in 1920, fled to Manchuria, where Kim became fluent in Chinese. The more likely reason his family settled in Manchuria, like many Koreans at the time, was to escape famine.[1]
Kim becomes a communist
A view of Pyongyang from the Study Hall to the Juche Tower.
Kim’s father died when Kim was 14. Kim attended middle school in Jilin, where he rejected the feudal traditions of older generation Koreans and became interested in communist ideologies; his formal education ended when he was arrested and jailed for subversive activities. At 17, Kim became the youngest member of an underground Marxist organization with less than twenty members, led by Hŏ So, who belonged to the South Manchurian Communist Youth Association. The police discovered the group three weeks after its founding, jailing Kim for several months.[2]
Anti-Japanese Guerrilla. Kim joined various anti-Japanese guerrilla groups in northern China, and in 1935 became a member of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, a guerrilla group led by the Chinese Communist Party. That same year, Kim received an appointment to serve as political commissar for the 3rd detachment of the second division, around 160 soldiers. Kim also took the name Kim Il-sung, meaning "become the sun." By the end of the war that name became legendary in Korea, and some historians have claimed it was not Kim Sŏng-ju who originally made the name famous. A retired Soviet army colonel who says he was instructed to prepare Kim in 1945-1946 to lead North Korea, says Kim assumed this name while taking refuge in the Soviet Union in the early 1940s from a former commander who had died.[3] Other experts dismiss the claim of a “second” Kim, arguing there was only one Kim Il-sung.
Kim's Rise in the Ranks. Kim received a commission as commander of the 6th division in 1937, at the age of 24, leading a few hundred soldiers known as “Kim Il-sung’s division.” Although Kim’s division only captured a small Japanese-held town across the Korean border for a few hours, the military success came at a time when the guerrilla units had experienced difficulty in capturing any enemy territory. That accomplishment won Kim a measure of fame among Chinese guerrillas, and North Korean biographies later exploited the sortie as a great victory for Korea. By the end of 1940, Kim alone, among the only first Army leaders, survived. Pursued by Japanese troops, Kim and what remained of his army escaped by crossing the Amur River into the Soviet Union.[1] Kim was sent to a camp near Khabarovsk, where the the Soviets retrained Korean Communist guerrillas. Kim received the commission of captain in the Soviet Red Army, serving until the end of World War II.
Leadership in the Korean Communist Party
One of hundreds of monuments dedicated to Kim Il-sung in North Korea, this one outside a Pyongyang film studio
The Communist Party of Korea, founded in 1925, soon disbanded due to internal strife. In 1931, Kim had joined the Chinese Communist Party. But in September 1945, he returned to Korea with the Soviet forces, who installed and groomed him to be head of the Provisional People's Committee in the north. During his early years as leader, especially from 1946, he consolidated his power through purges and execution of dissident elements within the Korean Workers Party.
Professional Army Established. Kim established the Korean People's Army, formed from a cadre of guerrillas and former soldiers who had gained combat experience in battles against the Japanese and later Nationalist Chinese troops. From their ranks, using Soviet advisers and equipment, Kim constructed a large army skilled in infiltration tactics and guerrilla warfare. Before the outbreak of the Korean War, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin equipped the KPA with modern heavy tanks, trucks, artillery, and small arms (at the time, the South Korean Army had nothing remotely comparable either in numbers of troops or equipment).
Arch honoring Kim Il-sung's fight against Japan. It is slightly taller than the Arch of Triumph in Paris.
By 1948, the Soviets succeeded in entrenching the communist party in the north without intention to allow democratization, and the DPRK became a client state that September. Kim Il-sung then became fixated with invading the South as means to forcibly bring unification with the American-governed southern zone (which became the Republic of Korea in August 1948), and repeatedly asked Stalin for permission and assistance to do so, which was denied until early 1950. However, as Stalin learned through his intelligence sources—verified by Secretary of State Dean Acheson's January 1950 National Press Club speech[4]—that the United States had no intention of defending the mainland of Asia (i.e., South Korea), Stalin approved Kim's request. He also told Kim to obtain approval from China's communist leader Mao Zedong, which was reluctantly given that May. The massive military buildup North Korea received from Stalin, and the extensive evidence of meticulous planning by Soviet military advisers, leaves no doubt that Stalin was ultimately responsible for the outbreak, as well as prolongation, of the Korean War.
Soviet role in the war
On June 25, 1950, North Korea, led by Kim, launched an unprovoked, surprise attack on South Korea. Stalin wanted the Northern attack to look like a defensive response to a Southern provocation, but once Kim reported to Stalin in mid-June that the South Korean military was aware of the North's invasion plans, Stalin panicked and ordered a full frontal assault along the 38th parallel. Thus, rather than the invasion being disguised as a defensive response, the U.S. immediately perceived Stalin and Kim's intent to launch all-out war in Korea.[5]
Chinese role in the war
North Korean forces captured Seoul, rapidly occupying most of the South except for a perimeter surrounding the port city of Busan. Contrary to Stalin and Kim's expectations, the U.S. quickly dispatched troops based in Japan to defend the South. Moreover, by late June, the UN Security Council voted to create the United Nations Command, composed of forces from 16 nations led by the United States, to repel the North Korean invasion. General Douglas MacArthur's bold September 15 amphibious landing at Inchon cut the North Koreans in two, forcing the rapid withdrawal of North Korean army fragments to the Yalu River bordering China. By October, the UN forces had retaken Seoul and then captured Pyongyang, and they attempted to capture the rest of North Korean territory to the Yalu. Stalin had almost come to the point of despair and ordered Kim to evacuate to China, but Mao made an independent decision to provide massive manpower assistance to Kim, not only to prevent UN troops from possibly entering Chinese territory, but to preserve the gains of communism in Asia. [6]
On October 25, 1950, seasoned Chinese troops ("people's volunteers") in the tens (and later hundreds) of thousands crossed the Yalu in "human wave" attacks. U.S. military intelligence had seen indications of a Chinese buildup, but MacArthur thought they were simply large reconnaissance missions; MacArthur soon admitted he faced an entirely new war. UN troops were compelled to hastily retreat with heavy losses; Chinese troops retook Pyongyang in December and Seoul in January 1951. In March, UN forces began a counter-offensive, permanently retaking Seoul. After a series of offensives and counter-offensives by both sides, followed by a grueling period of trench warfare, the front stabilized generally along the 38th parallel. Upon Stalin's death in March 1953, the Soviet Politburo immediately pursued serious truce negotiations through the Chinese, arriving at the Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, which is still in effect today. Kim Il-sung survived the war, and with Soviet and Chinese assistance, rebuilt his devastated country.
Leader of North Korea
After the Korean War, Kim Il-sung consolidated his power against Koreans aligned with either the Soviet Union or China, or with South Korean communists, using his followers from his anti-Japanese guerrilla days as his base of support. He purged all of his rivals, real or potential, embarking on the reconstruction of the country which had been flattened through both aerial bombing and ground combat. He launched a five-year national economic plan to establish a Soviet-style command economy, with all industry owned by the state and agriculture collectivized. With the economy based on heavy industry, and with significant Soviet subsidies, North Korea retained an armed force far in excess of its defense needs. Most analysts believe Kim sought additional opportunities to reunify the Korean peninsula through force until the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet state in 1989.
Kim's orthodox communist posture
During the 1950s, Kim maintained the posture of an orthodox Communist leader. He rejected the USSR's de-Stalinization and began to distance himself from his patron, including the removal of any mention of his Red Army career from official history. In 1956, anti-Kim elements encouraged by de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union emerged within the Korean Workers Party to criticize Kim and demand reforms.[7] After a period of vacillation, Kim instituted a brutal purge, executing some opponents and forcing the rest into exile. When the Sino-Soviet split developed in the 1960s, Kim initially sided with the Chinese but prudently never severed his relations with the Soviets. When the Cultural Revolution began in China in 1966, Kim veered back to the Soviet side. At the same time, he established a pervasive personality cult, with North Koreans coming to address him as "Great Leader" (widaehan suryŏng 위대한 수령). Kim developed the nationalistic ideology of Juche (self-reliance), that maintains that man is the master of his fate, which defied the materialistic determinism of Marxism-Leninism.[8] In the process, North Korea became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world.
Stepped up campaign of aggression
In the mid-1960s, Hồ Chí Minh's efforts to reunify Vietnam through guerrilla warfare impressed Kim. He thought something similar might be possible in Korea. He ordered an intense program of Infiltration and subversion efforts culminating in an attempt to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-hee by unsuccessfully storming the presidential Blue House. Kim promoted an aggressive stance toward U.S. forces in and around South Korea. North Korean troops frequently provoked U.S. and South Korean troops into firefights along the Demilitarized Zone. The 1968, North Korean navy ships seized the USS Pueblo (a virtually unarmed U.S. Navy intelligence vessel) and its crew in international waters, intentionally heightening the tension between the North and South.
Kim Jong-il Heir
Under a new constitution proclaimed in December 1972, Kim made himself President of North Korea. He also announced that his son, Kim Jong-il, would succeed him and up until Kim Il-sung's death, he increasingly delegated the running of the government to his son. At the Sixth Party Congress in October 1980, Kim publicly designated his son as his successor.
Economic Ruin
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (right) met with President Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang on June 16-17, 1994, which defused the first North Korean nuclear crisis. Photo courtesy of The Carter Center.
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Soviet Union, during 1989–1991, cut off the DPRK from most of it fraternal communist allies, and Russia refused to continue the subsidies of the former USSR; China, as well, reduced its assistance to Kim. The consequence was North Korea's severe political and economic isolation. Those events, added to North Korea's continued high level of military investment, led to a mounting economic crisis. As the Cold War ended, the contrast between North Korea's poverty and the booming economy of South Korea became increasingly glaring, but North Korea's totalitarian control of information, nearly completely cut North Koreans off from news inside and outside Korea.
Personality cult
During the 1970s, Kim's personality cult grew more extensive. The state claimed that Kim personally supervised nearly every aspect of life in North Korea, attributing almost supernatural powers to him; Kim was deified in quasi-religious terms. The North Korean regime executed or sent to concentration camps any North Korean suspected of opposing Kim in any way; even a failure to show enthusiastic worship of Kim could lead to arrest.
Kim repeatedly proclaimed internally that he would reunite Korea before his 70th birthday in 1972. That winter some analysts maintain Kim was prepared to invade the South, but U.S. President Richard Nixon's dramatic trip to China in February to create a strategic alliance against the Soviet Union, forced Kim to abandon his plan. Instead, he began a brief inter-Korean dialogue, which led to a significant joint declaration in July. In 1975, as South Vietnam and Cambodia fell and U.S. forces rapidly abandoned their former allies, Kim proposed to China the "liberation" of South Korea; however, China made clear to Kim its preference for "stability" on the Korean peninsula, and Kim was not able to take advantage of perceived American weakness in Asia.[9]
Influence of religion on Kim in later years
Kim Il-sung came from a deeply Christian background. In the early 1900s, Pyongyang was known as the "Jerusalem of the East" because of its proliferation of churches, so his father was undoubtedly a devout Christian and his mother was the daughter of a prominent Presbyterian elder.[10] In those days, rumors even circulated in Pyongyang that the Korean people were actually the thirteenth—or "lost"—tribe of Israel. By the late 1980s, Kim Il-sung became quite nostalgic about his youth and parents, not surprising given the well-known tendency among older Korean men to want to return to their home village and its memories. Moreover, in Kim's background there were undeniably expectations among devout Koreans of the coming of the messiah. Needless to say, there is a religious utopian ideal underlying North Korean society, whose impulse likely came from the Christian origins of Kim's family in Pyongyang. In his final three years, Kim welcomed a series of visits by religious leaders, including two from the Rev. Billy Graham, in 1992 and 1994,[11] a large delegation from the U.S. National Council of Churches, as well as discussions on religion with former President Jimmy Carter. But the most important of these series of meetings was with Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church as well as the Universal Peace Federation, in late 1991.
The World Peace Center in Pyongyang was dedicated in summer 2007. Its construction was agreed upon by President Kim Il-sung and Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1991
Although twice imprisoned under the Kim regime in the late 1940s for his evangelical activities, Moon was perceived by Kim as an extremely successful overseas Korean, born in the north, whose international movement was independent of any government. The immediate outcome of that visit was a ten-point joint declaration whose principles were mirrored only eight days later by the prime ministers of the two Koreas in their Basic Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-aggression, and Exchanges and Cooperation of December 13, 1991, which remains the basis of inter-Korean relations.[12] However, the warmth and friendship of that meeting, in which Moon strongly affirmed his theistic convictions, compelled Kim to offer not only joint business projects with Moon (including an automobile factory), but the construction of a World Peace Center, now built in downtown Pyongyang, to be used for international and inter-religious conferences. It is noteworthy that since early 1992, North Korea embarked on a small, very cautious, but meaningful opening to the world, especially with non-governmental organizations.
Kim's first wife, Kim Jŏng Suk, and son, Kim Jong-il
Kim Il-sung married twice. His first wife, Kim Jŏng-suk, bore him two sons and a daughter. Kim Jong-il is his oldest son; the other son (Kim Man-il, or Shura Kim) died in 1947, in a swimming accident. Kim Jong-suk died in 1949 while giving birth to a stillborn baby. Kim married Kim Sŏng-ae in 1962, and reportedly had three or four children with her: Kim Yŏng-il, Kim Kyŏng-il, and Kim P’yŏng-il. Kim P’yŏng-il held prominent positions in North Korean politics until he became ambassador to Hungary.
Three weeks after meeting former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Pyongyang, which defused the first crisis over the North's nuclear weapons program (the second crisis began in 2002) and set the stage for the U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework, Kim suddenly died of a heart attack in P’yŏngyang on July 8, 1994. Inside sources indicated that Kim had been sick with heart disease for some time, but there were no public indications of serious ill heath. According to an astute analysis, by creating a small, but meaningful new relationship with the U.S., something only the elder Kim could have done, upon his death, Kim bequeathed to his son the task of furthering a new strategic relationship with America, on the North's terms, in the hope of insuring North Korea's long-term survival. His son also had to assume severe economic burdens, as subsidies from Russia and China had largely ceased, and in particular, several years of severe flooding had reduced agricultural yields to the point of causing a severe food shortage, which has continued to the present.
The Kumsusan Memorial Palace was the Presidential Palace of North Korea until Kim Il-sung's death, when it was transformed into his mausoleum.
After his death Kim Il-sung was proclaimed "Eternal President" of North Korea
Kim Il-sung's death was met by a genuine outpouring of grief by the populace, who regarded him not only as the father of the nation but as if he were their own father. His body was embalmed, preserved, and placed in a public mausoleum at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, much like Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the USSR. A three-year period of official mourning took place after his death, and his successor, Kim Jong-il, conducted virtually no public activity while he consolidated his power. His son also replaced the use of the Gregorian calendar in North Korea and substituted a calendar in which the years begin with the birth of Kim Il-sung (known as a "Juche year"). Kim Il-sung was also proclaimed "Eternal President," while his son assumed the post of Chairman of the National Defense Commission.
Kim Il-sung's image (now along with his son's and grandson's) is displayed prominently in all public places and homes in North Korea. Hundreds of statues of the elder Kim have been erected throughout North Korea, the largest 60 feet tall. Numerous places were named after him, more than any other communist leader, an uncommon practice in Asian cultures. The most prominent are Kim Il-sung University, Kim Il-sung Stadium, and Kim Il-sung Square.
Like Stalin, Kim used the iron fist of totalitarianism to impose his policies. With Stalin's support, he began the Korean War, which killed one million Koreans alone and plunged 16 member states of the United Nations into the conflict. North Korea's invasion of the South, and the precarious armistice in effect since 1953, are the best indicators of the view the world community has of Kim Il-sung's rule.
North Koreans themselves have borne almost unimaginable suffering since 1945. Kim left the economy in shambles, the land so barren and soil so depleted as to devastate agriculture, and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of his own people. And yet, through his death, and thereafter, Kim remains venerated and worshiped by his people, whose reverence for him parallels the devotion of a believer to Buddha, Mohammed, or Jesus. Some have referred to North Korea as more a country composed entirely of monks, all living ascetic lives for their leader, rather than a normal state. This perhaps explains why the rest of the international community has had such difficulty in engaging North Korea, as it is a state unlike any other.
Kim also failed to bring about the unification of Korea. It remains to his grandson, Kim Jong-un, and to the people of South Korea, aided by the international community, to realize it through peaceful means.
↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrei Lankov, From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0813531175), 53-54.
↑ Dae-Sook Suh, Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0231065726), 7.
↑ Soviets groomed Kim Il Sung for leadership. Vladivostok News, January 10, 2003. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
↑ Stephen Davies, Excerpts from Acheson's Speech to the National Press Club, January 12, 1950. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
↑ Kathryn Weathersby, "The Soviet Role in the Early Phase of the Korean War," The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 2(4) (Winter 1993): 432.
↑ Jian Chen, China's Road to the Korean War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, ISBN 0231100256).
↑ Andrei N. Lankov, Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0812916706).
↑ Han S. Park, "The Nature and Evolution of Juche Ideology," in Han. S. Park (ed.), North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0131021613).
↑ Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0201409275), 63-64.
↑ Yong-ho Choe, "Christian Background in the Early Life of Kim Il-song," Asian Survey, October 1986.
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The Hotel Gritti Palace has reopened: Nexa is proud to be part of the official presentation!
After a long and painstaking restoration, the historic Hotel Gritti Palace in Venice has officially been returned to its original splendor. The re-opening was preceded by a presentation to the press on 31 January, during which Starwood Hotels illustrated the work done here and in the Group's other resorts and hotels throughout the world.
Nexa was called in to provide the simultaneous translation into English of both the general presentation and the one-to-one interviews that followed in the afternoon, to allow members of the press not to miss any detail of this impressive work. The iconic hotel has been given back the elegance of the past, the same one that fascinated famous past guests like Hemingway, Peggy Guggenheim and Somerset Maugham.
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AKC: USDA/APHIS Rule Impacting Small/Hobby Breeders Advances For Executive Review
In Breeder Restrictions
From the AKC:
(Friday, May 03, 2013)
The AKC has learned that United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has completed a full review of all public comments on proposed changes to federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations affecting “Retail Pet Stores and Licensing Exemptions”. A final version of the rule has now advanced to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for further review and possible changes ahead of publication as a final rule by USDA. Typically, it takes 30-90 days for the OMB to review a final rule before it is returned to the USDA. Once a rule is published, there is generally a period of months before any changes to existing law are implemented.
No information about the contents of the final rule is available at this time. The AKC continues to express strong concerns to members of Congress and the USDA about the May 2012 proposed rule change. AKC will continue to provide updated information on the status of this rule and possible action to be taken as additional information becomes available.
The AKC remains extremely concerned about the May 2012 proposed change to AWA regulations that would require all who own more than four “breeding females” and sell even one animal “sight unseen” to be regulated as a commercial breeder and subject to federal commercial breeder licensing, regulation and inspections requirements. The term “breeding female” is not defined in this rule, so it is unclear how USDA or even breeders themselves would determine who falls under these regulations. The term also includes multiple species (including cats, dogs, and other small mammals).
The AKC believes that the USDA’s “one size fits all” regulations are not in the best interest of all dogs, responsible breeders, or puppy buyers. It is unreasonable and virtually impossible for many small hobby breeders to comply with the strict kennel engineering standards that were designed for large commercial operations.
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Tests Show Widespread Presence of GMOs in So-Called "Natural" Foods
The Organic and Non-GMO Report
by Ken Roseboro, ed.
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For more information about the study mentioned in this article, please contact the Park Slope Food Co-op.
With a lack of mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods in the United States, some natural food cooperatives are taking matters into their own hands by removing GM foods from their stores or labeling them. The Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, New York, recently conducted an exhaustive three year study of the 8,000 food products in its stores aiming to identify and label products containing GM ingredients.
Surveyed 8,000 products for GM ingredients
Ten years ago, Park Slope Co-op members, who number 15,000, had voted unanimously to remove GM foods from its shelves. Greg Todd, chair of the coop's Safe Food Labeling Committee, explains the co-op's decision, saying, "Food is supposed to be nourishing, not illness producing, but until we could determine whether there were GMOs in our food or not, we couldn't make healthy choices."
An initial attempt to identify GM ingredients in food products fell short, so the co-op's Safe Food Labeling Committee launched a more comprehensive study. Gregg Bromberg, co-op member and lab administrator at Virginia Dare, an ingredient supplier, helped to identify 12 ingredients derived from corn, soy, and dairy that were high-risk for GMOs. The Safe Food Labeling Committee created a form with the 12 ingredients and recruited co-op members to survey every one of the coop's 8,000 food products for the GMO-risk ingredients.
After excluding certified organic products, which cannot include GMOs, and those produced in the European Union, which require labeling of GMOs, the study identified 555 products with ingredients from the GMO risk categories. A series of three letters were mailed to the producers requesting verification of whether GM source material was, was not, or possibly was, part of their products.
Of these, 93 products were attested to as being free of GMOs. Producers of 9 products admitted the presence of GMOs among the ingredients, while producers of 64 products identified them as "possibly" containing GMOs because they could not state with certainty that their products did not contain GM source material. The remaining 393 products were included in the "possibly containing GMOs" category by default, because their producers declined to respond to the mailing.
"State of denial" about presence of GMOs
Bromberg says the production of GMO-contaminated foods was not confined to large conventional food corporations. "It was evident among some of the 'health conscious' producers as well. It's indicative of how pervasive these dangerous substances are becoming."
A surprising result of the study was that "apparently a state of denial characterizes the majority of producers' approach to GMOs," according to Safe Food Labeling Committee members. Todd says some companies, including high-profile organic companies, were indifferent or "cavalier" about the presence of GMOs in their products. "Some didn't know if they had GM ingredients and some didn't want to know."
According to many estimates, GM ingredients appear in more than 70% of processed foods sold in the US.
Need for mandatory GM food labeling
Safe Food Labeling Committee member and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nancy Siesel says the need for the study arose from the absence of mandatory GM food labeling in the United States. "What this situation desperately calls for is a Federal law requiring producers to disclose the genetic status of their product ingredients."
That way, everyone can make informed food decisions right at the point of purchase, says Park Slope Food Co-op general manager, Joe Holtz. He urged the continued scrutiny of labels "because, at present, manufacturers can change ingredients faster than we can discover that they did so."
Park Slope Food Co-op is one of several North American natural food co-ops that have launched non-GMO initiatives. Others include the Brattleboro Food Co-op in Vermont, North Coast Co-op in Arcata, California, and the Big Carrot in Toronto, Canada. These co-ops have either labeled products non-GMO or removed GM products from their shelves.
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22/11/2020 25/11/2020 On Saturday, November 9/21, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel at the Holy Monastery dedicated to Archangel Michael which is located near the sea in the ancient town of Joppa /Yaffo. On this feast, the Church gathers for the Synaxis of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and commemorates...
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The Feast of the Synaxis of the Archangels at the Jerusalem Patriarchate
On Saturday, November 9/21, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel at the Holy Monastery dedicated to Archangel Michael which is located near the sea in the ancient town of Joppa /Yaffo.
On this feast, the Church gathers for the Synaxis of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and commemorates the event that these Bodiless Hosts, the Chiefs of the Angels, fought against Lucifer when the latter opposed God, and prevented with God’s help the other Angels’ fall, by saying “Stand firm”. The Church holds the belief of the testimony in the Holy Bible, both in the Old and in the New Testament, by which the Archangels and all the Angels are “ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation” (Hebrews 1:14).
According to the New Testament, Archangel Gabriel announced to Virgin Mary the Nativity in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit. Angels sang on the Nativity of the Divine Infant “Glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace…”, Angels informed Joseph in his sleep to flee to Egypt to escape Herod’s fury, and Angels summoned him back from Egypt to Nazareth so that the Lord would be called “Nazarene”.
This feast was celebrated in this Holy Monastery with the Divine Liturgy which was officiated by H.H.B. Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, with co-celebrants their Eminences; Metropolitan Kyriakos of Nazareth, the Archbishops; Damascene of Joppa, Aristarchos of Constantina and Metropolitan Joachim of Helenoupolis, Hagiotaphite Hieromonks, with first in rank Archimandrite Elder Kamarasis Nectarios, the Archimandrites; Niphon and Artemios, the ministering Priests of the Church from the Arab-speaking Community, Priest Konstanti and the ministering Priests of the Russian-speaking and Romanian-speaking Community, Archdeacon Mark and Hierodeacon Eulogios. The chanting was delivered by the Community choir in Arabic, as the Service was attended by faithful Christians of the Arab-speaking Community, as well as Russians and Romanians, along with the Ambassador of Greece in Tel Aviv Mr Panayiotis Sarris and the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem, Mr Evangelos Vlioras.
Before the Holy Communion, His Beatitude delivered the following Sermon:
“But to which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Hebrews 1:13-14) Saint Paul preaches.
Beloved Brethren in Christ,
Noble Christians
Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us in this Church of the Chiefs of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, in the historic and Biblical town of Joppa (Yaffo), in order to praise in Eucharist and Doxology the bodiless Angelic forces, who surround God’s immaculate throne, and cry out unceasingly to Him ‘Holy, Holy, Holy art Thou God Almighty’, as Prophet Isaiah says: “I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain, he covered his face, and with twain, he covered his feet, and with twain, he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory” (Isaiah 6:1-3).
And according to the Evangelist John’s testimony; “Jesus answered and said unto Nathanael, verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man” (John 1:51). “As the genuine Son of God, the Angels were ascending and descending upon Him, ministering Him,” Zigavinos says. Quite important is also the interpretation of Saint Cyril of Alexandria regarding the Angels’ liturgical ministry: “Upon the Son of man, serving and ministering Christ’s orders for the salvation of His future believers. For while He is Son of God, it is then [in the future] that He should be recognized as Son of God by nature”.
Very clear is also the Holy Evangelist Luke’s testimony regarding the Angels: “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men” (Luke 2-8-14).
Moreover, the Angels have as their mission the protection and help of the people, for the sake of their salvation, as Saint Paul preaches: “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Hebrews 1:14). Interpreting these words, Saint John Damascene says: “see the boldness of the Angels, that the Lord sits high above and the Angels minister Him from down below”. And Saint John Chrysostom says: “The Angels’ ministry is to serve God for our (the people’s) salvation…They are servants of God and are sent to many places for our sake”. In other words, the Angels care for the salvation of each one of us.
In today’s Apostolic reading, Saint Paul underlines the diligence we faithful should display, in order to achieve our salvation: “For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him”(Hebrews 2:2-3). In more detail, if every disobedience of the Law, which God announced to Moses through the Angels was justly punished, how are we going to escape the punishment if we neglect such a great and significant salvation? This salvation was not spoken through the Angels like it was done in the case of the Law, but once it started being preached by the Lord, it was handed over to us, a certain and reliable testimony by the Apostles who had heard everything directly from Christ’s mouth.
And the temporary Bishop Joel of Pella is wondering: “what do we mean by the word ‘salvation’? We mean man’s rescue; the man who is made according to the likeness of God was tarnished, for this reason, it was necessary for Christ to come to earth, to wash clean the likeness and guide man towards his perfection. Salvation is the rescuing of man and his union with God. “Nothing is more sought after and more studied by God than the salvation of our souls”, Saint Chrysostom writes. Saint Peter also says this: “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” (1 Peter 1:9).
Underlining man’s value and of course that of his soul, Saint Paul borrows the Psalmist’s words: “Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands” (Hebrews 2:7/ Psalm 9:6).
Needless to say, that the Angels are superior to the humans, because they are not mortals, and they are not described as having a bodily form, Saint John Damascene says. “Because they are not mortals. They are noetic beings and are found in noetic places, they are not described as having a bodily form, but being and acting in a noetic manner…just as they have been ordained by the Creator, and in that form, they protect and help us; they are around God, working the Divine will and orders for our sake in all manners”.
Behold, therefore, why the Holy Church of Christ especially honours and venerates the Synaxis of the Angels, which is led by Michael, the Chief Brigadier of the bodiless hosts. Let us then say along with the hymnographer: “Angels and Archangels, Thrones, Authorities, and Dominions, Principalities and Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim, together with the Theotokos, make entreaty in the world’s behalf” (Minaion, Matins, 1st Canon of Ode 9, Troparion 2). Amen. Many happy returns!”
The Divine Liturgy was followed by a reception and then a meal, hosted by the renovator of the Monastery Most Reverend Archbishop Damascene of Joppa, who also re-constructed the Holy Church of Archangel Michael after it its destruction by fire in 1956.
The feast of the Archangels was also celebrated at their Holy Monastery, opposite the Patriarchate, on the south side.
Vespers in the afternoon and the Divine Liturgy in the morning were officiated by the renovator of the Holy Church Most Reverend Archbishop Demetrios of Lydda, with co-celebrants; Elder Dragoman Archimandrite Mattheos, Archimandrite Demetrios and Hierodeacon Simeon. The chanting was delivered by Mr Vasilios Gotsopoulos and the Patriarchal School of Zion Students, with the help of the Choir Leader of the Monastic Church of Saints Constantine and Helen Archimandrite Eusevios.
After the Divine Liturgy, His Eminence offered a reception at the courtyard of the Church.
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Older Is Wiser | Widely used diabetes drug may hold potential to aid long-term weight loss
Home | Articles | Health & Wellbeing | Widely used diabetes drug may hold potential to aid long-term weight loss
Widely used diabetes drug may hold potential to aid long-term weight loss
"A drug used by patients with diabetes holds potential in helping people lose weight and keep it off," reports the Mail Online. Behind the Headlines examines the science (or lack of) supporting the story.
A new study compared long-term weight loss in people thought to be at risk of type 2 diabetes who had either been advised to follow a strict diet and exercise plan, been given the diabetes medicine metformin or been given a placebo (pretend) medicine.
Metformin is a medicine that helps the body use insulin to process sugar. It is not approved as a weight loss drug. However, it is often used as a first treatment for people who get type 2 diabetes, and weight loss is a known side effect.
Researchers said people who had initially been put on the diet and exercise plan lost more weight in the first year than those who were given metformin. But in 15 years of follow-up those who had lost weight while taking metformin were more likely to maintain their weight loss, while many of those on the diet and exercise plan later regained weight.
The study is the first to show very long-term effects of any medicine on weight loss.
But these long-term results are based only on people who lost at least 5% of their body weight in the first year – so 70% of the people who started the trial were not included. This could mean that the results may not be applicable to most people who are overweight or obese and are at risk of diabetes.
The NHS weight loss plan offers advice on how to lose weight through a combination of diet and exercise
Where did the story come from?
The researchers who carried out the programme came from Louisiana State University, the University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Colorado School of Public Health, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, all in the US, and Skåne University in Sweden.
It was funded by the US National Institutes of Health and published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
The Mail Online did a reasonable job of explaining the study findings, but did not make it clear that this was a post-hoc analysis, done after the initial results were in. This makes the results more prone to bias as researchers may have been primed to spot previous results and trends that agreed with their thinking while ignoring those that did not.
What kind of research was this?
This was an observational follow-up study from a randomised controlled trial (RCT).
RCTs are the best way to show which treatment works. However, in this case the RCT finished after a year, and the researchers are now following up on people who may no longer be taking the treatments set at the start of the trial but may have switched to other treatments or stopped treatment altogether. This is not surprising given the length of the study, but it makes the results less reliable.
What did the research involve?
For the original trial, researchers randomly divided 3,234 people who were overweight or obese and at risk of diabetes into 3 groups:
assigned to a strict diet and exercise plan
assigned to take metformin
assigned to take a placebo (pretend) drug
People stayed in their groups for a year. At the end of the year, researchers looked at the participants' initial weight loss or gain, and whether they had developed type 2 diabetes.
They then followed them up for another 14 years, with annual records of their weight.
During the second year, everyone was offered the diet and exercise plan as it had shown most success in the first year. People on metformin were able to continue it if they wished.
People who developed diabetes were treated by their local healthcare provider.
For this study, researchers looked at the results of the 1,066 people who lost 5% of their weight in the first year, to see which factors from the start of the study predicted who was able to keep off at least 5% of their weight after 15 years. Factors examined included:
weight loss in the first year
treatment assigned in the first year
blood sugar results at the start of the study
What were the basic results?
In the first year, 28.5% of people taking metformin lost 5% of body weight, compared to 62.6% of people on a strict diet and exercise plan and 13.4% of people in the placebo group.
Among those people who had lost 5% of body weight in the first year, the percentage who kept that amount of weight off for the next 14 years was:
56.5% in the metformin group
48.9% in the diet and exercise group
41.7% in the placebo group
The strongest predictors of keeping weight off for 15 years were older age, greater weight loss in the first year of the study, and active use of metformin (for those in the metformin group).
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers said they found that "older age and greater 1 year weight loss predicted LTWL [long-term weight loss] over the next 14 years" among people who lost at least 5% of their body weight in the first year.
They added "those who were originally randomised to metformin had greater success in maintaining LTWL" than those assigned to diet and exercise, especially in the later years of follow-up.
They suggest that further study is needed to determine "whether metformin could be a useful intervention for LTWL after initial weight loss with lifestyle interventions, anti-obesity drugs or devices, or bariatric [weight loss] surgery".
Headlines about a medicine that could lead to long-term weight loss are always popular. As one of the researchers is quoted as saying in the Mail Online: "Taking a pill a day is a lot easier than going to diet and exercise for 15 years."
However, the study has limitations that we should be aware of:
this is a secondary analysis that looked at just one small section of people from the original randomised trial, which makes it more prone to bias than the original trial results
it did not look at other possible predictors of long-term weight loss, such as genetic factors
the long-term results are based only on people who lost at least 5% of their body weight in the first year – so 70% of the people who started the trial were not included
While metformin is widely used in diabetes treatment, it is not licensed as a weight loss medicine. For it to become licensed for weight loss, the manufacturers would have to put forward research evidence to show it works and is safe for this use.
While metformin may have potential as an aid for people needing to maintain weight loss in future, the study reminds us that in the original 1-year trial, the most successful weight-loss treatment was the diet and exercise plan.
Find out more about getting to or staying at a healthy weight.
Analysis by Bazian | Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Diabetes drug metformin could help you lose weight, say scientists who found it works better than diet and exercise at keeping the bulge off
Mail Online, April 24 2019
Links to the science
Apolzan JW, Venditti EM, Edelstein SL, et al. Long-Term Weight Loss With Metformin or Lifestyle Intervention in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes StudyAnnals of Internal Medicine. Published online April 23 2019
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Nagorno-Karabakh: the war with diplomacy in the background
After the spectacular successes achieved by Azerbaijani forces last week (including cutting off the Karabakh para-state from the border with Iran; see map), the intensity of the fighting has weakened in recent days. At present it is taking the form of artillery and rocket fire targeted at the conflict zone, and occasionally also outside of it, both within Armenia and more distant locations in Azerbaijan. In the north, east and the especially south-west of the conflict zone, land clashes are continually taking place.
The ongoing fighting has invalidated yet another ceasefire, which should have come into force (for humanitarian purposes) from the morning of 26 October. It had been negotiated by the US Secretary of State, who held separate meetings with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington on 23 October. This was the third attempt to stop the fighting, a continuation of the two previous attempts which had been agreed upon with the mediation of Russia’s foreign minister. Another round of talks are scheduled to take place on 30 October in Geneva, this time under the aegis of the OSCE Minsk Group, co-chaired by France, Russia and the US; this body was established in 1992 and is responsible for the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. Iran has also put forward its own peace initiative, the details of which are to be presented by the deputy foreign minister; he began a visit to Baku on 28 October (from where he will head to Moscow, Yerevan and Ankara).
The fighting, unprecedented in its scale, has now assumed the character of a full-scale war, and is now comparable in terms of the resources involved to the Karabakh war of the early 1990s. In Azerbaijan, Armenia and the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, martial law has been imposed and mobilisation announced. Both sides are now using all the military technology available to them, especially artillery and aviation (as well as drones). Baku, faced with a lack of prospects for a negotiated solution to the conflict that would satisfy it, and coming under increasing public pressure, has been working to change the status quo that has been in force since 1994. The decision to undertake such large-scale offensive action was certainly influenced by the support which Turkey has provided – both political, but also military, including training and equipment. The Azerbaijani-Turkish side denies that that Turkish soldiers and militants from Syria (transferred to the combat zone by Turkey) are taking part in the military operations (Russia’s president Vladimir Putin referred to their presence in a conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 27 October). However, the government in Ankara has reiterated its assurances that they are ready to send regular troops to Nagorno-Karabakh if Baku so requests.
The capture of new areas by Azerbaijani forces (see map) is of great psychological importance (the course of the campaign so far indicates significant success for Azerbaijan and severe defeat for Armenia). In the military dimension, in the northern part of the conflict region, the takeover of the positions in the Murovdag range has been facilitated by shelling the northern road linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, and the gains in the vicinity of Talish and Madaghiz (renamed Sugovushan) include a water reservoir on the Terter River, together with a nearby hydroelectric power plant, which is important for local agriculture. In the south, Azerbaijani forces have occupied the entire strip of land between Nagorno-Karabakh and Iran (previously under Armenian control) and reached the meeting point of the internationally recognised borders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. From there they have moved north along the border with Armenia, and on 23 October they came to within about 15 km of Lachin, along which the main road from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh runs. However, their advance has now been halted, and perhaps even turned back (the reports from the battlefield are contradictory and often difficult to verify, as both sides have prevented independent journalists from reaching the conflict area). Nevertheless the initiative still lies with the Azerbaijani forces, and it must be assumed that they will continue their offensive.
Despite these successes for Azerbaijan, the most strategically and symbolically important places remain in Armenian hands. On the one hand, these include Lachin and the Lachin corridor, along which most of the enclave’s supplies reach it; and on the other, the city of Shusha near Stepanakert, which until the 1990s was a majority-Azerbaijani area. These places will be more difficult to take over than the areas captured so far because the Armenian defence forces are concentrated there; moreover, they are less accessible (they are much higher up in the mountains) and more distant from the bases in Azerbaijan, which will create logistical problems for the attackers. Yerevan will continue its efforts to ‘internationalise’ the conflict, and in particular to persuade Moscow to intervene on its side. This will be helped by publicising the cases of shelling on the territory of Armenia; recently, the infrastructure on the Armenian-Iranian border has been reporterd to be targeted. Azerbaijan, in turn, has accused Armenia of shelling Ganja, Terter and Barda, among other sites. Both sides have denied that they are carrying out such actions.
Recent statements by President Putin indicate that Russia will not provide further aid to the Armenians unless the attacks reach Armenia itself, which has Russian security guarantees under the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO; so far, the fighting has been taking place on what is de jure Azerbaijan’s territory). The main reason for this approach is the Kremlin’s desire to maintain its status as an intermediary, which requires neutrality. On the other hand, continuing to push for peace initiatives when there is a high risk of their failure – as in the case of the previous two ceasefire agreements – undermines Russia’s prestige. It is therefore unlikely that Moscow will continue to undertake such initiatives on its own (although it may submit them within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group). The Kremlin’s reluctant attitude may also be influenced by its lack of trust in the Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power as a result of a ‘colour revolution’, and has previously called for Armenia’s foreign policy to resume a more pro-Western orientation (the Kremlin has been sending signals that it would prefer to hold dialogue with people centred around the Republican Party of Armenia, which ruled the country until 2018). Moscow also wants to end the fighting and de-escalate the conflict, as well as to maintain its position as the most essential and important regional mediator. We should therefore expect that it will ramp up its activities within the Minsk Group, while also taking advantage of the fact that Washington is paying less attention to its foreign policy in the run-up to the elections.
It is possible that Russia will support the extension of the current format of talks to include Turkey, as Putin suggested during his speech on 22 October at the meeting of the Valdai discussion club. However, Moscow’s ambitions may reach even further, including the creation of a new format under its patronage, in which the role of the Western co-chairs of the Minsk Group would be marginalised, and Turkey and Iran would take their place. Tehran’s recent diplomatic activity may be a sign of this: President Hassan Rouhani held a conversation last week with Erdoğan, and Iran has appointed a special representative for the Karabakh conflict, in the person of Deputy Foreitg Minister Abbas Araghchi, whose first trip took in Baku, Moscow, Yerevan and Ankara. Details of the plan he presented in these capitals are unknown, but it is sure that it assumes the maintenance of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. Possible mediations on Karabakh under the auspices of Russia, Turkey and Iran would repeat the format of the so-called Astana peace process which was devised for the talks on Syria.
Map. Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict area (29 October 2020)
Source: author’s own research based on reports from Censor.net and press agencies.
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'He’s able to take care of seven other kids:' Father of boy killed wants son to live on in others
Updated: 6:44 PM EST Nov 4, 2019
Kirsten Gutierrez
TALITHA: A TRIAD COMMUNITY IS IN MOURNING THIS AFTERNOON FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF A ROCKINGHAM COUNTY BOY. BRANDON: 11-YEAR-OLD NOAH CHAMBERS WAS HIT BY A CAR WHILE TRUNK-OR-TREATING AT A CHURCH IN OAK RIDGE ON FRIDAY. FAMILY TELLS US HE DIED YESTERDAY. TALITHA: KIRSTEN GUTIERREZ SPOKE WITH NOAH’S FATHER. SHE JOINS US LIVE FROM WHERE THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED. KIRSTEN? KIRSTEN: IT’S AN UNBEARABLE TIME FOR THE CHAMBERS FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. BUT NOAH’S FATHER, ROBERT, SA EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON, AND HIS SON’S MEMORY WILL CARRY ON IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WHAT WAS ONCE A PARKING LOT FULL OF TRICK-OR-TREATERS IS NOW AN EMPTY, WITH A SIGN TO REMEMBER A LIFE TAKEN TOO SOON, NOAH CHAMBERS. >> THEY WERE ACTUALLY CROSSING THE ROAD AND NOAH HESITATED. AS A CHILD HE DIDN’T KNOW WHICH MOVEMENT TO MAKE AND HE HESITATED, AND HE GOT HIT. THE CAR SLOWED DOWN REALLY FAST, AS QUICK AS THEY COULD THEY ACTED PRETTY FAST, JUST NOT FAST ENOUGH. KIRSTEN: THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLER WAS ENJOYING HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES WITH FAMILY AT BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WHEN HE WAS HIT BY AN SUV. AS HIS DAD, I PROMISED HIM I WOULD TAKE CARE OF HIM AND I WOULDN’T LET NOTHING HAPPEN TO HIM AND I FEEL LIKE I FAILED HIM BUT I DID THE BEST AS A FATHER WHILE HE WAS HERE AND I FELT LIKE I FULFILLED AS MUCH AS I COULD. KIRSTEN: NOAH WAS ON LIFE SUPPORT UNTIL SUNDAY, WHEN DOCTORS DETERMINED THERE WAS NO BRAIN ACTIVITY. >> HE’S GOING TO BE A DONOR AND HE’S ALREADY SAVED SEVEN KIDS’ LIVES FROM THE ORGANS THAT HE CAN GIVE. SO, IF MY SON ISN’T HERE AND HE’S IN HEAVEN, HE’S SMILING BECAUSE HE’S ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF SEVEN OTHER KIDS THAT REALLY NEEDED IT, NEEDED HI EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON AND I FEEL LIKE HE WAS MEANT TO GO AND MEANT TO SAVE OTHER LIVES. KIRSTEN: THOSE WHO KNEW NOAH SAY HE TOUCHED MANY LIVES IN HIS SHORT TIME HERE. >> NOAH WAS JUST NOT MY CHILD, ANYBODY THAT KNEW NOAH, HE TOUCHED. I’VE NEVER SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE WITH AN 11-YEAR-OLD JUST A BOY THAT THEY DIDN’T EVEN KNOW. HE ALWAYS SMILED. ANYTIME YOU SAW NOAH HE ALWAYS SMILED, AND HIS EYES WERE SO BEAUTIFUL, SO BEAUTIFUL THAT HE WOULD JUST MELT YOUR HEART. KIRSTEN: WHEN ASKED IF NOAH’S FATHER, ROBERT, IS ANGRY WITH THE DRIVER, HE SAYS NO. >> I CAN’T BE ANGRY WITH THE DRIVER. THE DRIVER STAYED. HE WAS A RESPECTFUL PERSON, AN HONEST PERSON AND HE STAYED ON SCENE FOR AN HOUR OR SO AND WAS SHOOK UP ABOUT IT. MISTAKES HAPPEN I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO FORGIVE HIM BECAUSE IT WASN’T HIS FAULT, IT WAS JUST GOD’S PLAN KIRSTEN: A PLAN THAT ROBERT SAYS HE MAY NEVER UNDERSTAND, BUT ONE HE TRUSTS. >> NOAH IS IN A BETTER PLACE THAN THIS WORLD. HE’S WITH SO MANY LOVED ONES AND THAT’S WHAT I’VE GOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO. AND THAT’S WHY I HAVE TO PURSUE THIS CHRISTIAN LIFE EVEN HARDER KNOWING THAT I WILL BE NEXT TO MY SON ONE DAY KIRSTEN: THE FAMILY ASKED THAT YOU KEEP THEM IN THEIR THOUGHTS DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME. TO SEE HOW LOCAL BUSINESSES AR
The family of an 11-year-old North Carolina boy who was fatally hit and killed Friday is hoping his memory lives on through the organs he will donate. Noah Chambers died two days after being hit by a vehicle in Oak Ridge. He was attempting to cross the road at the "trunk-or-treat" event at Bethel United Methodist Church.People across the community have stopped by the church, bringing flowers, candy, balloons and even a cross, all in memory of Noah. While the pain is unbearable, Noah’s father, Robert Chambers, said he believes it was his son’s time and that his death means life for others. “Cherish the time that you have. Because you never know, you never know when it’s their time. Just love and be there as much as possible,” Chambers said.What was once a parking lot full of trick-or-treaters is now empty with a sign to remember a life taken too soon, reading, "In Loving Memory of Noah Chambers."“They were actually crossing the road, and Noah hesitated. As a child, he didn’t know which movement to make and he hesitated, and he got hit. The car slowed down really fast, as quick as they could, they acted pretty fast, just not fast enough,” Chambers said. “A gentleman had to get the phone from my sister, and he said, 'Your son is hollering for his daddy.' He brought the phone over to him, and you could just hear he’s gasping for air and just screaming. And I told him, 'I’ll be there as fast as I can,' and they rushed him to the hospital.” The middle school student was enjoying Halloween festivities at the church when he was hit by an SUV while crossing the street. “As his dad, I promised him I would take care of him and I would let nothing happen to him, and I feel like I failed him, but I did the best as a father while he was here, and I felt like I fulfilled as much as I could,” Chambers said. Noah was on life support until Sunday, when doctors determined there was no brain activity. “When they were talking about him being a donor, me and his mother didn’t hesitate because I would not want any parent to have to go through this. It is the worst pain. You think you’ve been hurt, but this is the worst pain a human can feel,” Chambers said. “He’s going to be a donor and he’s already saved seven kids’ lives from the organs that he can give. So, if my son isn’t here and he’s in heaven, he’s smiling because he’s able to take care of seven other kids that really needed it, needed him. Everything happens for a reason, and I feel like he was meant to go and meant to save other lives.”Chambers said Noah will receive a plaque at the hospital for being a donor, and in the future, the family will have the opportunity to meet the children Noah helps. “Do you plan on doing that?” WXII reporter Kirsten Gutierrez asked.“Oh yes, of course, just to look at them and tell them that I love them, and you know, they might not know me, but there was a child that loved them unconditionally to help,” Robert Chambers answered. Those who knew Noah said he touched many lives in his short time on Earth. “Noah was just not my child, anybody that knew Noah, he touched. I’ve never seen so many people fall in love with an 11-year-old just a boy that they didn’t even know. He always smiled. Anytime you saw Noah, he always smiled, and his eyes were so beautiful, so beautiful that he would just melt your heart,” Chambers said. “Anybody would tell you that, that Noah’s personality was just amazing, he’d make you laugh, he’d make you just cry because how could a boy be beautiful inside and out. And those are things that are going to carry on with my other kids, I see Noah shine, I see his spirit shine through my other kids.”When asked if he is angry with the driver who hit his son, he said no. “I can’t be angry with the driver. The driver stayed. He was a respectful person, an honest person and he stayed on scene for an hour or so and was shook up about it. Mistakes happen. I feel like I have to forgive him because it wasn’t his fault, it was just God’s plan,” Chambers said.It's a plan that Chambers said he may never understand, but one he trusts. “Noah is in a better place than this world. He’s with so many loved ones, and that’s what I’ve got to look forward to. And that’s why I have to pursue this Christian life even harder, knowing that I will be next to my son one day,” Robert Chambers said. No charges have been filed and the driver was not speeding or impaired, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.Local businesses are doing what they can to help easy the Chambers family’s pain. Chambers said BB&T has offered to bring them three meals a day for a full week, while a Wendy’s in King and one in Winston-Salem are offering 10% of their daily sales toward Noah’s medical bills. A campaign on GoFundMe is raising money to pay for Noah's medical bills and funeral expenses. There's also a fundraiser on CustomInk with shirts that say #NoahStrong. To find the shirts or donate, click here.
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. —
The family of an 11-year-old North Carolina boy who was fatally hit and killed Friday is hoping his memory lives on through the organs he will donate.
Noah Chambers died two days after being hit by a vehicle in Oak Ridge. He was attempting to cross the road at the "trunk-or-treat" event at Bethel United Methodist Church.
People across the community have stopped by the church, bringing flowers, candy, balloons and even a cross, all in memory of Noah.
While the pain is unbearable, Noah’s father, Robert Chambers, said he believes it was his son’s time and that his death means life for others.
“Cherish the time that you have. Because you never know, you never know when it’s their time. Just love and be there as much as possible,” Chambers said.
What was once a parking lot full of trick-or-treaters is now empty with a sign to remember a life taken too soon, reading, "In Loving Memory of Noah Chambers."
“They were actually crossing the road, and Noah hesitated. As a child, he didn’t know which movement to make and he hesitated, and he got hit. The car slowed down really fast, as quick as they could, they acted pretty fast, just not fast enough,” Chambers said. “A gentleman had to get the phone from my sister, and he said, 'Your son is hollering for his daddy.' He brought the phone over to him, and you could just hear he’s gasping for air and just screaming. And I told him, 'I’ll be there as fast as I can,' and they rushed him to the hospital.”
The middle school student was enjoying Halloween festivities at the church when he was hit by an SUV while crossing the street.
“As his dad, I promised him I would take care of him and I would let nothing happen to him, and I feel like I failed him, but I did the best as a father while he was here, and I felt like I fulfilled as much as I could,” Chambers said.
Noah was on life support until Sunday, when doctors determined there was no brain activity.
“When they were talking about him being a donor, me and his mother didn’t hesitate because I would not want any parent to have to go through this. It is the worst pain. You think you’ve been hurt, but this is the worst pain a human can feel,” Chambers said. “He’s going to be a donor and he’s already saved seven kids’ lives from the organs that he can give. So, if my son isn’t here and he’s in heaven, he’s smiling because he’s able to take care of seven other kids that really needed it, needed him. Everything happens for a reason, and I feel like he was meant to go and meant to save other lives.”
Chambers said Noah will receive a plaque at the hospital for being a donor, and in the future, the family will have the opportunity to meet the children Noah helps.
“Do you plan on doing that?” WXII reporter Kirsten Gutierrez asked.
“Oh yes, of course, just to look at them and tell them that I love them, and you know, they might not know me, but there was a child that loved them unconditionally to help,” Robert Chambers answered.
Those who knew Noah said he touched many lives in his short time on Earth.
“Noah was just not my child, anybody that knew Noah, he touched. I’ve never seen so many people fall in love with an 11-year-old just a boy that they didn’t even know. He always smiled. Anytime you saw Noah, he always smiled, and his eyes were so beautiful, so beautiful that he would just melt your heart,” Chambers said. “Anybody would tell you that, that Noah’s personality was just amazing, he’d make you laugh, he’d make you just cry because how could a boy be beautiful inside and out. And those are things that are going to carry on with my other kids, I see Noah shine, I see his spirit shine through my other kids.”
When asked if he is angry with the driver who hit his son, he said no.
“I can’t be angry with the driver. The driver stayed. He was a respectful person, an honest person and he stayed on scene for an hour or so and was shook up about it. Mistakes happen. I feel like I have to forgive him because it wasn’t his fault, it was just God’s plan,” Chambers said.
It's a plan that Chambers said he may never understand, but one he trusts.
“Noah is in a better place than this world. He’s with so many loved ones, and that’s what I’ve got to look forward to. And that’s why I have to pursue this Christian life even harder, knowing that I will be next to my son one day,” Robert Chambers said.
No charges have been filed and the driver was not speeding or impaired, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
Local businesses are doing what they can to help easy the Chambers family’s pain. Chambers said BB&T has offered to bring them three meals a day for a full week, while a Wendy’s in King and one in Winston-Salem are offering 10% of their daily sales toward Noah’s medical bills.
A campaign on GoFundMe is raising money to pay for Noah's medical bills and funeral expenses. There's also a fundraiser on CustomInk with shirts that say #NoahStrong. To find the shirts or donate, click here.
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November 28, 2004 Sandal, Wakefield, England: Activists painted the letters “ALF” on the front of a home formerly owned by a man whose company dealt with waste from research labs. The address was posted on an activist list, and the current owners, one newly diagnosed with cancer and who have no links to animal research, have been hounded by protestors since they moved in. They are pleading with animal rights activists to leave them alone.
November 24, 2004 Los Angeles, CA: ALF activists caused three incidents of vandalism in the LA area recently. Two McDonalds were targeted, with windows shattered and ALF slogans "Don't feed your kids McKillers," "Stop McKiller" and "We won't sleep until the slaughter ends" spray-painted on walls. Police believe the same group vandalized the home of an executive linked to animal research. They broke windows, threw a smoke bomb into the garage, and spray-painted ALF on the house.
November 13, 2004 Iowa City, IA: The FBI is investigating extensive damage from vandalism at Spense Laboratories and Seashore Hall at the University of Iowa. The vandalism took place in laboratories on locked floors used by the psychology department for animal research. An unknown number of research rats, mice and pigeons were taken or released, over 30 computers and offices were damaged, and hazardous chemicals were dumped. HAZMAT teams from the National Guard were deployed to determine what chemicals were spilled. Until their work was completed and the buildings rendered safe, investigators couldn’t enter. Damage is in the tens of thousands of dollars, and many research projects conducted over months and years have been ruined. In a long e-mail to the media and the Animal Defense League, ALF claimed responsibility for the vandalism and described what they had done to the labs. Seven researchers were listed as targets, and the e-mail concluded with their contact information, including the names of their spouses, home addresses, home and cell phone numbers and personal e-mail accounts. The activists made a video-tape of themselves as they vandalized, and sent the tape to media outlets. Parts of it have aired on national TV.
October 30, 2004 Ontario, CA: A suspicious device resembling a bomb, placed at the home of an Los Angeles County veterinarian, forced evacuation of twenty-four homes. An anonymous caller claimed the bomb was planted by the ALF. The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of animal-rights terrorism.
October 17, 2004 Burton, Staffordshire, England: Animal rights fanatics have threatened to dig up the remains of a second person connected to Darley Oaks guinea pig farm. A letter to an elderly cleaner, who has worked at the farm, contained threats to desecrate the grave of her husband. The letter was intercepted by the police who routinely open the mail to the Hall family and people connected with them. Animal rights extremists have also sent hate mail claiming they are in possession of the remains, stolen earlier this month, of the mother of one of the owners of the farm. They further stated that they will not return the remains of Gladys Hammond until the Hall family stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research.
October 12, 2004 Long Island, NY – Letter of Intimidation.
October 10, 2004 Garrett County, Maryland: A group called “The Institute for Public Safety” sent a mass mailing of postcards to landowners in the county, suggesting that 40 percent of bear hunters are alcoholics, drug addicts or mentally unstable. The chairman of the group admitted they made up the statistic, and that they planned to mail more cards to landowners of the other county in the hunt area. Several animal rights groups have sued to stop Maryland’s bear hunt.
October 10, 2004 Philadelphia, PA: A major highway connecting the city to its western suburbs was shut down for several hours during rush hour as police and FBI bomb squads dealt with a metal box, with the letters ELF painted on the front, that was attached to an electricity transmission tower.
October 8, 2004 Yoxall, Staffordshire, England: Police suspect animal rights activists for desecrating and removing most of the remains from the grave of an 82 year old woman, whose family breeds guinea pigs for medical research. The Hall family, who run the breeding farm, local villagers, and others with connections to them have been under attack by animal rights activists for five years. They have been suffered hate mail, malicious phone calls, hoax bombs, a pedophile smear campaign and arson attacks. Local businesses have been forced to stop dealing with the family, cars and homes have been vandalized, and villagers terrorized by night visits from activists. Police are investigating, and state that at least two people were involved in the desecration. The Animal Liberation Front praised it. While denying responsibility, a spokesman said: "This is direct action on an inanimate being. Nobody has been harmed. If this stunt does not get that farm closed, maybe the next one will."
October 3, 2004 Grand Rapids, MI: The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus train was vandalized by animal rights activists. Parking booths and a glass door were damaged, and graffiti painted on the train. Police, working with the FBI, are withholding the name of the animal rights group which is taking credit for the vandalism.
October 3, 2004 Melbourne, Australia: Activists from Animal Liberation Victoria crashed the RSPCA’s formal ball, and threw red paint over RSPCA’s national president, Hugh Wirth while shouting “The RSPCA has blood on its hands.”. One protestor got up on stage and spoke against the RSPCA’s business with Pace Farms, Australia’s largest egg producer. He was removed by security guards, and the other protestors were escorted out. Dr. Wirth will be pressing assault charges.
September 20, 2004 Penrith, Hale, Altrincham, UK: Residents in these areas have received bogus letters, some purporting to come from “a concerned mother” stating that a named individual was a pedophile, and “assaulted her daughter.” In Hale and Altrincham about 180 letters have been mailed over three weeks. In Penrith, the person named has also had extensive damage to his car. The letters are part of a campaign by animal rights activists targeting employees of companies linked to biomedical research.
September 12, 2004 London, England: The (London) Times obtained a five page “hit list”, dated July 2004, that was circulated among animal rights extremists against the use of animals in biomedical research. More than 150 named individuals, including 21 children, are targeted for violent attacks, harassment, and intimidation. The list includes home addresses and phone numbers of 87 employees of Huntington Life Sciences and companies connected to it, 47 employees’ wives, and 21 children. The document gives concrete suggestions for many kinds of attacks, and further gives advice on avoiding detection for extremists seeking more violent forms of protest.against the people listed. The document states “Whatever you do, just do it and show them no mercy…make these perverts suffer…You can be as extreme as you like…the possibilities are endless…”
September 9, 2004 Runcorn, England: Poison-pen letters pushed through doors and posted in public, naming neighbors as pedophiles and giving graphic details of a fictional sex act, have been found in the district. The false claims urge the recipient to confront the individual named and “let him know you know,” and are being made against individuals known to be targeted by SHAC.
September 8, 2004 Prestbury, Macclesfield, Alderley Edge, England: Nineteen company directors of Emerson Developments Holdings Ltd. have been victims of poison pen letters and attacks of criminal vandalism to their homes and cars. Last week letters were sent to neighbors of one director, calling him a pedophile. The directors have received threatening letters. An Internet posting, purportedly from ALF, said, "We want Emerson to kick out Yamanouchi. We will not let up until our aim is achieved…We know where you are but you won't know when we are coming back; we do not let go ever.” Emerson has been targeted because it leases property to Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals, a customer of Huntington Life Sciences.
September 5, 2004: East Peckham, England: Animal Rights activists vowed to launch ten “terror attacks” a night across Britain. An ALF spokesman at a “training camp” for AR activists to learn “direct action” said “Ten attacks a night would be an absolute minimum… Think of the number of butcher shops: at least a couple of windows are already being broken every night and then you have people spraying graffiti on cars to those targeting employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences.” There have been reports of at least six serious incidents in the last ten days, including attacks on cars and other property of people connection with GlaxoSmithKline, HLS, and a farm raising guinea pigs for research.
July 30, 2004 Austin, TX: Tejas Securities, a US marker maker, has stopped trading shares in Life Science Research, the company that owns Huntington Life Sciences after directors, executives, analysts, and traders were bombarded with abusive e-mails.
July 30, 2004 Charlotte, NC: Activists vandalized a fleet of utility trucks owned by Utiliquest. All the trucks were marked with “ELF” and all had their tires slit.
July 30, 2004 Dorset, England: The “Lobster Liberation Front’ claims responsibility for two attacks on a Dorset lobsterman. Activists seriously damaged his boat, set his catch loose, and splashed red paint over his house. Weeks earlier the same boat, boathouse, and lobster pots were vandalized. An anonymous e-mail on an Animal Rights website threatened “war against the industry” and “real damage must begin” if lobster fishing continues. Welsh police are investigating similar attacks in Wales.
July 21, 2004 Chetsey, Surrey, England: Following a firebomb attack by ALF activists, RMC group, the world’s biggest concrete company, pulled out of building a biomedical research laboratory at Oxford University. The arson caused ₤150,000 worth of damage as incendiary bombs destroyed the control center, three trucks, and a crane. It took firefighters three hours to control the blaze. A message on the ALF website said: "This attack is a warning to RMC that collaboration in animal torture at Oxford or anywhere else will not be tolerated, and a further warning to all involved in building the Oxford laboratory to expect similar ruthless treatment." RMC group said the violence was “putting lives at risk.” RMC was sub-contracted to Montpellier, the lead construction contractor that pulled out of the project on July 19, following animal rights actions against its directors and shareholders.
July 19, 2004 Gloucestershire, England: Montpellier construction group has pulled out of a contract to build a biomedical research laboratory at Oxford University. Walter Lily, its subsidiary, is abandoning the project due to a campaign by animal rights activists, which included hoax letters to shareholders urging them to sell their shares or face actions from animal rights activists. Directors have had paint poured on their cars, threatening late-night phone calls, and graffiti painted on their houses. A local businessman, working for another firm in the same group as Walter Lily, received an anonymous, threatening letter, in which activists promised to forge criminal records and post them to hundreds of his neighbours. It said the records would allege "a string of sexual offences committed by yourself throughout your adult life".
July 7, 2004 Provo, UT: The letters “ALF” were found in seven locations at Brigham Young University’s agriculture center, near a recycling building where firefighters put out a suspicious fire. Fire damaged a corner of the building, and two small tractors, and is estimated to be at least $30,000. No animals were in the building. This was the third incident at BYU attributed to ALF in the last six weeks. Someone broke into a barn and released animals, and later equipment researchers were using to test the breeding habits of fish was removed from an aquarium.
July 3, 2004 Bournemouth, England: ALF activists vandalized equipment of construction company RMC - targeted because the company supplied concrete for a new research lab being built at Oxford University. Tractors, bulldozers, and a crane were severely damaged in the raid.
June 22, 2004 London, England: Investors in the construction group Montpellier are being attacked because it is the main contractor for a primate research center at Oxford University. Montpillier directors’ vehicles have been vandalized, and the staff at a company supplying a small amount of concrete have been targeted with letter bomb hoaxes and late-night phone calls. Investors in Montpellier received letters representing “Stop the Oxford Torture Lab” asking them to sell their holdings, saying that if they didn't sell within a month their details will be published on the Internet. The letter said “This will prompt activity by the animal rights movement to persuade these shareholders to sell.” Montpellier share value has fallen by one-fifth.
June 14, 2004 West Jordan, UT: ELF claimed responsibility for an arson fire that consumed the Stock Building Supply lumberyard, with damages estimated at 1.5 million dollars. The three-alarm fire was one of the biggest they ever fought, said the town’s firefighters, and it burned dangerously close to businesses in a nearby strip mall. The letters ELF were spray-pained on the main building and a truck at the scene. An ELF-signed fax sent to a local radio station mentioned four future targets, including an SUV dealership and another lumber company. Two years ago the ELF calling-card was found at an vandalized construction site in the town.
June 13, 2004 Rockville, MD: Police believe three arson fires, involving a pick-up truck, SUV, and a Mexican restaurant are connected. The area around the restaurant was also vandalized. Damage is estimated at $48,000.
May 28, 2004 Prairie City, OR: Activists damaged five pieces of logging equipment use in a timber salvage operation. Metal shavings were poured into the engines, fuel and hydraulic systems. Repairs will take weeks, cost $100,000 and cause expensive production delays at lumber mills. FBI has joined the investigation, which bears the hallmarks of eco-terrorism.
May 8, 2004 Oakland PA: Animal activists protesting the use of foie gras toppled an obelisk and smashed a statue of the Venus de Milo that were in front of an Oakland restaurant after the owners refused to take foie gras off the menu.
April 21, 2004, Long Island, NY: The ALF claims to have broken into Forest Laboratories to steal data, documents and blueprints relating to a new facility, as part of their actions for World Week for Animals in Laboratories. Photos said to be samples from the theft were posted online at BiteBack magazine. There has been no confirmation of the break-in and theft in the news media.
April 21, 2004 USA: SHAC America, as part of their involvement in World Week for Animals in Laboratories, has posted reports from "anonymous activists" on their website describing harassing visits to various targeted company offices and at employees' homes. Descriptions of the visits and taunting messages were posted online , but have not been reported in the news media.
April 21, 2004 Snohomish, WA: Two new homes were destroyed and another heavily damaged in an arson attack. At second construction site workers found plastic bottles filled with flammable liquid and a threatening note. An attempted arson was found at a third site, where a fire had started and apparently gone out. Officials said the note, which mentioned ELF, apparently came from an eco-terrorist group and the incendiary devices were similar to ones used by the ELF. Total damage was over a million dollars.
April 21, 2004 Monrovia, CA: Animal rights activists spray-painted the historic Upton Sinclair house with slogans of "Puppy killers," "Murderers," " ALF," and "you can't hide." Protesters dressed in black, some with skull masks, chanted animal rights slogans over a bullhorn, targeting the homeowner, an executive with Sumitomo Corporation which has ties to HLS. The chants were personal - "(You) are a sick pervert that enjoys animal abuse" and ".we know where you sleep at night." Earlier they had protested at a local Petco, and at another Sumitomo employee's home. A recording at the Animal Defense League office announces many protests this week, which animal rights activists call the "World Week for Animals in Laboratories." Some protests are scheduled at homes of various executives - one called "UCLA monkey killer,"- and at Sumitomo's offices.
April 20, 2004 Elk Creek, Vancouver, CA: Eco-terrorists threatened the lives of loggers by spiking hundreds of trees. Workers found more than 100 spikes in logs going through saw mills there. Demonstrators had stage a major effort in October to try to stop logging in the area.
April 11, 2004 Carral, Spain: Animal extremists bored holes in the wall of a mink farm barn allowing 6,500 mink to escape. Eight hundred are still loose, and five hundred were found dead. Graffiti saying "For a life at liberty" signed ALF, was scrawled on a barn wall.
April 10, 2004 Roxborough, PA: Four beagle puppies and numerous rodents were stolen from the Walter Biddle High School of Agriculture Sciences. The thieves, suspected to be animal rights activists, left a message spray painted on the walls of the new kennel reading "Go experiment on yourselves. We're free - The Animals." The school doesn't conduct animal experiments, and the animals were used to teach animal care and husbandry. Addendum: Animal rights activists have have claimed responsibility for the theft. The claim was made, in a long note posted on an anarchist/activist website, as part of the animal rights "World Week for Animals in Laboratories," and accused the school of many abuses. Activists state all the animals will be placed in "loving homes."
March 29, 2004 Lake Oswego, OR: Animal activists vandalized the office building of Sumitomo Corporation, which is affiliated with Huntingdon Life Science (HLS. Red paint was splashed around the building, and graffiti stated " SUMITOMO DUMP HLS." In an anonymous online claim activists warned, "Paint today. Tomorrow- who knows? Hells coming to rip off the doors of your privileged heaven." Sumitomo has been the target of numerous attacks by SHAC.
March 24, 2004 Charlotte, NC: Eco-terrorists are suspected in more than a dozen arsons that have destroyed or heavily damaged expensive homes under construction in suburban neighborhoods. Authorities are asking the public for help in tracking down the arsonists and builders are being encouraged to hire security firms to protect homes under construction.
March 9, 2004 Kitzbuhel, Austria: A protester set fire to a woman's mink coat while she was wearing it. Police suspect lighter fluid was used to ignite the fur. Patrons in a bar realized the back of the coat was burning, and extinguished the fire before the woman was injured. The coat was destroyed in the attack, and the culprit has not been caught.
March 5, 2004 Bloomington, IN: Nine SUVs were vandalized in one twenty-four hour period. Their windshields were ruined by acid that permanently etched the glass causing thousands of dollars worth of damages.. The police suspect ELF activists.
March 5, 2004 York, England: Paul LeBoutillier was sentenced to five years for making harassing phone calls to Huntingdon Life Sciences shareholders and to HLS affiliate Covance Company employees.
March 3, 2004 Staffordshire, England: Staff and managers of Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries and Green King, two pub companies, have been threatened and harassed by animal rights activists, because the Hall family, owners of Darley Oaks Farm, which breeds guinea pigs for research, frequents these pubs. In response to the threats, as well as thousands of e-mails, and 1300 phone calls, the managers have asked the Hall family to stop using their pubs, to protect both their own safety and that of the pubs' staff and other customers. Steven Oliver, managing director of W $ BD's Union Pub Company said "The threat was of such a serious nature that we felt we had to act." Copies of the letters to the Halls were sent to the activist group, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, whose website targets companies supplying or used by the Hall family. Other pubs in England have been targeted by animal rights activists because the pubs were believed to support hunting.
March 2, 2004 Scotland: A group calling itself "Badgers Unknown" posted the names, homes addresses, and phone numbers of over one hundred UK celebrities on a website under the heading "Celebrity Bloodsports Scum", urging activists to carry out firebomb attacks. The Countryside Alliance, a group supporting hunting and fishing, whose officers were included in the list, was able to get the website removed from one Internet service provider, only to have it reappear elsewhere.
February 17, 2004 North Lima, OH: Vandals broke windows in a construction trailer, sprayed a fire extinguisher and scratched the initials "ELF" on the side of a piece of construction equipment at the construction site of a new showroom for a fireworks company.
February 13, 2004 - United Kingdom: Animal rights activists are targeting mothers and mothers-in-law of judges who have banned the activists from harassing companies linked to biomedical research. Home addresses and phone numbers have been posted on a website, as well as home details of the directors of a company linked to HLS. The website states "They are not immortal. They don't live in fireproof homes."
February 8, 2004 Milford Sound Fjord, New Zealand: An unknown saboteur connected a hose to a boat's diesel tank, pouring fuel into the water at a World Heritage fjord site. The site is home to a rare species of penguin and a major tourist attraction. Officials said that the 3,400 gallon fuel spill was intentional and "eco-terrorism and economic sabotage."
February 7, 2004 Charlottesville, VA: ELF claimed responsibility of an attack on the construction site of a new shopping center. Two trucks and a piece of heavy machinery were torched, and glass and gauges were broken in all the trucks and bulldozers on the site. The owner says it will cost $220,000 to replace the ruined track hoe and doesn't know if the burned trucks can be repaired. A banner left on the site read "Your construction = long term destruction - ELF"
January 22, 2004 Fayettville, AR: Five Hummers were vandalized. The letters ELF were spray-painted on the vehicles, tires were slashed and windows broken.
January 13, 2004 Richmond, VA: Three men claiming to belong to ELF pled guilty to federal charges of "conspiracy to destroy by fire." Adam Blackwell, John Wade, and Aaron Linas vandalized construction equipment, MacDonalds and Burger King restaurants, and tried to destroy a crane. They etched anti-SUV slogans on 25 vehicles at a Ford dealership. They face sentences of up to five years, and must pay restitution of over $200,000.
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Royal Rumble creator, Pat Patterson, dies at 79
World Wrestling Entertainment legend and creator of the Royal Rumble, Pat Patterson, has died at age 79; the organization confirms.“WWE extends its condolences to Patterson’s family and friends,” the company said on Wednesday in a statement; TMZ reports.Patterson who considered himself as wrestling’s ‘first gay superstar’ was a key part of WWE for decades and he was widely known as Vince McMahon’s right-hand man
.He began wrestling career in the 1950s before he finally joined WWE in the late ’70s, where he famously engaged in a series of awesome matches with Sgt.
Slaughter.Patterson became the company’s first Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion in 1979.He later became a colour commentator for WWE and continued to work in the ring and the booth until he retired in 1984.
At that point, Patterson joined McMahon as a WWE executive and in 1988, he pitched the idea for the Royal Rumble.In his book, “Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE,” Patterson explained how the Rumble came to be.He wrote, “The first Royal Rumble was on January 24, 1988, in Hamilton, Ontario. The difference between WWE’s Royal Rumble and a traditional ‘over-the-top-rope battle’ royal is that the participants come into the match at two-minute intervals and not all at the same time at the beginning of the match. I wanted to create something special.”
However, tributes are already pouring in from stakeholders in the sector.Triple H wrote, “No words can describe what he gave to us. His body as an in-ring performer, his mind as a storyteller, and his spirit as a beloved member of our large WWE family. I will miss him for so many reasons. It’s never goodbye, it’s see ya down the road. Love you, Pat. Abooze.”
Shane McMahon said, “I can not express how crushed I feel right now with the loss of Pat Patterson. A true member of my family, mentor and dear friend. I love you PA trueGod speed.”Also, Jim Ross said, “Just heard of the passing this morning of the great, Pat Patterson. True legend of the pro wrestling business. A wonderful mentor who taught me so much. RIP old friend.”While Stephanie McMahon wrote, “I’m deeply grateful to have grown up with WWE Hall of Famer, the first-ever Intercontinental Champion, the father of the #RoyalRumble and the first openly gay wrestler of his generation. Thank you for teaching me how to not take it all so seriously. Abooze.”
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Rapid and mass production of graphene, using a microwave oven
(Nanowerk News) Graphene, a material that could usher in the next generation of electronic and energy devices, could be closer than ever to mass production, thanks to microwaves.
A new study by an international team of researchers from UNIST and Rutgers University has proved that it is now possible to produce high quality graphene, using a microwave oven. The team reports that this new technique may have solved some of graphene's difficult manufacturing problems. The findings of the research have been published in Science ("High-quality graphene via microwave reduction of solution-exfoliated graphene oxide").
Reducing graphene oxide sheets (prGON) into pristine graphene, using 1-to-2 second pulses of microwaves.
This study was jointly conducted by Dr. Jieun Yang, an alumna of UNIST, Prof. Hyeon Suk Shin (School of Natural Science) of UNIST, Prof. Hu Young Jeon (School of Natural Science) of UNIST, Prof. Manish Chhowalla of Rutgers University, and five other researchers from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
Graphene comes from a base material of graphite, the cheap material in the 'lead' of pencils. The structure of graphite consists of many flat layers of graphene sheets. One of the most promising ways to achieve large quantities of graphene is to exfoliate graphite into individual graphene sheets by using chemicals. However, the oxygen exposure during the process may cause some inevitable side reactions, as it can ultimately be very damaging to the individual graphene layers.
Indeed, oxygen distorts the pristine atomic structure of graphene and degrades its properties. Therefore, removing oxygen from graphene oxide to obtain high-quality graphene has been a significant challenge over the past two decades for the scientific community working on graphene.
Dr. Yang and her research team have discovered that baking the exfoliated graphene oxide for just 1-to-2 second pulses of microwaves, can eliminate virtually all of the oxygen from graphene oxides.
"The partially reduced graphene oxides absorb microwave energy, produced inside a microwave oven ," says Dr. Yang, the lead author of the study. She adds, "This not only efficiently eliminates oxygen functional groups from graphene oxides, but is also capable of rearranging defective graphene films."
The results indicate that the new graphene exibits substantially reduced oxygen concentration of 4% much lower than the currently existing graphene with an oxygen content in the range of 15% to 25%.
HR-TEM images of graphite oxide (left) and microwave-reduced graphene oxide (right).
Prof. Shin states, "Countries around the world, such as South Korea, U.S., England, and China have been investing heavily in research for the affordable, mass commercialization of graphene."
He adds, "The current method for mass-producing high-quality graphene lacks reproducibility, but holds huge untapped market potential. Therefore, securing the fundamental technology for mass production of graphene is an extremely important matter in terms of commercializing future promising industries."
The study's co-author, Prof. Manish Chhowalla is an associate chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Rutgers' School of Engineering and Director of the Rutgers Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology. Prof. Chhowalla has been working on a joint research project with Prof. Shin and Prof. Jeon of UNIST. Dr. Jieun Yang, a former student of Prof. Shin is now working as a post-doctoral associate in Chhowalla's group at Rutgers University.
Source: By Joo Hyeon Heo, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
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The Proceedings: Fifth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics (1990)
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Suggested Citation:"Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition." National Research Council. 1990. The Proceedings: Fifth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1604.
Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition W. S. Saric Arizona State University Tempe, USA Abstract Within the last five years, increased emphasis on secondary instability analysis along with the experimental observations of subharmonic instabilities have changed the picture of the transition process for boundary layers in low-disturbance environments. Additional efforts with Navier-Stokes computations have formed an impressive triad of tools that are beginning to unravel the details of the early stages of transition. This paper reviews these recent efforts. Symbols a chordwise complex wavenumber normalized by disturbance amplitude amplitude at R=Ro, usually Branch I pressure coefficient F co/R= 6.28fv/Uo2: dimensionless frequency f dimensional frequency thz] L ~vx*/UO: boundary-Layer reference length. N ln(A/AO): amplification factor R SIR,, = UoL/v boundary-layer Reynolds number Rat initial boundary-layer Reynolds number, usually Branch I Rx UOx*/v: x-Reynolds number or chord Reynolds number U basic-state chordwise velocity normalized by UO Uo freestream velocity, [m/s] v kinematic viscosity Em2/s] cl) 2~fL/Uo: dimensionless circular frequency x* dimensional chordwise coordinate [m] x chordwise coordinate normalized with L 23 y normal-to-the-wall coordinate z spanwise coordinate 1. Introduction The problems of understanding the origins of turbulent flow and transition to turbulent flow are the most important unsolved problems of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. There is no dearth of applications for information regarding transition location and the details of the subsequent turbulent flow. A few examples can be given here. (1) Nose cone and heat shield requirements on reentry vehicles and the "aerospace airplane" are critical functions of transition altitude. (2) Vehicle dynamics and "observables" are modulated by the occurrence of laminar-turbulent transition. (3) Should transition be delayed with Laminar Flow Control on the wings of large transport aircraft, a 25% savings in fuel will result. (4) Lack of a reliable transition prediction scheme hampers efforts to accurately predict airfoil surface heat transfer and to cool the blades and vanes in gas turbine engines. (5) The performance and detection of submarines and torpedoes are significantly influenced by turbulent boundary-layer flows and efforts directed toward drag reduction require the details of the turbulent processes. (6) Separation and stall on low-Reynolds-number airfoils and turbine blades strongly depend on whether the boundary layer is laminar, transitional, or turbulent. The common thread connecting each of these applications is the fact that they all deal with bounded shear flows (boundary layers) in open systems (with different upstream or initial amplitude conditions). It is well known that the stability, transition, and turbulent characteristics of bounded shear layers are fundamentally different from those of free shear layers (Morkovin, 1969; Tani, 1969; Reshotko, 1976~. Likewise, the stability, transition, and turbulent characteristics of open systems are fundamentally different from those of closed systems (Tatsumi, 1984~. The distinctions are vital. Because of the influence of indigenous disturbances, surface geometry and roughness, sound, heat transfer, and ablation, it is not possible to develop general prediction schemes for transition location and the nature of turbulent structures in bQundary-layer flows.
There have been a number of recent advances in the mathematical theory of chaos that have been applied to closed systems. Sreenivasan and Strykowski (1984), among others, discuss the extension of these ideas to open systems and conclude that the relationship is still uncertain. It appears from a recent workshop and panel discussion (Liepmann et al. 1986) that the direct application of chaos theory to open systems is still some distance away. However, the prospect of incorporating some of the mathematical ideas of chaos Into open system problems and of encouraging the transfer of data to the mathematicians is good. Since there is still some uncertainty in the direct application of chaos theory to transition no further mention of this will be given here. The purpose of this report is to bring into perspective certain advances to our understanding of laminar-turbulent transition that have occurred within the last five years. In particular, these advances have been made by simultaneous experimental, theoretical, and computational efforts. 1.1 Basic Ideas of Transition With the increased interest in turbulent drag reduction and in large scale structures within the turbulent boundary layer, researchers in turbulence have been required to pay attention to the nature of lam~nar-turbulent transition processes. It is generally accepted that the transition from laminar to turbulent flow occurs because of an incipient instability of the basic flow field. This instability intimately depends on subtle, and sometimes obscure, details of the flow. The process of transition for boundary layers in external flows can be qualitatively described using the following (albeit, oversimplified) scenario. Disturbances in the freestream, such as sound or vorticity, enter the boundary layer as steady and/or unsteady fluctuations of the basic state. This part of the process is called receptivity (Morkovin, 1969) and, although it is still not well understood, it provides the vital initial conditions of amplitude, frequency and phase for the breakdown of laminar flow. Initially these disturbances may be too small to measure and they are observed only after the onset of an instability. The type of instability that occurs depends on Reynolds number, wall curvature, sweep, roughness, and initial conditions. The initial growth of these disturbances is described by linear stability theory. This growth is weak, occurs over a viscous length scale, and can be modulated by pressure gradients, mass flow, temperature gradients, etc. As the amplitude grows three-dimensional and nonlinear interactions occur in the form of secondary instabilities. Disturbance growth is very rapid in this case (now over a convective length scale) and breakdown to turbulence occurs. For many years, linear stability theory, with the Orr-Sommerfeld equation as its keystone, served as the basic tool for predictors and designers. Since the initial growth is linear and its behavior can be easily calculated, transition prediction schemes are usually based on linear theory. However, since the initial conditions (receptivity) are not generally known, only correlations are possible and, most importantly, these correlations must be between two systems with similar environmental conditions. The impossibility of matching or fully understanding these environmental conditions has led to the failure of any absolute transition prediction scheme for even the simple Blasius flat-plate boundary layer. The preceding does not always follow the observed behavior. At times, the initial instability can be so strong that the growth of linear disturbances is by- passed (Morkovin, 1969) in such a way that turbulent spots appear or secondary instabilities occur and the flow quickly becomes turbulent. This phenomenon is not well understood but has been documented in cases of roughness and high freestream turbulence (Reshotko, 1986~. In this case, transition prediction schemes based on linear theory fail completely. 1.2 Review of the Literature The literature review follows the outline of the process described above and begins with Reshotko (1984a, 1986) on receptivity (i.e. the means by which freestream disturbances enter the boundary layer). In these papers, Reshotko summarizes the recent work in this area and points out the difficulties in understanding the problem. Indeed, the receptivity question and the knowledge of the initial conditions are the key issues regarding a transition prediction scheme. Of particular concern to the transition problem are the quantitative details of the roles of freestream sound and turbulence. Aside from some general correlations, this is still an opaque area. However. in section 3.2 below, a demonstration of the role of initial conditions on the observed transition phenomenon is discussed. The details of linear stability theory are given in Mack (1984b). This is actually a monograph on boundary-layer stability theory and should be considered required reading for those interested in all aspects of the subject. It covers 58 pages of text with 170 references. In particular, his report updates the three-dimensional (3-D) material in Mack (1969), covering In large part Mack's own contributions to the area. The foundation paper with regard to nonlinear instabilities is Klebanoff et al. (1962~. This seminal work spawned numerous experimental and theoretical works (not all successful) for the period of 20 years after its publication. It was not until the experimental observations of subharmonic instabilities by Kachanov et al. (1977), Kachanov and Levchenko (1984), and Saric and Thomas (1984), along with the work on secondary instabilities, that additional progress was made in this area. Recent papers of Herbert (1984a,b,c 1985; 1986a,b) cover the problems of secondary instabilities and nonlinearities, i.e. those aspects of the breakdown process that succeed the growth of linear disturbances. It should be emphasized that two- dimensional waves do not completely represent the breakdown process since the transition process is always three-dimensional in bounded shear flows. Herbert describes the recent efforts in extending the stability analysis into regions of wave interactions that produce higher harmonics, three-dimensionality, subharmonics, and large growth rates--all harbingers of transition to turbulence. Recent 3-D Navier-Stokes computations by Fasel (1980,1986), Spalart (1984), 24
Spalart and Yang (1986), Kleiser and Laurien (1985, 1986) Reed and co-workers (Singer et al. 1986, 1987; Yang et al. 1987) have added additional understanding to the phenomena. More is said about this in section 3.2. The paper by Arnal (1984) is an extensive description and review of transition prediction and correlation schemes for two-dimensional flows that covers 34 pages of text and over 100 citations. An analysis of the different mechanisms that cause transition such as Tollmien-Schlichting (T-S) waves, Gortler vortices, and turbulent spots is given. The effects that modulate the transition behavior are presented. These include the influence of freestream turbulence, sound, roughness, pressure gradient, suction, and unsteadiness. A good deal of the data comes from the work of the group at ONERA/CERT part of which has only been available in report form. The different transition criteria that have been developed over the years are also described which gives an overall historical perspective of transition prediction methods. In a companion paper, Poll (1984b) extends the description of transition to 3-D flows. When the basic state is three-dimensional, not only are 3-D disturbances important, but completely different types of instabilities can occur. Poll concentrates on the problems of leading-edge contamination and crossflow vortices, both of which are characteristic of swept-wing flows. The history of these problems as well as the recent work on transition prediction and control schemes for 3-D flows are discussed by Reed and Saric (1989). Reshotko (1984b, 1985, 1986) and Saric (1985b) review the application of stability and transition information to problems of drag reduction and in particular, laminar flow control. They discuss a variety of the laminar flow control and transition control issues which will not be covered here. 2. Review of T-S Waves The disturbance state is restricted to two dimensions with a one-dimensional basic state. The 2- D instability to be considered is a viscous instability in that the boundary-layer velocity profile is stable in the inviscid limit and thus, an increase in viscosity (a decrease in Reynolds number) causes the instability to occur in the form of 2-D traveling waves called T-S waves. All of this is contained within the framework of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation, OSE. The historical development of this work is given in Mack (1984b) and a tutorial is given by Saric (1985a). The OSE is linear and homogeneous and forms an eigenvalue problem which consists of determining the wavenumber, a, as a function of frequency, ce, Reynolds number, R. and the basic state, U(y). The Reynolds number is usually defined as R = UoL/v = SIR,` and is used to represent *distance along the surface. In general, L = Vex /UO is the most straightforward reference length to use because of the simple form of R and because the Blasius variable is the same as y in the OSE. When comparing the solutions of the OSE with experiments, the dimensionless frequency, F. is introduced as F = m/R = 2~fv/Uo: where f is the frequency in Hertz. Usually, an experiment designed to observe T-S waves and to verify the 2-D theory is conducted in a low-turbulence wind tunnel (u'/UO from 0.02% to 0.06%) on a flat plate with zero pressure gradient (determined from the shape factor = 2.59 and not from pressure measurements!) where the virtual-leading- edge effect is taken into account by carefully controlled boundary-layer measurements. Disturbances are introduced by means of a 2-D vibrating ribbon using single-frequency, multiple-frequency, step-function, or random inputs (Pupator and Saric, 1989) taking into account finite-span effects (Mack, 1984a). Hot wires measure the U + u' component of velocity in the boundary layer and d-c coupling separates the mean from the fluctuating part. The frequency, F. for single- frequency waves remains a constant. When the measurements of are repeated along a series of chordwise stations, the maximum amplitude of the waves varies. At constant frequency, the disturbance amplitude initially decays lintil the Reynolds number at which the flow first becomes unstable is reached. This point is called the Branch I neutral stability point and is given by R~. The amplitude grows exponentially until the Branch II neutral stability point is reached which is given by Ru. The locus of R~ and Rn points as a function of frequency gives the neutral stability curve. If the growth rate of the disturbances is defined as c' = o(R,F), Fig. 1 is the locus of o(R,F) =0. For R > 600 the theory and experiment agree very well for Blasius flow. For R < 600 the agreement is not as good because the theory is influenced by nonparallel effects and the experiment is influenced by low growth rates and nearness to the disturbance source. Virtually all problems of practical interest have R > 1000 in which case the parallel theory seems quite adequate (Gaster, 1974; Saric and Nayfeh, 1977~. By assuming that the growth rate, c, = o(R,F), to hold locally (within the quasi-parallel flow approximation), the disturbance equations are integrated along the surface with R = it(x) to give: A/Ao = exp(N) where dN/dR = cs, A and Ao are the disturbance amplitudes at R and R~, respectively, and R~ is the Reynolds number at which the constant-frequency disturbance f~rst becomes unstable (Branch I of the neutral stability curve). The basic design tool is the correlation of N with transition Reynolds number, RT, for a variety of observations. The correlation will produce a number for N (say 9) which is now used to predict RT for cases in which experimental data are not available. This is the celebrated eN method of Smith and von Ingen (e.g. Arnal, 1984; Mack, 1984b). The basic LFC technique changes the physical parameters and keeps N within reasonable limits in order to prevent transition. As long as laminar flow is maintained and the disturbances remain linear, this method contains all of the necessary physics to accurately predict disturbance behavior. As a transition prediction device, the eN method is certainly the most popular technique used today. It works within 25
some error limits only if comparisons are made with experiments with identical disturbance environments. Since no account can be made of the initial disturbance amplitude this method will always be suspect to large errors and should be used with extreme care. When bypasses occur, this method does not work at all. Mack (1984b) and Arnal (1984) give examples of growth-rate and eN calculations showing the effects of pressure gradients, Mach number, wall temperature, and three dimensionality for a wide variety of flows. These reports contain the most up-to-date stability . ~ . ntormatlon. 3. Secondary Instabilities and Transition There are different possible scenarios for the transition process, but it is generally accepted that transition is the result of the uncontrolled growth of unstable three-dimensional waves. Secondary instabilities with T-S waves are reviewed in some detail by Herbert (1984b, 1985, 1986), Saric and Thomas (1984) and Saric et al.(l984~. Therefore, only a brief outline is given in section 3.1 in order to give the reader some perspective of the different types of breakdown. Section 3.2 discusses the very recent results. 3.1 Secondary Instabilities The occurrence of three-dimensional phenomena in an otherwise two-dimensional flow is a necessary prerequisite for transition (Tan), 1981~. Such phenomena were observed in detail by Klebanoff et al. (1962) and were attributed to a spanwise differential amplification of T-S waves through corrugations of the boundary layer. The process leads rapidly to spanwise alternating "peaks" and "valleys", i.e., regions of enhanced and reduced wave amplitude, and an associated system of streamwise vortices. The peak- valley structure evolves at a rate much faster than the (viscous) amplification rates of T-S waves. The schematic of a smoke-strealdine photograph (Saric et al. 1981) in Fig. 1 shows the sequence of events after the onset of "peak-valley splitting". This represents the path to transition under conditions similar to Klebanoff et al. (1962) and is called a K-type breakdown. The lambda-shaped (Hama and Nutant, 1963) spanwise corrugations of streaklines, which correspond to the peak-valley structure of amplitude variation, are a result of weak 3-D displacements of fluid particles across the critical layer and precede the appearance of Klebanoff's "hair-pin" vortices. This has been supported by hot- wire measurements and Lagrangian-type streakline prediction codes (Saric et al.,l981; Herbert and Bertolotti, 1985~. Note that the lambda vortices are ordered in that peaks follow peaks and valleys follow valleys. Since the pioneering work of Nishioka et al.(l975, 1980), it is accepted that the basic transition phenomena observed in plane channel flow are the same as those observed in boundary layers. Therefore, little distinction will be given here as to whether work was done in a channel or a boundary layer. From the theoretical and computational viewpoint, the plane channel is particularly convenient since the Reynolds number is constant, the mean flow is strictly parallel, certain symmetry conditions apply, and one is able to 26 do temporal theory. Thus progress has been first made with the channel flow problem. Different types of three-dimensional transition phenomena recently observed (e.g. Kachanov et al. 1977; Kachanov and Levchenko, 1984; Saric and Thomas, 1984; Saric et al. 1984, Kozlov and Ramanosov, 1984) are characterized by staggered patterns of peaks and valleys (see Fig. 2) and by their occurrence at very low amplitudes of the fundamental T-S wave. This pattern also evolves rapidly into transition. These experiments showed that the subharmonic of the fundamental wave (a necessary feature of the staggered pattern) was excited in the boundary layer and produced either the resonant wave interaction predicted by Craik (1971) (called the C- type) or the secondary instability of Herbert (1983) (called the H-type). Spectral broadening to turbulence with self-excited subharmonics has been observed in acoustics, convection, and free shear layers and was not identified in boundary layers until the results of Kachanov et al. (1977~. This paper reinitiated the interest in subharmonics and prompted the simultaneous verification of C-type resonance (Thomas and Saric, 1981; Kachanov and Levchenko, 1984~. Subharmonics have also been confirmed for channel flows (Kozlov and Ramazanov, 1984) and by direct integration of the Navier-Stokes equations (Spalart 19841. There is visual evidence of subharmonic breakdown before Kachanov et al. (1977) in the work of Hama (1959) and Knapp and Roache (1968) which was not recognized as such at the time of their publication. The recent work on subharmonics is found in Herbert (1985, 1986a,b), Saric, Kozlov and Levchenko (1984), and Thomas (1986~. The important issues that have come out of the subharmonic research is that the secondary instability depends not only on disturbance amplitude, but on phase and fetch as well. Fetch means here the distance over which the T-S wave grows in the presence of the 3-D background disturbances. If T-S waves are permitted to grow for long distances at low amplitudes subharmonic secondary instabilities are initiated at disturbance amplitudes of less than 0.3%Uo. Whereas, ~f larger amplitudes are introduced, the breakdown occurs as K-type at amplitudes of 1% UO. Thus, there no longer ex~sts a "magic" amplitude criterion for breakdown. A consequence of this requirement of a long enough fetch for the subharmonic to be entrained from the background disturbances is that the subharmonic interaction will occur at or to the right of the Branch II neutral stability point. Since this is in the stable region of the fundamental wave, it was not likely to be observed because the experimenters quite naturally concentrated their attention of measurements between Branch I and Branch II. 3.2 Recent Results The surprise that results from the analytical model of Herbert (1986a,b) and the Navier-Stokes computations of Singer, Reed, and Ferziger (1986), is that under conditions of the experimentally observed K- Type breakdown, the subharmonic H-Type is still the dominant breakdown mechanism instead of the
fundamental mode. This is in contrast to Klebanoff's experiment, confirmed by Nishioka et al. (1975, 1980),Kachanov et al. (1977), Saric and Thomas (1984), Saric et al. (1984), and Kozlov and Ramazanov (1984) where only the breakdown of the fundamental into higher harmonics was observed. Only Kozlov and Ramazanov (1984) observed the H-type in their channel experiments and only when they artificially introduced the subharmonic. This apparent contradiction was resolved by Singer, Reed, and Ferziger (1987~. Here the full three- dimensional, time-dependent incompressible Navier- Stokes equations are solved with no-slip and impermeability conditions at the walls. Periodicity was assumed in both the streamwise and spanwise directions. The implementation of the method and its validation are described by Singer, Reed and Ferziger (19861. Initial conditions include a two-dimensional T- S wave, random noise, and streamwise vortices. No shape assumptions are necessary, the spectrum is larger, and random disturbances whether freestream or already in the boundary layer can be introduced and monitored for growth and interactions (Singer, Reed, and Ferziger, 1986~. Other advantages realized by computations are 1) the inclusion of boundary-layer growth, neglected in linear theory but important to the growth of secondary instabilities, 2) the generation of ensemble averages, 3) the visualization of flow phenomena for comparison with experiments (advanced graphics capability), and 4) the calculation of vorticity and energy spectra, often unavailable from experiments. The streamwise vortices can alter the relative importance of the subharmonic and fundamental modes. Streamwise vortices of approximately the strength of those that might be found in transition experiments can explain the difficulty in experimentally identifying the subharmonic route to turbulence (Herbert 1983~. The corresponding computational visualizations of Singer et al. (1987) are shown in Figs. 3 and 4; flow is from lower right to upper left. Figure 4 shows the vortex structures, commonly seen in the transition process, under the conditions of a forced 2-D T-S wave and random noise as initial conditions. The subharmonic mode is present as predicted by theory but not seen experimentally. Other views of the vertical structure are given by Herbert (1986a). However, when streamwise vorticity (as is present in the flow from the turbulence screens upstream of the nozzle) is also included, the subharmonic mode is overshadowed by the fundamental mode (as in the experiments!. The resulting pattern, ordered peak-valley structure, is seen in Fig. 4. Here is a case in which the computations have explained discrepancies between theory and experiments. In the presence of streamwise vorticity, the fundamental mode is preferred over the subharmonic; this agrees with experimental observations, but not with theory (which does not account for this presence). Without streamwise vorticity, the subharmonic modes dominate, as predicted by theory and confirmed by computational simulations. In the presence of streamwise vorticity characteristic of wind-tunnel experiments, the K-type instability dominates and the numerical simulations predict the experimental results. Direct numerical simulations are playing an increasingly important role in the investigation of transition; the literature is growing, especially recently. This trend is likely to continue as considerable progress is expected towards the development of new, extremely powerful supercomputers. In such simulations, the full Navier-Stokes equations are solved directly by employing numerical methods, such as finite-difference or spectral methods. The direct simulation approach is widely applicable since it avoids many of the restrictions that usually have to be imposed in theoretical models. The Navier-Stokes solutions are taken hand-in- hand with the wind tunnel experiments in a complementary manner. The example of Singer, Reed, and Ferziger (1987) illustrates that these two techniques cannot be separated. The next step in the simulations will be to predict the growing body of detailed data being developed by Nishioka et al. (1980, 1981, 1984, 1985) on the latter stages of the breakdown process. 4 Transition Prediction and Control . When the recent work on subharmonics is added to the discussion at the end of section 3 on the limitations of the eN method, one indeed has an uncertainty principle for transition (Morkovin, 1978~. Transition prediction methods will remain conditional until the receptivity problem is adequately solved and the bypass mechanisms are well understood. In the mean time, extreme care must be exercised when using correlation methods to predict transition. Additional problems of transition prediction and laminar flow control are discussed by Reshotko (1985, 1986~. The main principle of laminar flow control is to keep the disturbance levels low enough so that secondary instabilities and transition do not occur. Under these conditions, linear theory is quite adequate and eN methods can be used to calculate the effectiveness of a particular LFC device. The idea of transition control through active feedback systems is an area Hat has received considerable recent attention (Liepmann and Nosenchuck, 1982; Thomas, 1983; Kleiser and Laurien, 1984, 1985; Metcalfe et al., 1985~. The technique consists of first sensing the amplitude and phase of an unstable disturbance and then introducing an appropriate out-of-phase disturbance that cancels the original disturbance. In spite of some early success, this method is no panacea for the transition problem. Besides the technical problems of the implementation of such a system on an aircraft, the issue of three- dimensional wave cancellation must be addressed. As Thomas (1983) showed, when the 2-D wave is canceled, all of the features of the 3-D disturbances remain to cause transition at yet another location. Some clear advantages over passive systems have yet to be demonstrated for this technique. Acknowledgements This work is supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contract AFOSR-85-NA-077. 27
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DISCUSSION by F. Stern Please comment on the influence of the type of breakdown on the state of the resulting turbulent boundary layer, which is quite important both in experiments and calculations. Also, are there any similarities between the processes you have classified for transition and those associated with relaminarization? Author's Reply The first part of this question hits to the heart of the motivation for doing work on the latter stages of transition. The type of transition is important because of its influence on the large-scale structure in "low" Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers. The control of turbulent boundary layers then rests on the type of large scale structure that may be present. For "high" Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers, the situation is not so clear i.e. it is hard to imagine that the details of the transition process influence the structure of fully developed turbulence. It is unlikely that any of the structure of the transition process is recovered during relaminarization of a turbulent flow. I believe relaminarization to be highly dissipative due to large changes in the basic state which cause a loss in the turbulence production mechanisms. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of detailed experiments in this area. 33
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Numerical Calculations of the Viscous Flow over the Ship Stern by Fully Elliptic and Partially Parabolic Navier-Stokes Equations 175–184
New Viscous and Inviscid CFD Techniques for Ship Flows 185–210
Numerical Simulation of Viscous Flow around Practical Hull Form 211–224
Calculation of Nonlinear Water Waves around a 2-Dimensional Body in Uniform Flow by Means of Boundary Element Method 225–238
Nonlinear Simulation of Transient Free Surface Flows 239–250
Slamming of Flat-Bottomed Bodies Calculated with Exact Free Surface Boundary Conditions 251–268
Pressure Transients in Transitional Boundary Layer over a Solid Surface 269–284
Large Eddy Simulation by Using Finite-Difference Method 285–294
Computation of the Flow past Shiplike Hull 295–312
Simulations of Forces Acting on a Cylinder in Oscillatory Flow by Direct Calculation of the Navier-Stokes Equations 313–328
Numerical and Analytical Investigations of a Stationary Flow past a Self-Propelled Body 329–340
Time-Domain Calculation of the Nonlinear Hydrodynamics of Wave-Body Interaction 341–350
Two-Dimensional Numerical Modelling of Large Motions of Floating Bodies in Waves 351–374
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Numerical Prediction of Semi-Submersible Non-Linear Motions in Irregular Waves 391–402
Numerical Computations for a Nonlinear Free Surface Flow Problem 403–420
Numerical Grid Generation and Upstream Waves for Ships Moving in Restricted Waters 421–438
Wave Resistance and Squat of a Slender Ship Moving near the Critical Speed in Restricted Water 439–454
Some Numerical Computations about Free Surface Boundary Layer and Surface Tension Effects on Nonlinear Waves 455–468
A Boundary Integral Formulation for Free Surface Viscous and Inviscid Flows about Submerged Bodies 469–480
Development of a New Velocity Measurement System by Using Computerized Flow Visualization and Numerical Method 481–492
Automatic Particle-Image Velocimetry Utilizing Laser-Induced Fluorescent Particles 493–498
Side-Wall Effects on Hydrodynamic Forces Acting on a Ship with Forward and Oscillatory Motions 499–512
Interaction between Current, Waves and Marine Structures 513–528
The Numerical Solution of the Motions of a Ship Advancing in Waves 529–538
On the Numerical Solution of the Turbulent Flow-Field past Double Ship Hulls at Low and High Reynolds Numbers 539–552
Computation of Viscous Flow around a Propeller-Shaft Configuration with Infinite-Pitch Rectagular Blades 553–570
Computation of a Nonlinear Rotational Inviscid Flow through a Heavily-Loaded Actuator Disk with a Large Hub 571–580
Computations of 3D Transom Stern Flows 581–592
Ship Wave-Resistance Computations 593–606
Numerical Solution of Viscous Flows about Submerged and Partly Submerged Bodies 607–616
Simulation of Hydrodynamic Loading and Structural Response of a Marine Riser 617–628
Stability and Accuracy of a Non-Linear Model for the Wave Resistance Problem 629–642
Calculation of Free-Surface Flow around a Ship in Shallow Water by Rankine Source Method 643–656
A Hybrid Model for Calculating Wave-Making Resistance 657–666
Finite Difference Analysis of Unsteady Cavitation on a Two-Dimensional Hydrofoil 667–684
Theoretical Prediction of Midchord and Face Unsteady Propeller Sheet Cavitation 685–700
Propeller Inflow Corrections for Improved Unsteady Force and Cavitation Calculations 701–714
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Group Discussions 717–718
Summary of the Group Discussion on Rankine Source Methods 719–720
Summary of the Group Discussion on Navier-Stokes Solvers 721–724
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Researchers at Eucor – The European Campus seek to lead the Upper Rhine region toward a mutual energy turnaround
Freiburg, Jan 03, 2020
Coal causes greenhouse gas emissions, wind turbines disfigure the landscape, nuclear power is dangerous. There seems to be a lot of fury but little agreement on the question of suitable energy sources. What alternatives could still be used to cover power consumption? The “RES-TMO” (Renewable Energy Sources - Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine) research project is investigating how a mix of renewable energies could look while securing the power supply for the Upper Rhine region.
The researchers are developing a concept for the Upper Rhine region - the electricity demand is to be covered by alternative energy sources. Photo: adrian ilie825/stock.adobe.com
In Germany, the buzzwords “nuclear phase-out” and “coal phase-out” have been commonplace for several years or even decades, and the energy turnaround is a declared political goal. In France, too, a shift in thinking is taking place, albeit only recently. In November 2019, the French National Assembly passed a new law in response to the climate protests. In December 2019, EU government leaders agreed on a clear goal. By 2050, Europe should become “climate neutral,” i.e. all greenhouse gases must be avoided or stored.
But how can these goals be achieved? There seems to be a consensus that nuclear power, coal-fired power and fossil fuels must be reduced and replaced by renewable energy sources. Biomass, hydropower, geothermal energy, wind power and solar energy in particular represent an alternative, says Ines Gavrilut, manager of the RES-TMO project at the University of Freiburg. “However, the share of renewable energies in the European Union’s energy mix in 2017 was only 13.6 percent. In order to adapt the supply to the political goals and to ensure it in the long term, this share must be increased significantly.” A complete reconstruction of the energy supply is necessary.
A team from Eucor - The European Campus, which includes scientists from different departments of the Universities of Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, Strasbourg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), is looking into how this conversion might look like. The team is investigating how renewable energies can be used in the border region in the most socially acceptable way. At the end of the project, a concept for a regional energy system in the so-called Upper Rhine Trinational Metropolitan Region (TMO) is to be developed, which could also serve as a model for other European border regions, says Gavrilut.
Avoiding extensive transport distances
“The conversion of the energy supply to renewable energies is a big challenge, we have to take different factors into account,” explains the head of the project, Prof. Dr. Barbara Koch from the University of Freiburg. “So far, there have been individual investigations, but no overall, transnational study. We are therefore including technical, physical and economic as well as socio-cultural and legal aspects in Germany, France and Switzerland in our investigation.”
Coal-fired or nuclear power plants provide a central and stable energy supply, but are associated with health risks, Koch explains: “Renewable energies, on the other hand, are distributed and predominantly fluctuating energy.” Consequently, the question of storage arises. “The intermediate storage of energy is of central importance for the security of supply. We will therefore investigate the role of former mines in the region as energy storage facilities.”
“Kohlestopp – hopp, hopp, hopp” (“Coal stop – chop, chop, chop”): Demonstrators demand a shift in thinking about the environment. Photo: Animaflora PicsStock/stock.adobe.com
The team will also examine the frequent long-distance transport of electricity from the producer to the consumer. The researchers hope that the production and consumption of renewable energy in the region will be strengthened, which would result in less electricity being transported via high-voltage lines, thereby reducing the expansion of such lines. Instead, feed-in and distribution networks from the three countries are to be linked together. “At present, there is only one cross-border power line on the Upper Rhine,” reports Gavrilut. “This is too little for an energy region that wants to cross borders.”
Taking cultural differences into account
Philippe Hamman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg, is responsible for the analysis of socio-cultural aspects at RES-TMO and points out another factor. “Renewable energies have a different status in the three countries, depending on the respective cultural and political framework. The acceptance of wind power, for example, remains low in north-eastern France, especially in Alsace; in Germany, the population is divided. Although nuclear power is increasingly being discussed in France, it retains positive perceptions for some people, while in Germany it is clearly opposed,” says Hamman. “We will therefore examine how these conditions shape the cooperation between suppliers and users and influence citizens' initiatives.”
But RES-TMO also wants to be practical: "We are looking for dialogue with the population, with energy suppliers and consumers. Their extensive knowledge, ideas and perspectives should be included in the research," says Barbara Koch. Among other things, international workshops are to provide a forum for the various players to contribute their experience. "We will also examine the extent to which we can integrate local energy initiatives into the overall supply network," adds Ines Gavrilut.
A boost with seed money
In order to be able to develop the research project, Barbara Koch had already received support from the Seed Money funding of Eucor - The European Campus in 2018. Koch is hopeful. “The start-up financing was crucial to be able to submit a successful application to the European Interreg V funding program. The seed money helped us to organize workshops, build a network and carry out literature research.” The RES-TMO project was officially started in Freiburg at the beginning of December 2019. The researchers now have three years to develop recommendations to support the energy turnaround.
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IAH – European hymnody conference III
August 1, 2011 Anthony Ruff, OSB Conferences / Workshops / Meetings Ecumenism Music: Hymns
See here for part one and part two.
Friday morning, Ansgar Franz of the University of Mainz spoke at the IAH meeting in Timişoara, Romania. His topic was the history of standardized, unified canons of hymns among German-speaking Catholics, and also the official Italian hymn repertoire recently approved by the Italian bishops’ conference and the Vatican.
Since at least the mid-19th century, there have been efforts to standardize the hymns sung in various versions by German Catholics. In 1848 a certain Bishop Müller called for a national council and a national standardized hymn canon. Müller also wanted greater national German unity politically, and greater independence of the German Catholic Church from Rome. For that and a variety of reasons, his call for standardized hymnody didn’t go anywhere. During World War I, chaplains complained that German Catholic soldiers couldn’t sing one single hymn hymns together because they all knew different versions from their home dioceses. In 1916, amid strongly divergent opinions and strong defense of local traditions, the bishops’ conference was able to agree only on a canon of 23 hymns for inclusion in future hymnals. In fact, some but not all these few hymns were even included in subsequent German diocesan hymnals. Later, the private collection Kirchenlied (“Congregational Hymns”), with 140 hymns, was widely used among Church youth movements throughout Germany, in effect creating a hymn canon for the entire country. Over 2 million copies of Kirchenlied were printed from 1945 to 1972, and 79 of these 140 hymns were taken into the 1975 official national hymnal Gotteslob.
Historically, Austria has enjoyed more national unity in its hymnody than Germany, reflecting the political history of each country. Hapsburg Empress Maria Theresa decreed in 1783 that the Normalmeßgesang (‘Standardized Mass Hymns”) be used in every parish in the country. This was a series of Mass hymns which remained constant for every Sunday, with only one melody provided for each of its nine hymns. It was prescribed by force, in many cases against the will of the faithful. But as Franz-Karl Praßl has remarked, in hymnody as in human relations, with enough familiarization and sufficient time, something like love eventually can set in. These Mass hymns have remained in use to this day. By 1948, the Austrian bishops were able to establish a national canon of 119 hymns plus several strophic paraphrases of the Mass Ordinary.
In Switzerland, the redrawing of diocesan boundaries by the state in the early 19th century made standardization necessary, since in many cases peoples coming from various dioceses with their own hymn traditions now belonged to the same diocese. Because in 1958 the Swiss Catholics bishops had authorized work to begin on their own national hymnal, and because so much work had already been done by 1963, the Swiss decided not to become part of the Austrian-German Gotteslob. By 1978, the Katholisches Gesang- und Gebetbuch der Schweiz (“Congregational Hymnal. Catholic Hymnal and Prayer Book of Switzerland”) had about 100 hymns in common with the German-Austrian Gotteslob. And then, things went in a surprising direction. The next official Swiss hymnal of 1998, Katholische Gesangbuch (“Catholic Hymnal”) contained many hymns from Gotteslob, but it also had no fewer than 238 songs, including 153 strophic hymns, in common with the hymnal of the Swiss Reformed church that appeared at the same time. This was a strong move in the direction of ecumenical standardization.
Italy has little in the way of a national heritage of congregational hymnody. In the north, under Austrian influence, an Italian version of Empress Maria Theresa’s Mass hymns was introduced in 1783, Inni per la Messa. Litanie ed Orazioni giusta la normale di Vienna (“Hymns for Mass. Litanies and Prayers According to the Standardized Practice of Vienna”). This was unknown in the southern part of the country. With some exceptions from the north, congregational singing has not been strong in Italy over the centuries.
Thus it is a sort of “Copernican Revolution” that the official national repertoire Canti per la Liturgia, approved by the Italian bishops and the Vatican, was published in Italy in May, 2009. It has 384 hymns and songs for Mass, including Mass parts, refrains and antiphons, and strophic hymns. The 25 pieces for Lent are typical of the entire collection: there are two chant pieces from Solesmes and 4 melodies by historic composers (Bach, Crüger, Neumark und Decius), but everything else is from the 20th century. This is not so much because the Italians are particularly open to things new, but because there is little by way of a tradition of congregational hymnody to draw on. The old hymn tunes, one notes, are all by German Lutherans.
The foreword states that the official national repertoire should be integrated into existing hymnals as soon as possible; in dioceses which have no hymnal, the national repertoire should form the core for future hymnals, along with the free addition of local hymns and songs.
I have some observations on the liturgies celebrated by the IAH conference participants: two Catholic Masses, one Lutheran Eucharist, and one Orthodox Vespers.
I write as a Roman Catholic. With all due respect to my Protestant and Orthodox fellow Christians, from which my church certainly could learn very much, I admit to being rather proud of the Vatican II-reformed Catholic rite of Mass as I celebrated it with other Christians from other traditions.
I’m drawn to the beauty and sacredness of the Orthodox liturgy, the sense of an inherited tradition not invented by us, the absence of commentators and announcers and songleaders waving arms at us, the absence of ad-libbing celebrants, the purity of vocal music without accompaniment. But the people do not seem to form a community celebrating the liturgy together. Each individual makes the Sign of the Cross repeatedly, seemingly whenever moved to do so; only when a certain word or phrase is picked up by the worshipers did they (or many or most of them) make the Sign of the Cross at the same time. The iconostasis, as artistically beautiful as it is, distorts the liturgy and divides the assembly too much into privileged clergy and excluded people, even though the entire church space is clearly sacral, and the people are clearly connected to what is going on behind screen, even when the doors are closed and they can only hear but not see the liturgy.
At the Protestant Eucharist (see part one) – and this is probably because I like what I’m used to – I missed the familiarity of the Catholic ritual. I certainly appreciated the excellent selection of solid, traditional Protestant hymns and the strong preaching. But the outline of the service didn’t seem adequately rooted in the Western tradition. I wished it were closer to, for example, the 1983 ecumenical statement Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry.
Maybe this is only true of conference liturgies, but it always seems like we’re unsure when to sit and when to stand at IAH Protestant Eucharist, and it doesn’t always seem clear why either is done. Ease of participation is facilitated by familiarity in bodily ritual, and one is drawn into the sacred mysteries through such strong signs as, for example, always standing for the Gospel reading.
The Catholic Mass, reformed according to the instructions of the fathers of Vatican II, got it right, in my view. It is clearly traditional (more so than the Protestant Eucharist) and clearly communal (more so than the Orthodox liturgy). The “high church” rituals are there – kissing the altar and Gospel book, bowing, genuflecting, crossing oneself – but they have clearly been brought into a communal action, and only to the extent that they serve the communal action. Ritualism in the pejorative sense is avoided.
I hope this very personal expression of my views doesn’t sound too prideful. There are plenty of problems and deficiencies in Catholic practice, also at IAH conferences – still distributing Communion primarily from the tabernacle, still offering Communion under only one form to the people (only the ordained deserve two forms?!). No one could claim that the level of preaching or of congregational singing is consistently high yet across the Catholic church.
In a future ecumenical collaboration aiming at greater interdenominational agreement, I would be open to changes and improvements to the Catholic ritual of Mass as we gained from the strengths of other Christian traditions. (Shared translations of liturgical texts would be a nice place to start, or continue, but for now, let’s not go there.)
Call me old-fashioned, but I still rather like the great dream of Horace Allen and Geoffrey Wainwright and Gordon Lathrop and so many others: gradual ecumenical convergence through gradually increasing similarity in our liturgical forms.
And I continue to believe that the Missal of Paul VI, now under siege from, of all places, the Pope from above and zealous Catholics from below, has a singularly strong contribution to make to the ecumenical endeavor.
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Thomas Strickland says:
Thanks, Anthony, for these reports. I have been able to attend IAH only once, and it was a great, great experience. This organization is very different from the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, for sure! But we have a lot to learn from each other.
I am interested in the discussion about a “canon” of hymns, and standardized versions. This is a big issue in the United States as well (at least for hymnal editors grappling with it) that needs a lot more thought and discussion.
Much appreciated are your personal observations on the ecumenical aspects of the conference. Whenever I take part in such gatherings, such as HSA or AGO, I am struck by how much unites us as Christians and lovers of song. While we need to be mindful of differences, these differences are not barriers to singing together to praise God.
Stanislaus Kosala says:
Father Ruff,
I’m not sure that you’re correct in saying that the reformed Roman liturgy has a greater sense of community than the Byzantine Liturgy. In the Orthodox Church it is still the case that only one Eucharistic celebration is permitted on Sundays so that the entire community may gather. Only one chalice is permitted per celebrations from which the faithful and the clergy received. For the proclamation of the Gospel the deacon enters out amongst the assembly rather than doing so from within an ambo in the sanctuary. The deacon goes out into the assembly to incense its members and doesn’t just do so from the sanctuary. For the consecratory prayer to the Holy Spirit upon the gifts, both the priest and the lay faithful prostrate themselves, instead of your practice of the priest standing and the faithful kneeling.
Finally, the byzantine liturgy can be celebrated with different gradations of ‘lay participation’, (congregational singing, the size of the iconostasis may vary, the royal doors aren’t closed everywhere for the anaphora, etc.), but the same is the case for the reformed roman liturgy which may be celebrated ad orientem, in latin, and communion under one species at an altar rail without being improper.
Mark Miller says:
Fr Anthony,
Your comments on the iconostasis make me wonder if we in the west think too readily, or rather too exclusively in terms of power sturctures and the (Gospel) criticism thereof. (That is one of our contributions.) There is another dimension to the hiddeness/revelation of a Byzantine liturgy. The icons and the screen which hold many of them up are as much about revelation as hiding; as much about acknowleging the unseen and yet revealed grace of Christ. The mystery is hidden. . . in order that it may be revealed. The climax is the coming out the doors of the presider with the chalice- the coming to us of Christ. So the “screen”, in context, is not ONLY a division of laity and clergy and or power. The clergy are icons in a sort of “acted icon” or of course, sacrament of the glory which is to be revealed. The entire church, as you note, is the space of this “acted icon.”
Thanks too for your mention of Gordon, my first teacher in college days before seminary.
Karl Liam Saur says:
Maria Theresa had a lot of power to do that 3 years after she died. However, once she died, her son Joseph II did do a lot of regulation of things Catholic that his mother had resisted doing….
Mariko Hishamunda says:
“Each individual makes the Sign of the Cross repeatedly, seemingly whenever moved to do so”
It sounds like you would enjoy the regimented, military-style uniformity of the Old Believers’ churches, where everyone must cross themselves and bow at the same time (or else!). It’s all in perspective I guess – what you see as being anti-communal I see as a free mix of the communal (collective crossing at certain generally important points) and personal (crossing when God touches a person in a particular way during a service).
“The iconostasis, as artistically beautiful as it is, distorts the liturgy and divides the assembly too much into privileged clergy and excluded people”
I don’t think any Orthodox view the iconostas this way, especially given that some of the churches’ biggest goof-offs (its boys) are often serving in the altar with the “privileged clergy” :-).
“…announcers and songleaders waving arms at us, the absence of ad-libbing celebrants, the purity of vocal music without accompaniment”
All reasons why I don’t attend modern Roman Catholic or Protestant services – they’re both embarrassing and awkward, whatever language they’re in.
Chuck Terbille says:
Fr. Anthony,
Thanks for the report on the various vernacular hymnodies. Did I miss something or did no one speak about French? I know that into the early 20th century there was a strong tradition of Catholic “cantiques” (dominated by Louis Lambiotte, who was more precisely a Belgian by birth) and the French Protestants sang metrical psalms to the tunes of Louis Bourgeois and others, and they sang translations of German and English hymns in “les ecoles du Dimanche.”
Also I’m surprised that the Italians don’t honor the tradition of medieval “lodi spirituali” and the catechism songs (I’ve forgotten the proper Italian term) that Alfonso de’ Ligouri is supposed to have sung from the pulpit.
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43rd President of the United States: 2001 ‐ 2009
The President's News Conference With President Vladimir Putin of Russia
President Bush. Thank you all. Please be seated. I'm pleased to welcome my friend Vladimir Putin back to the White House. We just had a constructive meeting and a candid conversation. I told the President how much I enjoyed visiting Russia early this year and how much I'm looking forward to going back to Russia for the G-8.
I also thanked President Putin—Vladimir—for Russia's offers of assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It meant a lot to know that you cared enough to send critical supplies, and our country really appreciates it. People are going through some tough times down there, and I think it lifts their spirits to know that not only Americans but Russians care about their future.
We've got a strong ally in Russia in fighting the war on terror. You know, it was about 4 years ago that our country got attacked; 1 year ago, there was Beslan, both of them brutal attacks, both of them attacks by people who have no regard for innocent life. And we understand we have a duty to protect our citizens and to work together and to do everything we can to stop the killing. That's why we hold office.
And I appreciate you very much and your understanding of this war on terror. We also understand that we've got to work to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. We understand the stakes, that people who kill in cold blood, if they have weapons of mass destruction, will kill in cold blood on a massive scale. And I want to appreciate you for your understanding and thank you for your understanding of that.
We both signed the International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, which was a positive statement by the world. We discussed our efforts to work together in Iran and North Korea. We both—we have the same goal. We don't want the Iranians to have nuclear weapons, and we don't want the North Koreans to have nuclear weapons. We talked about ways to achieve those goals.
We talked about the need to improve nuclear security. This year we reached a milestone in nonproliferation cooperation by completing the conversion of 10,000 Russian nuclear warheads into peaceful fuel for U.S. power reactors. And I appreciate very much that sense of cooperation. That's good for the world to see.
We talked about our economic relationship. Russia has got a growing economy. We have products that they want, and they've got products that we want, like energy. And it's necessary for us to have a good economic relationship, one where we resolve our differences in a wise way. I told Vladimir that I'm very interested in seeing if we can't get—complete the negotiations for Russia's entry into the WTO, the World Trade Organization, by the end of this year.
As we strengthen our economic ties, we'll work to advance freedom and democracy in our respective countries and around the world. Russia has been a strong partner of the United States and will be even a stronger partner as the reforms that President Vladimir Putin has talked about are implemented, rule of law and the ability for people to express themselves in an open way in Russia.
I don't know how many visits we've had. I haven't been counting them because I've run out of fingers on my hands, but there's been a lot. And every time I visit and talk with President Putin, I—our relationship becomes stronger. And I want to thank you for that. Thank you for coming to the White House to visit.
President Putin. Thank you very much. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost, I'd like to thank the President for invitation to visit the White House. And at the outset, allow me to relate the words of most sincere compassion and support to the American people with regards to the strikes of Mother Nature, that's Katrine Hurricane, which caused the death of many human lives and caused serious destruction. Believe us, we are sincerely and genuinely having the feeling of compassion with that tragedy, with you.
Russia, in the very first hours after the tragedy, proposed its support. Of course, this aid is in no comparison with the scale—the plan which was laid down yesterday by the President of U.S. to restore that part of the country. But that was sincere support, and we wanted to shore up morally the people which they currently need most—that's medications. That's the first need objects. And I must say, these events, to the entire world, have become a serious lesson not only for the U.S. It's not an accident that we have paid a lot of attention today and while we had meetings in New York, since it's a global catastrophe—global, absolutely global catastrophe, which must make us think.
And today I told it to George, to ourselves in Russia, we too will draw our conclusions regarding organization of activities of services related to averting such catastrophes with efficient response to the similar catastrophes which are, indeed, of a global nature. This is precisely why we've discussed these tragic events and our cooperation as regards averting of this—[inaudible]—catastrophes, infectious disease, and so forth. I'm sure if we pool our effort, then our activities will become more efficient.
In general, the qualitative new level of interaction between our two countries allows to efficiently address these breakthrough strategic tasks in many spheres of our interaction. And today's meeting was another confirmation of that. The traditional, high priority subjects of our interaction is antiterrorist cooperation of U.S. and Russia. We have agreed to enhance the bilateral coordination, including on the level of the working group to combat terrorism.
Hereby, we believe that special attention should be paid to a joint effort to avert terrorist activities, generally and, of course, with the possible use by terrorists of weapons of mass destruction. You know that a relevant decision has been adopted in New York, in the United Nations organization.
Significant attention was paid to the subject of nonproliferation, and here we have discussed the North Korean problem and the Iranian nuclear dossier. And I must say that our positions are very close with the American partners here. We will continue to coordinate our work. On our part, I'd like to point out that the potential of diplomatic solutions to all these questions is far from being exhausted, and we'll undertake all the steps necessary to settle all these problems and issues, not to aggravate them, not to bring them to extremalities.
We have in detail discussed other crisis-related situations in the world, and I must say that on all these issues, our foreign policy agencies are in touch constantly.
We have discussed also the upcoming meeting of G-8 group, and I'm thankful to George for some of his recommendations. We will continue with our partners to be in touch, closely coordinating preparation of this event and working out the agenda, so that the meeting of G-8 in the Russian Federation be organized at high-level quality but also would take the torch and uphold it and also bring some fresh breath as regards the relevance of all the subjects as they are considered by our countries and the entire world.
We also discussed today the situation of the post-Soviet Union space. Our countries have joint interests in maintaining stability and economic prosperity of this vast territory. The position of Russia is well known. We come out for the consistent advancement of integrational process within the frameworks of this community of independent states, with straight respect to sovereignty of all our neighbors, their own right, without pressure from outside, to choose their mode of national development. And we will coordinate our activities with all our partners on that one.
In the course of negotiations, we have also assessed the course of fulfillment of all—of instructions given on Russia-U.S. relations, and I'd like to point out the economic ties and this development President just mentioned, the fact that we have a mutual interest towards each other, including as regards the growing Russia economy and in the sector of energy. We have discussed that in detail.
Basically, this is always the subject of our bilateral meetings. We have vast reserves to further develop our economic interaction, and first and foremost, as regards energy dialog, high technologies, space research, and you know that over the past years, a lot has been done both by U.S. and the Russian Federation in this area jointly.
We have discussed the possibility of accession of WTO by Russia. We discussed that in further detail, and I'm very thankful to the President of the U.S. for understanding of our interests during the negotiation process. And I hope that at the expert level, too, our specialists will be able to ultimately find some practical solutions, even if the questions they have to coordinate are quite a few. But the positive dynamics is there, and I would like to express the hope that it will result in specific outcomes.
And in conclusion, I'd like to underscore one more time that we are convinced with the President that the firm basis of the Russia-U.S. partnership should be based on the broad ties of our societies, citizens, civil societies. And after this meeting in the White House, we will have a chance to talk with the leaders of the American companies. And I hope that those meetings will also be of help and be useful, since we will discuss specific projects of participation of major U.S. companies in the Russian economy, first and foremost, in the energy sphere.
And I'd like to thank, one more time, the U.S. President that even if very difficult situation is known right now, where Mother Nature has revealed itself, well, he has found it possible to materialize our agreements and this meeting has occurred, even if it was clear that constantly with his mind, he is out there with his thoughts, with those people, with those problems. But still, it was possible to run through the entire agenda. We have discussed all the questions there. We have agreed on the immediate steps in future, as regards to interaction between U.S. and Russian Federation. And I hope this will be a good impulse for our cooperation in all those spheres I have just enumerated.
President Bush. We'll take two questions a side, starting with Terry [Terence Hunt, Associated Press].
Hurricane Katrina Recovery/National Debt
Q. Mr. President, with billions of dollars flowing out of Washington for hurricane relief, some Republicans are worried that you're writing a blank check that will have to be paid by future generations. Who is going to have to pay for this recovery, and what's it going to do to the national debt?
President Bush. First of all, for our citizens who haven't seen what I've seen— you've seen what I've seen—it's—we lost a lot of life and a lot of property. I mean, the area destroyed by the storm is the size of Great Britain. And we've got whole towns just completely flattened, just wiped out. And one of our great cities, New Orleans, is—a lot of it is underwater. And by "underwater," I mean water over the rooftops. And those homes will be destroyed. Thousands of people won't have homes. And so this is an enormous task to help the region start growing again.
One of the commitments that I made last night is for the Federal Government to fund a significant portion of the infrastructure repair and rebuilding, in other words, our bridges and our roads, our schools. The water systems are ruined. The sewer system is ruined. And I meant that when I said we will do that. Part of the recovery is to make sure there's an infrastructure that works.
Yesterday in New Orleans, for example, the mayor was so thrilled that a portion of New Orleans, the French Quarter, for example, has got lights and sewers—you can't drink the water, but the sewer system works. In other words, he's beginning to see some life. And it just reminded me that as we can get the infrastructure up and running as quickly as possible, get the debris cleared, get the infrastructure up and running, then life will begin.
And so, you bet, it's going to cost money. But I'm confident we can handle it, and I'm confident we can handle our other priorities. It's going to mean that we're going to have to make sure we cut unnecessary spending. It's going to mean we don't do— we've got to maintain economic growth, and therefore, we should not raise taxes. Our working people have had to pay a tax, in essence, by higher gasoline prices. And we don't need to be taking more money out of their pocket. And as we spend the money, we got to make sure we spend it wisely. And so we're going to have inspectors general overseeing the expenditure of the money.
Our OMB will work with Congress to figure out where we need to offset when we need to offset, so that we can manage not only to maintain economic growth and vitality but to be able to spend that which is necessary to help this region get back on its feet. So it's a big role for the Federal Government.
There's a big role for private sector. And that's why I call for economic growth zones, an economic enterprise zone. Look, there's not going to be any revenues coming out of that area for a while anyway, so we might as well give them good tax relief in order to get jobs there and investment there. It makes sense. The entrepreneurial spirit is what's going to help lift this part of the world up. So we've got a—I started laying out the outlines of a plan, and it's one that we want to work with Congress on.
Q. What will it cost?
President Bush. Well, it's going to cost whatever it costs. We're going to be wise about the money we spend. I mean, you're—we haven't totaled up all the bridges and highways, but I said we'll make a commitment to rebuild the infrastructure and—to help rebuild the infrastructure. We're also spending money on—$2,000 a family to help these people get back on their feet. There's a variety of programs. The key question is to make sure the costs are wisely spent and that we work with Congress to make sure that we are able to manage our budget in a wise way. And that is going to mean cutting other programs.
Do you want to call on somebody?
Russia-U.S. Relations
Q. The Russian-U.S. relationship largely is based on your good personal relations. In year 2008, you both will cease to be Presidents. So have you laid any guarantees so that U.S.-Russia relationship could go on not worse than it does right now?
President Bush. That's a good question.
President Putin. Are they already firing us? We still want to work. [Laughter] To be serious, well, I might say that guarantees of the positive development of the U.S.-Russia relations are based on the mutual interests to develop such relations between the two countries. With their steps, leaders can either help such an objective processes of development or be an impediment. We try to do whatever it takes to support this process. So far, we are responsible and will continue to do so.
President Bush. For example, we will leave behind some legacies: the Moscow Treaty, which commits both countries to reducing our nuclear warheads; trade. In other words, as our countries and different companies begin to invest—companies begin to invest in both countries, that leaves behind a legacy that will be hard for future governments to undo. There's kind of a strategic dialog. We get in habits sometimes, and the idea of setting a way for governments to talk to each other at different levels of government is a good legacy.
And so, we do have 3 more years, which I found out is a long period of time. And we'll be able to do more together that people—that future governments will view as a way to move forward to keep the peace and to be—to deal with big issues in a complex world.
Steve [Steve Holland, Reuters].
Response to Future U.S. Disasters/Iran
Q. Last night you said that greater Federal involvement and troops may be required in future disasters. Could you elaborate on that a little bit? And were you able to convince President Putin on the need to send Iran to the Security Council? Sorry to do a two-part.
President Bush. No, that's—hit me with a two-part question.
First, on Iran, we agree that the Iranians should not have a nuclear weapon. That's important for people to understand. When you share the same goal, it means, as you work diplomatically, you're working toward that goal.
Secondly, I am confident that the world will see to it that Iran goes to the U.N. Security Council if it does not live up to its agreements. And when that referral will happen is a matter of diplomacy. And that's what we talked about. We talked about how to deal with this situation diplomatically.
The first part of the question—oh, was how to deal with disasters.
Q. Federal involvement in disasters.
President Bush. Yes. I don't want to prejudge the commission's—what do they call it, the bipartisan commission that is set up in Congress. I don't want to prejudge their findings. But I do think they ought to seriously consider the fact that there are—a storm, for example, of a certain category, which will require an overwhelming response by Government that can only be provided by, say, the United States military through NORTHCOM, because of its ability to muster logistical—logistics and supplies so quickly. And that's what I want Congress to consider, and I think it's very important that Congress consider this.
It's important for us to learn from the storm what could have been done better, for example, and apply that to other types of situations, such as a pandemic. At the U.N., I talked about avian flu; we need to take it seriously. I talked to Vladimir about avian flu; I talked to other world leaders about the potential outbreak of avian flu. If avian flu were to hit this country, do we have the proper response mechanisms? Does the Federal Government have the authorities necessary to make certain decisions? And this storm will give us an opportunity to review all different types of circumstance to make sure that the President has the capacity to react. And that's what I was referring to. I wasn't drawing any conclusions; I was just suggesting that this be a matter of debate and discussion with the bipartisan commission that is going to be set up there, with Democrats and Republican Senators and Congressmen.
President Putin. As regards to the Iranian subject, I might as well say that the our position is very clear and understandable. We support all of the agreements on nonproliferation, which includes Iran among others, fully, and we've always, in this regard, been open with our partners, transparent completely. And yesterday in the meeting with the President of Iran, we directly told him so. And of course, we are against the fact that Iran would become a nuclear power, and we'll continue to do so in future under any circumstances.
Now, as regards as to how we can control the situation, there are many ways and means to do so. We wouldn't like our— inaccurate steps could bring us to the situation similar to that one in the Korean Peninsula. We're in touch with all the partners in the process—with the European- 3, with the U.S. We have understanding of what we need to do, and I hope that our activities will be coordinated and will bring positive results.
Once again, yesterday I heard from the Iranian leader, a statement that Iran does not seek to acquire nuclear weapons. That's the first thing I wanted to share with you.
Now—and if you allow me, today, this way or the other, still we'll come back— and for quite a while, I guess, in future, too—to the fact of this horrible catastrophe, which was passed on to the soil of the U.S., having to do with this Hurricane Katrine. If, George, you don't mind, I would come back to this first question, which relates to the fact that we are taking away money from the future generation pockets. In the Soviet Union, for many decades, we lived under the motto: We need to think about the future generation. But we never thought about the existing, current, present generations. And at the end of the day, we have destroyed the country, not thinking about the people living today.
Therefore, of course, yes, we need to spend money. There is no two ways about it. And I believe that both U.S. and we in Russia and in other countries of the world, we've been analyzing, all of us, what has transpired, how the state and the bodies responded to the current events. Many of us will draw their conclusions as regards restructuring the activities of the relevant services and bodies of the state which ought to minimize the repercussions of such catastrophes.
President Bush. Final question.
Emerging Democracies
Q. The question to Mr. President of the U.S. Mr. President, while talking in the United Nations organization, you, probably conscientiously in a row—talking about the strive for the road to democracy—mentioned such countries as Afghanistan, Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, and Iraq. Do you believe the situation politically in this country is similar?
And to you, Mr. President, since we're talking about it, what is your assessment in Iraq and in Ukraine, please? Thank you.
President Bush. Let me make sure I understand your question. Do I believe the country in—the situation in our country is similar to their countries?
Q. You spoke at the United Nations about the strive for democracy——
President Bush. Right.
Q. ——and you——
President Bush. I remember that.
Q. And you mentioned Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan—just do you think the situation in these countries is similar?
President Bush. Oh. Well, no, I think they're all different. I think, as a matter of fact, democracy tends to reflect the cultures and histories of each different country. I do think, though, they're bound by some common principles, one, that governments that are elected by the people tend to respond to the people, that they've got minority rights and rule of law. But they're all on different stages of the development of democracy.
Democracy just doesn't happen. It grows. It takes a while. It's the experience of our country. It's the experience of the Russian Federation. I mean, democracies take on the customs and habits of the particular people, and they mature. And so they're at different stages. I mean, clearly, Iraq is a struggling democracy. But one thing is for certain: The people have made their mind about what they want. They want democracy: 8.5 million Iraqis went to the polls, see, and they've got a constitution that's been written. It wasn't written under bayonet or under the barrel of a gun. It was written by people from different factions of the society that have come together. And it will be voted on soon. And then there will be another election. So this is an emerging democracy, and it's different from a more mature democracy.
Q. Can I follow up?
President Bush. No. [Laughter] Got to keep order and discipline. Right, Steve?
President Putin. On the last question about Iraq and Ukraine—Iraq, we are aware of the situation in Iraq. Unfortunately, we are facing constant violence, and that relates to known factors having to do with the upcoming referendum on constitution there. I believe that if it will be possible to get constitution, this will be a good, strong step forward to achieve stability in that country.
In my opinion, it will be only possible if the main political forces, ethnic groups, will get a sense that it's their own constitution. If this document will be confirmed, agreed upon by the overwhelming segments of the population, if the current leadership makes a strong case and convinces population that this constitution is satisfactory to all, it will maintain territorial integrity, will take into account the interests of major minority groups, then it will be a real step forward in settlement. And we hope very much that will occur.
Now, as regards Ukraine, well, what can be said here? The political crisis, as I said recently in Berlin, the situation is under control of the President.
President Bush. Good job. Thank you. Good job.
NOTE: The President's news conference began at 2:59 p.m. in the East Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans, LA. President Putin referred to President Mahmud Ahmadi-nejad of Iran; and President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine. President Putin and some reporters spoke in Russian, and their remarks were translated by an interpreter. A portion of this news conference could not be verified because the tape was incomplete.
George W. Bush, The President's News Conference With President Vladimir Putin of Russia Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/216329
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Miguel Angel Jimenez to play Dick's Open
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Open officials disclosed Wednesday that Miguel Angel Jimenez has committed to play in the Aug. 18-20 PGA Tour Champions event at En-Joie Golf Course.
A 53-year-old Spaniard, Jimenez has one victory per season on the 50-and-over tour from 2014 to the present. This summer will mark his first appearance at En-Joie.
Jimenez became the oldest player to win a European Tour event (50 years, 133 days) when he topped the Open de Espana field in May 2014. In 26 starts on the PGA TOUR Champions he has 17 top-10 finishes.
He has claimed 21 European Tour and seven Asian Tour titles. Jimenez, third in the 2017 Charles Schwab Cup race, was a part of victorious Ryder Cups Teams in 2004 and 2010.
“We are excited to finally welcome Miguel to Endicott,” said tournament director John Karedes. “ … We have been working with Miguel and his agent since he turned 50 to join us and we are thankful that his 2017 global schedule affords us this opportunity.”
Jimenez has placed eighth or better in his last four PGA Tour Champions starts, a stretch that includes a victory early this month in the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic.
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Ghana has lost its place as country with the highest level of press freedom achieved under my tenure - Mahama
By Mutala Yakubu
Former President John Mahama says Ghana became the country with the highest level of press freedom in Africa under his tenure.
Mahama in a World Freedom Day message said the press freedom is a huge contributing factor to our democracy.
He said even though the press freedom is curtailed under the Akufo-Addo government it is still important that we speak up against that act.
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"Freedom of the press is not a given; we should always remember that, and especially now, when the COVID-19 pandemic tempts some governments around the world to want to curtail the liberties of citizens. Just as the press performs a civic duty to all of us, we also have a civic duty to always defend and be ready to fight for freedom of the press".
"During my tenure as President, we became the country with the highest level of press freedom in Africa, at that time we were ranked number one out of 54 countries in Africa, we were was also 23rd in the globla ranking out of 180 countries. Three and half years later we have slumed seven places on the global ranking and lost the number spot in Africa to Namibia and Cape Verde and this should worry us as Ghanaians".
He also called on Ghanaians to speak against what he describes as the dictatorial closure of radio stations by the Akufo-Addo government.
“Let us all protect the freedom of the press, let us condemn the killing of Ahmed Suale, as well as the harassment of Manasseh Azure and Edward Adeti. Let us rise up and speak against the dictatorial withdrawal of radio frequencies and closure of stations by the Akufo-Addo gov’t”.
Ghana is currently ranked 7th in Africa and 30th in the global ranking of countries with highest press freedom.
The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in Windhoek in 1991.
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Christopher M. Henderson
Email: chris@richardharrislaw.com
Chris graduated from the University of Washington in 2003 with a degree in Political Science. Following his undergraduate work, Chris enrolled in law school at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. During law school, Chris spent a summer in Salzburg, Austria, studying constitutional law and human rights under United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. During his second year of law school, Chris began working for the Richard Harris Personal Injury Law Firm.
Following graduation in 2006, Chris took and passed the Nevada Bar. In 2008, Chris fulfilled a lifelong goal of becoming an FBI Agent and spent several years working for the FBI as a Special Agent in Eugene, Oregon. In 2014, he decided to return to his roots and rejoin the Richard Harris Law Firm.
Chris was born in Seattle, Washington, and attended Shorewood High School. His interests outside of work include traveling with his wife and playing baseball with his three boys. He is a big fan of the Vegas Golden Knights, Raiders, and the Las Vegas band, The Killers.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, B.A. (2003)
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Al Gore Says the World Has Crossed a Threshold on Renewable Energy
Author: Leslie Kaufman Published: 7/21/2020 Bloomberg Green
The former vice president was one of the speakers at Bloomberg Green’s live event, ‘The Time Is Now.
Former Vice President Al Gore told the audience at Bloomberg Green’s virtual live event, “The Time Is Now,” that he’s encouraged by the fact that so many economic stimulus plans across the globe are focused on carbon reduction. It shows, he said, that the world has crossed a threshold “beyond which it is ever clearer that sustainable technologies are cheaper and better.”
Gore spoke in the closing session of the conference, which also featured Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Lucas Joppa, Roosevelt Institute Director of Climate Policy Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and famed climate economist Nicholas Stern. All the guests addressed the challenges created by Covid-19, but also the opportunity it represents as a potential turning point for the global effort to fight climate change.
The coronavirus pandemic has created new political momentum for climate policies across the globe, said Stern, who chairs London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. “If you look at the opinion polls,” he said, “they show that people want to build back better. They recognize the old system was dangerous and they recognize that we can change quickly. The political leaders not only have the space to do it, they have the pressure to do it.”
That’s certainly true in Europe, where leaders on Tuesday passed a bloc-wide stimulus package that included $572 billion for green priorities. In the U.S., however, increased political polarization requires a different strategic approach. Gunn-Wright, one of the architects of the Green New Deal, called for a greater emphasis on climate justice in dealing with the environmental effects of climate change.
“To move something with no support on one side, you need multiracial coalitions,” Gunn-Wright said. “And that is difficult to do unless you are speaking about climate in a way that creates a more just and equitable society.”
Gunn-Wright and Gore both spoke approvingly of the climate plan released last week by the Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden. The proposal called for $2 trillion of investment over four years to move the nation to 100% carbon-free electric generation by 2035, among other goals. It also committed to putting 40% of that investment into communities that have disproportionately borne the brunt of climate change, which tend to be communities of color. While Gore called the plan “pretty impressive,” Gunn-Wright also warned that without taking a holistic approach, the plan could still fall short of its climate justice goals.
Joppa spoke to the role corporations have in working against climate change. While they can’t take the place of a strong governmental regulatory system, he said, they have a crucial role in meeting the nation’s ambitious carbon reduction goals.
“We need to take a very broad view on what’ s necessary and the role that a company like Microsoft can play,” Joppa said. Referring to emissions reductions he added, “We need to show that this isn’t just possible but also good for business.”
At the start of this year, Microsoft announced it would be carbon negative by 2030. On Monday, the software-maker said it would be a founding member of a new consortium of global corporations including Nike Inc., Starbucks Corp., Unilever NV, and Danone that’s devoted to sharing resources and tactics for slashing carbon emissions. The consortium brings together the efforts of some of the biggest global companies that have pledged to take action against climate change.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that the first investment of its $1 billion climate fund will be in venture capital firm Energy Impact Partners, which invests in new technologies for greener energy and transportation systems.
Other guests included Melanie Nakagawa, director of climate strategy at Princeville Capital, and Marcelia Freeman, senior vice president at EIG Partners.
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Articles Culture Short Stories Christmas Stories
Short Story: Willibald's Trip to Heaven
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Willibald Krautmann and Christmas – these two things belonged together like a door and its hinges, like a clock and its face, like a bell and its tower. The whole year round he dreamed of and prepared for Christmas. In his lifetime he had carved more than a thousand figurines; he had built sixty manger scenes, and never once had he missed the annual crèche-makers’ conference in Innsbruck.
Willibald had a round, stocky figure that was much too small for his ambitious soul. Often his ego would inflate itself, rise up, and whisper in his ear, “Willibald, don’t forget that you are the greatest artist in the land; there is no other worthy of comparison. And this is common knowledge in heaven too: there is hardly another craftsman there as highly esteemed as you. When you die, the gates of Paradise shall be flung wide in welcome, and you shall enter in triumph. And just wait till you see the mansion that has been prepared for you!” Such little murmurings fell often into Willibald’s ear, and he was always a ready listener.
Now it happened that just on the night before Christmas Eve, Willibald passed away peacefully, and found himself trotting up a steep road toward heaven, and talking to himself.
“Do you see, my dear old Willibald, how the Christ Child honors those whom he loves? He has fetched you home on Christmas Eve, just in time for the most beautiful feast day in heaven. Perhaps he wants you to set up the heavenly manger scene. But it couldn’t be – it’s such short notice. Indeed, he’s running very late, if that’s the plan! Well, well, we will see…” As Willibald thought about setting up a manger scene in heaven, excitement came over him like a fever, and his progress seemed to him much too slow. The climb was steep, he wasn’t the youngest, and – being winter – it was bitterly cold.
Often he stumbled or slipped backward several steps, which annoyed him, and he soon began to grumble.
“If they really wanted me in heaven, they could at least send a coach. That wouldn’t be asking too much, would it? And it wouldn’t have to be a coach-and-twelve; I’d be just as satisfied with a coach-and-four. And where are all the angels – what are they up to? Won’t even one come out to meet me, Willibald Krautmann? Certainly I didn’t expect a whole legion, but a few dozen archangels would have made a nice escort; indeed, it would only be proper. I’m no mere journeyman, after all; they ought to know that by now.”
But in spite of all his muttering and grumbling, no angelic escort, nor any heavenly coach-and-twelve (or even four) appeared. There was nothing Willibald Krautmann could do but walk wearily onward. And so he continued in silence for a long time.
Darkness fell, the moon rose, and soon his strength began to ebb. He sat down on a large rock. Suddenly he noticed in the distance a wonderful city – the heavenly Jerusalem. It stood on a silver hill, and the walls, houses, and towers gleamed with gold. The city was illuminated with a light that was brighter than the sun, yet not half as blinding – it was mysteriously mild and soft. The windows and facades shimmered with reds and purples. Willibald gaped. Soon, however, the cold got to him, and he began to grumble again.
“Isn’t anyone coming? Perhaps they are not quite finished preparing my reception – or they think I’m still far off. Well, I’ll let them know they are mistaken!”
So Willibald stepped onto a nearby star, raised himself to his full height, waved his big hat and shouted with all his might, “Hey you, up there!”
There was no response. Not even an echo. He waited.
Suddenly a little angel in a white gown fluttered up over the city walls, glanced down at him, and disappeared again.
“Ah,” he thought. “Now it’s going to begin. Now all the bells are going to ring at once, and the cannons will shoot.” But a quarter of an hour passed, and then half an hour, and still nothing happened. At one point he was sure he heard the ringing of chimes, as sweet as the bells of the cathedral in Salzburg. He heard singing too, but it was far away. Willibald shook his head in disbelief. What did it mean?
Suddenly it dawned on him: they wanted to surprise him. He was supposed to go right up to the gate, and once he was there, the gates would open, and the heavenly hosts would stream out in all their splendor, and the angelic choirs would receive him with singing. “Yes,” he thought, “that’s the only way they would welcome a person like me. To be sure, I’ve never been one for surprises, but if they really take pleasure in such nonsense up here, then in the name of goodness I won’t spoil their joy.”
In good spirits once more, Willibald marched confidently up the last silvery rise, and stood expectantly right before the gate of heaven. Nothing happened. The gate did not spring open, no music broke forth, and no host streamed from within – nor even a single cherub. There was nothing but eerie silence. It was as if heaven were completely abandoned.
By now, Willibald was getting hot under the collar. A surprise is a surprise – that he could understand; and if the Heavenly Father wanted to greet him with a host of little rascals, fine. He’d play hide-and-seek with them, if he had to. After all, he had often carved amusing little cherubs; he had had his fun too. But this was going a little too far – and if it went on, it would no longer be a joke.
“What do they really want me to do?” he wondered. “Stand here like a beggar, and ask for shelter? What do they think I am? A wayward tramp?” No, he really didn’t need that – he, Willibald Krautmann, who had given his very life to Christmas and the Christ Child. “Oh well,” he sighed. “If they can wait, so can I. We’ll see who runs out of patience first!”
And so he sat down on a stone near the gate, his chin in his hands. He began to feel rather sorry for himself. Then it happened: suddenly, from behind the arch of the closed gate, he heard hundreds of jubilant, high-pitched voices growing louder and louder. Then the gates of heaven opened, and a great crowd of cherubs pressed forward and spilled out. And who was standing at the threshold, but St. Peter himself, speaking in a deep voice and directing the multitude. “I knew it!” thought Willibald, overcome with relief.
Strangely, no one noticed him, and after a few moments, his joy turned to bewilderment. He coughed purposefully, and coughed again, trying to draw the angels’ attention to him. It didn’t work. Not a single angel so much as glanced in his direction. By now he was really at a loss.
Was it someone else they had come out to meet? Had they forgotten him altogether? Perhaps God, in all the flurry of holiday activities, had forgotten to announce that he, Willibald Krautmann, was due to arrive. “Well, then,” he decided, “I’ll have to announce the news myself.”
Seeing a bell-pull to one side of the gate, he grasped it and threw his whole weight on the rope. It worked. A gong sounded, and a head popped out from the window above him. It was St. Peter himself.
“What on earth do you think you’re doing, yanking on the bell-pull like that?” he asked. “And who are you, anyway?”
“It is I, Willibald Krautmann, well-known Tyrolean artist, carver of manger scenes.”
“Willibald Krautmann,” repeated St. Peter, bemused. “What an odd name! Never heard it before. I suppose you were looking for a place to stay?”
“Well, this is heaven, isn’t it?” Willibald threw back at him. “And I’ve been waiting out here for an hour already. Of course I’d like a place to stay.”
“Of course? It is not a matter of course at all. Let’s see what is written about you in the Book.”
St. Peter disappeared from the window, leaving Willibald open-mouthed. “Well, that was a friendly welcome! They don’t even know me up here? They have to look for my name in some stupid registry? The world pays with ingratitude; everyone knows that. But I wouldn’t have thought it was like that in heaven!”
Now St. Peter was back at the window, thumbing the pages of a large, black book. He took his time. “All right, here we are,” he said evenly, looking up. “But it says that you cannot enter.”
“What? I cannot enter! I’d just like to ask you for one good reason.”
“Of course. Just listen. You have been arrogant and vain, and proud of your own work. You have considered the art of others worthless in comparison to your own; you have acted as if no one else was as gifted as you.”
“Mr. Heavenly Gatekeeper, you’re making mountains out of molehills. You used to be a fisherman, so I’m not surprised – but you just have no idea what an artist feels. And what about all the good I have done? In my lifetime I have carved more than half a hundred nativity scenes. I have awakened many dull hearts with my artistry, and brought much joy into the world; it has even been said that people could take an example from the integrity of my figures.”
“I’m sure that’s all true,” said St. Peter dryly. “But there is more – about your arrogance – that I can’t just scratch out.”
“Read on, then. I know I’m not the humblest. Everyone has his faults, and I’m not so conceited as to think that I’m an exception. But really, you’re making quite a fuss over nothing.” “My good Mr. Krautmann, I’m only just getting started. There are other things recorded here. You have been impatient and irritable. When a piece of work wasn’t going smoothly, you flared up in such anger – ”
“That was holy anger,” Willibald interrupted. “The Evil One could not stand my work, and often hid my tools or knocked over a scene, so that all the figures toppled onto the floor, and several broke. And then – why, certainly a righteous indignation would come over me.”
“The things you said were anything but quick prayers.” “For goodness sake, Mr. Gatekeeper! Who thinks about what he says in the heat of the moment? You can’t weigh that sort of thing on a golden scale. Besides, I never did anything violent in my anger, like…like other people I know. I never struck off anyone’s ear.”
“So we’re trying to start a lawsuit?” asked Peter sharply, “Then you ought to find yourself an advocate.”
“Just let me in, and I’ll find one in a hurry.”
“No one impure can enter. You’ll have to find someone on earth to speak on your behalf.”
“On earth? That’s a fine to-do. It’s unfortunate, I know, but I really don’t know anyone that well down there. I was a busy man in my day; I had very little time for other people.”
“There you have it, exactly,” agreed St. Peter. “But now I’m going to read you the heaviest debt on your account: In the course of an entire lifetime you were so self-centered that you were unable to make even one friend through performing a work of mercy – not even one advocate to speak for you in heaven.”
“Now listen here!” Willibald retorted. “I spent my time and my money on the Christmas work I did.”
“No expense is so great as a gift from the heart, especially to someone in need.”
“Of course; but you can’t throw away money unless you’ve got extra. And I always gave something.”
“Always? Last year, on Christmas Eve, you turned away a widow with three hungry children from your door.”
“Well, that’s not hard to explain: I was working overtime on a late order, one that required a new design. And I had an entire nativity scene to re-gild. Such things cost money – and everything is sinfully expensive these days.”
“You still had enough left over to go out for a drink on Christmas Eve – and you did more than just quench your thirst.”
“Goodness, that was just a little celebration, a very small one – and that, because it was Christmas. Besides, the wines they sell nowadays are so cheap that you only have to drink one glass, and it goes to your head.”
“What? You drank two bottles of the most expensive vintage! You won’t get far with lying, Mr. Krautmann; that’s something I really detest.”
“Dear St. Peter, don’t take it ill!” begged Willibald. “Little white lies like that come over the best people. I once read about someone who lied his way out of a tight spot three times in one night.”
“And wept for it the rest of his life, while you cover up and explain away your sins,” thundered St. Peter. “I’ve had it; that’s the end of my patience. Now get out of here!” And he slammed the window shut.
For the first time Willibald realized that he was really in a fix, and he decided to try another tack. Trembling, he reached up to knock on the window, and when he found he wasn’t tall enough, hung his head and begged and whined like a little boy. St. Peter ignored him. Next he tried the bell-pull again, though this time he didn’t yank at the rope, but pulled on it gently. Still no response.
What should he do now, he wondered? Hopeless – and dead tired – he stumbled along the wall, looking for a place to lie down and sleep. He had not gone far when he came to a small window that bathed the ground below it in a golden light. Curious, he peered in, and – dear God! What a celebration was going on inside! It was absolutely heavenly: hundreds of angels were dancing in a sea of light and joy.
Ecstatic, Willibald drank in the scene, and as he did the scales fell from his eyes: he saw that the source of all that light and joy was love, the unending delight of the soul. And to think that he was seeing only a fraction of it all! Perhaps only a thousandth part of it!
Then a rush of heavenly music rose and swept over him – the voices of at least a million angels chanting and singing in praise of God. “No one on earth would believe me if I described this,” thought Willibald to himself. “No one on earth has even imagined such music!”
Ecstatic, he began to sway with the music. Suddenly his chest tightened. He felt hot and breathless. Grasping at his heart, he panicked. His breast burned with such longing to be part of the heavenly scene in front of him that he was sure he was going to die. He wanted to cry out, but couldn’t; he wanted to sing, but his mouth was dry. And so he wept, from the depths of his heart. “Forgive my sins!” he sobbed piteously. “Never again will I be haughty or cruel! Forgive me! Please forgive me!”
Willibald wept softly at first, then louder, and then very loudly, yelling and howling. He pressed his head against the windowpane so hard that the glass shone with his tears.
Crack! Suddenly the window shattered and gave way, and he lost his balance, and found himself falling. Down, down, and farther down he fell, into what seemed a bottomless pit… And now he heard a familiar voice: “For God’s sake, stop your yelling; what on earth is going on?” He opened his eyes. There he was, lying in his warm bed, and beside him his bleary-eyed wife, who was shaking him by the shoulder.
“What’s the matter with you, you silly fool?” cried his wife. “You’ve been howling and carrying on like a hog at the butcher’s!”
“Oh – I have been in heaven!” he replied.
“In heaven? A fine heaven, where you have to whimper and yelp like that.”
“Quiet, woman, and I’ll tell you all about it.”
Willibald Krautmann did not tell his wife everything; but he did became more thoughtful. During the Christmas holidays he lost a big sum of money – at least his wife believed he had lost it. In fact, he gave it to the widow he had turned away the year before. He softened in other ways, too, and was no longer rude or impatient or unkind.
To his next-door neighbor, who asked why, Willibald explained very simply that this year he had finally begun to understand what Christmas was really about. But he also told this neighbor, who was his best friend, the whole story of his trip to heaven.
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Corey Allen Kotler’s Journey from a Stand-up Comedian to Hollywood Actor
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Corey Allen Kotler is a versatile Hollywood actor. You may recognize him from Taylor Swift’s Wildest Dreams music video, television shows like 2 Broke Girls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Rizzoli & Isles the Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and the the MTV Movie Awards. We recently got an opportunity to have a conversation with him. Sharing it with our readers here.
Pro Media Mag : First of all tell us about the start of your professional career.
Corey Allen Kotler : I began my showbiz career as a stand-up comedian in New York City. “I had to muster up a lot of courage” . The year was 1989 and I was a senior at Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, New York. Confidence and a degree of bravery was the key. I took the subway down to Greenwich Village in Manhattan. I figured that if I perform somewhere in a place where nobody knows me and I’m horrible, people wouldn’t say, “there’s the guy that thinks he’s a comedian. I got a slot at the open mic at the legendary, Bitter End located on Bleeker Street. I was actually received fairly well and I was off to the races so to speak. My courage and confidence seemed to developing at a rapid rate and within the next year and a half I successfully performed 8 times at the Amateur Night World Famous Apollo Theater in Harlem New York. I mentioned ‘successfully’ because if the crowd doesn’t like you at the Apollo, they boo you off and a clown rapidly ushers you off of the stage. Luckily that grim fate never happened to me. During that time I also had the privilege of performing for the American and allied armed forces on the USS Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, welcoming them home at the end of Operation Desert Storm. Soon after, with only $100 in my pocket I decided to move from my hometown of Bayside, New York to Chicago to train with the world famous Second City Improvisation conservatory. A young unknown actor by the name of Steve Carell was among the people that I had the privilege of studying with.
While in the Second City conservatory on a whim I was urged to audition for the original company of the play, Tony & Tina’s Wedding. I got cast in the role of Sal Antonucci the wedding photographer. I was told that I had been hired out of 800 other actors that had went out for the role. Tony and Tina’s Wedding had the distinction of being the longest running Off Broadway play in New York City and we were well received to sold out performances six nights a week. After my first year with the company I was moved to the resident company in New York City. During which time I decided to return to school by day where I attended Long Island University’s CW Post Campus. In 1998 graduated CW Post with a Bachelors in Broadcasting. During this period I got my very first on camera job in Michael Jackson’s , They Don’t Really Care About Us video which was on the History album.
Pro Media Mag : What have been some of your on camera career highlights? Tell us about some of your projects.
Corey Allen Kotler : In 1999 I made the move to Hollywood. Over the years to follow I got cast in 22 national television commercials including a 7Up commercial where I played the 7Up Mermaid! Remember kids, comedy ain’t pretty but money is and that spot paid rather handsomely as it ran for about two years and during that time it aired during the Grammy Awards, the Oscars and the Super Bowl. My very first network TV sitcom appearance was as a New York City cop on ABC’s Ugly Betty. Then I went on to appear in quite a number of television sketches including ten appearances on NBC’s The Tonight Show as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC and the opening number of MTV Movie Awards hosted by Rebel Wilson. Most recently, you may have seen me on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Transparent, Rizzoli and Isles and 2 Broke Girls.
Pro Media Mag : Who or what inspired you to become an actor?
Corey Allen Kotler : Well, at a very young age I actually wanted to be Bugs Bunny. Eventually I realized that I couldn’t become a Warner Brothers cartoon character. My early television influences included shows like Sanford and Son, Barney Miller, Lou Grant and The Odd Couple. As a teenager I was heavily influenced by the original cast of Saturday Night Live. That was my inspiration and motivation to study with the Second City as so many of SNL’s cast members came from there. Later in life when I worked on 2 Broke Girls, it was a surreal dream come true getting the opportunity to actually work with Garrett Morris who was one of the original cast members from Saturday Night Live. Soon after, when I got cast in the film, Angels on Tap I once again got to work with another childhood idol, the great Ed Asner.
Pro Media Mag :What has been your most memorable role ?
Corey Allen Kotler : When you love what you do, they’re all memorable in their own way. When I got to work side by side with Taylor Swift in her Wildest Dreams music video and her telling me that she personally selected me, was a great compliment. 2 Broke Girls was memorable not only because I got to spend the week with Garrett Morris but also because it was my first time working in front of a live studio audience. Angels on Tap is going to be my very first starring role and I got to work with a childhood inspiration, Ed Asner. The story is amazing and can’t wait for it to come out. And Sububicon!!!! Not only does it have an important message but just Google it and see the huge stars involved!
Pro Media Mag : What projects do you have coming up?
Corey Allen Kotler : In 2017 I’ll be in six upcoming feature films including Suburbicon, directed by George Clooney and my very first starring role opposite Ed Asner in the feature film, Angels on Tap.
Pro Media Mag : What is your advice to aspiring performers?
Corey Allen Kotler : My advice to anyone just starting out or anyone that wants to achieve their dreams is NEVER, EVER, EVER GIVE UP! To anyone that thinks that they can become an overnight success, I would like to quote Ray Kroc, the creator of McDonalds:
I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
Ray Kroc
Pro Media Mag : What’s the best way to follow you online?
Corey Allen Kotler : The best way to follow me, read fun blogs, watch some of my appearances and check out cool pictures with all sorts of celebs is my official site CoreyAllenKotler.com as well as my blog site.
For social media following you can follow me at :
Facebook : https://facebook.com/CoreyAllenKotler/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/coreyakotler
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/coreyallenkotleractor/
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Series: Evaluating Charter Schools
NY State Official Raises Alarm on Charter Schools — And Gets Ignored
A top official in the New York State Comptroller's Office has urged regulators to require more transparency on charter-school finances. The response has been, well, nonexistent.
by Marian Wang
Dec. 16, 2014, 4:13 p.m. EST
Questions About Public Transparency and Private Profits
Add another voice to those warning about the lack of financial oversight for charter schools. One of New York state's top fiscal monitors told ProPublica that audits by his office have found "practices that are questionable at best, illegal at worst" at some charter schools.
Pete Grannis, New York State's First Deputy Comptroller, contacted ProPublica after reading our story last week about how some charter schools have turned over nearly all their public funds and significant control to private, often for-profit firms that handle their day-to-day operations. The arrangements can limit the ability of auditors and charter-school regulators to follow how public money is spent – especially when the firms refuse to divulge financial details when asked.
Such setups are a real problem, Grannis said. And the way he sees it, there's a very simple solution. As a condition for agreeing to approve a new charter school or renew an existing one, charter regulators could require schools and their management companies to agree to provide any and all financial records related to the school.
"Clearly, the need for fiscal oversight of charter schools has intensified," he wrote in a letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio last week. "Put schools on notice that relevant financial records cannot be shielded from oversight bodies of state and local governmental entities."
It's a plea that Grannis has made before. Last year, he sent a similar letter to the state's major charter-school regulators – New York City's Department of Education, the New York State Education Department, and the State University of New York.
He never heard back from any of them. "No response whatsoever," Grannis said. Not even, he added, a "'Thank you for your letter, we'll look into it.' That would have been the normal bureaucratic response."
We contacted all three of these agencies and the mayor's office for comment. None of them got back to us.
The charter-school debate in New York, as elsewhere, is politically fraught. De Blasio's cautious stance on charters has put him at odds with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose financial backers include some big-dollar charter-school supporters. The state comptroller's office has faced repeated lawsuits from charter groups and operators challenging its authority to audit charter schools.
To Grannis, though, his efforts aren't about politics. His office is "agnostic on charters," as he put it. His office also audits the finances of traditional public-school districts, he pointed out.
"We're the fiscal monitors. We watch over the use or misuse of public funds," Grannis said. "This isn't meant to be anti-charter. Our job is not to be pro or anti."
Grannis has not yet gotten a response from the mayor's office about the letter he sent last week.
As to the charter-school regulators who got his letter the year before? He's still puzzled why they wouldn't be more interested in a possible fix, or why the charter regulators never bothered to respond.
"I honestly don't know," Grannis said. He said he's going to send another round of letters to them.
Related coverage: Read about how some charter schools "sweep" nearly all their public dollars directly into private firms, or our piece on how a chain of charter schools is channeling millions of public education dollars to for-profit companies controlled by the schools' founder.
If you have information about charter schools and their profits or oversight — or any other tips — email us at [email protected].
Marian Wang
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt.
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Franklin County area police log
GUILFORD TOWNSHIP >> A Georgia woman and her family were identified as the victims in Monday morning's fatal crash on Interstate 81.
According to Franklin County Coroner Jeff Conner, the driver was Renae D Pickett, 42. The passengers were Pickett's children Aszijah Gilliam, 21, and Ibn Miller, 16, all from Austell, Georgia.
Autopsies on all three were performed Tuesday, Conner said.
Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg responded to the two-vehicle crash around 5:17 a.m. Monday at mile marker 12 of I-81 south.
Pickett had been driving a Nissan Sentra in the left lane when she hit a deer and became disabled in the travel lane.
A Chambersburg man not identified by police was driving a Chevrolet Trailblazer and did not see the disabled vehicle before rear-ending it. After being struck, the Sentra was pushed into the median where it burst into flames.
Pickett and her family were killed on site, police said. The Chambersburg man was taken to Chambersburg Hospital for treatment of moderate injuries.
I-81 south was closed for around five hours while police investigated and cleared the crash.
Further information on the crash has not been released
Southampton Township
ASSAULT-- A 30-year-old Shippensburg man physically assaulted a 25-year-old Chambersburg woman, Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg said, during an argument between 9:15 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Nov. 3 at the 8000 block of Pineville Road.
(Incident no. H03-2434470)
Fannett Township
CRASH -- No one was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 3:16 p.m. Nov. 10 on Timmons Road. According to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg, Rosana L. Yoder, Port Royal, was driving a 1998 Chevrolet Malibu west on Timmons Road when the Malibu lost power and Yoder jumped out the vehicle. The Malibu continued west, first hitting an embankment on the left side of the road and then the guardrail on the right side of the road. It continued down the mountain where it made contact with a Nissan Xterra in the left-rear quarter panel. The Malibu continued west, hitting the embankment on the left side again, this time coming to a stop.
ASSAULT -- Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle are looking into a incident in which John Tyler Howard-Bee shook and struck a 6-week old baby causing severe injuries at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at 33 Spring Garden Estates. The infant was taken to Carlisle Regional Medical Center and later Hershey Medical Center.
South Middleton Township
THEFT-- Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle are looking into an incident that occurred at 7:43 p.m. Nov. 9 at a Subway at 299 Westminster Drive. According to Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle, a 26-year-old Newville woman who was an employee removed money from the cash register drawer.
CRASH -- Melvin S. Sensenig, 64, Newville, was issued a traffic citation after a crash at 7:52 p.m. Nov. 9 on Ritner Highway, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle. Sensenig went through a stop sign at Brown Road and Ritner Highway and hit a vehicle driven by Rosalie E. Degregorio, disabling both vehicles, police said.
Thompson Township
DUI -- Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg are looking into an incident at 4:17 p.m. Nov. 10 on Tollgate Ridge Road at Timber Ridge Road, during which Kenneth Wade Howell, 49, Needmore, was found under the influence and taken to Fulton County Medical Center for a blood draw.
(Incident no. G05-1426267)
Taylor Township
CRASH -- A 16-year-old Blairs Mills girl was issued a traffic violation after an incident at 5:01 p.m. Nov. 10 on Waterfall Road near the intersection of North Madden Road, according to Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg. The teen was driving a Jeep Cherokee, lost control, slid off the road, hit a culvert, and rolled over into a utility pole before it landed on its wheels and came to a stop.
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Hiram College to add men's and women's wrestling
By Michael Leonard Reporter
Wrestling is coming back to Hiram College.
Athletic Director Todd Hibbs announced Friday the board of Hiram College approved plans to revive the Terriers’ men’s wrestling program, as well as establishing a new women’s wrestling program.
Hibbs noted he had been thinking about reviving wrestling at Hiram since he was first hired as athletic director in May.
"At different places I had been, we had resurrected the wrestling programs there," Hibbs said. "I just started to receive calls from alumni and from people who supported wrestling. My hope was to be able to add it within the first year of my time here. We set a drop dead date of Feb. 1 in order to be able to wrestle next winter."
"I’m very grateful to the alumni for support they have given," Hibbs said. "We’ve got a lot of work to do."
The Terriers plan to compete in men’s wrestling in time for the 2020-21 season and a search for a head men’s wrestling coach/director of wrestling operations will begin immediately.
Hibbs said he would like to have the position filled "sometime during the month of February."
"We’d like to have that person named by the time the OHSAA wrestling postseason starts," Hibbs said. "I’ve received many phone calls and e-mails from people interested in the position."
Hibbs noted the position has not been officially posted by the college, but will be "no later than next week" on Hiram.edu and NCAAJobs.com
"I think we will get a broad range of candidates," Hibbs said. "We’ll have a committee on campus, similar to what we did when we hired a new football coach. It will be an exciting."
Hibbs said the men’s coach will hire a graduate assistant to help to coach the men’s program and then aid him in hiring the women’s coach during the fall of 2020. The women’s program is expected to begin competing in 2021-22.
Hibbs noted Hiram will join Tiffin University as the only Ohio-based women’s college wrestling program. He noted starting a women’s program is partially strategic, as starting the women’s program will bring Hiram into compliance with Title IX gender-equity rules along with reviving the men’s program.
However, Hibbs notes bringing in women’s wrestling will also keep Hiram "ahead of the curve."
"It’s just such a fast growing sport right now," Hibbs said. "We will be only the second women’s collegiate program in the state of Ohio. I’m excited to get in front.
"We’ll recruit from everywhere." he added. "The reason for adding women a little bit later is, when we reviewed the number of wrestlers in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, there was something like 40,000 boys wrestling, but only 2,500 girls.
"We were not confident that we could hire a women’s coach at this late a time and be able to recruit a full team. We’ll use the entire 2020 season to do so."
Hibbs has plenty of background in wrestling. An All-American at the University of Mount Union, Hibbs served as an assistant coach at Michigan State University before reviving the NCAA Division III programs at Olivet College and Alma College in Michigan.
The addition of men’s wrestling re-establishes a program that previously ran from 1954 to 1987 at Hiram. Ten Terriers earned Division III All-America honors. Hiram will be the third member of the North Coast Athletic Conference to support wrestling.
Hibbs noted the college is receiving private funding from outside the college to cover the start-up costs for the program.
"We wanted to raise the funds to hire our coaching staff, purchase new mats and purchase the equipment we need to get the program going," Hibbs said. "We wanted to raise those funds so that it cost the university is $0 dollars to start. Until [the wrestlers] come in the fall, we don’t see any return on our investment."
Hibbs said he was not ready to release amounts donated or the names of those who had donated to support the program, noting such disclosures could come when the new men’s coach is named.
"We’re still having conversations with the lead donors," Hibbs said. "Some people have been really generous. There have been efforts to bring back wrestling to Hiram in the past that have come up just short."
Within three years, Hiram hopes to have full teams for wrestling, including 35 to 40 male wrestlers and 25 to 30 female wrestlers.
"We’re confident we can get to both those numbers," Hibbs said. "A lot of wrestlers make their college decisions for Division III in the months of March April and May. We’re confident we can get 15 to 20 guys for next year."
Hibbs said he wants to concentrate on building from local communities, as he is aware of the strength of wrestling in Portage County.
"When you think about high school wrestling, there are three places everyone talks about: The Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh area and Northeast Ohio," Hibbs said. "We will no doubt dig in here in Northeast Ohio and Portage County is a big part of that. This will be the backbone of our school. We’ll be after all those student-athletes."
Reporter Michael Leonard can be reached at 330-541-9442, mleonard@recordpub.com or @MLeonard_GHO
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ROXEY BALLET CELEBRATES HALLOWEEN WITH "DRACULA"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Emily Irwin, Public Relations Consultant Roxey Ballet (267) 253-9303; emily@irwinpr.com LAMBERTVILLE, NJ (AUGUST 6, 2015) –Kicking off its 21st season, Roxey Ballet stages its dance adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" on October 23-25 and October 30-November 1, 2015. Roxey Ballet's "Dracula" interprets Stoker's famed horror story through a complete sensory experience of movement, music and spoken word with pyrotechnic, sound and lighting effects. Showcasing 14 professional dancers, the performances take place in the intimate, 72-seat Canal Studio Theater in Lambertville. "We're so excited to celebrate Halloween in Lambertville with 12 thrilling performances of our popular Dracula ballet," said Mark Roxey, Founding Director of Roxey Ballet. "This production is not for the faint-of-heart. The small venue combined with bone-chilling music and multi-media effects draws the audience deeply into 18th century England and the disturbing story crafted by our world-class dancers." Mark Roxey's original dance choreography, set to a collage of music and sound effects by David Hanoman and stage designs by Lisa McMillan, follows Stoker's classic vampire tale. The audience comes face-to-face with all the notorious characters: the unwary Renfield who accidentally falls victim to Dracula on his way to the opera; the lovely, easily-seduced Lucy; and Dr. Van Helsing who leads the attack to rescue Lucy and others fallen prey to the vampires. Performances take place at the Canal Studio Theater, 243 North Union Street in Lambertville, New Jersey on Friday, October 23 at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 24 at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.; Sunday, October 25 at 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.; and Halloween weekend on Friday, October 30 at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, October 31 at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 1 at 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. General admission seating may be purchased online at www.RoxeyBallet.org or by phone at (609) 397-7616. Tickets cost $30.00 in advance and $35.00 at the door. There are special rates for seniors and disabled. The audience is encouraged to come in Halloween costume. Parental discretion is advised. Dracula will be followed by the 21st Anniversary American Holiday Classic “Nutcracker” which opens November 28 - Dec 7 2015. Roxey Ballet is a world class, all-inclusive contemporary ballet company that uses dance to build community and cultural bridges. The company maintains a full schedule of local, national and international touring. Based in Lambertville, New Jersey, Roxey Ballet was incorporated in 1995 as a New Jersey non-profit organization whose mission is to deliver artistic and cultural excellence through professional dance performances, residencies, educational programs, workshops and master classes. The company takes pride in its multicultural and all-inclusive organization, fostering a creative environment of growth for all. Roxey Ballet is fully accessible to those with disabilities. Roxey Ballet's programs are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Merck Foundation, Bunbury Foundation, Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission, and individuals and businesses. Press images, cast biographies, interviews and media access to rehearsals are available upon request at info@roxeyballet.org or by calling (609) 397-7616. # # #
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A new chapter: Chet Epperson closes book on three-decade Rockford police career
Jeff Kolkey Rockford Register Star @jeffkolkey
Nov 13, 2015 at 7:00 AM Nov 13, 2015 at 3:34 PM
ROCKFORD — Chief Chet Epperson's 9 1/2-year tenure at the helm of the Rockford Police Department comes to an end today as he retires after a 33-year career in law enforcement, handing leadership over to Patrick Hoey, who will serve as interim chief until a permanent successor is named.
Epperson, 53, is credited with modernizing department policies and procedures, improving relationships with minority and marginalized communities, and implementing the philosophies of community and problem-oriented policing. But he was also a controversial figure for his approach to police-officer discipline, oversight and scrutiny of officer use of force.
"Change is hard, especially for police officers," Hoey said. "Chet was very well read, and as he was rising through the ranks, he had ideas and he was seeing changes in policing in America. When he took over, he wanted to make those changes. We could say we were doing community policing, but we weren't. He introduced community policing, problem-oriented policing and, ultimately, geographic policing, and those are big, philosophical changes in how we do things."
Epperson is retiring from his Rockford post as he takes on a larger role on a team of court-appointed monitors for the New Orleans Police Department. He said that he will continue to live in Rockford, support the department's next leader and, perhaps, work in the community on juvenile crime issues that he views as unfinished business from his time as chief.
He introduced numerous police department reforms that led to reductions in complaints about officer use of excessive force, but he retires as the department continues to struggle with a violent crime problem.
Already unpopular among the rank-and-file police officers because of his approach to a series of disciplinary issues in 2006 and 2007, Epperson and city officials brought in an outside agency to review the August 2009 officer-involved shooting death of Mark Anthony Barmore, who was unarmed and fled from police into a church day care in downtown Rockford. The report drove a deeper wedge between Epperson and the officers union when the outside review found violations of policy and training protocols, even though the shooting was ruled justified.
Afterward, Epperson helped usher in a Winnebago-Boone Integrity Task Force to investigate in-custody deaths and officer-involved shootings, established a police chief's advisory board that included leaders of minority communities, forged new ties with NAACP Rockford, set up a Latino advisory group that met regularly with him, improved use of force and civil rights training, and instituted an early warning monitoring system to alert supervisors to troubling officer behavior.
"There were personnel and even in upper management those that didn't want to change, and Chet is very strong-willed," Hoey said. "He wasn't going to let anybody stand in his way."
Epperson, a Rockford native, joined the department in 1981 as a cadet, six months after graduating from high school. He positioned himself to become chief, holding the ranks of patrol officer, sergeant, lieutenant and deputy chief, and earning a bachelor's degree and an MBA in public administration from Rockford University by attending classes part time for 14 years. He was appointed chief in April 2006.
Epperson acknowledges that his administration's policies may have bred resentment among police officers.
"We had some very trying times," said Aurelio DeLaRosa, who became president of the officers union in October. "Many times with the chief it was my way or the highway," said DeLaRosa. "I'm hoping the next chief will think out of the box and solicit ideas from the guys on the street who are actually fighting crime."
Epperson insists those policies were for the good of the city, the department and the officers themselves.
"At the end of the day, those processes are going to save lives, protect the department, protect the officers' careers and safety, and they will help build good, effective police relationships," Epperson said.
Skirmishes with the union, that represents about 290 sworn Rockford police officers, culminated earlier this year with a dramatic and, at times, bruising showdown before the Rockford Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. Retired Rockford police officer and former union president Terry Peterson and other officers said Epperson had undermined and endangered officers during an Oct. 30, 2013, incident.
After a lengthy hearing process, commissioners ultimately ruled in April that there was no probable cause to find that Epperson violated departmental regulations during the welfare check at the home of former NAACP Rockford President Lloyd Johnston.
Johnston said in a recent interview that he first met Epperson after the Barmore shooting, when the U.S. Department of Justice mediation team worked to quell protests by inviting city, police, union officials, clergy members, minority leaders and others to start a dialogue.
"I saw in real time where Chief Epperson dogmatically pushed forward, bucking status quo to ensure that Rockford is not a Ferguson, Rockford is not a Baltimore," Johnston said. "And if an incident happened today in which there was a shooting of a person of color, you won't see that type of uproar because of the policies and practices that have been instituted and brought on board primarily by Chief Epperson and his command staff."
Jeff Kolkey: 815-987-1374; jkolkey@rrstar.com; @jeffkolkey
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Powerful electron microscope brought to campus
Developed in 1963, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) can magnify objects up to 300,000 times. And, unlike a standard optical microscope, the SEM’s high magnification produces an almost 3-D image, as well as detailed information about an object’s composition. And now, students at Rider will have access to an on-campus SEM, an instrument worth nearly half a million dollars, along with an expert operator who can train faculty and students on how to put it to use.
The SEM arrived this fall, and how it came to be at Rider can be characterized as a combination of serendipity and the quick reactions of the College of Liberal Arts, Education and Sciences faculty.
This past summer, Dean Patricia Mosto received an email about the availability of the SEM from Bruker Inc., a well-known international manufacturer of scientific equipment. Bruker was closing its Ewing, N.J., office, although it still wanted to have the SEM available to Ted Juswak, the instrument’s operator, who will remain in the area. Therefore, in exchange for housing the instrument, the company was offering a local college full access to the SEM, as well as the expertise of Juswak.
“We acted quickly; otherwise the SEM would have gone to another university,” says Dr. Jonathan Husch, professor and department chair of Geological, Environmental, and Marine Sciences (GEMS). As a geologist for over 40 years, Husch immediately understood the value of having access to an SEM for both educational and research purposes.
Husch, who has been at Rider since 1980, remembers the early ’90s when Rider had a mini-SEM, a low-end instrument that wasn’t nearly as powerful. “This new SEM is many things. It has the ability to magnify an object far beyond most other microscopes. It can tell you about the internal structure of the object, how the atoms are arranged and what elements are in the material. It also can map the elemental concentrations over an area. So, for example, if there is a contaminant like arsenic, the SEM can tell you not only that it’s there, but where exactly it’s located and how much of it exists.”
Dr. Alexander Grushow, professor and department chair of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, was also a key player in getting the SEM to Rider. He sees it as an invaluable opportunity for all students and, in particular, for students of material sciences. “The microelectronics industry, for example, requires knowledge of materials, and having the SEM gives us an additional, more powerful tool for characterizing materials down to the atomic level.”
For all involved, it’s a win-win situation. Bruker gets the space to continue its work, and Rider receives “access to a state-of-the-art instrument and a 30-year expert in the field who can show us how to use it,” explains Husch. “It will give our students better hands-on training and opportunities for cutting-edge research along with excellent preparation for graduate school.”
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Tricksters in white lab coats and phishing emails: Be wary of coronavirus-related scams, officials warn
Jordan CulverUSA TODAY
Police and government officials nationwide are warning residents to be wary of potential coronavirus-related scams that target people gripped by fear during a global pandemic.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Friday issued a statement “urging the public to report suspected fraud schemes related to COVID-19.” Included in the statement were a list of potential schemes the Attorney General’s office is aware of, including phishing emails, malicious websites, and illegitimate or non-existent charities.
Not mentioned in the list of potential schemes but circulating on social media is the threat of people in white lab coats approaching homes, pretending to be from a state’s health department or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Florida, the Daytona Beach Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office have both posted warnings about such a scam.
“In reality, they’re attempting to rob the house once they get inside, sometimes by force,” the Daytona Beach Police Department wrote Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office told USA TODAY in an email that the department hasn’t made any arrests regarding this type of scam and that the Facebook post was “precautionary.”
The Florida Department of Health is aware of the allegations, the department said in an emailed statement to USA TODAY.
"When the Department receives notification that a person has tested positive for COVID-19, the Department conducts an extensive epidemiological investigation in conjunction with the CDC," the statement reads. "Individuals are then notified by their county health department and instructed to self-isolate for 14 days after their exposure to the virus. During this time, their county health department will be in contact with them via telecommunication to provide regular routine checkups."
The Department of Health doesn't do "at home" tests or sell testing kits.
"All DOH staff will have a badge displayed," the Florida DOH said in a statement. "If someone is approached at their home by anyone claiming to work for the Florida Department of Health or dressed in protective medical gear, they are encouraged to ask for verification and contact their local sheriff’s office or nearest law enforcement agency."
The CDC did not respond to an emailed request for comment from USA TODAY.
Scams related to the coronavirus pandemic aren’t new: The Federal Trade Commission earlier in March sent letters to seven companies telling them to stop selling products those companies fraudulently claimed could treat coronavirus.
On Sunday, the Department of Justice announced it took action against "operators of a fraudulent website."
In Maryland, the Centreville Police Department asked residents to report instances of people on the phone claiming to be affiliated with power companies. In the call, the potential scammer will say "due to this pandemic you are being reimbursed for your extra usage of electricity (due to being home more)," according to the police department.
"Scammers will mention a variation of the above information and then proceed to attempt to obtain your personal information to reimburse you," CPD wrote on Facebook. "While power companies are doing what they can to soften the blow for the communities they serve, they will not be calling to request this information from you."
Coronavirus-related scams are popping up in other countries, too. In Canada, Alberta Health Services warned residents of a phone scam in which people are told they tested positive for coronavirus and are then asked for credit card information.
People are selling counterfeit face masks and hand sanitizer, according to a report for the BBC.
The US Attorney General is warning us about these coronavirus scams:
Individuals and businesses selling fake cures for COVID-19 online and engaging in other forms of fraud. Phishing emails from entities posing as the World Health Organization or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Malicious websites and apps that appear to share Coronavirus-related information to gain and lock access to your devices until payment is received. Seeking donations fraudulently for illegitimate or non-existent charitable organizations. Medical providers obtaining patient information for COVID-19 testing and then using that information to fraudulently bill for other tests and procedures.
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Elmer S. Campbell
Fredi Washington
Gwendolyn Bennett
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Richard Bruce Nugent
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Black History Magazine: Opportunity
Opportunity, A Journal of Negro Life, was published by the National Urban League from 1923-49. The first editor was Charles Johnson. In addition to essays on social and political issues, Opportunity had a strong emphasis on photography, art, and poetry. Early covers included artwork by Aaron Douglas, Winold Reiss, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Richard Bruce Nugent, […]
Black History Magazines: The Crisis
Not Without Laughter
Black History Magazines: Magazine (and Book) Cover Illustrations by Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas was an artist and muralist who came to fame during the years of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s-30s. Although he’s most known today for his paintings, he did a lot of illustration work back in the day for various book covers and magazines, especially The Crisis and Opportunity, as well as the […]
Charles S. Johnson
Ebony and Topaz
Opportunity magazine
Cover of the Day: Ebony and Topaz
Ebony and Topaz, “A Collectanea,” was an anthology of prose and poetry published by Opportunity magazine in 1927. Edited by Charles S. Johnson, it included cover art by Charles Cullen, and inside illustrations by Cullen and Harlem Renaissance luminaries Aaron Douglas and Richard Bruce Nugent. Opportunity (“A Journal of Negro Life”) was published by the National […]
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Alan Day On Four Year Strong’s Upcoming Album: “This Is The Music We’ve Been Striving To Make”
Brii Jamieson 10 February 2020 at 13.32
“If this band wasn’t my band, then I would want to go and see them play." - Dan O'Connor.
Inside the current issue of Rock Sound, we caught up with Four Year Strong's Dan O'Connor and Alan Day to talk through their upcoming album 'Brain Pain', and how this is the music they've been striving to make and the band they've wanted to be for a long time. Check out the full interview by picking up a copy of the latest issue of Rock Sound from SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV
Speaking about the growth that all the members of Four Year Strong have undergone since their last album, Dan shared, “A lot of this record is about how we’ve been developing as older men who have families and business and responsibilities away from the band, yet also having to ride the balance of being Dan and Alan from Four Year Strong."
He continued, “[Putting this record together] was like coming to terms with an identity crisis. Am I the same Dan O’Connor that I was in 2007, who was wearing tank tops and shaving my head? Or am I the Dan O’Connor who has two kids and a wife? Or am I somewhere in the middle? This record is finding where you fall on that spectrum.”
“I think that this is the music we’ve been striving to make for a while,” Alan shared. “I’d also say that as a group we’re more inspired to be Four Year Strong than we have been for a very long time. I’m not saying we weren’t inspired before, but it feels like we just found this new spark that we didn’t know was there.”
“If this band wasn’t my band, then I would want to go and see them play,” Dan laughed. “I love these songs so much. They give me that tingly feeling in my belly that I had when I was just a kid just starting out. That’s why we’re so inspired and so stoked on where we are and where we’re going. “Now, more than ever, we’re just going for broke.”
If that doesn't make you excited for 'Brain Pain', nothing will.
'Brain Pain' is set for release February 28 through Pure Noise.
This is just a tiny taster! Read the full interview inside Creeper's issue of Rock Sound:
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The Future of Liberal Christianity
by Donald E. Miller
Dr. Miller is assistant professor of sociology of religion at the University of Southern California.
This article appeared in the Christian Century, March 10, 1982, p. 266. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Can the liberal church provide an answer to the basic human needs? If liberal Christianity merely accommodates itself to contemporary culture, it will cease being a religion.
In this era of political and religious conservatism it is appropriate to ask: What is the long-term future of liberal Christianity? We know the short-term future: decline in attendance and retraction in the budgets of many mainline Protestant churches. But what are the prospects for liberal Christianity in 20, 50 or 100 years?
First let me state some assumptions about religion in general. More than a few social commentators are of the view that religion will, in the long term, disappear. As evidence for their position they note the way in which religion is losing its functions to other institutions. Education is no longer done exclusively under the auspices of the church; marriages can be solemnized by civil authorities; counseling is dominated by psychologists and psychiatrists, the contemporary doctors of the soul -- and the list could be continued.
Sociologists also look to the relatively low church attendance rates in Europe as evidence of the decline of religion. In England, for example, only 10 per cent of the population attends church on a typical Sunday, and in Scandinavian countries the figure is closer to 2 or 3 per cent. The United States, averaging over 40 per cent, is a strange anomaly for sociological commentators -- one often explained by denying that the higher U.S. rate is an expression of greater national religiosity, and suggesting that in America religion fulfills certain nonreligious needs: for sociability and community, for example.
One’s view of the future of religion, however, rests not on statistics regarding church attendance but on a definition of what is meant by religion. In my view, attendance at religious services may be one index of religiosity, but in itself it does not offer an adequate definition. Better to define religion as that set of symbolic expressions and activities which reflect an individual’s attempt to (1) give ultimate meaning to life, and (2) justify one’s behavior and way of life conscious of the certitude of death and the pervasiveness of human suffering. According to this definition, changing patterns of church attendance do not signify the decline of religion; they only indicate that the church is not the place where people are working out the problem of making their lives meaningful.
I do not see a religionless future. The quest for meaning is fundamental to being human. The question, then, is not whether religion is fading, but instead where ultimate questions of life’s significance, and of one’s moral responsibility, are being asked. The future of liberal Christianity depends on whether it can provide a context for pondering, celebrating and working out the problem of life’s meaning. Clearly this activity will be taking place somewhere, because human existence is too problematic for people to stop searching for ideas and ways of living that will make everyday life meaningful.
Evidence that the drive for meaning is still alive and well in contemporary society is to be found in a number of current social movements (interestingly, some of these groups find it convenient to use church facilities as their meeting place). Groups that reflect a concern with ultimate values include peace movements (specifically the growing resistance in Europe and America to nuclear armaments), ecology organizations (concerned with the preservation of nature), utopian communes (seeking to realize perfect community), psychological self-realization groups (seeking new levels of awareness and self-actualization), and revolutionary and terrorist organizations (whose members are willing to die for a political ideal).
What all of these groups or movements have in common is that they reject aspects of the dominant culture in their search for ultimate values. Their members are morally serious and genuinely seeking a better life. They are committed, sometimes almost ascetic in their devotion and practice. Above all, these movements are confronting the issue of death, an essential element of every quest for ultimacy.
The groups just mentioned are profoundly religious; they are the settings where some individuals are seeking salvation, personal and communal. The people may not talk about God, but they are committed to ideals and are not afraid to preach their gospel, often in the form of absolutistic declarations. Given time, such groups may provide the roots for a broader cultural interest in ultimate values. There are a number of cultural trends, however, which militate against the religious impulse and hence have implications for the future of liberal Christianity.
Any list of cultural trends is somewhat arbitrary. Inevitably they overlap, but by way of identifying what is happening in our everyday life it is useful to enumerate some of the forces at work in changing the character of contemporary life. My list of cultural trends is not distinctive, and perhaps therein lies its cogency; there is a great deal of consensus among social commentators regarding a number of directions of social change.
Cultural pluralism is a fact of modern life, resulting from the explosion in mass media technology in the past 100 years. We are becoming increasingly aware of different belief systems within the varied cultures of our world. To the observer, it appears that there is little agreement, either in the realm of values or in that of political forms. Peter Berger has argued that pluralism breeds a philosophical relativism in which the average person stands confused as to whether any single voice among the contending options lays claim to the truth. Many a liberal minister appears as a reed in the wind, his or her sermons being virtually reviews of books championing the latest cultural fad. No claims to ultimacy issue from these pulpits.
The breakdown of community is another phenomenon of modern urban life. The “secular city” was hailed by Harvey Cox and many others for the autonomy it offered. Persons were no longer bound by the constraints of family, community or tradition, but instead were free to be artists of their own lives. Yet with the breakdown of community came not only loneliness and alienation but also the dissolution of the structures of socialization. The result is the dramatic increase of violence in our cities. Fragmentation of community produces a war of all against all. Today there is little to celebrate in many cities. Anomie, alienation, violence and loneliness overshadow the liberation that urban life was to promise.
But just how much community is there in the average liberal church? Loneliness and alienation, it would seem, are not the exclusive property of the city.
The celebration of individualism is a third cultural trend. Judging by the number of psychological self-help books that populate drugstore and supermarket shelves, one would think that the greatest moral failure of our time is to be bound by another person’s wishes and desires. What is of ultimate value is one’s self-fulfillment. nothing should stand in the way of self-expression and self-determination. “Doing your own thing” and “Looking out for Number One” would appear to be creedal summaries of the contemporary ethic. Little is heard of self-sacrifice or self-denial -- apparently old-fashioned virtues.
Even in the liberal church the appeal of “the man for others” has a hollow ring. We would appear to be more concerned about our investments, our upcoming ski holiday in Colorado or the gloss on our newly purchased BMW.
A spirit of antiauthoritarianism is a fourth feature of contemporary life. The final authority is oneself, one’s feelings and desires. A self-satisfied narcissism overshadows any authority claimed by the community over the individual. Tradition is cast off, not respected as our mentor. Police, teachers and clergy are deemed mere functionaries of oppressive institutions, suppressors of individuality. Indeed, the traditional identity crisis of adolescence has turned into a broad-scale cultural crisis in which few within society recognize authorities higher than themselves. Surely the resistance to authority is a reflection of both individualism and pluralism; when there are no absolutes, there are no authorities. One must wonder what kind of authority the liberal church today represents for many of its members.
Materialism is a fifth hallmark of contemporary life. By materialism I mean both the passion for spending money and accumulating possessions, and the view that the material world is the only reality, with belief in a spiritual dimension being considered a throwback to primitive superstition. Consumerism and metaphysical naturalism are related. If the only reality is the physical world, then one does well to realize the kingdom here on earth.
Looking at the physical structures in which many liberal churches are housed, the outside observer might wonder whether liberal Christians have not also sought to realize an earthly heaven.
These trends could be observed with nonchalant detachment if they did not violate what it means to be human. Precisely at this point -- the nexus between contemporary trends and values and the universal and transhistorical needs of humankind -- it is, I believe, possible to make an assessment regarding the role and future of liberal Christianity. If liberal Christianity merely accommodates itself to contemporary culture, it will cease being a religion, for religion must offer ultimate meaning.
To a point, however, accommodation to culture is appropriate to the liberal church, particularly in attempting to understand the Christian faith from the perspective and insights of the arts and sciences of the time. But to compromise too thoroughly with many current trends is to deny the very character of what it means to be human. I am of the opinion that while cultures change, human nature does not. In other words, there are certain human needs and inclinations that are constant amid the sea of societal change.
Stated differently, certain features of human nature will surface and seek expression and satisfaction whatever the cultural setting or era. The future of liberal Christianity lies in its ability to provide an answer to certain basic human needs. What are these elements that define humanity?
The first constant I have already discussed; it is the need for ultimate meaning. The very depression and anxiety that haunt so many of us are an expression of this need. It is not enough to live: we want to live purposefully. Consciousness of death is a gift unique to the human species. It is also the basis of our quest for ultimates. To die a “meaningless” death is recognized as the worst of human failures. Ours has been termed the “age of anxiety” precisely because of the fear that we are committing ourselves to trivial values that lack ultimacy. The modern phenomenon of “depression” has religious, not purely contextual, origins. Depression is rooted in the problem of meaning. To summarize, the quest for ultimate meaning goes on, with the future of the liberal church resting on how well it can provide answers with ultimate appeal.
Closely connected to the need for meaning is the need for forgiveness and absolution. I posit that the experience of failure and the consequent feeling of guilt are universal, again irrespective of cultural setting or time frame. And it is precisely because we quest for meaning, and therefore establish values, rules and principles by which to live, that we then experience guilt as we violate our own self-imposed standards. Moral failure threatens our sense of meaning. Therefore we seek ways of purifying our lives, symbolically (because of our violation of ultimate values) and practically (in rectifying interpersonal relations we have damaged). The liberal church’s survival rests on its ability to make confession, the plea for forgiveness, and the rite of absolution central to the act of worship.
Another constant in human nature is the need for identity. We are not strict products of our environment, a mere amalgamation of our experiences. From birth we evolve a self-consciousness of who we are. Our self is created in the act of making commitments, choosing beliefs, and idealizing heroes. The pluralism of modern culture does much to fragment our attempts at a well-structured identity. We are tempted to express a different self with each different reference group. Nevertheless, we have a natural inclination toward an integrity of person, expressing constancy of values within each of the roles we assume. The liberal church’s future depends on whether it can enable its members to be men and women marked by integrity.
Another universal is the need for community. It is in community that we develop a self, as we are nurtured and in turn care for others. Such reciprocal actions -- such giving and receiving -- are the essence of being human. It is in community that identity is formed, because it is in community that expectations are felt, responsibilities assumed and roles tested. The attraction of liberal Christianity to others will be the quality of community to be found within the church.
Finally there is the need to strive for perfection, to overcome the inferiority imposed by the limitations of our bodies, our resources, our minds. We express this striving for superiority in positive ways in our artistic creations, inventions and achievements. We also react against our felt inferiority through the exercise of power in ways that often are not beneficial to the whole of the community or of humanity. The liberal church’s success in the future will depend very much on whether liberal clergy have a vision to express; whether they will be able to appeal to people’s moral imagination.
What shall become of liberal Christianity, the question with which this discussion began? I think it is possible to make some calculated guesses based upon current tendencies within the liberal church. I suspect we will see its splintering in five different directions, only one of which genuinely responds to the human drive for ultimacy and thus has much potential for influencing contemporary culture.
One direction the liberal church seems to be taking is toward becoming an ethical society. For the churches following this course, metaphysics and theology are of little importance. Of concern is what has been called the “civil religion”: those values which are important to the maintenance of the state. Parents of the future will bring their children to church because they believe religion builds moral character. Religion makes good citizens and will enable their sons and daughters to be contributing members of capitalist society.
Another direction for the liberal church (these alternatives may, of course, overlap) is that the church will become essentially a social center. It will be the place where knitting classes, physical fitness programs and yoga are available on weekdays. Lectures on topics of current interest will fill the evening schedule. Children will enjoy the gymnasium and summer youth club. The church facilities will be well used; the minister, as something of a social events coordinator and pop psychologist, may continue to draw a fair crowd on Sunday as he or she, almost at random, punctuates the sermon with references to Jesus as moral example.
A small number of liberal churches may become sanctuaries for mysticism. Here the mysteries of the sacrament will not be forgotten. Young and old alike will find that church rituals still contain a latent power of self-transcendence and openness to “the beyond.” But doctrine and creed will matter less than incense, candles, stained glass and finely embroidered vestments. This will be privatized Christianity at its apex, but surely such a church will not be a communion of saints.
Many liberal churches -- perhaps the majority -- will take the form of traditional folk religion and will be honored with the same reverence as a good museum. The church will host marriages, baptisms and funerals; seating will be at a premium on Christmas Eve and Easter morning. Members may pray, rather superstitiously, at moments of personal need. Figures of saints may even come to adorn the mantles of some homes, but the gospel of Christ will occupy little importance. Only the miracles will be hoped for in one’s own life, and these on almost narcissistic self-demand. Christianity will be a matter of ethnic or national identity more than of personal commitment.
That brings us to a fifth expression of liberal Christianity, one which I shall call prophetic religion, recognizing its survival historically in Judaism -- and we hope that it will also survive in Christianity. I believe that there will be a remnant seeking to carry on the true spirit of Christ. These persons will attempt to abolish idolatry from their midst, trying to avoid enthroning any human form as ultimate. They will follow in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets: feeding the poor, caring for widows and orphans, attacking economic systems that produce injustice. They will constitute a true community: unselfishly concerned for each others’ needs and rejoicing in a love freely expressed. They will worship grandly and yet will also organize effectively, combating the evils of this world. They will be disciplined persons, almost sectarian in their attitudes and commitments, but choosing to live fully immersed in this world rather than withdrawing from it.
I do not expect prophetic religion to prosper in the future: it never has in the past. But for its members it will fulfill the demands of being human: giving a sense of ultimate meaning, offering release from personal failure, creating a noble identity of integrity, fostering the richness of a caring community, and upholding a standard of perfection which will both judge and inspire. This remnant will not live in utopia. The life of its people together will be complex, the demands of being a Christian difficult, but they will find joy and peace as they seek to embody the symbol of one who gave his life for what he believed. They will form a stark contrast to the communities of violence and to the fragmented persons existing all around them, harried and compulsively consuming.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty for the prophetic church will be the evolution of a metaphysic and a theology that “make sense” within the context of the modern world. As I stated earlier, liberal Christianity is a middle road between Christ and culture in that it seeks to understand culture, not remove itself from modern science or the arts. Yet liberal Christianity must have a message for modern men and women; it cannot simply reflect contemporary values in sanctified form. There are enough social clubs in this world. Mysticism can be purchased from many a guru. If one is looking for ethics unadorned with metaphysics, the membership rolls of the Humanist Association are waiting to be filled. And folk religion offers no permanent meaning, only a salve to get one over the rough spots.
In Dostoevsky’s famous parable, the Grand Inquisitor offers his flock miracle, mystery and authority. In his view, he is accomplishing the priestly task, for these offerings give people the security which they desperately desire. But security is not enough. Meaning is of a higher order than security, and the courageous of this world will attempt to live in the very shadow of ultimate meaning. Only such a quest for ultimacy will break the grip that a vague and uneasy nausea has on the lives of so many of us. But first, perhaps, we will need to experience the ultimate emptiness of our infatuation with consumption, our striving for prestige and personal power, and our attempts to create our own meaning system. Let us give thanks for the depression and anxiety which signal our consciousness that all is not right.
Prophetic religion takes its inspiration from that power which stands beyond persons. The prophet is one who recognizes the difference between his. or her own words and the Word of the Lord. Security is not the object of prophetic religion. Søren Kierkegaard correctly identifies the Knight of Faith as one who lives with “fear and trembling.” Faith requires openness to a realm of meaning which is beyond human creation and therefore beyond human control.
The liberal Christian I have been describing will return to the wellsprings of religious experience. The new metaphysic to be generated by liberal Christians will flow out of their attempt to understand “the beyond” in their midst. Prayer and meditation will be valued as moments when one’s quietness allows for a voice other than one’s own to be heard.
But let us not believe that prophetic religion will exist only in the churches of liberal Christians. There are not a few evangelicals, Muslims and Hindus who also live by faith. It is, finally, not the external forms of religion that matter so much; they are cultural products, vessels (potential conduits) of the holy, not to be confused with the divine (such would be idolatry). What is important is the quality of life that results from one’s concourse with the God beyond gods. Perhaps the future will reveal more understanding and unity among this prophetic minority, gathered from all the great paths to God, than may ever exist within any particular religious tradition.
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On The Edge Again Video Produced By AVD78 (www.avd78.com)
NEW NEON are Jade Vanity and Roger Wilson (DJ Freakq, who started spinning records in 1985 and has won some Best DJ Awards), a duo from Austin, creator of some catchy electro tracks. They started playing together in 2009 and released their first album titles Tilt The Robotz! in 2012. Since then, they have continued recording albums and EPs and now, they have been joined by Skyler D. White aka Scyia , a third non-official member who is working as co-producer. The album we want to talk about today, titled New Neon, is still a work in progress, but it’s possible to listen to five of the tracks that will be included. Plus, if you want to support New Neon and help them finish it, you can subscribe for only 5 dollars per month and receive all the new music they create and 14 albums from their catalogue. To subscribe, buy or to listen to their music, you only have to visit their Bandcamp page.
But let’s talk about the five tracks recorded by these auto-proclaimed drama lovers that we can already listen to: in “ On the Edge Again ” they prove that it’s possible to sound distant and sensual at the same time, something only possible in the electro genre. “Her Eyes” reminds us of the rhythms that Giorgio Moroder used to write for Donna Summer, but with a modern vibe. The following track “A Cocktail of Controversy” has a great chorus and it could have been a club banger in the electroclash period. “Devotion” is one of their newest songs and again, it’s perfect dance floor material. And the last one, “New Pulse”, it´s a track full of erotism. Our favourite songs are the second and the third, although we have enjoyed the other three too. We will keep you updated with the new tracks of the album.
New Neon are also working on an album started in February 2019 titled MAXIMUS and, like this homonymous album, they are releasing the tracks on Bandcamp as they record them. To continue with the trio thing, they are also doing a new remix album, titled Remix City that is also going to be the third remix album of the band after RMX from 2012 and RMX2 from 2018.
Credits : Francois Zappa of El Garaje de Frank
New Neon by New Neon
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Letter: Here's why we need campaign finance reform
Reno Gazette-Journal
After the 2012 election, Garrison Keillor said, "The election was over – a $6 billion stimulus program for radio and TV..." A crucial part of campaign finance reform should be stricter controls on the media to include third parties and minor candidates in their hosted debates. They should also be compelled to run FREE political ads by candidates in the same way nonprofit stations must run a certain number of free public service announcements to maintain their licenses.
As support for these ideas I offer the following quote from the president and CEO of CBS, Les Moonves: "It may not be good for the country but it's damn good for CBS! The money keeps rolling in. Bring it on, Donald!"
Jon Obester, Reno
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Hot Off the Press Release: New Cricket Deal for Spark Sport
Spark Sport will stream live international cricket from tonight with day one of the first test in the West Indies tour of England.
It’s the result of a four-year deal for all international and domestic cricket matches played in England under the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Here’s the media release:
English Cricket moves to Spark Sport with the return of International Cricket
Spark Sport customers will be treated to the global return of live International Cricket with the streaming provider securing the exclusive New Zealand rights to all international and domestic cricket matches played in England under the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for the next four years.
The deal will kick off tonight with the West Indies Test Tour of England involving three Tests in 21 days, starting at Southampton’s Ageas Bowl, Wednesday July 8, 10:00pm NZ time. The series has been named the #raisethebat series in tribute to key workers who have helped during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also covers the various competitions played under the ECB banner, including all men and women’s home internationals, the County Championship, the Vitality Blast, the Royal London Cup and The Hundred which has garnered plenty of interest from the cricketing world.
Head of Spark Sport, Jeff Latch says, “Spark Sport customers can now enjoy compelling year-round cricket coverage with us already securing the rights for the New Zealand Summer of Cricket for the next 6 summers.
“England holds a rich cricket history and the fan base is engaged from grassroots right through to the professional level so it’s great to know that Spark Sport will play a pivotal role in growing the game as a key delivery partner in New Zealand.
“England’s staunch New Zealand fan base can look forward to scheduled future international events of the deal including India’s five Test Tour of England in 2021 and a bumper 2022 Summer which is set to feature Test tours by South Africa and New Zealand, marking the first time the Blackcaps will play a Test series in England since 2015.”
England and Wales Cricket Board Chief Commercial Officer Tony Singh says, “This is a great partnership for cricket fans in New Zealand, and we hope viewers will enjoy watching the first international Test cricket to be played since the COVID-19 outbreak with next week’s #raisethebat series between England and the West Indies.
“This deal means fans will also be able to see some of the world’s biggest stars and coaches in the unmissable first season of The Hundred, our action-packed new 100-ball cricket competition which launches next year, and New Zealand’s tour of England in 2022.
“We’re excited to be working with Spark Sport as it pioneers a fresh approach to sports delivery in New Zealand.”
Spark Sport will provide ancillary content which will include highlights packages, interviews and archive footage.
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Spark Sport subscribers are seeing a 25% price increase from early September.
Philip August 5, 2020 at 9:15 am
Crikey! That seems steep. Thanks for the alert, Mike. The NZ Herald reports Spark has only disclosed the price hike in a letter to subscribers.
It’s always good to see the NZH reporting it like a Spark press release. The headline of a 25% increase would get more clicks … but cant risk upsetting Spark.
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I had the privilege to serve as the first Artist in Residence at Shenandoah National Park from September 22 through October 3, 2014. These images are the result of that experience. A percentage of the profit on their sales will be gifted to the Shenandoah National Park Trust, which supported my 12-day photographic journey through this magnificent park in Virginia. See below for more.
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From Shenandoah National Park's grand landscapes and dreamy vistas, to its diverse flora and fauna, to its most delicate notitia—I sought to capture those essential details at the heart of our place-based relationships by exploring peaks and trails, chasing sunsets and sunrises, prowling through meadows and climbing mountain trails during various times of day and ever-changing weather conditions.
It is the type of work I do in the Upper Delaware River Region of PA and NY, through which I have come to understand that deepening connections to places we love fosters a sense of gratitude and can impel us to act on their behalf.
We will work hard, take risks and commit resources to protect what we love. We may even make better choices as a result of the restorative healing experiences that can happen when we connect with the natural world. It is my hope that these images raise awareness of the importance of protecting the priceless natural resources to be found in our national parks.
The residency also celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, signed into law on September 3, 1964. We acknowledged this with a guided walk at Big Meadows on National Public Lands Day, September 27, during which we discussed the significance of the park’s nearly 200,000 acres of protected land. In addition to enhancing our own well-being, protected land serves all life forms that depend upon intact habitats and clean water for their survival.
Wilderness funds something deep within us that is easily depleted in today’s fast-paced world—and necessary to our survival. The artist responds to this equation by exploring experience and returning with their creative offering. From the slow and mesmerizing miles of Skyline Drive and its breathtaking overlooks, to the heart-pounding climbs to astonishing peaks, to the mist-clad mornings that obscured those longer views but brought into focus the exquisiteness of lichen and moss on massive rocks and artfully angled trees where birds perched while sharing their delicate songs—here is my offering.
I am particularly grateful to the Shenandoah National Park Trust for providing the funding for my lodging and meals, and to the National Park Service for establishing this program at Shenandoah National Park. Both are to be commended for recognizing the value of the relationship between the arts and advocacy for the natural world.
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Important IHD Updates & Jan/Feb No School Reminders
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Sun Path Elementary school hours are presently 9:30am - 3:10pm. Once Sun Path Elementary IHD students transition to in-person learning, school hours will be adjusted to a normal schedule of 8:30am - 3:10pm. Office hours are 7:30am - 4:00pm. Attendance Line for absences: 952.496.5893.
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As you already know, on Monday, January 25th students in elementary IHD are slated to return to school. Kindergarten through second grade will go back to school five days a week starting on the 25th. On Monday, February 8th our IHD students in grades 3 through 5 will return to school five days a week.
Please check your district email or click here for important and updated information on school start and end times, transportation, face mask expectations, meals, YMCA school aged child care and no school days. Please continue to check your email as more building specific information will be sent by your school principal.
We look forward to welcoming our students back to our schools and thank you for your partnership as we make another learning model transition.
On January 4, the school board, which includes newly sworn in members Mohamed Ibrahim and Jeff Smith, approved a recommendation from the Shakopee Public Schools Pandemic Response Advisory Team for adjustments to the elementary (K-5) IHD learning plan.
Our Kindergarten through 2nd grade students in elementary IHD will shift to in-person learning on Monday, January 25th. This means all students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade will be on site for all 5 days per week starting on the 25th.
Our 3rd through 5th grades students in elementary IHD will shift to in-person learning on Monday, February 8th. This means all students in 3rd through 5th grade will attend school on site for all five days per week starting on February 8th.
Additionally, there will be no school for elementary IHD students in Kindergarten through 5th grade on Thursday, January 21 and Friday, January 22nd.
School start times will be adjusted to those originally planned for the school year. Jackson and Sun Path Elementary schools will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. Eagle Creek, Red Oak and Sweeney Elementary will run from 9:05 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
The majority of students will ride the same bus route with unchanged stops. But If your student’s transportation is significantly changed, those changes will be communicated the week of January 18th.
Secondary schools learning plans will remain unchanged at this point. Secondary schools include East, West, Shakopee High School and Tokata. At this point these schools will be in distance learning and expected to continue this way through at least January 15th and most likely through at least through the 31st of January.
All of this information with much more details will be sent to your email and can be found here.
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Radford, No. 20 Virginia Tech hold off No. 19 Duke 74-67
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) His team seemingly stunned by Duke's second-half surge, Virginia Tech coach Mike Young opted against a momentum-halting timeout.
He told his Hokies to get tough and play on - and that's just what they did.
Tyrece Radford had 18 points and 12 rebounds to lift No. 20 Virginia Tech over the 19th-ranked Blue Devils 74-67 on Tuesday night.
The double-double was the first of the season for Radford, who helped the Hokies (10-2, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) jump to an 18-point, first-half lead and hold off Duke's rally to win for the sixth time in seven games.
''I've got a pretty good team,'' Young said. ''Let's not beat around the bush. We've got a pretty good team. I think we've got a chance to be really good.''
The Hokies had led from the tip, making six of their first eight shots and shooting 63.3% (19 of 30) in the first half mainly behind Radford, who made 6 of 8 in the first 20 minutes.
Duke, though, cut the deficit to 56-55 after Matthew Hurt hit a corner 3-pointer with 13:12 remaining. At that point, Young decided not to call a timeout, letting his team continue to play.
Radford led the way, scoring the game's next five points, and Duke went scoreless on six consecutive possessions. The Blue Devils got no closer than four points the rest of the game.
''I was telling (teammates), `We've got to go,''' Radford said.
''I saw a level of poise,'' Young said. ''I didn't want to call timeout when Duke took off on us in the second half. Part of that was by design. I wanted to see us figure it out and fight through it.''
Keve Aluma added 17 points and seven rebounds, and Jalen Cone finished with 14 points for Virginia Tech.
Jeremy Roach led Duke (5-3, 3-1) with 22 points. Hurt, the ACC's leading scorer (19.6 points per game), finished with 20.
''They're really good,'' Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said of the Hokies. ''Mike's team, they know who they are.
''In the first half, they really hit us hard,'' he added. ''They played great defense, really strong, physical. They played tough, and it knocked us back. We have not played in an ACC game like that, our players, especially the freshmen.''
BIG PICTURE:
Duke: The young Blue Devils have a lot of individual talent, but they're still a work in progress as a team, particularly on offense. Questionable shot selection and turnovers led to a first-half deficit, and they shot just 40% (24 of 60) for the game with more turnovers (12) than assists (11). Given their talent, they figure to get better as the season goes along - and probably be a force again in March.
Virginia Tech: The Hokies have three wins over ranked teams this season and continue to enhance their NCAA Tournament resume. But they've played just one true road game and only three games away from Cassell Coliseum. That's going to change, as they now play five of their next seven on the road.
''We've got the potential to make a run for it,'' Radford said. ''We've just got to stay level-minded, level-headed, and not get the big head or anything. We've just got to stay humble.''
HIGH PRAISE FOR RADFORD
On four occasions this season, Radford had missed a double-double by a point or a rebound or two, but he achieved the accomplishment Tuesday, and he also added five assists.
''The kid Radford was the best player on the court,'' Krzyzewski said. ''Double-double, but his intensity, how hard he played really helps their team immensely.''
JOHNSON RETURNS
Jalen Johnson, the Blue Devils' third-leading scorer coming into the game (11.5 ppg), had missed Duke's past three games with a foot injury, but entered the game with 16:23 left in the first half after Roach picked up his second foul. He scored two points in four minutes.
Virginia Tech plays at Wake Forest - winless in ACC play - on Saturday, and a win there combined with the victory over the Blue Devils should propel them up the Top 25 poll. Duke could fall out of the poll following a loss in their lone game of the week.
Duke plays at Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
The Hokies play at Wake Forest on Sunday.
More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
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Blue Jays minor leaguer Jesus Montero banned for stimulant
NEW YORK (AP) Former major leaguer Jesus Montero has been suspended 50 games after testing positive for a stimulant, his second penalty for a banned substance.
Montero spent this season with Toronto's Triple-A Buffalo team, batting .317 with 11 home runs and 60 RBIs. He was a designated hitter and first baseman and was picked as an International League All-Star.
The commissioner's office made the announcement Thursday. Because the minor league season is over, the suspension will take effect at the start of next year.
Montero tested positive for dimethylbutylamine.
In August 2013, Montero drew a 50-game drug ban - he was among several players disciplined by Major League Baseball for their relationship to Biogenesis of America, a Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs.
The 26-year-old Montero made his big league debut with the New York Yankees in 2011 and was traded to Seattle after the season for pitcher Michael Pineda. Montero played for the Mariners last year.
In 2014, Montero was sent home by the Mariners late in the season after having a run-in with a Seattle scout at a minor league game.
There have been 84 suspensions this year under the minor league drug program and 13 under the major league program.
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A tale of two brothers: What's the difference between the Uptons?
Tim Marchman
Were science to isolate the reasons why some players are great and others aren't, the findings would likely prove depressing. I wouldn't care to have the sport's inner mysteries reduced to infinitesimal differences in the strength of tendons or microns in nerve length.
There are, of course, other possible explanations for why some players fail and some succeed. Take the case of two brothers, of nearly equal age and size, each blessed with ungodly talent. One is arguably the most valuable commodity in the sport; the other is nowhere close. Why?
Justin Upton, 21, is slugging .567 for Arizona. The entire list of men who have done better at his age or younger comprises nine Hall of Famers, plus Shoeless Joe Jackson, Alex Rodriguez and Hal Trosky, a truly great player who was all but done at 28 because of migraine headaches. In 2014 Upton will be a free agent at 26, and could be the second player ever to sign a $200 million contract.
B.J. Upton, meanwhile, is hitting .222 with little power for Tampa Bay. The 24-year-old's weak line is just one reason why the team is struggling so badly to follow on last year's epic pennant win in the style it deserves (inconsistent pitching is certainly another). Coming after last year's playoffs, during which he knocked seven home runs, lined angles in center field like a master pool player and seemingly emerged full bore as one of the game's great stars, this counts as one of the year's great disappointments.
The older Upton is no washout yet -- coming as they do after a winter shoulder operation and accompanied by terrific baserunning and defense, his lousy hitting stats aren't to be taken wholly seriously. Still, they mark a return to a pattern of alternating fitful brilliance with nearly cataclysmic failure that began with his premature 2004 major league debut and has carried on and off ever since.
Justin, by contrast, has really known nothing but success, the odd run of bad midseason form aside. After a brief, brilliant run through the minors, he debuted at 19 in the middle of a pennant race, played well in his first full season last year, and has fully arrived this year.
The difference is partly one of talent; Justin may just have a bit more. While the brothers are built similarly, B.J., at 6-3, 185 pounds, is more wiry, almost shockingly thin in person, and his gifts tilt a bit more toward the subtler aspects of the game. The 6-2, 205-pound Justin is slightly more compact, his body a bit more suited to the quick turn on a ball that defines a power hitter.
Events, though, are the greater difference. Both men, after being taken in the first two picks in the amateur draft -- B.J. at No. 2 in 2002 and Justin at the top spot in '05 -- made the major leagues for the first time at 19. It's there where their stories diverge.
B.J. came up for a wretched Devil Rays team during a season in which he had made 35 errors in the minors and was asked to play two infield positions; after posting a perfectly respectable hitting line he was sent down to the minors again the next year, where he made 53 errors at shortstop. It took two more years, which involved more errors, a third infield position and a disastrous second run in the majors, before he finally locked down a role that fit him, in center field.
His brother, by contrast, has always played one position, and once he was brought up to the majors he was up for good, through better play and worse.
The varying approaches that Tampa Bay and Arizona took with their wildly talented players show in some wildly varying results. More than his inconsistent hitting lines, B.J.'s struggles are reflected in an inconsistent approach. In 2006, for instance, he swung at 14 percent of pitches outside the strike zone; the next year, it was 19 percent, an increase of more than 35 percent. In his three seasons Justin has ranged from 24 percent to 26 percent. B.J.'s isolated power -- slugging average minus batting average, a measure of pure extra-base hitting -- dropped more than 100 points from his first to his second year, increased 150 points in his third year, and has dropped steadily since; Justin's has increased each year.
Again, this is surely partly a reflection of talent, that slight and indiscernible difference in genetics that some genius some day may be able to isolate under an electron microscope. Blind as we may be to the specific mechanics, there is no mystery here. But if, injuries and early promotion aside, B.J.'s fundamental problem has been an inability to fix on one aspect of his game and master it, it's hard not to tie that to the inconsistent way in which he was treated in his formative days as a major leaguer, when no one even seemed quite able to decide what position he should play, let alone what style he should adopt at the plate.
It's thus hard not to wonder what might have happened had he not been brought up before he was ready. This might have meant both that he would have been moved to the outfield much sooner than he was, and that once he was brought up he would have been shown at least some slight bit of confidence. Perhaps he would have been the same player; perhaps he would be the favorite to secure baseball's third $200 million contract. Perhaps none of it matters and he'll still have the better of the Uptons' careers. However it would have turned, these are early days for a pair of parallel careers we might be watching for the next 20 years. We should enjoy them.
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Morning Jolt: Price set for Kolb-to-Cards trade
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Price set for Kolb and Cards
Kevin Kolb finds himself in much the same position as Matt Schaub before he was traded by the Falcons for a flip-flopped first-rounder (two spots) and a pair of second-round choices. Like Schaub, Kolb's team wants to trade him. Like Schaub, Kolb is unproven. ... There is no question the Cardinals are interested, and I get the feeling Kolb is their first choice to be their starter in 2011. The Cardinals liked Kolb when he was coming out of the University of Houston, and he has the type of personality (gym rat) that Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt likes in a quarterback. The Cardinals are leery, however, of what the Eagles might want for Kolb. If the Eagles want to use the Schaub trade as a template, I think the Cardinals would be interested. (Arizona Republic)Comment
Kobe's absence led to weak practices
Seems Andrew Bynum's Tuesday suggestion that practices weren't intense enough this season wasn't unfounded. Kobe Bryant, for his part, acknowledged that something was missing because he mostly wasn't able to practice because of his troublesome right knee. "I think it played a part in the fact that guys felt like they could take days off because I'm not there," Bryant said. "It's like your big brother not being around." ... "Next season will be different. I have this whole off-season to get strong, and this way I can get out there and kick their [butt] in practice and they'll have no excuses." (The Press-Enterprise)Comment
Colon finds fountain of youth?
Bartolo Colon may have found a fountain of youth, one that could raise eyebrows. The Yankees signed Colon in January after he pitched during the off-season in the Dominican Republic. ... The 37-year-old Colon has gone 2-0, with an earned run average of 3.81, since being inserted into the club's starting rotation. A doctor in Florida would like to take some of the credit. Joseph R. Purita, an orthopedic surgeon who runs a regenerative medicine clinic in Boca Raton, said he and a team of Dominican doctors that he led treated Colon in April 2010. Purita said he employed what he regards as one of his more pioneering techniques: he used fat and bone marrow stem cells from Colon, injecting them back into Colon's elbow and shoulder to help repair ligament damage and a torn rotator cuff. (New York Times)Comment
Must-See Photo
The Thunder bench reacts to a play against the Grizzlies in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals on Wednesday. Oklahoma City won in a laugher, 99-72, to take a 3-2 series lead. (Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
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Dwyane Wade gets the amazing shot to drop while falling to the floor during last night's series-clinching win for the Heat over the Cetlics.
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This Day in Sports
1955 -- Sam Jones (Chicago Cubs) became the first black player to pitch a no-hitter. The game was against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1970 -- Ernie Banks (Chicago Cubs) hit his 500th home run.
1985 -- The New York Knicks won the first NBA Draft Lottery. They would go on to select Patrick Ewing with the No. 1 overall pick.
1997 -- Larry Bird was announced as the new head coach of the Indiana Pacers. Exactly one year later, Bird became only the third rookie head coach to win the NBA Coach of the Year award.
Today's Birthdays -- Yogi Berra (1925)
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SI Insider: The NBA Is Working Towards a Plan to Resume the Season but There Is Still Plenty to Consider
Chris Mannix
ESPN Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted Wednesday that Adam Silver was due to meet with the NBA's Board of Governors on Friday to discuss the season resuming. They are not expected to have a final decision on Friday and SI's Chris Mannix shares some of the mechanics that need to be considered when resuming this NBA season.
This is, by all accounts, a pivotal week for the NBA as league officials work towards finding the right way to resume the season. Adam Silver will hold a call with team executives on Thursday. And the NBA's Board of Governors will meet virtually on Friday in what will be a critical meeting. But as of Wednesday, there are still ongoing discussions on what the NBA will look like when it comes back.
There is a significant faction within the league to bring back all 30 teams in an effort to satisfy financial obligations to regional television partners. But there is the challenge of making these games meaningful, which became a front burner issue when Blazer's All-Star, Damian Lillard told Yahoo! Sports that he would not play if Portland didn't have a pathway to make the playoffs.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has suggested a play-in tournament to decide the last two seeds in each conference. An idea that does have some support among owners. But bringing back all 30 teams has some challenges, not the least of which is preventing infection and spread of the coronavirus, which remains a significant concern. As I've reported here before, NBA teams will be amenable to whatever Silver decides with the financial future of the league on shaky ground. But there is still a lot of work to be done before the NBA can announce a concrete plan to pick up the '19-'20 season.
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Best of the Firsts, No. 32: Logan Mankins
Chris Burke
Logan Mankins has been a pillar for the Patriots since being drafted in 2005. (Cal Sport Media)
As part of our offseason coverage, we're taking a look back at some of the best first-round draft picks since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. We'll work our way up the draft board, starting with the best selection made with the No. 32 pick and ending with the top No. 1 pick.
The Pick: Logan Mankins, 2005, New England Patriots
His Credentials: 104 career regular-season starts, four Pro Bowl trips, three All-Pro selections, voted to Patriots' 50th anniversary team in 2009, two Super Bowl appearances
Others in Consideration: Ben Watson (2004, Patriots); Mathias Kiwanuka (2006, Giants)
The competition will get stiffer the further into this we venture. As it stands, though, there have been just 10 first-round selections at the No. 32 spot in NFL history. Only since 2002, when the Houston Texans hopped into the league, have there been 32 picks in Round 1. The 1995 draft also had a 32-pick first round due to an extra selection each for the expansion Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars -- defensive back Craig Newsome was the last player taken in Round 1, by Green Bay.
The 32nd pick in 2008 fell back to Round 2, since the Patriots forfeited their first-rounder due to the Spygate fallout.
The top No. 32 pick throughout NFL history, regardless of round? Probably Drew Brees, whom the Chargers snatched up atop Round 2 in 2001.
But back to Mankins ...
He missed the first seven games of 2010 because of a holdout and he wasn't quite as dominant in 2011 as he's been in the past. There's still no debating how important he is to the Patriots' offensive line, not to mention how reliable he's been. Aside from his '10 holdout, he has missed just one game since joining the Pats in 2005 -- Week 17 of this past season.
It certainly does not hurt Mankins that he has been able to set up shop next to left tackle Matt Light, a starter on New England's line since 2001. Few teams in the league can boast an experienced veteran pairing like that up front, let alone protecting their quarterback's blindside.
The glaring accomplishment missing from Mankins' resume is a Super Bowl crown. He joined New England right after the second of back-to-back titles in 2004 and '05 -- hence why the Patriots had the 32nd pick in the 2005 draft.
And while Mankins has been a part of five AFC East division title-winning teams and been around for seven postseason victories, he has twice been on the short end of the Super Bowl stick against the Giants, the latest heartbreak coming earlier this month.
Assuming the 29-year-old Mankins (he'll be 30 in March) can stay healthy, he may get a few more cracks at a crown. Prior to the 2011 season, he signed a six-year, $51 million contract that could keep him in New England through the 2016 season. That deal made Mankins the highest-paid interior lineman in the NFL, though New Orleans free agent Carl Nicks could surpass that total this offseason.
The Patriots have to consider it money well-spent, given Mankins' performance on the field and leadership in the locker room.
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Diving preview: China a threat to sweep gold medals in Rio Olympics
It‘s the Chinese against the world in the diving events at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Chris Chavez
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After winning 15 medals at the 2015 world championships—10 of them gold—China comes to Rio with the swagger of the country to beat. They won six gold medals at the 2012 London Games and seven in Beijing, so a golden sweep of the eight Olympic diving events (men’s and women’s individual three-meter springboard and 10-meter platform, synchronized three-meter springboard and 10-meter platform) in Rio isn’t out of the question for the Chinese.
In 2012, Team USA’s David Boudia pulled off a back two-and-a-half somersault with two-and-a-half twists pike dive on his final dive, earning 102.60 points to edge out China’s Qiu Bo by 1.80 points and win the Olympic gold medal in the 10-meter springboard. Boudia ended a 12-year gap without any U.S. diving gold medal, and his was the first by an American man since Mark Lenzi won the three-meter springboard at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Four years later, both divers return with their eye on the prize. Boudia is looking to become the first American man since Greg Louganis to win back-to-back Olympic gold, while Qiu, who’s won the world title in the 10-meter platform at the last three world championships, wants to finally add Olympic gold to his resume.
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Athletes to watch
Qiu Bo, China
Qui is one of the best divers in the world, boasting three world titles in 10-meter platform (2011, ’13 and ’15) on his resume—only Louganis has won three world golds. The glaring blemish was losing the 2012 Olympic gold to Boudia. Qiu was favored for the win at the 2012 Olympics before Boudia's surprising 568.65 point total earned him the gold medal in London. At the last three diving world championships, Bo has taken gold while Boudia settled for silver.
Qiu kicked off 2016 with a win at the FINA Diving World Cup in Rio and has won two silver medals and one bronze in the FINA Diving World Series. He has been beaten by compatriot Chen Aisen at each stop.
David Boudia, USA
Boudia heads to his third Olympics looking to defend his 10-meter springboard gold medal that snapped a Chinese winning streak over four previous Summer Games. But since then, the former Purdue star hasn’t claimed a top podium spot in any international competitions. He left the 2014 diving world series event in Dubai with a bronze medal and earned individual silver medals on platform at the 2013 and ’15 world championships.
Boudia, the most experienced member of the U.S. team, could also make history as the first U.S. man to win a second medal in the platform synchro event after he took bronze with Nick McCrory in London. He will dive with Steele Johnson just one year after finishing fifth at the world championships.
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Tom Daley, Great Britain
With David Beckham watching in the crowd, Great Britain’s Daley posted a 90.75 on his last dive (including a 10 score from one judge) to take bronze before his home crowd at the London Olympics. Daley absorbed his fame after London but a series of injuries hindered his competition schedule and training. He finished sixth in the 10-meter springboard competition at the 2013 world championships before returning to the podium in ’15 with a bronze medal finish. Last summer, he added a gold medal to his collection with Rebecca Gallantree in the inaugural team event competition.
The Olympic year has fared well for Daley as he’s won six medals (four synchro and two individual) in the 2016 FINA Diving World Series.
Wu Minxia, China
At the London Games, Wu made history by becoming the first woman to win three straight Olympic diving gold medals (in the three-meter synchronized springboard event). Now in Rio, she has a chance to make history again; a seventh medal of any color would be the most Olympic diving medals in history.
Wu isn’t expected to dive in the individual event, but she’ll chase her fourth gold in the synchronized three-meter springboard event, paired up with Shi Tingmao, the 2015 FINA diver of the year. The two won the last two world championship gold medals in the event.
• Water polo a family affair for Rio-bound sisters Makenzie, Aria Fischer
Kassidy Cook, USA
Cook is an early favorite to become a darling of these Olympics Games; she missed qualifying for London in 2012 by less than half a point, and just a few weeks later she tore her labrum. After injuries and ensuing surgeries, Cook finally made her return to international competition in February, placing seventh at the FINA World Cup in Rio. She may not be a favorite for gold as China has won the last seven springboard medals, but Cook’s return from repeat heartbreak is a commendable effort to bring to the world stage.
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Diving will be contested from Aug. 7–20.
Aug. 7 – Women’s synchronized 3m springboard final
Aug. 8 – Men’s synchronized 10m platform final
Aug. 9 – Women’s synchronized 10m platform final
Aug. 10 – Men’s synchronized 3m springboard final
Aug. 14 – Women’s 3m springboard final
Aug. 16 – men’s 3m springboard final
Aug. 18 – Women’s 10m platform final
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Home » Your Eye Health » Eye Conditions » Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye disease that is inherited, and very rare. About one in four thousand Americans are affected by this disease. The retina, which is the light-sensitive portion of the eye, degenerates progressively over time. The result of this degeneration is the loss of peripheral vision, loss of central vision, night blindness, and sometimes blindness.
Retinitis Pigmentosa Symptoms
Childhood is when the first symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa generally appear. Usually both eyes are implicated in the disease. Sometimes RP doesn’t appear until older age, at age 30 or even older.
The main symptom of RP in the beginning stages is night blindness. Tunnel vision may develop in the later stages of the disease, where central vision is affected, and only a small portion of sight is available.
One study of patients suffering from RP revealed that, in patients 45 years and older, 52% had at least 20/40 central vision in one eye, 25% had 20/200 vision or below, and 0.5% were completely blind.
Causes of Retinitis Pigmentosa
Very little is known about the causes behind RP, beyond that it is an inherited disease. Scientists believe that defective molecules in our genes cause RP. This explains why the disease affects patients so differently.
If one parent carries the defective gene, it’s possible to get RP, even if your parents do not have the disease. Approximately one percent of the population are carriers of the RP recessive gene. Sometimes this recessive gene is passed on to the child, who will then develop retinitis pigmentosa.
RP affects the retina in the eye. The disease causes the light-sensitive cells that are located in the retina to die gradually. Most often, the cells that are used for night and peripheral vision, called rod cells, are affected. Sometimes the cells that are used to see color and for central vision, called cones, are also affected.
The main diagnostic tool employed is visual field testing. This test determines how much peripheral vision loss has occurred. Other diagnostic tools may be used to test night vision and color vision.
Few treatments exist for RP. What is available helps conditions associated with RP, not the disease itself. For patients older than 25, there is a prosthesis system that was recently approved. This system captures images via glasses, and transmits the signal captures to an implanted device located on the retina.
Most treatments center around helping the patient learn to deal with their vision loss. Psychological counseling, and occupational therapy, may be recommended. Technological instruments that help with low vision, such as illuminated magnifiers, can help patients with RP see as well as possible with their limited vision. Some doctors recommend vitamin A supplements as there is some evidence that vitamin A might help delay the progression of the disease.
For the future, scientists are hopeful that there will be additional treatments for RP, including new drug treatments and retinal implants.
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The ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Director Has Been Fired from the Film
Posted on Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista
The Six Billion Dollar Man movie needs a new director. Reports indicate Damian Szifron has been fired from the Mark Wahlberg movie, an adaptation of the 1970s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man.
Deadline says Damian Szifron has been fired from The Six Billion Dollar Man movie due to creative differences and, possibly, a “language barrier.” Szifron is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter who was set to make his American debut with the big budget Six Billion Dollar Man starring Mark Wahlberg. Now, the film needs a new director, and possibly a new script, because Szifron co-wrote that as well.
The Six Billion Dollar Man is an adaptation of the 1970s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (they upped it to a billion because I guess no one is impressed by six million dollars anymore). The story focuses on Colonel Steve Austin (not to be confused with Stone Cold Steve Austin). Austin is a pilot who gets shot down and nearly killed. To save him, a secret government agency gives Austin bionic implants to make him part man, part machine. In other words, it’s like RoboCop, without all the subversive stuff. Mark Wahlberg is set to play Austin.
Szifron joined the film in 2015, when he was first hired to write for director Peter Berg. At some point, Berg left the project, and Szifron was tapped to direct. At the time, Szifron said:
“The themes surrounding this beloved property allow for the creation of a memorable sci-fi actioner as well as a bold spy thriller. Expectations are high and I’ll do my best to deliver the strongest basis for an amazing cinematic experience.”
Now, the film needs a director yet again. THR indicates that there might already be a candidate for the position: Mel Gibson. Gibson is being courted to play Austin’s mentor Oscar Goldman in the film. Gibson, of course, has a background in filmmaking, and THR seems to think that Warner Bros. might step in and ask Gibson to not just appear in the film, but to direct it as well. We’ll see.
Despite all the ups and downs, Wahlberg has remained with the project. Back in 2015, the actor said:
“[I’m] very, very excited. Damian [Szifron] has written an amazing script, and I can’t wait. I think it’s going to be a game changer. It’s action, but it’s very character driven. I would say it will be more like a Bourne than like a Marvel movie. Grounded. Real. Edgy.”
The Six Billion Dollar Man is set to hit theaters May 31, 2019. That might change now.
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Action/Adventure, TV To Film Adaptation, Warner Brothers, Damián Szifrón, Mark-Wahlberg, Mel-Gibson, The Six Billion Dollar Man
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Prior to joining Shea Moskovitz & McGhee, Gray Bartlett practiced for 17 years with Ballin, Ballin & Fishman, PC. Mr. Bartlett’s practice areas include criminal defense, asset forfeiture and federal criminal law. He is licensed in the State of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. In addition, he is a member of the Memphis Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Bartlett earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama with a B.A. in political science and went on to earn his juris doctor from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
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Norwegians on the Land
By Odd S. Lovoll
Part of the Historical Essay Series, this essay shares the importance of Norwegians in rural areas and the life they faced in Minnesota. It details the spread of Norwegian settlement, the economic factors they adjusted to, and the role of religion in their lives.
Dr. Odd S. Lovoll is Professor of Norwegian and History at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, and the editor of the publications of the Norwegian-American Historical Association. One of his books is A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago Before 1930 (1988). In 1986 H.M. King Olav V of Norway, in recognition of his contributions to the study of Norwegian-American history, decorated him with the Knight's Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit and 1992 appointed him Professor of Scandinavian-American Studies.
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Scott Ainslie: "The Last Shot Got Him"
Written by Rad Bennett
Category: Recording of the Month
Cattail 2014
Musical Performance: ****
Sound Quality: ****1/2
Overall Enjoyment: ****
Sometimes, smaller forces make for a great recording. Here we have blues singer Scott Ainslie and his Gibson L-50 archtop acoustic guitar, bass added on one track, steel-string banjo on another. That is exceptionally minimal, yet this delightful disc has given me more enjoyment than all the loud ones I received recently.
Ainslie is a teacher and historian as well as a performer, and has devoted most of his life to researching the songs and style of Mississippi John Hurt. OKeh Records talent scouts discovered Hurt in the late ’20s and made a series of 78rpm recordings in Memphis. Based on sales, three Mississippi performers were invited to record at OKeh’s New York City studios. Hurt was one of them.
On The Last Shot Got Him, Ainslie performs six classic Hurt tunes: “The First Shot Missed Him,” “Avalon Blues,” “Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me,” “Got the Blues, Can’t be Satisfied,” “Honey, Right Away,” and “Monday Morning Blues.” “Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me” has this memorable refrain: "When my earthly trials are over, carry my body out in the sea / Save all the undertaker’s bills, let the mermaids flirt with me."
The disc is filled out with songs by Robert Johnson, Reverend Gary Davis, Irving Berlin, Oliver Wallace and Ned Washington, Fats Waller, and Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen. The Wallace and Washington tune is “When I See an Elephant Fly” from Dumbo and it is given a very rousing and humorous performance, as is Davis’ “Sally Whiskey.” The disc closes with “Over the Rainbow,” which takes to the blues treatment surprisingly well.
Throughout the CD, Ainslie sings and plays with confidence and understanding. He is smart enough to know when to mug and when to let the words speak for themselves. He makes his musical journey fun and entertainment that is easy to like.
The recording is so natural you might think Ainslie has been imported into your listening room. Discs like this are a lot more valuable for evaluating new equipment than a thousand copies of Also Sprach Zarathustra. The fine print tells us “mixed with Julian McBrowne, mastered with Toby Mountain,” and they deserve a mention. And that 1934 Gibson, too; what a swell sound it makes. All of this is proof that you can still get world-class sound with the CD format.
You can preview the album on the artist's website and find out more about him and his instruments. You can find an example of Ainslie’s formidable slide guitar technique on “Come On in My Kitchen.”
. . . Rad Bennett
radb@soundstagenetwork.com
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How We Really Shut Down the WTO
by Starhawk
It's been two weeks now since the morning when I awoke before dawn to join the blockade that shut down the opening meeting of the WTO. Since getting out of jail, I've been reading the media coverage and trying to make sense out of the divergence between what I know happened and what has been reported.
For once in a political protest, when we chanted "The whole world is watching!" we were telling the truth. I've never seen so much media attention on a political action. However, most of what has been written is so inaccurate that I can't decide if the reporters in question should be charged with conspiracy or simply incompetence. The reports have pontificated endlessly about a few broken windows, and mostly ignored the Direct Action Network, the group that successfully organized the nonviolent direct action that ultimately involved thousands of people. The true story of what made the action a success is not being told.
The police, in defending their brutal and stupid mishandling of the situation, have said they were "not prepared for the violence". In reality, they were unprepared for the nonviolence and the numbers and commitment of the nonviolent activists -- even though the blockade was organized in open, public meetings and there was nothing secret about our strategy. My suspicion is that our model of organization and decision making was so foreign to their picture of what constitutes leadership that they literally could not see what was going on in front of them. When authoritarians think about leadership, the picture in their minds is of one person, usually a guy, or a small group standing up and telling other people what to do. Power is centralized and requires obedience.
In contrast, our model of power was decentralized, and leadership was invested in the group as a whole. People were empowered to make their own decisions, and the centralized structures were for co-ordination, not control. As a result, we had great flexibility and resilience, and many people were inspired to acts of courage they could never have been ordered to do.
Here are some of the key aspects of our model of organizing:
Training and Preparation
In the weeks and days before the bockade, thousands of people were given nonviolence training -- a three hour course that combined the history and philosophy of nonviolence with real life practice through role plays in staying calm in tense situations, using nonviolent tactics, responding to brutality, and making decisions together. Thousands also went through a second-level training in jail preparation, solidarity strategies and tactics and legal aspects. As well, there were first aid trainings, trainings in blockade tactics, street theater, meeting facilitation, and other skills. While many more thousands of people took part in the blockade who had not attended any of these trainings, a nucleus of groups existed who were prepared to face police brutality and who could provide a core of resistance and strength. And in jail, I saw many situations that played out just like the role plays. Activists were able to protect members of their group from being singled out or removed by using tactics introduced in the trainings. The solidarity tactics we had prepared became a real block to the functioning of the system.
Common Agreements
Each participant in the action was asked to agree to the nonviolence guidelines: To refrain from violence, physical or verbal; not to carry weapons, not to bring or use illegal drugs or alchohol, and not to destroy property. We were asked to agree only for the purpose of the 11/30 action -- not to sign on to any of these as a life philosophy, and the group acknowledged that there is much diversity of opinion around some of these guidelines.
Affinity Groups, Clusters and Spokescouncils
The participants in the action were organized into small groups called Affinity Groups. Each group was empowered to make its own decisions around how it would participate in the blockade. There were groups doing street theater, others preparing to lock themselves to structures, groups with banners and giant puppets, others simply prepared to link arms and nonviolently block delegates. Within each group, there were generally some people prepared to risk arrest and others who would be their support people in jail, as well as a first aid person.
Affinity groups were organized into clusters. The area around the Convention Center was broken down into thirteen sections, and affinity groups and clusters committed to hold particular sections. As well, some groups were 'flying groups' -- free to move to wherever they were most needed. All of this was co- ordinated at Spokescouncil meetings, where Affinity Groups each sent a representative who was empowered to speak for the group.
In practice, this form of organization meant that groups could move and react with great flexibility during the blockade. If a call went out for more people at a certain location, an affinity group could assess the numbers holding the line where they were and choose whether or not to move. When faced with tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and horses, groups and individuals could assess their own ability to withstand the brutality. As a result, blockade lines held in the face of incredible police violence. When one group of people was finally swept away by gas and clubs, another would move in to take their place. Yet there was also room for those of us in the middle-aged, bad lungs/bad backs affinity group to hold lines in areas that were relatively peaceful, to interact and dialogue with the delegates we turned back, and to support the labor march that brought tens of thousands through the area at midday. No centralized leader could have co-ordinated the scene in the midst of the chaos, and none was needed -- the organic, autonomous organization we had proved far more powerful and effective. No authoritarian figure could have compelled people to hold a blockade line while being tear gassed -- but empowered people free to make their own decisions did choose to do that.
The affinity groups, clusters, spokescouncils and working groups involved with DAN made decisions by consensus -- a process that allows every voice to be heard and that stresses respect for minority opinions. Consensus was part of the nonviolence and jail trainings and we made a small attempt to also offer some special training in meeting facilitation. We did not interpret consensus to mean unanimity. The only mandatory agreement was to act within the nonviolent guidelines. Beyond that, the DAN organizers set a tone that valued autonomy and freedom over conformity, and stressed co-ordination rather than pressure to conform. So, for example, our jail solidarity stategy involved staying in jail where we could use the pressure of our numbers to protect individuals from being singled out for heavier charges or more brutal treatment. But no one was pressured to stay in jail, or made to feel guilty for bailing out before the others. We recognized that each person has their own needs and life situation, and that what was important was to have taken action at whatever level we each could. Had we pressured people to stay in jail, many would have resisted and felt resentful and misused. Because we didn't, because people felt empowered, not manipulated, the vast majority decided for themselves to remain in, and many people pushed themselves far beyond the boundaries of what they had expected to do.
Vision and Spirit
The action included art, dance, celebration, song, ritual and magic. It was more than a protest; it was an uprising of a vision of true abundance, a celebration of life and creativity and connection, that remained joyful in the face of brutality and brought alive the creative forces that can truly counter those of injustice and control. Many people brought the strength of their personal spiritual practice to the action. I saw Buddhists turn away angry delegates with loving kindness. We Witches led rituals before the action and in jail, and called on the elements of nature to sustain us. I was given Reiki when sick and we celebrated Hanukah with no candles, but only the blessings and the story of the struggle for religious freedom. We found the spirit to sing in our cells, to dance a spiral dance in the holding cell, to laugh at the hundred petty humiliations the jail inflicts, to comfort each other and listen to each other in tense moments, to use our time together to continue teaching and organizing and envisioning the flourishing of this movement. For me, it was one of the most profound spiritual experiences of my life.
I'm writing this for two reasons. First, I want to give credit to the DAN organizers who did a brilliant and difficult job, who learned and applied the lessons of the last twenty years of nonviolent direct action, and who created a powerful, successful and life-changing action in the face of enormous odds, an action that has changed the global political landscape and radicalized a new generation. And secondly, because the true story of how this action was organized provides a powerful model that activists can learn from. Seattle was only a beginning. We have before us the task of building a global movement to overthrow corporate control and create a new economy based on fairness and justice, on a sound ecology and a healthy environment, one that protects human rights and serves freedom. We have many campaigns ahead of us, and we deserve to learn the true lessons of our successes.
This letter available online at: http://www.reclaiming.org/starhawk/wto.html (Please feel free to forward this and post it or reprint it. You don't need to ask my permission although I'd be happy to know where it ends up. I'd appreciate it if you'd include a link to the Reclaiming website, where my personal website can also be found: http:// www.reclaiming.org/starhawk . Please also include also the following note.)
The Direct Action Network needs your help to cover expenses and legal fees which are still mounting up. Any donations will be appreciated. Please show your support! Checks can be made to Cascadia Art and Revolution and sent to DAN at Direct Action Network, PO Box 95113, Seattle, WA 98145.
--Starhawk
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The band Tough Lovers is made up of Delta’s Graham Madden
Lovers tough it out
Delta band Tough Lovers is one of 20 vying for the top prize in The Peak Performance Project
Adrian MacNair
Breaking into the music industry is always tough, but a band from Delta has a chance.
Tough Lovers, formed two years ago, is one of 20 bands in The Peak Performance Project, a competition in which music acts vie for $100,500 in funding to launch their music careers.
Lead singer Jamie Smail, 24, and guitarist Graham Madden, 25, who both went to Delta Secondary, decided to form a band after playing a gig together in November 2009. They brought Dane Stevens on board, another Ladner boy in the Delta connection.
“Dane was a guitar player and we figured he could probably play bass,” says Jamie. “He picked up the guitar and he loved it.”
Next, they had to find a drummer, so the band went looking in an unusual place: Craigslist. That’s where they found Ryan Stephenson.
“We were a little nervous going to check him out,” says Jamie, laughing. Little did he know that Ryan’s mother was equally nervous about her then 19-year-old son joining a rock band. But once they met, the whole group bonded quickly.
The band is an Indie-pop rock group with “surfing textures” explains Jamie.
Tough Lovers applied for the contest two years ago when they were just starting out, but didn’t make it in. They decided to wait and develop their sound and improve. The hard work has paid off.
Part of making it into the competition included a “music boot camp” in Princeton, B.C. at the end of August. The camp featured six hours of music classes a day, which included learning about the business side of the industry.
“We made a lot of new friends,” says Graham. “There’s sort of a community that’s been formed from the experience. It’s kind of weird, you’re friends with people even though you’re in competition with one another.”
But Jamie doesn’t see it so much of a competition as he does a learning and networking experience.
“It’s really more about the development of the artists, because in the end, everybody really wins,” he says.
Tough Lovers participated in a benefit concert for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) last Friday (Oct. 19) which raised more than $5,000. Dane and Jamie both lost family members to ALS, adding a personal motivation.
During the competition, each band gets played five times a day over 20 days on The Peak radio station (102.7), but they can get extra air time through requests.
The band is hoping people will like their music enough to vote them into first place (voting closes today, Friday Oct. 26 at 5 p.m.). But whatever happens, they’re grateful for the experience.
“It’s easy to write a song, it’s harder to write a good song,” says Jamie.
You can listen to their music on toughlovers.com or iTunes.
Finding the upside of the downturn
The life and times of Vancouver legend Curt Lang
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Food, French
We’ve all been dying to know which type of magic the Gaines would bring to the café, a landmark on Waco’s bustling traffic circle that closed down in February of 2016. The Fixer Upper stars’ Magnolia brand, which includes the Magnolia Market, a premium interior paint line, a bakery, and a quarterly home magazine, has already reshaped the culture and perception of Waco, Texas.
The Elite Café, which was originally opened in 1919, has catered to Elvis Presley when he was training at Fort Hood in the 1950s, and previously served steaks, burgers, and salads. It was a landmark for locals and passersby traveling from Austin to Dallas, most recognizable by a baby-blue ’56 Cadillac parked right out front. “I’ve always been a breakfast connoisseur. I always do a heavy, bigger breakfast, but Jo is the exact opposite. She was kind enough to come with me on this one, and we are going to do up a breakfast joint here in town.” According to Chip, renovating the restaurant took a lot of “elbow grease,” but it was worth it.
“The restaurant itself is literally one big giant kitchen. When we first got in there, it was all the things you can imagine—dingy, musky. But if I took you in there today, you’d be like ‘Oh! This is so clean, everything smells so great.’ Those are a few benefits of a little bit of elbow grease and hard work on the front end.” As Chip’s vision has come to fruition, he’s garnered a lot more support. We’ve all been dying to know which type of magic the Gaines would bring to the café, a landmark on Waco’s bustling traffic circle that closed down in February of 2016. The Fixer Upper stars’ Magnolia brand, which includes the Magnolia Market, a premium interior paint line, a bakery, and a quarterly home magazine, has already reshaped the culture and perception of Waco, Texas.
“The restaurant itself is literally one big giant kitchen. When we first got in there, it was all the things you can imagine—dingy, musky. But if I took you in there today, you’d be like ‘Oh! This is so clean, everything smells so great.’ Those are a few benefits of a little bit of elbow grease and hard work on the front end.” As Chip’s vision has come to fruition, he’s garnered a lot more support.
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1998 Triumph Speed Triple - Added by elias.taoufik.nospam.gmail.com on 24-Aug-2020
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1998 Triumph SpeedTriple
More Information on the Triumph Speed Triple
The Triumph Speed Triple is a series of motorcycles produced by Triumph Motorcycles. In 1994 the reborn Triumph became one of the earliest adopters of the new streetfighter style. This was essentially a modern sport bike or race replica motorcycle but without the aerodynamic plastic fairing.
Early bikes
The new bike was first released to the public in 1994, and in a nod to the 1938 Speed Twin, was dubbed the "Speed Triple". The original Speed Twin was powered by a 498 cc vertical twin cylinder engine, and was considered a high performance machine in its day. The new Speed Triple was based on the new Triumph Triple series of modular engines, which also powered the standard Trident, Daytona sport bike, and the Thunderbird retro bike. This engine came in two displacements as a triple: 750 cc for some European markets, and 885 cc for all other markets. The Speed Triple originally was equipped only with the 885 cc engine, but just before significant changes to the bike were made in 1997 a very few 750 machines were produced using leftover Euro specification engines.
Early Speed Triples were all carbureted, and were designated T300 series bikes (Technically, T309). 1994/1995 models came with the standard 885 cc water-cooled engine and a rugged five-speed transmission. Subsequent Speed Triples all had the same engine with six speed transmissions, except for the brief run of 750 cc bikes. As with all the modular Triumphs, the T309 series Speed Triple had a very large single steel tube backbone frame, and used the engine as a stressed member. Forks were 43mm multi-adjustable Kayaba units and the same Japanese firm's shock could be set for preload and rebound damping. Kayaba (now known as KYB) had had a special relationship with Hinckley Triumph from its earliest days. At the rear was a single monoshock with a progressive linkage, and at the front were standard hydraulic forks fitted with dual disk brakes.
In 1994 Triumph Motorcycles sponsored a racing series with the intention of spotlighting its new image. Dubbed "The Speed Triple Challenge", it was similar to IROC in that all the competitors rode identical Speed Triple motorcycles. This made up for the fact that in factory trim the Speed Triple wasn't a competitive machine in normal racing circles. On the other hand, a few privateers had some success on highly modified bikes based on the Triumph Triple engine, often using Spondon chassis. Some modified Speed Triples also were observed racing in B.E.A.R.S. (British European American Racing Series, now part of AHMRA).
The final T309 Speed Triple was built in 1996. The newly introduced T595 Daytona was supplied with fuel injection, and the 955 cc engine. The 1997 T509 received the frame, brakes and design of the new Daytona 595, but came with an 885 cc injected engine for '97 and '98. The remainder of the range including the Tbird, Legend, the Adventurer, the Thunderbird Sport, the Tiger,the Sprint and Sprint Sport and the 900 trophy retained the carbureted 885 cc engine.
Following the end of the T309 run of Speed Triples, Triumph released the first of its new generation of fuel injected sportbikes, the T509 Speed Triple. The new bike was a total redesign. While the all new engine still displaced 885 cc, it now produced a claimed 108 hp (81 kW) and was fitted with an engine management system by SAGEM, a French company that built systems for automobiles. The T509 had new aluminium perimeter chassis, a single-sided swingarm, and upgraded suspension components.
The restyling by designers John Mockett and Rod Scivyer saw the introduction of the twin "bug eye" headlamps which are a Triumph trademark to this day. When introduced in 1997 the T509 had a polished frame. It also had low mount clip-ons. To improve rider comfort and low speed handling, a regular handlebar was fitted from 1998.
When the 1997 T509 Speed Triple received the 885 cc fuel injected engine, the Daytona received an upgraded 955 cc engine producing 130 hp (97 kW) at the crank. For 1999 the new Speed Triple was officially upgraded to T595 status, also receiving the bigger engine. Due to tuning differences it did not make as much power as its fully faired contemporary, but it did have a substantially broader torque curve than its T509 predecessor.
Cosmetically, the T509 and the 1999 Speed Triples were nearly identical, and they shared many of the same components including the dual headlamps and single sided swing arm. Minor differences include the removal of the "T509" decal on the rear quarter panel and the addition of a header cross-over pipe. Small fairings referred to as "Bikini Fairings" were popular on these bikes, as well as other aftermarket accessories that wouldn't normally be of use to a fully faired sport bike.
For the years 2000 and 2001 the Speed Triple changed little other than cosmetically. The engine control unit was updated to the Sagem MC2000. Both the Speed Triple and the Daytona came to be referred to as 955i bikes (the Daytona adopting the 955i designation in 1999), which ended some confusion from the earlier T500 series designations. Other notable differences were silver wheels instead of black wheels, and the Speed Triple logo on the rear quarter panel was in print rather than cursive.
In 2002, Gareth Davies redesigned the plastics. The 432 lb (196 kg) was reduced by a change to the engine casings of the 955i engine that decreased weight by roughly 17 pounds. The power was slightly increased thanks to a new cylinder head design. The MC2000 control unit remained, but was adapted for an O2 sensor.
In late 2004, a small number of Special Edition Speed Triples (Speed Triple SE) were produced, with only cosmetic differences.
In 2005, Triumph released its fourth generation Speed Triple. While this was not a redesign of the scale of the T509, there were many changes to the bike. The engine was still the venerable and reliable fuel-injected engine used since 1997, but it had been increased in capacity to 1,050 cc. This was accomplished by lengthening the stroke. Also fitted was an all new fuel injection and engine management system made by the Japanese company Keihin. Other engine modifications resulted in a claimed 129 hp (96 kW) and a broader, flatter torque curve.
The design of this new Speed Triple was by the Italian Frascoli Rodolfo.
Other improvements included inverted forks, radial disc brake calipers and a redesigned electronic gauge cluster which included a trip computer. Handling was once again improved.
Late in 2007, a few changes appeared in the Speed Triple, consisting of an updated engine management system and a revised exhaust containing a catalytic converter in a different location. The revised Electronic Control Unit (ECU) had more memory and provided a solution for some starting and low speed fueling issues. A revised metal tank also replaced the plastic unit that had been fitted. For the 2008 model year several changes were made to the bodywork and Italian made Brembo front brakes were supplied as standard.
The new Speed Triple shared its engine with the new Sprint ST and later the 2007 Triumph Tiger 1050, but 2006 was to be the last year of the 955i Daytona. In its place was a new bike, the Daytona 675 . The new Daytona 675 had an all new smaller displacement engine and a completely new modern chassis. It garnered excellent reviews. In November 2007 the same platform was used for the new "Street Triple," which has received excellent reviews such as TWO magazine's choice as Bike of the Year. The two bikes share many of the same styling cues as well as the three cylinder engine configuration and fuel injection. Performance numbers are not too dissimilar, with the Street Triple only falling short in the shape and height of its torque curve.
Triumph celebrated the 15th Anniversary of the Speed Triple in 2010 with a limited edition model that features black paint with red trim and a number of optional accessories that were added as standard equipment. The bike also is the first production Triumph to feature the signature of company owner John Bloor, who rescued Triumph from bankruptcy in 1983. According to Triumph, more than 35,000 Speed Triples have been sold since the model was introduced in 1993.
In October 2010, Motor Cycle News published details and a test-ride of a new Speed Triple for 2011. The engine is a tweaked 1050 motor, now yielding 133 bhp (99 kW) and 82 pound force-feet (111 N·m) of torque. The frame is a new alloy tubular design, and the trademark "bug-eyed" headlamps have been reshaped. Kerb weight is 214 kg (472 lb). With a slightly lower seat and less bulk than before, the agile new bike is said to feel "faster, classier, more refined, more comfortable, more modern and ... far easier to use" ((MCN)).
For 2016, Triumph updated several aspects of the bike, including 104 changes to the engine. Ride-by-wire has been added for the first time with 5 ride modes with traction control and ABS that can be turned on or off. The new engine is narrower as well as the smaller more efficient radiator are just some of the new updates. The new Speed Triple has a wet weight of 212 kg (467 lb) and a claimed dry weight of 192 kg (423 lb). Power for the new Speed Triple is a claimed 140 hp (100 kW) @ 9,500 rpm and 82.6 lb·ft (112.0 N·m) @ 7,850 rpm.
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World Government Bond ex-U.S. Index Strategy
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Greenbank and Wilby star at BUCS Long Course Nationals
Team England squad members Luke Greenbank and James Wilby starred with multiple golds at the BUCS Long Course Championships in Sheffield.
Wilby swept to a hat-trick of golds in the breaststroke events, setting PBs of 27.54 and 59.61 in the 50m and 100m respectively. He also won the 200m title in 2:12.24.
Wilby’s Loughborough University teammate Greenbank landed an individual double in the backstroke events, stopping the clock on 55.09 in the 100m Back and 1:59.61 in the 200m.
Both Wilby and Greenback were also members of the Loughborough team who won the 4x100m Medley Relay (3:38.35) alongside Kevin Wallbank and Sam Irvine.
Wallbank picked up his own individual double in the butterfly events, setting a 54.15 in the 100m Fly and 2:02.12 in the 200m.
Double gold for Abbie Wood
Abbie Wood, who will also be heading to the Gold Coast for Team England in April, took double gold in the individual medley events in Sheffield.
The Loughborough swimmer landed the title in the 200m IM with a time of 2:13.84. She had already claimed the 400m IM crown in 4:43.37.
There was also success for Wood’s Loughborough teammate Alice Dearing who won a double over 400m and 800m Freestyle.
Dearing won the 400m Free in 4:14.07 while she set a PB 8:39.05 for victory in the 800m Free, narrowly holding off Rosie Rudin, who set a PB 8:39.19 for silver.
A trio of medals for Gold Coast-bound English swimmers
English swimmers Anna Hopkin, Sarah Vasey and Jocelyn Ulyett also topped the podium in Sheffield.
Hopkin won the 50m Freestyle in 25.29 while Vasey and Ulyett set times of 31.44 and 2:26.26 for golds in the 50m and 200m Breaststroke respectively.
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Improving user experience to make it easier for tutors teaching the ACCA Qualification to provide relevant and resonant learning to trainee accountants.
Achieving a 600% increase in user engagement for ACCA.
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global professional body for accounting. It has a network of 104 offices operating in 52 countries.
ACCA works with 323 approved learning partners and more than 7,300 approved employers, who provide professional development for accountants worldwide.
We’ve been working with ACCA since 2008, developing four different platforms that are currently used by the organisation. Each platform is targeted at a defined purpose and user group. In our most recent project, we were tasked with providing an improved, consistent and engaging user experience through the ACCA Education Hub.
The Education Hub delivers a toolkit and resources to support ACCA tutors and learning partners as they train people to become accountants. ACCA was keen to increase usage of the site among this target audience and encourage return logins.
It also wanted to be able to be able to guide tutors and learning partners on their journey round the site; prioritising important resources to help learners find and retain critical information.
Simple, clean UX design.
With ACCA’s goal of showcasing important resources to help users to retain key information in mind, we developed a bespoke theme using Moodle LMS with a clean, positive and community-driven design. The theme is customised with ACCA’s branding in a design that complements the other platforms we have designed.
Each learner is greeted by a selection of custom objects on the landing page. These are tailored to the user based on who they are and their previous activity on the site. Users can easily access all the areas of the site they need. We’ve removed unnecessary options to deliver a simpler user experience and cleaner design.
We introduced a new personalised dashboard, including a bookmarking feature so that learners can bookmark activities and resources. We’ve added a global search function, so that users can easily search all of the content on the site to find what they need.
The Education Hub is integrated with other elements of the ACCA ecosystem, which includes a membership platform, content management portal, payment gateway and internal databases, so that information is shared between all the platforms and a unified experience delivered.
Keeping users coming back for more learning.
User uptake and return logins to the Education Hub have increased 600% since we improved its design and user experience.
We’ve delivered a more personalised and simplified experience, which makes it easier for learners to find and return to the educational content that’s most important to them.
By stripping back unnecessary clutter and increasing the prominence of important information, we’ve helped ACCA to achieve its aim of getting key content to a more engaged audience.
“I have enjoyed working with Synergy Learning for a number of years. They are creative and accommodating, and provide an excellent service from the initial design stages through to ongoing support and expertise post-delivery.”
Richard Baillie | Customer Experience Lead
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Allman Brothers ’05 concert released in double-CD
These Brothers connect, reflect and breathe vigorous life into their legacy.
The final, and ultimately longest enduring lineup of The Allman Brothers Band pulled into a town the band hadn’t played in 24 years for this 2005 concert. Their fiery interplay, and particularly the distinctive, crackling interaction between guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, was in full flower.
Judging by the performances captured on these two CDs, they were anxious to treat the sold-out crowd to a special evening of their magic. Legendary singer and Hammond B3 player Gregg Allman, founding drummers Butch Trucks and Jaimoe, percussionist Marc Quinones, bassist Oteil Burbridge, as well as Haynes and Trucks, have all agreed that this intimate show was a particularly extraordinary one among the hundreds that they played together. So, where does this album rank among the now 20 officially released Allman Brothers live albums? Considering the band’s 45-year history and its various incarnations, comparisons would be debatable and then untenable. Although this is not the same band with guitarists Duane Allman and Dickey Betts that cut the storied At Fillmore East album in 1971, this one certainly possessed at least an equal amount of enormous talent, plus the improvisational drive that resulted in music true to form, yet revolutionary all the same.
Following the lengthy instrumental complexity and majesty of “Mountain Jam” that they opened the first set with, the band plowed into the staple “Statesboro Blues” in order to establish a popular connection to the past, but also to have fun with the Blind Willie McTell blues in their own way.
Gregg Allman sings these songs — 12 years prior to his death — like the blue-eyed blues luminary he’s renowned as, the nuances in his voice coarser, but still strong and very impressive. All through the pounding “Firing Line,” co-written with Haynes and from the Allman Brothers’ then-recently released final studio project, “Hittin’ The Note,” Allman and the band shoot bullets of blues throughout the historic theater. One of the many things notable about this version of the band is that they had a repertoire of dozens of songs at their disposal, having added not only new originals, but several noteworthy covers to their concerts.
Their jazzy arrangement of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl,” sung with grit by Haynes, fits into the Allman canon perfectly, and affords the guitarists an extended opportunity to exchange inspiring lines. Trucks’ powerful slide solo in particular projects inventiveness unimaginable anywhere else but within the Allman Brothers. Concise, flawless, Allman-esque recitations of The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic” are followed by Susan Tedeschi taking the stage for Bob Dylan’s tender “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” Derek Trucks delicately accents every beautiful note his wife sings, and also takes flight himself like a multihued bird of paradise.
Magnificent performances of Allman Brothers classics “Dreams,” “Midnight Rider,” “Melissa,” and the transcendent instrumental, “Jessica,” also add to the high quality and appeal of this album. “Warner Theatre, Erie, PA, 7-19-05” is a glorious Allman Brothers Band live album designed to thrill fans and newcomers alike.
-Tom Clarke
Warner Theatre, Erie, PA 7-19-05
Label: Peach Records
Release: Oct. 16, 2020
ABOUT Tom Clarke
From pre-war blues to the bluegrass of the Virginia hills, Tom Clarke has a passion for most any kind of deep-rooted American music, and has been writing about it for 23 years. He’s particularly fond of anything from Louisiana, and the 45-year timelines and ever-growing family trees of The Allman Brothers Band and Los Lobos. Tom’s reviews and articles have appeared in BluesPrint, the King Biscuit Times, Hittin’ The Note, Blues Revue, Elmore, Blues Music Magazine, and now, Tahoe Onstage. Tom and his wife Karen raised four daughters in upstate New York. They split their time between the Adirondack Mountains and coastal South Carolina.
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Getting Out the Vote Is Harder in Areas Where Young People Feel Forgotten
March for Our Lives and the climate movement represent a new wave of youth activism. But that’s not the case everywhere in the country.
By Rainesford Stauffer
Hill Street Studios
The last few years have seen a remarkable wave of student mobilization. Young people walked out of class to protest inaction on gun violence. Tens of thousands of students skipped class to strike to fight the climate emergency. Research shows Generation Z is the most diverse and progressive in United States history, and turnout of college-aged voters doubled during 2018 midterm elections. The momentum is exhilarating and inspiring. But it’s also felt more acutely in certain areas of the country.
In other pockets of America that may not frequently make the news, or where the same candidates have been elected and reelected for years, student activists are tasked with a complex challenge: motivating fellow young voters or future voters who feel like their voices don’t matter.
“Those large-scale protests haven’t reached with my community yet,” 16-year-old Sydney Ward, founder of Project 320, which connects Utah students to their local and state representatives, tells Teen Vogue. Citing widespread movements like March for Our Lives and Fridays for Future as examples of visible youth activism, Sydney points out that “the reality is the majority of young people still don’t see where they fit into that equation.”
Sydney is trying to counter that apathy by doing the grunt work to engage students in local politics. She hopes to underscore how state races impact the laws that get passed by state legislatures and advocates for engaging with local government even if the issues they tackle often “aren’t as high-profile or trendy.” Sydney explains that while a tax amendment might sound boring at the outset, when students find out that amendment could give their school more funding for the art department, they might be more interested in lobbying their representative for it. “Creating opportunities for young people to get to know their elected representatives at every level is key,” she tells Teen Vogue.
To that end, Sydney works to encourage young people to see themselves represented in their local political system (she points out that voter turnout rates in her home state, which is primarily red, look good because of older voters). That includes programming focusing on voter registration and mock elections, in addition to compiling city council candidate platforms for voters.
A few months ago, Sydney says, she organized a town hall with students at her high school and their state representatives. “Getting my peers to care enough to attend was the hardest part,” she explains. “But once young people started talking about issues and realizing there were people who were representing them and not just their parents, they were much more willing to listen.”
What gives the work of youth activists in politically disengaged or homogenous areas a crucial edge is empathy. They are well aware of the circumstances and dynamics that prompt young adults to feel their votes, time, or attention don’t ultimately have an impact. “Come to my town and tell a young person working 40 hours a week for $7.25 an hour, going to school, and supporting their family that they need to be more politically involved,” says Will Powers, an 18-year-old Kentuckian who has worked with various student nonprofits and cofounded Student Alliance for Mental Health Innovation and Action. Will explains his county is a Republican stronghold, so even when young people buck the local trend and vote Democratic, they feel it makes little difference
Inadequate resources and funding for get-out-the-vote efforts, voter registration issues, and lack of knowledge are all cited as significant reasons for voter disengagement; a 2018 survey by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) found that nearly 20% of working-class young people don’t believe they know enough to vote.
That’s why emphasizing local youth engagement and combating apathy is crucial: Statewide races often affect the day-to-day lives of young people, and in multiple statewide races during 2018 midterms, the youth vote “appears to have been decisive,” according to research by CIRCLE.
Will tells Teen Vogue that youth activists seeking to engage fellow young people in the political process can't register just those who already agree with them. “We have to emphasize the importance of voting; we have to make that real and raw connection that policies can have in the lives of young people in particular,” he continues. “We should especially emphasize the power that local and statewide lawmakers have in the lives of young people by citing specific examples of policies that are affecting them.”
Malavika Kannan is an 18-year-old from Orlando, Florida, who founded the Homegirl Project to empower the next generation of girls and nonbinary youth of color to become political changemakers in their communities. Malavika tells Teen Vogue that young people who do care about politics often receive little support from adults in their lives. Her Homegirl Project is coordinating a fellowship with support from the Women’s March Network’s Youth Empower that, says Malavika, “trains girls of color across the U.S. to build political skills and help mobilize their communities.”
“I believe that the best way to get young people to engage in the political process is by engaging with them: by investing in their leadership, incubating their ideas, amplifying their voices, and giving them all the tools they need to make a difference,” she says. “It's easy to feel helpless in the political process when you're not educated on your rights, trained in political engagement options, in tune with revolutionary history, represented in positions of power, or basically told that your voice matters.”
“Unfortunately, in my area, we don’t really have the luxury of being able to enjoy things such as marches, protests, or parades, although I have gone out of my way to attend such functions,” says Braedon French, the 18-year-old chair of the Kentucky High School Democrats. While Braedon serves on a national board with chairs of every other state, assisting in spreading the Democratic Party’s message, he knows not every student has that chance. “Students simply just don’t have the money to volunteer for campaigns,” he explains, noting his Kentucky county is near one of the poorest parts of the country. “Teenagers, where I am from, are more concerned with working a paying job to provide for themselves, which they should be, than volunteering for a campaign.”
Young people know how crucial resources are to combating apathy and disengagement. Nick Guthman, 23, cofounded Blue Futuree, which builds infrastructure to help young people organize around progressive electoral campaigns. The program is intended to fill the gap between the rallying cry of “Young people have to participate” and their lack of resources to do so. In 2018, Blue Future raised over $70,000 to support student organizers working on competitive congressional campaigns. Despite the presidential race looming in 2020, focusing on politics closer to home has been an important entry point for young activists. Guthman points out that local youth organizers can reshape the political landscape of those communities.
It’s about making an investment in young voters, he tells Teen Vogue. “It's only possible, we believe, if we actually put our money where our mouth is — and invest in voter registration on high school and college campuses and provide students with the opportunity to lead an organizing program,” he continues. “Give them the tools to do it. Train them up. Provide them with mentorship and give them a little bit of money, because it will go a long way.”
Kenyatta Thomas, a 19-year-old executive intern with Blue Future, says they’ve seen individuals in their community in Mississippi be encouraged simply because a young person knocked on their door. Thomas learned to see activism as a necessity through their background in organizing around reproductive justice and sex education. “It's definitely kind of something we have to do for the sake of surviving,” they say. Kenyatta explains that, following the 2016 election, a lot of people didn’t see the point in registering to vote. Discouragement seeped into their own household, as Kenyatta said their mother was initially turned away at the polls (in this case, Kenyatta says that their mother had to go to City Hall to retrieve proof she was registered to vote, and Kenyatta notes polling locations being moved remains an issue). “It's definitely very hard, but I also feel like when they have a young person coming to them to try to register them to vote or talking to them about the election or the issues that are important to us, there's definitely some joy and rejuvenation that's there,” they say.
“Our experiences are just as valuable as any adults,” Sydney Ward says. “Our perspectives of our communities and schools are important. We are the only ones who can tell a representative what it’s like to live their legislation at this stage of life.”
Want more from Teen Vogue? Check this out: Gen Z Is the Most Progressive — and Least Partisan — Generation
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