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What it’s like to navigate life below the poverty line
A new book humanizes the work America’s poor must go through to try and stay afloat.
Claire Thompson June 10, 2019 From the print edition
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and A Mother’s Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
288 pages, hardcover: $27.
Hachette Books, 2019.
When she discovered that she was pregnant, Stephanie Land ripped up her application for the University of Montana’s creative writing program. Yet her dream of being a writer in Missoula endured, shining like a beacon above the daily grind of poverty she now found herself trapped in as a single mother. She yearned for Missoula, a laid-back, picturesque college town, but knew that good-paying jobs there were hard to come by, and housing costs disproportionately high. She told herself that, once in Montana, she could reinvent herself and set an example for her daughter by becoming “the person I expected myself to be.”
But it would be years before Land managed to escape. Her debut memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, takes place mostly in Washington’s Skagit County, a rural area north of Seattle. Like many of its Western counterparts, it suffers from the ripple effects of a nearby big city’s lack of affordability without any of the benefits of urban living — reliable public transportation and a geographic concentration of jobs and amenities — that can help offset housing costs.
Land gives little more than a paragraph to her decision to have a child, and it can be tempting for the reader to judge her choices. But Land’s openness highlights the injustice of our culture’s eagerness to criticize the personal decisions of poor people, particularly of women. (How many women are judged equally harshly for not having children?) Poor women have it especially hard; at least their more privileged sisters have a chance of keeping their private lives private. Often it’s only the maid who sees the struggles they hide from the world.
A self-portrait of Stephanie Land and her daughter, Mia, in their Mount Vernon, Washington, studio apartment.
Courtesy of Stephanie Land
Land’s intimate first-person perspective sets Maid apart from other nonfiction about poverty in America. Readers who have never lived close to the poverty line or navigated the maze of public-assistance programs will have their eyes opened by Land’s careful breakdowns of her household budget and her maddening dealings with bureaucracy. A sense of deep loneliness often left her aching for a normal life, for the person she used to be or could have become. “I was starved for kindness,” she tells us. “I was hungry for people to notice me, to start conversations with me, to accept me. I was hungry in a way I’d never been in my entire life.”
Land experiences the invisibility common to poor people in America: Cleaning houses, she works like a ghost in homes while the owners are away; in the waiting rooms of government offices, she is nothing but a number in the system; when she buys groceries with her EBT card, customers and cashiers dismiss her as just another lazy food-stamp recipient. But in other settings, her poverty itself is invisible: “People I talked to rarely assumed I needed food stamps to survive, and they always said ‘those people’ in conversations. Yet ‘those people’ were never people like me. They were immigrants, or people of color, or the white people who were often referred to as trash. When people think of food stamps they don’t envision someone like me … Someone like a neighbor. Someone like them.”
With 42 million people — about one in eight Americans — currently receiving food stamps, there’s a good chance many of them are your neighbors; maybe you’re one of them. Under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2020 budget, nearly a million people would lose their food stamps altogether, and almost everyone would see their benefits reduced. The budget guts several other programs that were vital to Land and her daughter’s survival: housing vouchers, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Medicaid. In showing how much poor people rely on these programs to survive, Land exposes the injustice of a rigged economic system that uses government assistance as both a political football and a Band-Aid for systemic inequality.
“My paychecks made me feel like I didn’t work at all,” Land writes. She’s not alone: Today’s low unemployment rate obscures the number of Americans joining the ranks of the working poor. Of the 58 percent of adult workers who receive hourly wages, one-third earn less than $12 an hour, and nearly half make less than $15. Land made $9 an hour cleaning houses, and took home only about half that after the cost of the gas it took to get to work.
Many Westerners live in the places we do because of a strong sense of shared values: access to open space, investment in local economies, vibrant creative culture, the perpetual promise of starting over. But the growth of inequality in these sought-after communities threatens to destroy that promise for more and more of our neighbors. Maid invites us into one of the real lives hidden behind the statistics, prompting us to consider what this loss of opportunity means, both for our communities and our collective conscience.
Claire Thompson is a freelance writer based in Montana. Email High Country News at [email protected] or submit a letter to the editor.
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Harvard Mental Health Letter
Commentary: The value of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
The value of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, which helps patients understand causes of psychological distress that would otherwise remain outside their awareness, has long been under siege from third-party payers. That it survives at all may be a tribute to its value, but the evidence supporting its effectiveness has been so thin that — as a treatment — it has been more often tolerated than appreciated by those who bear its cost.
But in October 2008, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis that demonstrated the value of this treatment, especially for patients with complex mental disorders, such as personality disorders and difficult-to-treat anxiety and mood disorders. The authors reviewed 23 studies of traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy where treatments lasted at least one year or 50 sessions. About half were randomized controlled trials; the rest were observational trials that did not compare patient outcomes with those of a control group. Together, the studies enrolled just over 1,000 patients.
A lifelong habit of learning and engaging in mentally challenging activities seems to keep the brain in shape. Intellectual enrichment and learning stimulate the brain to make more connections, increasing the density of nerve-to-nerve connections. That means the "educated brain" may possess a deeper well of connections and be able to withstand more damage to the brain from a small stroke without causing loss of memory or thinking skills.
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Changes coming to military medical treatment facilities
Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, Defense Health Agency director, speaks with members of the 42nd Medical Group about upcoming changes to military treatment facilities, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The DHA will be responsible for all facilities with respect to budgetary matters, information technology, health care administration and management, administrative policy and procedure and military medical construction. (U.S. Air Force photo by William Birchfield)
4/22/2019 By: Air Force Staff Sgt. Quay Drawdy
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — The medical field is an ever-changing, ever-growing area. Whether this change is from methods of care, shiny and new equipment or even streamlining the administrative side, the goal is always the same: providing for the needs of the patients.
Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, Defense Health Agency director, visited with members of the 42nd Medical Group at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, recently, to discuss the transition of military treatment facilities to the Defense Health Agency.
“Change is challenging, but being at Maxwell, the heart of Air Force education, I want to make sure all of your needs are met or exceeded,” said Bono. “The DHA is as committed to the Air Force as the Air Force is to the DHA.”
The DHA will be responsible for all facilities with respect to budgetary matters, information technology, health care administration and management, administrative policy and procedure and military medical construction. The ultimate goal of this transition for the Department of Defense is a more integrated, efficient and effective system of readiness and health.
“From a patient perspective, most of these changes should go unnoticed,” said Bono. “Patients expect, and will receive, the same high quality, trusted care they have come to know at our military treatment facilities. Providers can expect to focus on practicing medicine and maintaining their preparedness in the event of crisis.”
The consolidation of MTF-based health care delivery in a single agency aims to strengthen our ability to provide ready medical forces in support of global operations and to improve the medical readiness of combat forces, provide a more standardized experience of care for patients and reduce costs through unity of effort, standardization of medical care and integration of health care services.
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Icehouse - Crazy (1987)
80's score: 1.39
Genre(s): Pop rock / Synth pop / New wave
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"Crazy" is a 1987 single by the Australian rock/synthpop band Icehouse, from the Man of Colours album, the single peaked at ...
"Crazy" is a 1987 single by the Australian rock/synthpop band Icehouse, from the Man of Colours album, the single peaked at Number 4 on the ARIA charts. The song was written by band members Iva Davies, Robert Kretschmer and Andy Qunta. and produced by David Lord.
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Tech to the highest bidder: Kodak preps to peddle patents
by Mike Tomkins
posted Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM EST
Once the heavyweight of the imaging industry, Eastman Kodak Co. has fallen on hard times. It filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and has a long road ahead as it works to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Along the way, some painful decisions have to be made, figuring out where the fat can be trimmed to create a leaner company that can survive unaided in a modern, all-digital world.
Just weeks after filing petitions with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Kodak announced its exit from the camera business. Even before it entered bankruptcy, Kodak had also been looking to sell a significant chunk of its patent portfolio, and news reaches us today that it has asked the court for permission to proceed with a closed auction of some 1,100 patents in two key areas.
Of these, 700 patents will be sold in a Digital Capture Portfolio that the company says covers "key aspects of image capture, processing, and transmission technologies that are crucial to the design and operation of digital cameras and multi-function devices, including camera-enabled smartphones and tablets". The remainder will be bundled as a Kodak Imaging Systems and Services Portfolio covering "technologies including image analysis, manipulation and tagging, and network-based services, including image storage, access, and fulfillment".
A financial advisor to Kodak has spent the past year marketing both patent portfolios to a range of potential buyers, and Kodak now says that a total of 20 interested parties have signed confidentiality agreements in exchange for access to further information on the portfolios. The patents are said to have earned Kodak some US$3 billion or more in licensing fees from companies such as Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Nokia since 2001. A number of court cases are currently underway against companies alleged to have violated the patents, including Apple, RIM, and HTC.
Should Kodak gain the court's approval--as it apparently expects to happen early next month--the auction will take place in early August. Bidders will be kept private and their bids will remain sealed, something that Kodak says is "designed to allow bidders to give us their best offers without fear of showing their cards to competitors"--although of course, the process has also been designed to try and earn the best possible price for Kodak itself as well. Kodak currently expects the winner and their bid to be revealed publicly by August 13th.
Kodak Files Motion for Competitive Auction of Digital Imaging Patents Sale Process Allows Confidential Bids; Bidding Procedures Filed Ahead of Schedule
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 11 -- Eastman Kodak Company today filed a motion seeking approval of bidding procedures for the prompt bankruptcy auction of its Digital Capture and Kodak Imaging Systems and Services (KISS) Patent Portfolios, comprising more than 1,100 patents that are integral to the capture, manipulation, and sharing of digital images.
Kodak’s motion outlines a sale process that is open to all qualified bidders subject to the rules of the bidding procedures. No disclosure of the unsuccessful bidders will be made to other bidders or the public. Only the winning bidder and the amount of the successful bid will be announced publicly at the end of the auction.
“The proposed structure of the auction is tailored to the special nature of the assets,” said Timothy M. Lynch, Kodak Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer. “The bidding procedures are designed to allow bidders to give us their best offers without fear of showing their cards to competitors. In filing these proposed procedures in advance of the June 30 deadline in our lending agreement, we are moving ahead as quickly as possible with the process of monetizing our digital imaging patent portfolio.”
Over the past 12 months, Kodak’s financial advisor, Lazard, has conducted an extensive marketing process for these assets. To date, 20 parties have signed confidentiality agreements and have been provided access to an electronic data room.
Lynch noted that the two portfolios being sold have different characteristics and may interest different buyers. The Digital Capture Portfolio includes over 700 patents, covering key aspects of image capture, processing, and transmission technologies that are crucial to the design and operation of digital cameras and multi-function devices, including camera-enabled smartphones and tablets. The KISS Portfolio includes over 400 patents that cover technologies including image analysis, manipulation and tagging, and network-based services, including image storage, access, and fulfillment. Since 2001, Kodak has generated more than $3 billion from licensing its digital imaging portfolio to industry leaders, including Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Nokia, and is currently pursuing patent litigation against infringers that include Apple, RIM, and HTC.
Kodak expects the motion to approve bidding procedures to be heard by the Court on July 2, the auction to be held in early August, and the winning bidder to be announced by August 13.
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This document includes "forward–looking statements" as that term is defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward–looking statements include statements concerning the Company's plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events, future revenue or performance, capital expenditures, liquidity, financing needs, business trends, and other information that is not historical information. When used in this document, the words "estimates," "expects," "anticipates," "projects," "plans," "intends," "believes," “predicts”, "forecasts," or future or conditional verbs, such as "will," "should," "could," or "may," and variations of such words or similar expressions are intended to identify forward–looking statements. All forward–looking statements, including, without limitation, management's examination of historical operating trends and data are based upon the Company's expectations and various assumptions. Future events or results may differ from those anticipated or expressed in these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, among others, the risks and uncertainties described in more detail in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10–K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, under the headings "Business," "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations–Liquidity and Capital Resources" and those described in filings made by the Company with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and in other filings the Company makes with the SEC from time to time, as well as the following: the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern; the Company’s ability to comply with the Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) covenants in its Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement; the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to develop, secure approval of and consummate one or more plans of reorganization with respect to the chapter 11 cases; the Company’s ability to improve its operating structure, balance sheet, and profitability following emergence from chapter 11; the potential adverse effects of the chapter 11 proceedings on the Company's liquidity, results of operations, brand or business prospects; our ability to raise sufficient proceeds from the sale of non-core assets and the potential sale of our digital imaging patent portfolios within our plan; the Company's ability to generate or raise cash and maintain a cash balance sufficient to comply with the minimum liquidity covenants in its Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement and to fund continued investments, capital needs, restructuring payments and service its debt; our ability to maintain product reliability and quality; our ability to effectively anticipate technology trends and develop and market new products; and the impact of the global economic environment on the Company. There may be other factors that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the forward–looking statements. All forward–looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf apply only as of the date of this document, and are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included in this document. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward–looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Huntsville Funeral Homes
Funeral Homes in Huntsville, TX
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Below you fill find all funeral homes and cemeteries in or near Huntsville.
Suburbs of Huntsville: Tx State Prison, Crabbs Prairie, Phelps, Sam Houston State Univ.
Huntsville is also known as: Walker County / Huntsville city.
Their current mayor is Mayor Joe Rodriquez.
Zip codes in the city: 77320, 77340, 77341, 77342, 77343, 77344, 77348, 77349.
Walker County funeral flowers can be purchased from one of the local funeral shops we partner with.
Brooke Funeral Home & Cemetery
In the early 1970's, a real-estate family along with educators from Sam Houston State University began a dream to provide a perpetual care cemetery for the families of Huntsville and the surrounding counties. In 1973 the first interment took...
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Forest Hill Cemetery
10129 Fm 1097 Rd W
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Southern Heritage Funeral Home
9772 Fm 1696 Rd
Bedias, TX 77831
Trinity Funeral Home Incorporated
316 Prospect Dr
Waller Thornton Funeral Home
203 San Jacinto St
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Facts about the city
Some of the notable people born here have been: Anthony Davis (american football player), Derrick Ross (american football player), Phillip Andrew (actor), Erin Cummings (actor), and Brad Taylor (american football player).
Huntsville is home to the following sports teams: Sam Houston State Bearkats men's basketball.
Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. The population is 38,548 as of the 2010 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area.It is located approximately seventy miles north of Houston in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45, which runs between Houston and Dallas. Huntsville is home to Sam Houston State University, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville State Park, the HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas, located on Texas Veterans Memorial Parkway at Interstate 45, and the Texas Prison Museum, also on Highway 75 near Interstate 45. Huntsville served as the residence of Sam Houston, who is recognized in Huntsville by the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and a statue on Interstate 45.
It was reported on October 2nd, 2019 that Lowell E Gratz passed away in Huntsville, Texas. Gratz was 84 years old. Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Lowell E's life.
It was disclosed by Daily Press on April 27th, 2019 that Mattie Beatrice Floyd (Foster) died in California. Ms. Floyd was 78 years old and was born in Huntsville, TX. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Mattie Beatrice's life.
It was reported by The Daily Herald on March 22nd, 2019 that Eyvonne Riles (Johnson) passed away in Grayslake, Illinois. Ms. Riles was 69 years old and was born in Huntsville, TX. Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Eyvonne's life.
It was revealed by The Herald Democrat on January 11th, 2019 that Julia Ray Blake (Hall) perished in Huntsville, Texas. Ms. Blake was 84 years old. Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Julia Ray's life.
It was revealed by Topeka Capital-Journal on November 21st, 2018 that Connie Johnson perished in Topeka, Kansas. Johnson was 79 years old and was born in Huntsville, TX. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Connie's life.
It was disclosed by The Roanoke Times & World News on November 5th, 2018 that Virginia H Barnes (Skelton) passed away in Roanoke, Virginia. Ms. Barnes was 98 years old and was born in Huntsville, TX. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Virginia H's life.
It was written by The Lufkin Daily News on September 20th, 2018 that Mary Elizabeth Collins (Butler) passed on in Huntsville, Texas. Ms. Collins was 83 years old. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Mary Elizabeth's life.
It was reported on June 8th, 2018 that Walter Louis Wisting passed on in Huntsville, Texas. Wisting was 90 years old and was born in New Haven, CT. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Walter Louis's life.
It was reported by The Commercial Appeal on June 5th, 2018 that Angela Diane Harris died in Cordova, Tennessee. Harris was 37 years old and was born in Huntsville, TX. Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Angela Diane's life.
It was disclosed by Vernal Express on April 17th, 2018 that William Russell Love died in Vernal, Utah. Love was 67 years old and was born in Huntsville, TX. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor William Russell's life.
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He was born into slavery on February 12, 1864 to Joshua Houston, a slave owned by Sam Houston. (Incidentally, "Madison County" is also the name of an adjacent Texas County.) Huntsville became the home of Sam Houston, who served as President of the Republic of Texas, Governor of the State of Texas, Governor of Tennessee, US Senator, and Tennessee congressman. Ephraim Gray became first postmaster in 1837, naming it after his former home town, Huntsville, Alabama in Madison County, Alabama. Houston founded the Galilee Community School in 1907, which later became known as the Houstonian Normal and Industrial Institute, in Walker County, Texas. Houston Elementary School, the Huntsville Independent School District, along with the Huntsville Arts Commission and the high school's Ex-Students Association, commissioned the creation of 'The Dreamers (sculpture) Dreamers', a monument to underscore the contributions made by the black community in the growth and development of Huntsville and Walker County.
The official website for the city of Huntsville is http://www.huntsvilletx.gov/.
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John Allen Stanford, Sr.
He attended Huntsville High School. John served in the Texas State Guard before joining the Navy on ... Visitation will from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., Monday, November 8, 2010, at Stroud Funeral Home in Clute. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m ...
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Charles Gregory Rasmussen Sr.
Rasmussen of Temple, Texas and Cynthia Lee Rasmussen ... Visitation is from 1-3 p.m. today at the funeral home. Matthew Terry John Payne, 18, a recent graduate of Grissom High School in Huntsville, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010.
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Dr. William Raymond Billy Harrell
Interment is to follow at Brooke Cemetery. Visitation is to be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home, 1700 Normal Park Drive, Huntsville, Texas 77340. A distinguished educator, mentor, loyal friend, dedicated family ...
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Kylie Minogue “still loves” ex-boyfriend Andres Velencoso
Kylie Minogue has revealed that she still has feelings for her ex-boyfriend model Andres Velencoso and says that she "still loves" him.
Don't worry Kylie, we've all been there.
The singer admitted to an Australian Radio station that she still thinks about her ex but that work has helped her to get over the situation.
"I was very sad. You come out the other side of that, being super busy and on the cusp of so many new things helps to move on," she told. "It was an amicable separation, I still love Andres, he's the nicest guy, he's the coolest guy."
Kylie Minogue is here to save 2020 with new album, 'Disco', as she discusses comparisons to Jennifer Aniston & competing with herself
All these years on, Kylie still has us spinning around.
The pair broke up after five years together back in October, blaming their busy schedules for the split.
Kylie has recently been starring as a judge on The Voice and the pint-sized Australian says it was Andres' influence that made her sign up to the show.
"He was one of the people saying you have to do The Voice. I feel like he's with me a little bit."
However viewers of the show will know that Kylie has had no trouble flirting with the guys on The Voice and she seems to have bewitched her fellow male judges too.
In the first episode we saw the singer flirting with contestant Leo Ihenacho, who used to be a singer with The Streets. After his performance, Kylie had to hide behind her chair to conceal her blushes.
Female artists may have won Glastonbury but we still have a long way to go for real equality in music
In the words of Lizzo, ‘be that bitch!’
"I don't care what his name is. Ignore me. I'm going right back here. I've got to compose myself," the star shouted.
You know what they say, when one door closes…
On 15 October 2013, we wrote...
Kylie Minogue has been spotted out and about for the first time since splitting from her boyfriend of five years - Andres Velencoso.
The singer attended the APREC Benefit Auction Dinner in Paris and seemed in high spirits, posing for photographers in a pink cardigan and black mini dress.
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Jo Hoare breaks down the in-between generation
The appearance so soon after the break-up contradicts reports that the singer is "heartbroken" by the split. It seems that the star, who's set to appear as a judge on the new series of The Voice, is just trying to get on with things.
A spokesperson for the singer confirmed to the couple has remained on good terms, since going their separate ways.
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Kylie Minogue has split up from her longterm boyfriend Andres Velencoso, US Weekly have confirmed.
The Australian pop star and the Spanish model had been dating for five years before they decided to pull the plug on their romance.
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"It was more of a time thing -- they didn't get much of it together," a friend of the couple allegedly told the magazine.
"There was no fallout, they're still friends, just not lovers anymore."
The source added: "She's doing alright -- she throws herself into her work during times like this and she's got so much work going on at the moment."
In July 2010, Minogue opened up about her steady relationship with Velencoso, who she had then been dating for two years.
"I'm in a great place right now. I feel very comfortable. No plans, no ring, none of that," she said.
"As for marriage, I'm not one of those girls who had my heart set on wearing the dress and walking down the aisle, but it will be nice, yeah!"
Kylie previously dated Olivier Martinez, who welcomed his first child with Halle Berry last week.
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Chinese New Year: Year of the Monkey
February 8th is the 2016 Chinese New Year; the year of the Monkey, according to Chinese calendars. The Chinese festival celebrating the new year begins on the second new moon after the winter solstice and ends on the full moon fifteen days later, which is known as the Lantern Festival.
Chinese New Year History
The Chinese New Year is based on the ancient Chinese calendar. The festival dates back at least as early as the 14th century B.C., during the Shang Dynasty.
Traditionally, New Year was the most important event on the calendar for the Chinese. Daily life halted to focus on the festival, and many of the rituals carried out during this period were meant to bring luck.
Traditional Chinese New Year customs included:
Cleaning homes to appease the gods who would be coming down from Heaven to make inspections
Gifts of food and paper icons offered to gods and ancestors
Scrolls with lucky messages printed on them were posted on household gates
Firecrackers were set off to frighten evil spirits
Elaborate feasts were shared among family with foods like long noodles, to symbolize long life, and round dumplings, to symbolize the full moon which represents the family unit and perfection
Since the Chinese adoption of the Western calendar in 1912, the Chinese began celebrating January 1st as New Year’s Day. The Chinese New Year is still celebrated, but in many places has changed to a shorter version with a new name; the Spring Festival.
In 1949, the ruling Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong forbade the celebration of the traditional Chinese New Year and followed New Year celebrations on January 1st to strengthen ties with the West. However, at the end of the 20th century, Chinese leaders more willingly accepted the Chinese tradition. In 1996, the Spring Festival took shape as the festival it is known as today.
Like its roots, the Spring Festival still remains the most important social and economic holiday in China.
In the Chinese calendar, each new year is marked by one of the 12 animals of the zodiac: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. The monkey is the ninth animal in the 12 year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. People born in the Year of the Monkey are thought to have the traits of lively, quick-witted, curious, innovative and mischievous. It is also believed to be one of the most unlucky years in the Chinese calendar. The next Year of the Monkey will be in 2028.
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Defence Intelligence Headquarters (DIH)
Under the former organizational structure of the Defense Agency, intelligence-related divisions and sections were internal bureaus, such as the first and the second intelligence division, the intelligence department for each of the chiefs of staff for the Ground, Maritime, and Air Self-Defense Forces [GSDF, MSDF, and ASDF], the Central Data Command Unit, the Joint Staff Council's Second Office, and each unit's information division. Each of these units separately mobilized communications posts, naval vessels, and airplanes to collect and analyze military intelligence pertaining to the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. Each unit was trying to collect information independently from images and published sources, as well as from its "own" officers stationed abroad.
A plan to centralize intelligence-gathering activities by consolidating the intelligence departments of the three SDFs was proposed around 1988, when Seiki Nishihiro became the vice-minister. Thwarted by the lack of cooperation and subordination from the uniformed officers, centralization had to be postponed.
The National Defense Program Outline which determines Japan's defense capabilities, was reviewed and newly established in December 1995. According to this review:
"Japan's defense structure must be capable of conducting warning and surveillance on a continuous basis to detect any changes in circumstances as soon as possible, so as to utilize this information for quick decision-making. It must be capable of high-level intelligence gathering and analysis, including strategic intelligence, through possession of diversified intelligence-gathering means and mechanisms, and highly able intelligence specialists. Additionally, it must possess a sophisticated command and communication capability and be able to quickly and effectively conduct integrated defense operations from a joint perspective."
In May 1996, Japan's parliament passed a law authorizing creation of a central military intelligence agency, the first of its kind since the country's WWII defeat. The Defence Intelligence Headquarters (DIH) collects, processes and analyses information from remote listening devices operated by Japanese defence forces in the air, on the ground and at sea, as well as satellite images, intelligence supplied by friendly countries and public information such as foreign media reports.
The establishment of DIH in January 1997 was expected to enable the country to deal with the rising uncertainties of the Asia-Pacific region in the post-Cold War era. Information demand has been shifting from tactical information like movements of the Soviet Far Eastern Army to high-quality strategic information. Because the director of the headquarters can report directly to the prime minister's secretary, the risk management capability of the Prime Minister's Office will be improved.
The first director was Army General Masahiro Kunimi, who was promoted from the commanding general of the 10th Division. A 1965 graduate of the Defense Academy, he worked in the intelligence field at the GSDF for many years. He served as a resident defense officer at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing for three years from 1983.
The intelligence headquarters is placed under the Joint Staff Council and is controlled by the "Defense Intelligence Committee," which consists of the permanent vice-minister, the director of the Defense Bureau, the chairman of the Joint Staff Council, and the chiefs of the GSDF, the MSDF, and the ASDF. The committee determines the overall framework of international military intelligence to be collected, and based on this basic plan, each division of the intelligence headquarters will collect, analyze, and assess information gathered from radio waves, images, and publications.
The Defence Intelligence Headquarters (DIH), the Japanese version of the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), integrates the five intelligence elements from its three services, the Japan Defence Agency (JDA) and the Joint Staff Council. Based in the new JDA headquarters in Tokyo's Ichigaya district, the organisation reports to the Joint Staff Council and is the armed forces' first fully integrated unit. At the time of its formation DIH strength was 1,580, both military and civilian, although this could rise to 2,000 [according to some reports, the total staffing level was eventually expected to reach 5,000 or even 6,000 personnel, half of whom would be field staff].
The organisation has five directorates:
The Administration / General Headquarters Division carries out administrative functions and provides logistic support.
The Planning Division is probably concerned with human intelligence collection. Over 40 SDF officers seconded from the Defense Agency to the Foreign Ministry and assigned to 33 overseas diplomatic missions as defense attaches are conducting related activities, such as collecting military information. The DIH draws on intelligence from a range of sources, including Japan's overseas defence attaché network and foreign intelligence organisations. While intelligence liason is an important part of the Japan-US alliance, the DIH plans to develop bilateral relationships with a broader range of partners, although actively exchanging intelligence with other countries has only just started.
The Imagery Division has 50 staff members. It was created by consolidating the Satellite Image Analysis Divisions of the three SDFs. It assumes a leading role in the newly created organization. For the time being, it buys images from commercial satellites in the United States, and primarily receives and analyzes [visual data] at the GSDF's Central Geographical Command (in Tachikawa, Tokyo). In order to enhance the capability of analyzing the information obtained by the reconnaissance satellite, Japan plans to increase the staff of the image information processing center from the initially planned 200 to 321 people. As of late 1998 Japan only had about 30 satellite data analysts.
The Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has 10 sections with 350 staff members, and is the largest division at the intelligence headquarters. The electronic intelligence unit at the GSDF facility in Ichigaya, with a staff of over 100, has three separate sections for monitoring North Korean communications. In addition to those working in Ichigaya, it oversees 970 staff members working at the two CDAA "elephant cages," as well as six other communications offices in Kobunato (in Niigata Prefecture), Oi (in Saitama Prefecture), Tachiarai (in Fukushima Prefecture), and Kikaijima (in Kagoshima Prefecture). Initially the SIGINT directorate provided most of intelligence collection, although in the future the Imagery Directorate would gain importance when Japan introduces its own reconnaissance satellites.
The Analysis [Assessment] Division is responsible for summarizing and assessing information, plus reports from resident defense officers in 40-some countries and information from the United States and other allies, as well as HUMINT from collaborators. It has eight sections and 120 specialists to analyze the meaning and value of information and determine the overall significance to the Defense Agency. The "Defense Secrets Registration Manual" supposedly contains crucial data on armaments and military affairs around the world. The Assessment Directorate, responsible for analysis, is intended to achieve improvement over the previous de-centralized system.
Although a large new organization was created, there has been almost no consolidation or unification of the internal bureaus or the former organizations and units under the SDFs. As the new organization was formed, the three SDFs consolidated their first and second intelligence divisions into a single intelligence division. But, only a handful of individuals from these SDFs had been transferred to the intelligence headquarters. Each SDF's intelligence division still continues to work on data analysis at the tactical level as before. The intelligence units other than the communications offices have also remained almost intact, still being kept under control of the director of each SDF.
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Lot 36 of 649: [Nixon, Richard M.] Presidential and U.S. Flag From the Nixon Oval Office
Lot closed - Winning bid:$14,500 (12 bids)
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000
[Nixon, Richard M.] Presidential and U.S. Flag From the Nixon Oval Office, Both flags are 81 inches wide by 66 inches high. They hung in the Oval Office during President Nixon's administration. They were given by President Nixon to Jack Kennaley, who worked for Pepsi-Cola and handled the Pepsi contract for the White House during the administrations of nine Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan. Kennaley was given many items by occupants of the White House. An 8 x 10 inch color photo of the flags hanging in the Oval Office accompanies the flags.
In addition to the U.S. flag, the flag of the President of the United States is exhibited in the Oval Office. It consists of the presidential coat of arms on a dark blue background and is often displayed by the President in official photos, flown next to the coffin of the President in official funeral processions, and flown on the President's motorcade.
The flags are housed in fiberglass frames. They are not on site but are located in a western state. The buyer is responsible for arranging pick up and delivery. This may be a unique opportunity to obtain such historic mementos from the Oval Office.
Estimated Value $10,000 - 20,000
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Houston Sees Spike in Assault Cases During Coronavirus
Police Department Reports Significant Increase in Assaults and Other Crime Amidst Pandemic As reported by KPRC 2 News, there has been a spike in crime during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an incident report prepared by the Houston Police Department and provided to KPRC 2 News, there was already a 9% increase in
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What to Do If You’ve Been Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault in Texas
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How Do I Cancel My Learn Our History
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Alberta Floods: High River Residents Still Out, One Year Later
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press CP
');}catch(e){}HIGH RIVER, Alta. - Fred Plotnikoff and his girlfriend Bert Ager's home has been a tiny room in a trailer for the last 10 months.
The seniors have been living in the temporary community of Saddlebrook, just north of High River, which was set up by the Alberta government last summer to provide shelter for about 1,200 after the Highwood River poured into town and damaged many homes beyond repair.
Saddlebrook consists of a neighbourhood of long construction trailers grouped together on a 40-hectare site.
It has laundry facilities, a recreation centre and a kitchen that feeds the people who still call it home. A colourful playground still attracts a handful of children.
The makeshift community's population has dwindled to about 150 as the one-year anniversary of the flood approaches.
Plotnikoff and Ager are scheduled to move into a condo in High River on July 1.
"It was great to have a place to live that was dry. It's better than being under the damn bridge you know," says Plotnikoff, 70. "We're getting tired of it. We want to have our own place ... We've been OK, but it's not home."
"It kept us positive," adds Ager, who is 76. "We knew there was something better coming."
It's not just the residents of Saddlebrook who still aren't home after last June's flooding. A number of businesses in downtown High River remain dark.
The historic Wales Theatre, which first opened its doors in 1927, still hasn't reopened. It was only recently that "Hangover 3" was removed from the marquee — long past its movie house playing days. The movie was released on DVD last October.
"The water was right below the screen," says owner Syed Kidwai, pointing to the front of the theatre, which is in the middle of a major reconstruction. All the seats on the main floor have been removed. Rows upon rows of new seats are still covered in plastic.
"My wife and I had been considering retirement," Kidwai says. "It's been a very hard road. I must have aged five years in the past 12 months and we have to understand that it's not just myself — we are looking at the lives of about 12,000 people who were also affected."
Kidwai equates what he is going through to a cancer scare he had in 2008.
"First you are very upset and you say, 'Why me?' Then it's the four levels of acceptance. You get mad, then you accept it and say I'm better than a lot of other people."
High River Mayor Craig Snodgrass says getting people back into their homes and businesses has been the town's No. 1 priority.
But he says there's also a need to let residents know that there are protections in place to prevent a repeat of 2013.
Riverbanks have been improved to prevent erosion. The neighbourhood of Wallaceville, on a natural chokepoint in the Highwood, is to be bulldozed and the site returned to its original state. The river bottom has been scraped and an old rail bridge has been removed to improve flow.
In the longer term, there are plans for a channel to divert water around the community.
"I wouldn't call it doom and gloom but the town is wounded. People have that edge of nervousness to them," Snodgrass said.
"People have a very hard time getting it out of their head that last year isn't normal and last year isn't going to happen every time because it affected everybody on a personal level."
Snodgrass doesn't see High River returning to the way it was.
"This is an opportunity to take this town up about five levels," he says.
"You can see the light at the end of the odd tunnel here as to how this town's going to look and that's pretty exciting."
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VISITING HERE? Regardless of your interests, there are fun and exciting activities available for everyone in Humphreys County. From the river to the railroad, music, museums, and more, it's all here in Humphreys County.
LORETTA LYNN'S RANCH
Concerts, trail rides,
museums, log
cabins, camping,
motocross events and
much more centered around the home of the country music legend.
IRISH PICNIC
St. Patrick Irish Picnic and Homecoming in McEwen, TN is an annual event in July that is regularly attended by over 20,000 fun-loving people from across the nation. Originating in 1854, the picnic is known for its famous barbecue pork and the secret sauce than ranks it among the most delectable barbecue ever tasted.
RIVERS GALORE!
The Tennessee River, Kentucky Lake and the Buffalo River provide endless opportunities for fishing, boating, water skiing, and so much more. No matter if you're a first timer or a long time 'river rat', you're going to love Humphreys County.
WORLD CLASS HUNTING
Deer, turkey, duck, and a number of other game indigenous to Humphreys County provides some of the most challenging and enjoyable hunting in the South.
DIXIE YOUTH BASEBALL
Dixie Baseball/Softball and Humphreys County have a partnership of over 40 years. With baseball and softball teams ranging in age from 5 year olds to 19 years olds. It's fun and exciting for the players and the fans alike.
MUSIC CITY SKYDIVING
The best skydiving center in the Southeast, offering the most incredible and comprehensive skydiving adventure that the area has to offer!
MI-DE-GA THEATER
The MI-DE-GA has been bringing the biggest names in Hollywood to Humphreys County since 1936. Nightly showing the top movies of today as well as classic movies on the first Wednesday of the month.
TENNESSEE WILDLIFE REFUGE
The refuge provides habitat for resident wildlife species and other migratory birds. The refuge’s diversity of habitats also supports breeding, wintering and migration habitat for 301 bird species and habitat for 51 mammals, 89 reptiles and amphibians and 144 species of fish. White-tailed deer can be found throughout the area, along with smaller animals such as raccoons, foxes, squirrels, beaver, rabbits and wild turkey.
Humphreys County features fun and challenging golf courses in Waverly (Waverly Country Club) and McEwen (Willow Ridge).
HUMPHREYS COUNTY MUSEUM AND CIVIL WAR FORT
Featuring a military room with memorabilia from all wars, Extensive collection of Indian artifacts situated on an old Civil War fort site complete with existing rifle pits. The fort was built to protect and keep open a supply railroad to the Union army in Tennessee during the Civil War.
CIVIL WAR HISTORY
The 2000+ acre Johnsonville State Historic Park and Civil War Museum located in Humphreys County commemorates the site of the Battle of Johnsonville during the War Between the States as well as the historic town site that existed from 1864-1944 prior to the formation of Kentucky Lake. The park has two large forts, the upper and lower redoubts that are open for visitors. Additionally, original Union breastworks (rifle pits) are preserved throughout the park in various areas.
BUCKSNORT TRAIL RIDE
Horseback riding on miles of wooded trails gives a unique thrill. During our week-long rides we will serve you 3 home-cooked meals, you will enjoy a band on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Nights. A fun auction on Thursday night.
SATURDAYS ON THE SQUARE
Saturdays on the Court Square in Waverly are a bustle of activity. From classic cartoons at the theater to live music to sidewalk sales and contests, be sure to give Main Street in Waverly your attention on Saturdays!
THREE RIVERS QUILT TRAIL
The 3 Rivers Quilt Trail
is a driving trail that showcases all of the beautiful quilt blocks that have been mounted on barns and out buildings across Humphreys County.
Quilt block trails are also about days past, the times you slept under Grandmas warm quilts and the picnics you had on them on warm sunny days. Quilts are a work of love, passion and self. They have meanings that tell stories of families and lives. They give us warm memories that last a lifetime. We want to bring those memories up time and time again when you see the quilt blocks hanging on barns, outbuildings, homes, and businesses.
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How Assad’s Atrocities Became a Powerful Motivator for Terrorist Recruitment
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg
As published in Homeland Security Today:
When one thinks of the recent conflicts in Syria, images of ISIS beheadings, enslavement of Yazidis and black flags flying on behalf of the establishment of the ISIS Caliphate loom front and center. Many around the globe also fear and abhor the idea of ISIS criminals returning home, anxious that they may not be imprisoned and continue their heinous criminal acts, or even if imprisoned, spread their hateful ideology at home.[1] In the world’s collective consciousness, the Bashar al-Assad regime and its atrocities during the Syrian conflicts pale in comparison to ISIS’ brutal reign of terror. Indeed, ISIS became one of the largest, richest and most lethal and brutal terrorist organizations of all time.
Yet in March 2020, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported from its tally of civilian casualties in the Syrian uprising that 91.4 percent of those occurring up to 2020 were caused by the Assad regime and other parties supportive of the regime, including Iranian and Russian groups. The numbers of civilian casualties attributed to ISIS, however, dwarf in comparison to those committed by the Assad regime, adding up to only 2.2 percent of the total. While ISIS is rated as the group responsible for the second-largest number of civilian casualties in Syria, its raw numbers are few compared to Assad’s.[2] This often overlooked fact actually explains much about terrorism and is a warning to us about how terrorist groups use humanitarian and conflict zones to recruit new members to their cause and engage them in terrorist violence.
Between 2015 and 2020, the lead author at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism [ICSVE] in-depth interviewed 239 male and female ISIS defectors, returnees, and imprisoned cadres, many who responded to calls from ISIS, rebel groups and the Syrian people themselves to come to their aid.[3] This in-depth research of ISIS cadres has allowed for examination of the specific influences, motivations, and sources of disillusionment these ISIS cadres experienced with ISIS as they relate to the Assad regime’s actions. Specifically, the present investigation explores the impact of amateur Syrian videos depicting suffering civilians on the decisions of foreign fighters to travel to Syria to immediately or subsequently join ISIS, the prevalence and correlates of locals and foreign fighters citing anger at the Assad regime as a primary motivation for joining ISIS, and ISIS’ contradictory involvement with the Assad regime as a source of disillusionment within ISIS ranks. Moreover, this policy paper looks in particular at the group of foreign fighters who traveled to Syria, initially out of a desire to fight the Assad regime, feeling that the Western world had abandoned the Syrian people. Looking at these aspects of influence and motivation for joining, will to fight and disillusionment as they relate to ISIS’ and the Syrian people’s portrayal of Assad’s atrocities as well as ISIS’ own actions leads to important insights into how humanitarian crises and conflicts are used by terrorist groups to draw in foreign fighters in particular, motivate them to fight, and keep them engaged in terrorism violence. It is critical to examine how foreign fighters in particular were manipulated by their emotional responses to the Syrian crisis and ultimately willingly joined or inadvertently fell into the ranks of ISIS, and also to examine what disillusioned them along these same topics, as doing so provides useful information and policy recommendations for avoiding similar non-responsiveness to future situations that terrorist groups, like ISIS, may be more than happy to exploit.
The failed Syrian Arab Spring in 2011 that devolved into armed conflict when Assad’s forces began gunning down unarmed protestors, leading to riots, violent uprising and finally civil war, provided the perfect platform for ISIS to join the dozens of disparate rebel groups that arose in Syria to fight the Syrian regime and use events happening in Syria to strengthen their own terrorist organization. Indeed, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi clearly foresaw in 2012, as he was rebuilding al-Qaeda in Iraq (which had been rebranded as the Islamic State in Iraq), the possibility of increasing the strength and ranks of ISI by attracting to his group the influx of foreign terrorist fighters flowing into Syria. He and his propagandists understood well that entering the Syrian conflict while presenting ISIS as defending Sunni Muslims under attack could be their grand play upon the existing al-Qaeda jihadist narratives already spread throughout the world, one which would become for ISIS a winning move to terrorist ascendancy.
Consistent with the propagandists’ goals, as ISIS rose into power, most of Baghdadi’s fighting forces were not native to Iraq and Syria. The earliest foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] had been drawn to Syria first by the Free Syrian Army [FSA], al Nusra and the dozens of other groups operating there, as well as by the calls of ordinary Syrian civilians to come and help them. Before the end of 2014, when Baghdadi declared the Caliphate, approximately 15,000 FTFs from 80 countries had traveled to join the Syrian uprising,[4] many joining FSA and al Nusra. However, as ISIS rose in prominence, many of these FTFs later joined ISIS and, over time, FTFs and their families began streaming by the tens of thousands directly into the self-declared ISIS Caliphate, mounting to over 40,000 FTFs who ultimately traveled to Syria.[5]
Meanwhile, many of the rebel groups grew concerned about ISIS spies in their ranks and became suspicious of FTFs, imprisoning and sometimes even executing them. Likewise, groups like the FSA, who rejected the jihadist vision for Syria, saw the jihadist-minded foreign fighters as enemies to their nationalistic objectives. As such, foreign fighters in Syria found themselves subject to being hunted down, imprisoned and executed by previously welcoming rebel groups. ISIS, however, continued to welcome foreign fighters with open arms, inviting them to their shared vision of building an Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. ISIS’ welcoming stance also provided safe haven for those, with or without this vision, who could no longer make their way through territories bordering Turkey held by hostile groups, which were necessary to cross to make their way back home. As ISIS portrayed itself as the protector of Sunni Muslims, and promoted their rapidly expanding Caliphate as one governed by the laws of Allah, portraying it as the new Islamic utopia, many who fell into, or willfully joined their ranks, did so believing ISIS to be offering the best remedy to the oppression caused by dictators like Assad.
Using Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes to Influence and Motivate for Terrorist Recruitment
Many of the early FTFs had watched scores of videos posted online, many recorded on mobile phones, of Syrian women and children calling out for help amidst rubble, following chemical attacks, or after experiencing the crimes of rape and torture. Covered in dirt and blood, these victims cried out to the Islamic ummah (global family of Muslims), “Muslims, Muslims of the world, where are you?”
In response to these heart-rending calls, many young Muslim men all over the globe became enraged at the world’s seeming indifference and heeded the call, many having no initial intention to ever join a terrorist group.
In the Balkans, young men vividly recalled the horrors of the wars with Serbia and the foreign fighters who had come to their aid. Having grown up under war, these young men now wished to offer the same defense for Syrians. Likewise, first-, second-, and third-generation Muslims of immigrant descent, as well as converts, in Europe and North America were astounded and angered by world powers who seemed oblivious to Assad’s atrocities against his own people. As President Obama drew his red line in Syria, but then failed to act, more young men around the world decided they would act in his stead.
In many countries, particularly in the Gulf and the Balkans, religious and even political leaders concerned about the growing atrocities in Syria began referring to the imperative to go to the aid of Syrians, yet their governments failed to take effective actions. As it increasingly appeared that no one was successfully responding to the pitiful calls of the besieged Syrians, Muslim youth around the globe increasingly felt that if world powers would not stand up for the defenseless Syrian people, they would. Many, therefore, believing the already popularized militant jihadist narrative about the obligation of Muslims to fight jihad, who moreover felt it was wrong, if not religiously forbidden, for them to remain living in relative comfort while their Islamic brothers and sisters in Syria suffered, became convinced that it was their duty to join the fight in Syria. This obligation to jihad, which had already been popularized by al Qaeda’s propagandist Anwar al Awlaki coupled with the effect of Syrian civilian suffering was not lost on ISIS propagandists who also began to use the call to jihad to their advantage as they joined the Syrian civilians and rebel groups in calling foreigners to travel to Syria.
Not everyone who joined ISIS did so initially. Indeed, 21.2 percent of the male foreign fighters in our sample initially were members of another group before joining ISIS. Many of the early travelers to Syria entered during a time when the rebel groups were still operating chaotically and there was a great deal of overlap and cooperation among the groups. Joining any particular rebel group was often a matter of being guided by a local, family member, or friend who had come before, and also occurred by random chance. However, as the groups solidified, and particularly as they began infighting, shifting alliances often created situations where individuals chose, or were forced, to move from one group into another, with many foreign fighters moving to ISIS where they were welcomed rather than suspected or persecuted as spies or jihadists. Likewise, ISIS appeared to many to be the strongest group, as it was gaining significant swathes of territory and had accumulated the money to provide its fighters with salaries, top of the line, and often new, weaponry and spent a great deal of time indoctrinating them into the Islamic underpinnings arguing that ISIS was both capable and destined to build a utopian Islamic Caliphate.
Emotional Responses to Suffering Used to Influence Terrorist Travel
When examining the data from the 236 in-depth interviews of ISIS defectors, returnees, and imprisoned cadres interviewed by ICSVE between September 2015 and January 2020 (the sample containing 43 nationalities and 55 ethnicities and made up of 198 males and 38 females it), it emerges that 41.5 percent of the men and 7.7 percent of the women who traveled to Syria and Iraq were influenced to undertake such travel by watching amateur videos that moved them to take up arms or provide humanitarian aid in Syria. These respondents described to the researchers their emotions evoked by watching mobile phone videos of mothers crying over their dying children, calling out to the ummah for help. For many interviewees from the Balkans, these videos triggered visceral post-traumatic reactions from childhood memories of their war-torn countries and for others who had not grown up in war also triggered deep feelings of outrage over unanswered and unstopped injustice.
For example, 29-year-old Kosovar, Albert, recalls his emotional pain watching amateur Syrian videos, “I have seen quite similar torture when we were in the war with Serbia. We were also the victims of injustice.” Albert felt compelled to act: “During the war in Kosovo, I was a child … there was no opportunity for me to be engaged in the war. But now I am getting older and I feel responsible to act. I could not just let it happen.”
Bosnian 33-year-old Elvin also recalls the calls by religious authorities in the mosques who would “invoke the need for Bosnians, especially, to pay back for the foreign fighters who came in ’91 and ’92.” Elvin recalls, “I watched [online] videos of Assad’s troops killing people… We had memories of Arabs coming to fight for our cause; I felt I owed this.”
Anger and Sadness over Assad’s Atrocities as Motivations to Travel to Syria
Foreign fighters who traveled to ISIS were often motivated to do so by anger and sadness over Assad’s atrocities toward his own people rather than affinity to ISIS’s goals per se, as evidenced in this sample’s responses, particularly among those who came early to the conflict zone. Indeed, 52.3 percent of this sample’s interviewees reported being motivated by sadness and an urge to provide humanitarian aid. 57.5 percent of the foreign men and 30.8 percent of the foreign women in this sample of 236 stated that they traveled to Syria and joined ISIS with the goal of helping the Syrian people. These individuals, similar to those motivated by anger, were overcome with strong emotions upon seeing and hearing what Assad’s regime was doing to its own people in Syria, while also being aware that prominent leaders were calling for action, yet world powers were failing to put a stop to Assad’s offenses.
Zyad Abdul Hamid, a 35-year-old from Trinidad, expressed his feelings upon seeing Western leaders call for help for the Syrian people and feeling that if the Western powers failed to act, he personally could not: “I saw John McCain saying Syrians needed help. I was a Muslim and thought it’s binding upon me to help.” Zyad entered Syria in 2014 and claims he did not join any group initially: “I helped people buy clothes, stuff like this.” Like many who became trapped in territory that ISIS controlled, Zyad Abdul Hamid then fell into the ranks of ISIS although he was also drawn to their claims to be building an Islamic Caliphate. He recalls, “the groups started fighting each other and we stayed low. After a while, Dawlah [ISIS] took the outside, took the borders.” Zyad was both trapped and intrigued by ISIS’s message, recalling, “They came around talking to us. I’m a Muslim. I wanted to know about Islamic law.”
Humanitarian concerns were also a common motivating purpose among Western women who travelled to join ISIS. For instance, 46-year-old Canadian Kimberly Pullman, facing her own emotional crisis following a rape recalls deciding that it would be better to go help Syrian children as a nurse than stay mired in her suicidal state of mind. She remembers thinking, “If I was going to die at least I could die helping children […] I felt if I did something good it would overwrite the bad that had happened.”[6]
Similarly, 23-year-old Belgian Cassandra recalls how her much older husband, who was already deeply embedded in ISIS, manipulated her emotions by showing her videos of the actions of the Syrian regime. She recalls, “He told me about Syria and showed me videos of the torture of Bashar. I was in pain, so I have to do something.” Facing a difficult family situation at home, Cassandra left Europe at only 18 years old to join her French husband already living in Syria. Later she adopted three Syrian children, all Shia orphans, who many in ISIS felt should have been left to die. True to her helping nature, she sheltered them under the protection of her husband who had risen to become an emir in ISIS, in charge of making explosive-laden cars for suicide missions. While she had come to Syria with hopes of helping Syrians she now states that ISIS “will promise you peace and security. They didn’t do anything. They want[ed a] so-called Islamic State, at the end they have been destroyed from everywhere.” She laments, “Kids died, parents died, so many injured people…”
Anger, truly outrage over Assad’s atrocities, was also a common motivator for traveling to Syria and joining ISIS. In our sample, 18.9 percent of the foreign fighter males attributed anger at the actions of Assad’s regime and the rest of the world’s inaction in response to him, as a strong motivation for travelling to Syria and ultimately joining ISIS.
36-year-old Canadian Abu Ridwan al Canadia states his motivation clearly and succinctly: “I was following the news and you can’t basically sit by and not do anything.” Abu Ridwan claims he was not there to join a terrorist group and had no initial interest in ISIS, stating, “I was there to fight the Syrian regime.” Yet, he, like many foreign fighters drawn into the conflicts by humanitarian concerns, followed his group and pledged allegiance to ISIS only three months after arriving in Syria.
Will to Fight
While the reasons given for their willingness to engage in terrorist violence and fight for ISIS included wanting to establish the ISIS Caliphate, fear of ISIS punishments if they refused, fear of being captured or killed by the enemies of ISIS, along with a myriad of less often given reasons, a deep hatred of Assad formed the primary backbone for many ISIS cadres willingness to fight, particularly among foreign fighters. 9.1 percent (n=18) of the males in this sample stated that fighting Assad’s regime was their primary motivation for going to battle. Of these, 16 were foreign fighters. Of the 16 FTFs who stated that fighting Assad was their primary motivation to fight, 31.3 percent (n=5) were from the Balkans. The others were from the United Kingdom (n=2), Morocco (n=2), and one FTF each was from Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia.
24-year-old UK Jack Letts recalls, “I came because of what Bashar was doing […] I believed they were Muslims and good to fight for an Islamic State, and fighting Assad.” Jack also states that while he became totally disillusioned of ISIS and rejected them while living under their rule, he still, even in prison, retains his will to fight Assad.[7]
Abu Khalid, a 32-year-old German, also recalls being moved to come to Syria out of a deep sense of responsibility to fight Assad’s regime. Similar to Jack Letts, Abu Khalid continues to view Assad as a war criminal that even now needs to be defeated. While Abu Khalid claims he would never again fight for ISIS, he admits that if the circumstance were supportive he would be willing to once again take up arms against Assad. He explains, “If I get out of prison, I could see going back to fight Bashar. For this I came, this war criminal.”
Disillusionment with ISIS over its Dealings with Assad
Just as outrage and sadness over viewing Assad’s atrocities had drawn many into Syria and ultimately into ISIS ranks, ISIS’s cooperation with and failure to fight the Syrian regime also formed a significant source of disillusionment with ISIS. In this sample, 4.5 percent of the men reported being disillusioned by ISIS’s failure to fight Assad and 1.5 percent of the men were disillusioned by ISIS’s cooperation with Assad, namely ISIS’s selling oil and grain to the regime.[8] While many more may have expressed the same, ISIS cleverly hid its dealings with the Assad government from most of its members.
Of the 11 men who said they were disillusioned by ISIS’s failure to fight the Syrian regime or cooperation with it, seven were from Syria. This is likely due to the fact that Syrians were more likely to have much greater recognition of what was actually going on between ISIS and Assad’s government. Syrian ISIS fighters who could speak Arabic were often privy to the oil and grain sales, as they were the people who allowed Assad’s trucks to come and retrieve oil, or who guided the regime’s engineers to work on the pumps and pipelines held by ISIS. In contrast, ISIS took full advantage foreign fighters who could not understand the language or knew the political lay of the land and routinely sent them to kill Sunni tribesman, for example, in the genocidal al Sheitat slaughter, telling them that these were not even Sunni Muslims. Of course, for those who later learned the truth, disillusionment also set in.
31-year-old Kosovar Abu Naim, recalls how he was quickly disillusioned in 2013 by what he saw in Syria explaining that the rebel groups, including ISIS, were absorbed with infighting rather than focusing on fighting Assad’s forces, “There were too many groups involved. It’s as though they had forgotten about the regime. They started positioning [for power] amongst themselves.”[9]
27-year-old Swedish Abu Gibril also expresses his disappointment that ISIS didn’t keep their focus on fighting the Syrian regime, “They tried to make an Islamic State, but there were many things they did that was not smart. Instead of attacking the Kurds they should attack the Syrian army.”
Similarly, 33-year-old Abu Raqman of the UK explains, “I thought 100 percent they will win against Assad.” He became disillusioned when he saw that ISIS was attacking in Europe instead. “Personally, I don’t believe they should bring the war over there. The war is here [in Syria]. They should have focused on the biggest dictator here, not someone far away.”
24-year-old American-born Hoda Muthana agrees that ISIS’s actions outside of the active war with Assad’s regime were one of many sources of disillusionment for her. “Two enemies attacking each other is understandable,” she says, referring to ISIS fighting the regime. But she asks how those who served in ISIS’s killing machine will ever be able to atone for all the civilians they killed, “How are you going to justify for the kids you killed, when we believe all children go to heaven?”[10]
For many who joined ISIS, the events happening in Syria and the failure of the world’s leaders to stop Assad from cruelly killing and harming far more people than ISIS ever did created a massive whirlpool that pulled thousands of foreign fighters into travel across continents and oceans, many drowning themselves in terrorism as they sacrificed everything to come help their oppressed Muslims brother and sisters. A significant portion of these felt a personal responsibility to take up arms to fight Assad’s regime, and they initially came with good intentions even though they later fell into the ranks of ISIS. For many of these, even after becoming totally disillusioned of the Islamic State’s failed Caliphate, they continue in their hatred of Assad, so deeply that some would still be willing to take up arms once again to fight this war criminal. Likewise, while a large portion of ISIS members were disillusioned over time by the un-Islamic, corrupt and brutal nature of ISIS, some also found ISIS’s failure to fight Assad and even to cooperate with his government by selling them oil and grain to be strong enough reasons for wanting to give up on ISIS.
These are all lessons for the world to learn about how terrorist groups are able to use humanitarian crises and conflicts to recruit, influence, motivate and engage youth to take up arms for a terrorist cause and also how a terrorist group, when dealing with corrupt war criminals, can also be delegitimized in the eyes of its potential recruits and existing members.
When dealing with terrorist group recruitment, policy makers need to be keenly aware that when deep injustices are occurring, particularly aimed at Muslims, and Western powers do little to nothing to stop them, it plays into an already widely distributed al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, and ISIS militant jihadi narrative: that Muslims are oppressed, Islamic lands and people and the religion itself are under attack and the West is playing a role, if not actually behind the oppression and injustice. Moreover, the militant jihadist narrative of these terrorist groups teaches that Muslims themselves have an individual duty to fight jihad, to bring an end to such atrocities and to bring about justice for the Muslim ummah, who are, according to the militant jihadist narrative, supposed to be living under Islamic ideals and shariah law – even if that can only be obtained by raising arms to do so.
At this point in time, ISIS has been territorially defeated. Most ISIS foreign fighters were either killed, have fled the battleground, or are locked up at home, in Iraq, or in Syria.
Meanwhile, Assad remains both free and in power.
While the German authorities have recently arrested two key players among Assad’s henchmen responsible for torturing countless Syrians,[11] until he and his entire leadership regime are brought to justice, the lessons to ordinary Muslims seeking justice is very clear: It may be necessary to resort to terrorist violence and join a terrorist group in order to defend the defenseless and to try to bring justice to a conflict zone that world powers appear willing to ignore.
While ISIS brought no defense, nor justice to the Syrian people, neither have the world powers.
Until youth who may be vulnerable to terrorist recruitment see and hear with their own eyes and ears that the West is willing to defend the defenseless and will enact justice, they will remain vulnerable to terrorist recruitment. These are important lessons for the future.
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., is Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She has interviewed over 700 terrorists, their family members and supporters in various parts of the world including in Western Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East. In the past three years, she has interviewed 239 ISIS defectors, returnees and prisoners as well as 16 al Shabaab cadres and their family members (n=25) as well as ideologues (n=2), studying their trajectories into and out of terrorism, their experiences inside ISIS (and al Shabaab), as well as developing the Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project materials from these interviews which includes over 175 short counter narrative videos of terrorists denouncing their groups as un-Islamic, corrupt and brutal which have been used in over 125 Facebook campaigns globally. She has also been training key stakeholders in law enforcement, intelligence, educators, and other countering violent extremism professionals on the use of counter-narrative messaging materials produced by ICSVE both locally and internationally as well as studying the use of children as violent actors by groups such as ISIS and consulting foreign governments on issues of repatriation and rehabilitation of ISIS foreign fighters, wives and children. In 2007, she was responsible for designing the psychological and Islamic challenge aspects of the Detainee Rehabilitation Program in Iraq to be applied to 20,000 + detainees and 800 juveniles. She is a sought after counterterrorism expert and has consulted to NATO, OSCE, the EU Commission and EU Parliament, European and other foreign governments and to the U.S. Senate & House, Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, CIA, and FBI and appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, CTV, and in Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, London Times and many other publications. She regularly writes a column for Homeland Security Today and speaks and publishes on the topics of the psychology of radicalization and terrorism and is the author of several books, including Talking to Terrorists, Bride of ISIS, Undercover Jihadi and ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate. Her publications are found here: https://georgetown.academia.edu/AnneSpeckhardWebsite: and on the ICSVE website http://www.icsve.org
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Molly Ellenberg, M.A. is a research fellow at ICSVE. Molly Ellenberg holds an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from The George Washington University and a B.S. in Psychology with a Specialization in Clinical Psychology from UC San Diego. At ICSVE, she is working on coding and analyzing the data from ICSVE’s qualitative research interviews of ISIS and al Shabaab terrorists, running Facebook campaigns to disrupt ISIS’s and al Shabaab’s online and face-to-face recruitment, and developing and giving trainings for use with the Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project videos. Molly has presented original research at the International Summit on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma and UC San Diego Research Conferences. Her research has also been published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma and the Journal of Strategic Security. Her previous research experiences include positions at Stanford University, UC San Diego, and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.
Reference for this article: Speckhard, Anne and Ellenberg, Molly (May 12, 2020). How Assad’s Atrocities Became a Powerful Motivator for Terrorist Recruitment. Homeland Security Today
[1] Al Jazeera. “Finland’s Foreign Minister Faces Probe over Syria Repatriations.” News | Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera, February 19, 2020. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/finland-foreign-minister-faces-probe-syria-repatriations-200219161057275.html.; Guy, Jack, James Frater, and Sarah Dean. “Norway’s Governing Coalition Collapses over ISIS Repatriation.” CNN. Cable News Network, January 20, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/europe/norway-government-collapse-isis-intl/index.html.
[2] Syrian Network for Human Rights. (2020, March). Retrieved from http://sn4hr.org/
[3] Speckhard, Anne, and Molly D. Ellenberg. “ISIS in Their Own Words: Recruitment History, Motivations for Joining, Travel, Experiences in ISIS, and Disillusionment over Time–Analysis of 220 In-depth Interviews of ISIS Returnees, Defectors and Prisoners.” Journal of Strategic Security 13, no. 1 (2020): 5.
[4] Foreign fighters flow to Syria. (2014, October 11). Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/foreign-fighters-flow-to-syria/2014/10/11/3d2549fa-5195-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_graphic.html
[5] Richard Barrett, “Beyond the Caliphate.” New York, NY: The Soufan Center (2017).
[6] Speckhard, Anne (March 31, 2020). Kimberly Pullman: A Canadian Woman Lured Over the Internet to the ISIS Caliphate. Homeland Security Today.
[7] Speckhard, Anne. “British-Born Jack Letts Discusses Mental Illness and His Path to ISIS.” Homeland Security Today, November 25, 2019. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/british-born-jack-letts-discusses-mental-illness-and-his-path-to-isis/.
[8] Speckhard, Anne, and Ahmet S. Yayla. “ISIS revenues include sales of oil to the al-Assad regime.” ICSVE Brief Reports (2016).
[9] Speckhard, Anne. “The Call to Jihad,” April 28, 2018. https://www.icsve.org/the-call-to-jihad/.
[10] Speckhard, Anne, and Ardian Shajkovci. “American-Born Hoda Muthana Tells All About Joining ISIS and Escaping the Caliphate.” Homeland Security Today, April 23, 2019. https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/terrorism-study/american-born-hoda-muthana-tells-all-about-joining-isis-and-escaping-the-caliphate/.
[11] Karadsheh, Jomana. “Germany Opens Landmark Trial of Syrian Regime Officers Accused of Crimes against Humanity.” CNN. Cable News Network, April 23, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/middleeast/syria-germany-trial-intl/index.html.
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Fullsteam Acquires Self-Storage Software Firms, Merges Space Control With Storage Commander
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Update 10/9/20 – Fullsteam has added to its growing portfolio self-storage software brands by acquiring Space Control, a business-management software platform that will now be merged and managed by Storage Commander, which Fullsteam purchased last year.
“The addition of Space Control to the Fullsteam family of companies is very exciting,” Lawler said. “We’re excited to continue our expansion in the self-storage industry.”
2/5/19 – Storage Commander Software LLC, formerly known as Empower Software Technologies Inc., a provider of management software for the self-storage industry, has been acquired by Fullsteam, a holding company that purchases software and payments businesses. This is Fullsteam’s second acquisition in the self-storage software market, according to a press release. The firm also owns Domico.
“We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Storage Commander,” said Michael A. Lawler, CEO of Fullsteam. “Their cloud software platform is a leader in the industry, and the company is poised for substantial growth in the years to come.”
Storage Commander co-founders Tom Smith and Jeff Power will remain with the company and continue to oversee daily operation. “This is a great day for both of our companies and even more so for our software users,” said Smith, who serves as CEO. “By combining our industry experience and cloud-based software along with Fullsteam’s expertise in payments and technology, we’re in an amazing position to evolve with the changing landscape of the industry and provide new solutions to storage owners and operators.”
Based in Murrieta, Calif., Storage Commander was launched in 1998. The company’s cloud-based, standalone software allows for online reservations and payments. It also includes built-in debit, credit and electronic-check processing as well as customized billing, a reports suite and more.
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Tattersalls International Horse Trials 2017
Horse Sport Ireland General May 29, 2017
Tattersalls International Horse Trials & Country Fair returns to Ratoath, Co. Meath, from the 31st May to the 4th June 2017. Tattersalls combines the highest standard of equestrianism with good food, shopping, entertainment and family fun.
A host of the world’s top Eventing horses and riders are set to line-out at Tattersalls, as they compete in the equestrian triathlon of Dressage, Cross Country and Show Jumping. The event also hosts the Irish leg of the FEI Nations Cup series, which takes place at 10 venues around the globe.
The Irish team for Tattersalls Nations Cup is made up of 4 Irish Sport Horses, with two of those being traditionally bred; Balham Houdini (ISH) ridden by Austin O’Connor, OLS Back Chat (ISH)(TIH) ridden by Cathal Daniels, Horseware Stellor Rebound (ISH) ridden by Sarah Ennis & with Imperial Sky (ISH) (TIH) ridden by Sam Watson.
Equestrian activity begins on Wednesday with the dressage phase of the CCI1* & CCIYH1* (6/7 YO) competitions and runs right through to Sunday evening with the CCI3* show jumping. A record 340 horse and rider combinations will compete over five days, representing a total of 10 nations.
Two full brothers compete against each other in the CCIYH Class, Malcolm X (ISH) (2011) and Black Ice (ISH) (2010). Both horses are by Vechta (KWPN) out of Brookhall Lady (ISH), by Touchdown (ISH) and bred by Judith McClelland (Down). Another full brother Shannador (ISH) (2009) competes in the Land Rover CCI1* class.
Irish bred horses make up 60% of all horses entered across the range of classes and represent 8 of the 10 nations competing.
The Country Fair runs from Friday to Sunday. The shopping village hosts over 100 diverse stands exhibiting a range of products from clothing to crafts to food, ensuring that there is something for everyone. There are also a number of hospitality areas and bars open to everyone.
For further details and to pre-purchase tickets, visit the Tattersalls website HERE
Make sure to stop by the Irish Horse Gateway stand in the shopping village for more information on buying Irish horses & ponies or becoming one of our registered sellers.
Full breeding details of the Irish bred horses competing at Tattersalls can be found HERE
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Office 365: 7 Missing Features For Enterprises
With its new cloud-based suite, Microsoft is striking back at Google Apps. But consider these shortcomings in key areas.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formally introduced Office 365 on Tuesday at an event in New York City. The service is a rebranded, upgraded version of the company's Business Productivity Online Standard suite that adds Office Web Apps and other cloud services.
With new collaboration tools like Lync and SharePoint Online, and Web-based versions of staples like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Office 365 should give Google a run in the market for productivity tools that live in the cloud. Still, some omissions and weaknesses could hamper its take-up in the enterprise market. Here's what's missing.
1. Fully functional Web apps. Despite Microsoft's marketing pitch, Office 365 isn't really "Office In The Cloud." Not entirely, anyway. The cloud-based versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint offer only a subset of the functionality of their desktop versions. For instance, the Office Web Apps version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the high-performance video editing tools found in the desktop version, and OWA Word is good for only "light editing," according to Microsoft.
This limited functionality is, of course, by design. With the client version of Office still accounting for about one-third of annual revenue, Microsoft has a strong incentive to keep users on the desktop for the full Office experience. The company notes that Office Web Apps are great for viewing, storing, and sharing documents. But given the numerous online storage products already available for free or at very low cost, many organizations may conclude that the setup hassles for Office 365 won't be worth it unless the software is fully functional.
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2. Pricing flexibility. Subscription-based software is like the rent-to-own furniture business: It's great for customers who don't want to spend a lot of money up front, but from an economic standpoint, renting can be a lousy decision. The full-on enterprise edition of Office 365 is priced at $27 per user, per month. That's $324 per year, every year. An outright purchase of Office Professional requires a one-time payment of $499 (less volume discounts), about 18 months worth of Office 365, and it's yours forever. Microsoft would note that the Office 365 subscription includes collaboration tools, support, and access to the latest upgrades. But for many organizations, the math may still not work. Microsoft needs to offer a basic version of Office 365 available for a one-off payment for businesses that don't need the high-level support and ongoing updates.
3. Backwards compatibility. Isn't cloud computing supposed to remove the headaches of constantly maintaining and upgrading software on the desktop? Then why does Office 365 require users to have new or almost new versions of Windows and other products running locally in order to access the online suite? The oldest version of Windows that will support Office 365 is Windows XP, Service Pack 3. Mac users will need at least OS X 10.5 or later. For Web access, users will need Internet Explorer 7 or later. On Macs, only Safari 3 or later will do. Also note that Office 365 doesn’t support Outlook 2003 or earlier versions. Again, it gets back to the fact that Microsoft, unlike Google, isn't fully committed to the cloud because it still depends on desktop and server products for the bulk of its revenue. That means it will need its customers to upgrade—constantly. Until that reality changes, Microsoft's cloud offerings, including Office 365, will have that "neither fish-nor-fowl" aspect about them.
4. Enterprise-class support and uptime. If Office 365 is to succeed, it needs to offer a more dependable experience than what BPOS users received. BPOS was Microsoft's first cloud-based office platform, and it showed. The service suffered from frequent interruptions, and support could be spotty. Just last month, the BPOS email service was hit with disruptions and admins were left in the dark as their service dashboards also went offline. Some users have also complained about subpar and hard-to-reach technical support arising from the fact that some BPOS helpdesk functions were outsourced to India.
For Office 365, Microsoft is adopting a multitenant service architecture that should solve some of the problems. It's also guaranteeing 99.9% uptime. It has to deliver. CIOs who put their reputations on the line with an Office 365 implementation won't tolerate anything less than rock solid performance.
5. True multi-platform access. Microsoft says Office 365 lets users work "from virtually anywhere and nearly any device with a familiar productivity experience across PC, phone, and browser." But blogosphere reports indicate that the cross-platform vision is more promise than reality.
iPad users who downloaded the trial version of Office 365 reported a number of problems. "I can't edit any document on the application," complained one, on a board maintained by iPadForums.net. Communicator for Mac 2011 also doesn't work. Furthermore, Office 365 performance isn’t consistent across Microsoft's own line of products. Office Web Apps exhibit different features and functionality depending on whether they're accessed on the desktop, tablets, or mobile devices. "There are some differences," Microsoft concedes.
Isn't the cloud supposed to enable a uniform, consistent end-user experience regardless of device? Microsoft needs to address this issue, or it could send the millions of iPad-using workers who need a solid office experience straight to Google.
6. In-document collaboration. Office 365 lets colleagues view and share documents through SharePoint and Lync Online. But when it comes to collaborating within a document, via real-time, simultaneous authoring, editing, and markup, Office 365 falls short. InformationWeek's side-by-side comparison of Office 365 and Google Apps gave Google the nod. This is inexplicable given the wealth of collaboration tools Microsoft gained through its acquisition of Ray Ozzie's Groove Networks in 2005. (Then again, Ozzie recently left the company after concluding Microsoft wasn't fully committed to the cloud.) Office 365's appeal in document-heavy industries like publishing, legal, and research could be limited until its collaboration capabilities are improved.
7. Robust developer tools. What you see is what you get with Office 365 because there are few developer tools. "The main fly-in-the-ointment for developers is that there's no way your business users can make use of add-ins, VBA macros, or any form of customization unless they fall back on locally installed applications," says Kay Ewbank of the "I Programmer" blog. That means possibilities for integrating Office 365 with other business apps or creating customized workflows are limited. With the next update to Office 365, Microsoft needs to focus on the developer.
The bottom line: Office 365 is the first step in what inevitably will be Microsoft's full migration to the cloud. The software industry is headed that way whether Redmond likes it or not. But the company's financial dependence on desktop and server software means its journey could take longer than legacy-free rivals. Office 365 is a solid product for businesses that want to take a similarly cautious road to the cloud. Less patient travelers may find it lacking.
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BITTOON, ISAAC (sometimes called Pittoon):
By: Joseph Jacobs, Frank H. Vizetelly
English pugilist, fencing master, and teacher of "the noble art of self-defense"; born in 1778; died in Feb., 1838. His first encounter was with Tom Jones of Paddington, whom he met and defeated at Wimbledon, Surrey, July 31, 1801. This victory was followed by a drawn battle with George Maddox, which took place Dec. 13, 1802, on the same spot, and was called off after seventy-four rounds. On July 16, 1804, on Willesden Green, near London, Bittoon fought a drawn battle with William Wood, a London coachman, interrupted in the thirty-sixth round by the appearance of officers from Bow street.Subsequently he appeared in the ring only as a second; and on Nov. 16, 1812, assisted Jack Carter in his match against Jack Power.
Soon after his last appearance as a principal, Bittoon retired from the prize-ring, and established an athletic school in Goulston street, Whitechapel, London, where he gave instruction in boxing and fencing. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery near Bethnal Green.
Miles, Pugilistica, vol. i.
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DAVIS, FREDERICK:
By: Joseph Jacobs, Goodman Lipkind
Archeologist; born at Cheltenham 1843; died in London July 14, 1900. He was the eldest son of John Davis of Derby, and was educated at the Derby and Belper schools. Entering the engineering profession, he for some years was a partner in the Phœnix Foundry and Engineering Works at Derby. He devoted himself to archeological pursuits, and was elected a member of the council of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Silechester Excavation Committee. Davis wrote a history of the discoveries of the "Roman British City of Silchester," and also a work entitled "The Etymology of Some Derbyshire Race Names," and at the time of his death was preparing a work on "Misnomers."
Jewesh Chronicle, London, July 20, 1900.
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Jerusalem Post Opinion Op-EdContributors
Western leaders failed to recognize the similarities between the Islamic State and Hamas.
By MICHEL GURFINKIEL
Displaced people from the minority Yazidis rest Monday near Iraq’s border with Syria while fleeing Sunni militants.
The summer of 2014 is probably the most appropriate moment to remember a 19th century maverick genius: Jan Gotlib Bloch, otherwise known as Jan Bogomil Bloch, Johan von Bloch, Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch or even, among his French readers and admirers, as Ivan de Bloch.
Born in Radom, then a city in Russian Poland, in 1836, educated in Berlin, Bloch made a fortune in the construction of railways in the Russian Empire. While he converted to Calvinism, clearly for social rather than spiritual reasons, he remained close to his former Jewish brethren, fought anti-Semitism, funded investigations on the Jewish contribution to Russian economic development, and supported nascent Zionism.
His greatest achievement was a six-volume book published in Paris – and in French – in 1898, some four years before his death: La Guerre de l’Avenir (“Future War,” translated into English as “Is War Now Impossible?”).
Drawing from the best available information on military and strategic affairs, and in particular on the rapid and global improvement of military technologies, Bloch warned that a major war between industrial countries in Europe would result in a stalemate on the ground, the entrenchment of large armies, enormous casualties, financial bankruptcy, the break up of social organization and finally revolution.
In other terms, he accurately predicted what was to take place from the chain reaction of August 1914 to the overthrow of the Russian, Austrian and German monarchies in 1917 and 1918, and the rise of Communism.
Bloch may thus be praised as one of the real founding fathers of geopolitics as we understand it today, the study of power relations between states, nations and other human groups. Much more so, one would venture to say, than Harold Mackinder, whose major concepts, “Heartland” and “World Island,” have always been as questionable as fashionable, or Karl Haushofer, who, for all his talent and insight, never took off from pan-Germanic fantasies about organically growing states and lebensraum.
What makes Bloch even more endearing is that he erred on a major point: he was convinced (or claimed to be convinced) that European leaders and statesmen would realize in time the dangers of a global war, and avert it.
One may accumulate information and knowledge without even being able to understand it: that was the failure of Bloch’s contemporaries, who did not grasp, as he did, that war’s modernization would change the very nature of war, and raise its cost to unbearable heights. One may also accumulate enough information and knowledge to perceive what the future’s broad outlines might be, and at the same time ignore (or feign to ignore) one particular factor – in Bloch’s case, that policy making does not rest on rational considerations only.
Our challenge, 112 years after Bloch’s demise, and 100 years after the outbreak of the catastrophe he had so strikingly foreseen, is to avoid both his contemporaries’ intellectual frivolity and his own psychological generosity. Indeed, one should connect the dots between the various battles currently fought in the Middle East, and remember that there is no such a thing as a merely rational approach to peace, or peace for peace’s sake.
Over the past weeks, many Western statesmen have expressed shock and horror at the so-called Islamic State’s reign of terror in Syria and Iraq, and at the same time failed to recognize the similarities between the Islamic State and Hamas. Many who are bewildered when the Islamic State undertakes the genocide or expulsion of Christians and Yazidis and Shi’ites do not realize that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and even to a large extent Fatah and the PLO call for genocide and the uprooting of Israeli Jews.
Three former conservative prime ministers of France, Alain Juppé, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and François Fillon, have called for a French humanitarian initiative for both the Middle Eastern Christians and Gaza civilians – and have thus drawn an implicit parallel between the Islamic State and Israel; it did not dawn on them that Israel is fighting in Gaza the same Islamist radicals that slaughter Christians a few hundred miles further east.
Pope Francis, a saintly spiritual leader, rightly endorses now the bombing of the Islamic State’s forces in order to protect Syrian and Iraqi Christians; a few weeks earlier he had no such qualms, “praying for peace” with both the Israeli outgoing president Shimon Peres, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, who had included Hamas in a national unity government.
It comes hardly as a surprise that many Arab countries understand much better what is at stake and have tacitly supported Israel. They stand on the front line, don’t they? And feel the heat.
© Michel Gurfinkiel, 2014
The author is the founder and president of the Jean- Jacques Rousseau Institute, a conservative think-tank in France, and a Shillman/Ginsburg Fellow at Middle East Forum.
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Phil Sullivan September 5, 2012
As we mentioned yesterday, the New York Jets have made some additional roster moves. Marcus Dixon was let go and then brought back. Then the Jets made a change at punter. Here is the official press release from the Jets which also mentions that LB Ricky Sapp has been released from the practice squad.
The New York Jets have signed DT Marcus Dixon and P Robert Malone to the active roster and added CB LeQuan Lewis to the practice squad. The team has waived NT Isaako Aaitui and P T.J. Conley and released LB Ricky Sapp from the practice squad. The announcements were made by General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.
Dixon (DT/6-4/295/Hampton/Rome, GA) entered the league as an undrafted free agent with Dallas (05/02/08). He joined the Jets after being claimed off waivers from the Cowboys (09/05/10). In two seasons with the Jets he played in 19 games making four starts, collecting 18 tackles, 2.5 sacks, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He was waived by the Jets on (09/01/12).
Malone (P/6-2/215/Fresno State/Riverside, CA) originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with Jacksonville (05/03/10). After being waived, he signed with Tampa Bay (10/13/10) where he played in 12 games and punted 52 times for 2,160 yards, averaging 41.5 yards per attempt. He punted for the Detroit Lions for one game in 2011. He spent training camp with the Chargers in 2012 prior to being waived (08/31/12).
Lewis (CB/5-11/187/Arizona State/Norwalk, CA) entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans (07/29/11) and participated in their training camp before being waived (09/02/11). He signed with Oakland (05/14/12) as a free agent prior to being waived by the Raiders (06/21/12). He signed with the Jets (08/15/12) and was most recently waived after the final preseason game (08/31/12).
Aaitui (NT/6-4/315/UNLV/Pago Pago, American Samoa) entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with Miami (10/04/11) as a member of their practice squad, where he spent the final 13 weeks of the season. He spent training camp with the Dolphins in 2012 prior to being waived (08/31/12), when he was claimed by the Jets (09/01/12).
Conley (P/6-3/221/Idaho/Walla Walla, WA) originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Jets (05/01/09). In Conley’s one season with the team, he appeared in all 16 games. Last season he punted 92 times for 3,926 yards, both the second-highest totals in franchise history.
Sapp (LB/6-4/252/Clemson/Bamberg, SC) was released by the Eagles during training camp (08/05/11). He was originally a fifth-round draft pick of the Eagles in 2010, before being placed on injured reserve (08/31/10). Sapp signed to the Jets practice squad (10/31/11) and was added to the active roster before the final regular season game (12/29/11). He was added to the Jets practice squad (09/01/12) after being waived following the final preseason game (08/31/12).
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Posted: Aug 25, 2017 / 11:12 AM MDT / Updated: Aug 25, 2017 / 11:12 AM MDT
Chris Schueler, Producer and Director, joined New Mexico Living to talk about the documentary ‘Big Healthy Life.’
The documentary takes a look at the obesity problem in New Mexico. It explores the causes to the problem and what needs to be done to fix them. The documentary can be seen on Saturday, August 26 at 7 p.m. right here on FOX New Mexico with encore showings on our sister stations to follow.
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Sports Desk: Lobo women suffer first basketball defeat in a tale of two halves
by Van Tate / Jan 15, 2021
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Lobo women's basketball team scored well below their nation-leading 95.4 points per game in a 78-60 loss at UNLV Friday. The setback was the first for the team this season. The Lobos led by as much as 15 points in the game, they even took a 12 point lead into the half.
The Lobos got off to a bad start in the second half and was barely clinging to the lead when the fourth quarter started. That is the quarter where everything seemed to fall apart for the Lobos. UNLV outscored the Lobos 43-17 in the second half. That includes a 21 to 4 fourth quarter. "You know, we called a couple of time outs, tried to get organized," said Head Coach Mike Bradbury. "We actually got a basket out of one that I thought might spark us a little bit. Then we just, we couldn't guard them off the dribble and that's what got us."
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. Richard Clark, Director of Emergency Management in Bernalillo County, says it's crucial that people abide by the public health regulations set by the New Mexico Department of Health. Clark also talked about the importance of wearing a mask, social distancing and washing your hands.
He also reminded people in Bernalillo County to get tested for COVID-19 and sign up to get the vaccine. On Thursday, the governor announced more than 153,000 vaccines have been delivered to New Mexico, with 100,600 administered so far. Nearly half a million New Mexicans registered in three weeks.
Sports Desk: Lobo men’s basketball victory refreshes a trying season
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Head Coach Paul Weir and his Lobo men's basketball team walked off the court in St. George, Utah Thursday night feeling blessed after a 72-63 victory over the Dixie State Trailblazers that ended a six-game skid for the Lobos. The season hasn't been easy for a team that has lived out of a suitcase for all of it.
The Lobos set up shop in Texas for most of the season, from Levelland to Houston and Lubbock, they carried their belongings, looking for gyms to practice in and host games. New Mexico health orders have not allowed the team to practice or host a live event. The Lobos recently got a break, coming home for a few days before heading back out.
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Zoo Mourns Loss of Big Cat
KSAL StaffNovember 23, 2017
Rolling Hills Zoo is mourning the loss of one of the members of their animal family. Earlier this week the zoo’s female cougar passed away.
According to the zoo, Sadie, the zoo’s female cougar, was euthanized on Tuesday due to health issues impacting her quality of life. At 18 years of age, Sadie had outlived a cougar’s median age of 16.
Sadie was born February 1, 1999, and was donated to the Zoo when she was 3 years old.
Here are some of the zoo’s favorite memories of Sadie:
When Sadie first came to Rolling Hills Zoo she was housed with an older female cougar named Dixie. Sadie loved to knock any enrichment around the exhibit, such as big plastic jugs or large cardboard boxes.The more noise she could make the better, and if you gave her too small of a box, Dixie would grab it from Sadie to make sure there was nothing left for her to play with.
Once we purchased a toy called a “ball in a ball.” It was a large plastic ball with holes in it with a smaller ball inside. Sadie played with it for about 5 minutes before she pulled the smaller ball out –resulting in no more noise!
Sadie always enjoyed laying on the high bed next to the viewing window. One of her favorite games was to play “footy” with her keepers. She loved reaching through the mesh with her front paws while you tried to grab them (she came to RHZ declawed). She would then take off running, encouraging you to chase her along the fence and give her foot again and again.
Those that cared for her called Sadie our “talker girl,” because when you talked to her she would talk right back to you.
Cougars, also known as pumas, are listed as “Least Concern” on the endangered species list because it is one of the most widely-distributed mammals in the Western Hemisphere. Although it has been completely removed from its former range in mid-western and eastern North America (Nowell and Jackson 1996), it is attempting to re-colonize this region (Thompson and Jenks 2010, LaRue et al.2012). However, it is considered to be declining elsewhere in its range because, as a large carnivore, its survival is linked to other wildlife and habitat associations, thereby presenting numerous challenges for its conservation management.
Sadie will be greatly missed by all, including staff and guests, at Rolling Hills Zoo.
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Kuusakoski Oy has come a long way from being a junkyard in Vyborg to its current position as Northern Europe's leading industrial recycling company. The strongest periods of growth for our company, whose history stretches back over 100 years, were Finland's post-war decades of industrialisation and the time of our entry into the international market from the 1970s to the 1990s. Pioneering research and development work and unparalleled expertise in high technology have also played an important role from the very beginning.
Rapid growth from day one
It all started in Vyborg, still part of Finland in 1914, when the 25-year-old Donuard Kuschakoff established a company called Karjalan Lumppu- ja Romuliike ('Karelian Rag and Junk Company'). He collected waste metal, iron and waste fabrics with the purpose of sorting and refining them for industrial use. The First World War had a considerable impact on the availability of raw materials, and material shortages were reflected in increased demand for iron and metal junk and rags. Everything that could be collected and recovered was sold. The entire 1920s were a period of rapid growth.
The move towards industrial recycling of metals
After the outbreak of the Second World War, the company relocated to Helsinki in the early 1940s. The Kuschakoffs had changed their family name to the more Finnish Kuusakoski in 1934. The war had left a surplus of metal junk, and Finland's warplanes that were to be scrapped as ordered by the Paris Peace Treaties were given to Kuusakoski for scrapping. This was a considerable source of material for the company and provided the impetus for the planning of an aluminium smelting plant.
Pioneers of technological expertise
From the 1950s to the late 1970s, the company extended its operations from the junk business to industrial materials as Finland's national economy climbed to match the average European level. A pioneering smelting plant was established in a new facility in Kauklahti, Espoo and operations expanded rapidly. The company's in-house laboratory and R&D department were also soon relocated to Kauklahti. The company opened Finland's first car scrapping yard, accompanied by an aluminium smelting plant, in Heinola.
Globalisation and high technology
In the 1980s and the 1990s the company invested in the development of new recycling and material processing solutions and underwent rapid growth and globalisation. In the new millennium, we have focused on expanding and developing our material sourcing network, and the 2010s have seen considerable activity especially in the fields of research and high technology.
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Our company has expanded and evolved over a period of one hundred years. Today we have activities in 11 countries and employ almost 3,000 employees. Our success today is based on our know-how and expertise in materials, recycling and ecotechnology.
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Figure 1. The City Hall of Helsinki is at the Market Place, and the main façade opens towards the open sea.
Quarterly 2/2016 | 07/07/2016Laura Kolbe
Communicating civic or historical pride? The city hall in Scandinavian capital cities
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The development between 1880 and 1950 changed the use of urban areas in European metropolises. Urban form and political interpretation marched hand in hand. Monumental new city halls were central elements in Scandinavian capital cities. The planning of the city halls was by no means understood as a purely technical, functional or formal issue. The city halls were expressions of political, social and cultural conditions, and changes in these conditions. City hall communicated with, and even manipulated, citizens, based on their central or visible location. History helped the architects to interpret the nature of municipal pride, and urban historians were needed to make this story a visible tool of communication. City hall architecture must in this sense be seen as a narrative element in the townscape, constructing both national and local aspirations.
According to the conventional ‘tourist performance’, when entering to a new city or town, one habitually heads towards the market place. Every city has its own key monument or urban symbol as well as a story, where this landmark has an essential role. Fortresses, palaces, churches, boulevards and monuments act as urban symbols. The design and architecture, traffic arrangements, people’s behaviour and urban bustle are generally present in city’s central open and public spaces, indicating something essential of the ethos of a city. (Bell & Avner-de Shalit, 2–3). In the continental European tradition, one building dominates the central market square: town hall. It communicates a clear idea of the city as being locally governed, by the proud members of the community, according to the local civic tradition and national legal practises. In this sense, the city halls of Scandinavian capital cities, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki and Reykjavik show themselves as highly interesting examples.
The city hall as Gesamtkunstwerk
Between the period 1880–1950 the municipal authorities of all Scandinavian capital cities explored the possibility of building a monumental city hall, studied locations and invited proposals for its design, but only three were realised, namely in Copenhagen in 1905 by architect M. Nyrop, in Stockholm in 1923 by architect R. Östberg and in Oslo in 1950 by architects A. Arneberg & M. Paulsson. The city hall in Copenhagen was a great source of inspiration to Stockholm, whilst Oslo looked to both Copenhagen and Stockholm. (For Copenhagen: Beckett, 1908; Haugsted & Lund, 1996; Stockholm: Roosval 1923; Oslo: The Oslo City Hall 1953; Lending 2001). In Helsinki the city authorities bought in 1901 an old hotel by the Market Square and planned to build a city hall on that site. An architectural competition in 1914 revealed ambitions to monumentalise the plan, but due to the economic circumstances it was not implemented. Instead, the city authorities rebuilt the old hotel and its surroundings into a city hall precinct in phases, starting from the 1920s. (Kolbe 2008, 50–55). In Reykjavik, the idea of a city hall was as old as in the other four cities, dating back to 1918. However, it took over seven decades to plan the edifice and the new city hall was inaugurated in spring 1992. (Armannsson 2004, 1–2).
Figure 2. The Copenhagen City Hall (1905) was located in an area, which was a lively, urban meeting place, close to the commercial, administrative and amusement center (Tivoli).
The planning of city halls in Nordic capital cities was related to the European process of patriotic and bourgeois nation building during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This was manifested in cities like Vienna, Paris, Prague, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. The members of the bourgeois class, whether educated or “self-made”, were usually engaged within the new industrial and professional occupations, especially banking, insurance, services, commerce, and the public sector. In all cases, the particular site, in the heart of the old or growing city centre, had been pointed out as a prime place for a city hall. The location had a communicative message: the building was placed either at a point of historical interest or it marked a geopolitical dimension in the city’s urban development. In Copenhagen, the site selected for the proposed city hall was situated in the area vacated by the demolition of the city walls, immediately south of the Western Gate. The gate had been demolished in 1859 and made over to the city in 1870. The city hall building was erected on the spot where the so-called Gyldenlöve’s Basition had previously stood. Earlier, the sea margin had extended to this point. (Beckett 1908, 20–25).
In Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki and Reykjavik the water element was central. In Stockholm the city hall is located at the inland waterway at Lake Mälaren. In Oslo the city hall is facing the old harbour and in Helsinki the old harbour and market place. In Reykjavik the beautiful urban environment of Lake Tjornin was considered a worthy setting for a building intended to symbolise the city’s status as the capital of Iceland.The central location reflected the juridical and ‘constitutional’ development of local self-government. It was parallel in all Scandinavian countries, due to their common historical roots. Municipal government was one of the key factors in stabilising societies as lay and ecclesiastical communes were separated between 1840 and 1875. The city councils became the cities’ supreme decision-making bodies and municipalities were given the authority to undertake activities which aimed to satisfy the common needs of their inhabitants. (See Kommunalförvaltningen i Norden 2000; Kanstrup & S. Ousager 1990; Hammarskjöld 1888).The growth in commerce and industry meant that Scandinavian capital cities became by far the largest cities in their countries, and also ‘true national capitals’ in the commercial and cultural sense. (Nilsson 2002, 198–206; Myhre 2007, 285–9; Rasmussen 1969, 10–20; Veinan Hellerud & Messel 2000, 14–16; Klinge & Kolbe 2007, 5–20 analyse the central elements of urban wealth in Scandinavian capital cities.). In 1910–1920 “one-man-one-vote” principle opened the municipal bodies to socialist and social democrat parties. (Sutcliffe 1981, 162-5; Rietbergen, 1998, 352–5; Kocka, 1987, 38–41; Morton & de Vries & Morris 2006, 2–13).
Figure 3. In Stockholm, due to artistic reasons, the City Hall was located close to the crossroads of the sea and Lake Mälaren.
Civic pride and democracy
In Scandinavian urban histories the independent self-government has been presented as part of an ancient democratic heritage. This legacy was – and still is –praised in local political discourse.Communal reforms are often seen as an invention of the (liberal) state. (Aronsson 1997, 174–181; Bloxham Zettersten 2000, 52–54; Kolbe 2014, 56–60).In Scandinavia, the German influence remained strong. Since medieval times the town hall was known as rådhuset or raadhus or rathus. Council buildings developed along continental lines, to house local and central administration and representations. They also functioned as courts of law. When the modern city hall of the nineteenth century was developed, the old name continued mainly to be used. (Wickman, 2003, 22–3; Bloxham Zettersten 2000, 54–5.) Rådhuset was the seat of civic management and local politics and in all cities a series of architectural competitions took place. In Copenhagen an open free competition was announced for the summer 1888, with two stages, following the European examples. In Stockholm the competition was held in 1902, in Helsinki 1914/1958, in Oslo in 1917–1918 and in Reykjavik as late as in 1986. The winning architects were Martin Nyrop in Copenhagen, Ragnar Östberg in Stockholm, and Arnstein Magnusson and Magnus Paulsson in Oslo. In Helsinki the jury was not satisfied with the first competition, and the first price was not awarded. Later, the work was given to architect Aarno Ruusuvuori. In Reykjavik the winners were architects Margret Hardardottir and Steve Christer. The competition entries in all cities were rather monumental, spanning the full breadth of historical styles, and drawing inspiration from monumental buildings like French castles, Flemish warehouses and Gothic churches –or in the case of Reykjavik, from modern architecture and materials. (Beckett 1908, 221–222; Roosvaal 1923, 334–338; The Oslo City Hall, 5–6; Kolbe 2008, 65–71;Armannsson, 2–3).
City halls in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo and later in Helsinki and Reykjavik were planned in close interaction with state administration and governmental buildings. The planning of the city halls was a long-term municipal project. In Copenhagen it took a mere thirteen years, but Stockholm some twenty years. In Helsinki and in Oslo it took over forty years and in Reykjavik 70 years. As a political process they fitted well into the municipal decision-making tradition in Scandinavia: important projects must be communicative, open and have the support of the political majority. In all cities, the work was locally controlled by a special building committee. The studios and workshops used for sculpture, painting, iron forging, woodcarving and textiles were located close to the building site or in the building area. Different kinds of specialists and professionals worked with the project, sharing a common goal and developing a strong sense of devotion. The finished products became the sum of each worker’s contribution – and above all stood the heroic figure of the architect. In all cases, the city halls immortalised their architects.
Figure 4. The Oslo City Hall was planned to a former historic city district, creating the core for a new modernist urban centre.
During their construction, all city halls grew to become major national projects. Inauguration ceremonies, the press publicity surrounding them and their coverage in architectural publications show the kind of reactions these buildings provoked in public opinion and indicating their high reputation. The motivation was clear: town halls were built to symbolise the role of the capital city in a national context. The combination of local and national themes worked in harmony with ‘European’ elements, including the variety of ways in which the vocabulary of traditional European city hall architecture was transferred to Scandinavia to express the individual personality of these cities. The early twentieth century architects were familiar with the historical role of great town halls such as the Palazzo Ducalein Venice, the city hall of Siena, Lübeck’s Das rote Rathaus, the Hotel de Villein Paris and Amsterdam’s Stadhuis. (Beckett 2008, 56–67; Rådhuset i Oslo, 48–68; Östberg 1929, 99–111). Germany gave to Scandinavian city halls picturesque details, the festive hall, a tavern and courtyards. France and Belgium gave balconies and weathercocks. Italian architecture inspired the bell tower or campanile in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo. (Roosvaal 1923; Reinle 1976, 61–8).
The facade and its material played an important role in communication. Brick, considered to be an honest European material, was used in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, concrete in Reykjavik. Both materials give a feeling of unity. Brick architecture, strong in the Netherlands, Denmark, England, and Northern Germany, had a long tradition as a building material in countries with mercantile middle-class, bourgeois values. (See Ringbom 1987). Politically, brick was alien to the tradition of imperial classicism, used in Helsinki. Classicism is considered to be a supranational style with strong roots in imperial and aristocratic architecture. Concrete in Reykjavik became a symbol of modern, industrial and urban building during the latter part of twentieth century. The chosen material, together with aluminium and glass, was clearly linked to modern cultural message, opposing the more traditional local materials turf, wood and Icelandic rock. The characteristics of light, water and vegetation are as important as the solid building material itself in creating the city hall’s external and internal aspect. (Armannsson 2004, 7).
Figure 5. In Reykjavik, the modern City Hall communicates with the urban water element, and they form a central part of city’s central walking route.
In northern Europe, the main aim of the modern city hall was to create a public space, a political forum, a ceremonial core and a symbolic centre for the capital city – and indeed for the state, the nation and civil society at large. The city hall was planned to be a central showcase and permanent exhibition space for national design, applied arts, and handicraft. During its usually very long period of construction, the city hall even became a major national symbol, and one of the principal works of the respective country’s architecture and culture. This message was communicated for citizens and outsiders alike, making the Scandinavian city hall a stimulating, multi-layered symbol of the capital city urbanity.
Laura Kolbe is Professor of European History at the University of Helsinki. She was the President of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) in 2006–2010. Her present research project deals with the development of capital cities, city halls, grand hotels, and students’ radical movements in different times and areas.
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Kate Green was elected MP for Stretford and Urmston in May 2010. She was re-elected in 2015, 2017 and 2019. Kate joined Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet as shadow secretary of state for education in June 2020.
Prior to her election, Kate was Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, and before that Director of the National Council for One Parent Families (now Gingerbread). She is a long standing advocate for families and children, and campaigner against poverty and inequality. She is a former chair of the all-party parliamentary group on poverty, and served as a member of the London Child Poverty Commission and the Greater Manchester Poverty Commission. She was previously a member of the National Employment Panel which advised Ministers on labour market policies.
Kate was chair of the Fabian Society from 2016-18 and remains a member of its executive committee. She served as a magistrate for 16 years, and takes a particular interest in the experience of women in the penal system, and how best to rehabilitate them to prevent reoffending.
Kate’s Honesty Pledge
At the time of her election, Kate signed an honesty contract with people in Stretford and Urmston. This pledge set out Kate’s promises to local people to restore faith in politics after the expenses scandal.
Kate says: “When I first became an MP in 2010, it was in the immediate aftermath of the scandal of abuse of expenses by MPs from all political parties. Politics shouldn’t be about the perks, or lining your own pockets with taxpayers’ cash. It should be about representing people. It was absolutely right that as MPs we have been forced to clean up our act.
“On this website you can track the work I’m doing on your behalf, and access details of my expenses claims to run my office and serve as your MP. Every MP should be honest and transparent, work hard, keep in touch, live in the constituency and not do any other paid work. That’s my guarantee to you.”
The pledges Kate has made to her constituents are as follows:
I will publish my expenses and send a paper copy to any constituent upon request.
I will continue to make my home here in the constituency.
I will work for you full time and will not take any other paid work outside Parliament.
I will use my constituency office to always stay in touch with local people.
IPSA have now published MPs expenses and you can see a break down online. My claims will be published here. If you have any queries about my claims or would like further information please don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll be more than happy to help.
My Declaration Of Interests will be available here.
Email: kate.green.mp@parliament.uk
Promoted by Mike Cordingley on behalf of Kate Green, both at the Morris Hall, Atkinson Road, Urmston, M41 9AD
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With over 20 years of industry experience, Phil Vollands serves as President, Fluid Systems for Newpark Resources. In this role, Mr. Vollands is committed to the growth of Newpark as the technology leader in the drilling fluids space through the accelerated adoption of new technologies and the advancement of Newpark’s deepwater strategy.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Judge Tunoi now CONFESSES he knows Kiplagat who delivered 200million BRIBE
Embattled Supreme Court Judge Philip Tunoi on Monday sought to clear his name in the wake of allegations that he received a Sh200 million bribe to influence a ruling in an election petition.
In an affidavit filed with a special committee of the Judicial Service Commission, Justice Tunoi said the allegations against him were “fiction” and that they were made by “elements within the Judiciary” who did not wish to disclose their identities.
According to him, it is possible that the date of filing of the affidavit by Mr Geoffrey Kiplagat was deliberately backdated to tarnish his reputation.
And for the first time, the judge said that he was, indeed, familiar with Mr Kiplagat and that they hailed from the same home area.
“The deponent hails from my home; attempted an elective position during the last General Election and was unsuccessful. Since then, deponent is a busybody who pretends to be connected to persons in the public service,” he said.
‘ASSUMPTIONS’ AND SCHEMES
Initially, the judge had denied knowing or meeting Mr Kiplagat, who had claimed in yet another affidavit that he had acted as a conduit in the bribery, whose aim was to procure a ruling favourable to Dr Evans Kidero in 2014 after his election as Nairobi governor was challenged in a petition by Mr Ferdinand Waititu.
The judge further claims that it was merely an assumption that the brown briefcase Mr Kiplagat alleges to have seen contained US$2 million.
“The deponent unashamedly assumes that the briefcase contained money notwithstanding that in his narration we had not seen any money,” he says in his affidavit.
Justice Tunoi’s defence was largely targeted at the character of lawyer Mansur Muathe Issa, whom he claimed commissioned Mr Kiplagat’s affidavit.
The judge — in his sworn affidavit — linked Mr Issa to the JSC, arguing that the lawyer had previously represented JSC in other cases, including one in which he was seeking determination that retirement age for judges be 74 years.
“In that petition, I named the Judicial Service Commission and the Judiciary as the 1st and the 2nd respondents, respectively,” said Justice Tunoi.
He also said Mr Issa “was appointed by both respondents to act for them in the suit and he filed a notice of appointment in the High Court on June 9, 2014.”
The judge further argues that the signature appended on Mr Kiplagat’s affidavit is unmistakably similar to Mr Issa’s handwriting and that the lawyer was still actively engaged by the JSC to defend it in a case he has filed against the commission.
He further claims that the affidavit by Mr Kiplagat may have been backdated intentionally to facilitate a scheme to destroy him.
“It is also evident that the affidavit does not bear the name of the person who drew it. It is thus probable that elements within the Judiciary prepared the fiction, but could not disclose their true identity,” he states.
Justice Tunoi declined to address the media before and after appearing before the special committee.
For two hours, however, he was questioned by members of the committee led by Prof Margaret Kobia. The public and the media were allowed into the chamber.
Neither did Justice Tunoi meet his accuser, Mr Kiplagat, who had appeared before the same panel at 9am.
Mr Kiplagat had claimed in an affidavit that he had served as a conduit in a bribery chain between the judge and Dr Kidero.
Sunday, the special committee said it would not be summoning the governor.
However, if President Uhuru Kenyatta names a tribunal to investigate the judge, it is likely that Dr Kidero could be asked to appear before it.
During Sunday’s hearing, the judge was represented by Mr Pheroze Nowrojee and Mr Fred Ngatia.
“The commission accorded him time to respond to every allegation that was raised by the accuser,” said a source.
The committee, chaired by Prof Kobia, the Public Service Commission chairperson, said it had gathered a lot of information from both the judge and his accuser and that they will invite other people mentioned during Sunday’s proceedings.
“We have reviewed key documents that are central to this inquiry and talking to various persons on the same.
“After taking the evidence of Mr Kiplagat and Justice Tunoi, the committee will take evidence of other persons who we believe may have information that may assist us reach an informed decision,” she said.
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On Monday 24 September, 2018 Keolis opened a new section of the automated metro line 1 in Hyderabad, adding 16 km of track to the existing 30 km. With this new section, the network is now 46 km long and is expected to carry more than 150,000 passengers per day. This achievement paves the way for the final phase of the network and confirms Keolis’ leadership in automated metro systems
Keolis and its partners have completed the opening to the public of the first line of the automated metro in Hyderabad, which was partially opened in November 2017. This extension adds 16 km of track to the current 30 km network in use.
To mark the occasion, an official flagging-off ceremony was held on Monday 24 September at Ameerpet station in the presence of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States, His Excellency E.S.L. Narasimhan.
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With the extension, the network now stretches over two lines for a total of 46 kilometers and includes 40 stations, which places Hyderabad’s metro as the second biggest network in India. The extended line, which now links Ameerpet to LB Nagar, includes two important interchange stations, Ameerpet and MG Bus Stations, with the latter being one of the biggest elevated stations in the region. It now allows commuters to reach the south east of the city, and thus crucially serve the most densely populated areas of Hyderabad, which are located nearby to its old city. The number of daily passengers is expected to rise from 85,000 to more than 150,000. When the network is finally completed in 2019, it will be 72 km long, include 66 stations and carry an expected 1.5 million passengers per day.
The 18 trains running on the network are built by Hyundai Rotem and equipped with the communication-based train control (CBTC) system provided by Thales, which allows improved headways and safety for passengers.
Keolis was awarded the operations and maintenance contract in 2012 by the concession-holder L&T Metro Rail. The core elements of that contract includes operating and maintaining 57 metro trainsets as well as stations, depots, track, signalling, telecommunications, ticketing systems and ticket sales at stations. Keolis Hyderabad currently has 800 employees.
This is a major milestone we have reached today alongside our client and partner Larsen & Toubro and it takes us closer to the final stage of the network’s completion, which is expected to happen within the next year. With this extension more Hyderabad residents and visitors - to this growing city - will benefit from a modern, clean and safe transport solution. We will continue to strive to give them the best passenger experience.
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Why Americans just can't quit Hillary Clinton
Two seemingly contradictory recent Gallup Poll findings sum up what it means to be a woman in the United States who d...
Updated: Jan 2, 2018 12:20 PM
Two seemingly contradictory recent Gallup Poll findings sum up what it means to be a woman in the United States who dares to go where only men have gone before: Americans love to think of talented, ambitious women who have overcome obstacles - but the reality of a woman assuming a position of power, particularly over men? That's not welcome.
According to a Gallup finding in early December, Hillary Clinton's favorability rating has never been lower, having fallen to 36%, more than a year after she lost the presidency to a man who had no discernible skills for the job. But in another Gallup Poll, just a few weeks later, she was named as the woman Americans admire most -- for the 16th consecutive time.
In sum, she is subject to a curse that affects too many women in 21st century America: Americans admire but don't much like her. We frequently and consistently elect and hire men to lead us on the biggest stages even if we don't like them, even if they are uncouth, even if they are unqualified. But for women seeking the highest office, talent isn't enough; neither is accomplishment.
And thus far, no one has discovered the precise formula that will make a woman palatable for enough Americans to break the country's shameful streak of never having chosen a woman as head of state.
This disturbing aversion is also why nearly a century after women began gaining the right to vote, we've had so few female governors and US senators and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies (no matter how qualified the women who have sought such offices). It is why Donald Trump, with historically low approval ratings, sits in the Oval Office as the most powerful person in the free world and is considered the second-most admired man -- behind only Barack Obama, one year removed from his presidency, who nonetheless topped this year's Gallup Poll for the 10th time.
More telling from Gallup is how Hillary Clinton stacks up against her own husband, whose favorability rating this year is 45%, a drop from 50% last year.
That's right. In the age of #MeToo -- when a male Democratic senator like Al Franken, popular with men and women, can be forced to give up his US Senate seat because of allegations of fondling women before he was in office -- Bill Clinton is still seen in a more favorable light than Hillary Clinton, despite his having been accused of sexual assault before he was president (which he denies) and abusing his power when he had an illicit relationship with a White House intern while he was the president.
In one sense, the fate of Hillary Clinton is similar to that of ambitious members of any historically under-represented group. Their ability to overcome enormous odds is used as evidence that the country is fair and equal, just as long as they don't rise high enough to upset the status quo and come to embody real change.
(An example of this is political conservatives in the United States praising Iranian protesters this week for rising up to challenge authorities over longstanding grievances, even as these same conservatives have chided protesters in US towns and cities for committing similar acts of property violence over civil rights abuses. The message: Iranian protesters are not a threat to the American status quo; black and brown American protesters are.)
But in another sense, these Gallup findings illustrate a struggle unique to women, given that Obama was able to twice win the presidency and remains popular; he's a man, after all. His status quo-breaking accomplishments likely fueled the backlash that gave us President Trump. But Hillary Clinton -- like women before her -- has been unable to break the still highest, hardest glass ceiling.
When Hillary Clinton was a US senator, she was praised for her intelligence, broad knowledge of the issues, abilities and willingness to work across party lines. She was well liked -- but was only one of 100 in the chamber. Americans liked her as secretary of state, too -- but she was reporting to a man.
Elevating Clinton, or any woman, to an office in which every man would have to report to her has been a bridge too far for the entirety of American history. For that, we should be ashamed.
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Home Report Global Fintech opportunity in New York
Fintech opportunity in New York
New York, the largest city in the U.S., is an architectural marvel with plenty of historic monuments, magnificent buildings and countless dazzling skyscrapers. Now, with the rise of fintech, New York also counts itself as home to the latest technology empowering the financial industry’s move into a new chapter.
Here’s three opening observations from LATTICE80 Founding CEO Joe Seunghyun Cho:
New York has became a leading startup hub, now ranked no. 2 in the world with 6-8k active startups.
While the traditional side of Wall Street is still doing OK, lots of tech companies are moving and changing the culture of New York.
Not enough startup spaces and ecosystem players are available in the city yet compared to the market size and the speed of growth. Fintech is a natural fit for New York and the city should open a lot more of these spaces. At LATTICE80, we are very excited to expand to New York to connect the U.S. and Asia.
According to Accenture, in the U.S. alone fintech investment could reach $4.7 billion annually by 2018 – with potentially nearly double the rate of deals done today. In New York City, it’s forecast to reach up to just shy of $1 billion.
The city’s biggest share of fintech investment deals was from lending companies: 47 percent of all deal values and 21 percent of the number of deals.
“It’s that entrepreneurs are close to the heart of the financial services industry,” Accenture writers. “There’s a combination of innovation and domain expertise in the city, with companies having access to a wide talent pool.”
Indeed, New York-based startups are among the most successful in developing innovations that address some of the trends that fintech experts are seeing on a national level:
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New York is also seeing strong demand from China.
Writing in the Financial Times last month, Emily Feng and Don Weiland reported: “Qudian… which raised $900m in the share sale, is the latest to underline [U.S.] investors’ appetite for the collision of lending and technology that has given rise to the Chinese fintech sector.”
“Two days before Qudian’s debut [last month], Chinese peer-to-peer lender Ppdai announced plans to raise $350m in New York, and at least a dozen similar issuers are preparing flotations.”
New York’s fintech sector has grown at twice the rate of Silicon Valley’s over the past five years, Accenture’s report concludes. While Silicon Valley is the biggest fintech cluster in the world, New York ranks second.
Silicon Valley’s preeminence in the broad technology sector remains unchallenged, but New York has the opportunity to evolve as a complementary center dominant in fintech.
Finally, unlike Silicon Valley, New York offers proximity to a huge potential customer base of financial institutions and a vast existing financial technology workforce, in addition to its burgeoning venture ecosystem.
This makes the city a natural contender to be a world-leading fintech capital, bringing new jobs and capital to New York and helping to secure the long-term competitiveness of the U.S. financial services industry.
And 2018 could be a renaissance for fintech in New York as more major players are coming into the market and the ecosystem is ramping up. LATTICE80 is excited to be a part of the story.
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Effective Native American Tribal Consultation on Infrastructure and Other Projects
Produced on August 05, 2020
Troy Eid
$ 89 Oil, Gas, & Energy and American Indian In Stock
Time 1h 7m
Topics covered in this course: Oil, Gas, & Energy American Indian
“Tribal consultation” refers to the Federal government’s legal obligation to consult with Native American and Alaska Native tribes on energy and infrastructure projects, such as highways and railroads, pipelines, telecommunications towers and systems, and electrical transmission lines. Whenever a given project requires some sort of Federal approval – a water-crossing permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for instance, or a certificate from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build a new natural gas pipeline – the tribal consultation requirement kicks in. The project need not be on tribal land for consultation to be mandatory. On the contrary, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), along with many other Federal laws, require the lead Federal department or agency on each project to consult with all affected Indian tribes, nations, pueblos, and rancherias on a government-to-government basis. This is true whether the project is on public or private land. The rule of thumb is that if a project needs Federal permission to proceed, the Federal agency considering it must identify the Indian tribes in the project area and consult with them in a meaningful fashion before making any final decisions. Failure to do so may result in the tribe suing the Federal agency in U.S. District Court.
Energy and mining companies, utilities, highway authorities, telecommunications providers, and other project proponents and their supporters are frequently caught off-guard by the tribal consultation requirement, particularly in parts of the United States located far away from the nearest Indian reservation. Of the 573 Native American and Alaska Native tribes officially recognized by the Federal government, about 325 retain a land base of some kind, often in Federal trust status, meaning the land cannot be sold or transferred to others without Congressional approval. Yet for the project proponent, locating these Indian reservation boundaries is only a first step. The proponent must also be aware of each tribe’s original homelands – tribes’ “aboriginal territory.” Both NEPA and NHPA respect that tribal governments, which have existed since time immemorial and predate the founding of the United States, may retain ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to their original homelands, which in turn may be distant from their current reservation lands. The Federal agency charged with reviewing a given project faces the challenge of determining which tribes may be affected by the project, and providing an opportunity for those tribes to engage in meaningful consultation with the federal government when the project affects them.
This presentation, presented by experienced practitioner Troy Eid, will address the fundamentals of effective Native American Tribal Consultation on infrastructure and other projects.
Define “meaningful” Native American and Alaska Native tribal consultation under Federal law
Determine when lack of meaningful consultation enables tribes to sue federal agencies in order to stop or delay projects
Identify what steps project proponents can take to support the tribal consultation process and reduce risk
Troy A. Eid is a nationally known legal expert on environmental enforcement, investigations and compliance, energy and natural resource development, and Federal Indian law and Native American and Alaska Native tribal law. A former United States Attorney who has served both Republican and Democratic Presidential administrations, and a past state cabinet officer for the State of Colorado, Troy is a trusted public figure in the Rocky Mountain West and Washington, DC, and a familiar face in many federal, state and tribal courtrooms across the country.
Troy, who first joined the firm in 2003, co-founded and co-chairs Greenberg Traurig’s American Indian Law Practice Group, one of the largest and highest-rated legal teams in the United States. A principal shareholder with Greenberg Traurig's Denver office, Troy practices at the trial and appellate level. He has successfully defended clients in some of the largest and highest-profile environmental enforcement actions ever filed by U.S. Department of Justice under the Clean Water Act and other federal laws, as well as in grand jury proceedings. Troy is also frequently sought as a mediator and arbitrator, especially in cases involving Indian tribes and tribal enterprises.
An experienced legal project manager, Troy has coordinated various inter-disciplinary legal and consulting teams in numerous large-scale energy infrastructure projects, including natural gas pipelines, transmission lines, highways and railroads. He specializes in civil and criminal investigations involving petroleum-related leaks and spills, uranium contamination, hazardous waste pollution, asbestos, and other environmental and workplace safety matters, as well as health care and hospital-related regulatory, permitting and compliance projects. Troy is also a recognized authority on Native American cultural resource protection and related government-to-government consultation between tribes and the federal government under the National Historic Preservation Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and other laws.
Troy is well-respected on both sides of the aisle for his professional knowledge and expertise, especially as it relates to energy, natural resource, criminal justice, and other legal and public policy matters concerning the American West.
He served as Colorado’s United States Attorney from 2006-09, appointed by President George W. Bush. From 2010-14, Troy was elected to chair the Indian Law and Order Commission (ILOC), an independent national advisory board created by the Tribal Law and Order Act to advise President Obama and Congress on public safety improvements for all 566 federally recognized Native American and Alaska Native tribes and nations. The ILOC’s landmark 2013 report, A Roadmap for Making Native America Safer, proposes the most sweeping criminal justice reforms in Federal Indian law and policy since the New Deal. Endorsed by the American Bar Association, the ILOC’s Roadmap helped lead to the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act Amendments recognizing tribes’ criminal jurisdiction to prosecute non-Indian perpetrators in domestic violence cases.
A recipient of the Navajo Nation Bar Association’s Member of the Year Award, Troy grew up in Colorado and graduated from Stanford University and the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has been recognized for distinguished public service by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other federal and state law enforcement agencies. He was also recognized by Law Week Colorado as Colorado Lawyer of Year for representing the seller of the HealthOne hospital system in Colorado, the largest hospital-related transaction ever in the Rocky Mountain West.
A regular contributor to the national edition of Native American Law360 and other Law360 publications, Troy teaches energy, natural resources, environmental and Federal Indian law as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver-Sturm College of Law. He currently serves as an At-Large Member on the Tribal Issues Advisory Board of the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent agency within the Federal judiciary that is assessing the impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in criminal convictions involving Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
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Enozia Vakil Science 06.10.2013 08:Jun AM EDT
Paralysed girl makes miraculous recovery after getting stuck in a toy car
Life was tough for Olivia Johnston-Wilder. At the age of 16, she suffered from a back injury that left her confined to the wheelchair. Shockingly, she managed to make a miraculous recovery, getting stuck in a toy car.
Her accident in February 2011 had paralyzed her from the waist down, leaving her more or less crippled. The 16-year old had never thought she'd be able to walk again; however, much to her surprise, she could actually "feel' her legs when she accidently got stuck in a Little Tikes toy car.
"I was playing in the hospital children's play area and got stuck in a plastic car - I began to panic and didn't know how on earth I was going to get out. But while trying to free myself my back twinged and I felt pins and needles in my legs - a sensation I hadn't had in months," Olivia explained.
Olivia had to spend a year recovering in the hospital post her accident, which left her with serious injuries. Her "fall,' made her fear that her life would never be the same again.
"I was convinced I'd never walk again - I couldn't feel my legs. Giving up and spending the rest of my life in a wheelchair was the easiest thing to do. But that was it then, I got pins and needles and I could finally feel my legs again," she added.
Olivia also suffers from bipolar disorder, and is currently undergoing her rehabilitation treatment at the Birmingham's Children's Hospital.
To support cancer awareness, Olivia completed her first major challenge after the accident- a Cancer Research UK 5km Race for Life, all for her granny, who was diagnosed with cancer. "I completed it on crutches; I want to achieve something to be proud of. It took me three hours to complete but I did it," she said.
Today, hale and hearty, she walks the Coventry 5km Fun Run, without the crutches.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U.S. armed forces and they flew with distinction during World War II. Though subject to racial discrimination both at home and abroad, the Tuskegee Airmen were prized and respected in the Army Air Force for their success in closely protecting Allied bombers flying missions into enemy territories. The 996 pilots and more than 15,000 ground personnel who served with the all-black units would be credited with some 15,500 combat missions and earn over 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses for their achievements. The successes of the Tuskegee Airmen helped pave the way for the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces in 1948.
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Home > News > Freedom of Information awareness remains lower within key groups
Freedom of Information awareness remains lower within key groups
Research published by the Scottish Information Commissioner has revealed that, while Scottish public awareness of freedom of information (FOI) is higher than ever before, the awareness amongst particular groups continues to be significantly lower. While overall awareness of FOI stands at 78%, this figure falls to 69% for the elderly, 68% for those with disabilities, and 66% for people aged 18-24.
The findings, which were prepared on behalf of the Commissioner by Progressive Scottish Opinion, reveal that there has been little change since October 2007, when the previous wave of research reported similarly low levels of awareness of the FOI 'right to information'.
Commenting on the findings, the Scottish Information Commissioner Kevin Dunion, said:
"While it is encouraging to learn that overall public awareness of freedom of information is increasing, it is nonetheless concerning that awareness amongst certain groups continues to lag behind. FOI can be an invaluable tool when seeking to ensure that individual rights are protected and appropriate services are provided, and it is arguably those groups that report lower awareness who have most cause to make use of the right to information.
"It is therefore clear that more needs to be done to ensure that the young, the elderly, and those with disabilities are fully aware of their FOI right to the information held by public authorities."
For further information contact the Commissioner's Media Team on 01334 464610, out of hours on 07976 511752, or email media@itspublicknowledge.info.
The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:
The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 provides a statutory right of access to all information held by Scottish public authorities. This right came into effect on 1 January 2005.
Around 10,000 public authorities in Scotland are covered by the Act. They include the Scottish Parliament and Government, police forces, the NHS, local authorities, education institutions, and publicly owned companies.
Information can only be withheld by a public authority if it falls under one of the exemptions listed in the Act.
If an individual believes an authority is wrong to withhold information, there is a right of appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner, who can require release.
The Research Report:
The research was conducted on behalf of the Commissioner by Progressive Scottish Opinion. A representative sample of 1002 respondents were interviewed by telephone between 14 and 25 October 2008.The current report is the 6th wave of an annual research study.
The full research report was published on 10 December 2008, and is available here.
Other findings of the research included:
FOI awareness levels have increased by to 78% from since the research began in 2004, and now stands at 78% across the general population.
The number of people who believe that public authorities are becoming more open and accountable has decreased to 59% from 64% in 2007.Conversely, the number of respondents who feel that FOISA is useful to them has increased to 67% from 62% in 2007.
The number of people who have submitted an FOI request to a public authority has remained static since 2007, at 9%.
Awareness of the Scottish Information Commissioner has increased to 21% from 14% in 2007.
There remains some confusion amongst respondents between the right to general information under the FOI legislation, and the right to their own personal information under the Data Protection Act 1998.
The Scottish Information Commissioner:
Kevin Dunion the Scottish Information Commissioner is a fully independent public official, appointed by the Queen on the nomination of the Scottish Parliament.
His role actively promotes and enforces compliance with the freedom of information legislation.
Since 2005, the Commissioner has issued over 700 formal decisions under the FOI Act.
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Home > News > Decisions Round-up > Decisions Round-up: 17 to 28 November 2014
Decisions Round-up: 17 to 28 November 2014
We published 12 decisions between 17 and 28 November, featuring a number of more complex cases. Learning points include the importance of applying exemptions on a case by case basis and giving sufficient information to establish legitimate interests in third party personal information.
Key messages:
Each case is different, and must be considered separately
In Decision 234/2014, the requester referred to several previous decisions to support their case. Although it can be helpful to refer to previous decisions, each case is assessed on its own merits, as there may be different circumstances to take into account.
Don't create blanket exemptions where they don't exist
In Decision 234/2014, the authority suggested that where there could be a legal challenge to the awarding of a contract, information about the contract would always be exempt from disclosure. However, there is no blanket (class) exemption for this type of information, and each case must be considered in its own right, considering the circumstances at the time.
Focused, case-specific arguments are always important
Authorities, remember to provide us with relevant, focused arguments where you are applying an exemption where you believe that release of the information will cause harm. This helps us understand the specific circumstances of the case. We weren't satisfied this had been done in Decision 234/2014, but found the arguments provided in Decision 235/2014 were more focussed.
Disclosure in one case may not mean disclosure in a similar case
In Decision 237/2014 we looked at whether a significant case review should be disclosed. The requester believed that, as information from other significant case reviews had been published, this report should also be published. We considered all available guidance on publishing information from significant case reviews, and examples of published information. However, in this case, we found that the information could not be disclosed because it was protected by data protection law.
Authorities must be able to demonstrate that a request is vexatious
To argue successfully that a request is vexatious, authorities need to do more than just tell us about the number of requests they've received from a particular individual. We've published guidance on the kinds of factors that are relevant when considering whether a request is vexatious (e.g. significant burden, disruption to the authority). Authorities need to be able to demonstrate that the requests are having this effect. The authority did this successfully in Decision 238/2014.
If an authority suggests discussing your request, it usually helps to take this up
Even though it may be clear to you, the authority may not readily understand your request. You're not required to explain why you're looking for the information, but discussion can help clarify the request and explain the context, and this can, in turn, help to avoid situations where the authority is entitled to refuse the request as vexatious (see Decision 238/2014).
When you're looking for someone else's personal data, you should be able to explain why you need it
Where the information you're asking the authority for is the personal data of another person, you need to be able to show that you're pursuing what's known as a "legitimate interest". In Decision 240/2014, although we accepted the requester had a legitimate interest in the matters he was researching, there wasn't a close enough link between that interest and the personal data he'd asked for to be able to conclude that the personal data should be disclosed.
Disclose what you can
In Decision 241/2014, the authority decided to withhold all information from a significant case review. Although we agreed that some of the information had correctly been withheld, we found that some could safely be disclosed
Information that's already available for a fee may be exempt - it doesn't follow that it will always be exempt
There is an exemption in the legislation covering information a requester can reasonably obtain other than by making a request for it. The exemption can apply even if the requester has to pay to get the information. However, each case must be considered on its own merits - if the charge is too high, the information might not be "reasonably obtainable." As we found in Decision 243/2014, this may not be the best way of responding to a request for information you already have in a particular document, even if the requester could find it elsewhere.
Decisions issued:
Decision 234/2014 Shetland Line (1984) Ltd and Transport Scotland
Transport Scotland was asked for analysis and assessment information about tenders for the Northern Isles Ferry Services contract. Some of the information requested was withheld. Following our investigation, we accepted that disclosure could harm relations with bidders for forthcoming tenders. We also concluded that such harm would not be in the public interest, considering the relatively small number of potential tenderers and how soon the tendering exercises would be carried out.
Decision 235/2014 Harry Scott and the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland (Police Scotland)
Mr Scott asked Police Scotland for the number of officers, by rank, deployed within the Scottish Borders Council area on a number of specified shifts. Police Scotland withheld the information on the basis that disclosure would substantially prejudice the prevention and detection of crime and the apprehension and prosecution of offenders. Following an investigation we accepted this.
Decision 236/2014 Elizabeth Manshouri and City of Edinburgh Council
Ms Manshouri asked the Council for the information it held, covering a specified time period, relating to permission to build on Portobello Park. The Council provided information, with personal details redacted. We accepted that the Council had provided Ms Manshouri with all the information it held relevant to her request.
Decision 237/2014 Mrs X and Stirling Council
Mrs X asked the Council for the significant case review report into the death of her grandchild. The Council provided a redacted, anonymised version, but withheld some information. We accepted that the withheld information was personal data, some of it sensitive, or information from a deceased person's health record and that the Council had been right to withhold it.
Decision 238/2014 Mr X and Highland Health Board (NHS Highland)
Mr X made a series of five requests to NHS Highland related to staff accommodation. NHS Highland refused to comply with the requests because it considered them to be vexatious. Following an investigation, the Commissioner agreed.
Decision 239/2014 Mr N and Perth and Kinross Council
Mr N asked the Council for information about a School Fund. In an earlier decision, we ordered the Council to conduct additional searches for parts of the request. The Council did this but Mr N remained dissatisfied with the outcome. We concluded that the new searches were adequate.
Decision 240/2014 Graeme Baxter and the Scottish Ministers
Mr Baxter asked the Ministers for a list of the names and addresses of those who had made representations to the public local inquiry into the proposed development at the Menie Estate, Aberdeenshire. The Ministers provided details for businesses and organisations, but withheld the details about individuals who had made representations on the basis that disclosure would breach the Data Protection Act. We agreed with the Ministers' reasoning.
Decision 241/2014 Iain Maciver and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Mr Maciver asked for the significant case review carried out after the death of a "looked-after" child. The Comhairle withheld the whole report. We agreed that some information should be withheld, but ordered disclosure of the report's recommendations.
Decision 242/2014 Friends of Loch Etive and Argyll & Bute Council
On 30 January 2014, the Friends of Loch Etive asked the Council for information about a proposed section 75 planning agreement. The Council told the Friends of Loch Etive that it did not hold the draft agreement, and that the correspondence it held about the agreement was excepted from disclosure under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations. Following an investigation, we accepted this.
Decision 243/2014 Paul Quigley and The Assessor for Glasgow City Council
Mr Quigley asked the Assessor for information used to set the council tax bandings for a housing development. The Assessor gave some information to Mr Quigley, but withheld other information. The Assessor disclosed further information during our investigation, but continued to withhold sale prices on the basis that they were reasonably obtainable by Mr Quigley other than by requesting them under the FOI Act. However, following our investigation, we found that the information was not reasonably obtainable to Mr Quigley and ordered the Assessor to disclose it.
Decision 244/2014 Ann Simpson and Glasgow City Council
Ms Simpson asked the Council for documentation generated by the Council's Audit and Inspection Team about a particular complaint. The Council refused to provide the information, on the basis that disclosure would impact negatively on the effectiveness of its internal audit function and so would substantially prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs. We agreed that the Council had been entitled to refuse to disclose the information.
Shetland Line asked Transport Scotland for information about bid proposals and other information about the Northern Isles Ferry Services contract. Transport Scotland failed to respond to Shetland Line's request and requirement for review within the 20 working days allowed for under the Act.
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South Dakota governor on taking down Mount Rushmore: 'Not on my watch'
Michael Klinski, Sioux Falls Argus Leader
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Statues of former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have been defaced, torn down by protesters or are being removed across the country.
Where does that leave Mount Rushmore, which displays two of those presidents in huge granite in South Dakota's Black Hills?
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, has a simple response to those that question whether it will be taken down: "Not on my watch."
Noem tweeted her support for the monument in response to a tweet from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro: "So, when is our woke historical revisionist priesthood going to insist on blowing up Mount Rushmore?"
Noem's quote tweet of Shapiro's has been retweeted almost 15,000 times as of Wednesday and comes amid protests around the country that have led to other statues, especially those of Confederate leaders or historical figures with known racist pasts, being removed.
The controversial side of Mount Rushmore goes beyond the slave holding pasts of Washington and Jefferson, however.
Native American tribes were given the Black Hills in perpetuity in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. But miners seeking gold came into the area in an expedition led by Gen. George Custer in 1874 and demanded the U.S. Army's protection. The Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 cut off all rations until the Lakota ended hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the federal government.
The U.S. Court of Claims found in 1979 that the Sioux Nation was entitled to $17.1 million in compensation due to the federal government's seizure of the Black Hills. The following year, U.S. Supreme Court decided 8-1 that the federal government had violated the Fifth Amendment and the tribes were entitled to compensation in United State v. Sioux Nation of Indians. The tribes declined the compensation because it would legally end their demand for the Black Hills to be returned to them.
Several requests were denied in the early 1980s to return millions of acres of the Black Hills to the tribes, as well as bills in Congress that would have returned some of the land.
The effort to settle the land dispute was revived in 2009 and a United Nations report in 2012 said that Indigenous land, including the Black Hills, should be returned.
The monument, which also features Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, will be thrust into the spotlight even more next week when President Donald Trump and Noem visit on July 3 for the first fireworks display in more than 10 years.
Contributing: Lisa Kaczke
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Who Knew? 5 Charming Cheetah Facts
By Lucille Sive
Africa is like no other place on Earth when it comes to the variety and majesty of its wildlife. The big five—lions, leopards, buffalo, elephants, rhinos—famously call Africa home, but so too do other large animals including one of our guests’ favourites, the cheetah. It’s well-known that cheetahs are the world’s fastest land-based animal; they can reach top speeds of 75 mph during sprints, and it only takes them three seconds to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph. But beyond their incredible speed, there is much to learn and love about cheetahs.
1) Cheetah Tear Marks Act Like Sunglasses
If you look closely at a cheetah’s face, you’ll notice that they have black tear marks that begin from the corner of the eye and run down the sides of their face from their nose down to their mouths. This unique feature has big benefits for cheetahs: since they primarily hunt during the day, unlike other big cats, the tear marks help to reflect away the sun’s glare, making it easier for them to focus on hunting their prey.
2) Cheetahs Rely on Their Tails To Maneuver at High Speeds
Cheetah tails are long and muscular, making them quite different from the tails of their fellow big cats. What’s the reason for this? Well, when cheetahs are in pursuit of their prey, their large tails act like a sort of rudder that helps them to steer and make sharp turns when chasing prey.
A sprinting cheetah
3) The Word "Cheetah" Has Two Different Meanings
The word “cheetah” dates back to 1704 and comes from the Hindi word cītā, which in turn derives from the Sanskrit word citrakāyaḥ. Consequently, “cheetah” has two prominent meanings: “hunting leopard” and “many-coloured, distinctively marked”, owing to the cheetah’s bright, spotted appearance.
4) A Cheetah Cub's Wild Hair Is More Than a Fashion Statement
Cheetah cubs, at first glance, appear to have extra hair compared to adult cheetahs. This “wild” hair is called a “mantle” and serves two purposes: the first is that, with the long hair on their back and neck, the mantle can make a cheetah cub resemble a honey badger—a nasty species feared by many animals—ensuring that predators keep their distance. Since cheetah cubs spend the first few months of their life hidden in dense vegetation, the long hair also helps to camouflage the cubs from other predators.
A cheetah cub's extra hair is called a mantle
5) Cheetahs Are Vulnerable
Of all of Africa’s big cats, cheetahs, unfortunately, are the most endangered. Experts estimate that only 8,000 cheetahs are left in the wild in Africa. Habitat loss through agriculture and industrial expansion is largely to blame for the declining numbers of wild cheetahs. Fortunately, effective conservation organizations across Africa are doing what they can to preserve this beautiful species for future generations.
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Yellowstone Wolves Hit by Disease
By Megan Gannon 10 September 2012
The gray wolf (Canis lupus)
(Image: © Kramer, Gary | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Less than two decades after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, viral diseases like mange threaten the stability of the new population.
Humans had killed off gray wolves in the region by the 1930s, but in 1995, U.S. wildlife officials tried to restore the native population by bringing 31 wolves captured from Canada into the national park.
The new wolf community initially expanded rapidly, climbing to more than 170 at its peak. But researchers from Penn State University say that the most recent data show the number of animals has dipped below 100.
"We're down to extremely low levels of wolves right now," researcher Emily S. Almberg, a graduate student in ecology, said in a statement. "We're down to [similar numbers as] the early years of reintroduction. So it doesn't look like it's going to be as large and as a stable a population as was maybe initially thought."
The researchers point to pathogens as the culprit in the population's instability. By 1997, all of the new wolves at the park that were tested for disease had at least one infection, including canine distemper, canine parvovirus and canine herpesvirus. Starting in 2007, wolves inside the park were testing positive for mange — an infection in which mites burrow under the skin causing insatiable scratching and so much hair loss that infected wolves often freeze to death in the winter.
A group of wolves known as Mollie's pack was the first in Yellowstone to show signs of mange, in January 2007, but they recovered from the disease by March 2011. Meanwhile, another group, called the Druid pack — once one of the park's most stable new packs — was decimated by the end of winter 2010 after showing signs of mange just half a year earlier, the researchers said.
"It was in a very short amount of time that the majority of the animals [in Druid] became severely infected," Almberg said in a statement. "The majority of their hair was missing from their bodies and it hit them right in the middle of winter. The summer before it got really bad, we saw that many of the pups had mange."
The Penn State researchers found that distance made a difference in the spread of the disease. For every six miles between a pack of mangy wolves and an uninfected pack, there was a 66 percent drop in risk of disease for the healthy pack, the researchers said. Thus the high wolf densities afforded by protection within Yellowstone may come at the cost of some population stability, the researchers wrote in their paper in the current issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Mange was introduced into the Yellowstone ecosystem in 1905 in an attempt to accelerate wolf eradication during an era when wildlife officials tried to cut down predator populations. When the wolves were gone, the disease likely persisted among regional carnivores, like coyotes and foxes, the researchers said.
"Many invasive species flourish because they lack their native predators and pathogens, but in Yellowstone we restored a native predator to an ecosystem that had other canids (animals in the dog family) present that were capable of sustaining a lot of infections in their absence," said Almberg. "It's not terribly surprising that we were able to witness and confirm that there was a relatively short window in which the reintroduced wolves stayed disease-free."
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Massachusetts faces decline in college-educated workforce
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The rate at which Massachusetts residents earn college degrees will pivot from growth to decline by 2022 unless the state's public higher education system, which educates more than half of all undergraduates, is able to increase the number of students who enroll and earn diplomas, the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education reported June 8.
The Degree Gap, the department's annual Vision Project report on the status of public higher education in the Commonwealth, was released at an event held at The Boston Foundation. The report suggests that employers who are already having difficulty meeting current workforce needs in high-demand fields will face even greater challenges in the next few years, as the state's high school population continues to decline at the same time that an estimated 660,000 college-educated workers plan to retire. Of those job openings requiring post-secondary education or training, two-thirds will require a college degree. Increasingly, the higher education system will also be called upon to leverage its traditional role of offering associate's and bachelor's degrees by also offering certificate and continuing education programs to ensure that students develop career skills needed to be successful. The demographic challenges facing the state mean that public colleges and universities are likely to fall short of meeting the need for new associate and bachelor's degrees by 55,000 to 65,000. The Degree Gap predicts that 80 percent of those "missing" degrees needed to fill the state's talent pool in the next decade will be at the baccalaureate level or higher.
Mount Wachusett Community College is featured in the report for its innovative Math Modeling program, which provides math remediation to high school seniors, and a new dual enrollment partnership with Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School. The Math Modeling program, launched in 2013, has nearly quadrupled in size and continues to expand. It is offered at Leominster High School, the Leominster High School Center for Technical Education Innovation, Fitchburg High School, Gardner High School Monty Tech, Murdock High School in Winchendon and Oakmont Regional High School in Ashburnham, with two additional North Central Massachusetts high schools planning to participate this fall.
The report's findings align with several recent economic forecasts that project that a lack of available talent may constrain economic growth. Although the Commonwealth has more adult degree holders than any other state � 51.5 percent of adults aged 25-54 � the state is projected to end the decade with fewer working age college-educated residents than it began with unless the rate of degree production improves.
"Our aging population and slow-growing labor force are expected to curb job growth significantly in coming years," said Michael Goodman, professor and executive director of the Public Policy Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and co-editor of MassBenchmarks, the journal of the Massachusetts economy published by the UMass Donahue Institute in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. "This makes closing the achievement gap and improving access to affordable and high-quality higher education an essential economic and social imperative."
The Degree Gap also examines capacity issues in two programs preparing students for careers in high-demand fields: Nursing and computer science. Officials at several public campuses report that they are unable to grow their programs for a host of reasons, ranging from lack of space and faculty hiring constraints to a shortage of clinical placements for nursing candidates.
The report details a series of new state and local campus initiatives to address The Degree Gap, including:
� The Commonwealth Commitment: Beginning in fall 2016, students in selected majors who begin at a community college and continue their education at a state university or UMass campus will receive a series of financial incentives to earn a bachelor's degree in less than four and a half years, at an average savings of more than $5,000 per student.
� 100 Males to College: The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Westfield State University, Springfield Technical Community College, Framingham State University and MassBay Community College are collaborating with public schools in Springfield and Framingham to create college-going opportunities for low-income male students who would be the first in their family to attend college. Of the first cohort of Springfield students, 56 of the 59 seniors were accepted to college.
� STEM Starter Academy: All 15 community colleges are offering free summer sessions at which local high school students tackle remedial math coursework, take part in science and engineering challenges and visit local employers to learn about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. A recent program evaluation found that STEM Starter Academy students enrolled as full-time students at a rate 13 percentage points higher than the general community college student population.
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Microsoft Loses ISO Vote on OOXML Format
Sep 3rd, 2007 5:00 PM EDT
Microsoft has been promoting their OOXML document format as an ISO standard, however in a recent ISO/IEC technical committee vote, the format was denied acceptance as an ISO standard, according to Redmondmag on Tuesday.
Microsoftis OOXML document format, to be used in Office 2008 for Macs and Office 2007 for PCs is similar to the Open Document Format (ODF), but considered more proprietary. It has also faced technical issues from the standards committee as Microsoft has rushed for acceptance.
Microsoft needed 66 percent of the members to approve, however, only 53 percent of the members voted to pass. Due to to the complexities of the two vote process and different kinds of members voting, Microsoft was able to put a positive spin on the results which has confused some reporting on the event.
In fact, much more support is required from key committee members than Microsoftis public statements suggest.
The next steps for Microsoft are to digest the technical objections to their standard and revise OOXML. "Technical experts around the world have provided invaluable feedback and technical recommendations for evolving the format," said Tom Robertson, general manager for Interoperability and Standards at Microsoft Corp. "The high quality of the Open XML format will be improved as a result of this process, and we take seriously our role in working within the Ecma technical committee to address the comments received. We believe that the ISO National Bodies will be pleased with the results."
The final vote on the standard is expected to take place in March, 2008.
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Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy
Author: Tim Aistrope
Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international political controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard against alternative interpretations. It does so in the context of American foreign policy during the War on Terror, a conflict that was quintessentially covert and conspiratorial. This book adds a new dimension to the debate by examining what I coin the ‘Arab-Muslim paranoia narrative’: the view that Arab-Muslim resentment towards America was motivated to some degree by a paranoid perception of American power in the Middle East. Immediately after 9/11, prominent commentators pointed to an Arab-Muslim culture of blame and a related tendency towards conspiracy theories about America’s regional influence as an important cultural driver of anti-Americanism. This narrative subsequently made its way into numerous US Government policy documents and initiatives advancing a War of Ideas strategy aimed at winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of Arab-Muslims. The book provides a novel reading of the processes through which legitimacy and illegitimacy is produced in foreign policy discourses. It will also appeal to a wider cross-disciplinary audience interested in the burgeoning issues of conspiracy, paranoia, and popular knowledge, including their relationship to and consequences for contemporary politics.
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Redefining security in the Middle East
Editors: Tami Amanda Jacoby and Brent E. Sasley
For over five decades, the Cold War security agenda was distinguished by the principal strategic balance, that of a structure of bipolarity, between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR). This book seeks to draw from current developments in critical security studies in order to establish a new framework of inquiry for security in the Middle East. It addresses the need to redefine security in the Middle East. The focus is squarely on the Arab-Israeli context in general, and the Palestinian-Israeli context in particular. The character of Arab-Israeli relations are measured by the Israeli foreign policy debate from the 1950s to the 1990s. A dialogue between Islam and Islamism as a means to broaden the terrain on which conflict resolution and post-bipolar security in the Middle East is to be understood is presented. The Middle East peace process (MEPP) was an additional factor in problematizing the military-strategic concept of security in the Middle East. The shift in analysis from national security to human security reflects the transformations of the post-Cold War era by combining military with non-military concerns such as environmental damage, social unrest, economic mismanagement, cultural conflict, gender inequity and radical fundamentalism. By way of contrast to realist international relations (IR) theory, developing-world theorists have proposed a different set of variables to explain the unique challenges facing developing states. Finally, the book examines the significance of ecopolitics in security agendas in the Middle East.
The international politics of the Middle East
Author: Raymond Hinnebusch
This text aims to fill a gap in the field of Middle Eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It begins with an overview of the rules and features of the Middle East regional system—the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. The book goes on to analyse foreign-policy-making in key states, illustrating how systemic determinants constrain this policy-making, and how these constraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on the particular domestic features of the individual states. Finally, it goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The study assesses the impact of international penetration in the region, including the historic reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union, and explains the process by which the region has become incorporated into the global capitalist market.
The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change
Author: Eşref Aksu
This study explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance. What is dealt with here is both the UN's changing raison d'être and the wider normative context within which the organisation is located. The study looks at the UN through the window of one of its most contentious, yet least understood, practices: active involvement in intra-state conflicts as epitomised by UN peacekeeping. Drawing on the conceptual tools provided by the ‘historical structural’ approach, it seeks to understand how and why the international community continuously reinterprets or redefines the UN's role with regard to such conflicts. The study concentrates on intra-state ‘peacekeeping environments’, and examines what changes, if any, have occurred to the normative basis of UN peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. One of the original aspects of the study is its analytical framework, where the conceptualisation of ‘normative basis’ revolves around objectives, functions and authority, and is closely connected with the institutionalised values in the UN Charter such as state sovereignty, human rights and socio-economic development.
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My Father’s Style: Puru Raaj Kumar on Raaj Kumar
Anupama Shenoy 7 min read
Puru Raaj Kumar on legendary actor-father Raaj Kumar who made a statement with his style.
Raaj Kumar was the only actor of his generation to be obsessed with golf. Every item in his wardrobe was unique because it was custom-made. He would devote as much time and attention on his clothes and accessories as he did on his acting ability. He is known to have said that his favourite hobby was to get his shoes polished.
He sent his tailor to London to learn the art of cutting a suit and flew people across to Germany only to bring back spare parts for his cars.
Raaj Kumar was one of a kind. Waqt (1965) was the turning point in his acting career. It was the beginning of his powerful dialogue delivery in that unmistakable voice. It was also the beginning of “… Jaani” with a puff of the pipe, a phrase that still lives on with his fans around the world. His son and actor Puru Raaj Kumar, on his Papa, the style icon, as a natural.
Most people describe my father’s style as eccentric. I wouldn’t say that he was fashion conscious, but he has always had a lot of flair and immense style. In my opinion, he was more a visionary when it came to styling. Be it his shoes, his clothing, his accessories, his dialogue delivery or his demeanour. He always liked everything very exclusive. It had more to do with his temperament and the way he was than to do with who he was. Some people develop a style after they achieve success, but my father always had it. Sometimes when I go through old photographs of him before my birth, I realise how stylish he was even then.
When it came to style he was a natural.
I’ve seen pictures of him shot at the airport when he would leave town. It used to be a big ceremony when he would travel abroad. My entire family, even my aunts and nieces would accompany him and bid him a tearful farewell. It sounds funny, but it happens even now and I find it cute.
My father had a very distinct wardrobe when he would travel by air. He would carry a red bag, right through the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, up till he was alive. He wore an olive green chauzer (which is like a safari) and an olive green shirt. That was a given.
All his clothes were custom made, be it his trousers, his shirts or his suits. He never bought clothes off the shelf. It never mattered to him if he was wearing a designer label or not. That was the most distinct thing about him.
He only wore natural fabrics and took personal interest in his wardrobe. He would wear ethnic clothes often. Readymades were not for him. Even if he did pick something up, he would have it changed according to his taste. He took personal interest in everything he wore. He had a collection of the original ethnic bundee (coat) from Rajasthan but he gave it his characteristic style with a little modification. He would usually buy the fabric himself and get it stitched by his own tailor. He had his own set of tailors and cutters. We still continue with the tradition. That comes from him.
He was never into branding. People would come up to him and say, “I’m wearing a Versace,” and that was his chance to catch them because most designer clothes also have a polyester blend. He was a visionary as far as clothes were concerned. He could carry off most colours brilliantly.
My father would choose the weirdest of fabrics. I remember there used to be this curtain joke happening all the time. It’s true. Some of the fabrics he picked up really did look like it was meant for curtains. That sounds bizarre but when Jean Paul Gaultier designs bizarre clothes for the ramp every one gets excited. But that’s what creativity is all about. My father would say, “If you’re a creative person, it shows in everything you do.” And it was true of him.
There is an old English belief that a suit is an heirloom that goes from generation to generation. The father wears it then the son wears it and then the son’s son wears it. He had an amazing suit collection from all over the world. He definitely knew how to cut clothes himself. He sent his tailor, Ferns to London to learn the art of cutting a suit because most people make mistakes with cutting. Cutting a suit is perhaps one of the most difficult and the most important aspect of making clothes. You can have a very good fabric but if you don’t cut it correctly, it doesn’t fall correctly. It just doesn’t work.
He loved his shoes. He once said to a journalist that his favourite hobby was to get his shoes polished. He even had some shoes made from fabric. When I’m at home I wear a pair of wood and fabric sandals that belong to him. When we were kids, I remember we would make shoes of cloth with his guidance. I was twelve then and I used to think it was bizarre and quite funny. When I grew older and read fashion magazines like Vogue, I realised it was trendy.
I clearly remember an evening when he was entertaining some people from the Russian Culture Centre. He was wearing a full brocade outfit. I think it was totally over the top but he carried it off wonderfully. I think his style was all about the way he carried off his clothes. I think I have inherited his sense of grace in carrying clothes. I’ve also been told that most colours and clothes suit me. I’m grateful to him for that.
For some people, style is being casual, cool and comfortable with what they’re wearing. For my father, style meant making a statement with what he wore. It’s quite difficult to develop that. But he did it very well.
He had a pipe, which was his trademark accessory even in the movies. He has an awesome collection of 150 pipes—from miniatures to long and short pipes, which he picked up while travelling. He had most of the pipe brands in the world. The most fabulous one, which I smoke once in a while, is made from coral.
Then there was his Navratan ring, specially designed by him and his sister in accordance with the planetary system. It was made in gold with a diamond in the centre, surrounded by nine gemstones. Some members of my family say it was for good luck and some others say it wasn’t. It’s probably what he told different people while he was getting the ring made.
He also had a large watch collection. All his watches were limited editions. He had a wonderful Baume & Mercier gold watch, which he bought at an auction. One of them had a dollar as the dial of the watch. He would design bracelets for his watches. He had a flair for design. He even designed his sunglasses in the shape of cat eyes and got them made from Agnelo’s (which is now at Hill Road, Bandra). That was a unique feature of his style. He was the only one ever who wore such a pair. It had a typical frame that can be seen in many of his photographs.
His favourite colours were red, black and white. Even his cars were black and white. He was passionate about his cars. He was the only one to have a Volvo in Bombay at the time. He would have people fly to Germany to buy so much as a spare part for his cars. For some people it’s a criminal waste of money. To him, it was passion for his car.
My father would spend long hours on the golf course when he had the time. He loved to play golf and even initiated me into the game. He had a handicap of 16. Once a year, Papa would take us for a long holiday to Kashmir, where he taught us to play polo.
He only signed a couple of films a year so he would have enough time for his family. He never brought his work home. Work was never a topic of discussion. I have been to his set only a couple of times in his entire career. He didn’t like to have us there.
Strange, but true.
This story was first published in the March 2002 issue
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Facial Recognition Technology: Is it time to face the music?
On 19 February 2020, the EU Commission released a White Paper outlining its vision for the development and regulation of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the European Union over the next ten years1.
The White Paper sets out the EU’s strategy to become a world leader in AI, and in particular the central role AI will play in aiding in the achievement of the EU’s Sustainable Development Goals in coming years. However, it also expresses concerns about the proliferation of “high risk” AI such as automated facial recognition technology (“FRT”), and the potential for this, without an EU-wide regulatory framework put in place, to fragment the internal market. As recently as January 2020, the EU Commission was considering the introduction of a temporary ban of 3 to 5 years on the use of FRT in public places, to allow time to develop an EU-wide approach. However, it seems the Commission has reconsidered this position, following the omission of the proposed ban from the White Paper1.
What is FRT and where is it used?
FRT is a technology based on an algorithm that can identify individuals by automatically analysing key facial features and generating a unique biometric template of these features. This template can then be compared against similar templates generated from a collection of known faces in a database or “watch list” and possible matches may be determined. FRT can analyse facial features from still images or from live camera feeds and may also be deployed through real time CCTV feeds to locate a particular individual.
Concerns regarding FRT have arisen in recent years amid reports that the automated technology has repeatedly displayed racial and gender bias when deployed in crowds, often returning higher false positive matches for women and certain ethnic groups (“algorithmic bias”). Further, the use of FRT on a large scale by law enforcement bodies, or even private security service providers, may interfere with a number of fundamental rights such as the right to privacy and rights of freedom of expression, association and assembly. To date, FRT has more typically been used by public authorities responsible for law enforcement and involves a high level of human oversight, however, it may be used by private entities in specific circumstances.
In July 2019, Danish football club Brøndby IF was authorised by the Danish Data Protection Agency (the Datatilsynet), for reasons of substantial public interest, to begin deploying live FRT in its stadium to identify blacklisted fans and prevent them from entering during high profile matches.
Since February 2020, the London Metropolitan Police has deployed live FRT, following a number of trials of the technology in different parts of the city. This system can match passers-by to a watch list of approximately 5,000 people who are wanted by the police or are missing persons in the area. Similarly, the South Wales Police have deployed live FRT during large events in Cardiff since 2017. The deployment during the UEFA Champions League Final that year resulted in a high incidence of false positives. Of the 2,470 total matches made only 173 were “true” matches – an accuracy rate of only 7%. Nevertheless, the High Court of England and Wales has since found that the use of FRT by the South Wales Police is in compliance with data protection law2.
Biometric data
Where a facial template is analysed by means of technical processing for the purposes of identifying a natural person, this will be considered to be the processing of biometric data.
Article 4(14) of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) defines biometric data as personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data (fingerprint data).
The processing of images or footage of a data subject will not be considered to involve the processing of biometric data unless it allows for the unique identification or authentication of the data subject3.
Restrictions on processing biometric data
Biometric data is a special category of personal data and processing biometric data is generally prohibited under Article 9(1) of the GDPR. Processing biometric data may be permissible, subject to one of the exceptions listed in Article 9(2) of the GDPR that include processing:
with explicit consent of the data subject (Article 9(2)(a));
to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person (Article 9(2)(c));
personal data that has manifestly been made public by the data subject (Article 9(2)(e)); and
necessary for reasons of substantial public interest (subject to suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and interests of the data subject) (Article 9(2)(g)).
The use of FRT identification by private controllers will most likely require reliance on the explicit consent of the data subject. It is important for any controller considering relying on consent to use FRT to ensure that consent may be withdrawn at any time.
Although other exceptions may be applicable, the EDPB has rejected that the exception under Article 9(2)(e) (processing data that have been manifestly made public) could be relied on to process biometric data in the context of live video surveillance, stating that the “mere fact of entering into the range of the camera does not imply that the data subject intends to make public special categories of data relating to him or her”4.
It is important to remember that Article 6 of the GDPR must be complied with as well as Article 9 when processing biometric data. This means that a clear legal basis for the processing must be established before a controller can consider which exception may be relied upon under Article 9(2).
FRT is currently more commonly deployed by criminal law enforcement bodies. In these instances the processing activities will be subject to the Law Enforcement Directive (“LED”), as transposed into Member State law, rather than the GDPR5.
A data protection impact assessment (“DPIA”) will be required where the use of FRT by a controller is being considered, as FRT is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects. If a high risk to the data subject is found by the DPIA which cannot be mitigated by the controller, the relevant organisation’s competent data protection supervisory authority must be consulted for both GDPR and LED purposes.
Developing an “ecosystem of trust”
In the Commission White Paper one of the key strategies to promote successful development of AI in the EU is the establishment of an “ecosystem of trust” at an early stage, to ensure that Member States and citizens embrace the benefits that AI can offer. As the use of AI for remote biometric identification (including FRT) and other “intrusive” surveillance technologies would always be considered to be “high-risk”, according to the White Paper, they will require a number of additional safeguards to guarantee this trust, including:
ensuring AI systems are trained on data that is sufficiently broad to avoid dangerous situations and discrimination;
taking into account the complexity of the decision-making processes of AI systems (sometimes called the black box effect), it will be essential to keep records of the programming of the algorithm, the training methodologies applied to the AI system and the data used to train the AI system;
providing adequate information to data subjects regarding high risk AI on the system’s capabilities and limitations and individuals should be clearly informed when they are interacting with AI;
ensuring that all risks that an AI system may generate are routinely considered and ensuring that the AI is as technically accurate as possible;
ensuring appropriate oversight from natural persons is in place to ensure that AI systems operate in an ethical and trustworthy manner; and
allowing the use of FRT and other biometric identification only when in accordance with the GDPR and the LED and where such use is duly justified, proportionate and subject to adequate safeguards.
Also contributed by Siobhán Power
“On Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust” COM(2020) 65 final.
R (Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales [2019] EWHC 2341 (Admin).
Recital 51 of the GDPR.
EDPB, Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of personal data through video devices, Version 2.0, adopted on 29 January 2020.
Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016.
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Looking Back at the History of Sōjutsu
Japan has pioneered more than a dozen styles of martial arts throughout history, some of which involve hand-to-hand combat, whereas others involve swords or other bladed weapons. However, a traditional Japanese martial art that's often overlooked is sōjutsu. In this post, we're going to discuss this age-old martial art, revealing when and where it was created and whether it's still practiced today.
What Is Sōjutsu?
Sojutsu is a traditional Japanese martial art that focuses specifically on the spear. In fact, the term "sojutsu" translates into "art of the spear" -- a term that accurately describes the art. Sojutsu practitioners are taught how to attack and defend themselves in battle using a spear, typically the Yari. It's one of the many weapon-based martial arts developed in Japan. Unlike most, however, sojutsu centers around the use of a spear. This is a unique element that differentiates it from other styles of Japanese and even Korean martial arts.
History of Sojutsu
It's unknown who invented sojutsu or when they did it. With that said, spears have been a key element of Japanese mythology for centuries, dating all the way back to the region's feudal period. At this time, the Yari become a popular alternative to traditional bladed weapons like the sword and wakizashi. Featuring a long handle with a pointed blade -- sometimes with multiple points -- the Yari was a formidable weapon for samurai warriors. Most importantly, though, it was cheaper to produce and easier to use than traditional swords, thereby making it a common weapon used by samurai warriors.
Like all weapons, though, samurai warriors had to train themselves to use the Yari. This led to the creation of sojutsu, which as previously stated, is a Japanese martial art focusing on the spear. Practitioners of sojutsu learn how to perform thrust attacks, slashing attacks, counterattacks and other techniques that may prove useful in battle.
Sojutsu Today
Sojutsu is still practiced by thousands of people today but not for different reasons. In the past, samurai warriors practiced sojutsu for the purpose of improving their skill and proficiency with spears like the Yari. Today, practitioners of sojutsu do it for recreational and leisure purposes. There's no longer a need for samurai warriors to use a spear; there are other, more advanced weapons available. Nonetheless, sojutsu remains a culturally significant martial art that's still practiced in Japan as well as other regions.
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Based in our Manchester office Andrew joined Maven in February 2020 and is responsible for supporting portfolio companies across the North of England.
Andrew joined Maven from the Department for Education’s Transactions Unit where he specialised in restructuring Further Education Colleges via merger. Prior to this Andrew worked for RBS’s Equity Solutions team in the North of England and has over 15 years experience of SME portfolio management, across a broad range of sectors. Previously Andrew worked for KPMG for 13 years, mainly in Restructuring but also in Audit and Commercial Due Diligence.
Andrew qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) with KPMG. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of York and has an MBA from the University of Bradford.
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Experts predict marketing future shaped by AI, data ethics, and environmental responsibility
New report compiled by marketing agency Essence assesses expert predictions across 15 scenarios for marketing and advertising in 2030
April 29, 2020. San Francisco. Essence, a global data and measurement-driven agency which is part of GroupM, today released a unique report on the future of advertising based on the predictions of experts across academia, business, marketing, technology, publishing, and advertising trade organizations around the world.
The study evaluates the likelihood of 15 different scenarios occurring over the next decade and assesses the implications of each for the future of advertising. Each scenario tested explores the influence of a key dynamic or catalyst, from the use of biometric data to personalization, privacy, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, regulation, payment models, and more.
“As an industry we have lots of insight into how technology is likely to evolve over time,” said Kyoko Matsushita, Global CEO at Essence. “We conducted this study to provide more clarity about what that evolution will mean for advertising and marketing, to identify issues in need of the most urgent attention, and to help companies prioritize their innovation and marketing transformation investment decisions.”
Of the scenarios tested, experts surveyed were most confident about the likelihood of a future in which environmental considerations play a major role in consumer purchasing decisions, and the emergence of a new form of marketing interaction, in which companies and consumers outsource decision making to automated personal assistants and bots. Experts were least likely to predict futures in which consumers would be able to opt out of advertising entirely, or in which countries establish a unified approach to privacy and identity regulation.
Key findings from the report include:
Companies will need to become more transparent, sustainable, and purpose-driven to meet the expectations of post-Millennial generations over the next decade. As an example, experts predict this audience will make environmental considerations a primary factor in consumer decision making as the 10-year deadline established by the UN to avert the worst effects of climate change draws nearer.
While experts are optimistic that AI will eliminate inefficiencies without creating widespread joblessness or eliminating the need for people, individuals and companies will need to create new kinds of jobs and embrace new fields in which to apply human creativity. An example of the dramatic impact experts expect AI to have on marketing is the prediction that consumers will begin to outsource purchasing decisions to machines, which will optimize selections based on our goals and preferences.
Advertising will continue to enable access to content and services for many people, especially in developing countries, but experts also predict companies will begin to prioritize services over products in their marketing. Experts deemed it unlikely that people will be able to opt out of advertising entirely but expect subtler forms of marketing like product placement and sponsorships - integrated into frictionless services and experiences - to play an increasingly important role.
Biometric data is likely to be established as a key component in consumer identity information by the end of the decade, making it necessary to focus on the development of corporate strategies and policies capable of securing its use.
In lieu of global regulation, experts predict that companies will collaborate to establish standards across transactions, identity, and security that will enable new payment and exchange models that will create scalable alternatives to subscription-based commerce.
“Advertising plays such an important role in supporting access to reliable news and information, driving culture, and advancing the global economy - we need to make sure it remains sustainable,” added Matsushita. “We hope this report sparks conversation and creative thinking in our industry about what we can do today to create the best possible future.”
Essence’s analysis identified three differing perspectives among experts which define the fault lines of the debate over the future. While most experts predict the combination of artificial intelligence and greater access to data will transform society over the coming decade, opinion was divided between “Pro-AI Societal Transformers” who believe in the positive impact of artificial intelligence and “Pro-Human Societal Transformers” who believe humans will need to remain at the center of decision making. A third group of “Pro-Privacy Humanists” are more skeptical about AI and believe a growing prioritization of individual privacy will restrict the use of personal data by both marketers and AI systems.
The study was conducted from January to late-February 2020, before the scope of the coronavirus pandemic was fully clear. “We looked at the likelihood of these dynamics defining the future over a 10-year horizon, but it seems plausible that many of the predictions and trends identified in this report will have been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic,” said co-author Kate Scott-Dawkins. “In particular, we expect that the pandemic may increase the use of AI and automation to replace human labor, catalyze increased use of 3D printing to create locally resilient economies and supply chains, and increase people’s readiness to embrace virtual experiences.”
The study is based on in-person interviews and online survey responses from a non-random sample of nearly 50 experts, with respondents selected by Essence to uncover perspectives across roles, tenure, and geography.
The report can be downloaded at www.essenceglobal.com. Select quotes from individual participants are also available to download here.
About Essence
Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. Clients include Google, Flipkart, NBCUniversal, L'Oréal, and the Financial Times. The agency is more than 2,000 people strong, manages US$4B in annualized media spend, and deploys campaigns in 106 markets via 21 offices in APAC, EMEA and North America.
Visit essenceglobal.com for more information and follow us on Twitter at @essenceglobal
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MetroStars Win 2016 Fed Cup
MetroStars secured the final berth in the Westfield FFA Cup's Round of 32 with a 1-0 win over Adelaide Comets on Saturday. Liam Wooding's strike just after half-time was enough for MetroStars to qualify for the first national round of the FFA Cup for the second straight year, as they simultaneously lifted the Federation Cup as South Australia's cup champions. Former Adelaide United and Perth Glory forward Travis Dodd flicked on a long throw for MetroStars in the 52nd minute, and Wooding toe-poked the ball beyond the Comets goalkeeper. With MetroStars having qualified for the 2016 FFA Cup proper, the Round of 32 draw will be held on June 30.
Last year, MetroStars won their Round of 32 match 2-1 away to Blacktown City before being eliminated 1-0 by Oakleigh Cannons in the last 16. Saturday's win at Coopers Stadium saw MetroStars lift South Australia's Federation Cup for the fourth time, while the Comets' first cup final ended in disappointment.
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Mikros Systems Corporation Announces Second SBIR Phase I This Year
Mikros Systems Corporation (OTCBB: MKRS), Princeton, New Jersey, August 14, 2007 — Mikros Systems Corporation announced today that it has been notified by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Command that Mikros has been selected for award of a Small Business Innovation Research Program for a communication buoy for ocean-based data acquisition and sensor systems.
The Company is teamed with Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a leader in ocean powered buoys for the Department of Defense and commercial markets. The program is expected to commence this fall with a contract value of approximately $100,000. This product area has potential war-fighting applications for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, as well as commercial applications.
“This is a great opportunity to apply Mikros communications expertise in a new application environment”, stated Thomas J. Meaney, President. “We look forward to working with another division of the United States Navy on this project”.
About Mikros
Mikros Systems Corporation is an advanced technology company specializing in the research and development of electronic systems technology primarily for military applications. Classified by the U.S. Department of Defense as a small business, its capabilities include technology management, electronic systems engineering and integration, radar systems engineering, combat/command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems engineering, and communications engineering. Mikros’ primary business is to pursue and obtain contracts from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Navy, and other governmental authorities.
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Supreme Court loses champion for equality with passing of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
Voters must hold the line to defend her legacy of justice
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg struck all of us at the Michigan People’s Campaign very deeply. Her strength in the face of a challenge that surely would have struck down a lesser person was a source of inspiration. Since her many accomplishments will surely be listed in greater detail by people much more thoughtful than us, we will not attempt to do so now for fear that we might miss one of the many.
Instead, we would like to remember why she suffered so, for so long, for so many.
Like too many of us, Ginsburg expected Hillary Clinton to be elected President in 2016 and thought it only fitting that the first woman in the White House select her successor. It would have been a storybook ending to a storied career. It would have allowed her to ride gracefully into the sunset and enjoy her many memories and accomplishments in peace through her remaining years. But this was not the hand she was dealt.
So she would instead spend her last years battling against the Trump Administration’s horrific assault on our democracy. Justice Ginsburg knew that her time was short, and she dictated one last statement in which she declared that “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
As a woman of law, Ginsburg chose her words very carefully. She did not say the next president but rather a new president. Not this one. After sitting on the bench for years watching Mitch McConnell hold back judicial appointments, even refusing to grant a hearing to a Supreme Court nominee for nearly a year, then flooding hundreds of seats with unqualified jurists once the presidency was in Republican hands, it was more than she could bear to imagine that her death might be his final reward.
Even as you read this, McConnell is seeking to fill her seat on the bench, not just during an election year but while people are still voting. Although his hypocrisy is stunning, we must not pause for even a moment to be horrified by it. There is much work to be done and little time left to do it. It will not be enough to replace the President; we must win it all. We will not get another chance.
The Senate must be wrestled away from the Majority Leader by replacing any of his colleagues who did not vote to remove the President sooner. The nation must be placed back on its moorings and the institutions we have relied upon, from the DOJ to the CDC, must be reinforced. The road ahead is long and the struggle great, but it is nothing compared to what the Notorious RBG went through to get us this far.
We at the Michigan People’s Campaign believe that Ginsburg’s death should be as much an inspiration to us as her life. “Fight for the things that you care about,” she once said. “but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." It will not be enough to cast your ballot at your first opportunity, September 24th, nor even to make sure everyone you know has mailed in their absentee ballot by November 2nd. You and everyone you know must stay engaged after the election to make sure this important work is completed. It is the least we can do for Ruth after all she has done for us.
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Scientific treasure hunt: could you discover Higgs Boson or even Dark Matter?
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CERN physicists release collision data from the ATLAS experiment
Public and students challenged to find new science
Sussex scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva have just released a huge amount of data inviting students and the public to rediscover the Higgs Boson or even to find Dark Matter. The scientific treasure trove comes from the ATLAS experiment at CERN, which is one of the collaborations which made world news when it discovered the Higgs Boson in 2012.
The ATLAS collaboration, comprised of scientists from institutions across the world, has now published data relating to 1 quadrillion proton-proton collisions (that’s 1 followed by 15 zeros). Contained in that data are 500 thousand Higgs bosons. This is around the same amount of data that the ATLAS Collaboration used to discover the Higgs boson in 2012.
Dr Kate Shaw, lecturer in physics with the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex, who co-leads the ATLAS Open Data team and was part of the team to discover the Higgs Boson, said:
“For the first time, students and members of the public will be able to ‘re-discover’ the Higgs boson. They can even search through the data for physics beyond the Standard Model – that is, the accepted understanding of the particles making up our universe – such as Dark Matter. These new avenues for study should boost students’ understanding of the experimental side of data analysis which is particularly exciting for budding researchers. And we’re providing the tools and documentation to allow almost anyone to do an analysis. This is the most ambitious release of open data from ATLAS to date.”
Meirin Evans, a PhD student at the University of Sussex who produced the datasets, said:
“We at Sussex have already been using the previous ATLAS data to teach, educate and train students, ranging from A-level to PhD students, including our summer school students. It gives them the opportunity to analyse real Large Hadron Collider data, learning coding and advanced analysis techniques. We’re really excited that students will now be able to get their hands on this new data and may even discover a Higgs Boson or two.”
Prof Antonella De Santo, leader of the ATLAS team at the University of Sussex, said:
“The ATLAS Open Data project highlights some of the best treasured aspects of the work we do at CERN: cutting-edge science, international collaboration and openness, creative engagement with students and educators. I am very proud of Sussex’s role in this exciting project.”
Dr Thomas Stevenson, a post doctorate researcher working with the University of Sussex at CERN, said:
“This new release contains many additional regions allowing people the opportunity not only to re-discover particles we already know about, such as the Higgs boson, but also search for new phenomena like Dark Matter or SuperSymmetry. There are a number of examples to guide users through the data analysis from the raw data to making plots.”
Alongside impressive new open datasets, the ATLAS Collaboration has also released new simulated datasets, web-based and offline analysis software, as well as extensive documentation and tutorials.
The data comes from the Large Hadron Collider’s highest-energy run at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV). The new release is specially developed for science education, underlining the Collaboration’s long-standing commitment to students and teachers using open-access ATLAS data. You can explore ATLAS Open Data using the software and tools available here, or on the CERN Open Data Portal.
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Behind The Scenes: Ben Affleck Directing LIVE BY NIGHT
2016’s Live By Night is a luscious and luminous film. It features some beautiful production design and costumes, creating a vibrant world that echoes nearly a century of wonderful gangster movies. Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Dennis [...]
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: We All Stand Together
The cast of Guardians Of The Galaxy have rallied behind writer-director James Gunn following his firing from the franchise by Disney. The cast (including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker and Karen [...]
Review: Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT Is A Muscular Gangster Thriller
Tommy guns, bootleggers, fedoras and molls – Ben Affleck’s Live By Night has everything you would want from a 1930s gangster drama. This adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel is a love letter to Warner Bros’ golden age of gangster movies [...]
Discover The Price You Pay In This New Featurette For Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT
This featurette (titled The Price You Pay) for Ben Affleck‘s Live By Night is pretty detailed. You get some great snippets from the cast and Mr Affleck, it doesn’t feel like a puff piece at all. Live By Night starring Ben Affleck, Elle [...]
Final Poster For Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT
Gone Baby Gone, The Town and Argo – Ben Affleck has a great track recored as director. I don’t think Live By Night will be ruining that streak. Here’s the latest (and I believe final) poster for Affleck’s Prohibition drama [...]
Go Gangster With The Latest Trailer For Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT
Live By Night is actor-director-writer Ben Affleck’s attempt to recreate the old Warner Bros. gangster movies of the ‘30s and ‘40s. He appears to have captured the tone, and I hope that audiences embrace this movie. We need guys like Affleck [...]
Banned On The Rum: Trailer And Poster For Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT
To many he’s Batman, to some he’s tabloid fodder, but to others (the ones that matter) Ben Affleck is an award-winning filmmaker. And it’s the latter that will be excited by this new trailer for Live By Night. This Dennis Lehane adaptation has [...]
New Trailer For STAR TREK BEYOND Is An Entertaining Enterprise
I enjoyed J.J Abrams’ Star Trek and I thought its follow-up Star Trek Into Darkness was passable, if a little boring. I’m no Trekkie but this new trailer for Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond looks like fun. It gives the sense of adventure [...]
Trailer For STAR TREK BEYOND Sees Chris Pine And Crew Boldly Go Where They’ve Never Gone Before
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First Day, First Shot And First Picture As Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT Finally Starts Filming
Batman has constantly hampered the opportunity for Ben Affleck to direct his adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Live By Night. Now all the obstacles are out of the way and the Oscar-winner is finally shooting the film. He shared the above image on [...]
Beam Me Up! First Official Image From STAR TREK BEYOND
Star Trek Beyond has had a tricky development – but that now seems to be behind the Justin Lin directed sci-fi flick. The film is now shooting – and here’s the first official image. It doesn’t show much, but it plays with Trek iconography. [...]
Blu-ray Review: BLOOD TIES Is A Disappointing Crime Drama With A Great Billy Crudup Performance
Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties should have been a real winner. Set in ‘70s New York, Canet goes for that Sidney Lumet vibe – a tough-talking cop drama with a great cast lead by Billy Crudup, Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe [...]
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From bricklayer to wordsmith – Wayne writer slays with first novel, “Deep Within a Blueberry Sky”
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By Jillian Risberg
He was a bricklayer by trade and at one time or another a journeyman, contractor, construction superintendent and facilities manager, but few knew that Jeff Antonucci had a hidden talent as a writer.
Now the secrets out as Antonucci launched his debut novel, Deep Within a Blueberry Sky, back in December to a standing room only crowd at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair.
Up until that point, the author’s only writing consisted of personal pieces and poems for family and friends.
“When my father passed away suddenly in 1995, he was the picture of health,” the author says. “I wrote and read his eulogy at his funeral.”
When he worked as a senior facilities manager, Antonucci sent out email blasts that were light and fun while also pertinent to the hundred of employees at his company.
“I knew that I could get away with it not being a magnificent piece of writing and these people knew that I’m not a writer,” he says.
According to Antonucci, it was a hobby if you had to call it that.
He worked in construction all his life, following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and uncle who were all master tradesmen, and as he was about to lose his job that’s when the idea for this story came to the author like a virtual slideshow.
“I just went on faith. I never thought I could,” the author says of writing a book. “But I have to tell you, I’m starting to get a little concerned (about the future).”
Antonucci was 59 and all he knew was construction. “You’re looking to get a job — they require you to know how to work these certain programs,” he says.
The author and his four brothers lost their mother in June 2018 at the age of 98. Toward the end, Antonucci says her dementia increased and she didn’t know his name.
“It was a rude awakening for me to realize this is what happened to me, now I know what my brothers would feel. “So I wrote a little piece about that,” he says.
“I sent it to my brother Lou who let his wife Donna read it. Anytime Donna has read something I’ve written, she always says, ‘Gee Jeff, so beautiful, so honest — you should write a book.”
Antonucci says his sister-in-law has told him this on numerous occasions over the years and every time he has responded with a laugh; this was no different. Other people who read it said the same thing.
He says it was not only seeing the idea but also feeling it. In that split second when it flashed before his eyes, Antonucci had a feel for what the story had to convey.
But the author says he thought it was going to be a children’s picture book and that doesn’t require a lot of words.
“I think I can do that,” he says.
According to Antonucci, he was on Rte. 80 in Mount Olive when a truck came up alongside him and a decal on its back window read: ‘When you’re down to nothing, G-d is up to something.’
“It was fortunate that I met this woman, Donna Thompson (of Woodpecker Press) who is a publisher,” Antonucci says. “I’m gonna talk to Donna to see if she could help me see what I can do with the manuscript.”
Thompson was happy to make it happen.
She told me, “Basically, you’ll be self-publishing. I’ll walk you through the steps and this will be a nice thing for you to have for your family.”
Only 28 pages are necessary for a children’s book.
“My thinking was I don’t have to worry about (the length) ‘cause most of what I’m doing is a picture book. Maybe pages won’t even have any words,” Antonucci says.
The author wrapped up his work as a facilities manager and wanted to start writing this book.
“To show you where I’m coming from, I didn’t even have a computer in my home and I can’t even type,” Antonucci says. “I just wanted to get it over with.”
The author set himself up with a home office so as he put it, ‘he could get back to getting a job.’
“I sit down to write — I’m up to 10,000 words before you know it,” Antonucci says. “And I’m literally living in this world of the story.”
That’s well beyond the 2,800 words for a children’s book so he called his publisher and said, ‘Let me just keep writing and see where it goes.’
Right around that time, Antonucci drove by Preakness Valley United Reformed Church on Valley Road, where the welcome sign bears bible verses and scripture.
It read: ‘He Who Began a Good Work In You Will Be Faithful To Complete It In You,’” he says.
According to Antonucci, he views the way the message, idea and feeling of the story came to him as a gift from God.
He took the truck sign and the church sign as literal signs that he was meant to write this book and it helped him move forward.
“Every time I’m continuing to write, I’m thinking I’m getting close to the end of the story,” Antonucci says. “So I thought I gotta be done by September for sure.”
September would come and go and he was still not done.
November would come and go.
It was the better part of a year before Antonucci finally put his pen down on April 16, 2017.
Easter Sunday night to be exact he wrote the words, THE END — to the manuscript for “Deep Within a Blueberry Sky.” It ended up being more than 100,000 words.
“I’m not even letting people know I’m doing this (mostly other than) my wife and kids,” the author says.
That week Antonucci drove by the same church sign and at the time it read: ‘Love’s Redeeming Work is Done.’
According to the author, at it’s core — this is really a story about love.
The coming of age tale takes us on seven-year-old Sarah’s journey as her grandparents teach her crucial life lessons that span decades, ending when she is 40.
“Deep Within a Blueberry Sky is the magical realism (fiction genre incorporating magical elements to create an unexpected alteration of reality) novel that I’m so thrilled that it is but I didn’t plan it to be,” Antonucci says.
We first see the family make their way to the country for a typical summer getaway.
“The grandfather has this surprise in store for her,” the author says. “He’s going to teach her how to fly fish for brook trout.
“The grandmother has passed when the story starts. (She) and the grandfather got this plan together to do this for (Sarah) and it’s all about giving her the tools she needs to live a rich, full life,” Antonucci says. “One that will allow her to overcome challenges and obstacles she’s destined to encounter and realize for herself there are truly no limits to what she can do.”
According to the author, it’s an evolution — you get to a certain point and there’s something else that comes as part of this experience.
“I wrote a letter that I put into the book,” Antonucci says. “Basically I’m thanking the reader for not just purchasing the book but taking their valuable time to read this story.”
The author says it’s going to transport you to a very nice, calm, happy, loving place.
Neil Van Ess can relate.
The book’s main character, Sarah, had a wonderful relationship with her grandfather which reminded Van Ess of his own relationship with his 10-year-old granddaughter, Mia.
“So much so that after I read Deep Within a Blueberry Sky I was going to read it to Mia because there are a lot of
lessons in this book for her — of the value of time, the value of where you come from, who you come from and giving back to something greater than yourself,” the retired Totowa Police Captain says. “She’s been actually reading it to me and my wife.”
According to the Vietnam Veteran, his granddaughter is into the book and they’re covering about 10 pages every night.
The Purple Heart recipient says he can’t wait to finish the book because “you don’t necessarily have to succeed to get an end result ‘cause it’s always about the process.”
“I love it. It’s just a wonderful story of love, life, family,” Van Ess says, adding that the book captures unforeseen consequences and how love really conquers all.
Valerie Brannan echoed that sentiment, calling it a story about love and how God is love.
“With scriptures that he (Antonucci) talked about, including ‘Nothing is impossible, all things are possible with God,’” Brannan says. “That’s really the core of the story; it was very inspirational.”
It’s a journey, about faith, trust and honesty.
According to Brannan, she really enjoyed the child’s calm surrender to the grandfather and lessons learned.
“A very different writing style,” she says. “There was a lot of dialogue back and forth and you got to know the characters like you could just reach out and touch them.”
The Cedar Grove woman says that the underlying theme of the book is very, very spiritual.
For Pompton Lakes resident, Jack Murphy, the best part of Deep Within a Blueberry Sky was how the book identified many of life’s lessons that could apply across generations.
“Jeff touched on a subject, handicapped people, that most families and/or friends know someone afflicted,” Murphy says. “When finishing one chapter, you are encouraged to start the next.”
And like Van Ess, Murphy says that the book brought back memories of his granddaughter.
“Spending many wonderful days in my workshop building bird houses and other projects,” he says.
As a veteran, for Murphy the book also evoked feelings of one of the main character’s selfless sacrifices she made for her country.
He says it’s a wonderful book for a parent or grandparent to read with a young person.
“We have more than enough turmoil and anxiety, stress going on in life and in our world. Let this be an escape, that’s what I’m hoping,” Antonucci says.
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Historic Whippany Burying Yard Honored On Its Tercentennia
By new_view_media on November 9, 2018 No Comment
By Bonnie Cavanaugh
The culmination of years of work and planning came to fruition in late October as the township officially marked the 300th anniversary of the Whippany Burying Yard.
Landmark Commission member Bob Hinck sported historic attire to The Gathering, a celebration brunch for the tercentennial of the Whippany Burying Yard.
The Hanover Township Landmark Commission coordinated the three-day event, which ran from Sat., Oct. 20 through Mon., Oct. 22. Years of preparations have ranged from getting the burying yard listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, to having hundreds of headstones cleaned and repaired over the last two years. Many of the 400 markers predate the creation of the United States.
The three-day event launched with an Oct. 20 “gathering” of descendants, local political leaders, and state and national historical experts at the First Presbyterian Church on Rte. 10. It was followed an Oct. 21 guided tour of the burying yard, and an Oct. 22 slideshow presentation. The commission has for the last two years also celebrated the Fourth of July holiday with a service at the graveyard, which hosts some 11 soldiers of the American Revolution.
Commission Chair Michael J. Czuchnicki, who coordinated the events and acted as master of ceremonies for the gathering, noted, “The people resting there, who built America, have families here today.” That included members of the Richards, Bigelow, Kitchel, Tuttle, Cooper, Ward, Flatt and Vail families.
The gathering of officials and families was planned to be reminiscent of an historical local gathering that became a part of American history, Czuchnicki explained. When Keturah Tuttle Flatt died in 1850 at the age of 86, family members came from near and far to attend her funeral. Many of them were also in their 80s, and had either been part of the American Revolution, or had a story to tell.
This inspired a distant relative, Pastor Joseph Tuttle, to begin an oral history project to record as many of the survivors’ stories as possible. He eventually turned these revolutionary memories into the book, “Annals of Morris County,” and spent 50 years researching and writing historical accounts of the region.
Originally called the Whippanong Burying Yard, the cemetery is the oldest in north central New Jersey. The first person buried there was a 61-year-old widower, John Richards, who came to Whippany in 1717 from Newark, after having a lost a daughter in the French and Indian War.
Richards deeded this tract of land, of about four acres, to his friends and neighbors in Sept. 1718 for public use as a meeting place, or church, a school, a militia training ground and a burying yard. Richards died only months later in Dec. 1718, leading historians to speculate whether he knew that he was fatally ill in when he deeded the land.
The last plot at the burying yard belongs to the widow of one of the township’s longtime leaders, former mayor and state legislator Art Albohn. His bride, Regina Albohn, 94, has the distinction of becoming the cemetery’s final resident. She attended Saturday’s “gathering” brunch.
The late Albohn, who passed in 2008, supported and sponsored environmental initiatives regarding recycling and open space preservation. A staunch conservative, he allegedly earned the nickname “Dr. No” for voting “no” on excessive spending more than any other legislator.
The Albohns joined the First Presbyterian Church practically on the day they moved into the township from Ohio in 1950, Regina Albohn recalls.
“There was not a stick of furniture in the house,” she says. Her children went off to school, and her husband went off to work, leaving her to settle the home. “Then the doorbell rang. It was the minister of the church.” The family accepted his invitation to visit on the following Sunday and have remained members since, she says.
Hanover Twp. Mayor Ronald F. Francioli was also in attendance for the gathering, as were Rev. Sarah Cairatti of the First Presbyterian Church; Morris County Freeholder Christine Myers, whom the Trump administration appointed regional advocate for the U.S. Small Business Administration, beginning at the end of her current term this year; former township Mayor Leonardo Fariello, who maintains a web site on the history of Whippany and the burying yard; Amy. E. Curry, executive director of the Morris County Historical Society; Jude M. Pfister, chief of cultural resources for the Morristown National Historical Park; Township Historian Donald Kiddoo, and, Robert W. Craig, a historian who runs the National Register for Historic Places for the state of N.J.
Craig was largely responsible for having the burying yard included in the National Register. It’s rare for a cemetery to have such a distinction, he says. The Register is “gradually listing cemeteries based on criteria considerations.” These include seven factors that determine “historic integrity,” according to the register web site which are location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.
So far only 15 cemeteries have met this criteria, Craig says, adding that he has been working with archaeology to find some of the older cemeteries in the state, and has added the use of ground penetrating radar to seek out a cemetery’s original footprint.
Even rarer yet, the Whippany Burying Yard has been included in the Winter 2018 issue of “Preservation,” a national magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Craig notes. The story reveals how the landmark committee secured funds to restore numerous headstones prior to this year’s tercentennial celebration.
Czuchnicki secured nearly $100,000 over the past few years for the restoration project from the township committee and the county.
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Home | Gold Star Hall | World War II | Don Beerbower
Don Beerbower - Major
Rank: Major
Date Of Death: Aug 9, 1944
Hometown: Hill City, Minnesota
Service Ribbons Awarded:
Air Medal with V (for valor) (Somalia)
Year at ISU: 1942 - Creamery Operations (two year)
Major Don Merrill Beerbower was born on August 26, 1921 in Saskatchewan, Canada. His family later moved to Hill City, Minnesota. Don eventually married to Elayne Kutcher and had two daughters, Donita Lea and Dawn Marie.
Don was a World War II flying Ace from Hill City, Minnesota. He destroyed 19.5 enemy aircraft and damaged 14 others. At one point, he had 12 Swastikas painted on his P-51 Mustang the "Bonnie B."
He served with the 353rd Squadron "The Fighting Cobras", 354th Fighter Group, 9th Army Air Force. He made first lieutenat in March 1943 and Captain on November 1943. He achieved Ace status with the destruction of a German Messerschmitt 109. He became major on August 6, 1944.
Don died strafing a German airdrome north of Rheims, France on August 9, 1944. His awards include: the Air Medal, 25 Bronze Leaf Clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross, several Oak Leaf Clusters, the Silver Star, and the Distinguished Service Cross. He was inducted into the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame in 2000.
For further information about Major Beerbower and the "The Fighting Cobras" can be found in: "The Oranges are Sweet: Major Don M. Beerbower and the 353rd Fighter Squadron, November 1942 to August 1944" by Paul M. Sailer. "Forgotten Ace: Don M. Beerbower," also written by Paul M. Sailer, which appears the fall 2011 edition of WWII ACES, published by the magazine Flight Journal.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Davidson Little Farms Unit Project (Model) 1932–1933
Painted wood and particle board
7 3/4 × 70 × 54 3/4" (19.7 × 177.8 × 139.1 cm)
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
© 2021 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Frank Lloyd Wright has 116 works online.
There are 385 architectural models online.
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The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet
Posted on 1st June 2010
Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 1st June 2010
Brass neck doesn’t begin to describe it. Matt Ridley used to make his living partly by writing state-bashing columns in the Daily Telegraph. The government, he complained, is “a self-seeking flea on the backs of the more productive people of this world … governments do not run countries, they parasitise them.”(1) Taxes, bail-outs, regulations, subsidies, intervention of any kind, he argued, are an unwarranted restraint on market freedom.
Then he became chairman of Northern Rock, where he was able to put his free market principles into practice. Under his chairmanship, the bank pursued what the Treasury select committee later described as a “high-risk, reckless business strategy”(2). It was able to do so because the government agency which oversees the banks “systematically failed in its regulatory duty”(3).
On 16th August 2007, Dr Ridley rang an agent of the detested state to explore the possibility of a bail-out. The self-seeking fleas agreed to his request, and in September the government opened a support facility for the floundering bank. The taxpayer eventually bailed out Northern Rock to the tune of £27bn.
When news of the crisis leaked, it caused the first run on a bank in this country since 1878. The parasitic state had to intervene a second time: the run was halted only when the government guaranteed the depositors’ money. Eventually the government was obliged to nationalise the bank. Investors, knowing that their money would now be safe as it was protected by the state, began to return.
While the crisis was made possible by a “substantial failure of regulation”, MPs identified the directors of Northern Rock as “the principal authors of the difficulties that the company has faced”. They singled Ridley out for having failed “to provide against the risks that [Northern Rock] was taking and to act as an effective restraining force on the strategy of the executive members.”(4)
This, you might think, must have been a salutary experience. You would be wrong. Last week Dr Ridley published a new book called The Rational Optimist(5). He uses it as a platform to attack governments which, among other crimes, “bail out big corporations”(6). He lambasts intervention and state regulation, insisting that markets deliver the greatest possible benefits to society when left to their own devices. Has there ever been a clearer case of the triumph of faith over experience?
Free market fundamentalists, apparently unaware of Ridley’s own experiment in market liberation, are currently filling cyberspace and the mainstream media with gasps of enthusiasm about his thesis. Ridley provides what he claims is a scientific justification for unregulated business. He maintains that rising consumption will keep enriching us for “centuries and millennia” to come(7), but only if governments don’t impede innovation. He dismisses or denies the environmental consequences, laments our risk-aversion, and claims that the market system makes self-interest “thoroughly virtuous”(8). All will be well in the best of all possible worlds, as long as the “parasitic bureaucracy” keeps its nose out of our lives(9).
His book is elegantly written and cast in the language of evolution, but it’s the same old cornutopian nonsense we’ve heard one hundred times before (cornutopians are people who envisage a utopia of limitless abundance(10)). In this case, however, it has already been spectacularly disproved by the author’s experience.
The Rational Optimist is riddled with excruciating errors and distortions. Ridley claims, for example, that “every country that tried protectionism” after the Second World War suffered as a result. He cites South Korea and Taiwan as “countries that went the other way”, and experienced miraculous growth(11). In reality, the governments of both nations subsidised key industries, actively promoted exports and used tariffs and laws to shut out competing imports. In both countries the state owned all the major commercial banks, allowing it to make decisions about investment(12,13,14).
He maintains that “Enron funded climate alarmism”(15). The reference he gives demonstrates nothing of the sort, nor can I find evidence for this claim elsewhere(16). He says that “no significant error has come to light” in Bjorn Lomborg’s book The Sceptical Environmentalist(17). In fact it contains so many significant errors that an entire book – The Lomborg Deception by Howard Friel – was required to document them(18).
Ridley asserts that average temperature changes over “the last three decades” have been “relatively slow”(19). In reality the rise over this period has been the most rapid since instrumental records began(20). He maintains that “eleven of thirteen populations” of polar bears are “growing or steady”(21). There are in fact 19 populations of polar bears. Of those whose fluctuations have been measured, one is increasing, three are stable and eight are declining(22).
He uses blatant cherry-picking to create the impression that ecosystems are recovering: water snake numbers in Lake Erie, fish populations in the Thames, bird’s eggs in Sweden(23). But as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment shows, of 65 global indicators of human impacts on biodiversity, only one – the extent of temperate forests – is improving. Eighteen are stable, in all the other cases the impacts are increasing(24).
Northern Rock grew rapidly by externalising its costs, pursuing money-making schemes that would eventually be paid for by other people. Ridley encourages us to treat the planet the same way. He either ignores or glosses over the costs of ever-expanding trade and perpetual growth. His timing, as BP fails to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is unfortunate. Like the collapse of Northern Rock, the Deepwater Horizon disaster was made possible by weak regulation. Ridley would weaken it even further, leaving public protection to the invisible hand of the market.
He might not have been chastened by experience, but it would be wrong to claim that he has learnt nothing. On the contrary, he has developed a fine line in blame-shifting and post-rational justification. He mentions Northern Rock only once in his book, where he blames the crisis on “government housing and monetary policy.”(25) It was the state wot made him do it. He asserts that while he wants to reduce the regulation of markets in goods and services, he has “always supported” the careful regulation of financial markets(26). He provides no evidence for this and I cannot find it in anything he wrote before the crisis.
Other than that, he claims, he can say nothing, due to the terms of his former employment at the bank. I suspect this constraint is overstated: it’s unlikely that it forbids him from accepting his share of the blame.
It is only from the safety of the regulated economy, in which governments pick up the pieces when business screws up, that people like Dr Ridley can pursue their magical thinking. Had the state he despises not bailed out his bank and rescued its depositors’ money, his head would probably be on a pike by now. Instead we see it on our television screens, instructing us to apply his irrational optimism more widely. And no one has yet been rude enough to use the word discredited.
1. Matt Ridley, 22nd July 1996. Power to the people: we can’t do any worse than government. The Daily Telegraph.
2. Treasury Select Committee, 2008. Fifth Report.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtreasy/56/5603.htm
3. The agency in question is the Financial Services Authority. Ibid.
5. Matt Ridley, 2010. The Rational Optimist: how prosperity evolves. Fourth Estate, London.
6. Page 356.
7. p46.
8. Ridley is quoting Eamonn Butler, p105.
9. He uses this term on p357.
10. I think the term was coined by Simon Fairlie in his self-published pamphlet The Prospect of Cornutopia, released in 2002.
11. p187.
12. Mark Curtis, 2001. Trade for Life: Making Trade Work for Poor People. Christian Aid, London.
13. John Brohman, April 1996. Postwar Development in the Asian NICs: Does the Neoliberal Model Fit Reality? Economic Geography, Volume 72, Issue 2.
14. Graham Dunkley, 2000. The Free Trade Adventure: The WTO, the Uruguay Round and Globalism. Zed Books, London. First published in 1997 by Melbourne University Press.
16. The reference he gives is http://masterresource.org/?p=3302#more-3302
18. Howard Friel, 2010. The Lomborg Deception: setting the record straight about global warming. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
19. p 329.
20. You can see the trend here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/hadcrut3.html
22. Polar Bear Specialist Group, March 2010. http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/status/status-table.html
23. p17.
24. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: synthesis. Figure 13, Page 16. http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf
25. p9.
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Gwydir Wetlands
Located 60km northwest of the NSW rural town of Moree these magnificent wetlands are one of the most significant inland wetlands systems in New South Wales.
Since records began in the 1920s, at least 75 waterbird species (50 breeding) have been recorded in the Gwydir Wetlands. Colonially-nesting species, including Straw-Necked Ibis, intermediate Egrets, glossy Ibis and Nankeen Night-Herons have nested in large colonies when heavy upstream rainfall and floodwaters cause floods to extend across the wide Gwydir River floodplain.
At one time, this wetland extended over 100,000 hectares, west from Moree to the Barwon Darling River in the far west. Today it exists as a mere remnant, being only 15% of its former extent. In a move to halt continual wetlands loss, four local land owners listed portions of their wetlands under the International Ramsar Wetlands Agreement in 1998. At the time, the listed area (823 Ha @ 29°18'S 149°14'E) was entirely privately-owned. Today, these wetlands are preserved as the Gwydir Wetlands State Conservation Area (SCA).
A simple bird hide is located at the 'Waterbird Lagoon', where visitors can observe the wetlands birdlife and if observant, the threatened, endangered and migratory species that call these wetlands home. The more serious can explore further afield but be prepared for wet conditions. The shallow lagoon varies in depth, but can reach up to 90cm, a light weight canoe is a great way to get around. The National Parks and Wildlife Service provide a toilet and shaded seating area for your comfort, don't forget to pack your lifevest and be sunsafe at all times. This trip is recommended in DRY WEATHER.
GWYDIR WATERBIRD GALLERY
Solar powered RMCAM internet enabled cameras & weather sensors were recently installed in remote locations across the Gwydir Wetlands State Conservation Area. The camera is now set up to take images every 10 minutes & upload to a dedicated non OEH website.
The obvious advantage of using this approach is being able to monitor species in a remote location, with flexible regularity and without disturbance.
To access the Gwydir Waterbird Gallery, go to: www.rmcam.com.au
Username: Gwydir Waterbirds
Please Note: Access to the Gwydir Wetlands State Conservation Area is available during daylight hours all year round, permitting weather conditions and environmental management. For more information, please visit environment.nsw.gov.au/gwydir-wetlands or contact Toursim Moree on (02) 6757 3350.
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TALES FROM THE CRYPTS
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Dark, ghostly, macabre, and bizarre stories are in the program for you on Tales From The Crypts online horror tour.
If you love ghost and mystery stories, murder and suspense, and love Rome – this online tour is for you. Join our master storytellers from the comfort of your home, and be transported to Rome’s most infamous crime scenes. Based on our best-selling “Haunted Rome” ghost tour, Tales From The Crypts will shock you with the stories of murders, public executions, and kidnappings that shook Rome in not-so-distant past.
This is the perfect scary and fun online horror tour for the whole family.
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Join a passionate guide or a stellar storyteller and explore the dark side of Rome. The duration of this online tour is approximately 1 hour, but your guide will be waiting for you at the “waiting room” starting 15 minutes prior to the beginning. Besides hearing some of the most chilling ghost and murder stories, your online tour will be enriched with photographs and images of the places and characters in the stories. You can enjoy this experience with your entire family.
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Excellent Debut: “Don’t Ever Get Old” By Daniel Friedman
If you didn’t know that Don’t Ever Get Old, is Daniel Friedman’s debut work, it would have been impossible to know so by reading the book. Now in paperback, this Edgar Finalist novel is a great piece of novel and certainly a joy to read. Daniel Friedman, a resident of New York City, is a graduate of the University of Maryland and NYU School of Law and is now working on the second installment of what can be one the best crime series in the next decade.
Buck’s retirement gets a lot less boring when a fellow vet with whom he shared accommodations in a POW camp calls Buck to his bedside and reveals a disturbing bit of news: The SS officer who ran their camp is alive, in the US, and in possession of a fortune in stolen gold.
Buck sets out to find the guy, relying with much reluctance on Tequila, his grandson, who can drive him around at night and explain Google and how the Internet works. The twosome quickly learns that they are not the only ones on the trail of the treasure: Buck’s investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a seven-foot tall Hasidic Jew, and a bloodthirsty maniac hell-bent on rubbing out everybody who knows anything about the stolen loot.
We can’t wait to read more from Friedman…
Spending time on reading debut works is risky: Especially if you don’t have tolerance for below top-notch quality. But Don’t Ever Get Old is an exception: Friedman has masterfully created a story which you can’t put down. The lead character is not sexy, strong or super-smart. In fact in many cases, he is the opposite and that’s what makes him compelling.
Buck, who is aware of his shortcomings and lack of knowledge about how things work in the modern day, reluctantly teams up with his grandson: He has no idea how challenging the task in hand is and this, in essence, becomes something which motivates the reader to turn the pages and see what happens at the end.
This is a great first installment in a new series and we are looking forward to reading more from this talented author.
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FILE – In this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo, a portrait of former President John F. Kennedy, framed by Christmas decorations, hangs in the White House in Washington. A copy of Kennedy’s 1961 letter reassuring an 8-year-old Michigan girl, who had written him concerned that Santa would be killed if Russia tested a nuclear bomb at the North Pole, is being featured in December 2019 at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
BOSTON (AP) —In the throesof the Cold War, the Soviet Union was planning to test a massive nuclear bomb in the Arctic Circle.
But in a letter to then-President John F. Kennedy, a young Michigan girl was most concerned about the North Pole’s most famous resident.
“Please stop the Russians from bombing the North Pole,” 8-year-old Michelle Rochon, of Marine City, pleaded, according to news reports at the time. “Because they will kill Santa Claus.”
Kennedy’s brief, but reassuring response to Rochon is part of a trove of holiday-themed archival materials being featured this month at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
“You must not worry about Santa Claus,” the president wrote on Oct. 28, 1961. “I talked with him yesterday and he is fine. He will be making his rounds again this Christmas.”
Kennedy also told Rochon that he shared her concern about the Soviet Union’s test, “not only for the North Pole but for countries throughout the world; not only for Santa Claus but for people throughout the world.”
Photos of the Kennedys celebrating Christmas in the White House and copies of the family’s Christmas cards are among the other holiday keepsakes being highlighted in a seasonal display in the library’s lobby.
Rochon, who now goes by the last name Phillips, told The Boston Globe in 2014 that she never thought the letters would resonate the way it did back then, when it turned her into something of a national sensation.
“I was just worried about Santa Claus,” she told the Globe.
The Soviets, meanwhile, made good on their threat to bomb the North Pole. Two days after Kennedy penned his letter, they dropped the “King of Bombs,” as it was dubbed in Russian.
Reportedly 1,570 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, it shattered windows as far away as Norway and Finland. It’s still considered the most powerful man-made explosive ever detonated.
Kennedy and other world leaders were quick to denounce the bomb test, The Washington Post reports. None of the officials statements, however, addressed Santa’s fate.
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“United Nations Forum to Mark Fifty Years of Occupation:” What to Expect
BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) and lawfare campaigns against Israel originated at the NGO Forum of the UN’s 2001 Durban Conference. Since then, UN frameworks have continued to be primary venues for these forms of political warfare. As part of this process, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP – established by the UN in the 1970s as part of its discriminatory “Zionism is racism” campaign) is holding an anti-Israel propaganda conference on June 30, 2017 to advance BDS and demonize the existence of Israel.
The event, titled “Ending the Occupation: Creating the Space for Human Rights, Development and a Just Peace,” is billed as a Civil Society Forum, with scheduled speakers including various NGO officials and activists.
For the most part, as detailed below, these speakers and their organizations have long-standing pro-BDS, lawfare, and ‘48 agendas. Crucially, their economic and legal warfare campaigns target Israel as a whole, not only criticism of policies concerning the West Bank and Gaza.
This strongly suggests that discussion at this “50th anniversary” event is yet another excuse by UN agencies and their NGO partners to delegitimize Israel’s very existence and to bolster campaigns in line with this agenda. Scheduled panels such as “Enforcement of international law and accountability: How to make a difference?” and “Beyond occupation: in search of a just and lasting peace” reinforce this analysis.
Two surprising additions to the program are Hagai El-Ad of B’Tselem and Tania Hary from Gisha. Although El-Ad has made calls for “decisive international action” and “international action that resonates locally,” without publicly specifying what this would entail, neither has explicitly supported BDS or expressed opposition to Israel’s existence. Their participation in the CEIRPP event, therefore, is troubling.
NGO Participants that Support BDS and Lawfare Campaigns Against Israel
Al-Haq
Al-Haq is a leader in anti-Israel lawfare campaigns and BDS activities. Al-Haq has proposed sabotaging the Israeli court system by “flooding the [Israeli Supreme] Court with petitions in the hope of obstructing its functioning and resources.” In November 2015, Al-Haq and three other Palestinian NGOs submitted a document to Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), claiming evidence and testimonies of alleged Israeli “war crimes” perpetrated during the 2014 Gaza war.
Al-Haq is highly active in promoting BDS campaigns. In a September 2015 meeting of CEIRRP in Brussels, Shawan Jabarin, Al-Haq’s General Director, called for the international community to enact policies of BDS against Israel.
Shawan Jabarin is allegedly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel.
Wesam Ahmad, head of Legal Research and International Advocacy for Al-Haq, participated in a March 2014 conference held by the University of Amsterdam on the “role of the European Union in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the case of businesses invested in illegal settlements, labelling settlement products and EU’s commitments to respect and promote human rights.”
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
AFSC is a leader of BDS campaigns on campuses and churches in the United States.
Dalit Baum, director of AFSC’s Middle East program, is co-founder of Coalition of Women for Peace’s flagship BDS project “Who Profits?” Baum lobbies international audiences on how best to promote the global BDS campaign against Israel. Campaigns include an online investment screening tool aimed to “help individuals and institutions identify companies on their investment portfolios that are directly complicit in ongoing severe violations of human rights and international law.”
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
HRW consistently lobbies the International Criminal Court to pursue “war crimes” prosecutions against Israeli officials, and promotes BDS campaigns. It is also active at the United Nations and other international frameworks, making false, distorted, and unverifiable allegations against Israel.
Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel and Palestine Director, is a consistent supporter of a one-state framework and advocate for BDS campaigns against Israel. At a May 2010 presentation at UC Irvine, Shakir stated that BDS is “a way that each of us in this room can exercise their own form of pressure to end that unjust system and to embrace a vision for a better future.”
HRW initiated a public campaign with multiple articles, travel, and extensive lobbying of the UN, alongside PLO efforts, calling on FIFA to take punitive measures against Israel and “require the IFA to stop holding games inside the settlements and to stop allowing fields and halls in the settlements to be used for official competitions.” HRW has never done this with any other country.
On January 19, 2016, HRW published “Occupation Inc.” a 162-page report calling for businesses to cease operations in Israeli West Bank settlements, constituting a de-facto call for a boycott of Israel. Coinciding with HRW’s publication, Kathleen Peratis, co-chair of HRW’s Middle East North Africa Advisory Committee and emerita Board of Trustees member, penned a pro-BDS article in Ha’aretz.
Al Mezan
Al Mezan is highly active in anti-Israel lawfare campaigns, exploiting courts and international legal bodies to seek arrest warrants against Israeli government officials, file lawsuits against companies and governments doing business with Israel, and lobby for cases against Israelis at the ICC.
Supports BDS initiatives through signing of petitions and membership in BDS platforms. In July 2014, signed a Joint Call to Action: July 2014 – Month against the Apartheid Wall stating: “….it is time for a ‘legal intifada’, an intensified popular struggle and more boycotts, divestment and sanctions….We ask you to expand and deepen the global BDS movement for justice…”
Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP)
CWP is a leader in international BDS campaigns against Israel, including through initiating the “Who Profits from the Occupation” project. CWP is involved in campaigns against major Israeli banks, the Elbit and G4S security companies, Ahava cosmetics, and Agrexco produce. CWP further supported a Berkeley divestment vote and a successful divestment initiative with the Norwegian Government Pension Fund.
In December 2009, CWP lobbied the British government to “Enable Prosecution of Israeli War Criminals.” CWP also sent a Hebrew translation of the UN Goldstone “Fact-finding” Report to (former Foreign Minister) Tzipi Livni, stating: “We are convinced that if you refer to the report you will understand why British citizens and organizations have turned to the courts with a request to issue a warrant for your arrest… We call on you to cooperate with any international investigation that may be opened against you and to counsel your colleagues in the Government and military to do the same.”
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
Promotes political warfare strategy against Israel, including BDS, sustained campaigns of demonization alleging “apartheid” and “racism,” and support for a Palestinian claim to a “right of return” with the ultimate goal of dismantling Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
On February 2, 2016, JVP, together with “Jews Say No!,” circulated a deceptive print and online edition of The New York Times to protest the newspaper’s coverage of Israel. The front page of the falsified edition reads, “Congress to Debate U.S. Aid to Israel” and featured several ads, including one for Shalom Cement, a company specializing in building “apartheid walls,” and another for a luxury watch that reads, “The time is now to end Israeli military aid.”
Mustafa Barghouti
Barghouti takes part in BDS activities, stating, “We are now in the early stages of a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions directed at this Israeli government for its refusal to abide by international law. Such action successfully overturned Jim Crow laws in the American South and apartheid in South Africa, and we are slowly applying it to Israeli occupation and apartheid.”
He has called for an arms embargo against Israel, arguing that European countries must end military purchases from Israel because it is “a war criminal country.”
Noura Erakat
Erakat is the US-based Legal Advocacy Consultant for the radical Palestinian NGO BADIL.
She is also an assistant professor at George Mason University, vocal anti-Israel activist, and former legal campaigner for “US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation,” where she “helped seed BDS campaigns” and facilitate “lawfare” cases against two former Israeli officials in US federal courts.
In December 2014, Erakat participated in a panel discussion by the American Anthropological Association titled “What is the Role of Academia in Political Change? The Case of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and Israeli Violations Of International Law.” During her lecture, Erakat stated that “one of the values of an academic boycott is to…do what Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions does, which is to apply a moral pressure onto Israel, which has been absent. It has been absent as a result of intimidation, and real repercussions, or, on the international scene, the work of the United States to incapacitate any kind of accountability, whether it be legal or diplomatic or otherwise.”
While a student at UC Berkeley, Erakat spearheaded a divestment campaign along with Students for Justice in Palestine.
Diana Buttu
Buttu is the former spokesperson for the Negotiations Support Unit for the PLO and was also involved in promoting the discredited advisory opinion against Israel’s security barrier at the International Court of Justice.
In October 2016, Buttu was a signatory on a letter to the editor sent to The New York Review of Books welcoming the “shattering of the taboo against boycotting Israeli entities that are complicit in—at least selective—violations of Palestinian human rights.” The letter added, however, that “calls for boycotting settlements [] let[] Israel, the state that has illegally built and maintained those settlements for decades, off the hook. Moreover, shouldn’t Israeli banks that are not based in settlements but finance their construction be targeted as well?”
Buttu has accused Israel of “war crimes,” “ethnically cleans[ing] 75% of the Palestinian population,” “a massacre against Palestinian civilians,” and promotes BDS campaigns. She also participated in the 2012 Russell Tribunal on Palestine in New York.
UN CEIRPP “50 Years of Occupation” Event: BDS, Antisemitism, and Demonization
On June 29-30, 2017, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) held a forum to “mark fifty years of Israeli occupation.” As anticipated, the event “Ending the Occupation: Creating the Space for Human Rights, Development and a Just Peace,” featured antisemitic rhetoric, calls for BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions), and demonization campaigns against Israel’s existence.
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Orji Uzor Kalu regains his freedom after Lagos high court orders his release from prison
June 2nd, 2020 News, Nigerian, Politics comments
FORMER Abia State governor and current senate chief whip Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has regained his freedom after a Lagos federal high court ordered his release from prison following the recent annulment of the judgement hailing him for fraud.
On May 8, Senator Kalu had his 12 year conviction for corruption and money laundering quashed by the Nigerian Supreme Court on a technicality that he was convicted by the wrong type of court. On December 5, 2019, he has been jailed for 12 years after he was convicted of N7.1bn fraud alongside his firm, Slok Nigeria and a former director of finance at the Abia State government house, Jones Udeogu.
However, the Supreme Court judgment nullified the trial and conviction on the grounds that the judge who handled the case lacked jurisdiction to do so. The Supreme Court’s judgment followed an appeal by Mr Udeogu, contending that the trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris, concluded the 12-year-old trial and gave judgment after he had been elevated to the Court of Appeal and ceased to be a judge of the federal high court.
Today, Senator Kalu’s counsel, Chief Lateef Fagbemi, successfully urged Justice Mohammed Liman of the Lagos federal high court to the release of the former governor from prison custody based on the pronouncement of the Supreme Court. In response, the prosecuting counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Rotimi Jacobs, said the agency would not, in principle, oppose Mr Fagbemi’s application.
Mr Jacobs said: “But we are also urging the court that the order made by the Supreme Court for trial de novo should be complied with by all parties, so that your lordship will give us a date when arraignment will be done. We want the trial to go on as losing more time will be dangerous for us.”
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THE CHURCH HUB
Gifted (Prophecy)
Estimated around 18-22 gifts (Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4) We are going to look them through gifts that says something, reveal something, and do something.
Say Something: Teaching, prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues
A lot of instructions concerning the correct use of these gifts.
• Office of Prophet – Cf. Ephesians 2:20; 4:11 Exodus 4:10-12; Jeremiah 1:9; Ezekiel 2:7; Hosea 1:2; Joel 1:1; Micah 1:1; Zephaniah 1:1; Amos 1:3
It was not restricted to men alone. Mariam, Moses’ sister, was called a “prophet” Cf. Exodus 15:20; Deborah Cf. Judges 4:4; Huldah Cf. 2 Kings 22:14-20.
What was the word? The word of God spoken through these Prophets were usually judgement and a call to repentance.
Deuteronomy 18:20-22 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
• Gift of Prophecy – Cf. 1 Corinthians 12:10; 14
1 Corinthians 12:10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:1-4 1 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. 2 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. 3 On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
Prophecy are words that encourage and build up the church.
1 Corinthians 14:24-25 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, 25 the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
Prophecy may also bring conviction of sin to unbelievers who happen to visit a church gathering.
Other Examples of Prophecy:
Acts 11:27-28 27 Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).
Prophecy was given to predict a crisis.
Acts 13:1-3 1 Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Prophecy was given to provide direction of ministry.
Acts 21:4, 10-14 4 And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. 10 While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews[c] at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” 12 When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” 14 And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”
Prophecy came as a warning to God’s people.
The gift of prophecy was spontaneous proclamation of a revelation that edifies the church, bring conviction of sin, and provide present and future insight.
Prophecy happening in a corporate church gathering:
1 Corinthians 14:29-33 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. 30 If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged, 32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. 33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. Cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21; 1 John 4:1-2
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 As in all the churches of the saints, 34 the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. 35 If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. Cf. Acts 2:17-18; Acts 21:8-9; 1 Corinthians 11:5
A more excellent way:
1 Corinthians 12:31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13:2, 11-13 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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JOSHUA REITANO (Church Planter/ Lead Pastor)
Josh and his wife, Paige, moved to Oakley in the spring of 2009 to plant New City. While Paige is a native Cincinnatian, Josh grew up in Columbus. He completed his undergraduate work at Miami University in Mass Communication and joined the staff of CRU upon graduating. He worked to plant a campus ministry at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands before returning to Miami University to complete an M.A. in Comparative Religion. From there, Josh went to Princeton Seminary to complete a Master of Divinity. He worked as an Assistant Pastor at North Cincinnati Community Church in 2004, and remained at NCCC until planting New City. Josh and Paige have two active children: Lucy and Crosley.
BRIAN FERRY (Executive Pastor/Church Musician)
Brian, Cheryl and their 3 girls: Meka, Eden, & Quinn, came to New City and moved to Oakley at the beginning of 2012. Brian grew up in Cincinnati and married Cheryl when she moved here to work at Kroger headquarters. Brian went to Miami University with Josh, graduating with a B.A. in Speech Communication. He’s served as a pastor of student ministry and church musician for about 15 years, with a short stint at a camp and retreat center. He graduated with a Masters of Divinity in Biblical Studies from Cincinnati Bible Seminary and was ordained a teaching elder in the PCA in November of 2013.
MICHAEL PREVITERA (Assistant Pastor/Campus Minister @ Xavier University)
Michael and Melissa and their 3 children (Oliver, Leo, and Margot) came to New City in 2014. He is on staff with the CCO (Coalition for Christian Outreach) Michael grew up in North Canton, OH and graduated from Ashland University as a double major in Theology and Psychology. He graduated with a Master of Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2011 and was ordained in 2016. Michael spends most of his days on campus at Xavier University where he drinks a lot of coffee, answers questions (both big and small), and helps the next generation figure out what it means to be apprentices in the way of Jesus.
RYAN ZHANG (Pastor for Neighborhood Ministries)
Ryan Zhang moved to the United States from Guangzhou, China at the age of twelve, and attended middle and high school in Fairfield, OH. After receiving a B.A. in Government and American Studies from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., Ryan worked at a law firm in D.C. for three years and became a member of Grace DC (PCA), where he met his wife Abigail. Ryan received his Master of Divinity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2015, worked as a staff member at Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, MA and joined the New City team in 2016.
KRISTEN BENNETT (Elementary Director)
Kristen, a native Cincinnatian, now hails from north of the city with her husband, Jess. They manage a Brady Bunch of a busy, blended family and are parents to Rylen, Jess Jr., Colt, Marianne, Hans & Lena. Kristen graduated from Miami University in 1998 with a major in Mass Communication and has most recently worked for a design quality assurance position in the corporate world. Spare time is currently a bit of a foreign thing, but Kristen does manage to squeeze in some reading, jogging, hiking and occasional knitting.
STACEY FEAGANS (Nursery Director)
Stacey was born and raised in Rogers, AR and moved to Madeira in 2019 with her husband Brandon and their three daughters Bailey, Ellie, and Mollie. They lived in Baltimore, MD prior to moving here and loved seeing how God brought them to New City! She graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2010 with a Bachelors in Interior Design and enjoyed staying home while her girls were little. Stacey loves traveling, organizing, crafting, and kids!
JENNI GOODNIGHT(NCK Director of Admin & Club 56)
Jenni was born and raised in Fishers, Indiana. After attending Ball State University, Jenni moved to Cincinnati in 2016 (and has attended New City since) to pursue her dream of working with kids and teenagers. She enjoys spending time at the lake with her family, game nights with her friends, laminating, and being creative.
JULIE HOLLYDAY(Special Event Childcare Coordinator)
Julie is an Ohio native who lives in Mariemont with her husband, Graham, and their two children, Walter and Theo. She enjoys creating systems, art, meals and friendships. In addition to her work at New City, Julie works part-time with a local mission, and lots more time taking care of the kiddos. Julie will be coordinating paid childcare workers for our non-Sunday events.
ABIGAIL MURRISH (Director of Communication)
Abby grew up in Bargersville, Ind. and currently lives in Norwood with her husband, Mike and their daughter, Phoebe. Abby attended Purdue University where she studied agricultural communications and was involved with Reformed University Fellowship. Since 2014, Abby has worked as a freelance writer and administrator, helping publications, non-profits and small businesses develop and hone their communications strategies and content. Abby enjoys walking her neighborhood, traveling, reading, and hosting friends, family and neighbors in her home.
PETE SELF (Facilities Manager)
Pete and his wife Donna are originally from Atlanta, GA and have been married for 35 years. They currently live in Madeira and have three grown children (all married) and three grandchildren (to date). Members at New City since 2016, Pete has been a part of ESOL, Keynote team, and Christmas Store. He and Donna both enjoy serving in their Community Group, New City Kids, and various aspects of men's and women's ministries. Pete retired from Procter and Gamble in 2016, having spent 36 years as an engineer in Research and Development. Years of volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and living in older homes has prepared him for the current role of facilities manager (the church building turns 100 in 2022!). Pete and Donna both love spending time with their family, friends, and faith community - as part of celebrating and growing God's Kingdom.
AMY SAMAD (Administrative Assistant)
Amy was born and raised in Cincinnati and currently lives in College Hill with her husband Jacob, and their son Jack and daughter Audrey. She graduated from Miami University in 2000 with a Bachelors in Elementary Education. After teaching and nannying since college, she is enjoying her new role as a mom. You can often find Amy in the kitchen baking her favorite desserts or acting as Jacob's sous chef.
JATHNIEL SHEPHERD (Financial Assistant)
Jathniel and her husband Aaron live in Oakley with their three children. She works full time as a mom and part time as the financial assistant for the church. Jathniel has served at New City in various ways since she and her family began attending six years ago, including working in children's ministry, leading community group, and singing on the worship team.
PAUL BOYS
Paul and his wife Kristin married in 2007 and are prouds parents of two daughters. Paul began his life as an American born abroad near Toronto but has been a Cincinnati resident for the bulk of his life. He works for Procter & Gamble analyzing numbers and narratives and for Mercy Health doing physical therapy. Paul and Kristin have been attending New City since its first service and are regular New City Kids teachers and community group hosts.
BEN FRADE
Ben has already served one term as an elder at New City. Ben and Megan have been married for 10 years. They live in Norwood, just a couple of houses down from the church building, with their four children (Judah, Elijah, Josiah, Hannah). He and his wife grew up just north of Cincinnati, in Mason. They have loved moving closer to the city and getting to enjoy living in a close-knit church community that loves the city too. Ben and Megan joined New City in 2011. Ben has served in a variety of ways at New City such as an Elder, Running the Sound Board for Music Team, Community Group Leader, and New City Kids Volunteer. Ben works as a Senior HR Systems Analyst for a Cincinnati-based American Broadcast company called “The E.W. Scripps Company”.
PHIL HAGEDORN
Phil and Kristen moved to Cincinnati in 2010. They started attending New City in 2013 and have welcomed 2 daughters into their family since then. Phil, a pediatrician, is faculty at Cincinnati Children’s where he cares for patients admitted to the hospital and works with clinical information systems. Phil has joined the New City team in Mazatlan when his schedule allows and Kristen is active in women’s ministry and New City Kids.
JOSH KAUFMANN
Josh and his wife, Courtney, live and work in Kennedy Heights. They have three young boys who love to hike, wrestle, work in the yard, and make lots of noise. When he’s not wrangling them, Josh enjoys facilitating community groups and Bible studies, and has previously served a term as an elder.On the side, Josh is a devoted fan of Michigan (where he was born) and “this close” to becoming a dual-citizen of Luxembourg (where his family is from). At work, he is President of HealthAgree, an international consultancy that fosters business relationships among healthcare providers, innovators, and insurance companies.
DAN LARSON
Dan and his wife Becca met at Miami University and were married in 2005. They live in Madeira with their four delightful children (Annabelle, Patrick, Graham, Lydia). Dan grew up in Madeira and has been a member of New City since 2012. He has taught regularly in New City Kids, led community groups, and served a previous term as an elder. Dan works as a tax accountant for a local investment advisory firm.
JAKE SAMAD
Jake and his wife, Amy, have been married for 16 years; have two kids, Jack and Audrey; and have seen every current major league baseball team play at thier home field. A life-long resident of College Hill, Jake is proud to call Cincinnati home and genuinely loves the city. During the day, Jake is a partner at the Cincinnati law firm, Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, where he advises individuals and small business owners regarding personal, business and succession planning.
DAN SUDLOW
Dan has already served one term as an elder at New City. He is a former pastor, and he and his wife, Diana, have been married for 16 years and are the parents of Henry. After stints in Dallas and Dayton, they’re happy to call Cincinnati home. The Sudlows have enjoyed serving in New City Kids, leading a Community Group and keeping the Sunday morning crowd properly caffeinated as part of the Hospitality team. Dan works in finance at an insurance company and enjoys building forts with Henry, trying to keep up with an old house, and smoking meat on his Big Green Egg.
JOSH CHERNESKY
Josh has served before as a Deacon at New City. He grew up in Waynesville, Ohio, just a little north of Cincinnati. He and his wife Marianne met at Wheaton College and currently live north of the city in Liberty Township. They have been members of New City since 2014. In his day job, Josh works as a corporate attorney in downtown Dayton. He has served on the hospitality team and helped lead community groups in addition to his previous service as a deacon.
ERIC DANIELSON
Eric has lived in Cincinnati since 2015 and works as an engineer. He has been walking with the Lord for about 10 years, but has found a home at New City. God has used this to each Eric about His grace in his life, and he trusts that God will also use his service as a deacon to continue to teach him.
TYLER JONES
Tyler grew up in Loveland and after school in Knoxville, TN, and some time in Virginia and New Mexico, he and his wife Amy ended up back in Cincinnati. They now have two boys, Carson and Beckett. New City has been their church home now for 4 years where Tyler has served in a variety of capacities including New City Kids, the sound board, and leading a community group.
JOSH DONATH
Joshua grew up in Syracuse, NY and moved to Cincinnati in 2015. He currently lives in Clifton with his wife Courtney (they met and got married at New City!). During the day he works in residence life at the University of Cincinnati. In his free time he enjoys camping, baking, playing sports, and exploring Cincinnati with friends. Joshua has enjoyed serving with New City Kids (especially as a Lead Teacher for elementary classes) and also as a community group leader..
KEVIN JOINER
Kevin lives in North Avondale with his wife Samantha (they met at New City and were recently married). During the day Kevin is a software developer, but in his free time enjoys riding BMX bikes and motorcycles. At New City, he's enjoyed serving in New City Kids and participating in community groups.
AARON KINGSLEY
Aaron Kingsley has lived in Cincinnati since 2004 and currently lives in Norwood with his wife Meggie and their two kids, Jeremiah and Auden. He graduated from Grove City College in 2012 and works for Unilever. Aaron and Meggie love walking the neighborhood and meeting new friends so come say hi!
ANDREW LOENEN
Andrew was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and moved to Indianapolis as a kid. He currently lives in West Chester, and has worked in finance at GE Aviation since graduating from Indiana University. Andrew has been with New City since 2015, when a GE internship brought him to Norwood and New City. He enjoys helping in New City Kids and running keynote on Sunday mornings, and is active in a community group.
LEE PINKSTON
Lee grew up right across the Ohio River in Union, KY, and attended the University of Kentucky. Upon returning to Cincinnati to start his career at Ernst & Young, Lee met his wife MacKenzy and they were married here at New City. They now live in Sycamore Township and have been blessed by the community within the church. Lee has enjoyed serving at New City through the New City Kids Ministry as a Lead Teacher, on the Hospitality Team with his wife, and as a Community Group leader. During his free time Lee enjoys checking out new Cincinnati restaurants, playing basketball, taking walks around the neighborhood, reading, and cheering on his beloved Kentucky Wildcats.
AARON SHEPHERD
Aaron and his wife Jathniel have attended New City Church since they first moved to Cincinnati eight years ago. They and their three kids live in Oakley and have been blessed by the deep community the neighborhood and the church have brought to their lives. During the day, Aaron works as an attorney at P&G. He serves on the New City worship team, volunteers in New City Kids, helps lead a community group, and previously served as a deacon.
RYAN STRAND
Ryan is originally from Lafayette, Indiana but first came to Cincinnati to attend the UC-College Conservatory of Music. After a 9-year stop in New York City as an actor, he settled back in Cincinnati in 2014 with his wife Becca. Since then, Ryan and Becca have had two girls, Isla and Hattie, and volunteer at New City in New City Kids, as community group leaders and on the music team. Ryan also found a calling as the “bow guy,” almost falling off ladders the past few years hanging the greenery in the sanctuary during Advent. During weekdays, he works at ArtsWave raising money and audiences for Greater Cincinnati’s arts community.
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Police bargaining unit OK'd, union election next
Donna Baxter
OZARK – In the near future, Ozark police department employees will vote to decide if they want to be represented by a union — the Fraternal Order of Police.
Aldermen unanimously approved the bargaining unit – which will include 15 police officers, five corporals and five sergeants — at a special public meeting Oct. 20.
The delay had been due to the city's reluctance to accept the inclusion of sergeants in the composition of the proposed union's bargaining unit. Aldermens' concerns were mainly that sergeant positions are normally more supervisory in nature.
The FOP, a labor union of sworn United States law enforcement officers, presently has a membership of over 325,000 in 2,100 chapters.
A court ruling gave municipal police forces the right to engage in collective bargaining with cities for wages, working conditions and other issues. However, the city must first approve the officers selected to represent the rank and file in those negotiations.
Before voting Oct. 6 to send the issue to public meeting, aldermen discussed the matter for quite a while.
Speaking to aldermen at the public meeting attorney Todd Johnson, representing the FOP, said the city's acceptance of the bargaining unit's composition was necessary to pave the way for the union election to take place.
"The real question was should sergeants be part of the unit or not," said Johnson. "Is there a job difference between the various (officers) and the sergeants to such an extent that they (sergeants) shouldn't be part of the unit? That's the question that (aldermen have been) trying to answer."
He explained to the board during the meeting that his investigation clearly revealed that the Ozark police sergeants perform more in the role of foremen. The way sergeants interact with fellow officers is so similar to corporals and police officers that they should be in the same union, he said.
"That was my recommendation to the board and the board agreed," Johnson said.
Sgt. Sean Vorse, labor chair of the Ozark Police Officers Association, said one of the main reasons for desiring to combine the two unions is the cost to citizens.
"We did a sunshine law request two weeks ago on what the city has paid out to Mr. Johnson's law firm. Having the sergeants in a separate union would double that cost to the citizens when we can accomplish the same thing with one unit. It just makes sense," said Vorse.
The FOP wants to be recognized as a union by the city by Dec. 1, he continued. This will give the officers more decision-making power. At least eight other police departments that he knows of include sergeants in the same union.
"This is new to us as far as the bargaining goes, but it's nothing new as far as the overall scheme of things," Vorse said.
Detective Shara Stephens said she believes that most department employees will vote to go with the union. The department consists of 33 people counting all officers, certified, commissioned and Chief Lyle Hodges, she said.
Johnson said the election is by secret ballot.
"It's really a mutual thing between the city and the police force. Should there be a dispute, the city ultimately would be the decision maker," he said.
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Telling the story of Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
Sita McAlpine and Christiane Keller, curators, National Museum of Australia, 1 December 2017
PENELOPE VAILE: Welcome to the final talk in our series of ‘Songlines: the backstory’. Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is the exhibition that’s currently on in our Temporary Gallery downstairs. If you haven’t been in to see it, it is absolutely stunning and you will definitely want to go in once you have heard the talk that’s about to happen.
It’s the first exhibition of its kind, attempting to tell, in an exhibition space, an Indigenous founding narrative, using Indigenous ways of passing on knowledge.
Now I would like to introduce to you two of the curators of this exhibition, Christiane Keller and Sita McAlpine.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: Good afternoon everybody, welcome to the National Museum for the backstory of the Songlinesexhibition. This will be a collaborative talk between myself and Sita. As a start I want to acknowledge that we are standing on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri lands, and acknowledge elders past and present. And I’ll pass over to Sita.
SITA MCALPINE: Hi everyone. We wanted to start today’s talk with a short story to transport you into the desert.
Beyond the sealed roads in far western Pilbara, ten ‘troopies’, 25 Martu people travelled 600 kilometres of remote country, most of it off-road. There was no track, even though we were promised one. The reason being is that we were tracking the Seven Sisters. We were literally driving in four-wheel drives along the songline, where the Seven Sisters travelled.
It is here, in remote Australia, that the stories that you see today in the exhibition were told. Transported from the Western Desert, as told by senior custodians of the Seven Sisters songline. The exhibition is very ambitious, it covers 7000 kilometres across three deserts including the Pilbara there in the Martu lands, and the Western Desert in the APY [Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara] and NPY [Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara] lands.
In this talk we want to discuss the exhibition from the perspective of on the ground, travelling with the artists, recording the story, and capturing the stories that you see in the exhibition today. We’re going to talk through some of the successes and some of the challenges of doing such unique work. I think what you’re about to hear, and some of the backstories of these trips, will give you kind of a deeper appreciation for what you see in the exhibition.
I’ll pass it over to Christiane.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: Before talking about this journey we want to briefly begin by telling you what came before, and share the background of the exhibition development. Broadly speaking, we can distinguish two phases, the ARC [Australian Research Council] Songlines project, and the actual exhibition development.
In the first phase, the project was initiated in 2010 when Anangu elder, Mr David Miller, leaned across a meeting table and stated, ‘You mob. You’ve got to help us. Those songlines, they’ve been all broken up now, you can help us put them all back together again.’
This plea for help archiving songlines for future generations was addressed to researchers from the Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia. Together with other industry partners and elders from the communities they initiated ARC Linkage Project, Songlines of the Western Desert. Alive with the Dreaming!
Lead curator Margo Neale talked about this aspect of the project in her lecture several weeks ago, so we won’t go further into it. Until 2015 the ANU [Australian National University] researchers focused more on documenting, recording, and archiving the songline of the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, or in brief, the APY, Ngaanyatjarra and Martu lands.
Amongst the highlights of the project was the performance of the Kungkarangkalpa Seven Sisters songline in narration, song, and dance here at the Amphitheatre of the Museum in February 2013. I don’t know if any of you was present then.
The intensive work to prepare the performance of travelling to country, practising the songs and dances, and writing the libretto provided a solid base for part of this exhibition. Furthermore, some films were made of the re-enactment of inmasong and dance, at Kuru Ala as well as following the sisters travel through Martu country. These films are also included in the exhibition.
SITA MCALPINE: Fast-forward two years, and we’re now in 2015, and the National Museum of Australia is going forward very fast to develop this exhibition. As an Indigenous-led exhibition, it was crucial for us to push the boundaries of how we were going to realise the communities’ vision. Custodians and us curators shared the same vision of the exhibition, to open a space for Australians to challenge their perspectives, to learn about their fellow Indigenous Australians and their deep, deep knowledge of this country.
Kumpaya, one of the artists from out bush from Martu land, says, ‘Teach the Tjukurrpa, teach them.’ And Nola, her close friend, says, ‘Everyone learn. We will show them this exhibition, I think this exhibition is good to know.’
What Kumpaya and Nola are talking about is that, while songlines are embodied knowledge, and held by the custodians, these epic tales hold a common thread that bind us all, from all different cultures. The Seven Sisters story itself is all about relationships. We won’t go into that now, but I’m sure you’ve already seen the exhibition and know plenty about that.
Kumpaya says, ‘Looking after the Tjukurrpa, beneath and inside, whitefella, blackfella, same self. Same Martu, whitefella, blackfella, same story.’ We all hold this story, it’s all about men and women, so as Australians we need to know our foundational stories. We need to be able to relate to them, because they are part of the creation of this continent that we all live on today.
After hearing these voices from the community, and hearing what they wanted to do with the exhibition, us curators were faced with some questions. How do we bring an ancient, living, breathing story of a songline into the exhibition space, into four walls within this Museum? How do we realise the plea to preserve these ancient songlines and share them with the nation?
It was clear from the beginning that we had to tell the story as it was told to us, in community and out bush, so it was primarily through going out on large bush trips, consultation trips, that we recorded the story of the Seven Sisters. Artwork started to be created in reaction to the project, and there started to be a free-flowing exchange of knowledge. Through this process, as we mentioned in the story right at the beginning, we literally travelled the route of the Seven Sisters, and in doing so we were constantly clarifying the story; but that just wasn’t for us as curators, it was for the mob as well. Some of them haven’t been out on country in some places for 50 years. Some, in this case, the last time they had been out there they had never seen whitefellas before.
So this project brought back an opportunity to a community, to re-enter country and walk these songlines and bring back the memories, and in doing so being able to pass them on to the next generation. So what you see in the exhibition, what you see on the labels, is only a very small snippet of information that was recorded during this exhibition.
We recorded films as immersive experiences, behind-the-scenes, there’s voice recordings, it was all very extensive. For the reason that we’re archiving this for the future generations. For Martu, APY and NPY people, but it was really through cutting-edge technology that we were able to do this, I just want to share a quick quote from Curtis Taylor before passing it on to Christiane.
He says, ‘Just like the old people we are Dreaming. We have a new dream with technology, we’re using the newest technology with the oldest culture.’
CHRISTIANE KELLER: Realising the Anangu vision of preserving those songlines with the use of the newest technology to archive the oldest living culture also brought interest and participation of younger generations. One example is the documentation of making of the flying tjanpi Seven Sisters, the big installation that’s hanging off the ceiling, which is now and for the future, available on a web-based interactive.
Early on, the Museum was talking to the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a social enterprise made up of 400 women scattered across 26 communities and 350 square kilometres in the Northern Territory of South Australia and Western Australia; so they cover a whole lot of communities, to create the work specifically for the exhibition.
In May 2015 two weeks into the job as curator at the Museum, I was out on country on a big trip with 14 Tjanpi artists, four previous and current Tjanpi field officers, camping for two weeks at the remote sacred site of Kuru Ala. This remote location lies right in the middle of a 360 kilometre small single lane desert track connecting two communities: Wingellina to the north and Tjuntjuntjarra to the south. The road’s very basic and crosses many sand dunes. Challenging to drive at the best of times. Although I had been out bush with Tjanpi Weavers before, it was an incredible experience and I feel very privileged to have been able to share this time with the women.
The camp was situated at the foothills of a small escarpment with incredible scenery of Wati Nyiru, forever watching the Sisters manifested in the landscape, as well as the presence of the sisters standing, watching Nyiru flying off to the next site at Kulyurru.
The job description was a big one: to document the making process in photography and video, recording the story and inma, as well as conducting etymological work, such as documenting language names, the relationship between the artists and to their sites, and also discussing a collaborative painting in detail that was created at Kuru Ala a year earlier. And of course helping stitching, making cups of tea, and cooking meals for everybody involved.
Having had the chance to document the creation process of the flying Seven Sisters installation, several themes were identified as important, including the making processes, and the exchange of skills and knowledge between artists and generations and their collaboration.
The next generation was also involved in working with the new technologies. Filming content for the dome also provided the young amateur photographer, Brenda Douglas with an opportunity to learn about filmmaking and editing. She was invited to a crash course in film editing with film producer Louise Meeks in Sydney, and Stanley Douglas’ little film telling the story of the sisters at Walinynga, or Cave Hill, became a collaborative effort.
SITA MCALPINE: In developing this exhibition some artworks were created for the exhibition – like Christiane just explained, those tjanpi figures – but something else happened when we were out on these bush trips. There seemed to be kind of an excitement to talk about this story, and in response a lot of artists spontaneously did paintings for us while they were out there. In some ways, a way of showing, a way of telling, a way of having their voice shown in the exhibition. Christiane’s going to tell you about this gorgeous one.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: We did several trips to Warburton, a remote community in the middle of the Western Desert, holding a large collection of about a thousand works made and owned by the community. Amongst them the highly significant Seven Sisters work stretching across the Ngaanyatjarra lands, from Kularu to a separate songline connecting Kunamurra with Wanarn and beyond.
On our first visit we were greeted by Gary Proctor, the manager of the Warburton Arts Project and curator of the absolutely fascinating Tjulyuru art centre [Tjulyuru Cultural and Civic Centre]. You can see the building is a great building for exhibiting their beautiful collection, with an exclusive Seven Sisters exhibition curated from the Warburton arts collection.
Gary put on this exhibition to assist us with selecting the works to be included in the Songlines show. The artworks represented some of the master painters of the section, including late Tjapartji [Kanytjuri] Bates as well as the late Leslie and Betty Laidlaw. We discussed the selection of painting, their content, and the Sisters’ travel with the descendants of these artists.
As a response to our visit, Betty West created a painting that depicts ten important sites of the Seven Sisters, travelling from Kunamurra through their country towards Wanarn. This painting set the agenda for the next visit to Warburton, where Warburton Arts Project and Gary Proctor facilitated a bush trip visiting some of these sites with the West family. During this trip we visited five sites, and here you see Betty and Phillip West on country at one of the sites discussing what the sisters did. Having the painting out there was really important too because it always gave another talking point, and another point to reiterate the story.
SITA MCALPINE: That takes us to this other level of what the exhibition has achieved, and what we’ve done along the way, and that’s mapping the songlines. Songlines are really complex pathways of knowledge, and they’re not straight lines as you may think they are. They criss-cross the continent, creating a network of stories that verbally map the Australian continent.
For an artist to remember such vast and complex stories when sitting on their verandas in their front yards is really hard. Just because the way that memories are encoded and stored in land, remembering these stories off-country requires custodians to reconstruct the episodes and piece it all together. As you can see they go really long distances, so for someone to remember the sequence of the story in the right order is a challenging task.
When talking about place from the distance it can confuse the story, and we found that when we were out bush with the Martu, we were going through an oral history and some paintings from the Canning Stock Route. You may remember the exhibition that was here. You can see how we basically mapped the paintings to country. What happened when we were out there we were talking about this painting that’s circled, by Nancy Chapman, and there was a little bit of confusion about this painting. We got the stern statement it’s not Seven Sisters, even though everything and everyone had said in the past that it was; but what had happened that we discovered, was there was a confusion. This site, Tjuntu Tjuntu, actually has two stories. It has a Seven Sisters story and the Owl Dreaming. What happened was, when someone asked what’s the story for Tjuntu Tjuntu, she told both stories, but down the track that didn’t really come across, so the two stories got intertwined and confused; which is really common, and it’s common for Tjukurrpa stories to overlap on country. That’s just how it works.
When it came to this painting we got clear instruction from the Martu when we were out on country that it had to be removed from the exhibition, it was not appropriate for it to be there. They did not want the Seven Sisters songline confused with other Tjukurrpa stories. They wanted us to peel back the story so we just get the pure Seven Sisters story, and that was part of the cultural sensitivity of this exhibition.
In mapping the songline and telling the story as it travelled across the country we had to make sure it was accurately told. The main way we did this, by ‘ground-truthing’, which means we travelled to the sites with the custodians where they told us the story. In other cases we used a Google Map with Seven Sisters sites, and these maps became a valuable tool in consultation, but in the end nothing really beats going out on country with the mob, as Christiane explains.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: The communities themselves initiated bush trips to show us and remind themselves the correct order of the songlines. In May 2016 recent rains washed out roads and it was deemed too wet to travel to the nearby Seven Sisters sites close to Warakurna. It was decided to camp about five kilometres south of Karrku outstation. Here we set up camp where the artists painted the Seven Sisters stories. On talking and recording the songline one of the custodian’s renditions of their travels became confused, it was tied up with other stories. Together, as a group around the bushfire at night several of the ladies together recited the songlines story publicly, with the intention to clean up the story and how it was told.
This prompted Mr Newberry, an elder from Wanarn, to invite us to visit the sites the ladies had talked about on our return. In between being at the Karrku camp we went to Warburton, had a look at the collection that we mentioned before, and then we drove back through Wanarn. We started really early in the morning, and Mr Newberry met us at Wanarn, some 200 kilometres from Warburton at 9am in the morning. He was already waiting for us at the community shop with a number of rangers, accompanied by Jane Menzies, the manager from Warakurna Arts, and three ladies, all senior custodians of the Wanarn story.
Mr Newberry made quite clear that one cannot perceive and understand the story without going to country and looking at the sites. He curated an incredibly tight tour for us to visit about five important sites travelling some 100 kilometres. He also curated the curators, so that we tell the story proper way. What a great experience.
In seeing the landscape the story unfolded in front of our eyes. He brought us to Kunangurra, a site where the Sisters made a wiltja, today manifested as a cave. The lusty man, Nyiru followed the sisters and pierced the cave with his digging stick, which is the hole that’s just on the right-hand side of Mr Newberry there. Nyiru left his hair bun, in which he hides objects that make him irresistible to women. At Yurrilpi below, he rests but he’s lusting for the sisters. In visiting all these sites, recording his and the ladies stories of the sisters meant we cleaned up the stories so far recorded. It created an invaluable record for future generations, and showed us whitefellas that these stories are alive in the country. Using the maps also showed the complexities of the artworks depicting it.
The exhibition contains many paintings that relate to one site as a portal to the events that happened at this place, others tell vast sections of the Sisters’ struggle, such as Niningka Lewis’ Walka Board. Here you can see all the sites her painting relates to on the APY songline. Or the fabulous Ken Sister’s round painting, telling us the Sisters’ travel from Larka all the way to Kuru Ala, and in this process bringing together two language groups from the APY lands and all the way to Ngaanyatjarra country, so it’s in total 580 kilometres of travel.
SITA MCALPINE: Now we’re in late 2016, early 2017 and we’re starting to realise the vision of the community, and starting to transplant it into this space. I’m just going to repeat the questions that we had in our mind when we first began, and that’s how do you bring back the ancient living breathing songline into a museum space, and how do you also realise this Anangu plea to preserve ancient songlines? It’s quite an epic task, really.
To begin to realise these visions we talked as a team about created a journey exhibition. Meaning that as you walk the exhibition through each painting you’re told a story of that place. You basically follow the Sisters’ tracks from west coast to east coast, and this really echoed the way that the story was told to us when we were out on these bush trips. They were never complete whole narratives, but were little episodes told from place to place.
We were driving troopies in four-wheel drive along the songline to be able to receive the next part of the story. It was natural that when we were curating this exhibition that we told the story as it was told to us out on the lands. We saw paintings as portals to place, so as you walk through the exhibition you would be told each episode of the story as depicted in the painting.
These paintings therefore became keys to knowledge and to the songline, but also the paintings became a place where we archived a lot of information, which sounds a little bit funny, but in the collection management side of things they became the talking point with the mob. You can see here how much in-depth knowledge was recorded by Kim Mahood about the hunting ground painting. Really in-depth ecology.
What you see on the walls, as I mentioned before, was only a snippet. Behind the scenes there was layers and layers of information recorded. The documented old collections and new collections that we acquired for this exhibition. We were given the go-ahead to create a songlines collection, which enabled us to purchase works from across the lands that documented the story, so that collection will be our permanent archive in the Museum that will tell the narrative forever.
I just want to quickly talk a little bit about how we brought the community into the process of curating. All along the way, on our constant trips out bush, we took these – sorry, I’ll talk about this one. This was a vision to bring the people into the space, so it was a way of making the custodians, who were essentially our bosses, present. Everybody that walks through the exhibition knows that this is their exhibition, and really makes them visible. It’s not an ancient, still culture from the past. These are the people that hold it now and it’s very much alive. I have to say, when the artists came to see the exhibition they loved this entry space, this blade, they stood in front of it for ages. I think they were quite excited but also a little bit shy by seeing themselves in full size.
There was also other ways we made them involved. We constantly took out plans to the bush, so we’d drive out, and while doing these bush trips we’d also talk about the exhibition development and go, ‘What do you think? What if we do it like this?’ We’d go through the exhibition plan and the songlines and the sequence of the paintings with them, and here’s a model that we developed along the way. It was really through the Curatorium that we formally talked about this stuff, even though we did it out in the bush on people’s front lawns quite often. Each year that there was a curatorium, they’d come to Canberra, and the senior custodians of each of the lands that we work with. This is an image here of them before they would get filmed to do the full-length blade. This is them sussing out and having a look at the model as we discuss it, so they understand completely where the footage of them is going to be placed in the exhibition. It was a really open process with a lot of open dialogue. There was nothing new to them when they walked into the space.
I just wanted to briefly say that by being able to use these models and being able to visualise it for the mob, it allowed them to really relate to it, and it made decisions happen quicker. Often, when you’re showing say, the Martu people their songline, as shown along that wall there, on the far wall, they were able to say, ‘Oh, what’s that painting? That doesn’t fit there, that’s the wrong place.’ We were able to really allow them to have a decision-making process in curating the exhibition.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: It was really more than consultation, it was a collaboration between community and us as an institution. As Sita mentioned before, we were sitting on people’s front yards. We were sometimes even presenting the material on the back of a truck because somebody was just passing by that we wanted to talk to, and he would have left the community otherwise. We fit it in with the life that happens out in community, but it was equally important for them to come to Canberra and have a look at the space, and visualise the space. We had two collective gatherings of Curatorium members that the community nominated as representatives with their senior status for the Martu, APY and Ngaanyatjarra lands. These discussions led to the community making clear decisions about the exhibition, and which painting goes where, and which painting is included and which isn’t and so on.
In concluding, extensive and well-documented exhibitions like Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters can really only be realised through true collaboration with community. This has to happen all the way from the beginning and the start of the project, all the way to the opening and beyond. It requires intensive consultation in both spheres: on their country, in the bush and in the city offices.
Adhering to the aspirations of the community and providing them with a lasting outcome needs to be also at the heart of a project like this. This requires a relationship of trust and commitment on both sides, and a lot of effort and resources. During the developing process, and also at the opening, the artists confirmed the successful relationship and they’re proud to show their country and stories to the nation.
SITA MCALPINE: I just want to finish in going back to that early statement by David Miller, ‘You mob gotta help us, those songlines, they’ve all been broken up. Can you help us put them back together again?’ This exhibition really gave people a reason and an opportunity to travel back on country, to really track the ancient songlines and to imprint them in their memories.
However, what happened through this collaboration was also another surprise. By bringing people together from the Martu, NPY and APY lands across that really vast distance, individuals and families were able to reconnect with each other. They lived too far away from each other to have these conversations. By bringing them to Canberra they were able to see each other and verbally link up their songlines, and understand where the story came from before, and where it went to after it went from their lands.
Now this story, that we’ve recorded across 7000 kilometres is archived in films, multimedia paintings, oral histories and is in the process of being returned to the community to the Ara Iratja archive. A surprising thing came out of the exhibition opening that really talks to David Miller’s vision. Mr Newberry that took us on that epic curated bush trip was so excited to see all the mobs together – we had 50 artists here for the opening that live across those 7000 kilometres – he was so excited to see them all [inaudible 00:34:25], he curated another little journey. He made a film and made everyone sit down and connect their stories together. So each individual, each artist told their story in a sequence of the songline, on film, on video so it would be recorded for the future generations.
You may ask what the legacy is of this exhibition, and I think the legacy is about to come. Next stage of recording more stories and linking up more narratives across the nation. It’s a job that will never be finished but we did a pretty good job of starting it. Thank you.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: You’re welcome to ask questions – to the exhibition, or to the development process, or what you have seen.
QUESTION: Thank you very much for insight into the backstory, I’m really looking forward to the exhibition. I purposely waited until I came to the lectures so I’d get more out of it. I was just wondering, what you were saying about the legacy, is it the intention – I get the feeling that the Indigenous elders were looking for a way of preserving the story for future generations, and putting it in a format that appeals more to younger generations. I’m taking from what you said that you’ve developed some form of multimedia video stuff that kids relate to now, an archive of these stories that the Indigenous peoples can show to their kids, either in schools or whatever environments they’re able to do it. Is that what is happening? Is it so that they have something to show to their young community that perhaps don’t want to sit around the campfire and hear the stories any longer, but want to download it on a laptop or watch a video? Is that what you’re hoping to achieve?
CHRISTIANE KELLER: Definitely. I wasn’t going into details about all the different experiences and new technologies we used, but we have created the dome – if you haven’t seen the exhibition, it is a bit hard – but we have created a dome, which is an immersive experience. The content of this experience is actually available on our website, so it’s accessible across the nation and internationally as well.
We created the web interactive, not only from the tjanpi Seven Sisters. Each of the figures was scanned in detail and you can go into each of the figures and turn them around and look at them in detail, but it also contains all the documentation that has been done, including videos and photographs, and stories and so on.
We also did that for Cave Hill, so for one of the dome experiences that was created. The extensive trip to Cave Hill, which we didn’t talk about in this talk, there’s a whole backstory about the cave itself, about the archaeological research that was done. The different layers of painting are unravelled and made to be understood, so that’s available on the website as well.
And then, again, the archive will be returned to community, so community has access to those materials.
QUESTION: Congratulations. It’s a fantastic exhibition, you’ve done an amazing job. I’m interested in the process and purpose of the songlines. Looking at your maps, they cover vast distances and vast areas. It seems obvious that they’re connecting story to landscape to people, but would community members have followed those? It seems almost as if the sites are set up in a chronological way, linking time and space within the story, is that what happens? And did community members traditionally follow those in a set sequence?
SITA MCALPINE: There’s a beautiful quote from Kumpaya, one of the most senior people in Martu country, that remembers being a kid, and she talks about walking the songline with her mum and her grandmother to remember it. The way she described it almost seemed like a job, but I guess as a senior custodian it is your job. Yes, they physically did walk the songline, but it also linked to a lot of nations, through trade routes as well. Often the Martu people know people from Warburton because they used to walk long distances to share ceremony related to that songline, so it connected families across vast distances.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: Another story’s probably the epic Martu trip that we did with the ten cars and 30 people, across ten days and 600 kilometres. We actually weren’t very successful in getting to a lot of sites because we couldn’t cross one of the big sand dunes. It was too hard, too steep, no road and too dangerous, so we followed along it. We went to one particular site and it was a really emotional experience because it was a women’s only site, so all the men stayed back. Only the women went there, we went to this site.
The three ladies who were leading us, they knew exactly where it was. They were there as teenagers, 12, 13 and 14, three sisters with their parents, at this particular site. They walked there, this was really before contact, and they haven’t been back to the site for the entire time until 2016. It really was amazing to have been able to, in some ways facilitate, but in other ways also just able to be present at those amazing sites. The memories they are telling about, how they have been there, and where they went from there to the next site, and so on. Although we weren’t able to see it, because of the sand dune. Yes, it was really amazing.
MARGO NEALE [from the stage]: I just want to add that different people, different groups only actually have responsibility for a certain area. So it’s not like Kumpaya was going to travel 7000 kilometres over a lifetime, and then all of these different custodians have different sites, or parts of the songline along the way. That’s why it was interesting that when they all got together, it’s like a TV series. What happened before? What happened next? Because that wasn’t traditional practice to do that. Who knows how far they went, and if they went into another person’s area then there will be some protocol or negotiation to so do.
QUESTION: Was there repetition in the landscape, of aspects of the story across different lands? In the lands, those aspects of the stories across [inaudible].
MARGO NEALE: I missed the first bit of that. What was that?
CHRISTIANE KELLER: If there was repetition of the story across different landscapes, and at different sites across the songline. Yes, there is certainly repetition.
MARGO NEALE: Just to add to that, the repetition is based on different land forms because it’s about creating the country. Even though the broad template remains the same, the details of the land forms will determine the kind of nuancing of the story.
QUESTION: So the landform that would represent part of the story in one particular area would be a similar landform in another area? You could see similarities to the geology, for example?
SITA MCALPINE: Well in the case of rock holes that was the case. There’s a similarity across all of the lands, that rock holes are often connected to the Seven Sisters; but as far as rock formations go they change depending on the narrative of the story. The Seven Sisters were crucial in people knowing where the next waterhole is. By knowing the story, by reciting the song, they knew where the next waterhole was. That was a way of surviving in the desert.
QUESTION: Thanks.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: I think the aspect that the narrative is so visual in the landscape as you have seen in the face, in the Seven Sisters being represented as rocks; but also that place where Betty West was standing. Kununurra is a flat surface and it just has seven rock holes that are about that size so it’s really embedded and alive in the landscape. And that’s why you have to go there to see it to understand.
QUESTION: It’s my pleasure to come here to hear your lecture, I’m [inaudible] from China, but actually I’m Tibetan, our culture is also very spiritual from the main culture in China. What I am interested in is about where is the young people? I’ve noticed that there are no teenagers shown in the pictures. So what I’m interested in is whether is it generation gaps between these peoples? Thank you.
CHRISTIANE KELLER: There was one photo, for example, when the tjanpi Seven Sisters were made the 17 artists who made them – it was quite amazing that some of the women who were there, they were first generation tjanpi artists, so they have been doing tjanpi since 1985; but others that were there, they had never done tjanpi before, so they were in their early 20s. One figure was always done by two artists, and they shared the skills but also the knowledge. Brenda Douglas, for example, I haven’t had a photo in here because we were running out of time to prepare, but she is the young photographer who coedited the film. She’s also in her 20s or so, and on the Karrku bush trip, for example, there were whole family groups, including children. On the Kuru Ala trip to make tjanpi some of the schoolkids came to visit us in camp and actually had a look at what we were doing there. So this exchange is there and people are interested.
QUESTION: What their style – they translate their culture? For example, their songs, some artists style, how to translate them? In some professional school? Or just in their family, to the older generation to translate the style to the younger generation? Sorry, I’m not English native speaker –
CHRISTIANE KELLER: Yes, yes. No, that’s alright.
What I think you’re asking is, how do they learn to make this art, is that right? It’s mostly through participating and watching, so everybody sits in the art centre or in the community. The youngest would see what their elders or their family members do. It’s often also that the style is related to families, and often individual as well, and is handed down. Or people create their own style, it’s quite varied; but it’s not a formal setting of learning, it’s a very informal setting of learning.
QUESTION: So it’s between the family members, and [inaudible]?
CHRISTIANE KELLER: It’s not only between family members, it’s also across the community. Sometimes family members marry into other families, so then they transfer and take on new styles as well. That happens a lot.
QUESTION: I thought the exhibition was wonderful, thank you, and very humbling. For someone who’s lived here all their life, heard about songlines but had no idea about the depth of culture that’s involved. I’m interested to know whether there were any revisions about the songlines from the Yiwarra Kuju: Canning Stock Route exhibition. I know it was mentioned in the Canning Stock Route exhibition – were there any discrepancies within the community about their version of the songlines?
CHRISTIANE KELLER: I think we touched on this in our talk, maybe you want to speak?
SITA MCALPINE: Yes, so you’re right, we did include some of the paintings from the Canning Stock Route exhibition, because there’s a beautiful alignment of the Canning Stock Route with the Seven Sisters songline. Canning picked his route based on the water holes of the Seven Sisters, so we used the paintings from the Canning Stock Route exhibition in this way.
You may recall me talking about that painting that people got the story confused with? That was one case, when the curators were asking about that painting for the previous exhibition, they were most worried about the well, or that one place, so they included all stories. What happened to us was the stories got confused over time, so we had to piece the stories apart to make it just Seven Sisters. So we had to go through a process of talking through those artworks with the artists, to make sure we accurately told the Seven Sisters story. To make sure they felt comfortable with those things being told in the public space.
PENELOPE VAILE: Thank you, everybody, very much, for joining us today for the final ‘backstory of Songlines’ lecture. Please, if you haven’t already, head downstairs to the temporary exhibition and check out Songlines, it’s absolutely stunning. Christiane and Sita may stay for a little while if you want to ask them another question or two, but thank you all very much.
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Date published: 01 January 2018
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Evan Johnson
Evan Johnson (b. 1980) is an American composer whose music focuses on the physical underpinnings of instrumental performance, extreme notational situations, and the structural potential of conflicting repetitive and canonic structures. His music has been performed throughout North America, Europe and beyond by many prominent ensembles and soloists, and programmed at American and international festivals of contemporary music at Darmstadt, Witten, Huddersfield, Leuven (TRANSIT), Berlin (Klangwerkstatt), Bludenz, Los Angeles (the Monday Evening Concerts series), Buffalo, San Diego, and others. Recordings are available or forthcoming on the HCR, Metier, Mode, and New Focus labels.
The recipient of a Fellowship Prize at the 2012 Darmstadt Summer Courses and a 2011 Meet the Composer commission, Johnson has received commissions and awards from BMI/Concert Artists Guild, ASCAP, Columbia University (Bearns Prize), the Rhode Island Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Society for New Music, and Yale University, among others. He has held residencies at Copland House and the Millay Colony.
He received his Ph.D. in composition from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he studied with David Felder as a Presidential Fellow, and his B.A. from Yale.
Composer Website
strange forces
Huddersfield Contemporary Records
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Tarik O'Regan
Tarik O'Regan's Music Map
Tarik O’Regan (b. 1978) has written music for a wide variety of ensembles and organizations; these include the Dutch National Ballet, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Sydney Dance Company, Chamber Choir Ireland, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and the Royal Opera House, London.
Recorded on over 40 albums, and published exclusively by Novello & Co. Ltd, part of the Wise Music Group, his work has been recognized with two GRAMMY® nominations (including Best Classical Album), and both New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer Best Classical Releases of the Year for Threshold of Night; the NEA Artistic Excellence Award, and a South Bank Sky Arts Award nomination for Heart of Darkness; a Gramophone Award nomination for Scattered Rhymes; and two British Composer Awards
O’Regan has been appointed to the Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship at Columbia University; a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard; and positions at Trinity and Corpus Christi Colleges in Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Yale. He has served on the composition faculty of Rutgers University, and as Senior Advisor to the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University. Recently he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Pembroke College, Oxford and to the board of Yaddo, one of the oldest artist residency programmes in the USA. He lives in San Francisco, California, and currently holds the position of Visiting Artist at Stanford University.
Tarik O'Regan's website
Publisher: Wise Music Classical
Recordings by this composer
A Celestial Map of the Sky
Now Fatal Change
The NMC Songbook
Variations for Judith
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Major funding boost to help create a brighter future for Norfolk’s women and girls
As part of Norfolk Community Foundation’s commitment to improving the lives of women and girls in Norfolk, over £60,000 of strategic funding from the national Tampon Tax Fund has been awarded to local projects that make a substantial impact on tackling disadvantage and improving opportunities for women and girls in the county.
We launched the Together for Women and Girls programme in 2018, creating a network of over 250 people committed to action to enable women and girls to take positive steps towards empowerment and opportunity. Together for Women and Girls aims to challenge inequality, abuse, exploitation and disadvantage in the home, the workplace and our wider communities. By raising funds, as well as harnessing the time and expertise of those who join, we are shaping a programme to tackle the issues faced by women and girls today.
As part of our strategic investment in this programme, this major funding has been awarded to vital programmes and initiatives supporting vulnerable women and girls in Norfolk including:
Supporting women affected by domestic abuse in North Norfolk
Setting up a support group for vulnerable women with complex and multiple needs at every stage of the criminal justice system
Providing early intervention and tailored support for women who have had a child removed, aiming to ‘break the cycle’ of children being taken from them
Providing counselling for women and girls with eating disorders
Delivering sessions passing on skills and information to migrant women in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
Development of a weekly craft group for women with Asperger’s Syndrome
Providing mindfulness and self-care courses for women who have experienced sexual abuse.
Support group for vulnerable women at every stage of the criminal justice system in Norwich
St Giles Trust, a charity helping people facing severe disadvantage to find jobs, homes and the right support, is one of the organisations benefiting from the funding. Becki Navarro, Fundraising Manager at the Trust, said,
“Thanks to this funding, St Giles Trust will set up a support group for vulnerable women with complex and multiple needs that are at every stage of the criminal justice system in Norwich. Our Peer to Peer Project will be developed and delivered by a team of local volunteers with first-hand experience of overcoming similar issues. Their backgrounds and personal insights will bring benefits to the women they help; increasing confidence, self-esteem, self-worth and improving their support networks.”
Supporting women affected by maternal mental health issues in Great Yarmouth
Get Me Out The Four Walls (GMOTFW) is a registered maternal mental health charity operating across Norfolk, which aims to aid both the prevention of and recovery from prenatal, perinatal and postnatal mental and physical health issues. Their services offer support to mothers in a number of ways, including support group meetings, 1:1 support, online support and, in some cases, access to counselling services. The funding through Together for Women and Girls is enabling the charity to expand its services to provide targeted support to women in Great Yarmouth.
A one-stop resource centre for women and families will be set up in the central shopping centre, acting as a shop window for GMOTFW and other agencies’ activities. The centre will include representatives from relevant community health teams and other key agencies to provide additional support to mothers, including counselling. Regular job clubs will run for women who wish to (re)enter the job market or explore training options but who require additional support and guidance.
In addition, by creating a network of social meetings across the whole of the Great Yarmouth area, women who are experiencing isolation or who are challenged with maternal and other mental health problems will be able to access peer and professional support, and build friendships.
Claire Cullens, CEO of Norfolk Community Foundation, said,
“Across our county women and girls are facing daily barriers and challenges. This government funding through the Tampon Tax has allowed us to deliver some targeted support to a range of vital projects improving lives and opportunities for women in Norfolk.
As ever, there is always more that could and needs to be done. We hope by harnessing the support of others who care, we can continue to make this difference.”
The above projects demonstrates the difference people’s support can make. Help to make change happen now
We need more support to continue to make a substantial impact on the lives of women and girls in Norfolk. You can get involved in our Together for Women and Girls programme in a range of ways. Join as an individual, through corporate membership, or donate your time to support the wide range of local charities supporting women and girls. Find out more
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Order of Roald Dahl Books
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British author of fantasy, mystery and horror novels and short stories for both children and adults. He was born in Wales to Norwegian parents. Dahl enlisted to the Royal Air Force where he became a flying ace. Following a crash and some severe headaches, he returned home. It was around this time he ended up meeting author C.S. Forester, who was so impressed by Dahl’s war stories that he published them verbatim. As a children’s author, he wrote some of the most memorable children’s stories of the 20th century, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG and many others. Dahl is considered to be one of the greatest children’s authors of the time period.
Roald Dahl became a published novelist in 1943 with the children’s book The Gremlins. The story is based on the RAF folklore that gremlins were responsible for any issues with their planes. Below is a list of Roald Dahl’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Charlie Bucket Books
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book (2011)
The Gremlins (1943)
Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
James and the Giant Peach (1961)
The Magic Finger (1966)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)
Danny: The Champion of the World (1975)
My Uncle Oswald (1979)
The Twits (1980)
George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
The BFG (1982)
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
Matilda (1988)
Esio Trot (1990)
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)
The Mildenhall Treasure (1999)
The Great Switcheroo (1985)
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
Someone Like You (1953)
Kiss Kiss (1959)
Skin and Other Stories (1960)
Selected Stories of Roald Dahl (1968)
Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
Switch Bitch (1974)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Taste and Other Tales (1979)
A Roald Dahl Selection: Nine Short Stories (1980)
More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
New Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
The Way Up to Heaven and Other Stories (1980)
Revolting Rhymes (1982)
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories (1982)
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories (1982)
Dirty Beasts (1983)
The Best of Roald Dahl (1983)
Two Fables (1986)
Completely Unexpected Tales (1986)
A Second Roald Dahl Selection (1987)
Rhyme Stew (1989)
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (1989)
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories (1995)
Edward the Conqueror and Other Stories (1996)
The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)
Further Tales of the Unexpected (1999)
A Taste of the Unexpected (2005)
Vile Verses (2005)
Songs and Verse. Roald Dahl (2005)
Collected Short Stories (2006)
Spotty Powder and other Splendiferous Secrets (2010)
Three Tales of Magic and Mischief (2012)
Publication Order of Picture Books
The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
The Minpins (1991)
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)
Going Solo (1986)
Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
My Year (1993)
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes (1994)
Roald Dahl's Cookbook (1996)
Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes (2001)
The Dahlmanac (2006)
More About Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood (2009)
Dahlmanac 2 (2009)
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book (2011)
Roald Dahl's Fantabulous Facts (2012)
Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Sticker Book (2012)
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1956)
Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! (1999)
Notes: Memories with Food at Gipsy House and Roald Dahl’s Cookbook were co-authored with Felicity Dahl.
If You Like Roald Dahl Books, You’ll Love…
Roald Dahl Synopsis: In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, only five children will be allowed inside of Willy Wonka’s world famous chocolate factory. Those five children are: the rather rotund Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, TV-loving Mike Teavee and the honest and brave Charlie Bucket. The novel made into a film starring Gene Wilder in 1971 (as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) and then in 2005, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
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Edwards Endorsement = White/Working-Class/Rural Vote? Or Something Else?
With former U.S. Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards' endorsement, what exactly does this bring to Sen. Obama's campaign?
Someone who can speak the language of a group Obama is desperate for: working-class and rural white voters. While much can be made of the fact that Edwards couldn't bring his own state of North Carolina into the blue column in 2004 as vice-president (Bush won the state by 13 points), there is something to be said for being able to "bridge the divide" between the "gutter-ball elitism" that has been tarred to Obama and the southern-drawl, good-ole-boy (even though he lives in a multi-million dollar mansion) Edwards. One true test of how much this endorsement may help (or hurt) will be the upcoming Kentucky primary. But probably more important than attempting to bridge the working-class white vote is...
The fact that Edwards is a critical superdelegate who can signal to others, "now is the time." Having the former vice presidential candidate and competitor sign on to your campaign plays a critical signal to other superdelegates that the water is fine, jump on in. While Sen. Obama has had a steady flow of superdelegates coming to him since NC & Indiana, I think this endorsement is designed more for the other 197 supers to begin to make their calls.
While Sen. Clinton publicly assured her supporters of going all the way, this endorsement may mean that her "it ain't over till it's over" will be over quicker than she realizes.
By jmbitzer - May 14, 2008
Labels: John Edwards endorsement Obama
Strength in Numbers & Percentages
Based on the primary election for the gubernatorial nominations, both Bev Perdue (Democrat) and Pat McCrory (Republican) had very specific regions and areas that they were able to get at least 55% of the vote in a county. For many political scientists, when a candidate gets 55% of the vote, it's a clear indication of strength in numbers and percentages.
When looking at the counties where Perdue got 55% of the vote, it matches up with her home base, mostly in the "down east" counties of North Carolina. But you'll also notice in the PDF file that she did well in the I-85/40 corridor, starting in Mecklenburg County (home to Charlotte and Pat McCrory) through Forsyth (Winston-Salem) and Guilford (Greensboro) to Durham and Wake counties (Durham and Raleigh).
Looking at the counties where McCrory got 55% of the vote, it is so clear where his strength is, and that is with the Charlotte media/metro market. I also note where Fred Smith (the yellow counties in the PDF file), who was battling with McCrory in the primary, got his strength, and that was downeast as well.
A new poll from Public Policy Polling out of Raleigh has come out, and I'm still working on digesting it, but it appears that both Perdue and McCrory are tied at 45-45, with 9% undecided. While it is still 176 days until Nov. 4 at this writing, the Tar Heel governor's race will be one of the most closely battled, and probably watched, races. Stay tuned.
Labels: North Carolina governor McCrory Perdue election 2008
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Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
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Shadi Hamid
Academic, Professional and General > Social Sciences > Political science > Political science (Politics & government)
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy-the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power. In Temptations of Power, Shadi Hamid draws on hundreds of interviews with leaders and activists from across the region to advance a new understanding of how Islamist movements change over time. He puts forward the bold thesis that repression "forced" Islamists to moderate their politics, work in coalitions, de-emphasize Islamic law, and set aside the dream of an Islamic state. Meanwhile, democratic openings in the 1980s-and again during the Arab Spring-pushed Islamists back toward their original conservatism. With the uprisings of 2011, Islamists found themselves in an enviable position, but one for which they were unprepared. Groups like the Brotherhood combine the features of both political parties and religious movements, leading to an inherent tension they have struggled to resolve. However pragmatic they may be, their ultimate goal remains the Islamization of society. When the electorate they represent is conservative as well, they can push their own form of illiberal democracy while insisting they are carrying out the popular will. This can lead to overreach and significant backlash. Yet, while the Egyptian coup and the subsequent crackdown were a devastating blow for the Islamist "project," obituaries of political Islam are premature. As long as the battle over the role of religion in public life continues, Islamist parties in countries as diverse as Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan will remain an important force whether in the ranks of opposition or the halls of power. But what are the key factors driving their evolution? A timely and provocative reassessment, Hamid's account serves as an essential compass for those trying to understand where the region's varied Islamist groups have come from and where they might be headed.
1. Islamists in Transition
2. Democrats Before Democracy
3. The Promise of Politics
4. The Turn to Repression
5. Learning to Lose
6. Temptations of Power
7. Illiberal Democracy
8. A Tunisian Exception?
9. The Past and Future of Political Islam
Shadi Hamid is a fellow at the Project on U.S.-Islamic World Relations at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Previously, he was Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He serves as vice-chair of the Project on Middle East Democracy and is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and many other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Home The Tales Centuries of history around the lanes of Temple tube station, London
Centuries of history around the lanes of Temple tube station, London
In Cities, Days Out, London, Our Journeys, Trip-Types, UK Travel by Janis 25th August 2020 2 Comments
Where knights once roamed, and legal eagles flourish
I’m back to one of my favourite haunts in London, and that’s Temple. If only these well-trodden alleyways could share their tales of intrigue and power, I’d be captivated for centuries.
One entrance to Middle Temple
I know there are fascinating museums, beautiful art galleries and historical sites to be visited throughout London. However, sometimes just picking out one tiny district in England’s capital city and scouting around its streets, can offer so much insight to a local or visitor alike.
London’s Temple district escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666. Therefore, a number of the dwellings in this maze of secluded alleyways still remain.
Look up, look down, you’ll never know what you’ll spot.
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A little knowledge of Temple Station
Tempe Station, which opened in May 1870, is located along Victoria Embankment, between the stations of Blackfriars and Embankment.
Temple Station Underground
Temple underground was initially named ‘The Temple Station’ after the historical Knights Templar Church and the Middle and Inner Temples of the Inns of Court. This name didn’t catch on; therefore, the prefix was dropped.
Often missed is the observation platform, which is actually on the roof of Temple Station. Head up the few steps to gain a charming view over the River Thames to South Bank.
Temple Church
The ancient Temple Church is a little hidden away within a labyrinth of tiny lanes around London’s legal district. However, you won’t regret your persistence to find it. This incredible church with its cylindrical design is so synonymous with the Knights Templar.
The Temple Church
The Round was built in the 12th-century by the Knights Templar an order of crusading monks. They would protect pilgrims travelling to and from Jerusalem the Holy Land.
Inside the Temple Church
Looking down inside the Temple Church
The oldest and most distinctive section of Temple Church is the Round, which was consecrated in 1185 and believed to be in the presence of King Henry II.
For a small charge take a little wander around inside, it truly is fascinating.
Want to discover more than about London?
We've a little book on our shelves that we sometimes delve into when we're about to hit an area of London.
Packed full of historical facts, and broken down into the different regions of London, it's a great resource to help you see what's hidden in plain sight.
Available in Kindle & Hardback editions, it's an excellent addition to anyone's collection who loves London.
Middle Temple and Inner Temple
The Inns of Court, which are north and south of Fleet Street and The Strand fascinate me, I wonder if I was a barrister in a former life?
The Inns are formed of four professional associations for barristers. The two which are north are; Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn and can trace their records back to 1422 and 1569, respectively. Then the Inner Temple and Middle Temple, which I highlight here are south of The Strand.
It’s important to note in history that King Henry III set a decree in 1234 that law could not be taught in the City of London. This region of London is just on the cusp of the ancient city, and therefore lawyers would relocate and continue to perform their comings and goings here.
The historic streets of Middle Temple
Strolling Middle Temple
As you stroll through the clandestine gas lit alleys and colonnaded courtyards be sure to keep a lookout for barristers wafting by in their flowing gowns. Or the young legal wannabes, scampering past pushing trolleys loads of secret documents.
It’s an eye into an unknown world.
Temple and its legal quarter should be visited between Monday and Friday. Many of the ancient wooden doors are bolted at the weekend when the legal fraternity is closed for business.
Take a peek at my post ‘From the Bar to the Temple’ for a little more insight.
Just a hop, skip and a jump away from the Inner and Middle Temples are the Law Courts, or officially the Royal Courts of Justice. You may recognise it from news reports, as this is where significant British legal cases are held.
The Royal Courts of Justice
For centuries the Law courts were located in the magnificent Westminster Hall. It was during the 19th-century that a decision was made to have a building dedicated solely to the Courts of Justice.
Therefore, the grand Victorian Gothic building was commissioned and opened by Queen Victoria in 1882.
St Clement Danes church
Adjacent to the Law Courts and sitting on its own island is St Clement Danes church. This beautiful church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1682.
The Blitz in 1940 caused extensive damage to the church and was not fully restored until 1958. Today it is the central church to the Royal Air Force. Outside stands two statues to RAF's wartime leaders, Arthur "Bomber" Harris and Hugh Dowding.
A little fact for rugby fans, the gentleman who is often credited with inventing rugby, William Webb Ellis, was once rector of the St Clement Danes church.
Built-in 1776, Somerset House which overlooks Victoria Embankment and the River Thames is a stunning building. Take a stroll inside to the elegant quadrangle, watch the dancing fountains perform in front of you while relaxing in the sunshine.
Somerset House has been used on many occasions as a filming location, James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have wandered these paths.
On the ice at Somerset House
However, there is one time of the year that Somerset House is truly transformed and that is at Christmas time. So, grab your ice skates and knee pads (if you’re British) and come and see for yourself.
Tube station walks
Take a browse through our posts on Bank and Tower Hill tube stations, to find out what we uncovered in these districts.
The City of London meets the City of Westminster
Yeh, just to make matters a little confusing, London is made up of two cities. The ancient ‘City of London’ which is home to the financial district, and the ‘City of Westminster’, where the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace are located.
As you stroll along The Strand, heading east you’ll hardly bat an eyelid; however, you have now sauntered into Fleet Street.
The edge of the City of London
Many centuries ago, the Temple Bar gate would once have stood here, to mark the entrance to the City of London. The Baroque gate has since been restored and can now be found in Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral.
Keep an eye out for the cast iron dragons perched high on plinths, these striking silver and red boundary markers are a symbol that you are entering the historic city.
If you were to think of Fleet Street in London, there is one industry that will spring to mind, and that is the British press. All the big boys were once here from broadsheets to tabloids.
It was during the 16th-century that publishers set up shop, supplying documents to the legal trade at the Inns of Court. Gradually more and more printers and publishers appeared and by the 20th-century Fleet Street was dominated by the national media.
Prince Henry's Room, Fleet Street
Fleet Street's History
Today Fleet Street has lost the buzz of the gossiping journalists as the cost of operating on this historic street has sent the larger press rooms elsewhere in London.
However, that doesn’t distract from its fascinating past, as there are some gorgeous buildings along Fleet Street, interesting statues, ancient taverns and hidden courtyards.
The sister church to St-Dunstan-in-the-East is here, yep you guessed St-Dunstan-in-the-West.
A helpful guide
If you've yet to discover London and its ancient history, then let's start planning. I find these DK Eyewitness Travel Guides invaluable. They're extremely informative, easy to follow, and the pictures and maps tempt you into discovering more of those fascinating sites.
You can now grab a recently revised copy of this guidebook, so you won't miss a thing.
St Bride’s Church
St Bride’s Church at the eastern end of Fleet Street has been on an incredible journey for centuries. It was originally constructed in the 7th-century and has had a succession of churches built on the same site.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 left the church in ruins. However, like a phoenix from the ashes, the beautiful ‘wedding cake’ spire emerged from Sir Christopher Wren’s design in 1675.
St Bride’s Church continued to battle through The Blitz, and the delightful church spire can still be seen today from miles around.
City of London Distillery
Sitting at the feet of this charming church along Bride Lane is the City of London Distillery, offering my favourite tipple, gin.
I’ve still managed to eek out a bottle I bought from there when I worked nearby.
The City of London Distillery
The City of London Distillery threw open its doors in 2012. It began producing gin from its copper stills called Clarissa and Jennifer (named after the British cooks ‘The Two Fat Ladies’).
There’s a bar inside the distillery, so come in pull up a pew and enjoy one of their many delicious flavours.
If you enjoy finding out a little more about London districts, take a look at the articles we created for Spitalfields, Smithfield, Clerkenwell, Temple, St James’s, Camden and Greenwich.
The Blackfriar and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Keeping with the bar theme, a couple of historic taverns or inns that you may want to search out are The Blackfriar and Ye Olde Watling.
The Blackfriar was built in 1875 on the site of a Dominican friary, a short time later in 1905 it was remodelled by the Arts and Craft movement architect, Herbert Fuller-Clark. The inn is beautiful on the inside and out, I love the friar standing above the doorway overseeing everyone who walks in for a bev.
Incredibly in the 1960s, this delightful pub was going to be demolished. Fortunately, the poet Sir John Betjeman stepped in to lead a campaign to save the historic building.
The Blackfriar can be found opposite Blackfriars station along Queen Victoria Street.
The Black Friar public house
Heading back up to Fleet Street and we stumble into Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Wine Office Court. This inn has heaps of character echoing through its tiny corridors.
Dark wood panelling lines the walls, cosy open fireplaces warms the cockles of your heart, and a maze of tiny rooms and secret snugs lead you up the creaky stairs beyond.
The original tavern was destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire; however, there was no delay in rebuilding it as the current dwelling dates from 1667.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese has had many literary patrons pass through its doors, including Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and Alfred Tennyson, to name a few.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
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The little treasures
Is there a more iconic sound on the streets of London than someone shouting taxi to hail a black cab.
There’s a lovely bronze statue along Victoria Embankment, by the American artist John Seward Johnson II. Famed for his life-size sculptures capturing folk going about their day-to-day business.
Taxi! - A statue to a city worker
Ohh I love searching out Blue Plaques around London, although this one is brown.
London’s blue plaque scheme, which is now run by English Heritage has been in existence since 1866. The programme was originally run by The (Royal) Society of Arts from 1866 to 1901, during which time 35 were erected.
The oldest plaque on Dr Johnson's house
On the wall of no. 17 Gough Square is one of the original plaques and dates from 1876. It is dedicated to Dr Samuel Johnson, one of the most significant literary figures of the 18th century. Dr Johnson was the creator of the Dictionary of the English Language.
If you fancy crossing the River Thames at this point, to stroll along the Southbank head over Blackfriars or Waterloo Bridge.
The view over the River Thames
This is a delightful part of London to amble around day or night, the views back across the Thames are wonderful. Along here you can visit Oxo Tower Wharf, National Theatre and Hayward Gallery and for a bit of alfresco dining take a wander around Gabriel’s Wharf.
If you fancy discovering more of London’s sights and attractions grab yourself a London Pass and start saving money.
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27th November 2020 Reply
Roma Small
FABULOUS post! Somerset house is one of my favourite parts of London and the Inns of Court is always on my itinerary for taking visitors around London.
Learnt a thing or two in your post thanks guys, keep them coming
Thanks Roma, I love this part of London it fascinates me how the old traditions around the Inns of Court continue. It feels so different at the weekend when it is quiet to a weekday when there are so much hustle and bustle.
Yes, you’re right Somerset House is amazing too, I could spend hours just around that part of London alone.
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Protect Our Democracy
Anyone who knows me knows I am not prone to hyperbole.
But while the GOP’s irresponsibility on COVID-19 is rightly the story of the day, the biggest story should still be President Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the November election in an effort to steal the election.
(Skip to the end of this email for a concrete way to take action and protect our democracy!)
I consider myself a progressive and a patriot. Despite acknowledging our failings and deficiencies, I believe in contributing meaningfully to the American project of strengthening our union and striving to live up to our ideals. Twice in my life, I have taken the following oath:
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”
The first time was as a high schooler when I had the great fortune to attend American Legion Badger Boys State and be elected and sworn in as Governor. The second time was more official: as a Peace Corps Volunteer serving our country abroad.
I dislike President Trump on many levels: I abhor his politics, I am repulsed by his embrace of white supremacy, and I don’t have a frame of reference to comprehend his shameless dishonesty. I have disliked other U.S. Presidents and have rallied, protested, donated and voted in response, but Donald Trump is the first president who I believe is a threat to our democracy and our constitution. Donald Trump has made my oaths real to me.
The surest way we can protect our democracy is to defeat Trump clearly and resoundingly. One of the most powerful ways is to contribute to the organizing happening in Durham, NC. North Carolina is ground zero for the Presidential election and the U.S. Senate, and with high enough turnout in Durham, we can help deliver the Senate to the Democrats and the Presidency to Joe Biden.
I know you have given so much and you were so kind to support me in different ways during my own campaign. If you are able to give just a little bit more, there is no better way than to send $25, $100 or $500 to the People’s Alliance PAC. Regardless of your politics, the PA PAC has the turnout operation that can deliver the Durham votes we need to defeat Donald Trump, win the Senate and secure the future of our democracy. And there is no overhead – 100% of your dollars go to direct voter outreach.
$100 will get a mailing card into the hands of 360 Durham voters
$500 will pay for 2.5 days of a poll greeter
We can do this. Please join me. The stakes are just that high.
Matt Kopac
Member, People's Alliance PAC
People's Alliance PAC Releases 2020 General Election Slate
People's Alliance PAC Endorses Anjali Boyd for Soil and Water Supervisor
The PA PAC enthusiastically endorses Anjali Boyd for Durham Soil & Water District Supervisor. Boyd is a marine ecologist, entrepreneur, and educator who is dedicated to environmental justice, education, and economic development in the Durham community. She prioritizes these goals for Durham and will bring them to our community in a way that is grounded in a commitment to inclusivity and access for all. Boyd has a deep understanding of the ways in which issues such as food insecurity unjustly plague communities right here in Durham. She will utilize a progressive, transparent, and equitable approach to address Durham's concerns and needs and ensure that marginalized communities are not left behind as Soil and Water Supervisors work to protect and enhance soil and water quality in our community. She will amplify the voices of people of color, youth, and women. Her principles are invaluable and will undoubtedly serve Durham well.
A current PhD student at Duke University‘s Nicholas School of the Environment and an Associate Supervisor did the Durham County Soil and Water Conservation District, Boyd is no stranger to the world of water quality, natural resource management, and environmental conservation. Her meaningful experience, long-standing engagement in the community, and perspective as a native of Durham qualify her as the ideal candidate for position.
People's Alliance PAC Endorses Pierce Freelon for City Council
In a meeting held on August 30, 2020, members of the People's Alliance voted to endorse Pierce Freelon to fill the vacant Ward 3 City Council seat. Members found Pierce's creativity, civic engagement, and commitment to racial and social equity to be aligned with the values of the People's Alliance. The letter written by the PA PAC to the Mayor and City Council members advising them of the endorsement appears below. The City Council is expected to announce which applicant for the position it will appoint on August 31, 2020.
Durham City Council
Steve Schewel, Mayor
101 City Hall Plaza
By Email Only: council@durhamnc.gov
Dear Mr. Mayor and Councilmembers,
On behalf of the People’s Alliance Political Action Committee, I urge you to appoint Pierce Freelon to the vacant Ward 3 Seat on Durham City Council. At a recent, well-attended meeting, our members considered the candidates for the vacant seat and voted to give Pierce their whole-hearted endorsement.
Pierce’s commitment to the political life of Durham has become increasingly evident in recent years. His colleagues speak highly of his service as vice chair of the Human Relations Commission, and we agree that he has been a strong leader in that role. With a political philosophy rooted in social and racial justice, Pierce will add to the City Council’s ongoing efforts to consider race and equity in the distribution of resources.
His passion for confronting issues including gentrification, unemployment among Black youth, and racial inequities in law enforcement are concerns that the People’s Alliance membership shares. The policies Pierce articulates in his application for the position make clear that he has given thought to the power of the City Council, and the limits on that power. We believe Pierce sees our city’s needs and the authority he will have as a member of the City Council and will hold true to his ideals—ideals People’s Alliance shares--as he does so.
Pierce has a long track record of engaging youth, particularly Black youth. Pierce’s connection with the young people of Durham is something we hope will enhance the Council’s ability to reach the people who will inherit the consequences of policy choices made now. We believe he will find ways to incorporate their vision and ideas into the policy-making process.
Pierce’s creativity combined with his dedication to progressive policy make him an exciting addition to the City Council. As a life-long Durhamite with deep community connections, he has context for the issues facing our community now. He has worked to earn the endorsement of the People’s Alliance, demonstrating a strong understanding of policy, process, and city government. Creative, well informed, progressive, and devoted to making Durham a city that fosters the potential of all of its residents, we are proud to endorse Pierce Freelon, and we ask that you appoint him to the Ward 3 seat.
Rochelle Sparko
People’s Alliance PAC
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Dell Services Donates $6.5 million in Technology and Services to the Perot Museum
“Technology is not just in the background at the Perot Museum, it is a central part of our mission and the experience,” said Nicole G. Small.
PLANO, Texas, Sept. 12, 2012 – Dell Services is donating $6.5 million in technology and services to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science to power its IT operations and help support its goal to advance youth education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
The donation includes two categories of investment. The initial investment represents $3.5 million of Dell products and services, along with initial technology implementation for the museum build-out. The subsequent investment of $3 million represents three years of outsourced technology operations, support services and data center hosting.
“Technology is not just in the background at the Perot Museum, it is a central part of our mission and the experience,” said Nicole G. Small, The Eugene McDermott CEO of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. “Dell Services has been an extended part of our team through the planning and development of this Museum. The technologies and the staff that Dell has provided have been instrumental in creating an experience where each exhibit is interactive, educational and fun.”
Dell’s initial investment includes hardware and software from multiple Dell product lines, including PowerEdge, PowerConnect, Compellent, Force 10, KACE, OptiPlex and Latitude. Hundreds of Dell computers, monitors, servers and other equipment help power the Perot Museum, from the cutting-edge, hands-on displays in the halls to the retail store and café, administrative offices and computerized building operations.
The three-year technology outsource includes on-site staff from Dell Services who will integrate daily with Perot Museum staff to ensure seamless and efficient operation of the high-tech exhibit halls and learning labs.
“STEM education is crucial to our nation’s youth and our company’s future, and this museum is a groundbreaking example of innovation in education and technology,” said Steve Schuckenbrock, president, Dell Services. “Dell Services is honored to power the museum’s IT and be a part of such an important initiative.”
Located adjacent to downtown Dallas, the $185 million, 180,000-square-foot facility will provide youth, adults and families the opportunity to explore new ideas through tangible, galvanic exhibits, where they'll learn about everything from dinosaurs to DNA. Dell’s work with the Perot Museum exemplifies the company’s strategy of providing organizations with modernized, end-to-end solutions that help maximize their existing IT investments. Small adds that “Dell’s stunning gift of both equipment and expertise will also punch up our efforts to inspire students to pursue careers in STEM. We’re absolutely thrilled that the Perot Museum of Nature and Science will be powered by Dell.”
The Perot Museum, the mission of which is to “inspire minds through nature and science,” is expected to serve millions of children and adults over the next decade. Slated to open early January 2013, the Perot Museum was designed by 2005 Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne.
About Dell Services
Dell Services provides people, processes and technology to help create, improve or support an efficient IT organization. Its 44,000 global team members provide consulting, infrastructure, support, applications and business processes to help organizations operate their IT more efficiently, proactively and securely. Headquartered in Plano, TX, Dell Services is a critical component to the end-to-end solutions and offerings provided by Dell, Inc.
About the Perot Museum of Nature and Science
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas, is a nonprofit educational organization accredited by the American Museum Association. In support of its mission to inspire minds through nature and science, the Perot Museum delivers exciting, engaging and innovative visitor experiences through its education, exhibition, and research and collections programming for children, students, teachers, families and life-long learners. In addition to its Fair Park campus, a $185-million new museum, designed by 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis Architects, is currently under construction on a 4.7-acre site at the corner of Field Street and Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Victory Park near downtown Dallas. Slated to open in January 2013, the Perot Museum is named in honor of Margot and Ross Perot, the result of a $50-million gift announced in May 2008 by their five adult children. To learn more about the Perot Museum, please visit perotmuseum.org.
Dell Services, Stephanie Stewart
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Why is pollunex™ the best way to protect you and your baby?
pollunex™ is an innovative product, designed specifically for maternity. Using an all-natural ingredients formulation, it enhances the human body's ability to adapt and protect itself from free radicals that can cause serious damage to proteins, as well as to some cell components, mainly the DNA. All ingredient dosages are formulated to comply with typical vitamin and nutritional needs of pregnant and lactating women.
Is there anything else that I can do against air pollution?
There are a number of physical measures one can take against air pollution, but they are either very costly and limited only to a given space i.e., air-purification systems, or affordable, but very limited in their efficacy against air pollution molecules i.e., face masks. Contrary to those, pollunex™ empowers the body's immune system to fend off foreign particles inhaled and prevent respiratory and cardiovascular inflammations that affect the normal functionality of multiple organs.
What is oxidative stress and what does it cause?
Oxidative stress is defined as a disturbance to the balance between the production of reactive oxygen species (free radicals) and antioxidant defenses.
Air pollution particles are known to facilitate inflammation and oxidative stress. As a result, multiple organs may be affected including, brain, liver, kidney, and even testicles, as well as the normal development of the fetus.
Is there a scientific background to pollunex™?
Certainly, pollunex™ product development was led by renowned Israeli scientists and industry experts, and based on a large body of evidence-based international research. The following is only a partial list of the relevant citations;
(Chatham et al., 1987; Grievink et al., 1998; Romieu et al., 1998; Samet et al., 2001; Trenga et al., 2001); (Possamai et al., 2010); (Sienra-Monge et al., 2004); (Romieu et al., 2005).
(Tong et al., 2012). (Lee et al., 2009); (Moreno and Mitjavila, 2003). (Xiao et al., 1997; Xiao et al., 1995). (Mozaffarian et al., 2008; O'Keefe et al., 2006);
(Nestle, 1998); (Heber et al., 2014); (Manicourt and Devogelaer, 2008), (Holick, 2011); (Abbenhardt et al., 2014; Fiorito et al., 2014), (Zhong et al., 2017), (Baccarelli et al., 2008);
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PGC > Wildlife > Wildlife-Related Diseases > Lymphoproliferative Disease
Lymphoproliferative Disease
Other Names: LPDV
Lymphoproliferative Disease , a cancer of turkey and chickens, is caused by a retrovirus (LPDV).
Known to occur in domestic turkeys in Europe and Israel, it was first recognized in wild North American turkeys in 2009. Sporadic cases have been identified every year since then, and its significance for wild turkey populations is unknown. However it does seem to be a disease that has spilled over from domestic to wild birds.
Rare cases of a similar disease has been seen in wild birds in North America, however, it was caused by another different, but related, virus. LPDV affects domestic chickens and turkeys. To date, LPDV has affected only turkeys in the wild, and both sexes can be affected.
Domestic fowl are affected by LPDV in the UK, Austria, the Netherlands and Israel. Wild turkeys have been diagnosed with the disease, including organ involvement, in Arkansas, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Others have been simply positive for the virus, but without diagnostic lesions.
There is reason to believe that the disease is transmitted horizontally between birds who have direct contact.
Disorientation, weakness, lethargy are common signs in those birds that are still alive, though the disease is rapidly fatal and birds are often found dead. Scabby nodules on the skin of the legs and head are also often seen.
Multiple tan nodules in the organs, enlarged spleen and liver, and skin nodules are suggestive of LPDV infection. Turkeys with this disease may also have concurrent infection with Avian Pox virus. Laboratory tests can detect the viruses that are present. Please refer to the Avian Pox disease description for more information on clinical signs and diagnosis of that disease.
This disease is so newly discovered in wild turkeys that literature on it is not currently available. For now, questions should be directed to pgccomments@pa.gov
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Richard Hammel, PhD
Leader in International Pharmaceutical Business Development
12:15-1:15 p.m.
7-135 Weaver-Densford Hall, Twin Cities campus
(simulcast to 163/165 LSci, Duluth campus)
RSVP to pamela@umn.edu
Richard Hammel, PhD, has over 20 years experience in pharmaceutical managed care, sales, marketing and business development. Currently he is a partner of RJH, IBC, a pharmaceutical/biotechnology consulting firm which provides a broad range of business, financial and product development services. The company has offices in the United States, and affiliates in Europe and Japan.
He has also held senior positions at Matrix Pharmaceuticals and Connetics Corporations, where he completed numerous corporate financing, partnering and licensing agreements. While working at Glaxo Inc., he became one of the innovators of business development and corporate partnering activities. Under his leadership, the company invested in the NEA seed venture capital fund and concluded four corporate partnerships. He has also acted as a consultant with Marketing Corporation of America, providing services for Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Warner Lambert.
Hammel received a PhD in pharmacy administration, a master’s of science in hospital pharmacy, and a bachelor of science in pharmacy from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.
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Marina Abramovic Says Jay Z Used Her for "Picasso Baby"
By Sandra Song
[Update 5:20/15, 9:00 p.m.: According the Guardian, the Marina Abramovic Institute in Hudson, N.Y. has issued an apology, as they did indeed receive a donation from Jay Z. According to the Institute, Abramovic herself was never informed. Whoops.]
[Update 5/20/15, 2:00 p.m.: According to "Picasso Baby" video producer Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Jay Z did make good on his promise to donate a substantial sum to the Marina Abramovic Institute. In an interview released earlier today by ArtNet, she read portions of a receipt document that acknowledges him for a donation. Abramovic has yet to respond for clarification.]
Long before the first inklings of Tidal, Jay Z sent the blogosphere alight in 2013 when he spent six hours at New York's Pace Gallery performing his track "Picasso Baby" to promote his album Magna Carta Holy Grail. Inspired by renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic's MoMA piece "The Artist is Present," in which she spent three months of 2010 sitting in the museum, Jay apparently agreed to help the artist out with the Marina Abramovic Institute in exchange for adapting her project. A bargain that Abramovic recently revealed was a "one-way transaction."
In a new interview with Spike Art Magazine, Abramovic said it was something she would never do again, as Jay basically acted as an economic succubus -- using Abramovic's idea as "an economic model" that left eager participants (who were promised that it was an exclusive event) with "nothing." Calling herself "naive in this kind of world," she said she had no idea that something this "cruel" would happen, saying at one point that she was "very pissed." So much for a feel-good spirit of artistic collaboration.
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Leo Joseph Grosswiller Jr.
Born: 03/13/1932 Passed: 06/15/2018
Leo Joseph Grosswiller, Jr. passed away on June 15, 2018. Born March 13, 1932 in Massillon, Ohio. The son of Leo Joseph Grosswiller, Sr. and Lena (Geibel) Grosswiller Brewer. Leo was a proud Massillon Tiger, graduating from Washington High School in 1950. Leo served in the United States Army during the Korean War; after which, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati and then completed a post-graduate course at Carnegie-Melon Institute of Technology.
Leo was a member of Saint Louis Catholic Church in Louisville, Ohio. He retired from Diebold in 1998 after 42 years of service and secured 25 patents. Leo was Manager of Security Products for Diebold and inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame in Akron. Leo also served on the prestigious Advisory Council of the Underwriters Laboratories for Security Products. His final assignment with Diebold was to design and install the case and vault that houses the Hope Diamond and the display that presents and secures the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. His work is viewed by over a million people every year at the National Museum of Natural History and The National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C.
Survived by his wife of 57 years, Carole (Wise); children, Ken (Maria) Grosswiller of Louisville, Debbie (Jeff) Hiltbrand of Columbus, and Lisa (Doug) Rauch of Alexandria, KY; twelve grandchildren; and sister Carol (Ron) Tynan of Massillon.
Preceded in death by his parents, his step-father Earl Brewer; and his five sisters, Thelma, Delores, Jean, Leona. And Millie.
Leo was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. He enjoyed life and taught us all to do the same. His motto, passed down from his father, was “Nothing Beats Fun”.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Boy Scouts of America, 2301 13th St. NW, Canton, Ohio 44708 (buckeyecouncil.org) or to Saint Louis Catholic Church.
Leo’s family will receive friends Tuesday, June 19th from 4-7 pm at the Paquelet-Falk Funeral Home in Louisville. A mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated Wednesday, June 20th at 10:30 am at Saint Louis Catholic Church. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery.
4 Tributes to Leo Joseph Grosswiller Jr.
Father Larry Frient says:
I extend my condolences to everyone.
Your going to missed Uncle Leo. I know your in peace no more pain and i know your going to watch over us. We love you.
Shirley Marcelli says:
You have many memories of happy times with your family. Remember our faith sustains us. I’m very sorry for your loss.
Shirley Geibel Marcelli
I love you I love you I love you
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Allergy & Asthma Network, CHEST Foundation Join Forces to Raise Awareness Around Severity of Difficult-to-Control Asthma
Campaign Aims to Aid Millions of Americans Suffering from Persistent Asthma That Impacts Daily Lives
Allergy & Asthma Network
Aug 16, 2016, 12:45 ET
VIENNA, Va. and GLENVIEW, Ill., Aug. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Allergy & Asthma Network, the nation's leading patient education and advocacy organization for people with allergy and asthma, and CHEST Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to championing lung health, have announced a joint campaign to empower patients suffering from persistent, difficult-to-control asthma.
The campaign will educate patients, caregivers, families, community members, and healthcare providers about the most current treatment options for asthma, highlight the importance of referral to specialists to improve patient outcomes, and bring to light the role of the entire healthcare team and loved ones in the care of a patient with asthma. The campaign also will increase patients' understanding of their conditions through education, and thereby ensure that both patients and providers are working better together to alleviate symptoms.
For more than 30 years, Allergy & Asthma Network has led the effort to end unnecessary death and suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions through its outreach, education, advocacy and research. The Network knows the gravity of misunderstood asthma symptoms and has worked tirelessly to raise understanding of this issue.
"Despite many advances in healthcare, 10 Americans die every day from asthma and asthma-related complications," says Tonya Winders, President and CEO of Allergy & Asthma Network. "These deaths can be prevented with continued education of both patients and providers – a sentiment that the CHEST Foundation shares with our organization. This campaign is a joint effort to raise the understanding of asthma across the country, especially in urban areas where the illness is most severe."
"The CHEST Foundation has long been dedicated to supporting and educating those affected by asthma and asthma-related conditions," says John Howington, CHEST Foundation President. "We are proud to be working with the Network to help patients nationwide start living their lives in a healthier, more enjoyable way due to decreased asthma interference."
Allergy & Asthma Network and CHEST Foundation will work to raise awareness of this serious issue by educating the public about asthma management. The organizations will tailor their efforts towards these different factions, which include patients, caregivers, schools, parents, clinicians, and the like. These resources will focus on helping individuals understand and successfully utilize the most up-to-date research surrounding asthma in order to effectively manage the issue. This asthma awareness campaign is supported in part by grants from Boehringer Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline.
About Allergy & Asthma Network
Allergy & Asthma Network is the leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending needless death and suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions. Allergy & Asthma Network specializes in sharing family-friendly, medically accurate information through its award-winning publication Allergy & Asthma Today magazine, E-newsletter, www.AllergyAsthmaNetwork.org and numerous community outreach programs. Follow Allergy & Asthma Network at facebook.com/AllergyAsthmaHQ and twitter.com/AllergyAsthmaHQ.
About CHEST and the CHEST Foundation
CHEST is the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. Its mission is to champion the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chest diseases through education, communication, and research. CHEST serves as an essential connection to clinical knowledge and resources for its 18,700 members from around the world who provide patient care in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. For more information about CHEST, visit chestnet.org.
The CHEST Foundation's mission is to champion Lung health. The foundation fulfills its mission through the development and dissemination of world-class patient education materials and programs, clinical research grants, and community service efforts. Since 1996, the foundation has provided more than $10 million in grants to young investigators and distinguished scholars for outstanding work in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. For more information about the CHEST Foundation, visit chestnet.org/foundation.
CHEST Foundation
Kristi Bruno
Alanna Astion
SOURCE Allergy & Asthma Network
http://www.AllergyAsthmaNetwork.org
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HomenewsTerm paper writingThe Columbian exchange by Alfred W. Crosby
The Columbian exchange by Alfred W. Crosby
The Columbian exchange by Alfred W. Crosby became really revolutionary study about American society. At first, people witnessed serious scientific approach, which was not devoted to economic or political consequences of European conquering the New World. According to Alfred W. Crosby, the single most important factor in facilitating the European conquest of the Americas may be found, surprisingly, in a realm beyond simple human control: ecology (Crosby, p.1). The Columbian Exchange by Alfred W. Crosby tells the story of both large and small organisms movement after 1492, in both directions across the Atlantic. The main thesis of this book outlines that the changed history of our planet became the most significant consequence of Columbus discovery.
Being aimed to provide critical analysis of read work, there are several points which have to be considered. The first one devoted to evidences presented by the author. With the objective absence of the ability to confirm or refute contained in book data, the historical studies are the only source to make conclusions about credibility. Considering that Alfred W. Crosby’s work is well recognized by such popular scholars as Sherburne F. Cook, Woodrow Borah, Kenneth F. Kipl, William H. McNeil, we perceive author’s evidences as fully credible. In addition, there is the great job about variety of collected data. In this regard, writer’s ideas are supported and generated by significant historical researches, numerous quotations, using objective data from different fields of knowledge, statistics appeals. Being fully convinced with credibility of analyzed work, it is stated that �Columbian exchange�� by Alfred W. Crosby is the foundational work, which contributed much to the field of environmental history, and remains one of the canonical texts about the world’s history. Being so admired with read book, there is the try to support previous statement with critical analysis of main points of the plot.
Previously, it was stressed that the main thesis of Alfred W. Crosby devoted to significance of ecological transformations after 1492, as the main result of discovery made by Christopher Columbus. To get this general thesis, it is important to take some particular looks at the parts of the entire plot. At first, it is important to talk about gains of Amerindians an Europeans in Columbian Exchange. Talking about significant plants and animals exchange between New and Old worlds, scholar emphasizes that the first one was more contributed: �In this matter, as in that of diseases, the impact of The Old World on the New was so great that we of the 19th century can only imagine what pre-Columbian America must have been like�� (Crosby, p.2). Really, Europeans brought a lot and this fact is mostly related to kinds of animals: �As the number of humans plummeted, the population of imported domesticated animals shot upward. The first contingent of horses, dogs, pigs, cattle, chickens, sheep and goats arrived with Columbus on the second voyage in 1943��(Crosby, p.46). As for the agricultural contribution of European world, the rice, wheat, barley, oats, rye, turnips, onions, cabbage, lettuce, peaches, pears, sugar. The contribution of New World also worth to be considered as rather impressive. As for the plants, it gave Europeans maize (corn), white potatoes, sweet potatoes, manioc, peanuts, tomatoes, squash (incl. pumpkin), pineapples, papaya, avocados. The list of shared to Old World animals was not so impressive: llamas, guinea pigs, fowl (a few species). Aiming to get critical view about plants and animals exchanges, there are no doubts in credibility of read data. According to Alfred W. Crosby, all this data is based on existing historical references. Since, contemporary science does not know opposing approaches to the issue of agricultural and domestic animals exchange, facts placed in the work of famous scholar cannot be refuted.
Now let’s pay some attention to other, even more impressive, kind of exchange between New and Old world. Alfred W. Crosby claimed in next way: �More astonishing than the difference between the length of the lists of Old World’s and New World’s domesticated animals is the difference between the lengths of the lists of infectious diseases native to the two. The New World had only a few, possibly because humans had been present there and had lived in dense populations, cities, for a short time compared to the Old. Possibly of greater importance is the relative lack of domesticated herd animals in America, one of our richest sources of disease micro-organisms�� (Crosby, p.3). Actually, the interconnections between New and Old worlds hardly could be called exchange in this aspect. The Europeans brought to New world bubonic plague, chicken pox, cholera, influenza, leprosy, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid, typhus. In their turn, New World’s inhabitants �shared�� the yaws just. The new diseases affected Indians in really dramatic way. The consequence of this Columbian exchange became the millions of innocent deaths. Especially, this claim devoted to the pandemic of smallpox: �The impact of smallpox pandemic on the Aztec and Incan Empires is easy for the twentieth century reader to underestimate. We also have so long being hypnotized by the daring of conquistador that we have overlooked the importance of his biological allies. Because of the achievements of modern medical science we find it too hard to accept that the pandemic killed one-third to one-half of population struck by it�� The Mexicans had no natural resistance to the disease at all. Other diseases were probably operating quietly and efficiently behind the screen of smallpox�� (Crosby, p.52). This quote was put to show the general nature of microorganisms Columbian exchange after 1492. As you see, it was the game with only one gate. In fact, the issue of microbiological exchange is to the point to talk about how did the Europeans devastate the Amerindians population. In his book, Alfred W. Crosby outlined this factor as one the priors leading to violent expansion of new territories by Europeans. The author does not deny that devastation of New World’s inhabitants was led by conquering and economic interests of incomers. He just stresses that pandemics occurred at the territories of New Land simplified appropriate task’s execution several fold. For example, writer tells us about deaths of head chiefs, which were incredibly influential for the entire lives of Indians societies: �Not only the Inca, but many others in the key positions in Incan society died in the pandemics. The General Michnaca Mayta and many other military leaders, the governors Aqu Hilaquito and Auqui Tupac, the Inca’s sister��The deaths of the important persons must have robbed the Empire of much resiliency��(Crosby, p.54). At second, we should not forget about millions of regular deaths among aborigines, what seriously reduced the military power of struggling Empire: �the general estimates showed that the population of central Mexico was reduced from 25 to 18 millions of people under the influence of different reasons, and the smallpox pandemic was the most influential among them probably��(Crosby, p.53).
Providing the critical analysis of Alfred W. Crosby’s work, it should be accepted that data about microorganisms sharing during Columbian Exchange looks pretty credible and convincing. This claim is based on numerous historical researches, which were used by the writer as supportive evidences. In addition, we met multifaceted approach to analyzed issue. Eventually, Alfred W. Crosby used different methods of scientific investigation. Not to be unfounded, he resorted different historical sources, analyzed opposing to each other theories and provided philological analysis of terms even. All his ideas do not appear as some kinds of axioms. They are generated on the base of existing historical data and evidences. Thus, the part about microbiological exchange shouldn’t be seriously criticized from the methodological point of view. However, it has to be mentioned that talking about European devastate of Amerindians, author is not very troubled with the human motives. Such approach can be easily explained with the volume of investigational subject. In this order, it is important to remember that �Columbian exchange�� is the heritage of environmental history. Thereby, lack of info about economic and political motives of conquers cannot be perceived as some shortcoming.
To sum up, Alfred W. Crosby’s �Columbian Exchange�� worth to be recognized the decent heritage of history literature. The author made outstanding job to light out the consequences of Columbus discover, which remained unnoticed before. It is difficult to over esteem contribution of this book, due to incredible level of relevance, credibility and informational content. However, there is one critical view about read plot. It seems like the story written by the other hardly can match its title. This statement is grounded on two main points. At first, the term exchange presupposes the balance of two parts. The historical data and events do not give us the opportunity to talk in this way. At second, readers cannot stand aside from author’s dramatic retreats to stress the horrible consequences of Columbus discover for Amerindians. It seems like this approach towards plot’s building was not too suitable for study of environment history. Notwithstanding previous views, �Columbian Exchange�� remains incredibly valuable work. It gave readers the look at the second side of the same coin, which was not widely researched before.
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Congress faces fall from hell
A crush of thorny, must-solve issues will greet lawmakers after the August recess — a major test for the GOP Congress.
By JAKE SHERMAN and BURGESS EVERETT
Speaker John Boehner, addressing a roomful of fellow House Republicans on Tuesday morning, described a major, six-year highway bill crafted by the Senate as a “piece of shit,” according to sources in the room. Senate Republicans have been only slightly more charitable about the House’s three-month measure, calling it another lame procrastination on an issue that needs to be dealt with now.
The GOP Congress is likely to dispense with the highway issue in the next few days and skip town for a long summer break. But it won’t be any easier when lawmakers return — far from it.
In fact, lawmakers have teed up a hellish final few months of 2015, as a series of high-stakes deadlines looms on everything from keeping the government open to doling out money for roads and then, for good measure, raising the federal government’s borrowing limit. It promises to be a major test of the Republican Party’s ability to govern as the GOP prepares to ask voters to continue one-party control of Congress.
The crush was largely brought on by lawmakers themselves — the breakdown of the appropriations process this spring and failure to deal with highway funding have only added to the backlog of thorny, must-solve issues on Congress’ plate when it returns from its summer in September.
House conservative seeks Boehner's ouster
LAUREN FRENCH and JAKE SHERMAN
The legislative laundry list comes amid an ugly intraparty GOP feud between leaders of the House and Senate and their right flanks that have made passing bills in their own chamber treacherous, let alone getting them through the entire Congress.
The Senate’s internal politics have slowed floor action down to a crawl — not an encouraging development in the face of crucial deadlines. In the House, conservatives have threatened the leadership’s entire agenda.
The leaders can’t afford hiccups when they return. But almost no one expects there will be transformative, permanent solutions from this group of lawmakers.
“We’d love to get long-term solutions, but I think what we’ve realized in the first six or seven months are that smaller bites at the apple are much more doable,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a former House member.
After the monthlong August recess, Congress will have just 12 workdays in September to avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1. A law governing the Federal Aviation Administration expires that day, but congressional leaders are struggling to cobble together a bill.
Less than one month after that, highway funding is set to expire — again. House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) need to find a way to resolve their so-far intractable differences over how to reauthorize — and pay for — highway projects across the nation. Each wants to make a mark on highway policy, but they’ve been unable to do find any modicum of agreement thus far.
“It gives us the time we need,” Ryan insisted of the short-term extension Congress looks poised to pass this week. “It’s fine. Plenty of time.”
Boehner said he’s going to spend his political capital to help Ryan get it done.
“I want a long-term highway bill that’s fully paid for,” Boehner said Tuesday. “That’s been the goal all year. It continues to be the goal all year. We’ve been trying to do this for four years, it’s time to get it across the finish line. And I’m going to do everything I can to get to a long-term highway bill by the end of October.” (Many GOP aides acknowledge it could take until the end of November.)
After pushing for a six-year bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is now prepared to go along with the House’s temporary measure to buy time to start the negotiations. That would at least avoid a construction shutdown on Saturday.
House leaders limit floor access for Pope Francis visit
JAKE SHERMAN
Also likely awaiting lawmakers this fall will be a fight over the defunct Export-Import Bank. Backers of the government loan guarantee agency, which lapsed at the end of June, hoped it would be resurrected with the highway bill. But that isn’t happening, despite the support of Senate Democrats and half of Senate Republicans.
Conservatives like House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) view the bank’s expired charter as a major victory. But the failure to revive the bank could cause acrimony among a fragile coalition of pro-trade Democrats and Republicans when the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement comes up for a vote — also this fall. Proponents view the bank as a boost to free trade.
“We’ve demonstrated broad support for the Export-Import Bank. And somehow along the way it always gets left behind,” said Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, a Democrat who “went to the mat” this spring to win a vote in the Senate. “This place boggles my mind every single day.”
Mix in a contentious vote on President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal in mid-September and the first attempt by a GOP-led Capitol to raise the debt ceiling later in the fall or winter and you have a perfect storm of deadlines with little time to meet them. Meanwhile, every decision on Capitol Hill is likely to be second-guessed by the rowdy band of Republicans trying to secure their party’s presidential nomination, four of whom serve in the Senate.
“I think it’s going to be a very vigorous fall and that’s what we signed up for,” said Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
The deadlines could be particularly challenging for McConnell. The Senate often takes a week or longer — sometimes much longer — to finish legislation than the House. That could frustrate attempts to pass other legislation.
Senate Republicans, for instance, say they’re near a bipartisan breakthrough on criminal justice reform, a hot-button issue that could actually result in a new law. But making time on the calendar for the effort, with everything else going on, won’t be easy.
“As all of you have witnessed, it takes a long time to do things in the Senate,” McConnell said Tuesday, when asked when he’d get to the justice bill. The Senate also has yet to take up cybersecurity legislation that’s meant to respond to a series of massive hacks.
McConnell moves ahead with vote to defund Planned Parenthood
ANNA PALMER and JOHN BRESNAHAN
Of course, this is all grist for Democrats, who are all too happy to paint a picture of a chaotic Republican majority that can’t shoot straight. In truth, Democrats struggled on some of the same issues when they had the majority, particularly the highway bill.
But with so many unanswered questions about how the GOP can fend off fiscal calamity in the fall and Republicans already eyeing the exits for a lengthy summer break, Democrats see an opportunity to hit the Republican majority. GOP leaders have refused to sit down with Democratic leaders to craft a broad spending deal — instead the GOP leaders are leaving D.C. with “their tails between their legs,” as future Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York put it Tuesday.
“Deadline here, deadline there. But always deadlines. Management by crisis,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “The Republican leader has no plan to meet these deadlines.”
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Surah At-Tur
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It is derived from the very first cord "Wat Tur-i."
From the internal evidence of the subject matter it appears that this Surah too was revealed in the same stage of the Holy Prophet's life at Makkah in which the Surah Adh-Dhariyat was revealed. While going through it one can clearly feel that during the period of its revelation the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was being showered with objections and accusations but there is no evidence yet to show that severe persecution of the Muslims had started.
Subject Matter and Topics
The subject matter of its first section (vv. 1-28) is the Hereafter. As arguments for its possibility, necessity and occurrence had already been given in Surah Adh-Dhariyat, these have not been repeated here. However, swearing an oath by some realities and signs which testify to the Hereafter, it has been stated most emphatically that it will surely come to pass, and none has the power to prevent its occurrence. Then, it has been stated as to what will be the fate of those who deny it when it actually occurs, and how will those who believe in it and adopt the way of piety and righteousness accordingly, be blessed by Allah.
Then, in the second section (vv. 29-49) the Quraish chiefs' attitude towards the message of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah he upon him) has been criticized. They called him a sorcerer, a madman, or a poet, and would thus mislead the common people against him so that they should not pay any serious attention to the message he preached. They looked upon him as a calamity that had suddenly descended on them and would openly wish that he met with a disaster so that they were rid of him. They accused him of fabricating the Qur'an by himself and of presenting it in the name of Allah, and this was, God forbid, a fraud that he was practicing. They would often taunt him, saying that God could not have appointed an ordinary man like him to the office of Prophethood. They expressed great disgust at his invitation and message and would avoid him as if he was asking them for a reward for it. They would sit and take counsels together to devise schemes in order to put an end to his mission. And while they did all this they never realized what creeds of ignorance they were involved in and how selflessly and sincerely was Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) exerting himself to deliver them from their error. While criticizing them for this attitude and conduct, Allah has put them certain questions, one after the other, each of which is either an answer to some objection of theirs, or a criticism of some error. Then, it has been said that it would absolutely be of no avail to show them a miracle in order to convince them of his Prophethood, for they were such stubborn people as would misinterpret anything they were shown only to avoid affirming the faith.
In the beginning of this section as well as in its end, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has been given the instruction that he should persistently continue giving his invitation and preaching his message in spite of the accusations and objections of his opponents and enemies, and should endure their resistance patiently till Allah's judgment comes to pass. Besides, he has been consoled, as if to say "Your Lord has not left you alone to face your enemies, after raising you as a Prophet, but He is constantly watching over you. Therefore, endure every hardship patiently till the Hour of His judgment comes, and seek through praising and glorifying your Lord the power that is required for exerting in the cause of Allah under such conditions.
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HPN-SSH Community Guide
Developing the next version of HPN-SSH:
The developers of HPN-SSH at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and incorporate new features and optimizations. This grant will provide direct support to developers at PSC for two years. The goal of this grant (NSF Award#: 2004012) is to provide HPN-SSH with the level of performance required in modern high performance computing.
What is HPN-SSH?
HPN-SSH is a series of modifications to OpenSSH, the predominant implementation of the ssh protocol. It was originally developed to address performance issues when using ssh on high speed long distance networks (also known as Long Fat Networks: LFNs). By taking advantage of automatically optimized receive buffers HPN-SSH could improve performance dramatically on these paths. Later advances include; disabling encryption after authentication to transport non-sensitive bulk data, modifying the AES-CTR cipher to use multiple CPU cores, more detailed connection logging, and peak throughput values in the scp progress bar. More information can be found on HPN-SSH page on the PSC website.
What are you working on?
We’ve identified six different areas where we would like to focus our efforts. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list but is more of a starting point for our deliverables. Depending on community input this list may change to develop advances of highest interest. The six initial proposed areas of work are:
Automatically resume failed transfers: There is nothing quite as frustrating as having scp or sftp fail in the middle of a large transfer. Currently ssh does not have a mechanism to allow for failed transfers to restart from the point of failure. HPN-SSH is proposing to develop a mechanism to reliably resume failed transfers. We expect to do this by computing a hash of the partial file and compare it to a corresponding byte range of the original file. If these match then HPN-SSH will append the missing information to the partial file. If they do not match then the entire file will be transferred.
Incorporate AES-NI into the AES-CTR cipher: The AES-NI instruction set is a set of on die instructions that use hardware acceleration to increase the performance of common AES functions. The result is that on CPUs that support AES-NI the default AES-CTR cipher is faster than HPN-SSH’s multithreaded cipher. We will work on incorporating AES-NI into the multithreaded cipher. We expect that this will allow for faster transfers when ssh is CPU bound.
Parallelization of CHACHA20 cipher: CHACHA20 is a fast secure cipher that is the current default for OpenSSH. Initial investigation indicates that CHACHA20 can be transformed into a multithreaded cipher. This will allow the workload to be distributed across more CPU cores and should allow for faster transfers. We believe this will be important in situations where multiple users are simultaneously transferring files to the same host.
Inline Network Telemetry: Sometimes figuring out why a ssh connection is underperforming is a difficult task. To help with diagnostics HPN-SSH will deploy network telemetry. In this diagnostic mode both the client and server will periodically query network statistics (such as retransmits, out of order packets, time spent buffer limited, and so forth) and store this data for analysis. This data may also be periodically displayed to the user. Initially this will be limited to linux installations where we have access to the TCP_INFO struct.
Pipelining HMAC generation: The Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) is a one way cryptographic hash used by ssh to ensure that a datagram has not been modified en-route between the hosts. This ensures that the data has not been subjected to a man in the middle attack. In OpenSSH this is a step in a very linear process. No other work can be conducted (such as encrypting other data) while the HMAC is being computed. In many cases this can act a bottleneck on throughput. HPN-SSH is proposing to pipeline this process in order to mitigate this bottleneck as much as possible.
Packaging and Distribution: HPN-SSH was, for a very long time, only available as a series of patches. Later it became a github repo. This turned out to be a non-optimal method of distributing HPN-SSH to the public. With this in mind we will be working to provide precompiled packages for a variety of operating systems and Linux distributions and the creation of canonical package repositories (such as PPAs). We will also be reaching out to distribution maintainers to make HPN-SSH an option for all of their users.
Please start by taking the HPN-SSH User survey.
First and foremost we would like to have the community help us figure out what our priorities should be. While we will address each of the above areas we don’t have a fixed schedule of what we should work on first. So if the community tells us (via our survey) that resuming failed transfers would have the biggest impact we will work on that first. Second, we need people who are willing to try the new versions of HPN-SSH and give us feedback on how they are working by filing bug reports, giving us suggestions for improvements, and so forth. We really want this next phase of HPN-SSH development to be a joint and iterative process between the developers and the users.
Also, please join our HPN-SSH community mailing list. This is a list for both developers and users.
This work has been made possible by a grant from the Nation Science Foundation
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Michael V. Hernandez, J.D.
ProfessorDirector, LL.M. ProgramsFaculty Advisor, Moot Court Board and Trial Advocacy Board757.352.4040 michher@regent.edu
Professor Michael Hernandez joined the faculty of Regent University's School of Law in 1992 and has taught Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Appellate Advocacy, Foundations of Law, International Human Rights, Property, and Race & the Law. While at Regent, he has served as the dean of the School of Law, director of the LL.M. degree programs, the director of the Honors Program, faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board and to the Hispanic Law Students Association, and as the head coach of Regent's award-winning Moot Court teams.
Prior to teaching, Hernandez practiced law in the areas of products liability litigation at McGuire Woods and environmental litigation at McSweeney, Burtch & Crump, both law firms in Richmond, Virginia. He has served as a consultant for attorneys litigating cases in state and federal court, including before the United States Supreme Court.
Hernandez's scholarship focuses on property law, race and the law, law and religion, law and public policy, and appellate advocacy. He is the author of the book, Unlocking Estates in Land and Future Interests, and co-author of Virginia Practice Series: Real Estate Closings with Professor Wade Berryhill of the University or Richmond School of Law.
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
B.A., with high distinction, University of Virginia
“In Defense of Pluralism: Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, Olympianism, and Christophobia,” 48 Toledo Law Review 283 (2017).
"Unlocking Estates in Land and Future Interests" (West Academic Publishing) Virginia Practice Series: Real Estate Closings (West ed.) (co-author with W. Wade Berryhill).
"The Rule of Law, Historical Equity, and Mexican "Contra Prohibition" Immigrants," 9 Regent Journal of International Law 29 (2012).
"Theism, Realism, and Rawls," 40 Seton Hall Law Review 905 (2010).
"Theistic Legal Realism and Normative Principles of Law," 2 Liberty Law Review 703 (2008).
"Restating Implied, Prescriptive and Statutory Easements," 40 Real Prop. Prob. & Tr. J. 75 (2005).
"Practice and Feedback in the Property (and on the Golf) Course, Teaching the Law School Curriculum," 340-42 (Carolina Acad. Press 2004).
"A Flawed Foundation: Christianity's Loss of Preeminent Influence on American Law," 56 Rutgers Law Review 625 (2004).
"Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Property Law," 35 University of Richmond Law Review 777 (2001).
"Lessons Learned from Teaching a Seminar on Race & the Law," 9:2 Education & Practice 5 (Spring 2001).
"Bridging Gibraltar: Latinos as Agents of Reconciliation in Relations Between Black and White America," 11 La Raza Law Journal 99 (2000).
"The Right of Religious Landlords to Exclude Unmarried Cohabitants: Debunking the Myth of the Tenant's 'New Clothes,'" 77 Nebraska Law Review 494 (1998).
"In Defense of Moot Court: A Response to 'In Praise of Moot Court -- Not!'" 17 Review of Litigation 69 (1998).
"Cost Recovery or Contribution?: Resolving the Controversy Over CERCLA Claims Brought By Potentially Responsible Parties," 21 Harvard Environmental Law Review 83 (1997).
Member of Virginia State Bar since 1987
Admitted to practice before the following courts:
Supreme Court of Virginia
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia American Bar Association
Who's Who in America (57th & 58th Eds.)
Who's Who in American Law (10th, 11th & 14 Eds.)
Who's Who in American Education (7th Ed.)
Academic Keys Who's Who in Law Education (WWLE) (2005-present)
Regent University School of Law 1L Professor of the Year, 2000-01, 1998-99, & 1993-94
Regent University Faculty Award for Excellence (Spring 2008)
Regent University Outstanding Faculty Advisor (Moot Court Board) (2011)
Board of Governors, Virginia Bar Association (2017-present)
Board of Governors, Virginia State Bar Education Section (2015-present)
Board of Directors, Christian Legal Society (2018-present)
Member, Virginia Bar Association's inaugural Pro Bono Council (2015-17)
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We Don't Go Back #13: Night of the Demon (1957)
In a conversation elsewhere, a colleague made the point that The Force Awakens is a better movie than A New Hope. I said, OK, it probably is, but Star Wars (its name in 1977) is a better 1977 movie than The Force Awakens is a 2015 movie.
Which is to say, on a par and to be judged against everything in its era. I am not a big Star Wars fan, I'll be honest, but this is actually pretty important. Sometimes you look at a film or a piece of TV – and I'm not just talking about genre stuff here – and it looks shoddy, old-fashioned, badly judged, inconsistent in tone.
The point being that while Night of the Demon (released in the USA as Curse of the Demon) might look a bit wonky, it's a decent 1957 movie, but like a lot of British genre films, including several I've looked at in the last couple months, it could have been made at pretty much any time in the preceding decade.
This will spoil surprises in the plot, of which the ending isn't one, because the monster at the end of the film is seen in full right at the start.
Let's get this over with.
I won't lie, Night of the Demon gives all the signs of being a wonky B-movie potboiler, and after a portentous and near-nonsensical voice over introduction, we're introduced to a Professor Harrington, a worried academic who rolls up at a country house, where he asks Julian Karswell (Niall McGinnis) to call something off, he'll do anything. Karswell says he can't. And then, seven minutes into the film, a big old fiery demon comes out of the trees and kills Harrington.
This, it turns out, sits really badly with the rest of the film. Night of the Demon is based, and you probably know this, because let's face it, this is a pretty niche blog, on MR James's short story "Casting the Runes". As MR James ghost stories go, "Casting the Runes" stands apart from the other 35 in that the real villain is not a supernatural entity, but a modern occultist with a grudge, and that the goodies in that story defeat the villain by turning his powers back on him.
You can read the story here. It's a really great story. You should read it. To be honest, James wrote very few duds.
Night of the Demon has roughly the same sort of plot, but expands upon it, except instead of Edward Dunning, bookish journal editor, its hero is dashing American psychologist John Holden (Dana Andrews, past his prime and a little out of his depth) who engages with a battle of wits with Karswell, with the aid of Joanna Harrington, the professor's neice (Peggy Cummins). Holden hits on his companion, but she isn't having any of it.
Joanna not only has to fend off a demon, but also a sexist American.
Holden gets given a cursed parchment by Karswell, tucked into a book Karswell hands him, on which are written runes. The parchment keeps trying to get away from him, trying to blow into the fire or get lost on the wind; fortunately Holden and Harrington are smart enough to keep it.
It reads "This is why you can't have nice things."
Holden experiences hauntings and unsettling warnings – places start looking off kilter, his appointment diary loses all its pages after the promised date of his demise, writing appears and disappears on an appointment card – but he absolutely refuses to believe in the reality of the hauntings, until very late in the film.
A hotel corridor, turned into a threat with lighting and angles. It's dead clever.
Holden: I have an imagination like everyone else! It's easy to see a demon in every dark corner!
Holden spends much of the film going back and forth with Karswell. Karswell is the most interesting character in the film. Veteran character actor Niall McGinnis flips from comical, harmless, even a bit lovable, to sinister and cold and back again, and this is one of the things the film does best: it turns comedy into something frightening.
For example, fairly early on, Holden and Harrington visit Karswell to find him dressed as a clown and giving a magic show to delighted village children. And he's good at it! He conjures puppies from a hat and the children squeal and laugh, and it's absolutely convincing.
Dr. Bobo.
It's unexpected. Karswell ends the show, and he's ebullient and generous, offers condolences to Harrington about the death of her uncle and goes off for a walk with Holden. And he's entirely matter-of-fact. Yes, you're under a curse, yes, I did it, yes, you've got a couple weeks. Holden doesn't believe a word of it. And then Karswell concentrates for a second and a violent, freakish storm blows up, from nowhere.
...and now he's terrifying.
Shot from below, his coat whipped by the wind, Karswell's clown smile becomes demonic.
Later on, our heroes visit a medium, Mr Meek. And every stupid stereotype of the medium happens. He goes into a trance as two women sing "Cherry Ripe" and then he starts talking with the voice of a Native American shaman1 and a comedy Scotsman, and it's all played for broad comedy.
Voices.
And then the voice of a little girl comes out of the man's mouth.
And his friends act like it's normal.
It's jarring. It's a properly creepy moment. And then the voice of Prof. Hamilton comes out of his mouth, warning Joanna that Holden won't be able to fight it. And Holden still doesn't believe.
In another smart move, Night of the Demon puts Karswell into a folk context. It turns out that he's part of a cult of "True Believers" who are of course rural people. One of them is locked in a psychiatric hospital, accused of murder but deemed unfit to stand trial. Holden goes to the man's family who behave in the way that Creepy Country Folk are wont to, and if there's anything I've learned from this project, you never take lightly a rural witch.
"Cup of tea?" "No, I'm fine, thanks."
The man, who is in a fugue state, undergoes a hypnotic regression. After revealing what the cult get up to, and explaining to Holden how to get out of the curse (you give the paper back to Karswell, who has to accept it from you), he jumps out of a window. Again, it's a weird, silly scene that turns on you.
And then there's that part where Holden goes to a stone circle and finds the runes carved onto the stones themselves. Karswell isn't just a crank. He's part of something older and stranger.
Wait, there are Saxon runes carved onto Stonehenge?
The story goes lots of places that James' original doesn't but it winds up in a similar place. And then that demon comes back and the baddie gets taken. Now the demon is there because of studio interference. The producers insisted that if you're going to have a film called Night of the Demon you had to have a demon in it. The director, Jacques Tourneur, protested and fought, but in the end, you got a demon, a demon at the start and a demon at the end, and they did their best with it, they really did, but it makes the rest of the film a problem. There's a great bit in the third act where Holden gets chased through the woods by a ball of fire and light and if that had been the only demon, I think, like Tourneur did, it would have been a much better film. Because most of the best bits of the film are creepy and unsettling – Mr Meek, the grinning clown in the wind, the unfriendly country folk, the lowering woods and threatening corridors – and most are just on the corner of belief.
That is, if Holden's experiences in the film were all you had to go on, there'd still be a reasonable chance of an explanation. And Holden's dogged scepticism would be justified. But right at the start, literally three minutes after the credits are done, there's that bloody demon, and the voice over before the credits that says "ever since a really long time ago, bad people have summoned demons."
And that makes our hero Holden an idiot, because he's wrong, he's obviously wrong, and while you actually end up looking forward to the next bit with Karswell in because he's brilliant, for most of the film you want to shake Holden by the lapels and yell in his face, "There is a demon, a big fuck-off demon with oogly googly eyes and teeth and terrible breath and huge claws and it goes rarrr, and it is coming for you! A demon! DON'T YOU GET IT?" The simple presence of the demon means that in the battle of wits, Holden comes bringing a knife to a gunfight.
And then at the end, after it's over, Holden says, "Maybe it's better not to know." But we do know. We know. It was the big old demon with the oogly googly eyes and the sharp teeth and the terrible breath and the big claws that goes rarrr.
And it removes the tension from the film. You could improve the film by starting it eight minutes in, in fact. There isn't a single piece of exposition that doesn't get repeated later. And while the film clearly has an influence on what would be folk horror later on, and it's hugely influential, the demon almost disqualifies it.
If this had been the only demon shown, it would have been a much better film.
And that's a shame, because yes, Night of the Demon is a 1957 movie, but it's a pretty good 1957 movie. It just could have been a much better one.
1I've known more than one Spiritualist medium and I've observed that Native American shamans who talk like they do in 50s Westerns are really popular as spirit guides. I won't pass undue content, only observe that either Sioux and Cherokees really talked like that, or someone's being fooled. In the UK, it's still generally not considered offensive by most people to call indigenous Americans "Indians" and so these spirit guides were always "Indian Medicine Men". But then, in the UK, one of the most beloved characters in kids' comics is Little Plum in The Beano.
Hunt Emerson draws Little Plum these days.
I can't help thinking that the fact his most recent adventures have been drawn by a really great cartoonist somehow make it worse, you know? (back)
Labels: horror, we don't go back
Alex Greene Wednesday, 16 November, 2016
Damn, that last little bit about Hunt Emerson drawing Little Plum for the Beano just floored me. Talk about spoilers.
David Anderson Wednesday, 16 November, 2016
At a slight tangent, in the Penguin Book of the British Short Story (vol 2) ed Philip Hensher there is a story called Bind Your Hair by Robert Aickman which is exactly the sort of thing you're talking about in this blog. Do you know it?
howard david ingham Thursday, 17 November, 2016
I don't. Perhaps I shall track it down.
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Four years on: Anna Politkovskaya’s murder still unsolved
7 Oct, 2010 05:26
October 7 marks four years since Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in her apartment block. Her family and human rights activists are hitting out at police for not doing enough to find her killer.
Denis Vasiliev makes no secret that he dislikes journalists. To him, they are too intrusive, too simplistic and too manipulative.
This attitude is quite typical. According to polls, at least two thirds of Russians distrust what they read in newspapers or see on TV.
”I am tired of journalists. And I am tired of going over things that have no impact on society again and again,” Vasiliev said.
Ironically, it was a journalist that helped him find justice.
In 2001 he was badly beaten – first by thugs, then by the Russian police to whom he turned for help. When it seemed that everything in his country has failed him, one reporter came to his aid. It was Anna Politkovskaya.
“Our tragedy was widely publicized in newspapers and on TV, but only Anna Politkovskaya touched upon the real-life problems of the people she wrote about,” said Denis’s mother Marina Kondratyeva.
“Strong psychological pressure from the authorities, the involvement of psychiatrists and the police, the attempts to open criminal cases against us…No journalist is willing to take the risk of bringing those things out to the public,” she added.
That story in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper helped Denis to win a case against the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights, one of many that Politkovskaya’s reporting led to.
“A journalist who deals with people’s pain as part of their job and tries to actually help people rather than just reflect their stories should not be something out of the ordinary,” said Novaya Gazeta’s deputy editor in chief, Sergey Sokolov.
”We have too many objective journalists who only litter the information sphere. Anna never did that,” he added. “Her main goal was to help people not just write a piece about them. A journalist’s work does not end once the story is done. That is what she believed.”
While she is often credited for rekindling people’s faith in justice, four years later, the people responsible for Politkovskaya’s own murder remain unpunished.
Russia’s Investigative Committee says the case is very challenging, but the search for the killers and masterminds is still ongoing.
Politkovskaya’s daughter Vera, who over the years has developed a striking resemblance to her mother, says the family is still hopeful.
“We still have hope, of course, but the way the investigation is going and the way the trial went, we can tell that the investigators have not made much progress,” Vera said. “I cannot see anything that would indicate we are getting closer to the truth.”
Vera Politkovskaya has also become a journalist, but she admits that her dedication to the profession is nowhere near as intense as her mother’s. Vera’s number one priority is her four-year-old daughter Anna.
People who knew Anna Politkovskaya say she had zero tolerance for formalism and officialdom, and that she continues to defy them even after her death.
To commemorate Politkovskaya’s death, several hundred people gathered in central Moscow on Thursday for one minute of silence. Among them were a few high-profile artists, writers and politicians, and just people who loved Politkovskaya or admired her work.
“I remember her by the last article she wrote in Novaya Gazeta,” said Liya Akhedzhakova, a famous Russian actress who attended the meeting. “After reading it, I said to my friend: Anya will be killed soon. And she was killed within a few days. The article was about what’s happening in Chechnya, her investigation.”
“Anna was absolutely exceptional, she was obsessed by the truth,” human right activist Tatyana Lokshina said.
On the building where she lived and was murdered there is a commemorative plaque with her name and date of death. In the city code it is prohibited to put such plaques within five years of a person’s death.
While Moscow officials have few reasons to appreciate her reporting, and have all the legal grounds to remove it, the plaque is still there – a tribute to her life and a condemnation of her death.
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Man dies in two-car collision in Co Westmeath
Updated / Tuesday, 10 Apr 2012 13:28
An 86-year-old man has died and two other people were injured in a two-car collision in Co Westmeath.
The crash happened on the N4 on the Dublin side of the Downs in Mullingar at about 9.30pm last night.
A man and a woman injured in the collision were removed to Mullingar General Hospital with minor injuries.
The road was closed for several hours overnight to allow for a technical examination at the scene, but has since reopened.
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Home India News General News Tamil Nadu CM condemns Mullivaikkal war memorial demolition in Sri Lanka's Jaffna varsity
Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami has "strongly condemned" the demolition of the Mullivaikkal war memorial at the Jaffna University campus in Sri Lanka. While taking to Twitter, Palaniswami called the news of the removal of the monument "shocking" and added that the act has caused "great pain" to the Tamils across the globe. The Tamil war memorial in Jaffna University, which was built in memory of the people and students who died in Mullivaikkal war in 2009, was destroyed by the authorities in Sri Lanka on January 9.
Palaniswami wrote, "The news that a monument erected at the Jaffna University campus in memory of university students and the general public who were mercilessly killed in the final phase of the war in Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka, has been demolished overnight is shocking."
"I strongly condemn this monthly act of the Government of Sri Lanka which has caused great pain to the Tamils of the world and to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna who accompanied it," the Tamil Nadu CM said in another tweet.
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'Timely decision'
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka UGC Chairman said that the decision to remove the memorial was taken by Vice-Chancellor Professor Srisatkunarajah, as it can be an obstruction to unity between the North and South. Professor Amaratunga said that the Vice-Chancellor had decided that the memorial statue does not suit the present or the future, so he instructed the statue to be removed from the university premises. It is worth noting that the Jaffna region has a majority ethnic Tamil population and the region had witnessed a brutal civil war between the LTTE and Sri Lankan forces that continued for several years and led to the loss of lives of thousands of people.
The UGC Chairman said, "Our students who are presently in the university system would have been 9, 10, and 11 years old when the war ended. Regardless of their race or religion, Tamil, Sinhala or Muslim, they are all our children. I’m happy to say that some 1,500 Sinhala students study at the Jaffna university today. Similarly, at least 600 to 700 Tamil students, especially from the North and East are studying in universities of the South. There are no problems among these students, and that is most important."
While calling the removal a "timely decision" he added that the university needs memorials of peace, not war. "We should engage in these requirements together with our students," he added.
(With inputs from ANI)
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READ: Mamata Banerjee Allows 100% Occupancy In Theatres In Bengal As Tamil Nadu Revokes Order
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Travelodge London City Airport
Hartmann Road Silvertown, London - E16 2BZ
Breakfast is available for a fee.
Hampton by Hilton London Docklands
Dockside Road, London - E16 2FQ
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DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London ExCel
Excel, 2 Festoon Way, London - E16 1RH
Right At The Front Door Of London City Airport, The Non-Smoking Doubletree By Hilton Hotel London Excel Has Free Wi-Fi, On-Site Dining And A 24-Hour Business Center. With 260 Non-Smoking Rooms, This Mid-Rise Doubletree Property Offers Suites With Kitchenettes, And All Rooms Enjoy Free Wi-Fi, Flat-Panel Tvs And Laptop Safes. Grab A Quick Meal, Even Hot Ones, At The Hotel'S Sundry Shop And Cafe; The Full Restaurant And Cozy Half-Island Bar Have Excellent Views Of Gallions Point Marina. In Addition, There'S A Fitness Center And A Business Center. Another Great Perk: Parking Is Free. The Hotel Is A Stone'S Throw From London City Airport And About A 10-Minute Taxi Ride From Canary Wharf, Location Of The Museum Of London Docklands. The London Eye, Imperial War Museum And Buckingham Palace Are All About A Half-Hour Drive Away. Stansted Airport Is 33 Miles North.
Connaught House Hotel
Lynx Way, London - E16 1JR
An Award-Winning Boutique Style Hotel Set In A Grade Ii Listed Victorian Building, Connaught House Hotel London Excel Is A 5-Minute Walk To London Excel Exhibition Centre And Just 2.4 Km From London City Airport.A Large Grassed Patio Area Is Available For Guests To Use, And Features A Children’S Play Area. Free On-Site Parking Is Also Provided.Free Wi-Fi, An En Suite Bathroom And A Flat-Screen Tv Is Featured In Each Connaught House Room.Full English Breakfasts Are Made Freshly Cooked To Order, And Healthier Options Such As Fresh Berries And Porridge Are Also Available. The On-Site Bar Features Sky Sports Hd And Screens Some Events In 3D. Guests Can Enjoy Evening Meals In The Hotel Restaurant.Prince Regent Dlr Station Is An 8-Minute Walk Away And Has Services Into Central London And Canary Wharf.
Aloft London Excel
1 Eastern Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London - E16 1FR
Free Wi-Fi, An Indoor Pool And Fitness Center Are Some Of The Convenient Amenities Offered At The Non-Smoking Aloft London Excel. This Eight-Story Aloft Has 252 Non-Smoking Rooms. Each Room Is Appointed With Free Wi-Fi Access, A 42-Inch Flat-Panel Cable Tv, A Large Shower And Plush Bedding. Guests Can Stay In Shape In The On-Site Fitness Center And Go For A Swim In The Indoor Heated Pool. Food And Beverages Are Available For Purchase At The 24-Hour Kiosk. Pets Are Allowed For A Fee. Parking Is Available, Also For A Fee. The Aloft Is In London'S Dockland Area, With Access To The Excel International Exhibition And Convention Center. Canary Wharf And The O2 Arena Are 10 Minutes Away. The London City Airport Is Less Than One Mile Away. Heathrow Airport Is 26 Miles West Of The Hotel.
Brandshatch Place Hotel & Spa
Brands Hatch Road, Longfield - DA3 8NQ
Built In 1806, This Georgian Mansion Is Set Within 12 Acres Of Lush Countryside In Kent. With A Spa And Indoor Pool, It Is Within Easy Reach Of Major Motorways And London, As Well As Gatwick And Heathrow Airports.Brandshatch Place & Spa Offers Stylish Rooms, Each With A Wide Screen Tv, Dvd Player And Free Wi-Fi. Complimentary Tea And Coffee Making Facilities Are Also Included. Bathrooms Feature Hand-Picked Toiletries By Gilchrist & Soames.The Award-Winning Dining Room Restaurant Is A 2 Aa Rosette Venue Offering A Range Of Original English Dishes Using Fine Fresh Ingredients. The Drawing Room And Bar With Its Outdoor Terrace Provide A Nice Setting For An Afternoon Tea Or Cocktail.Guests Can Choose From A Variety Of Treatments, Including Facials, Body Wraps And Hot Stone Therapy (Available At An Extra Cost). The Brandshatch Place Also Includes A Fitness Centre, Sauna And A Hot Tub.The Hotel Is Situated 30 Minutes’ Drive From Maidstone And Only 1 Mile Away From Brands Hatch Racing Circuit. Free Public Parking Is Available On Site.
Chic Zone 2 London Apartment
PELTON ROAD,97, London - SE10 9AN
Property Location With a stay at Chic Zone 2 London Apartment in London (Greenwich), you'll be within a 5-minute drive of Cutty Sark and O2 Arena. This apartment is 1.3 mi (2 km) from Greenwich Park and 1.6 mi (2.5 km) from Royal Observatory. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the guestrooms, featuring kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers and stovetops. Conveniences include microwaves and coffee/tea makers. Business, Other Amenities Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
The King William Hotel
155/7 Trafalgar Road, London - SE10 9TX
Situated In Greenwich, On The Famous Curve Of The River Thames, The King William Hotel Offers Free Wi-Fi In Its Bar, Restaurant And Reception.The 02 Arena Is 10 Minutes' Bus Ride Away. Greenwich Park Is A 5-Minute Walk Away, And The University Of Greenwich Is Also Nearby.Rooms Have Simple, Elegant Décor, And All Benefit From A Flat-Screen Tv, Dvd Player, And Tea And Coffee Making Facilities.The Wooden-Floored Bar And Restaurant Serves A Menu With Freshly Prepared Food And Offers A Wide Range Of Drinks.To Access All Of The City’S Popular Attractions, Central London Is A 10 Minutes Tube Ride From Greenwich North Tube Station, Set Next To The O2 Arena.
Holiday Inn Express London - Greenwich
85 Bugsbys Way, London - SE10 0GD
The Non-Smoking Express By Holiday Day Inn London-Greenwich Offers Free Breakfast And Air Conditioning On The Greenwich Peninsula, One Mile From The O2 Arena. The Seven-Story Holiday Inn Has 162 Non-Smoking Rooms Equipped With A Desk, Satellite Tv, Air Conditioning And Safe Deposit Box. Wi-Fi Is Available For A Fee. Fuel Up At The Generous Free Full Breakfast Then Do Some Work In The Business Center. Have Cocktails In The Lounge While You Surf The Free Internet Then Dine In The Restaurant. On-Site Parking Is Available For A Fee. Only A Mile From London'S O2 Arena, Which Welcomes Thousands Of Fans Monthly For Concerts And Cultural Events, The Holiday Inn Is Convenient For Business Travelers Going To The Excel Exhibition Centre Four Miles Away. The National Maritime Museum And Charlton Athletic Football Club Are One-And-A-Half Miles Away. For Visiting London Town, The North Greenwich Tube Station Is One Mile. It'S Five Miles To London City Airport And 26 To London Heathrow Airport.
Travelodge London Excel Hotel
1016 Dockside Road, London - E16 2FQ
Property Location With a stay at Travelodge London Excel Hotel in London (Docklands), you'll be a 1-minute drive from Excel Exhibition Centre and 6 minutes from Westfield Stratford City. This hotel is 4.2 mi (6.7 km) from O2 Arena and 4.3 mi (7 km) from London Stadium.
Sunborn London
Royal Victoria Dock, London - E16 1XL
Priceline Guests Enjoy A Cool Location On A Yacht Near The Excel Centre As Well As Free Wi-Fi At The Non-Smoking Sunborn Hotel London. The Four-Story Hotel Occupies A Stunning, Motion-Free Floating Yacht, And All 136 Spacious And Non-Smoking Rooms Come Complete With Luxurious Furnishings, Free Wi-Fi, Cable Tv And Electric Kettles. Some Also Offer Royal Docks Views. Guests Can Chill Out On The Deck And Enjoy Panoramic Views And An International Menu In The Restaurant And Lounge. The Front Desk Is Open 24/7, And Concierge Services Are Available. The Hotel Is Neighbor To The Excel Centre And A Five-Minute Walk From The Custom House Dlr Station, Which Whisks Guests To Top London Sites. Hop On The Emirates Air Line, A Half-Mile Away, To Reach The O2 Arena In 20 Minutes. Olympic Stadium In Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Is Three Miles North, And The Old Royal Naval College In Greenwich Is A Four-Mile Trip. London City Airport Lies Less Than Three Miles East. Priceline Guests Say They Feel Like Royalty When Staying At The Sunborn Hotel London, Thanks To "Outstanding Food," And A "Good Location For City Airport."
ibis Styles London Excel
272 Victoria Dock Road, London - E16 3BY
The Ibis Styles London Excel Is Opposite The Excel Exhibition Centre And Adjacent To The Custom House Dlr Station. The O2 Arena Can Be Reached In 20 Minutes By Public Transport.Each Bedroom Has An En Suite Power Shower, A Satellite Tv And Tea/Coffee Making Facilities. The Apartments Feature A Lounge Area With A Large Lcd Tv And A Dining Area With Table And Chairs. They Also Have A Modern Kitchen With A Refrigerator And A Microwave.The Ibis Styles Has A Breakfast Room, A Café Serving Baguettes And Coffee, A Restaurant And A Traditional English Pub Serving Drinks And Food. Guests Can Enjoy A Continental Breakfast In The Morning.London City Airport Is A 10-Minute Journey, Either By Car Or By Docklands Light Railway. The Emirates Air Line (Cable Car) Is Within 5 Minutes By Public Transport And Offers A Panoramic View Of The Area And River Thames. Canning Town Tube Station Is Only 2 Stops On The Dlr And Offers Direct Access To Canary Wharf, Central London And The West End.
7 Hotel Diner
London Road, Polhill, Sevenoaks - TN14 7AA
Located In Sevenoaks, The 7Hotel Diner Offers Hotel Accommodation With An On Site Classic American-Style Diner. Just 5 Minutes’ Drive From The M25 And M26 Motorways, The 7 Hotel And Diner Provides Free Wi-Fi And Free On Site Secure Parking.All 26 Rooms Include En Suite Bathrooms With A Bath Or A Shower, As Well As Flat-Screen Tvs And Tea/Coffee Making Facilities.A Classic American-Style Diner, The 7 Diner Serves A Selection Of British Dishes With An American Twist. The Diner Offers An All You Can Eat Breakfast Which Includes Breakfast Drinks.7 Hotel Diner Is Close To The Darent Valley And Shoreham Woods. Sevenokas, Otford And Riverhead Are A 5-Minute Drive Away. It Is 17 Miles To The Dartford Crossing, While Brands Hatch Is 10 Miles From The Property. Orpington Is A 10-Minute Drive And Gatwick Airport Is 30 Minutes Away.Sevenoaks And Orpington Both Have Excellent Rail Services To London, Hastings And Ashford.
Novotel London ExCeL
7 Western Gateway, London - E16 1AA
Outdoor Dining, Free Wi-Fi And A Calming Sauna Are Some Of The Prized Perks At The Non-Smoking Novotel London Excel. All 257 Rooms At The Eight-Story Hotel Are Furnished With Lcd Tvs, Free Wi-Fi, Nespresso Machines And Desks. Dine In The Restaurant Or Step Outside To Enjoy Alfresco Flavors And London Skyline Views From The Terrace. Room Service Is Also An Option. There'S Also A Fitness Room, A Sauna And A Hammam For Relaxation Options. Pets Are Allowed For An Additional Fee. The Hotel Is Adjacent To The Excel Centre And Within A Convenient Five-Minute Stroll Of The Custom House Dlr Station. From There, The Tower Of London Is A 25-Minute Ride. Walk Five Minuted Walk To The Emirates Air Line Station, Which Gets You Over The Thames To The O2 Arena In 20 Minutes. The Hotel Is Two Miles East Of Canary Wharf And Within Five Miles Of The National Maritime Museum In Greenwich. London City Airport Is Two Miles Away.
De Vere Devonport House
King William Walk, London - SE10 9JW
This Georgian-Style Hotel Is Next To The National Maritime Museum, And Overlooks Greenwich Park And The River Thames. Buses To O2 Arena Stop Very Close By.Bright En Suite Rooms Have A Flat-Screen Tv With Sky Satellite Channels, Tea/Coffee And Desk Space. Each Room Has Free Wi-Fi Access.Greenwich Train Station And Dlr Train Link Are About 600 Metres Away, For Access To Central London In About 20 Minutes.The Hotel Serves Dinner Each Night, And Bar Snacks Are Available Until About 22:00. There Are 14 Meetings Rooms, And Plenty Of Outside Space For Fresh Air.Set In London'S Historic Greenwich, De Vere Devonport House Is Next To The University Of Greenwich. Bars And Restaurants Are Within Walking Distance. London City Airport Is 9.6 Km Away.
ibis London Excel Docklands
9 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London - E16 1AB
The Views, The Free Wi-Fi And Close Proximity To The Excel Center And O2 Arena Makes The Non-Smoking Ibis London Excel-Docklands Very Appealing To Our Guests. All 278 Non-Smoing Rooms At The Eight-Story Hotel Feature Views Of The Royal Victoria Dock, Internet Tv, Free Wi-Fi, Cozy Beds, Tea/Coffee Kettles And Desks. The Hotel Also Has An On-Site Restaurant And A Cocktail Lounge. Pets Are Allowed, And The Front Desk Is Open 24 Hours A Day. The Property Is Adjacent To Shops And Restaurants As Well As Excel Center Events. Head A Half-Mile West To The Emirates Air Line For A 20-Minute Voyage Over The River Thames To The O2 Arena. Thanks To The Neighboring Dlr Stops, Including Victoria Station As Well As The Custom House, Guests Can Reach Central London'S Covent Garden In Less Than An Hour. It'S A Five-Mile Drive To Cutty Sark And The National Maritime Museum In Greenwich. Guests Are Also Within Four Miles South Of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park And Less Than Three Miles From Canary Wharf And London City Airport.
Prince Regent Hotel Excel London
361-363 Prince Regent Lane, London - E16 3JP
This Hotel Is Located Less Than 5 Minute Walk Away From The Excel Exhibition Centre And Less Than A 5 Minutes’ Drive From London City Airport. Canary Wharf Is A 10-Minute Drive Away And The Prince Regent Dockland Light Rail Station Is A 5-Minute Walk Away. The Hotel Offers Free, Limited Private Parking And Free Wi-Fi Access.Each Room Has A Power Shower In The Bathroom. A Flat-Screen Satellite Tv With A Dvd Player Is Included In Each Neutrally Decorated Room. A Hairdryer And Tea And Coffee Making Facilities Are Also Provided. Some Rooms Have A Balcony.Full English Breakfasts Are Served In The Brightly Furnished Dining Room. Room Service And A 24-Hour Front Desk Are Available.The O2 Arena Is Within 10 Minutes’ Drive Of Prince Regent Hotel Excel London. Canning Town Underground Rail Station Is 5 Minutes' Taxi Ride Away. London Liverpool Street Can Be Reached After A 20-Minute Tube Journey.
ibis London Greenwich
30 Stockwell Street, London - SE10 9JN
Just A 10-Minute Walk From The Royal Observatory, This Ibis London Greenwich Features A 24-Hour Front Desk, On-Site Parking And A Stylish Bar. The O2 Arena Is Just A 10-Minute Drive Away.The Bright, Modern Rooms Each Have A Work Desk And High-Speed Internet Access. All Rooms Have A Private Bathroom And A Satellite Tv, And Tea/Coffee Facilities Are Provided.Guests Can Enjoy Coffee, Wine And Light Snacks And Meals In The Contemporary Bar. Breakfast Is Served In Cafe Rouge, And Guests Can Choose Between An English Or Continental Breakfast.The Ibis London Greenwich Is A 5-Minute Walk From Greenwich Market And The Cutty Sark. Greenwich Dlr And Railway Stations Are Just 500 Metres Away, And South Bank Is A 15-Minute Drive.
Crowne Plaza London - Docklands
Western Gateway, London - E16 1AL
Boasting An Indoor Pool, Free Wi-Fi And Health And Fitness Center, The Non-Smoking Crowne Plaza London-Docklands Overlooks Royal Victoria Dock. The Seven-Story Crowne Plaza Offers 210 Non-Smoking Rooms That Each Feature Flat-Panel Tvs, Free Wi-Fi And Minibars. Serving Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner, The On-Site Restaurant Prepares Continental And British Fare. Savor A Cocktail In The Bar. After A Day On The Town, Unwind In The Indoor Pool, Hot Tub And Sauna Or Work Out In The Gym Or In A Fitness Class. On-Site Parking Is Available For A Fee. The Crowne Plaza Is Adjacent To The Royal Victoria Station And Steps Away From The Western Entrance To Excel Conference Complex. A Free Hotel Shuttle Will Run You To The Canary Wharf, Three Miles Away. Head Seven-And-A-Half Miles Into Central London For Shopping In The Bustling Oxford Street Shopping District Or Experience The Nightlife Of Soho And Piccadilly Circus. Buckingham Palace Is Nine Miles Away. The London City Airport Is Two Miles Away And London Heathrow Is Also 25 Miles.
St Christopher's Inn, Greenwich - Hostel
189 Greenwich High Road, London - SE10 8JA
St Christopher'S Greenwich Is Located Just 150 Metres From Greenwich Train And Dlr Station. It Offers A Bar And Restaurant, And A Free Wifi Zone, 15 Minutes’ Walk From Greenwich Park.Dormitory And Private Rooms Have Heating, Free Lockers And Linen, While Towels Can Be Purchased At Reception. Bathrooms Are Shared And Include Showers, Free Toiletries And Hairdryers.A Continental Breakfast Is Available Daily At St Christopher'S Greenwich And The Belushi’S Bar Offers Guests A 25% Discount On Food And Great Drinks Offers. On Weekends The Property Host Parties With A Dj Until 02:00.Guests Can Watch Satellite Tv And Relax In The Chill-Out Room Or The Outside Area. Staff Can Also Help Arrange Tours. The Cutty Sark And National Maritime Museum Are 10 Minutes’ Walk Away, While The Royal Observatory Is Within 1 Mile.The O2 Arena Is Only 2 Miles From The Property And You Can Reach Cannon Street Station Via Greenwich Station In 18 Minutes. You Can Also Get To Bank Station Via The Dlr In 22 Minutes.
Good Hotel London
Royal Victoria Dock, London - E16 1FA
At Good Hotel London, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are served on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM and on weekends from 8:00 AM to noon for a fee.
Novotel London Greenwich
173-185 Greenwich High Road, London - SE10 8JA
Neighbouring Greenwich Tube Station, The 4-Star Novotel London Greenwich Is Just 10 Minutes' Drive From The O2 Arena. This Modern Hotel Offers Private Onsite Parking And Boasts A Fitness Centre, A Stylish Restaurant, And Spacious Bedrooms.The Bright Bedrooms Have Air Cooling Systems, A Flat-Screen Tv With Pay-Per-View Movies, A Work Desk, And Tea And Coffee Making Facilities. All Rooms Have A Private Bathroom With Complimentary Toiletries And A Hairdryer. Free Wifi Is Accessible Throughout.Featuring Colourful Artwork, Elements Restaurant At Novotel Greenwich Serves An International Menu. Guests Can Also Enjoy A 24-Hour Room Service. The Vibrant Elements Bar Offers Beverages And Light Snacks.The Modern Leisure Complex At The Novotel London Greenwich Features A Fully Equipped Fitness Centre, A Steam Room, And A Relaxation Area. The Hotel Is A 10-Minute Walk From Greenwich Park And The Royal Observatory. Canary Wharf Is A 15-Minute Drive Away And Greenwich Pier Can Be Reached After A 5-Minute Walk.
ibis budget London Barking
Highbridge Road, Barking - IG11 7BA
Situated 10 Minutes' Walk From Barking Underground Station, Ibis Budget London Barking Offers On-Site Parking At An Additional Fee And A 24-Hour Front Desk.Westfield Stratford City Shopping Centre Is A 20-Minute Drive From The Hotel And Features A 17-Screen Cinema, Bowling Alley And A Wide Selection Of Designer Shops. London City Airport Can Be Reached In 10 Minutes By Car.An En Suite Shower Is Provided In Each Room At Ibis Budget London Barking, As Well As A Flat-Screen Tv. Hairdryers Are Available On Request.A Buffet Breakfast Is On Offer Each Morning, And Includes Hot Drinks And A Selection Of Breads, Cereal And Jams. Baguettes And Croissants Are Also On Offer.
DoubleTree by Hilton London - Greenwich
Catherine Grove, London - SE10 8FR
Guests Are Treated To Free Wi-Fi And In-Room Flat-Panel Tvs At The Doubletree By Hilton London - Greenwich, Which Is Within Walking Distance Of Public Transportation. An Unassuming Brick Exterior Gives Way To An Upscale Interior At The Doubletree. The Mid-Rise Property Houses 145 Sleek Rooms, All Equipped With Free Wi-Fi, Flat-Panel Tvs And Coffeemakers. Guests Indulge With Room Service And Dine-In At The On-Site Restaurant/Bar That Specializes In Using Locally Sourced Ingredients. Active Types Appreciate The Fitness Room. Additional Perks Include A Business Center, Laundry Facilities And Available Parking. The Doubletree Is 20 Minutes Southeast Of London'S Center. It'S Two Miles From The Royal Observatory Greenwich And A Mile From Greenwich Market. The O2 Arena Hosts Performances Three Miles Away, And Olympic Park Is 20 Minutes Away. Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace And The Crown Jewels At The Tower Of London Are All Within A 30-Minute Radius. Guests Can Walk To The Nearest Bus Stop And Train Station In Five Minutes. London City Airport Is An Eight-Mile Drive From The Hotel.
Staycity Aparthotels Greenwich High Road
65 Greenwich High Road, London - SE10 8JL
Situated Just 5 Minutes' Walk From Greenwich Train Station, Staycity Aparthotels Greenwich High Road Offer Modern Apartments With Onsite Parking And Free Wi-Fi. London Bridge Can Be Reached Via Train In Just 8 Minutes' From Greenwich Station.Each Staycity Greenwich Apartment Offers A Fully-Equipped Open-Plan Kitchenette, A Flat-Screen Tv And A 24-Hour Reception. All Apartments Also Come Fully Furnished With Bed Linen And Towels Also Provided.Breakfast Is Served In Guests' Apartments And Delivery Times Are Booked At Check-In. Breakfast Options Include Full English, Continental, Vegetarian Or Pancakes.The Town Centre Offers Many Bars, Restaurants And Shops, Which Can Also Be Reached In A 15-Minute Walk.
Travelodge London Greenwich
Blackheath Road, London - SE10 8EF
Property Location With a stay at Travelodge London Greenwich in London (Greenwich), you'll be within a 5-minute drive of Cutty Sark and Greenwich Park. This hotel is 1.4 mi (2.3 km) from Royal Observatory and 3 mi (4.8 km) from O2 Arena.
The Granby Hotel
1 The Hill, Northfleet, Gravesend - DA11 9ES
Located A 5-Minute Drive From Ebbsfleet International, Granby Hotel Offers Accommodation An Accessible Distance From The Eurostar Terminal. Free Wifi Access Is Available.Each Room Here Will Provide You With A Tv. All Rooms Are En Suite, With A Shower And Complimentary Toiletries.At Granby Hotel You Will Find A 24-Hour Front Desk And A Bar. Other Facilities Offered At The Property Include Meeting Facilities. The Property Offers Free Parking.Bluewater Shopping Centre Is 4 Miles From The Property. London Bridge Station Is Less Than 1 Hour Away By Train.
Staycity Aparthotels Deptford Bridge Station
18-20 Deptford Bridge, London - SE8 4HH
Around 10 Minutes' Walk From Greenwich, Staycity Aparthotels Deptford Bridge Station Provides Self-Catering Accommodation In South East London. A 2-Minute Walk From The Docklands Light Railway, These Studios And Apartments Have Free Wi-Fi Access.Each Studio Has A Shower Room With Hairdryer And Complimentary Toiletries. There Is A Flat-Screen Tv And A Kitchenette With Facilities Including A Microwave, Fridge, Dishwasher, Kettle And Toaster.The Studio Features A Double Or Twin Beds, While The 1-Bedroom Apartment Has A Queen-Size Bed In The Bedroom And A Twin Sofa In The Living Area. Either Apartment Can Accommodate An Extra Child (2 Years Or Less) If Using The Bedding Supplied.Breakfast Is Served In Guests' Apartments And Delivery Times Are Booked At Check-In. Breakfast Options Include Full English, Continental, Vegetarian Or Pancakes.There Are Numerous Shops, Restaurants And Pubs Within A Short Walk Of The Apartments. The Cutty Sark, Royal Observatory And Greenwich Park Are All Around 15 Minutes' Walk Away.
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InterContinental London - The O2
Waterview Drive, Greenwich Peninsula, London - SE10 0TW
The Full Luxury Treatment Awaits At The Intercontinental London - The O2, Which Has On-Site Dining With Room Service, A Full Spa And Direct Access To The O2 Arena. This High-Rise White-And-Glass-Exterior Hotel Is Non-Smoking And Has 453 Rooms And Is Attached To The O2 Arena Complex By A Covered Walkway. All Rooms Have Flat-Panel Tvs And Free Wi-Fi, And The Hotel Offers A Full Spa, Three Restaurants, Two On-Site Bars — One With Terrific Views Of London — And A Heated Indoor Pool. The Fitness Center Has Modern Equipment And The Hotel'S Attached Ballroom Is The Largest In Europe, Holding 3,000 People. Attached To The O2 Arena, The Hotel Is On A Peninsula Into The River Thames Right Across From The Isle Of Dogs. Central London Attractions Such As The London Eye, Imperial War Museum And Buckingham Palace Are All Within About A Half-Hour Drive. London City Airport Is Five Miles Away, With Heathrow 28 Miles Due West.
Holiday Inn Express London-Royal Docks, Docklands
1 Silvertown Way, London - E16 1EA
Located In London'S Dynamic Docklands, The Non-Smoking Holiday Inn Express Royal Docks Offers Easy Access To Popular Historical Sights And Convention And Exhibition Centers. The Five-Story Holiday Inn Express Has 136 Non-Smoking Rooms With Satellite Tv, Hairdryer, And Tea/Coffeemakers. In-Room Wi-Fi Is Available For A Fee. Enjoy A Daily Breakfast Buffet Before Sightseeing Or Meetings In The Business Center And Conference Rooms. In The Evening, Unwind With A Cocktail In The Bar/Lounge Then Dine In The On-Site Restaurant. Parking Is Available For A Fee. The Holiday Inn Express Is 300 Yards From The Canning Town Tube Station Which Takes You Anywhere In London. The Inn Is Two Miles From The Excel Exhibition Centre And One Tube Stop From The O2 Arena. Canary Wharf Is Three Miles Away. Visit The Tower Of London, The National Maritime Museum And The Clockmaker'S Museum, All Less Than Five Miles Away. London City Airport Is Two Miles Away And London Heathrow Airport Is 24 Miles Away.
Jessamine House
4 London Road, Gravesend - DA11 9JE
Situated In Gravesend, The Jessamine House Has Easy Access To The A2 And M25 Motorway. With Free Wi-Fi And Free Private Parking, This Victorian House Is Just Over 1 Mile From Ebbsfleet International Railway Station.Dating Back To The 1850S, The Jessamine House Offers Rooms Which Include A Flat-Screen Freeview Tv With A Dvd Player And Tea And Coffee Making Facilities. The En Suite Shower Rooms Have Complimentary Toiletries.In The Mornings, Guests Can Enjoy A Choice Between Full English Breakfast And Continental Breakfast. Gravesend Is Home To Several Pubs, Which Serve Lunch And Evening Meals. Further Eateries Can Be Found In The Bluewater Shopping Centre, Which Is Just 10 Minutes’ Drive Away.With A Bus Stop Just Outside, Jessamine House Is Close To Many Amenities. The House Is Just 12 Minutes' Train Journey To Stratford International - Home To Westfields Shopping Centre And The Olympic Village. Dartford Crossing Is Only A 10-Minute Drive From The House And Gatwick Airport Is Also Just 30 Miles Away.
Venture Hostel
86 Tanner's Hill, London - SE8 4PN
Ventures Hostel Offers Dormitory Rooms In London Just 5 Minutes’ Walk From Deptford And New Cross Rail Stations. It Offers Luggage Storage, In-Room Lockers, And Laundry Facilities At A Surcharge.Free Wifi And Fresh Linen Are Also Available, And The Bathrooms Have 24-Hour Hot Water.The Hostel Offers A Bar And Restaurant The Royal Standard,Offering A European Cuisine Including Seafood, Steaks, Burgers And Roasts, Along With Craft Beers. The Royal Standard Boasts A Large Reception Area And Bar, Incorporating A Mixture Of Lounge And Dining Style Seating.Access Is Available To The Hostel 24 Hours A Day.Central London Is Just 15 Minutes’ Drive Away, Easily Accessible From New Cross Tube Station, Which Is A 15-Minute Walk. The O2 Arena Is Only 10 Minutes’ Drive From The Building.
Stifford Hall Hotel Thurrock
High Road, Grays - RM16 5UE
The Stifford Hall Hotel Thurrock Is A 18Th Century Manor House Set In 6 Acres Of Beautiful Gardens.Stifford Hall Hotel Thurrock Has Modern, Bedrooms Offering Air Conditioning.The Regency Restaurant Overlooks The Gardens And There Is Also The Option Of A More Informal Bar Area.Both Lakeside And Bluewater Shopping Centres Are A Short Drive Away As Well As Tilbury Cruise Terminal. Central London Is Just 20 Minutes Away And Brands Hatch Circuit Just 12 Miles Away.
Southwold Road, Bexley, - DA5 1ND
The On-Site Dining, Fitness Center With Easy Access Into London Earn Praise For The Holiday Inn London-Bexley. Built Around A Traditional Redbrick 1930S Pub, The Holiday Inn Offers 107 Rooms Featuring...
1 Broadway, Bexleyheath, - DA6 7JZ
Boasting An Indoor Pool, Spa And On-Site Dining, The Non-Smoking Marriott Bexleyheath Woos Our Guests. The Four-Story Marriott Offers 142 Non-Smoking Rooms Each Featuring High-Speed Internet Access, F...
Top Dartford Road, Dartford, - BR8 7SQ
Just 5 Minutes From The M25, The 19Th-Century Rowhill Grange Is A 4 Silver Star Rated Hotel Featuring Free Leisure Facilities And Free Parking. With Award-Winning Restaurants, A Gym And An Indoor Pool...
School Road, Chislehurst, - BR7 5PG
Just 1 Mile From Chislehurst Railway Station, The Crown Inn Has A Bar, Restaurant And Modern En Suite Rooms. Many Rooms Have Beautiful Views Of Chislehurst Common.Bedrooms At The Crown Inn All Have A ...
University Way, Dartford, - DA1 5PA
Guest-Pleasing Amenities Include A Hot Buffet Breakfast, Free Wi-Fi A Bar And Free Parking At The Express By Holiday Inn Dartford Bridge. Free Wi-Fi Is Offered In All Public Areas Of This Four-Story H...
Masthead Close, Dartford, - DA2 6QF
The Hotel Restaurant Serves Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner, And You Can Relax In The Indoor Pool Or Connect With High-Speed Internet Access At The Non-Smoking Doubletree By Hilton Dartford Bridge. This F...
1 Clipper Boulevard West, Dartford, - DA2 6QN
Campanile Hotel Dartford Is Less Than A Mile To The M25 - Dartford Tunnel. Bluewater Shopping Centre Is Within 3 Miles, Whilst Lakeside Shopping Centre Is 5 Miles From The Hotel. There Is Free Parking...
London Road, Purfleet, - RM19 1QA
Situated Within Just 4 Miles From The Nearest Junction For The M25 Motorway, The Royal Offers Spacious En Suite Rooms And Free Wi-Fi Throughout The Hotel.The Royal Hotel Boasts A Superb Riverside Loca...
Eynsford Road, Farningham, - DA4 0BG
Property Location With a stay at Tabsfield B&B in Farningham, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Bluewater Shopping Centre and Brands Hatch Circuit. This 4-star bed & breakfast is 11.1 mi (17.8 km)...
125-157 Powis Street, London, - SE18 6JL
Property Location With a stay at Travelodge London Woolwich in London (Greenwich), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Greenwich Park and Royal Observatory. This hotel is 3.8 mi (6.2 km) from O2 Are...
126 Jackson Road, Bromley, - BR2 8NX
Clay Farm Guest House In Bromley Offers Modern Accommodation And Free Parking, Just A 20-Minute Train Ride From Central London. All Rooms And Apartments Feature Flat-Screen Tvs And Free Wi-Fi.Decorate...
Weston Avenue, West Thurrock, Grays, - RM20 3JQ
Close To The Junction Of The A13 And The M25 Motorway And Less Than A Mile From Lakeside Shopping Centre, The Ibis London Thurrock M25 Offers Free Parking And En-Suite Rooms.The Ibis London Thurrock M...
Ship Lane, Aveley, Purfleet, - RM19 1YN
Ideally Located In The Prime Touristic Area Of Greater London East, The Thurrock Hotel Promises A Relaxing And Wonderful Visit. Offering A Variety Of Facilities And Services, The Hotel Provides All Yo...
9 Charlton Road, London, - SE3 7EU
Bromley Hill, Bromley, - BR1 4JD
Set In 2 Acres Of Landscaped Gardens, The Bromley Court Hotel Is Just 10 Miles South-East Of Central London. Free Wifi Throughout And Free On-Site Parking Are Available. The M25 Motorway Is A 15-Minut...
64 Wythes Road, London, - E16 2DN
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Dutch nationalise SNS Reaal bank group in $14 billion rescue
By Thomas Escritt, Anthony Deutsch
THE HAGUE/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands has nationalised bank and insurance group SNS Reaal in a $14 billion (8.89 billion pounds) rescue that highlights the fragility of European banks and the continued exposure of taxpayers five years after the financial crisis erupted.
The logos of Dutch banking and insurance group SNS Reaal are seen in Utrecht November 13, 2008. REUTERS/Michael Kooren
The Dutch government said on Friday it had put together the 10-billion-euro package - which follows a much smaller bailout in 2008 - to prevent SNS Reaal’s collapse under the weight of property loan losses and to shore up confidence in the financial system after a private investor-led rescue failed.
The move shows how, despite billions of euros of bailouts and regulators’ attempts to clean up the industry, some European banks are struggling to recover from the financial crisis in a persistently weak economy, and how the region’s debt-laden governments - and in turn taxpayers - remain on the hook.
That is likely to prompt an outcry from a Dutch public which has already suffered years of austerity, including a cumulative 30 billion euros of budget cuts announced in the past year.
“The bankers get more and more money, and the people at the bottom foot the bill,” said Jan-Erik Lubbers, a pensioner, as he sheltered from the rain under a shop awning in The Hague.
The rescue will lead to a worsening in the Dutch budget deficit in 2013, already forecast to exceed European Union targets. That will be a challenge for Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was re-elected in September, and embarrassing for his new finance minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who only last month took over as head of the Eurogroup of euro zone countries, which are trying to put a sovereign debt crisis behind them.
“Without a doubt this is a serious setback for the state budget,” Rutte said in his weekly televised press briefing.
“This is obviously going to come out of the pockets of taxpayers. We would all have preferred to spend it on other things.”
Several other European banks are also struggling to free themselves from underperforming assets. French bank Credit Agricole announced over $5 billion of charges on Friday, a day after Deutsche Bank also unveiled big writedowns.
The Dutch government paid out nearly 40 billion euros to rescue the domestic financial sector in 2008 when it provided capital injections for ING, Aegon and SNS Reaal, as well as nationalising ABN AMRO.
They have either repaid state funds or are getting back on their feet. SNS Reaal “seemed to be the most vulnerable” because of its big property exposure, said Jan Maarten Slagter, a director of the Dutch Association of Shareholders (VEB).
“A big part of the Dutch bank industry is already in state hands,” he said when asked whether he expected any other Dutch banks to require aid: “This should be it.”
NO ALTERNATIVE
Despite its previous bailout, SNS Reaal, the fourth-biggest financial group in the Netherlands, has struggled to turn around its property finance arm. Over years it expanded aggressively into all areas of property financing, from Spanish golf resorts to Dutch commercial and residential projects, and U.S. real estate. With the downturn in property prices came big losses.
SNS Reaal, with 2.6 million account holders and 36.4 billion euros of deposits, has tried to sell assets and raise funds for months, but was unable to meet a January 31 deadline to come up with a rescue, Dijsselbloem told a press conference.
Its collapse “would have unacceptably large and undesirable consequences for financial stability, the Dutch economy and the Dutch tax payer,” he said in a letter to parliament.
The Netherlands used a new law known as the intervention act to expropriate SNS Reaal’s shares, subordinated debt and some hybrid securities, but not senior debt and covered bonds.
BNP Paribas’ investment funds ranked among the top owners of the shares. The fund manager was not immediately available for comment.
The Dutch Association of Shareholders is considering whether to challenge the nationalisation, Slagter said.
“This wasn’t really a liquidity crisis, there was no bank run ... it was all about the revaluation of the property which we already knew was a problem.”
He said the association also wanted an investigation launched into possible mismanagement at the group.
Last month, SNS Reaal said former clients of its property finance arm were being investigated by the country’s tax and financial crimes agency, but gave no details.
“I don’t think there will be an extra investigation,” Dijsselbloem told Reuters later on Friday, adding it was already clear what the problems were.
SHARING THE BURDEN
Dijsselbloem put the initial cost of nationalisation at 3.7 billion euros, saying SNS Reaal will receive a capital injection of 2.2 billion euros, and a further 1.5 billion euros to write down state aid and property assets. The state is providing 1.1 billion euros in loans, and 5 billion euros in guarantees.
However, in an effort to share the burden with the private sector, Dijsselbloem said Dutch banks will have to contribute 1 billion euros to the rescue in 2014.
“I can understand the reluctance that many will feel again because a large amount of public money is required. Therefore I want the private sector to contribute as much as possible to help pay for the rescue of SNS Reaal,” he said.
The cost was to be roughly split between the country’s three largest financial groups, ING, ABN Amro and Rabobank.
The Dutch budget deficit is forecast to reach 3.3 percent of gross domestic output in 2013, above the 3 percent limit set by the European Commission, according to government agency CPB which is due to publish revised forecasts in the next few weeks.
The finance minister said the 3.7-billion-euro of initial aid would lead to a further deterioration in the deficit of 0.6 percentage points, but declined to say whether this would necessitate further austerity measures.
Rutte’s new coalition government was forced to come up with about 16 billion euros of budget cuts soon after the election last September and quickly fell in the opinion polls.
Richard McGuire, strategist at Rabobank, said he did not expect the rescue of SNS Reaal and resulting impact on the deficit to hurt the Netherlands’ triple-A credit rating because the government had raised much more than expected in its auction of fourth generation (4G) wireless frequencies last year.
But ratings agencies said they were already looking at the implications for the Netherlands.
SNS Reaal, which received 750 million euros of state aid in 2008, said its top executives - chairman Rob Zwartendijk, chief executive Ronald Latenstein and finance chief Ference Lamp - had resigned, as they had wanted to find a private sector solution.
Gerard van Olphen, an executive from insurance group Achmea, was appointed chief executive, and Maurice Oostendorp, a former executive from ABN Amro, stepped in as chief financial officer.
The Dutch property market is one of the worst performing in Europe, having fallen by more than 16 percent since 2008. Prices are expected to continue declining this year, wiping as much as a quarter off prices since the peak.
SNS Reaal’s property finance unit had total real estate exposure of nearly 14 billion euros at the end of 2009, according to its annual report. By June 2012, the book value of the property portfolio stood at 8.55 billion euros, the finance ministry said, with roughly 77 percent in the Netherlands.
Writing by Sara Webb; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters, Mark Potter and Sophie Walker
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A piece of the moon for sale: just $2.5 million
LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world’s largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie’s on Thursday, valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million).
The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was probably struck off the surface of the moon by a collision with an asteroid or comet and then showered down on the Sahara desert.
Known as NWA 12691, it is thought to be the fifth largest piece of the moon ever found on earth. There is just 650 kg of moon rock known to be on earth.
“The experience of holding a piece of another world in your hands is something you never forget,” said James Hyslop, Christie’s head of science and natural history.
“It is an actual piece of the moon. It is about the size of a football, a bit more oblong than that, larger than your head.”
Like many meteorites that are discovered, it was found in the Sahara by an anonymous finder after travelling some 240,000 miles to earth from the moon. It then changed hands and was carefully studied.
Scientists can be certain of its origin after comparing it with rock samples brought back by the United States’ Apollo space missions to the moon.
“In the 1960s and 1970s the Apollo programme brought back about 400 kilograms of moon rock with them and scientists have been able to analyse the chemical and isotopic compositions of those rocks and they have determined that they match certain meteorites,” said Hyslop.
Meteorites are incredibly rare and only about one in a thousand comes from the moon, making this a very special object, he added.
“We are expecting huge international interest in it from natural history museums... it is a wonderful trophy for anyone who is interested in space history or lunar exploration.”
The moon has fascinated man since the dawn of human history as a symbol of power, love, time and prosperity, and is the earth’s only natural satellite. It is thought to have been formed 4.5 billion years ago when a Mars-sized body collided with earth.
Christie’s will also offer for private sale a group of 13 aesthetic iron meteorites. That collection is estimated to be worth 1.4 million pounds.
Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, Mike Davidson and Sarah Mills; Editing by Alexandra Hudson
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Canon Unveils EOS 7D, 18MP SLR with 1080p Video
Written by Steve Morgenstern
September 1, 2009 – Canon today introduced the EOS 7D, a video-enabled SLR with a new 18-megapixel APS-C-format CMOS sensor, that will shoot 1080p video at 30, 24 and 25 fps, and stills up to 5184 x 3456 resolution.
The 7D, featuring dual DIGIC 4 processors, will shoot JPEGs at a speedy 8 frames per second, up to 94 shots consecutively to a standard CompactFlash card or 126 to a UDMA card. In RAW mode, burst shooting up to 15 frames is possible. For enhanced shooting speed, the new sensor features an eight-channel readout, versus four channels on the 5D Mark II. And unlike the 5D, the 7D will come with a built-in flash, with built-in wireless flash control as well.
The magnesium alloy body is fully weather resistant, with extensive dust and water seals. The rotary magnet shutter design (the same type used in Canon's 1D line) promises 150,000-cycle durability. The viewfinder is a bright pentaprism design offering 100% coverage, the LCD a 3-inch 920,000-dot display.
The viewfinder autofocus system offers 19 cross-type AF points when shooting with an f/5.6 or faster lens. In addition to the standard evaluative, center-weighted and spot autofocus modes, the 7D supports a new Zone focus mode. Zone focus lets you select one of five clusters of AF points in different areas of the screen, useful for shooting off-center subjects.
The official ISO range is 100-6400, with an expanded Hi setting corresponding to ISO 12800. Exposure compensation spans a ±5 EV range.
The metering system reads 63 different zones, and adjusts for chromatic sensitivity, taking into account the fact that the meter is more sensitive to red light and less to blue.
A new feature for Canon is a dual-axis level, viewable in the viewfinder or the Live View screen, to indicate both horizontal and vertical tilt.
Movies shot with the 7D are stored in H.264 format. As with the 5D Mark II, there is a 4-gigabyte limit to individual clips (meaning a 12-minute maximum shooting in full HD). In addition to the 1080p shooting modes, 720p and standard-definition video can be shot in 60 fps or 50 fps speeds (to accommodate both NTSC and PAL standards). Manual aperture and shutter speed control are available along with program AE mode when shooting video, though continuous focus is still not available. The camera's ISO setting can also be controlled in video mode. And unlike the 5D Mark II, in-camera clip trimming is available.
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The following video was shot with the camera in 1080p, 30fps mode in Times Square with a pre-production model of the 7D. Of course, it's been down-rezzed by YouTube, but looks good in the original, with smooth motion and accurate colors.
The Canon EOS 7D is slated to ship at the end of September. It will be priced at $1699 for the body alone or $1899 with a 28-135mm kit lens.
Today’s introduction also includes three new lenses. The EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens will sell for $799.99 when it ships in late October. The EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS is priced at $499.99 with a late September ship date. And the first lens incorporating Canon’s new hybrid image stabilization system (covered in the news story here) is a EF 100mm f/2.8 macro priced at $1049, also slated for late September availability.
To see several sample images taken with a pre-production version of the Canon EOS 7D, click here or on the image at right.
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Home Stories Vintage Past Times: Princess Margaret
Past Times: Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret wearing a tiara in the bath, picture taken by Lord Snowdon in 1962
.By Betty and Ken Kessler
Royalty is, or once was, the height of privilege. Money helps, but it’s no substitute for blue blood. With privilege comes an attitude of what the Italians call menefreghismo: the act of simply not giving a damn. When, as with HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, one also believes one’s self to be superior by dint of title, such behaviour is easy to adopt, even if it is not encouraged.
Unlike her sister Queen Elizabeth II, who is a paradigm of propriety, Margaret – knowing she was unlikely to sit on the throne – chose from an early age to enjoy herself at all costs. Wild, roguish, loose, or even brutal behaviour was easy to hide before the late-20th century gave us uncensored gossip, phone tapping, fast news, paparazzi and other means of prying into the private lives of the royals. But all of the above meant that any mischievousness, or even licentious, conduct as a topic to discuss over the breakfast table became a post-Second World War phenomenon. And Margaret was its herald.
Princess Margaret in 1958
At the time her sister ascended to the throne in 1953, the Royal Family had years to go before it would heal from the effects of the abdication by her allegedly Nazi-sympathising black sheep uncle. How much it might have sped up the death of her father, King George VI at 56, is debatable, but the abdication occurred when she was only six years old and the changes it wrought on the family affected her deeply.
In between the abdication and her sister’s crowning came the Second World War, which she spent at Windsor with her family. After the war, the young Princess Margaret would experience the first of many dramas in her life: she fell in love with the married, and much older, Group Captain Peter Townsend. In 1952, her beloved father died, her sister became Queen and Townsend – by then divorced – proposed to Margaret.
As was dramatised in the Netflix series The Crown, he was deemed an unsuitable match for Margaret. Unlike now, when the divorced Charles could marry the divorced Camilla without raising more than an eyebrow, the Church of England refused to approve her marriage to a divorced man.
With hindsight, it is possible to posit that this made her bitter and arguably started her on her path of devil-may-care hedonism. One might also suggest that she chose her love for privilege over her love for Townsend, for she could have married him, had she given up the trappings of royalty – as did her uncle for the American divorcee Mrs Simpson.
It is Margaret’s recklessness, as much as her behaviour worthy of Alice In Wonderland’s Queen of Hearts (“Off with their heads!”) that captured the public – long before we heard tales of how she treated staff, friends and commoners. While she did marry Antony Armstrong-Jones, made the Earl of Snowdon by the Queen, and delivered two surprisingly balanced children – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley and 2nd Earl of Snowdon and Lady Sarah Chatto – infidelities followed that ensured the marriage ended in divorce in 1978.
Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones at the time of their engagement
Naturally, given that this took place during the pre-Diana climate, this caused another scandal, as divorce was not a common occurrence among the royals. What would follow were whispers of liaisons with a number of men, including no less than one Sir Michael Philip Jagger, ensuring her status as a kick-ass royal.
Her love affair with the young Roddy Llewellyn (no relation to our Editor) made her a prototype cougar. Actors Peter Sellers, Keith Miller, David Niven, Warren Beatty – the tales of dalliances may have been mere rumours, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And Princess Margaret was a heavy smoker.
Princess Margaret and Roddy Llewellyn
In this rarefied stratum of society, Margaret would have been not merely “A”-list, but something akin to “AAA”-list. While recent revelations proffer tales of her dinner party behaviour being better suited to the likes of Kim Jong-un – for example, nobody was allowed to leave the table until she was tired/bored/ready to go, permitted to eat until she did, or complain about suffering her chain smoking – she also had a cultured side, not least a love of music and ballet.
History tells us she played piano and sang well, while her nephew Prince Charles recalls singing with her at the piano at family gatherings. With music one of her greatest loves, she would become a patron of the Royal Ballet and, despite her image as a lady of leisure, she undertook numerous duties befitting a royal.
In a list that would put some of today’s younger royals to shame, Margaret was President of the National Society, the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Invalid Children’s Aid Nationwide, Grand President of the St John Ambulance Brigade and Colonel-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps. She was also president or patron of numerous other organisations including the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre and the AIDS charity, London Lighthouse.
Royal Watch
Margaret’s love for the finer things and her status as a royal, however, ensured that she was not merely fashionable, but was also able to mix with the coolest of celebrities in the 1960s and 1970s. Photos of her remind us of the enviable, louche lifestyle of the jet-set a half-century ago, with Margaret a fixture at the chicest resorts and the most important events in the social calendar. What was then novel for a royal was being so at ease among showbiz figures. Deliciously, in light of this magazine’s main focus, a photo exists of her between Alfred Hitchcock and Paul Newman, the Patron Saint of Cool Watches.
No stranger to celebrity, Princess Margaret sits flanked by Paul Newman and Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of Torn Curtain (1966)
Such photos also hold another attraction for us. Eagle-eyed watch lovers remain baffled by the series of oversized men’s watches she wore decades before it was the thing to do for women of style. Were they Breitlings? Universals? Might one be a Rolex? What is certain is that she wore the default watch of the royals: Cartier.
Princess Margaret, wearing an oversized men’s watch, presents Margaret Court with the Ladies’ Singles Trophy at Wimbledon in 1970
Again, wearing an oversized men’s watch, this time whilst unveiling a plaque at Adams Grammar School in Shropshire, 1968
In 2006, four years after her death, a selection of her watches and jewellery – especially Fabergé – was sold in auction by Christie’s. Among the lots were three Cartier wristwatches, and others from Corum, Mathey-Tissot, Chaumet, Cyma, Marvin and Baume, a sublime diamond-set Vacheron Constantin and a further six timepieces without the makers stated. Margaret was a woman after our own horological hearts.
But, despite her sometimes-outrageous behaviour, to Margaret’s credit she was the ideal sister for Queen Elizabeth, for whom her loyalty never wavered. And for that, you can overlook her wearing her tiara in the bath.
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