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Robbins Geller Ranked #1 M&A Law Firm
According to a new study, “Zealous Advocates or Self-Interested Actors? Assessing the Value of Plaintiffs’ Law Firms in Merger Litigation,” written by Randall S. Thomas of Vanderbilt University Law School, C. N. V. Krishnan of Case Western Reserve University, and Steven Davidoff Solomon of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Robbins Geller was recognized as the top law firm in every category measured, with fee awards of more than $1 million when the Firm served as lead counsel in a case led by an institutional investor as the best indicator of a plaintiffs’ firms’ prominence. The professors analyzed the role of plaintiffs’ law firms in merger and acquisition (“M&A”) litigation “using a hand-collected sample of 1,739 different merger lawsuits during the period 2003 through 2012.” Through these findings, the results prove that the Firm is more likely to be “significantly and positively associated with a higher probability of lawsuit success” than any other firm. The professors concluded that Robbins Geller “deliver[s] the best outcomes for their clients” because the Firm brings “better cases” and “prosecute[s] cases more successfully, as compared to other law firms.”
Robbins Geller has earned a reputation as the leading law firm in representing shareholders in M&A litigation where billions of dollars have been obtained. The Firm regularly prosecutes M&A cases post-merger, often through trial, to maximize the benefit for its shareholder class. Some of Robbins Geller’s most notable cases include Kinder Morgan ($200 million), the largest M&A recovery to date; Del Monte ($89.4 million), a case where Wall Street practices were changed; and, most recently, Rural Metro ($75.7 million), a significant post-trial judgment and the largest ever obtained against a bank over its role as a deal advisor.
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Co-Head of Employment Practice Vernon Voon shares with The Straits Times the possibility of the Government imposing a custodial sentence or unlimited fines in relation to the recent spate of worksite accidents
RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Co-Head of Employment Practice Vernon Voon shares with The Straits Times regarding the possibility of the Government imposing a custodial sentence or unlimited fines in relation to the recent spate of worksite accidents. The article was first published in The Straits Times on 10 August 2017. Workplace safety: The next frontier Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Ltd Date: 10 August 2017 Author: Toh Yong Chuan The record on work safety is mixed. After rapid progress from 2004 to 2014, the numbers slipped in 2015 and 2016, although they improved in the first half of this year. What's needed for Singapore to scale the next level of the workersafety bar? The year 2004 was a pivotal one for workers' safety in Singapore. That was the year the Nicoll Highway collapsed on April 20, killing four workers and injuring three others. Just nine days later, the collapse of a steel structure at the Fusionopolis worksite on April 29 killed two workers and injured 29 others. A month later, a fire on board the ship Almudaina on May 29 at the Keppel Shipyard killed seven workers and injured three. These three accidents triggered a round of soul-searching. It also led to sweeping changes in workplace safety. Workplace safety numbers improved dramatically after that, from 2004 to 2014. But they started dipping in 2015 and last year, although the first six months of this year have seen lower rates of accidents and deaths than last year. One recent accident has put the spotlight on worker safety issues again, raising the question of whether it is time to push for even higher workplace safety standards. On July 14, a section of a Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) viaduct under construction in Upper Changi Road East collapsed. One worker was killed and 10 others injured. What more can be done to make workplaces safer in Singapore? A GOOD DECADE A look back to measures taken after the 2004 accidents is instructive. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) reviewed the workplace safety framework. Its staff visited Britain, Germany, Sweden and France to study their laws and practices. It announced a new occupational safety and health blueprint in Parliament on March 10, 2005, to cut workplace deaths by one-third in five years and by half in a decade, or 2015. On Oct 17, 2005, the ministry proposed new legislation in Parliament - the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Act - to replace the Factories Act to regulate occupational safety and health. When the proposed law was debated in January 2006, then Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen said the three high-profile accidents had "added new impetus and urgency" to MOM reforming the Factories Act - which it had started studying how to do so five years earlier. The new legislation was passed and enacted that year. In November 2005, the MOM also set up a Workplace Safety and Health Advisory Committee to help industry efforts to raise occupational safety and health standards. The committee became the WSH Council in 2008 and it continues to champion workplace safety and health today. These multiple efforts bore fruit. By 2010, workplace fatalities fell to 2.2 per 100,000 workers, achieving the target to reduce such deaths by half - five years ahead of schedule. A new target to further reduce the deaths to 1.8 per 100,000 workers was set on 2009, and achieved on 2014. Workplace fatality rates have fallen from 4.9 per 100,000 workers in 2004 to a record low of 1.8 in 2014. However, the improvements were not sustained and workplace fatalities crept up in 2015 and last year. In both years, the fatalities crept up to 1.9 per 100,000 workers. The number of workplace injuries also fell gradually from 460 per 100,000 workers in 2007 to 364 in 2015, before creeping up to 382 last year. Singapore's record is mixed compared with other countries'. It fares better than the United States, which had 3.38 deaths per 100,000 workers in 2015. But it lags way behind Britain, which had 0.43 deaths per 100,000 workers from April 2016 to March this year. If Singapore were a member of the European Union, it will roughly be at the lower middle half of the 28 member states in terms of workplace fatalities, coming in behind countries like Britain, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, which had fewer than one death per 100,000 workers. Official statistics released last week showed that 19 workers died on the job between January and June this year, down sharply from 42 in the same period last year. Similarly, the number of injured workers declined from 6,245 to 6,151 in the same period. COMMON CAUSES OF WORKPLACE FATALITIES AND INJURIES If Singapore is to keep up the trend of reducing workplace accidents and deaths, it needs to have a clearer picture of the top causes of such injuries and deaths. In Singapore, the top causes were slips, trips and falls, and being struck by moving vehicles. Most fatalities were from the construction sector. A study of overseas trends found similar patterns. Last month, the Health and Safety Executive, the British government body responsible for workplace safety and health, released data which showed that the construction sector was the most deadly in the United Kingdom, from April last year to March this year. The two top causes of death for workers were falls from height and being struck by moving vehicles. The US also has a similar pattern. In 2015, the construction sector had the most number of fatal work injuries, and the two top causes of deaths were transportation incidents, and falls, slips and trips. What is also telling is that no country has been able to cut workplace fatalities to zero on a sustained basis. LOOKING AHEAD To bring worker safety to the next level, Singapore needs to go beyond reducing work falls and accidents. We need to review the regulatory environment too. In the case of the recent PIE viaduct accident, the main contractor for the work was Or Kim Peow Contractors (OKP). It was awarded the contract in November 2015 despite another fatal accident having taken place just two months earlier, at the company's worksite at another flyover. Senior Minister of State for Transport Lam Pin Min said in Parliament last week that the contractor was given "a low safety performance score" when the Land Transport Authority (LTA) evaluated the bids, but its "lowest tender price and good track record in completing many similar infrastructure projects over the past 10 years" outweighed its low safety score. In other words, low price won over safety concerns. The LTA should rethink the balance between price and safety. If it tilts the balance further in favour of contractors without safety lapses, it gives contractors a financial incentive to keep their workers safe. This is not the only area that the authorities ought to review. Another area is the WSH Act itself. UPDATING THE LAW The last major update of the WSH Act was in 2011 when main contractors were made responsible for worksite safety and MOM officers were given more powers to investigate worksite hazards. The MOM started reviewing the law earlier this year. It is looking at enhancing deterrence against worksite accidents, improving the industry's learning from such accidents through the release of accident reports, and raising the maximum administrative fine for offences that result in serious injuries or deaths from $20,000 to $50,000. Labour MP Melvin Yong said the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) supports tougher punishment. "It acts as a deterrence and sends a strong message that any WSH breaches are not to be taken lightly," said the NTUC director for workplace safety and health. The Government can consider imposing a custodial sentence or unlimited fines as deterrence, said Mr Vernon Voon, employment and labour relations partner at law firm RHTLaw Taylor Wessing. He pointed out that in the UK, "corporate manslaughter" is an offence that can lead to jail time for the company's executives if they are found to be criminally responsible for the deaths, and the courts can impose unlimited fines at 5 to 10 per cent of a company's turnover. "In cases where an industrial death occurs from the gross negligence of the company's officers, the Government could perhaps look into legislating a minimum custodial sentence on the company," he said. Besides updating the law, another approach is to rope in more parties to lower workplace injuries. So far, the WSH Council has focused primarily on the three-way partnership of the Government, unions and employers. Insurers are another player that can help in reducing workplace injuries and fatalities. Insurers monitor workplace accidents and, in particular, companies with poor track records to understand what is going wrong, said Mr Karl Hamann, chief executive of QBE Insurance Singapore. "We also have a role in holding companies to account, making it clear that having insurance should not make safety an afterthought," he added. If the authorities can learn from insurers how they gather information and assess workplace risks, then it can have a more complete picture of risk assessments and, logically, improve risk prevention. Thirteen years ago, the horrifying Nicoll Highway collapse and series of high-profile industrial accidents triggered sweeping action that made the workplace safer for workers. The PIE viaduct collapse last month is an early warning bell. We should not wait until more deaths pile up before we are spurred to do more to prevent more workers from getting injured or dying on the job.
Published by rhtlaw at August 2, 2017
Head of International China Practice Amanda Chen signs Cooperative Charter on behalf of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing at the One Belt One Road Legal Services International Cooperation Forum in Chengdu
RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Head of International China Practice Amanda Chen was invited to speak at the One Belt One Road Legal Services International Cooperation Forum 2017 in Chengdu, China. The two-day conference was held from 29-31 July 2017 at the Century City International Convention Centre. On behalf of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing, Amanda also signed the Cooperation Charter of the “Belt and Road” Legal Services Cooperative, along with 32 other law firms from 20 countries who attended the forum. Amanda spoke about the economic development and legal services in the Maritime Silk Road, specifically covering the ASEAN economic development and the implementation of One Belt One Road initiatives. Other prominent speakers comprised Bo-Sen Von, Partner and Senior Attorney of Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law; Julia Charlton, Senior Partner of Charltons; Dang Ngoc Huong, Partner of DS-Avocats Vietnam and Michelle Dixon, Chief Executive Officer & Partner of Maddocks. The forum seeks to launch an international, professional and open legal service platform to promote the implementation of China’s One Belt One Road initiative. Whereby, representatives across international borders are able to work hand in hand and render legal support to Chinese enterprises, share commercial information and business opportunities in investment, mergers & acquisitions, and trade. 300 representatives across notable law firms in Europe, United States and Asia, Senior Officials and various entrepreneurs attended this event.
Co-Head of Employment Practice Vernon Voon shares with Channel NewsAsia his views on the new Tripartite Standard on Employment of Term Contract Employees
RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Co-Head of Employment Practice Vernon Voon was interviewed by Channel NewsAsia on the new Tripartite Standard on Employment of Term Contract Employees. The interview was aired on Channel NewsAsia’s Singapore Tonight segment on 31 July 2017. This interview makes relation to the new tripartite standard launched by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Singapore National Employers Federation. The new standard aims to let term contract employees obtain better benefits such as leave benefits, training and notice period. Vernon’s view was that the new standard is only a guideline and thus, if breached, does not constitute an offence. However, he also noted that “the Ministry of Manpower takes breaches of guidelines seriously” and “reserve the right to take this into account whenever they need to exercise discretion regarding the companies’ requests on the employment front”.
Published by rhtlaw at July 31, 2017
RHTLaw Taylor Wessing bolsters Corporate Practice with new Partner appointment
New hire with specialist knowledge underscores Firm’s emphasis on leveraging the demand for legal advice on cross border transactions with both Chinese and Asian clients Leading international law firm RHTLaw Taylor Wessing strengthens its Corporate Practice with the appointment of Mr Wee Jee Kin as a Partner, effective 4 July 2017. Jee Kin joins RHTLaw Taylor Wessing from a China-based oil and gas / infrastructure conglomerate where he served as Group Head of Legal overseeing a team comprising lawyers from China, France and Singapore. Prior to his five-year stint in the China-based company, he was Head of Group Legal & Company Secretary of public-listed company, Hanwell Holdings Limited. With a legal career spanning 25 years, Jee Kin has substantial merger and acquisition (M&A) experience in the international arena, and also has significant expertise in commodities, healthcare, petroleum products, technology and telecommunications. Many transactions he has handled were cross-border with geographical coverage in Asia, United States, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is also experienced in corporate governance and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) Listing rules. Azman Jaafar, Head of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing’s Corporate Practice and also its Deputy Managing Partner, added, “Jee Kin’s addition to the Corporate Practice is in line with our strategy of diving deeper into Greater China. Not only does he have fundamental credentials in the region, he brings with him the added perspectives of how business owners operate having headed various in-house legal teams. I look forward to working with Jee Kin as we continue to expand our presence in Asia. With his unique skill sets, Jee Kin will be an important asset for our ASEAN Plus M&A team as demand for legal services in cross-border transactions grow this year.” Jee Kin has a broad range of experience in investment and development projects in China. He has acted as a point of liaison for Chinese subcontractors including State Owned Enterprises on infrastructure contracts for Africa, and led negotiations on property and commercial acquisitions in China. He has also been a Director of a China-based company, ASA Holdings Ltd since 2011. Jee Kin’s arrival follows the appointment of Ben Constance and Gilad Shay, who joined the Firm’s Corporate practice in February 2017. Jee Kin graduated from University of Hull in the United Kingdom in 1989. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales and the Bar in Singapore in 1991. In 2003, he obtained his LL.M in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in the United Kingdom and was called to the Bar in Queensland, Australia in 2004. --- This press release is featured in the following news reports: "RHTLaw plucks corporate partner from oil and energy MNC" - Asian Legal Business, 1 August 2017 "Corporate Move" - The Edge, 14 August 2017
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SAY: Week in Review 2/7
Under normal circumstance, this edition of Week in Review would have been devoted to the hijinks of Super Bowl Sunday and the subsequent (over) examinations of the ads that we loved and loved to hate. (Could you believe those Groupon ads? And wasn’t that Darth Vader kid cute?).
But alas, the powers that be had other plans this week. Upon waking up from a Super Bowl stupor on Monday morning, the media world was atwitter (and ON Twitter) about AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post. Reaction to the news was decidedly mixed, with a bevy of critics both supporting the move, calling it a “smart risk” (Henry Blodget, Business Insider) that will help AOL obtain a “clear editorial voice” (Felix Salmon, Retuers), while also criticizing it as “soullessly commercial” proposition (Jemima Kiss, The Guardian) that ultimately serves as an admission of AOL’s failure to devise a viable content strategy (Shira Ovide, The Wall Street Journal).
Perhaps the most insightful and valuable commentary on the acquisition came from Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at CUNY. According to Jarvis, what AOL will find most valuable in HuffPo will not be content, but a “new cultural understanding of media that is built around the value of curation, the power of peers, the link economy, passion as an asset, and celebrity as a currency.”
Moving on to the world political stage, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned his office today, giving in to 18 days of mass demonstrations calling for his removal and democratic reforms. The debate continues to roil over the role social media has played in fomenting this revolution and the media's reporting of it. Andy Carvin, a senior strategist at NPR working on digital media, has become well known in the past three weeks for his non-stop curation of the Egypt protests via his Twitter streams, turning himself into “a personal news wire for Egypt.” In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Carvin argued that curation– the process of capturing the bulk of a story from various sources and then passing them along – has always been a part of journalism. According to Carvin, “…curation itself isn't new; it's just the way that some of us are doing it online that's fairly new. The tools have evolved, but the goal of capturing a story and turning people's attention to it isn't.
Finally, in the world of snarky blogdom, Gawker officially launched its redesign, which, according to Nieman Journalism Lab, “reflects a more magazine-style emphasis from a purer blog format. The Lab’s Megan Garber captured what the move means particularly in terms of Gawker’s advertising strategy, explaining how it’s appropriated parts of the TV and magazine models to capitalize on its brand as a whole: ‘It’s moved, it seems, beyond simply selling its readers to advertisers. Now, it is simply selling itself.’”
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Home /News/Daily Watch – NERC faffs and waffles over tariff rise, Nigeria’s COVID positive rate spikes
One in five persons tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria is positive, according to official data. Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) compiled here show that the country’s positive rate jumped from 4.2% to 21.3% in the last month. As of December 3, only 4.2% of all coronavirus tests — or roughly one in 25 samples — in Nigeria returned positive. But as the second wave sweeps across the country, so is the number of positive cases rising. The WHO data show that the positive rate stood at 21.3% as of January 3, a steep rise in the number of positive diagnoses. When a country’s positivity rate for the coronavirus is high, experts believe this indicates how widespread the virus is in the community. It could also mean that the number of total tests being carried out is too low. According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “a higher positive percentage suggests higher transmission and that there are likely more people with coronavirus in the community who haven’t been tested yet. Nigeria has had a chronic testing problem since the pandemic, with less than one million tests carried out so far, unlike South Africa that has tested over 6.7 million samples. Data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) situation reports show the country’s testing capacity still hovers between 35,000 and 45,000 weekly. In a similar development, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said on Tuesday at least 731 members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Batch B had tested positive for COVID-19. This compares to 108 positive test results during the Batch A exercise. Nigeria hopes to get 42 million COVID-19 vaccines to cover one-fifth of its population through the global COVAX scheme, Faisal Shuaib, head of the country’s primary healthcare agency said on Tuesday.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved an increase in electricity tariffs to ₦4 per kWh. According to a directive issued on December 31, 2020, and signed by Sanusi Garba, NERC chairman, the new tariff will take effect from 1 January. The commission stated that the new tariff will be enforced until the issuance of another minor review order or an extraordinary tariff review order by the commission. The NERC said some of the indices considered for the upward review include Nigeria’s inflation rate, exchange rate, US rate of inflation, available generation capacity, gas price, MDA losses and CAPEX adjustment. “The year 2020 projection on available generation is maintained for the first half (Jan-Jun) of 2021 to account for the impact of the delay in the implementation of MYTO-2020. No change was applied to generation projections from July 2021 and beyond,@ the statement read in part. “A benchmark gas price of $2.50/MMBTU, gas transportation cost of $0.80/MMBTU and gas prices outside the regulated rates for GenCos with effective gas sale agreements (“GSAs”) were maintained.” In a clarifying note on 5 January, the regulator said that tariffs for customers on Service Bands D and E (customers being served less than an average of 12 hours of supply per day for a period of one month) remained frozen and subsidised by the FG.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange recorded its first loss of the year Tuesday as selling pressure on some of the most capitalised stocks on the bourse eroded the market value of equities by ₦392.816 billion. Bellwether stocks like MTN Nigeria, GTBank, BUA Cement, Zenith Bank and Okomu Oil accounted for the bulk of the loss. A decline of 2.98% in the Banking Index, the day’s worst performer of the 5 sectorial indices, also drove losses. Trade ended with 34 losers emerging against 16 gainers. The All Share Index (ASI) fell by 1.83% to end the session at 25,987.14 basis points, while market capitalisation dipped to ₦21.122 trillion. The world’s best-performing stock market in 2020 is up by a marginal 0.31% in 2021.
At least 20 people have been killed in an airstrike on a village in central Mali where Islamic extremists had confronted a wedding party, the Associated Press reports, citing witnesses. The French military, which carries out operations against jihadist rebels operating in the region, declined to comment on the reported deaths and there was no immediate comment from the Malian government. A man wounded in the strike told The Associated Press that the extremists had approached a group of civilians celebrating a wedding on Sunday, demanding that the men in attendance separate from the women. “We were in the process of carrying out the orders when I heard the sound of an airplane and immediately a strike from above. Afterwards, I didn’t see anything because I was unconscious,” the man said from a health centre in Douentza, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Hamadoun Dicko, leader of one of the largest ethnic Peuhl organizations in Mali, said witnesses described two air raids on Jan. 3 in the village of Bouti. “There were at least 20 dead and more than 27 missing. I have personally lost two friends,” said Dicko, president of the Tabital Pulaaku Youth Association. Guillaume Nguefa, head of the human rights section of the U.N. mission in Mali confirmed the incident but did not provide more details.
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Structuring a Career Around Gallium Nitride
By Elisabeth Pain Mar. 26, 2010 , 8:00 AM
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Every now and then a new semiconductor material comes along that holds huge promise in a variety of applications. Gallium nitride (GaN) is one such compound, generating interest over the past couple of decades for its unusual capacity to emit green, blue, and ultraviolet light and for its potential use for high-power, high-frequency, and high-temperature devices. Although some devices using gallium nitride laser diodes such as Blu-ray players have already hit the market, much of the potential of gallium nitride has yet to be unlocked.
"If academics are going to add something to this field, ... you need an ability to step back and say 'Well, what do we really understand about what's going on here?'" -- M Rachel Oliver
"Using gallium nitride and its alloys, you can access the entire visible spectrum, ... so from the point of view of optoelectronics, being able to get any wavelength you like makes it a very exciting material system," says Rachel Oliver, a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Oliver began working with gallium nitride during her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where she set out to grow crystals of GaN alloys that are so tiny that they start behaving like atoms -- structures called quantum dots. "We were trying something that we thought maybe was a little mad, something we didn't think was going to work," Oliver says. Yet, when she put her sample in an atomic force microscope to check the outcome of her experiments, "there were my tiny structures," she says.
Seven years later, Oliver, 31, now has a permanent research position at the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, where she continues her work on this unique and important semiconductor material. Her early success in growing quantum dots in GaN alloys, she says, "has taken me a very long way since."
Early success
Photo (top): A scanning electron microscopy image of an atom probe tomography sample, one of the first such samples successfully prepared by Rachel Oliver's lab.
Oliver got exposed to research at a very young age; her father is a biologist. "I can remember being in the lab when I was maybe 6 or 7 and ... being allowed to press buttons and help out with little bits of experiments," Oliver says. But she wasn't inclined to work with cells. Rather, she was curious about things such as why metal feels cold when you touch it, she says: "Those sorts of questions started me thinking about the properties of materials."
Oliver studied engineering and materials science at Oxford in a joint honors degree. Following a series of summer industry placements in material design and metallurgy, she decided to do her final-year research project on sensors for optoelectronic materials. She had become interested in how material properties change at very small scales. "Electronic materials and optoelectronic materials give you a lot of opportunities to access those kinds of effects," she says.
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She carried her interest in small structures over to her Ph.D., which she started in 2000 under the supervision of Andrew Briggs in Oxford's Department of Materials. "I was trying to find a way of growing quantum dots in indium nitride or indium gallium nitride with the longer-term goal of finding ways of applying those quantum dots in useful devices," Oliver says.
Oliver first tried using a technique for depositing crystalline-thin films called molecular beam epitaxy, but she quickly grew frustrated because the equipment she had access to proved inadequate for the job. In her third year, her supervisor helped her set up a collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride so she could go work in that lab and use another growth technique called metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE). Back then, "there was not much information in the literature really about how to grow quantum dots by MOVPE," she says. "But with the guys [at Cambridge], we did some thinking and came up with ... a really novel way of growing quantum dots."
The work put Oliver's career on a fast track. "I rapidly saw that she was a brilliant researcher and I told her that I would make every effort to obtain funding for her so that she could come to my lab as a postdoc," Colin Humphreys, who leads the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride in the university's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
Earning independence
After Oliver finished her Ph.D., she joined the Cambridge center in October 2003 with postdoctoral fellowships from the U.K. Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Peterhouse College in Cambridge. "It gave me a lot more freedom than most postdocs have to explore my own ideas," she says.
In this week's Science: Nitrides Race Beyond the Light
As part of the special section on materials for electronics in this week's issue of Science, Robert F. Service tells how long prized for their optical properties, nitrogen-based semiconductors may take electronic devices into realms where silicon cannot tread.
For her fellowship work, she decided to use the growth technique she had developed during her Ph.D. to try to understand more about the properties of quantum dots and the mechanisms by which they grew. She also set out to develop a single photon source for quantum cryptography, building a nanostructure made of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) crystals in a surrounding gallium nitride matrix "so that the tiny InGaN crystals are like the chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie," she says. "If you can get your little crystals, your chocolate chips, tiny enough, ... [their] atom-like behavior allows you to get guaranteed emission of one photon at a time." By the end of her postdoc, together with a collaborator in Oxford, Oliver had designed "the first blue-emitting single photon source," she says.
In another project, Oliver decided to relate her research to one of the main goals of the Cambridge center -- developing thin layers of indium gallium nitride called quantum wells for light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Currently, gallium nitride crystals are mainly grown on a substrate made of another material such as sapphire, a technique that causes "millions and millions more defects in gallium nitride than conventional semiconductors," Oliver says. She focused her interest on a long-standing question: Why are gallium nitride materials in LEDs able to generate so much light when they have all these defects?
One possible explanation came more than a decade ago from transmission electron microscopy pictures that revealed some "blobs" in the indium gallium nitride layers: These were interpreted at the time as regions of high indium content that prevented the charge carriers moving through the LEDs from reaching the defects, which would cause them to generate heat rather than light, Oliver says. But in the early 2000s, the blobs were shown to be "actually caused by the electron beam in the transmission electron microscope," Oliver adds, and "a really big controversy" ensued about what was real and what was not. "So we needed another way of looking at the indium content in these quantum wells."
In collaboration with Alfred Cerezo of Oxford, Oliver developed a new method for looking at gallium nitride materials using atom probe tomography -- a technique that yields a three-dimensional map of a material's composition at the atomic scale. As gallium nitride is not a very conductive semiconductor, this was a tall order, Oliver says. But by the end of her postdoc, she had that technique sorted out, too. She found no blobs of indium in her materials, she says, showing that "the theory that everyone used for several years to understand how these devices work appears not to be true."
Pushing forward
Oliver was able to carry on with her work when she took a nonpermanent faculty-level position supported with a 5-year Royal Society University Research Fellowship in October 2006. The fellowship pays for her salary and some research expenses, and Oliver has since put together a small team of three Ph.D. students, one postdoc, and several short-term project students. The fellowship, which has allowed her to prove herself as an independent researcher, has been "an absolutely brilliant ... start to my career," she says.
Then, last year, Oliver landed a permanent faculty position in her department, which she officially started in October. Because she still has 2 years left on her university research fellowship, she immediately took a leave of absence from her permanent position. "Staying on my university research fellowship provides me with some funding and some freedom to do more research and less teaching," she says. She will take on duties as a full faculty member in 2011.
The nature of Oliver's work means she collaborates with researchers around the world and with industry. "I grow samples and characterize them in microscopes, and then I might send them to my collaborators in Oxford or more recently to my collaborators at Harvard University, ... and they will test out the optical properties of my materials and start fabricating devices," she says. "It's always very exciting to hear back from them about the successes they're having with the device development and then to be able to relate that to what I can do to improve the materials."
Her current atom-probe work is done in close collaboration with Sharp Laboratories of Europe, and she speaks regularly with various companies about her single photon sources. She sees an ample niche for academia to complement the research carried out by industry.
"The field is very much driven by devices, and ... technology sometimes gets ahead of our scientific understanding," Oliver says. "If academics are going to add something to this field rather than just kind of follow along in the wake of industry, you need an ability to step back and say, 'Well, what do we really understand about what's going on here, and what information are we missing that might help us to understand this better?' "
And as Oliver works to push her field forward, she's also pushed herself forward on her career path. Oliver's "strengths are her ability to define the key experiments which need to be done and then to perform these and get results," Humphreys says. Outside of being extremely well organized and working hard, "She is ambitious and knows where she wants to go."
Elisabeth Pain is contributing editor for South Europe.
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Neil Gaiman Eccles Theatre 131 South Main Street
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Live at the Eccles presents Neil Gaiman Saturday, November 17, 2018 at the Eccles Theater on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. ArtTix is the official source for tickets for Live
Live at the Eccles presents Neil Gaiman Saturday, November 17, 2018 at the Eccles Theater on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. ArtTix is the official source for tickets for Live at the Eccles events.
Neil Gaiman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, and he has been honored with numerous awards around the world. Altogether, he has received 4 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, 6 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 1 British Fantasy Award, 3 Geffens, 1 International Horror Guild Award, 2 Mythopoeic Awards, and 15 Eisner Awards.
Gaiman’s bestselling contemporary fantasy novel, American Gods, took the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Locus awards—as did his bestselling young adult story, Coraline. Another children’s novel, The Graveyard Book, is the only work to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) Medals – awarded by librarians for the most prestigious contribution to children’s literature.
Gaiman’s groundbreaking Sandman comics, which has garnered a large number of accolades including nine Eisner Awards, was described by Stephen King as having turned graphic novels into “art.” Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the greatest epic in the history of the form, an issue of Sandman was the first comic book to receive literary recognition, the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.
Two of Gaiman’s speeches have gone viral. One of them, “Make Good Art,” an inspiring commencement address from 2012, , received 1.5 million views (Vimeo and YouTube), and proved so popular it was released as a book illustrated and designed by Chip Kidd.
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Highest ever population
The population of Scotland on census day in 2011 was estimated to be 5,295,403 - the highest ever and a 4.6 per cent rise since 2001.
More women than men
There were more women (2,728,000 or 51.5 per cent) than men (2,567,400 or 48.5 per cent) in Scotland. This was the case for all council areas except for Shetland Islands.
The proportion of adults (people aged 16 and over) in Scotland who are married is 45 per cent, a five percentage point decrease since 2001. The proportion of adults who are single (never married or never registered a same-sex civil partnership) rose to 35 per cent in 2011, an increase of 5 percentage points from 2001.
There were 7,000 people (0.2 per cent of adults) who reported that they were in registered same-sex civil partnerships.
Scottish Identity
Eighty-three per cent of the population of Scotland felt they had some Scottish national identity, including 62 per cent who felt Scottish only. 18 per cent felt Scottish and British. 2 per cent felt Scottish plus another identity.
Minority Groups
Council areas with large cities had the highest proportion of their population from a minority ethnic group: 12 per cent in Glasgow City, 8 per cent in City of Edinburgh and Aberdeen City and 6 per cent in Dundee City.
Out of the seven per cent (369,000) people in Scotland who were born outside of the UK, 15 per cent (55,000) were born in Poland, 6.4 per cent (23,000) in India and 6.2 (23,000) per cent in the Republic of Ireland.
Year of arrival
55 per cent of those born outside of the UK arrived in the UK between 2004 and 2011.
The majority of the population (82 per cent) stated their health was good or very good. This ranged across the country from 77 per cent in Glasgow City to 87 per cent in Aberdeenshire.
Unpaid Care
500,000 people (9 per cent) provided unpaid care for someone because of long term physical/mental ill-health or disability or problems related to old age. Little change since 2001.
Activity Limiting
The proportion of people in Scotland with a long-term activity-limiting health problem or disability was 20 per cent, the same as in 2001.
Hours of unpaid care
However, 44 per cent (219,000) of these unpaid care givers provided 20 or more hours a week of care a week, a 7 per cent increase since 2001.
One person households are now the most common household type - accounting for 35 per cent of all households.
Since 2001, the proportion of households who own their accommodation has stayed fairly constant at around 62 per cent, though more now own their property outright.
The proportion of households renting their accommodation from a council or housing association has fallen by 12 per cent. The percentage of households living in the private rented sector has increased by 65 per cent.
Sixty-nine per cent of households in Scotland had at least one car or van available for use in 2011 compared with 66 per cent in 2001. Aberdeenshire had the highest (86 per cent) proportion of households with at least one car or van available whilst Glasgow City had the lowest (49 per cent).
Highest level of qualifications
Just over quarter (26 per cent, 1.1 million) of the population in Scotland aged 16 and over had achieved Census Level 4 or above qualifications, such as a university degree.
Regional differences - highest level of qualifications
City of Edinburgh had the highest proportion of population (41 per cent) with a Census Level 4 or above qualification. West Dunbartonshire (17 per cent) had the lowest.
No qualifications
Just over a quarter (27 per cent, 1.2 million) of the population aged 16 and over held no qualifications.
Regional differences - no qualifications
City of Edinburgh had the lowest proportion of population (17 per cent) with no qualifications. East Ayrshire (34 per cent) had the highest.
Of the 4.0 million people in Scotland aged between 16 and 74, 69 per cent (2.7 million) were economically active (either working or looking for work). The proportions of economically active males and females were 74 per cent and 64 per cent respectively.
In 2011, just over half (51 per cent) of the 2.5 million employed people aged 16 to 74 in Scotland worked 38 hours or more in a typical week in their main job; 39 per cent (984,000) worked between 38 and 48 hours and 12 per cent (295,000) worked 49 hours or more.
'Health and social work' and 'Retail activities' were the two largest industry sectors in 2011 in terms of the number of employed people aged 16 to 74, each accounting for 15 per cent (377,000) of this population.
The largest category of occupation was 'Professional occupations', employing 17 per cent of all employed people aged 16 to 74.
Increasing Population
The population of Scotland on census day in 2001 was estimated to be 5,062,000.
There were more women (52%) than men (48%) in Scotland. The number of males per female under 25 was 1.04 compared to 0.88 for people 25 or over.
The proportion of adults (people aged 16 and over) in Scotland who were married in 2001 is 50%, a decrease of 8 percentage points compared to the 1991 census.
The median age of males in the 2001 census was 37 years old. This is compared to 39 years old for females.
1 in 8 of Scottish residents in 2001 were born outside Scotland.
72% of people aged 3 and over in Eilean Siar (Western Isles) had some knowledge of Gaelic.
2.0% of the Scottish population in 2001 came from a non-white ethnic group, compared with 1.3% in 1991.
Born in England
Argyll & Bute had the highest proportion of people born in England (17%).
The average age of a person with good health was 33 years.
There was an increase in recorded limiting long-term illness in the 2001 census (20% compared with 14% in 1991).
The proportion of households with one or more carers resident was 17%.
Age of Carers
Of the 481,600 carers in Scotland, 2.3% were aged under 16, while 19.5% were above pensionable age.
The average number of rooms per household was 4.8.
Women aged 16-74 are 1.07 times more likely to live in a one person household than men aged 16-74.
846,000 homes in Scotland (39%) were owned with a mortgage or loan.
Only 3% of houses in Glasgow City were detached, compared to 61% in Orkney.
Dundee City had the highest proportion of full-time students aged 16-74 in Scotland at 13%.
A third (33.2%) of all people aged 16-74 in Scotland had no qualifications.
Highest Qualification
Just under a fifth (19.5%) of the population in Scotland aged 16-74 had achieved Census Level 4 or above qualifications, such as a university degree.
City of Edinburgh had the highest (32.5%) proportion of population aged 16-74 with a Census Level 4 or above qualification. West Dunbartonshire had the lowest (12.0%).
Average age of person who was unemployed was 35 years.
Average hours worked in Scotland were 43 for males and 32 for females.
21% of women worked in Health & Social Work compared with 4% of men, while 13% of men worked in Construction compared with 1.5% of women.
Travel to Work
Nearly two thirds (64%) of people aged 16-74 in employment travelled to work by car, while 6% worked mainly from home.
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Ciara on Life with Russell, Self-Care, and Parenting in a Pandemic
The singer, mom, and businesswoman is in the best place of her life.
By Leta Shy
Travis Matthews. Wardrobe styling by Corey Stokes at Cartel & Co. Props by David Browne. Hair by César DeLeön Ramirêz at crowdMGMT. Makeup by Yolonda Frederick at crowdMGMT. Manicure by Miho Okawara. On Ciara: Jacket by Walter Van Beirendonck. Necklace by Jennifer Fisher.
The singer and mother of three Ciara has just turned on her camera for our Zoom meeting in mid-November, looking radiant and calm despite the crying newborn she’s holding to her chest. It’s feeding time for her four-month-old son, Win, and things aren’t going exactly as planned. He’s refusing to latch, making for a slightly chaotic first few minutes to our interview. Ciara turns away from the camera to readjust him, then steps outside the camera frame, speaking to someone nearby to help. When she’s back Win is tucked away snugly, completely hidden underneath a black shawl. She looks perfectly at ease, like a working mom who knows a thing or two about multitasking meetings and breastfeeding. Soon a very cute baby emerges from underneath the fabric, a mop of hair and huge blinking eyes. As Ciara hands Win off and reorients herself, it seems like the perfect time to start talking—what else?—parenthood in a pandemic.
“I don’t even know if you can call it organized chaos, but it is to some degree. Sometimes not even the most organized, to be honest,” she says, once the flurry of activity dies down. “But I’m enjoying it all. I found my way to embrace it all. I just decided, Hey, this is a unique time. It is a challenging time. And the world is changing. But rather than letting the world change me, I’m going to figure out how to change with it. That’s been my mentality. How do I adjust? How do I really work and find the silver lining in the midst of it all?”
That Ciara faces down the challenges of a global pandemic with a mix of optimism and steely determination will not be news to anyone who’s a Ciara fan. Ever since 2004, when she released the multiplatinum album Goodies at the age of 18 and wowed everyone with her impeccable dance moves, it’s been clear that this is a woman with a work ethic. “I’ve always been a planner, always, since day one, even back to the start of my career with having a goal sheet. You can’t get to where you want to get to in life without a compass,” she tells me. “I really believe that in order to get to where you want to get to in life, you got to envision it, you got to speak it, you got to plan it, and you got to write it down. I believe in those affirmations.”
Travis Matthews. Wardrobe styling by Corey Stokes at Cartel & Co. Props by David Browne. Hair by César DeLeön Ramirêz at crowdMGMT. Makeup by Yolonda Frederick at crowdMGMT. Manicure by Miho Okawara. On Ciara: Jacket and shirt by R13. Sports bra by Human Nation. Shorts by The Merger. Shoes by Sacai x Nike. Necklace by Cartier.
Seven full-length albums and 22 million singles sales later, Ciara’s accomplishments prove that her affirmations are still working overtime, even in lockdown. Prior to our Zoom call, her publicist at Beauty Marks Entertainment—Ciara’s own all-encompassing business enterprise—sends me some information about a few projects in the works. There’s R&C, the fragrance released in November that Ciara and husband Russell Wilson had spent much of the pandemic quarantine perfecting (featuring intertwined magnetic bottles of his and hers scents). There’s their new fashion line, The House of LR&C, a collection of sustainable streetwear that debuted last month with its Human Nation line. There’s her involvement in the Why Not You Foundation, founded in 2014 by Wilson and dedicated to fighting poverty and empowering youth. And that’s before we even get to the music, which includes “Rooted”—Ciara’s single celebrating Black womanhood, Black culture, and Black resistance that was released last summer on the heels of the first George Floyd and Breonna Taylor protests—as well as a resurgence of the viral #LevelUpChallenge that accompanied her 2018 hit “Level Up,” this time featuring health-care workers on the front lines of fighting COVID.
It’s a lot for any year, but it becomes even more impressive when you add to that the layer of parenting in a pandemic. Like many parents, Ciara and Wilson, the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, had to decide whether to enroll their older children, Future, age six (Ciara’s son with rapper Future), and Sienna, three, in in-person or virtual school. They decided that fully remote learning was the best decision for their family. “With Russ and football, they have to take COVID tests every day—there’s so many people on a football team. Our babies have intermittent asthma, so we have to be super cautious,” Ciara explains. “We don’t know how this virus performs. There’s so many reasons why we have to take super-high measures to make sure we’re being as safe as we can be considering everything.”
Because of that, Ciara turned into a self-described teacher’s assistant. She created a schedule for Future that felt like school, including one-hour blocks of virtual learning with his private tutor mixed with “P.E.” time for basketball, baseball, or football, as well as a designated lunch break. “I was literally in class every day making sure he had all his stuff he needs,” she says, which included setting up an iPad at his desk so his teacher can see what he’s working on. With Sienna she had a different challenge; the toddler was more content playing hide-and-seek underneath her desk than sitting for a 20-minute weekly lesson with her preschool class. For her, it was about “making sure she’s not missing out on the fundamental things that she would be doing if she was in school,” Ciara says. “They learned about the letter A and we made homemade applesauce the other week, which was really fun. She’s following along with some of what her classmates are doing at school, but we’re just doing it at home.”
Travis Matthews. Wardrobe styling by Corey Stokes at Cartel & Co. Props by David Browne. Hair by César DeLeön Ramirêz at crowdMGMT. Makeup by Yolonda Frederick at crowdMGMT. Manicure by Miho Okawara. On Ciara: Jacket by Etro. Pants by CO. Shoes by R13. Earrings by Jennifer Fisher. Harness by Comme Des Garçons Noir Kei Ninomiya.
Of course, Ciara has resources that many working parents can only dream of, so her pandemic experience surely has been much different than most. But still, trading parenting stories with her feels the same as it does whenever I meet moms with kids of similar age to my four-year-old daughter. We share breastfeeding woes—I tell Ciara that I barely made it to six months before my supply dropped; she nods knowingly and says she usually breastfeeds for three to four months before needing to stop because she has to ramp up her fitness routine (she is, however, aiming to breastfeed Win for nine). She gives me a recommendation for a learning app for my daughter that Sienna likes (Lingokids, for anyone else out there also juggling childcare with working from home). She playfully commiserates with me about the “life of a mama” as she adjusts her clothes once Win is done feeding. That’s the thing with Ciara: She exudes genuineness in everything she does, whether she’s enthusiastically sharing mom tips with a stranger or appearing in ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest, which she just cohosted for the fourth year in a row.
Travis Matthews. Wardrobe styling by Corey Stokes at Cartel & Co. Props by David Browne. Hair by César DeLeön Ramirêz at crowdMGMT. Makeup by Yolonda Frederick at crowdMGMT. Manicure by Miho Okawara. On Ciara: Jacket by Max Mara. Tracksuit by Versace. Shoes by Nike.
Part of Ciara’s signature warmth comes from that feeling that you’re a part of her family life; she routinely shares the Wilsons’ day-to-day routines and silliness with her 26 million followers on Instagram, including documenting her pregnancy in real time since announcing it at the beginning of last year. But what was it actually like behind the scenes, navigating family life and pregnancy with pandemic uncertainties?
“In the beginning, for us, it was really trying to wrap our heads around it,” she says. In March, when those of us in the United States were learning that many parts of the nation were about to go into lockdown, the Wilsons were in their house in California, where they live during Russell’s off-season. Ciara was six months pregnant. “Just trying to understand all of it, trying to figure out how to balance life with the school and the Zoom sessions.” She watched Pandemic on Netflix to cope and thought of ways to entertain the kids.
“It was just not being able to do things to really, truly free your mind. That was just, by far, the greatest challenge of it all because it was like these four walls. What do I do?” she says. “Thank God, with Russ and I, we held on up. We did alright. We still have the same level of love for each other. If anything, it makes you have even more because you literally are going in circles, the same thing over and over, but figuring it out.”
Doctor’s appointments became surreal—Wilson, who Ciara said sometimes had to miss previous ultrasounds because of his football season, wasn’t able to accompany her once again, this time for a different reason. “That was just such, wow, an out-of-body experience,” she says. “He drove me all the way down to my doctor’s office, an hour drive to my doctor’s office, to sit in the car and FaceTime with me to see the screen.”
Luckily the rest of Ciara’s pregnancy with Win went pretty much without a hitch. Besides searing hip pain at the end, she says, it was much like the others. “I’ve been very fortunate enough to have pretty easy pregnancies,” she says. When it came time to deliver, Wilson was able to be in the room, although COVID restrictions meant that no one else was around to help. “Russ was literally everything in one,” she jokes. “He was my husband. He was the photographer, the videographer. He was so cute because he set up the cameras. He was looking at the camera, checking the angle, and [saying], ‘The baby is going to come out this way, so I’ll be right here, and this camera will be right here.’ And then he also got to help pull the baby out, which was really sweet.”
The other difference, of course, was having to labor with a mask on. “My obstetrician, who’s delivered all my babies, was not playing any games about this COVID. I literally made my first push with Win and then he was like, ‘She needs a mask on. Get a mask on.’ It happened so fast, so I still had my mask [down]. But he was like, ‘Oh, no, no. She gon’ put that mask on.’ My mask was pretty good. I could still breathe alright through it, so that was good. But it was like, ‘Wow. This is crazy. I’m having to deliver a baby with a mask. What in the world?’” In another stroke of luck, the birthing part of her labor was incredibly fast—20 minutes, she thinks, maybe less. “It was literally three pushes, good ones. Three good pushes and he was here,” she says. She welcomed Win into the world by singing a perfect rendition of “Happy Birthday” and posted the video on her Instagram a day after giving birth.
Travis Matthews. Wardrobe styling by Corey Stokes at Cartel & Co. Props by David Browne. Hair by César DeLeön Ramirêz at crowdMGMT. Makeup by Yolonda Frederick at crowdMGMT. Manicure by Miho Okawara. On Ciara: Jacket by Junya Watanabe. Shorts and top by Human Nation. Boots by R13. Necklace by Heron Preston.
Ciara’s willingness to invite the public into the most intimate aspects of her life is perhaps one reason why so many people feel so invested in her relationship with Wilson, her husband of four years. There’s also the fact that they are just cute together. Besides the fairy-tale courtship and wedding, there’s also the sense that they have each other’s backs, that they’re rooting for each other’s success, deeply entrenched in their faith and thoroughly in love. But 2020 threw many couples for a loop, and I wondered if it had a similar effect on Ciara’s relationship. It turns out the opposite is true.
“What I think that’s been really great for us because it still makes us—we can be in the same house and still miss each other,” she says. “But also, because work still goes on, we’re not just kicking back like, ‘Oh, what we doing? Watching TV.’ We’re still grinding. We’re still working. He’s sometimes working in another room in another section of the house, and I’m just working in another section too. And sometimes we go hours doing that. So then, by the time the end of the day comes, ‘Oh, my gosh. I really missed you.’”
We’re still on the subject about her love for her husband when, as if on cue, Wilson wanders into the room off-camera, wondering what she’s up to. Ciara looks up from her screen and lights up when she sees him. “I’m doing an interview,” she says, smiling.
“Oh, I didn’t know that,” I hear him say.
“Hi, babe,” she replies, before shooing him away.
Ciara seizes on the interruption to talk about one of her pandemic silver linings: the fact that she and Wilson have had time to work together on several ventures, like their fragrance and their apparel line. “Us being able to pursue our dreams together and come together and build up things with love from the ground up together has been very special and has been a blessing and a gift in the midst of the chaos,” she says. “Just being able to do that has definitely brought us moments of joy.”
I ask her, since I also work with my partner and have spent the last few months sequestered with him, if she has any advice for other couples spending more time with each other than ever.
“Oh, my gosh, communication, communication, communication,” she says. “I do believe the greatest challenge is being able to simply communicate. If we had any challenges with anything, whenever we do, we go to communication. And sometimes it’s hard to enter into the conversation of communication, but then, you know it’s a safe place because we always talk about being equally yoked. I think that’s a game changer because we’re able to get back to ground zero pretty easily because we’re aligned in the ways that we think about things and approach things.”
She also says that, once again, planning goes a long way. For Ciara and Wilson, that means dedicating Friday nights as their date nights, which she says helps keep things exciting. “We do have to put ourselves first as husband and wife, and that’s a hard thing to really understand, I think, especially for women, moms,” she says. “We love our babies so much. But we got to make sure our love is feeling good too, our husbands are feeling good too.”
Recently their date nights have mixed business with pleasure; they would have their own “nosing moments,” she says, where they’d test out scents for their fragrance. Even so, she prefers this to trying to fit in relationship time without a plan. “When you’re winging it, you get backed up,” she says. “It can get a little tricky, and you can hit a little bit of a patch.”
Having turned 35 a few weeks before we speak, Ciara is in a particularly introspective mood about where she goes from here. She’s thinking about how to “level up”—a theme so strong in her life that she created a song about it. “How am I being the best mom? How can I engage more? How can I be aware of certain things so I’m really dialed in with my babies? As a wife, what can I do to make sure I keep the sexy? What can I make sure that I’m doing to be on my stuff, take care of myself? How am I loving on myself so I still keep feeling young?” These are all questions she asks herself as she contemplates her next five years. “And when I get there, what’s the next five years?” she continues. “How am I living my life? How am I maximizing my life? I ask myself these questions, and I’m just dedicated to it.”
With all the talk of leveling up in every area of her life, I ask her if she ever feels like she puts too much pressure on herself. Sometimes, she says, but—always looking for that silver lining—she’s quick to note that pressure is a privilege. “I’d rather have the pressure sometimes than not have anything to do or want for something to do. It’s all about perspective.”
So what, then, does she do for self-care?
This is the first time in our conversation that Ciara hesitates. It takes a few seconds for her to find an answer. Grooming herself, she says. Going for a solo run with her three Great Danes. Sleep training Future and Sienna so they go to sleep and wake up at the same time, which gives her a much-needed break. But even her self-care involves her children—she mentions taking car rides with them to point out some goats near their house in California. “That’s actually been good for the mind,” she says. Even when she’s thinking of herself, her kids take center stage.
No matter: It’s clear that Ciara loves being a mom, wife, and businesswoman. Perhaps part of her self-care is feeling content that the life she has is the life she has, after almost two decades in a grueling business and experiencing life’s ups and downs in the public eye. She tells me as much as we begin to wrap up our call.
“I feel like I’m in my best place ever in my life. I love where I am in every area,” she says. “I’m grateful for the wisdom that life has given me with my experiences. I love my confidence that I have as a woman.
“I’m loving every bit of me, and that feels good.”
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We Are All Michael Brown….and Darren Wilson
Generally, when a child is born there is an aura of hope and dreams of a great future. Parents, relatives, teachers, and neighbors provide love, support, guidance, and advice about pursuing the American dream in our great nation of unlimited opportunity.
As a white mother of a 20 year old son and a 17 year old daughter, I have had conversations with my children about respecting elders, respecting authority, making smart decisions, and not causing trouble. But a pivotal moment occurred for me during a discussion about the Trayvon Martin situation. I found out that my friends who are African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Indian, Muslim, and others who are viewed as “different” have a more unique conversation with their children.
The conversations have a similar theme about respecting authority but the advice is far more specific and it focuses on survival—staying alive. These conversations, called “the talk,” have occurred for many generations and often start as early as the age of seven. The advice that is provided includes:
Turn all the lights on inside your car if you are pulled over
Keep your hands where they can be seen
Do not make sudden movements
Ask for permission to retrieve your driver’s license and registration
Don’t talk back to the police
Don’t ask for help
“The talk” occurs regardless of socioeconomic status and education. Friends I have spoken with remember exactly when they received “the talk.” They also share humiliating stories about interactions with police, being detained in airports, and being followed while shopping. Some provided stories about their sons and husbands who have been long-time residents of affluent neighborhoods being reported to the police by “concerned” neighbors when they are walking in their own neighborhood.
As a Chief Diversity Officer and an H.R. professional, these stories saddened me tremendously and it made me realize that we need many more conversations so that we understand each other’s experiences and perspectives. How can we create a much different version of “the talk” that includes people from many different backgrounds sharing their dreams, aspirations, struggles, and obstacles? Rather than being afraid of open dialogue about race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, we should provide opportunities for discussion on controversial issues where each person’s voice is heard and valued.
I also worry about the social conditioning that occurs with multiple generations hearing “the talk” and understanding the applicability in the workplace as well as in our personal lives. Does a continual reminder of respect for authority, remaining quiet, and keeping your hands in sight result in a focus on conforming and fitting in rather than “leaning in” as Sheryl Sandberg suggests? What are the long term effects of messages about interactions with police?
Each of us is shaped by our life experiences which influence the majority of our day-to-day decisions. We tend to like people who look like us, think like us and come from similar backgrounds. Research has shown that beliefs and values from our family, culture and experiences heavily influence how we view and evaluate others. Instinct kicks in when we are confronted with a threat to our survival. Instinct is a spontaneous, split-second reaction to a situation based on our knowledge and experiences.
Whether it is a life-or-death situation, or an employment decision (hiring, promotion, performance evaluation rating, or termination), our unconscious bias may blind our decision making. The situation in Ferguson, MO where Michael Brown was killed by police officer, Darren Wilson, requires a call to action that significantly changes our life experiences and re-wires our brains so that we first become self-aware and recognize our own unconscious biases and that secondly we change the course of our shared humanity by purposefully changing our current experiences.
Specific steps that each of us can take to change the trajectory of human connectivity are:
1. Become self-aware. The Implicit Association Test, developed by Harvard Business School, is one of the most effective tools for testing our own unconscious bias. It is available for free at www.implicit.harvard.edu.
2. Create open dialogue opportunities. During staff meetings, personal encounters, or at large venues, create an environment where open, transparent conversations are encouraged about uncomfortable, controversial topics. Ensure that people attend these conversations have different points of view. Establish “rules of the road” where all opinions are heard and valued.
3. Purposefully become “one of the only” or “one of a few.” Put yourself in situations where you are different than others around you. Attend a house of worship, visit a mall, host a dinner event, visit a neighborhood or attend a conference where you are very different than everyone else around you.
4. Seek to understand. Educate yourself by reading books and articles and attending museums and movies about different people, cultures, and perspectives.
5. Ask for feedback. Ask many people of different backgrounds for honest, transparent feedback about your style as a leader. Ask their opinions about what behaviors would make you a more inclusive leader.
Collectively, we can create a much different version of “the talk” by providing venues with open, transparent dialogue to share unique perspectives and experiences. By purposefully immersing ourselves in situations where we are different than those around us, we become more empathetic and understanding and we look for moments of exclusion to be turned into lifetimes of inclusion.
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Plymouth Arts Center taking holiday show applications
Sheboygan Press Media
The Plymouth Arts Center is accepting applications for its 20th annual Holiday Membership Fine Art Exhibit in Gallery 110 North.
The exhibit is open to current Plymouth Arts Center members and to those who wish to become members. Entries must be postmarked no later than Oct. 16.
Each member may submit one piece of original fine art, which is their own concept and design, and was not previously displayed in Gallery 110 North. The Fine Arts Committee will have the final word on appropriateness of the work.
The exhibit is open to all two- and three-dimensional fine art media including, but not limited to, pastel, painting, sculpture, graphite, drawing, photography, fiber, ceramics, metal, glass, wood, paper, jewelry, leather, printmaking and mixed media.
To request a prospectus and membership form, call 920-892-8409, email info@plymoutharts.org or visit www.plymoutharts.org.
Claudette Lee-Roseland will be the judge for the show. Lee-Roseland is a long-time arts educator and professional artist who has served on the boards of Wisconsin Visual Artists, Wisconsin Designer Craft Council and the Cedarburg Artists’ Guild. She works from Cedarburg in acrylics, oils, encaustic and occasionally metals.
The show will open Friday, Dec. 4, with a festive reception from 4:30-8 p.m. with live music and complimentary appetizers. The show runs through Friday, Jan. 22.
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Votes For Women!
The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women)
By Jenni Murray
LIST PRICE: AU$ 14.99
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor
They terrorised the establishment.
They fought for the vote.
They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world.
For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the franchise was finally extended to women, here is a selection of suffragette and suffragist activists and pioneering MPs from the pages of Jenni Murray’s bestselling A History of Britain in 21 Women. Set against the backdrop of a world where equality is still to be achieved, it is a vital reminder of the great women who fought for change.
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (February 5, 2018)
‘Celebrates the defiant spirit of Britain’s groundbreaking heroines’
– Daily Mail
‘The perfect introduction to the female pioneers who spearheaded the women’s movement and the fight for women’s suffrage.’
– Vintage Life
Book Cover Image (jpg): Votes For Women!
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NASA astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon land safely back on Earth
JC Torres - Aug 2, 2020, 8:27pm CDT
With everything that’s happening here on Earth, many people are looking upward for hope, and not just in the metaphorical sense. Space has always sparked the imagination as humanity’s next frontier and perhaps final hope and history will mark this day as another milestone in that ongoing journey. After successfully carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station, the collaboration between NASA and SpaceX saw the successful and safe return of the same astronauts onboard the world’s first commercially built and operated spacecraft, the Crew Dragon.
It feels almost like yesterday when that Crew Dragon made that historic launch that brought NASA’s Robert “Bob” Behnken and Douglas “Doug” Hurley to the ISS. The two spent a total of 64 days in orbit and have bagged their own firsts and top marks in space travel and science history. Behnken, in particular, now has the third most spacewalking time among US astronauts, having spent 61 hours and 10 minutes spacewalking in total.
As of August 3, 2020, at 2:48 pm EDT, they were also the first American astronauts since 1975 to make a splashdown, with the Crew Dragon, nicknamed “Endeavor”, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The two astronauts have immediately flown back to Houston and the spacecraft is making its journey back to SpaceX’s Dragon Lair in Florida for inspection and processing of the vehicle’s data.
That last bit is, of course, critical for SpaceX’s ambitions and commercial profitability. The Demo-2 mission is a test of the safety and viability of using commercial spacecraft in ferrying NASA astronauts to and from the Space Station. Whether the same Crew Dragon capsule will be fit for reuse is still to be determined but that is the long-term goal, after all.
If SpaceX gets NASA’s certification, which is expected to take about six weeks, it will be preparing for its mission dubbed the Crew-1. Scheduled sometime in September, it will be the first operational mission that will carry not two but six astronauts to the ISS and bring them back home safely.
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Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie`s History of Twentieth-Century France
by Bonnie G. Smith
Bonnie Smith here tells Madame Lucie's colorful life history, first by skillfully recording the concierge's reminiscences and then by describing her own... Read more
observations as a participant in Madame Lucie's world. The overall effect is an unusual, richly textured image of modern France as it was experienced by a figure of the working class. Madame Lucie's life and her memories—moving, engrossing, entertaining—are a valuable source of insight into French culture and society. As she herself says early in the book, "What I'm telling is the history of France."
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Leadership, Management
Kids these days! Entrepreneurship the key to addressing youth unemployment
Kye White
Implementing policies which encourage entrepreneurship would help raise the quality of jobs for youth in Australia, according to Ernst and Young global vice chair of strategic growth markets, Maria Pinelli.
Australia’s relative strength in comparison to other G20 countries is its ability to create jobs for youth, she says, but when it comes to the quality of those jobs, Australia scores a six out of 10.
On Thursday, Ernst and Young released ‘Avoiding a lost generation – ten key recommendations to support youth entrepreneurship across the G20’. The report details schemes in place across the G20 and provided ten recommendations governments can take up to encourage entrepreneurship.
“What could be really valuable here is to continue to sustain economic performance, but grow a competitive advantage, and create a stronger skills gap,” she says.
“And there are plenty of opportunities to do that and transform to a digital economy, or a knowledge economy.
“Your education system is quite good, we could probably implement more policies that push education to the types of education that promote digital entrepreneur startups.”
Pinelli says there’s a number of things Australia is already doing right in this space, including Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnerships, but there’s also room for improvement on issues like improving employee-share ownership schemes, and Australia’s venture capital market in general.
“There seems to be a lack of early stage angel capital and VC capital in Australia, and I think that’s a great opportunity,” she says.
“However I truly do believe capital without mentorship is lost capital.”
In addition she believes Australia’s culture of entrepreneurship needs to be strengthened.
“I think it’s really important that entrepreneurship is not only embedded in the business disciplines,” she says.
“Even in areas like the arts, I think there’s an interesting mix there with the creative economy, together with entrepreneurship, which can be really powerful together.
“Anything that can be done in early education is really important as well. The earlier the better. You want to build an entrepreneurial culture, one where it is aspired to as a potential career option.
“Why not aspire to something entrepreneurial? I think that would be very helpful.”
Currently youth unemployment across the G20 countries sits at 16% and Pinelli says encouraging entrepreneurship is key to reducing that figure.
“Fostering a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem is one of the best ways to deal with youth unemployment, thanks to the large number of jobs that entrepreneurs create and the path to fulfilment that starting a business can offer young people,” she says.
Pinelli stresses that there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and issues are best tackled on a country-by-country basis. But she does point to ten general recommendations put forward by the paper as ways in which G20 countries can encourage entrepreneurship.
Creating funding mechanisms, either government- run or government-backed, that make mentorship and financial education a condition of funding;
Create strong relationships, and provide incentives, with venture capitalists, incubators and business angels to develop or create initiatives that enable alternative sources of capital;
Sponsor startup growth with low cost funding for targeted groups;
Create a new class of loan for small businesses and young entrepreneurial firms that offer targeted funding to meet expansion capital needs;
Encourage investment in startups by offering tax benefits;
Encourage top international talent by changing visa rules and offering funding support;
Simplify and streamline tax administration to ease administrative burdens on young entrepreneurs;
Create a positive narrative around entrepreneurship to help engage people from an early age;
Encourage and foster hubs, incubators, accelerators and networks to bring relevant talent together; and
Create the foundation for a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem to flourish.
The recommendations will be presented at the G20 Youth Entrepreneurship summit in Sydney between July 18 and 21, and fed into the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane in November.
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Kasich follows through on veto threat for Ohio clean energy standards
Author Annalee Armstrong
As promised, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has vetoed a bill that would have weakened the state's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, ending a two-year-long freeze on the standards and clearing the way for them to be reinstated as of Jan. 1, 2017.
Explaining the reasoning behind his decision, Kasich said the bill would have threatened energy generation options in the state, including those most prized by high tech firms seeking to create jobs and expand businesses. The bill also would have dealt a blow to successful efforts to help businesses and homeowners reduce energy costs through increased efficiency, the governor explained. Citing information from the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Kasich said energy efficiency investments made between 2009 and 2012 yielded $1.03 billion in savings and will result in $4.15 billion over their lifetime. Those investments were made thanks to the state's existing energy efficiency standards, and Kasich noted that the bill "sidelines some energy options at a time when Ohio can already meet many renewable energy generation standards in current law."
"The administration stands ready to work with the General Assembly to advance strategies for helping ensure competitive energy costs," Kasich wrote in his veto message, dated Dec. 22 and released Dec. 27. "Ohio workers cannot afford to take a step backward from the economic gains that we have made in recent years, however, and arbitrarily limiting Ohio's energy generation options amounts to self-inflicted damage to both our state's near- and long-term economic competitiveness."
The bill vetoed by Kasich has been revised several times since it was introduced in the General Assembly in May. Initially, Rep. Ron Amstutz proposed to continue a freeze on the state's renewable energy and solar energy benchmarks for investor-owned utilities at 2014 levels through at least 2027 while eliminating specific peak demand reduction and energy efficiency benchmarks. The bill approved Dec. 9 by the House, however, would have lifted the freeze but made compliance voluntary through 2020. The bill also would have required utilities to meet state benchmarks beginning in 2019.
The veto announcement was met with cheers from energy efficiency and renewable power supporters. Advanced Energy Economy Vice President for State Policy J.R. Tolbert heralded Kasich's "principled leadership."
"Governor Kasich understands that renewable energy and energy efficiency create jobs and save money. That's a formula that is good for business and good for every Ohioan," Tolbert said.
Ohio AEE Chapter President Ted Ford said the freeze has cost the state jobs and investments. "In the last three years, while Ohio has been idling, Michigan has attracted over $1.1 billion in renewable energy investments," Ford said. "With this veto, Ohio can begin to move forward with sensible energy policy next year — one that can bring back advanced energy jobs and investment to Ohio."
State Sen. Bill Seitz, who supported the bill, said Kasich's veto decision "disrespects the legislative process" the governor himself supported when he agreed to establish the commission that ultimately recommended the standards be frozen indefinitely. Seitz said the legislature attempted to meet Kasich halfway with the revisions to the bill reinstating the standards on a voluntary basis, and the proposed changes would have tried "a goals-based approach for two years to prove that statist mandates are not necessary to achieve a cleaner energy future."
The legislature could override the veto with a three-fifths majority vote; however, AEE noted that the bill, HB 554, did not receive that level of support when it was approved by both the House and Senate.
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Lorries again diverted past Uttoxeter homes during more overnight A50 closures
Diversion route remains same as last time
Scores of lorries are again set to roll past people's houses during more overnight closures of the A50 in Uttoxeter.
Safety equipment which allowed a new A50 bridge to be worked on for three months without affecting traffic flow on the dual carriageway will now be removed during the closures.
The bridge is a key part of a new junction west of town that will serve the 700-home Bramshall Meadows development and improve traffic flow.
Huge steel beams being put in place as part of a project to build a new bridge on the A50 in Uttoxeter
Staffordshire County Council bosses, who are managing the scheme on behalf of Highways England, say improving the bridge will support job creation and improve safety.
However, while the safety equipment is retrieved, diversions will drive traffic through the heart of town for five nights.
It will see a repeat of the closures earlier this year that saw homeowners in Ashbourne Road complain drivers were ignoring the signposted diversion and keeping them awake at night by driving past their homes.
Drivers were coming off the Little Chef roundabout, up Ashbourne Road and New Road, then heading towards Tean on the "old A50" route.
However, an Ashbourne Road resident, who asked not to be named, said they did not anticipate sleepless nights this time around.
She said: "To be honest, we don't think it's going to be nearly as bad, because we'll be able to close our windows to keep the noise out. Last time, it was the middle of summer and you had a choice of the road noise or the heat keeping you awake.
"But we're confident it'll be ok this time as all the traffic was coming up here when a lorry fire closed the A50 on Friday night and it was fine with the windows closed.
Music teacher set to lose home as A50 revamp plan uncertainty rumbles on
"Obviously, we hope people will stick to the diversion, as it may cause a problem on New Road, where there are a lot of parked cars, meaning there's not a lot of room for lorries using both sides of the road."
County council economy boss Mark Winnington said: "This safety equipment has allowed workers to do their job quickly and efficiently over the last three months, while keeping the A50 running safely underneath without any problems. However it's time to remove the equipment, so we're doing it overnight to reduce the disruption to the public."
Amazing time-lapse video shows colossal spine of new A50 bridge being put in place
On Monday, October 23 and Tuesday, October 24, the A50 will be closed westbound, along with the outside lane of the eastbound carriageway.
On Wednesday, October 25, Thursday, October 26 and Friday, October 27, the road will shut eastbound, along with the outside lane of the westbound carriageway. The closures will be from 8pm until 5.30am between the Blythe Bridge and Little Chef roundabouts.
A county council spokesman said: "The diversion route will be the same for vehicles travelling in both directions. From the east, traffic will be diverted northwards from the A50 at Uttoxeter on to the B5030 for a few hundred yards to the roundabout with the A518.
"Traffic will turn right there, cross back over the A50 along The Dove Way and continue on the A518 clockwise around Uttoxeter and follow the road towards Stafford.
"Vehicles will then follow the A51 and A34 towards Stoke-on-Trent, before joining the A500 and then the A50 to Blythe Bridge."
The Shell petrol station near the B5030 roundabout will open as normal and access will be maintained at all times via the A522.
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Home > Why Romania? > About Romania >
Welcome to Romania!
Romania is situated in the South-Eastern part of Central Europe and shares borders with Hungary to the North-West, Serbia to the South-West, Bulgaria to the South, the Black Sea to the South-East, Ukraine to the East and North and the Republic of Moldova to the East.
Lying at the crossroads of the major routes between the Western and Eastern world, Romania has always played an important geopolitical role for the stability of the whole continent. With a surface area of 238,391 square km, Romania’s geographical size ranks 12th in Europe and 79th in the world. Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union, with some 20 million people living within the country borders.
The capital of Romania is Bucharest, with a population of more than 2 million.
Authentic, Natural and Cultural are the three words that best describe the country, a place rich in history, arts and scenic beauty.
Romania's landscape is almost evenly distributed between mountains (31%), hills (33%), and plains (36%). These varied landforms spread rather symmetrically from the Carpathian Mountains, reaching over 2,400 m altitude (maximum altitude - the Moldoveanu Peak of 2,544 m), to the Danube Delta and the Black Sea coast.
- The Official Tourism Site of Romania;
- A complete guide to Discover Romania;
- How much did you know about Romania – video;
Climate [more]
Temperate climate, four distinct seasons with 210 sunny days per year, people enjoy the beauty of all seasons in Romania.
Spring is very pleasant with cool mornings and nights and sunny days. Temperature can vary during the day between 6 degrees Celsius in the morning and 20 in the afternoon.
Summer is quite warm, with extended sunny days. The hottest areas in summer are the lowlands in Southern and Eastern Romania where 35 degrees Celsius are often reached in July and August. The low level of humidity makes the temperatures rather bearable for the most part. Temperatures are always cooler in the mountains.
Autumn is dry and cool, with fields and trees producing colorful scenery. September, especially, is one of the best months to visit the country due to pleasant weather and lower prices for accommodation.
Winter there are significant differences between various regions of Romania. It can be cold, especially in the mountains. While not the rule, abundant snowfalls may occur throughout the country, from December to first half of March. Snow cover is continuous at higher altitudes from early December through early April.
- http://romaniatourism.com/climate.html
- http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/climate/Romania.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Romania
Culture and traditions [more]
The name "Romania" which was first used when the three regions of the country were united in 1859, reflects the influence of ancient Rome on the nation's language and culture. The three regions—Walachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania—are relatively culturally uniform. There is a significant Hungarian community in Transylvania (approx. 7% of the Romanian population), which has its own language and traditions. Also, ethnic Roma represent approximately 3.3% of the total population of Romania according to the 2011 census.
Interesting facts about Romanian culture:
• Ethnic make-up: Romanian 88.92%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 3.29%, Ukrainian 0.27%, German 0.19%, Russian 0.12%, Turkish 0.15%, other 0.10% (2011).
• The official language is Romanian (1,700 years old), spoken by approximately 89% of the population. It is a Latin language while belonging to the Balkan sprachbund. Hungarian is spoken by around 7% of the population, mainly in Transylvania. There is also a population of German speakers in Transylvania who make up around 1.5% of the national population. Other languages spoken especially in the East and South East part of the country are: Aromanian, Turkish, Greek and Russian.
• While Orthodox Christianity is the largest religionus, there are large and thriving Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Muslim, Jewish and Atheist minorities.
• Sibiu city – named European Capital of Culture in 2007. Contains numerous medieval and early modern buildings. It includes the Brukenthal museum, which was founded three years prior to the Louvre Museum in Paris and is one the first museums in Europe. Sibiu also includes one of the largest museums dedicated to historic rural life in Europe.
• The oldest cave drawings in Central and Eastern Europe were found recently in Romania’s Coliboaia cave. Discovered by chance during a routine expedition in a very remote area in Apuseni National Park, the 13 drawings, which represent animals such as rhinos, buffalos, horses and cats, are approximately 32,000 years.
• Inside the old Turda Salt Mines (Salina Turda) located in Transylvania, stands the world's largest salt mine museum.
• The modernist "Dada" movement (Dadaism) of the 1920s was co-founded by Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Iancu.
• On March 1st Romanians celebrate the beginning of spring in a unique way by offering and wearing "Martisor" (small trinket attached to a red/ white lace - red for love and white for honesty), a tradition that it is said to have originated in Roman times.
• Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci was the first to achieve a perfect routine and get the first score of 10.00 in the history of gymnastics, during the Olympics in Montreal (1976). Other Romanian famous sports performers are: Gheorghe Hagi, Ilie Nastase, Ion Tiriac, Ivan Patzaichin, Lia Manoliu, Iolanda Balas, Simona Halep, Gabriela Szabó.
• The world's first industrial oil refinery opened at Ploieşti (Southern Romania) in 1857. Oil was exploited commercially in Romania since 1857.
• Romanians are known for hospitality and generosity. Guests are always offered food and drinks. Men indicate their respect for women by a tip of the hat, a kiss on the hand, or standing to offer them a seat. It is also customary for younger people to defer to their elders. As well, the customary greeting when friends meet is kissing on both cheeks.
Traditions are preserved in rural areas more than in the big cities. Some of the traditions include: the art of painting eggs around Easter time, pottery, wood carving, textile handicraft, folk masks, glass artistry which is believed to date back to the Roman Empire.
- http://www.romania.travel/en/page/history-and-culture
Food [more]
Breakfast is usually salty and comprised of eggs and sandwiches with butter and meat, only sometimes pastry or jam accompanied by coffee or tea. Many kinds of meat are consumed in the country: veal, chicken, turkey, rabbit, fish and pork. The largest meal is eaten in the early afternoon – two main courses and usually the first one is soup. ‘Mititei’, grilled sausage seasoned with garlic, is a common appetizer. Borsch, cabbage soup with bran, or ciorba, a soup of lamb, mushrooms, and other meats and vegetables, is often served as a first course. Main dishes are usually meat-based, such as tocana, a pork stew flavoured with garlic and onions. Other popular dishes include sarmale-cabbage leaves stuffed with rice and meat, and mamaliga (polenta), a cornmeal dish often served with poached eggs. Vegetables are served as side dishes, except for Christian lent when a variety of vegetable - based dishes are usually served in every restaurant or household.
Typical desserts include “plăcinte”, a kind of pie using either salty or sweet ingredients or ‘Papanasi’ – a kind of donut accompanied with jam and sour cream – simply delicious!
We also have a variety of local drinks. For example, a particularly delicious and refreshing juice is prepared from elderberry flowers. It is also common to drink grape juice (or must) during the autumn harvest. Local wines are widely consumed and deemed very good, with a lot of small vineyards starting to gain international notoriety in recent years. Romania is the 9th largest wine producer in the world with very good quality wine. Țuica and pălinca, a strong plum brandy, are also popular, as are beer and soft drinks.
For grocery shopping, big chain supermarkets are available in Romania, however for fresh and tasty veggies, the farmers markets are advisable.
- Discover our wine brands at http://www.crameromania.ro/en/wineries
- List of fresh veggies markets (Bucharest)
Public holidays [more]
- New Year's Day
- Unification Day January 24th
- Orthodox Easter
- Labour Day on May 1st
- Orthodox Pentecost (Rusaliile)
- Saint Mary’s Day on August 15th
- Saint Andrew on November 30th
- National Day on December 1st
- Christmas on the 25th and 26th of December
- http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/romania/
- http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/romania/
Music summer festivals [more]
- The George Enescu classical music festival is a multi-week international celebration which takes place in Bucharest during the month of September. It is part of Romania’s cultural brand, with over 20000 foreign visitors each year and major media coverage (BBC, CNN etc.). More information can be found at: http://festivalenescu.ro/en/
- Garana Jazz Festival is a 4 days, annual (starting from 1996, 19 editions) jazz festival, held in July, up in the West mountains (Garana - Poiana Lupului). More information can be found at: http://www.garana-jazz.ro/
- The Sighisoara Medieval Festival is a multi-day event, late in July, in the historic fortified town of Sighisoara, featuring costumes, music, dances, foods, crafts, games, and rituals from the Middle Ages
- Septemberfest is an annual three-day beer and music celebration held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, sponsored by Ursus Breweries, producer of one of Romania's top-selling brands of beer.
- B'ESTFEST is a 3-day multi-genre music festival held the first weekend in July at Tunari, Romania, in a large open field on the outskirts of Bucharest.
- The Transilvania International Guitar Festival is a six-day gathering in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, of guitar enthusiasts, both players and fans, held during early August.
- Summer Well held in August at Stirbey Castle (near Bucharest).
- More on music festivals in Romania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_festivals
Leisure and Sports [more]
Sports are popular in Romania, with strong national interest in football (soccer), tennis and gymnastics. Romania has a lot to offer to those of you interested in hiking, skiing and cycling. Cave exploration and canoeing are also popular local activities. Each major city in Romania has sports parks that offer you the possibility to jog, play tennis, ping-pong, basketball, or even to go ice skating indoors. Each City Hall displays on their website the list of parks.
If you decided to study in Bucharest, know that slate.fr magazine rated the city, the 2nd coolest city in Europe in 2012. The coolest city was chosen using several criteria, such as the price of beer, the number of students in the city and the number of neighbourhoods where tourists and residents can have fun.
Among other cities such as Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi, Sibiu, Brasov, Craiova, Constanta etc., Bucharest has a variety of possibilities for you to relax and enjoy your free time:
- For Bucharest (https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g294458-Activities-c57-t70-Bucharest.html), the major parks are: Herastrau, Cismigiu, Carol, Tineretului, Circului, Floreasca, Izvor.
- Night life and restaurants in the Old City centre:
- https://www.bucharest.guide/food-in-bucharest-what-to-eat-and-drink-here/
- https://www.inyourpocket.com/bucharest/Leisure
- Culture - more than 45 museums;
- Leisure and sports - please access the list of parks
Shopping [more]
Your shopping experience can be fun and rich in Romania. A complete list of shopping malls can be found here, displayed by cities.
- Complete list of shopping malls in Bucharest
- List of malls in Romania
URL: https://studyinromania.gov.ro/welcome_to_romania
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David Bailey SUMO Edition of 2,700
David Bailey SUMO Edition of 2,700 This item is ordered on demand and may take longer to ship. We still aim to dispatch these items within 10 days, sooner when possible but please contact customer care before ordering if you need this item urgently - we will do everything we can to help.
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In 1965, portrait and fashion photographer David Bailey released his groundbreaking book Box Of Pin-Ups, securing him as the hip tastemaker for 1960s London cool. With Mick Jagger his best man at his wedding to Catherine Deneuve, Bailey was also the inspiration for the classic movie Blow-Up. From the Swinging ’60s to the present day, Bailey has never stopped pushing the boundaries of his signature in-your-face portraiture and is widely regarded as one of the great postwar photographers.
This big book of Bailey is the culmination of an incredible career, the result of two years’ worth of research into his personal archives. Through penetrating pictures of the beautiful and the notorious, the idolized and the powerful, friends and family, writers, artists, and fellow photographers, Bailey presents a sweeping cultural history of the last 60 years. Featured subjects include Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, Kate Moss, Nelson Mandela, Francis Bacon, Zaha Hadid, the Rolling Stones, Jack Nicholson, Brigitte Bardot, Margaret Thatcher, and hundreds more.
As his friend Damien Hirst writes in the foreword: “He’s the master of his art and he’s created a mind-blowing visual language.” Additional text includes a three-part essay on Bailey’s portraiture by noted photography critic Francis Hodgson.
Limited to a total of 3,000 numbered and signed copies, each edition comes with a bookstand designed by Marc Newson and a set of four book jackets featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jean Shrimpton, Mick Jagger, and Andy Warhol.
The Collector’s Edition (No. 301–3,000) is limited to 2,700 copies. The four Art Editions of 75 copies each (No. 1–300) all come with separate prints signed by David Bailey.
London-born David Bailey (b. 1938) is widely acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of contemporary photography, having shot some of the most iconic portraits of the last six decades. Bailey’s early work helped both define and capture 1960s London, when he made stars of a new generation of models, including Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree. Bailey channeled the energy of London’s informal street culture to create a new style of casual coolness. Drawing inspiration from Modernism, he injected movement and immediacy into his work by using a very direct, cropped perspective. Bailey’s interests extend to commercials, film, painting, and sculpture.
Francis Hodgson is Professor in the Culture of Photography at the University of Brighton, U.K. For many years until 2015, he was the critic for The Financial Times and former head of photographs at Sotheby’s. In 2017, Hodgson received the J. Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society, given for photography criticism.
Benedikt Taschen is the founder and managing director of TASCHEN. He started his professional life at age 18 in a 25-square-meter store in his native Cologne, Germany, which he named TASCHEN COMICS. By the end of the 1980s, TASCHEN titles were available in over a dozen languages at prices that finally made art books affordable for students and collectors alike—still the publishing house’s credo to this day. Other SUMO titles he has published include: Helmut Newton, Salgado’s Genesis, David Hockney, The Greatest of All Time, The Rolling Stones and Annie Leibovitz. He lives in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Limited SUMO Edition. Hardcover, numbered and signed by David Bailey, 50 x 70 cm, 47 kg (103.4 lb), 440 pages, with a bookstand designed by Marc Newson. Each edition comes with a set of four book jackets featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Jean Shrimpton, Mick Jagger, and Andy Warhol
Bookstand Measurements
Distance between each leg: 86 cm (34 in.)
Platform: 78 x 62.5 cm (31 x 27 in.)
Height when positioned horizontally: 90 cm (35 in.)
Height when in display position: back 98 cm (39 in.), front 83 cm (33 in.)
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Families disappointed after reopening of Tooting children’s centre delayed again
The Triangle One O’Clock club was meant to reopen in April
By Kat Bawmwang
Families in Tooting say they feel let down by Wandsworth Council after the reopening of one of their children’s centres has been delayed for a second time.
The council reassured parents that the Triangle One O’Clock Club on Tooting Common would reopen in April after it was closed for renovation work in November last year.
When the work had still not been completed, Tooting MP Sadiq Khan pressed the council to take action until they replied that the club would open in July at the very earliest.
“Parents feel let down and frustrated by this latest development,” he said.
“Now they just want the council to be open and honest with them.”
Mr Khan had previously contacted the council in April and was told that the club would be re-opened for use in the summer term.
Newly elected Councillor Rosena Allin-Khan of Bedford Ward said the council’s lack of commitment to protecting children’s services was what inspired her to stand for council last month.
She said: “The club has long been a lifeline for local parents who are really struggling without it.”
As a mother of a toddler herself she is very concerned by the delay in the re-opening of the club and said she will be working closely with her fellow councillor to call for the Triangle to be reopened as soon as possible.
Alex Sykes, editor of Mumsnet Wandsworth (a website dedicated to families in the borough) also voiced her concern over the centre as many of the site’s members have expressed their disappointment that the refurbishment has overrun by months.
She said: “Local parents really hope that the Council will be able to stick to the latest date it has given for re-opening the centre, so that they and their children can enjoy it during the summer holidays.”
A spokesman from Wandsworth Council said they are dedicated to providing great child services in the borough and are currently working on expanding and improving them, especially in regards to services for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
They have invested £120,000 in the Triangle in order to provide it with new modern equipment as well as modifying the building to protect it from flood damage.
“What people in Tooting can look forward to is a much better, much brighter, much better equipped children’s centre,” he said.
He also suggested that local parents visit the council’s family information service on their website to help locate a ‘Stay and Play’ near them.
Mr Khan was also involved in the campaign to save the Windmill One O’Clock Club from closure in March last year.
Although the club was kept open, local parents were disappointed as the Windmill will only be open two afternoons a week even though they were promised afternoon and weekday sessions.
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Brasilia, Brazil: American School of Brasilia: 2020-2021 Fact Sheet
E-mail: admissions@eabdf.br | Website: www.eabdf.br
The American School of Brasilia (EAB) is a private, coeducational day school founded in 1961. It offers an educational program from K3 through grade 12 for students of all nationalities. The school year comprises two semesters extending from August 3 to December 11 and from January 11 to June 9.
Organization: A board of directors, composed of at least seven and at most 11 members serving two-year terms, governs the school. The board is self-perpetuating, with a standing committee responsible for nominating and training prospective candidates. Membership in the association is conferred on parents of children currently attending school or members of the EAB community. The school is administered by a head of school, lower, middle and high school principals, director of teaching and learning, Brazilian program director, technology director, admissions director, and business manager. The school is recognized and registered as a not-for-profit entity and is tax-exempt in Brazil. The school is fully accredited by the U.S. agency AdvancEd/Cognia, as well as the Brazilian Ministry of Education. The school is also an authorized IB World School (IBO) and a member of the following organizations: the Association of American Schools in South America (AASSA), the Association of American Schools of Brazil (AASB), and the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE).
Curriculum: The American School of Brasilia provides 3 diploma programs: U.S., Brazilian, and International Baccalaureate (IB) (Diploma Program for grades 11 and 12 only). The school’s K3-grade 12 academic programs are based on a comprehensive, college-preparatory curriculum taught in English to students of all nationalities. The school’s focus is on its mission, “Learners inspiring learners to be inquisitive in life, principled in character and bold in vision.” The learner profile states that learners are engaged, principled, collaborative, and contributing.
Faculty: For the 2020-2021 school year, there are 73 full-time and 5 part time teachers.
Enrollment: Enrollment for the 2020-2021 school year is 661 (K3-grade 5: 298; and grades 6-12: 363).
Facilities: The school occupies a five-acre campus with a panoramic view of Lake Paranoa. There are several interconnected buildings containing 63 classrooms, five science laboratories, two information commons, and a Center for the Arts. Three cafeterias and a canteen provide lunch and snacks. The sports facilities include an official-size soccer field, a fully equipped gymnasium, an additional covered basketball court, two outdoor courts, and two elementary playgrounds.
Finances: Approximately 81% of the school’s annual income is derived from tuition. Annual tuition rates are established in Brazilian Reais and are as follows: K3-K4 (full-day): $13,104; K5-grade 5: $14,421; grades 6-12: $15,450. For K3-grade 12, there is a nonrefundable application fee of $98. The international fee for guaranteed placement is $15,000 per year per student. (All fees quoted in U.S. dollars. Payment must be in Brazilian currency. The exchange rate used for the purpose of this document is U.S. $1=R$5.60.)
Brazil Office of Overseas Schools
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Aruba: International School of Aruba: 2020-2021 Fact Sheet
Tel: +297-583-5040 | Fax: +297-583-6020
E-mail: info@isaruba.com | Website: www.isaruba.com
The International School of Aruba (ISA) is a nonprofit, coeducational English-language, college preparatory, day school, enrolling approximately 165 students from PK-3 through grade 12. The school’s purpose-built campus is located in the Wayaca residence area across from the airport. First languages of our students primarily include English, Dutch, Spanish, Hindi and Papiamento.
Organization: ISA is governed by a 6-member board composed of representatives of International Schools Services, Princeton, New Jersey. The school is located in Aruba and is a nonprofit foundation.
Curriculum: The American-based curriculum is that of U.S. academic and college preparatory public schools. The program strives to enable its students to achieve their highest possible level of intellectual, social and personal development and includes Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Spanish, English, calculus, art history and studio art, human geography, European history, and world history. The maximum class size is 23. Instruction is in English, but students may also study native Spanish and native Dutch programs. Students in the secondary grades carry up to 8 courses through the school year. Most of ISA’s graduates go on to universities in the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. The school has been fully accredited by the AdvancED since 1990.
Faculty: During the 2020-2021 school year, there are 29 faculty members. In addition to the teaching staff, the faculty includes a school counselor, a librarian, an English-Language-Learner (ELL) specialist, a business manager, a business office assistant, and a U.S. trained, U.S. certified chief administrator. Most staff members have previous international experience in education and 60% have master’s degrees.
Enrollment: The school has 161 students from PreK-3 through grade 12. The student body represents 22 countries. The average class size is 14.
Facilities: The campus is designed to serve 250 students, with a new air-conditioned multi-purpose-built facility. The school grounds include an artificial turf soccer field, beach tennis courts, a playground and a volleyball/basketball court under a covered gymnasium, as well as four large gazebo shelters.
Finances: During the 2020-2021 school year, approximately 95% of the school’s income derived from tuition. Annual tuition rates are as follows: Montessori PK (½ day program) $8,999 Montessori (full-day program): $16,120; grades 1-6: $16,248; grades 7-8: $17,398; grades 9-12: $20,149. There is a one-time capital levy fee of $7,910. There is a (re)enrollment deposit of $1,412 and a one-time application fee of $57. A 5% surcharge is charged if a payment plan for tuition is selected. (All fees quoted in U.S. dollars.)
Aruba Office of Overseas Schools
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Welland Jr. Canadians opt to sit out 2020-21 junior-B hockey season
By Bernd FrankeRegional Sports Editor
Wed., Sept. 23, 2020timer2 min. read
The need to contain the spread of COVID-19 has prompted junior-B hockey’s Welland Jr. Canadians to take a year’s leave of absence.
Team owner Lou Savona’s request to sit out the 2020-21 Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League season was approved by the league’s board of governors in a meeting Tuesday night.
Savona, who is also the Jr. Canadians general manager, declined further comment until after an official announcement is released by the league.
In a written request to commissioner Mark Turk that was dated Monday, Savona said the team made the “difficult decision” to take a year off to “ensure the health and safety of the community, our players, employees and volunteers.”
“Public health officials continue to advise that social distancing is the most effective strategy to prevent the spread of the virus,” Savona wrote.
He said the Jr. Canadians, who are among six teams in the league’s Golden Horseshoe Conference based in Niagara Region, intend to return for the 2021-22 season.
They are the second team in the conference to receive a leave of absence since the pandemic cancelled the remainder of the junior-B playoffs, including the Sutherland Cup championship, in mid-March. Also spending next season on the sidelines are the Buffalo Regals, the league’s only team in the United States.
Niagara Falls Canucks owner-head coach Frank Pietrangelo, Pelham Panthers owner Tim Toffolo and St. Catharines Falcons general manager Frank Girhiny said Wednesday they are not reconsidering their plans to play in 2020-21 in the wake of Welland’s decision to take a year off.
Junior-B hockey hopes to play a 44-game regular season, down six games from past years, beginning on Dec. 2.
"I don’t really have much to say on the Welland decision. They have the right to do as they wish, and we look forward to seeing them the following season," Pietrangelo said. "It’s unchartered waters, so we’re all just doing the best we can, as safely as we can, adhering to provincial, municipal and Hockey Canada guidelines."
The revenue-driven league is lobbying the Ontario government to allow teams to play to 30 percent of arena capacity. A message left with Tuck on where the league is in those efforts has yet to be returned.
Welland became a charter member of the Golden Horseshoe junior-B league since 1979-80 when it won the league championship.
Bernd Franke is a St. Catharines-based journalist and the regional sports editor for the Standard, Tribune and Review. Reach him via email: bernd.franke@niagaradailies.com
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Teresa E. Gonczy
Consulting & Speaking
Teresa Elizabeth Gonczy is an entrepreneurial leader and enthusiastic educator, who is passionate about building communities and educational systems where kids and adults feel capable of creating their lives and changing the world. She has a special affinity for young children, and seeks to understand how our early experiences shape our lives. Her research interests are in the large-scale improvement of adult-child interaction quality - including parents, early childhood teachers, and other caregivers - using intervention design and program evaluation with an understanding of how learning happens for young children, how behavior change happens for adults, and how continuous improvement and radical change happens for organizations. Teresa is focused on bringing early learning research into innovative policies and practice, including systems building and workforce development.
Before her Masters in Education Policy and Management from Harvard, Teresa managed and directed successful educational & social enterprise projects and organizations for over ten years. She also has over six years experience teaching in a variety of settings, everything from high school math & science to sign language for babies to ballet & acroyoga.
Currently, Teresa is doing policy and research consulting around early childhood systems and capacity building. She is working with county-level and state-wide organizations, as well as academia, on a variety of projects, including advocacy, facilitation, strategic planning, data analysis, literature reviews, and writing. In addition to early childhood systems-level work, Teresa combines her passions for early learning and STEM education through sharing research-backed findings about early STEM learning at @earlymath. Teresa presents on early learning at national, regional, state, and local conferences, including the NAEYC 2015 Annual Conference, the MassAEYC 2016 Conference, the CAEYC 2015 & 2017 Annual Conference, the OregonAEYC 2017 Conference, the Head Start Region 9 Early STEM Institute 2014 & 2017, and the San Francisco Child Care Providers Association Annual Conference 2017.
Teresa recently completed a Masters degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with coursework in education policy, research, and leadership. Her particular focus was on early childhood quality improvement, policy analysis, and program evaluation. Teresa also consulted with the HGSE Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching to evaluate the implementation of the HGSE non-credit Special Topics Workshops. She gathered qualitative & quantitative measures through interviews, focus groups, & surveys; analyzed the data; and presented change recommendations, Besides classes, she was involved in managing multiple projects and events as the Officer of Academic Affairs for the HGSE Student Council, the Logistics Chair for the Student Research Conference, and the Founder of the HGSE Early Childhood Student Group. Over the summer before HGSE, she did a graduate internship in research and policy at the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood,
Before her mid-career masters to switch to systems-level work, Teresa owned and managed A Mother's Haven, a parent-child early learning center providing support, information, and community for over 2500 families a year in the San Fernando Valley area through prenatal classes, mommy&baby groups, interactive workshops, and special events. She also helped to start and was on the founding Board of Directors for Los Angeles Makerspace, a kid-friendly hackerspace in Downtown LA committed to exploring new ideas in a creative, collaborative environment for all ages. She was a mentor for the Thiel Foundation 20under20 Fellowship, which inspires some of the world’s most innovative young people, and helps them bring their ambitious ideas and projects to life.
Teresa enjoys planning and assisting at events, creating communities of innovative thinkers. She has helped with the organization and promotion of the BIL Conference since 2012, and has volunteered with Maker Faire, Hack the Future, Design for Dance, Singularity Summit, Humanity+, Personalized Life Extension, MindshareLA, Thiel Under20 Summit, Health Extension Salon, Women2.0, Being Human, MIND Research Math Fair, STEAM Carnival, Chicago Ideas Week, and CommunitiesSquared. Teresa has also spoken at the ABC Spring Show on using events & classes to drive traffic and revenue, at the Thiel Summits on identifying and serving your ideal customer, at the Silicon Beach Fest on making educational technology more hands-on, and at CommunitiesSquared on creating family-friendly intentional communities.
Teresa graduated early from high school with honors to attend California Institute of Technology (Caltech), but soon realized that as much as she loves math & science, she didn't want to be in a lab or behind a computer every day. She finished her bachelors degree at University of California - San Diego in Cognitive Science, studying how we develop from one cell to become thinking, speaking, emoting, creating beings. While still at UCSD, Teresa bought her first business: Applause Dancewear. Over the next three years, she doubled revenues through extraordinary customer service, collaborative partnerships with local dance studios, and expanded marketing & special events.
After selling Applause Dancewear, Teresa completed an in-depth case study of the cognitive, emotional, and physical development of one baby boy from 6-18 month old ... aka she was his fabulous nanny! Then Teresa assisted the two co-founders of Innovations Academy to get their charter elementary school started and running smoothly through the first year. She was particularly excited about Innovations because of its commitment to inquiry-based, curiosity-led learning through establishing an environment where students feel encouraged to explore and create.
Over the course of launching and building these organizations, Teresa has always been teaching and educating all ages. She began at Caltech teaching adult dance classes and organizing a summer program for Creative Movement for Preschoolers. Then Teresa tutored elementary school children in math, reading, and science at SCORE Educational Centers, while taking early childhood education classes and tutoring in the Math Resource Center at Pasadena City College. Later in San Diego, Teresa taught dance for preschoolers, elementary students, and adults at the Ray & Joan Kroc Center. While at UCSD, she was the TA for COGS 18: Intro to Programming for Cognitive Science. After graduating, Teresa worked with High Bluff Academy in Del Mar for over five years, where she developed curriculum & taught classes in chemistry, algebra II, and precalculus as well as one-on-one courses for credit in algebra II, geometry, precalculus, statistics, biology, chemistry, physics, & child development psychology, and also tutored all levels of high school math & science and SAT/ACT prep. At Innovations Academy, Teresa taught algebra II and beginning programming to the advanced eighth-grade students. More recently, Teresa has instructed classes in sign language for babies, tiny dancer for toddlers, mommy&baby yoga, and prenatal yoga at A Mother's Haven Educational Center, and she also lead partner acroyoga and blues dancing workshops at the BIL Conference.
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Contact Teresa at teresaeg at gmail
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How to Spend $24,000 on Takeout as Prime Minister of Israel
The impressive figure is all the more stunning since Benjamin Netanyahu has a live-in chef. But isn't this—no pun intended—sort of small potatoes?
David A. Graham
Baz Ratner/Reuters
$68,000 over two years for makeup and hairstyling.
$1,000 in bottle-deposit refunds.
$20,000 in cleaning costs.
And perhaps most impressively, $24,000 for takeout in one year.
Those numbers are part of the "October surprise" in Israel's election, which will take place on March 17. They come from a report by the state comptroller released Tuesday, and they detail spending by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara.
The impressive takeout figures—an average of $66 every day—are all the more stunning since Netanyahu has a live-in chef. But isn't the outrage overblown? After all, this is a country that faces what some analysts describe as an existential threat from Iran; a raging debate about national character; a fraying relationship with the United States; and an ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
But no—this is front-page news in Israel. It's a case study in how even the smallest of scandals can become a media circus—a phenomenon Americans are well acquainted with. Comptroller Joseph Shapira's recommendations are notably muted: "In light of the large cleaning costs, the [prime minister's office] should examine ... their prudence and act to avoid unnecessary expenditures," he wrote. Once society is obsessed with any appearance of corruption, as Jonathan Rauch has noted, even the least important or minor controversies can explode into full-blown national debates.
Some media commentators are sheepish about the whole thing. The Washington Post quotes Maariv columnist Ben Caspit: "It is embarrassing even to write about this. But it can’t be helped, this is what there is, and it’s ours." Others feel no such compunctions, such as Haaretz's Yossi Verter, who rails against "an unbridled, hedonistic waste of public funds on catered meals, in gross violation of regulations; huge sums spent on cleaning the private villa in Caesarea that is usually uninhabited; mind-boggling outlays on make-up and hairdressing."
The numbers may be large, but serious, criminal incidents of corruption in Israeli politics are well within memory. Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, was convicted on bribery and "breach of trust" charges and is serving time in prison. Former President Moshe Katsav is also behind bars after convictions for rape and obstruction of justice.
Still, there are some reasons this "scandal" has stung Netanyahu in particular. For one, it's not the first time he's been caught with his hands in the cookie jar—so to speak. Nearly two years ago, he was revealed to have a $2,700 per annum budget for ice cream (pistachio for the PM; French vanilla for his wife). The flap brought with it a heaping serving of puns—"Netanyahu freezes bloated ice cream budget," Haaretz smirked, while The Guardian spotted a "meltdown"; The New York Times went with the more understated mention of "dipping into state coffers"—and a promise from Netanyahu to control his spending.
Netanyahu's camp apparently poured fuel on the fire of the comptroller's report over the weekend, releasing a video walk-through of the prime minister's house, intended to prove that his family lived in shabby squalor rather than grandiose luxury. As The Washington Post notes, that didn't fool many people, and it became clear that the dingy kitchen portrayed was really a servants' galley, not the real kitchen.
Of course, opulence is a bad look for any politician, especially in a country struggling, like the United States, with income inequality. In the last election, Yair Lapid's new Yesh Atid party won 19 seats campaigning against inequality, at Netanyahu's expense. The prime minister's spending has already been a campaign issue this time around, too. New billboards have attacked him with slogans like, "He buys 10,000 shekels worth of ice cream, and you don't have money for cottage cheese. Only a sucker votes Netanyahu."
A better question might be what the appropriate level of spending by a national leader is. Last year, the White House received $19,000 for receptions and $12.7 million for operating expenses; depending on who you ask, that is either completely outrageous or simply the price of doing business. The Times of Israel's Haviv Rettig Gur sees the scandal as growing out of the political history of the nation:
The complaint against Netanyahu resonates in Israeli politics because of a cultural expectation set by past generations. The leaders of left and right in the first decades after Israel’s founding, David Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin, lived modestly. After his premiership, Begin retired to a humble southern Jerusalem apartment. ... They were not leaders who might be caught charging thousands of shekels a month for gourmet ice cream to the Israeli taxpayer.
But the March election is shaping up as largely a referendum on Netanyahu and not about much else, as Gur notes. The prime minister's Likud party seems to have a small edge in polling so far. As long as Netanyahu's personality is the focus, his opponents will try to make the expenditure report a costly error for him. After all, it's already been costly for Israeli taxpayers.
David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
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Microsoft tests submarine data centres
Microsoft has announced a new research project which involves moving some of its data centre capacity underwater, examining the environmental benefits and cost effectiveness of subsea servers.
The concept behind Project Natick was first explored three years ago in a white paper penned by a Microsoft employee who had experience of Navy submarine technologies. A team began developing a physical prototype in 2014 and last year a server – measuring around eight feet in diameter – was installed off the coast of California. It lasted for 105 days, which was a lot longer than the scientists had predicted.
“When I first heard about this I thought, ‘Water … electricity, why would you do that?’” said Microsoft computer designer Ben Cutler. “But as you think more about it, it actually makes a lot of sense.” Cutler referred to the cooling advantages, as well as the logistical benefits of the idea. Microsoft noted that nearly 50% of the world’s population resides close to large bodies of water, meaning that submarine data centre capacity would be available near major residential areas and able to meet the huge data requirements in these locations.
The tech giant also added that the subsea servers would allow for rapid provisioning – taking just 90 days to deploy, as opposed to years for land-based centres. It argued that this could enable fast response to shifts in market demand, natural disasters and special events, such as World Cups.
Microsoft further claimed that the Natick data centres are be emission-free, and able to power themselves using renewable energy resources.
Answering concerns over maintenance and engineering issues, Microsoft added: ‘With the end of Moore’s Law, the cadence at which servers are refreshed with new and improved hardware in the data center is likely to slow significantly. We see this as an opportunity to field long-lived, resilient data centers that operate “lights out” – nobody on site – with very high reliability for the entire life of the deployment, possibly as long as 10 years.’
Leona Philpot, the name of Project Natick’s first prototype, contained a single rack installed inside a container filled with nitrogen. Over a hundred sensors were used to monitor underwater conditions, including humidity, pressure and motion, both inside and outside of the capsule.
The team’s next challenge is to develop a server three times the size of Leona, with trials due to start over the next year.
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Trump Won't Tell Americans How Many Troops He Is Risking
The president’s secrecy about deployments to war zones is hiding the extent of his broken promises.
Conor Friedersdorf
Joshua Roberts / Reuters
This month, the U.S. military has engaged opposing forces in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, where President Trump intends to send more troops in coming weeks.
Trump campaigned on the promise that he would seize power from globalist usurpers in Washington, D.C., and return it to the people, spending their tax dollars rebuilding America rather than investing blood and treasure in faraway war zones. Among populists, this project was sold as a return to “America First” thinking. Intellectuals in the orbit of the Claremont Institute saw it as part of an effort to rein in the administrative state. But eight months into Trump’s presidency, his administration has effectively abandoned “America First,” empowered the administrative state by ceding decision-making to generals, and undermined a basic means of democratic accountability by hiding what it is doing from the public.
In his speech unveiling his plan for Afghanistan, Trump declared, “We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities. Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.” As John M. Donnelly observed, “In framing the issue this way, Trump conflated three things that are distinctly different: disclosing military plans; announcing deadlines for withdrawal; and informing Americans how many of their family members will be sent into harm’s way.”
The public deserves to know how many Americans will be sent into harm’s way. Troop deployments should always be part of ongoing debate in a representative democracy.
At the very least, Trump owes the public accurate information about how many troops are fighting now, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, or beyond. As Representative Adam Schiff argued, secrecy “deprives the American people of the information they need to determine whether another escalation is taking place and the ability to hold their elected officials accountable for the results.”
The refusal to disclose the scale of new deployments compounds an existing lack of transparency about the number of troops deployed to combat zones. As Politico notes, “Caps on troop levels in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria mandated by the Obama administration have led to an elaborate Pentagon accounting system that conceals thousands of troops from the public.” And it goes on to report that “the discrepancy, which has come under new scrutiny amid leaks about actual troop levels, has led Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to review the policy and promise to offer more accurate official numbers. But after Trump announced this week that his administration will not talk about troop numbers, Mattis’s initiative is in doubt.”
Trump’s actions are not surprising. As I noted before the election, his campaign rhetoric masked the fact that he has often been more hawkish than the Washington establishment; and as Daniel Larison presciently argued, Trump’s lack of foreign-policy experience and aversion to studying any issue enough to be informed predictably made him even more reliant on defense establishment advice than bygone presidents.
Still, Trump misled his supporters about his approach to foreign conflicts, and the fact that he is now trying to keep troop levels a secret only underscores that he has perpetrated a betrayal worth concealing.
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MAISIE JOHNSON
Maisie Johnson is a 17 year old country/folk singer-songwriter from south west London. Having known that she wanted to be a performer since she can remember, she started writing songs and teaching herself to play guitar at age 12 and started performing aged 14. She has since also taught herself to play the mandolin, banjo, ukulele and charango. "The Beginning", a live EP of original songs recorded at The Basement Door in Richmond with her sister Alice, was released in July 2016. After going solo and joining forces with percussionist Sam Thyr in January 2017, Maisie released a new EP "Sixteen" on December 1st 2017 which peaked at #3 on the UK iTunes country album chart on the day of its release.
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David A. Shindoll All Obituaries
DAVID A. SHINDOLL
Lake Barrington, Ill.
David A. Shindoll, 58, of Lake Barrington, beloved husband, father and friend, died Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after a long, bravely fought battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Dave was born on June 20, 1962, in Iowa City, Iowa, to Arden and the late Nancy (Timmons) Shindoll. Beloved husband and high school sweetheart of Lynne (Roby) Shindoll for 36 years; together they proudly raised two beautiful daughters, Katharine (Dan) Hollars of Chicago and Allison Shindoll of Issaquah, Wash. Their marriage and family life was an example of love and commitment to all who knew them. Dave received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Iowa State University and a Master of Science degree in hydrology from the University of Iowa.
A civil engineer and partner at Mackie Consultants for more than 25 years, Dave was passionate about his work, committed to his team and co-workers, and greatly respected by his clients. He also was happy and proud to serve many years on the Arlington Heights Special Events Commission, participate as a member of the Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, teach confirmation at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, serve as chief of his daughters' Indian Princess group, and document travels with his family.
Dave leaves a legacy of honesty, kindness, humility, and loyal friendship for all who knew him. In addition to his wife and children, Dave is also survived by father, Arden Shindoll of Marion, Iowa; sister, Diane Gonzalez of Sarasota, Fla.; and brother, Steve Shindoll of Creston, Iowa.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a celebration of his life will be held in summer 2021.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be given to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Condolences can be sent to www.glueckertfh.com.
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OpinionPesticides
What the pesticides in our urine tell us about organic food
Kendra Klein and Anna Lappé
A study helps answer a question many of us ask when deciding whether to buy organic food: does it really make a difference?
A study shows that eating organic can dramatically decrease the pesticides you’re exposed to. Photograph: Dave Martin/AP
Fri 15 Feb 2019 09.02 EST
Last modified on Fri 15 Feb 2019 09.45 EST
When Andreina Febres, a mother of two living in Oakland, California, signed up for a study evaluating whether an organic diet could make a difference in the amount of pesticides found in her body, she didn’t know what researchers would find. But her family, and the three others across the country that participated, would discover that they all had detectable levels of the pesticides being tracked. They would also discover that after only six days on an organic diet, every single person would see significant drops in those pesticides, including several linked to increased risk of autism, cancer, Parkinson’s, infertility, and other significant impacts on health.
“It’s good to see that just after a week there was a dramatic drop,” Febres said after seeing the results. “I would love to get those pesticides out of my body and my family’s bodies.”
This just-published peer-reviewed study helps answer a question many of us ask when deciding whether to reach for the conventional or organic option at the store: does organic really make a difference? The results say yes, a big difference. Choosing organic can protect you from exposure to toxic pesticides.
Does organic really make a difference? The results say yes, a big difference
This study, led by researchers at University of California, Berkeley and Friends of the Earth, and co-authored by one of us, tracked pesticide levels in four families from across the country for two weeks. The first week, the families ate their typical diets of non-organic food; the following week, they ate completely organic. Urine samples taken over the course of the study were tested for pesticides and the chemicals pesticides break down into, called metabolites.
The results? Of the 14 chemicals tested, every single member of every family had detectable levels. After switching to an organic diet, these levels dropped dramatically. Levels across all pesticides dropped by more than half on average. Detectable levels for the pesticide malathion, a probable human carcinogen according to the World Health Organization, decreased a dramatic 95% .
Malathion was just one of the pesticides found in this study that are part of a group called organophosphates, which have long concerned public health experts because of their impact on children’s developing brains. Created as nerve agents in World War II, organophosphates have been linked to increased rates of autism, learning disabilities, and reduced IQ in children. The organophosphate chlorpyrifos, found in all of the family members, is so worrisome to public health that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) planned to ban it in 2017 – a proposal dropped by the Trump administration. In the wake of inaction from the administration, Hawaii passed the first state level chlorpyrifos ban in 2018; and Representative Nydia Velázquez introduced a federal bill to ban it.
This brings us back to the case for organic. When you choose organically-grown products, you’re guaranteed they were not grown with chlorpyrifos or the roughly 900 synthetic pesticides allowed in non-organic agriculture. Many of these pesticides are now understood to cause cancer, affect the body’s hormonal systems, disrupt fertility, cause developmental delay for children or Parkinson’s, depression, or Alzheimer’s as we age. This study shows that eating organic can dramatically decrease the pesticides you’re exposed to.
Organic for all, is that too radical of an ask?
But we know providing people with information about the benefits of choosing organic foods is not enough. Far too many of us don’t have the choice. Today, billions of our tax dollars are subsidizing pesticide-intensive agriculture while organic programs and research are woefully underfunded. This misdirection of public dollars is one of the reasons many people across the country still don’t have access to, or can’t afford, organic food.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has argued that in a modern, moral, wealthy society, no person should be too poor to live. We believe it follows that in such a society, none of us should be too poor to afford food raised without toxic chemicals and that all of us should be able to support a food chain that protects the health of farmers, farmworkers and communities who are otherwise on the fron-tlines of pesticide exposure.
As another mother in the study put it: “Health should not be limited to your income, your education, your race, your gender, or your geographic location. I think everyone has the right to clean, organic food.”
Kendra Klein is senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth-US, a national organization working to create a more just and healthy world. Anna Lappé is a national best-selling author and co-director of Real Food Media. Together, they have collaborated on Organic for All
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How Middle East came to the midwest
Arab American runs for mayor in Detroit suburb
Matthew Engel in Washington
Thu 1 Nov 2001 21.03 EST First published on Thu 1 Nov 2001 21.03 EST
On a Tuesday in September, voters in a midwestern American city had to decide whether or not they wanted as their mayor a young Lebanese-born lawyer with a history of Middle East activism.
The Tuesday was September 11. But the voting continued, and - amazingly - Abed Hammoud emerged still standing. He came second in the non-party primary voting, good enough to qualify for the run-off next Tuesday against the incumbent mayor, Michael Guido.
This is no ordinary midwestern city. It is Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit which has areas where you can close your eyes, breathe deeply, and listen, and imagine yourself in the souks of Beirut or Baghdad. Detroit as a whole has the US's major concentration of Arab migrants; and in Dearborn (pop: 97,000) the proportion is around 20%.
It is an odd fate for a place that used to pride itself on its racial purity: a white bastion in which "driving while black" was only half-jokingly said to be the crime that most preoccupied local cops. "While they were busy stopping blacks getting through the front door," explains Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, "the Arabs snuck in the back."
As the HQ of Ford, Dearborn used to beckon potential workers enthusiastically. And once an Arab community was established, it became a welcome beacon to people fleeing countries where the politics is far rougher: Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Palestine.
The politics can be at least rough-edged in Dearborn and this is a stern campaign. But the most remarkable fact about the city this strange autumn has been what has not happened: "No incidents of violence and no major incidents of any kind" is the city's official line. And the Arab community agrees.
"I mentioned in an interview just after September 11 that there had been two fights in a school in Dearborn," said Dr James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, "and everyone called me to complain that I was putting all their efforts at risk. Yes, there was a backlash, but I think the predominant tide has been making sure that things didn't get out of control. And they haven't done."
To the rest of Dearborn's population, Arabs are not some alien tribe of terrorists but the people they deal with every day. "International events do impact on our community," says the city spokesman Mary Laundroche. "Dearborn has gone through other situations like Iran-Iraq and the Gulf war, and our city has stayed together. We're all neighbours. We understand each other."
However, when Dearborn votes again next Tuesday, Mr Hammoud's share of the vote may turn out to be close to the 20% that constitutes the Arab electorate. Mr Guido, an Italian-American running for his fifth four-year term, is an overwhelming favourite.
But the racial element to the vote is subsumed. When he first got elected, Mr Guido put out a tabloid with the headline "Let's talk about the Arab problem" ("taken out of context" is the defence). Then, the population was a fraction of its current figure. "These days the mayor speaks of 'my brothers and sisters' and quotes from the Koran," notes one unsympathetic observer.
And no one is mentioning the war. The mayor is running on his "record of achievement". And that's all Mr Hammoud wants to talk about too: "Spending is out of control, services are going down, businesses are leaving. If you to go to City Hall to get information, they don't treat you like they work for you. They're not in touch with people. These are not Arab-American issues, they're issues."
The only effect of September 11, Mr Hammoud insists, was that it held up the campaign. And he insists that his own views are beyond question: "I'm an American. I stand behind my government and I'm 100% against the terrorist attacks on my country. My wife and kids could have been in those towers. I get offended when anyone questions my patriotism."
He also gets touchy if anyone raises subjects far beyond the competence of Dearborn city hall. Eighteen months ago, Mr Hammoud described enthusiastically in Arab American News how thousands of people had gone on to the streets of Dearborn to celebrate Israeli troops "running away" from Lebanon.
He also wrote a furious article for the paper attacking members of the community who met Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, when he visited Detroit. "The community must strongly condemn such contacts...we should not be meeting with war criminals, but be working to bring them to trial."
This is not a subject he is anxious to discuss: "This has nothing to do with my race for mayor. My focus is on Dearborn. Does anyone ask Michael Guido about his views on Italian politics?"
It's a fair comment. But even in a city where all communities have done astonishingly well to preserve the peace over the past two months, the problems of the world cannot wholly be subsumed by the mundane questions of Dearborn's parks and sewage.
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Key challenge of consolidated government: keep taxes low
Jimmy Settle
USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee
A proposed shift to consolidated government in Clarksville-Montgomery County comes with an almost-overwhelming barrage of questions about its potential impact on existing city and county departments, current local government employees and retirees, and most importantly, households and neighborhoods.
No question is more prevalently asked, than whether it would lead to a significant increase, or decrease in local taxes, especially in the unincorporated areas of Montgomery County where resistance to consolidation has historically been deeply entrenched.
If Metro Nashville-Davidson County is the best model, one expert there says Clarksville-Montgomery County might actually see taxes decline over time, especially with increased urbanization that combining city and county governments could help fuel.
"Metro Nashville's tax rates are currently the lowest they've ever been, because after reappraisal the values of many of the properties have experienced dramatic increases," said Dewey Branstetter of Nashville, whom many consider to be the regional authority on the formation of consolidated government, at least for Middle Tennessee.
It is that rapid urbanizing trend — even outside of the Clarksville city limits in some traditionally-rural areas of the county — that has some community leaders here believing the time has come to take another stab at consolidation as a way of bringing uniformity to public safety and services, eliminating many duplicated services, and perhaps lowering costs, and taxes, as a result.
Branstetter has agreed to serve as advisor to the 15-member charter commission on proposed consolidated government in Clarksville-Montgomery County, and spoke to the group in its meeting Thursday morning at William O. Beach Civic Hall.
Branstetter confronted a charter commission that, only in its second meeting, appears at least somewhat divided on some of the key topics. He addressed that, as well as positives he's seeing in the local effort to draft a new charter on consolidation that is to go to voters in public referendum, probably in November 2018.
"You're on the right track," Branstetter told the charter commission, "but if this charter has any chance of passing, everybody on this committee has got to be on board with it.
"Either be on board, or let someone else take your place who is on board. For the next 12 months, I would recommend that this (charter development) be the number one commitment for each one of you on this committee, over and above any other community involvement you may have," he said.
Twice in the past, local voters have rejected consolidation. "I would suggest that, if (consolidation) doesn't happen now, the chances of it happening for another generation are probably pretty slim. But what you do here has to be a give-and-take process, and you're going to have to compromise," he told the commission chaired by Katie Gambill.
Taxes represent just one of many topics flying around the meeting table. Others include how to structure and provide law enforcement and fire protection, sustain pensions for city and county retirees, and more.
Commission member Mark Smith said for residents of the unincorporated areas of the county to buy the idea that consolidation is good for them, they'll need to see how much it will cost them, or save them, compared to what they pay now. Whether developing a blueprint with such fiscal detail is possible, is debatable, say other commission members.
"My goal is to put together a charter that does not raise anyone's taxes, that everyone can be happy with," Gambill said.
District 17 Town Hall
Consolidated government is expected to be one topic of conversation at an upcoming Town Hall meeting to be hosted by District 17 County Commissioner Jason Hodges.
The public meeting is set for July 27 at 6 p.m., at Pisgah Elementary School.
Other topics will include county projects and initiatives, and more, Hodges said. Also attending will be Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett, among other local elected officials.
Reach Business Editor Jimmy Settle at 931-245-0247 and on Twitter @settle_leaf.
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In the next article of the series, “The Network Revolution: Creating Value through Platforms, People and Technology,” authors Barry Libert, Megan Beck and Jerry (Yoram) Wind look at how people and platforms are disrupting the media and entertainment industries. Libert is CEO of OpenMatters and Beck is the chief insights officer. Wind is a Wharton marketing professor and director of Wharton’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. They also wrote a book called The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models. The authors would like to thank LiquidHub for sponsoring the research for this series.
Remember that decades-old public service announcement asking parents, “Do you know where your children are?” That ad could not have anticipated that the answer one day would be this: They are somewhere uploading their favorite videos of themselves — or their cats — to YouTube, posting photos to Instagram and sending disappearing messages on Snapchat.
For today’s social and video networks, the human network — you and me — is changing the entire business models of publishers, TV and radio broadcasters and even cable TV companies as well as content providers in entertainment, news and sports. The real question, then, is not whether broadcasters, advertisers and content providers will be disrupted by the power of us and what we produce and distribute — but how quickly?
To put this in context, more than 20 years ago, the only outlet for individuals to broadcast their own personal and local interests was to use public access television channels or write letters to newspaper editors. But today, we hold a lot more power as broadcasters using digital outlets like Facebook Live, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. And for good reason. The old definition of broadcast and entertainment was simplistic: Content mainly came from the establishment and sent in one direction, to us. But that reality is changing as the media and entertainment and industries are being turned upside down and outside in.
The YouTube Phenomenon
YouTube posted its first video on April 23, 2005. That video, Me at the Zoo, has subsequently been viewed 34.5 million times in 11 years. In less than a decade, YouTube has changed everything about television — from what we watch, to when we watch it and who makes and produces that content. Indeed, in less than a decade, it has become a threat to the conventional business model of television — but not in the way the world expected.
“AT&T is trying to transform from asset-heavy to content-rich and network-centric.”
YouTube was originally created to make it easy for everyone to create and upload their own personal, homemade videos and post them to the internet so anyone could see them. It quickly became a destination of its own, one that challenged and continues to challenge traditional TV broadcaster business models. In time, YouTube became the platform upon which ‘we the people’ posted what we liked and what ‘we watched.’ Unlike traditional print and broadcast outlets, there is no central team or gatekeeper trying to read our minds and create content based on the establishment’s understanding of what we desire. And — at least initially — YouTube was free of commercials.
The incumbents did not react well to the YouTube phenomenon. One digital video short from Saturday Night Live called Lazy Sunday, starring Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell, racked up 5 million views but was pulled by its producer — NBCUniversal — two months later. In YouTube’s infancy, many television, movie and music companies were quite worried that users would either steal their copyrighted material and post it online for free or just shift their viewing behavior from TV to the internet. Those and other fears proved to be correct. We, the people, were about to be direct competitors to the likes of ABC, NBC and CBS.
Today, YouTube is a massive digital platform and virtual network fueled by the people that is on par, if not bigger, than almost any TV or cable network. And by most accounts, Facebook Live and YouTube will continue to grow in importance as user-generated content on digital platforms become direct competitors to intuitionally generated content on traditional mediums — whether distributed through traditional means or online.
Incumbents Play Catch-up
Traditional media companies are doing all they can to challenge our growing numbers and content. Witness the recently announced, and pending, purchase of Time Warner by AT&T for $85 billion. This acquisition, if approved by regulators, will single-handedly transform AT&T into a content goliath. The new combination will pair AT&T’s more than 130 million mobile customers with Time Warner’s rich film and TV offerings (Warner Brothers), news (CNN), premium cable (HBO), entertainment (TNT), sports (TBS) and other offerings. In essence, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is trying to transform his asset-heavy company (with low valuations) into a content-rich and network-centric organization. But will it really allow them to transform this old-style network into a virtual network that carries what we produce and create?
According to AT&T’s leadership, “Premium content always wins. It has been true on the big screen, the TV screen and now it’s proving true on the mobile screen … [and] it will disrupt the traditional entertainment model and push the boundaries on mobile content availability for the benefit of customers.” For AT&T, the deal would eclipse its nearly $50 billion DirecTV acquisition and may be its biggest acquisition since paying $67 billion for BellSouth in 2006.
Verizon, the nation’s largest mobile carrier, is also trying to keep up but via a different route. The telecom company is focused on building its digital platform with the acquisition of AOL and Yahoo, with their ad networks as big a lure as their new media content offerings, as it gears up to compete with Google and Facebook for digital advertising dominance.
From our perspective, both companies are trying their best to modify their business model. But according to our research on business models, the real question is this: Are they doing the right thing or do they need to become real technology companies or network orchestrators to win in this age of platforms and networks?
Sports and Entertainment — a Similar Challenge
Much to everyone’s amazement, the once solidly reliable generator of TV ratings in live sporting games — the NFL — has seen its audience slip in 2016. The Wall Street Journal reports that ratings fell 10% in the first month of the pro-football season. That’s an amazing statistic given that football is one of the most important content franchises in traditional broadcast and print media.
Why did ratings fall so precipitously? CBS CEO Leslie Moonves told the paper that the presidential election might have diverted some viewers. Others point to the availability of football on other venues, such as Verizon mobile phones and Twitter that could have siphoned viewers from traditional TV. Notably, Nielsen doesn’t fully track viewership on the different platforms, so this gap could have undercounted ratings as well. Cord-cutting also could be a factor as people ditch high-priced cable TV.
“Sports, entertainment, broadcasting, publishing companies that cling to the old way will continue to lose ground.”
After the election, NFL ratings have rebounded but remain down so far for the season, according to Sports Illustrated. However, we believe that there are fundamental shifts taking place that could spell trouble for the NFL in the long run.
First, today’s broadcasts of professional football have structural issues that are out of sync with our on-demand, real-time culture. There are many people who can still watch a four-hour game, but it is getting harder to find them.
Second, the commercial-kickoff-commercial sequence in the games just doesn’t align with our approach to life. Can you imagine putting up with multiple interruptions as you try to be productive at work?
Finally, just witness the power and growth of Fantasy Sports to understand the ‘power of us’ alongside traditional sports to understand that we want and will pay for a role in this new game of entertainment, sports and broadcast.
It’s time to change the core beliefs — or mental models — of media and entertainment companies if they want to survive, and thrive in the age of platforms and networks that are built around us and our ability to create, produce and generate content. From our perspective, the deeply held beliefs that historically drove success for media and entertainment are being upended in a world that has both models — institutionally generated content on their platforms and user generated content that thrive on online platforms.
Based on our work around the globe, it is clear that companies have entrenched immune systems — organizational systems that were built to resist change, especially shifts forced upon them by digital platforms and networks that are eating their world, such as Uber, Airbnb, YouTube or Snapchat. Media and entertainment companies are no different.
To be sure, they have done a lot in recent years — consider the ‘TV Everywhere’ initiative in 2009 by Time Warner and Comcast to put cable video content across platforms, as well as creation of so-called over-the-top providers like Hulu (owned by broadcasters), HBO GO and CBS All Access. But their position remains precarious. Just look at Netflix’s rise. As of the third quarter, it had more than 47 million U.S. subscribers — almost 87 million worldwide — more than double that of Comcast in the U.S., the nation’s largest cable operator.
Sports, entertainment, broadcasting and publishing companies that cling to the old way of doing things will continue to lose ground. Premium content, such as the great sports franchises of the NFL, NBA and MLB, will remain valuable. As would telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon that provide a vast, national network. Those at risk are companies that rely mostly on their own content, and not the content of their network using extensible and scalable digital platforms to give users a place to share their own creations.
The same is true for entertainment. While there will always be an appetite for professionally produced content, increasingly, these networks act as a megaphone that lets users’ voices be heard — both as co-creators and network contributors. The real question is this: What will the future look like when it comes to ownership? No one knows as cord-cutting takes place and everyone becomes his or her own broadcaster and fantasy sports team owner, a result of building platforms and networks where we are at the center.
The Future Is in Our Hands
The future of entertainment, publishing, sports and broadcasting industries is now firmly in our hands. We now have the tools, platforms and capabilities to do what we want, whenever we want — and that means, we can read what we want on the run, watch what we want at any time whether it’s entertainment or video-chatting with friends or family.
Today’s technologies offer freedom from the routines of yesterday — including sitting and watching NFL games, TV or cable channels, as we have the choice to work more at our own schedule, versus a media company’s schedule, thanks to on-demand and user-generated programing. If media and entertainment companies want to stay relevant and valuable in the future, they will need to build a strong relationship with us, and give us a place in their programming and on their networks — or else, we might just spend all of our time on YouTube or Facebook Live.
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Trade, tech issues seen to shape Asean’s future
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By Bernadette D. Nicolas Nov 7 2019 / BusinessMirror
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres (fifth from left) poses for a photograph with leaders of Asean during the Asean-UN summit in Nonthaburi, Thailand, November 3, 2019.
FIFTY-TWO years ago, the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fought the embers of communism across Asia. Today, Asean is confronting another “FIRe,” the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The FIRe is being seen as a tool that Asean needs to comprehend, brace for and harmonize if its member-states want a stronger regional economic integration via the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Former Tariff Commissioner George N. Manzano told the BusinessMirror that forging the RCEP at the time that Asean member-countries are preparing for the FIRe is a step in the right direction.
With the inclusion of the electronic commerce (e-commerce) chapter in the RCEP deal, Manzano said parties to the deal would now be able to follow a common set of standards.
The 14th of 18 chapters, the e-commerce chapter is expected to promote electronic commerce among the participating countries and foster its wider use globally. E-commerce is also expected to enhance cooperation among RCEP participating countries in developing the ecommerce ecosystem.
“The e-commerce chapter would help position RCEP as a modern agreement that benefits and creates opportunities for facilitating e-commerce, especially for SMEs [small and medium-size enterprises],” Manzano asserted.
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is coming. RCEP should adapt,” he said. “They should [craft and unite on] rules on digital trade because, if they have rules on that, everyone will adapt. If the rules are common, it would be easier to trade.”
Ownership, standards
RULES are the least of worries of AirAsia Group Berhad CEO Tony Fernandes.
During the Asean business and investment summit on November 2, Fernandes lamented the lack of an e-commerce champion in Asean.
“If you look about one example, if you think about e e-commerce, that’s Lazada, that’s Alibaba. But there’s really no Asean e-commerce champion,” Fernandes said in Bangkok, Thailand. “One of the reasons is customs clearance: we don’t have a single customs window.”
Aside from an e-commerce champion, Fernandes pointed to an absence of harmonized standards and mutual recognition agreements as hobbling a robust e-commerce sector in Asean.
He also pointed to barriers that come in the form of travel levies or the lack of one Asean visa.
“So, some of the barriers we have seen in Asean: foreign ownership regulations and mutual recognition of Asean standards,” Fernandes said during the forum. “Sometimes it is easier for companies outside of Asean to sell than companies inside of Asean.”
Fernandes also urged Asean leaders to remove trade barriers.
“If you are going to look at the potential of social e-commerce and SMEs like Lazada throughout Asean, it is huge,” he said. “But there are visible and invisible barriers that still exist. So I really urge the leaders of Asean to look at breaking down these walls so the people and SMEs can benefit from this huge market.”
New approaches
PHILIPPINE Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez told the BusinessMirror the RCEP bodes well for Asean economic integration in time for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
“Yes, of course. With greater trade and investments, technologies flow better,” Lopez said.
FIRe is credited to Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, who noted that disruptive technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and robotics, would change the way business operates and people live today.
The chief of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said the country has an advantage in knowledge workers, innovation and creativity amplified by a good educational system, a young population and facility in the English language.
“This advantage is also supported by a strong intellectual property protection regime, particularly on patent protection, and the recent passage of the Philippine Innovation Act,” Lopez told the BusinessMirror.
Moreover, he said, there is a huge opportunity in the Philippines for heavy industries to utilize most modern technologies, which is expected to generate more investments in the area of research and development (R&D) and technology centers.
As an example, Lopez said the Filipinos were known as one of the top innovators in Silicon Valley, citing a Bloomberg article as source.
This recognition, he said, can help trigger investments in the country and create a conducive environment for innovation in the country not only for product development for the future but transfer of knowledge and technology as well.
Elements for FIRe
HOWEVER, while the DTI is already doing something about Industry 4.0 like Thailand, Manzano said that Malaysia and Singapore area already ahead with their respective programs.
“The DTI is doing something on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but it would be much better if we would be able to articulate and cascade it. Our Internet should be fast as well as our broadband,” he said, lamenting the country’s weak infrastructure.
“They [other countries] already have industrial parks that are really for FIRe, wherein you can locate there and receive tax exemption so that they could promote those entities that are under [using technologies of] FIRe,” he added.
Manzano also lamented that the Philippines is not that strong in terms of research and development, which he said is crucial for innovation under FIRe.
Lopez begged to disagree.
The trade secretary admitted that some multinationals started operations in the country initially on the basis of abundant skilled labor. But they eventually realized the higher quality and technical competence of our workers, Lopez said.
They now use them, for example, in more research and development, technical and design engineering types of work, he added.
According to Lopez, it was six years ago when Samsung R&D Institute Philippines was established.
“Its roster is composed of expert engineers engaged in the development of various solutions related to cloud computing and web and data intelligence,” Lopez said. “Recently, one company has signified its intent to put up another R&D Center in PH and will be hiring around 500 engineers as part of its team.”
Agreements, barriers
ACCORDING to Manzano, Asean is already reaping the benefits of its economic integration. However, there is still a room for improvement, especially when it comes to trade in services for the regional bloc, he added.
“There are still many things to be done. There is still nothing much that is happening when it comes to services. We still do not have movements of people although it’s hard,” he said.
Manzano shares Fernandes’s opinion that there’s a need for more mutual recognition agreements and the removal of nontariff barriers.
“Mutual recognition agreements recognize the competency of professionals. If you are an engineer, you have a mutual recognition agreement, meaning to say, if you are an engineer in the Philippines, you will be recognized as an engineer in Malaysia,” he said.
While the gaps in integration can be addressed within Asean, Manzano said it seems the regional bloc is not yet ready for the free movement of workers.
Some pros, cons
BOTH Manzano and Fernandes pointed out that Asean is still not on a par with the European Union (EU) when it comes to having harmonized standards.
Manzano said Asean is not yet integrated like EU since the latter is “homogenous” unlike Asean.
“Well, integrated is a relative term. So it is integrated compared to other parts of the world. Kasi [Because] the other thing is we are not yet integrated as Europe, as the European Union,” Manzano said. “We still do a lot of trade with other parts of the world, which is not bad.”
He also pointed out that there are advantages and disadvantages of having a setup like EU.
“[There are] pros and cons because EU is homogenous while we have a huge disparity in Asean,” he said, referring to different levels of economic development in the region.
HOWEVER, Justin Wood, head of Regional Agendas of World Economic Forum-Asia Pacific, said Asean policymakers must prioritize the integration of the markets in order to continue attracting investment and for global value chains to be based in the region.
With the advent of FIRe, Wood said companies who will look to build their global value chains in the future will look for three things.
“They are going to look for labor and how skilled and how deep is the labor force. They are going to look for data and how easy it is for them to access data; and they are going to look for broadband and how affordable and high quality is the broadband,” he said.
Wood said the government must also think about how to adjust policies toward data, noting that many governments around the world are putting in place data utilization and data protection measures to prevent cross-border data flow.
He said these limit the opportunities for companies to get involved in global services value chains.
“Data has to be allowed to move freely to build these types of structures, and then finally, I think global trade policy is gonna have to change in order to facilitate this new world of data and the rise of services and so on,” Wood said.
AI, Big Data
DURING the 35th Asean Summit under the chairmanship of Thailand, Asean member-countries agreed to promote and facilitate cross-border data flows and develop a common platform on statistic linkage by employing digital technologies such as Big Data and AI.
According to the Asean Declaration on Industrial Transformation to Industry 4.0 released publicly on November 2, Asean leaders vowed to enhance human resource development and capacity building to catch up on frontier technologies and innovation. These would be in relation to smart factories, digital value chains and digital literacy by focusing on the up-skilling and re-skilling of the workforce including micro-enterprises and SMEs.
They also expressed a commitment to stimulate adoption and diffusion of innovation and technologies involving Industry 4.0, such as IoT, AI, Big Data and Cloud-based Technology, Augmented Reality and Additive Manufacturing or 3D printing. These, the Asean believes, could be achieved through joint researches, investments and development activities and through the sharing of information, experience and best practices on formulating and implementing policies, especially innovation system policies and mechanisms to promote Industry 4.0.
Lopez admitted that the challenge in Asean when it comes to FIRe is its readiness to embrace the new platform and ways of doing trade and business.
“Because of technology, industries and business models have been revolutionized,” he said. “Many countries have yet to align their laws and policies on these new developments, thus, the need to reserve policy space. In addition, for most countries, capacity building and understanding of the effects of these technological development have yet to be addressed.”
ASKED what the government is doing to help prepare MSMEs for the impact of Industry 4.0, Lopez said there are programs with the Commission on Higher Education, the Department of Education and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority to “expose them to newer technologies, smart manufacturing, exposure to new equipment, skills, future preparations.”
However, Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. President Sergio Ortiz-Luis told the BusinessMirror the government must do more than information dissemination.
“The government, therefore, has to come up with concrete programs for that [preparing MSMEs for Industry 4.0]. I don’t even know if there is budgetary allocation for this thing,” Ortiz-Luis said.
He said the federation intends to come up with programs and projects for MSMEs so that they will be prepared information-wise and techology-wise. Luis-Ortiz added the federation conducts seminars about Industry 4.0 “so they will be aware of what’s going to happen.”
“For short, we are allocating time and resources preparing MSMEs for Industry 4.0,” he said. “This matter was discussed in depth during the PBC [Philippine Business Conference] and business came up with resolutions on how they plan to face Industry 4.0. One of the resolutions is to prepare for a change in era, with how things are done, with how businesses operate.”
ASIDE from grappling with FIRe, Asean is also wrestling with the realization of RCEP as it is seen to build up strong value chains in the region with a rapidly growing market.
In a speech during ABIS, Japan External Trade Organization’s Nobuhiko Sasaki said the time has come for Asean to be the “standard bearer of free trade,” especially as the world stands on the brink of a total trade war between the US and China.
“RCEP enables Asean to widen the initiative of AEC (Asean Economic Community) to the Asia Pacific region while pressing for further development of GVCs (global value chains),” Sasaki said.
In the same speech, Sasaki also noted that nontariff measures in the regional bloc should be addressed since these hinder trade and investment, according to their research.
Should India give its final decision not to join the deal anymore, Lopez told the BusinessMirror that RCEP—with 15 countries including the Philippines—would still account for 29 percent of the world economy, from 32 percent for RCEP with 16 countries as members.
“China and other countries [are] opening more of their markets, as well as better rules on trade and investments protection,” he said.
Lopez said all 15 countries have concluded all the 20 chapters on RCEP and they are almost done on market access discussions.
“Legal scrubbing to start and we will be ready to sign next year,” he said.
As for India, he clarified that they may be out as of now, but their pending issues will be sorted out until next year.
Without India, the deal would be less attractive, according to Manzano.
“If India leaves RCEP, it means lesser chance for the other countries to penetrate the Indian market because they have high tariffs. The others have low [tariffs] so RCEP is attractive on one hand, because India is a member…[which] has high tariffs [and] will be forced, if it’s a member of RCEP, to lower its tariffs. That is why India left,” he said.
Coping sans India
WILL India’s opting out of RCEP affect the Philippines?
Manzano said he doesn’t think so as the country trades more with China and Japan rather than with India.
However, he said it would have been better if India is still part of the deal, especially since it is “relatively more protectionist.”
“Well in theory, any FTA [free-trade agreement] with more partners, the better. That means you can export more and they can export to you,” Manzano explained.
He added he doesn’t see any risks with India leaving the deal at the time of US-China trade tension.
“None, really, in the sense that we have already existing FTAs with all the partners; so RCEP will just integrate them all. So that is what we are looking for, not only us, but everyone else: for India to open up [but] India got cold feet,” he said. “So India is really the good opportunity here for RCEP. If India is included, RCEP is very attractive. This means you can access the Indian market.”
Manzano also said he doesn’t believe that India could be a good counterbalance to China as the two countries have different strengths.
While India is strong when it comes to trade in services, China is strong in trade in goods.
“India’s strength is not in goods so it could never surpass China. India is strong in BPO [business-process outsourcing] services,” Manzano said. “They are competitive when it comes to software, while China is competitive in goods, shoes, electronics, among other products.”
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Coming to Live in London: An Interview with Brigitte
by admin | Jun 18, 2018 | Accomodation, Cultural, Health, Shared Experiences, Stories, Work
What surprised you when you first came to the UK?
I was surprised to be able to find a work very quickly. I found a job in hospitality 2 weeks only, with no experience. And if you go out with CVs and try to get a job by applying directly in the restaurant, you can start to work the next following days, with or without experience.
I was surprised by the national health system which is very different from France. And the number of people who live in shared houses. There are even agencies to help you to get a room to live.
What do you like about London?
I like the fact that when I came in London it was very easy to talk with people. I like the fact that it’s a busy city. There is always something to do, something to discover. I didn’t feel isolated because there is a lot of other people who come to live in London.
You are not the only one “new” person.
I like London as well because I feel like I am in another country when I come here. I had been in other big cities in Europe and I didn’t have the same feeling. The culture is different.
You will always find a shop open somewhere, which is very convenient, as well as transport to get home late in the night. I like the fact that it is quicker to be promoted, and there are so many opportunities for work in London. And you don’t always need to have diploma or certificates, as soon as you know how to do the job. This possibility is amazing for me.
What did you find difficult?
The difficulty in London for me is to make friends. It is very easy to talk to people. But it’s not easy to make deep relationships. But I think that it’s the same when you move into a big city. On the other hand, the law is different, and the culture as well. It can be good but it makes harder to find a place to live and to deal with lawful agencies and landlords. In France, it is not in our culture to share a house to live with other people.
But I understand quickly that it’s very expensive to rent flats and houses here. The minimum wage is very low to afford the price of this city, especially because I was working in hospitality with the minimum wage, to earn £1200 for 40 hours a week. You can pay around 600-800£ for a room in zone 2-3, with the price of the transport (£130 for zone 1-2), I didn’t have a lot left to enjoy the city.
What do you wish you had known?
I wish I had known the cost of living in London. Maybe I will then think to live in another city in UK. As I wanted to improve my English as well, I found it difficult because I meet a lot of foreigners.
The most important thing for me was the impact of the Brexit. At the moment I still don’t really know how it will be after it, so I wish I had known more about this.
What advice would you give to someone coming to live in the UK?
I will advise this person to be sure at 100% because of the Brexit. A lot is changing in the UK, so it’s important to follow the news and to be aware of what is going on. After that, in terms of employment, it’s important to try to get a job before moving to London, if it is for a management position.
Looking for a job when in the UK is easier, but you can save time and money if you can find the job before you come.
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Your Trip to New York State: The Complete Guide
Driving in New York
One-Week Itinerary
Best State Parks
Best Ski Resorts
United States New York
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Devorah Lev-Tov
Devorah Lev-Tov is a Brooklyn-based journalist who focuses on luxury travel, family travel, food trends, and sustainable food and travel.
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New York State has so much to offer travelers, from natural wonders and beautiful beaches to historic sites and fascinating museums, as well as a diverse food and drink scene. Whether it’s the excitement of New York City, the serenity of the Hamptons, the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley and Catskills, the winter sports of the Adirondacks, or the water activities and wineries of the Finger Lakes, New York State truly has something for everyone.
Of course, New York City is a major highlight and can easily take up most if not all of a trip, but it’s actually just a small part of the 54,556 square miles that make up the state. If you have the time (or you’ve already been to NYC), the rest of New York State is well worth exploring, especially if you’re a nature lover, wine enthusiast, or culture hound.
New York State’s diverse landscape includes bustling cities, charming villages, pristine beaches and lakes, gorgeous islands, looming mountains, rushing rivers, deep canyons, lush forests, and vast farmland, broken up into regions including the North and South Forks of Long Island, the Hudson Valley, the Capital Region, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the Finger Lakes, and more. If you’re more of a city person, New York State has some of the best, including the five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island), Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany, the capital.
Best Time to Visit: New York State has something to offer year-round, but it’s important to be aware that it can get quite cold in winter, with snowfall a guarantee. Of course, that means skiing, ice-skating, and other winter sports, as well as some beautiful holiday lights and markets in December. Christmas and New Year’s are peak visiting times in New York City. Spring and fall are both excellent times to visit because they are not peak season, but still offer pleasant weather perfect for hiking, vineyard and farm visits, and exploring cities. Summer is high season in New York State, and beaches, lakefronts, and rivers will be full of swimmers and sunbathers. Summer in New York City is also peak season, so expect museums, parks, restaurants, and other attractions to be crowded. Hotel, car rental, and flight prices will be at their peak during the summer months, and it can also get quite hot, especially in New York City.
Getting Around: The train system in New York State is robust and it’s fairly easy to get to hundreds of destinations throughout the state. Public transportation makes getting around New York City easy, fast, and affordable. Outside of NYC, there is the Long Island Railroad, which goes from Penn Station in Manhattan and Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to various points all across Long Island, and Metro North, which travels from Grand Central Station in Manhattan to points north, including Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, the Catskills, Albany, and more. Amtrak also services cities like Manhattan, Albany, New Rochelle, Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, Hudson, Utica, Buffalo, Rochester, and more. There are also various bus lines that serve the state, including Greyhound and Peter Pan. Or you can fly between major cities, including New York City, Islip, Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, and Westchester County—if you’re traveling to far-flung places like Buffalo, a flight can save you six hours of driving there from Manhattan, for example. Taxis, Lyfts, Ubers, and car services are prevalent in major cities like Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo. Renting a car if you’re remaining in New York City is generally a bad idea as parking is difficult to find and/or very expensive and traffic is bad, but if you’re traveling outside of NYC, renting a car can be an easy option, especially for reaching more rural areas.
Travel Tip: The shoulder seasons of spring and fall are usually when flights, hotels, and car rentals will be cheapest. Attractions will also be the least crowded. Best of all, those seasons offer beautiful landscapes, either with blooming spring flowers or colorful fall foliage. Hiking during those seasons is ideal, thanks to the lush scenery and mild temperatures.
New York State is bursting with activities all year long. From top-notch museums and monuments to stunning parks and peaceful beaches, there are things for kids and families, romantic activities for couples, and friend groups can find plenty of things to do. Architecture fans, history buffs, foodies, art hounds, sun seekers, hikers, and nature lovers will all be happy here. Don’t miss these activities:
Go for a Hike: New York State has 180 state parks, from the Long Island coast to the mighty Niagara Falls, with the Catskill and Adirondack mountains in between. There are hundreds of miles of hiking trails in all kinds of landscapes, offering stunning panoramic views.
Set Sail: New York State has every kind of body of water imaginable: oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, and streams. Go kayaking around Shelter Island, sailing through the Thousand Islands, or canoeing in one of the dozens of lakes in the Catskills; or book a boat tour on Lake George or one of the Finger Lakes, as boating is a time-honored New York pastime. Even New York City has a robust boating culture, and seeing the sights by boat is a great experience or you can hop on the Staten Island Ferry for free.
Stroll Through Village Main Streets: Although the state is home to one of the largest and greatest cities in the world (New York City), it also has hundreds of charming small towns and villages. Long Island and Upstate New York are filled with some of the quaintest little towns, complete with charming Main Streets perfect for strolling along. Aside from classic diners and general stores, many towns these days also have galleries and independent boutiques selling handmade, small-batch or one-of-a-kind items—with nary a chain store in sight. Many of these towns are also quite old and are filled with historic and beautiful architecture. The Catskills, Hudson Valley, the North Fork of Long Island, and the Finger Lakes are the best regions to visit for some small town charm. Some quintessential villages in New York State include Livingston Manor, Narrowsburg, Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Catskill, Kingston, New Paltz, Beacon, Geneva, Skaneateles, Greenport, Sag Harbor, Lake Placid, and Saratoga Springs.
Explore more attractions with our full-length articles on the best things to do in New York State, the best state parks in New York, and best New York State vacations with kids.
What to Eat and Drink
New York State is known for so many foods, from bagels and pizza in New York City to fresh oysters and seafood in Long Island. It’s also the birthplace of some famous foods that have spread beyond New York like Buffalo wings and Thousand Islands salad dressing, as well as some that can only be found in their region, like Beef on Weck and sponge candy (Buffalo), Garbage Plate (Rochester), grape pie (Finger Lakes), and spiedie (Binghamton). New York State is also extremely diverse, and it is easy to find food from dozens of cultures around the world, especially in New York City.
New York State is also known for its wineries and craft breweries, cideries, and distilleries. Long Island and the Finger Lakes are both known for their excellent vineyards, and they are all easy to visit and have tastings. The Catskills and Hudson Valley are great regions to experience the craft brewery, cider, and distillery boom, and most will have tasting rooms, tours, and bars to sip at.
Explore our articles on the top 10 foods to try in New York State, the best chicken wing spots in Buffalo, and Long Island's best wineries.
New York State has various options for accommodations. In cities like Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany, all the large chain hotels are represented, as well as a few independent ones, and plenty of Airbnbs. In the Hamptons, there are fewer hotels and house rentals, and those are often difficult to secure for less than a week or a month—and everything is pricey. Other parts of Long Island will have Airbnbs and hotels. The Catskills and Hudson Valley have experienced a boutique hotel boom, and there are some really wonderful small, independent hotels that offer unique experiences as well as larger family resorts. The Finger Lakes has some hotels but quaint inns and bed-and-breakfasts are also popular up there. Lake George and Lake Placid have a good selection of independent hotels at a wide range of price points, as well as a robust vacation house rental selection.
Explore New York City's top hotels, tips for renting a house in the Hamptons, and the best places to camp in the Catskills.
There are myriad ways to get to New York State: flying, by train, by bus, or driving. The main New York State airports are listed below.
Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo is 9.4 miles from downtown Buffalo and 25 miles to Niagara Falls.
Albany International Airport is 12 miles to downtown Albany, 9.7 miles from Schenectady, 29 miles to Saratoga Springs, and 55 miles from Lake George.
Greater Rochester International Airport in Rochester is 7.4 miles from downtown Rochester and between 45 minutes to a 1.5 hours to parts of the Finger Lakes, depending where in that region you’re headed.
Syracuse Hancock International Airport is 7.9 miles from downtown Syracuse and about 30 miles to parts of the Finger Lakes.
If you're starting your trip in New York City or headed to Long Island or the Catskills or Hudson Valley, consider one of the city's main airports:
John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens is the largest and has a lot of international flights, but it can be intimidating and exhausting to traverse its many terminals. It is 16 miles from Midtown Manhattan and a good option if you’re headed to Long Island.
La Guardia International Airport in Queens is more manageable and recent upgrades have greatly improved its look, functionality, and services. It also has plenty of flights from most major carriers but less international options than JFK and EWR. It is 8.5 miles away from Midtown Manhattan and a good option if you’re headed to Long Island.
Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, is 16 miles from Midtown Manhattan and sometimes flights there can be cheaper. It is the hub for United so almost all United flights will arrive and depart from here and it also has robust international offerings.
Amtrak trains to other major East Coast cities run fairly often to and from Penn Station, Albany, New Rochelle, Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, Hudson, Utica, Buffalo, Rochester, and more. Buses are usually the cheapest option, with Greyhound, Megabus, and Bolt Bus, serving NYC, Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, and more, but they often take the most amount of time. And of course, driving is always an option.
New York City has a culture all its own and there are several unwritten rules that locals follow, including how to walk on a busy sidewalk (hint: don’t stop in the middle of it), subway etiquette, how to hail a cab, and proper bicycle behavior. The rest of the state has its own quirks, but overall is not much different than the rest of the United States.
Tipping is important in New York; be sure to tip taxi drivers, wait staff at restaurants, and bartenders.
There are tons of awesome free activities, events, and places to visit in New York State, including parks, museums, beaches, and lakes. Several museums and attractions have certain days or times that are "pay what you wish" or are sometimes free.
Visit during the spring, fall, or winter (except for Christmas and New Year’s) to save big on airfare, hotels, and Airbnbs.
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‘Save the Last Dance’ Cast: Where Are They Now? Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas and More
By Meredith Nardino
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Leave it all on the floor! Before they became household names, Julia Stiles, Kerry Washington and more stars danced for their lives in 2001’s Save the Last Dance.
The teen drama follows Sara Johnson (Stiles), a promising young ballerina who has her heart set on attending the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City. After her big audition goes wrong and her mother dies unexpectedly, Sara gives up ballet and moves to the Southside of Chicago to live with her father (Terry Kinney). While there, she’s introduced to hip-hop and begins to broaden her dance horizons with the help of Georgetown University-bound Derek Reynolds (Sean Patrick Thomas).
Save the Last Dance quickly became a hit, grossing more than $130 million worldwide and spawning a straight-to-DVD sequel, which debuted in 2006. Though Stiles didn’t return for the second film, she wasn’t completely out of her comfort zone when pulling off the intricate choreography. Looking back on Save the Last Dance in 2014, the New York City native told Us Weekly that her moves at Bogey Lowenstein’s party in 10 Things I Hate About You helped her stay on beat in the dance flick.
“That’s how I got the job in Save the Last Dance, by the way, I think it was from that scene,” she joked at the time. “That’s what I was told.”
Despite having some prior dance experience, Stiles still worked hard to earn her spot and didn’t want to use a stunt double for her more complex scenes. Just 19 when the film was released, she felt like she “had to constantly prove [herself] as a dancer” on set.
“I was like, ‘I understand you’re going to have to double on pointe because I can’t do pointe, but everything else has to be me,’” she explained in a 2001 interview. “And I told them I didn’t want them to bring a hip-hop double in. … We focused more on the hip-hop [scenes] and I was more comfortable with it [but] with the ballet stuff, I just had to work really hard to do as well as I could.”
Adjusting to the different movement styles was a challenge, but one that Stiles was ready to face head-on. “Everyone’s expecting that you’re not going to be able to dance well because you’re the actress,” she said at the time. “The first time we shot one of the ballet things I was shaking. And when we’d done a couple of takes, I was able to relax.”
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War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!)
Reader Contribution By Dahr Jamail
Tags: Guld Of Alaska, Navy, Tom Dispatch, Environment,
Photo by Adobe Stock/NoraDoa
[This essay is a joint TomDispatch/Truthout report.]
It’s war in the Gulf and the U.S. Navy is on hand to protect us. No, not that Gulf! I’m talking about the Gulf of Alaska and it’s actually mock war — if, that is, you don’t happen to be a fin whale or a wild salmon.
This May, the Navy will again sail its warships into the Gulf of Alaska. There, they will engage in military maneuvers and possibly drop bombs, launch torpedoes and missiles, and engage in activities that stand a significant chance of poisoning those once-pristine waters, while it prepares for future battles elsewhere on the planet. Think of it as a war against wildlife, an assault on the environment and local coastal communities.
And call it irony or call it American life in 2017, but the U.S. military's Alaska Command has branded Emily Stolarcyk "a troublemaker" for insistently pointing this out. In a state where such a phrase is the equivalent of an obscenity, some have bluntly called her "anti-military." The office of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has termed her a "rabble-rouser," while a Kodiak Assembly member labeled some of what she’s been saying about the Navy "just silly."
As a resident of the tiny fishing town of Cordova, Alaska, the most radical rabble-rousing thing about Stolarcyk may be the passion with which she loves this region of the planet in all its majesty. It’s why she’s taken a fierce and unwavering stand for years now against the ongoing training exercises the Navy carries out in the Gulf of Alaska during one of the largest migrations of birds and marine life on Earth. These exercises, which inject tons of toxic materials into the Gulf and use significant explosive ordnance, are once again scheduled to take place just as Alaska's commercial fishing season opens.
Located in the state’s massive Chugach National Forest, coastal Cordova is nestled between the glacial-clad Chugach Mountains, Prince William Sound, and the Copper River. Fishing is the heart and soul of the town, as well as the foundation of its economy. A rough and tumble place, it regularly lands on lists of the top 10 American fishing ports, whether measured in pounds of fish caught annually or their value. A fish tax pays for its schools and the upkeep of most of its infrastructure. At least a quarter of its jobs are connected to the commercial fishing industry. "Without fishing, the town wouldn’t even be here," says Stolarcyk, who knows the intricacies of the Navy's plans better than most people in the Navy do, as we tour Cordova’s harbor.
It is impossible to overstate how iconic salmon are here. “What we have in Cordova is one of the last wild places left in the world, and one of the last places on Earth where we still have healthy salmon runs," she tells me. She’s the program director for the Eyak Preservation Council, an environmental and social-justice-oriented nonprofit based in Cordova, whose primary mission is to protect wild salmon habitat.
Her partner is about to start his seventh season as a commercial fisherman. Their apartment building even has a fish smoker. "Salmon bring this town to life, you can feel the energy once the fish start returning, it's palpable," she explains, excitement in her voice. "You can hear the boats coming in and people go to stand on the shore to welcome them back."
However, this year, as in 2015, the Navy plans to conduct its part of Northern Edge 2017 (NE 17), a training exercise, right in her neighborhood. These war games, which occur every other year, include ships, aircraft, ordnance, and the widespread use of sonar across more than 42,000 square nautical miles of the marine environment of the Gulf of Alaska. And it is well known that sonar causes injury and death to whales, dolphin, and other marine life. It has been shown that whales will even beach themselves to escape the noise, which is more than 100 decibels louder underwater than even the loudest rock concert. Thanks to a major lawsuit against them, the Navy agreed to limit the use of certain kinds of sonar in Southern California and Hawaii, due to its impact on the endangered Blue Whale along with other species. But not in the Gulf of Alaska.
Fishing for an Answer
As in 2015, the Navy's plans threaten an area of the Gulf that couldn’t be more biologically sensitive or rich in wildlife. Their training area includes a State of Alaska Marine Protected Area, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Protected Area, and both the Gulf of Alaska Seamount Protected and Slope Habitat Conservation areas.
Nevertheless, the Navy is requesting permits to use live ordnance including bombs, missiles, and torpedoes, along with active and passive sonar in "realistic" war-training exercises that could release as much as 352,000 pounds of "expended materials" into those waters including, according to the Navy’s own Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), missiles, bombs, and torpedoes.
These waters support some of the most valuable fisheries left in the United States and the commercial fishing industry is the single largest private sector employer in the state of Alaska, providing over 63,000 jobs. Nevertheless, the Navy's own EIS claims that fish in the area are at risk of chemical exposures of various sorts because the war games will introduce chromium, lead, tungsten, nickel, cadmium, cyanide, and ammonium perchlorate, along with numerous other heavy metals and toxic substances, into Alaskan waters. According to the EIS, "Little is known about the very important issues of nonmortality damage in the short and long-term, and nothing is known about the effects on behaviour of fish." It adds that “potential effects” include “death or damage” and that "fish not killed or driven from a location by an explosion might change their behavior, feeding pattern, or distribution."
While the Navy itself is aware of some of the damaging impacts of its exercises, others remain unknown and that service is making no effort to learn what they might be. The precautionary principle of do no harm is clearly not operative here.
The Navy's EIS does estimate that, during the years in which these war games are to be conducted, there will be more than 182,000 "takes" — direct deaths of marine mammals or disruptions of their essential behaviors like breeding, nursing, or surfacing. On fish deaths, it offers no estimates at all.
A partial list of affected species includes blue, fin, gray, humpback, minke, sei, sperm, and killer whales, the highly endangered North Pacific right whale (of which there are only about 30 left), as well as dolphins and sea lions. No fewer than a dozen native tribes including the Eskimo, Eyak, Athabascan, Tlingit, Sun'aq, and Aleut rely on the area for subsistence living, not to speak of their cultural and spiritual identities.
As the May 1st launching day for NE 17 looms, we already have at least some inkling of just what kinds of damage might result. Immediately following Northern Edge 15, Alaska witnessed the single largest whale mortality event ever to occur in its waters. Eighteen carcasses of endangered whales were found floating near Kodiak Island within the area in which the Navy had conducted its exercises, attracting national media attention.
Statewide, in the year that followed, Alaska had its worst pink salmon fishing season in four decades. A federal disaster declaration was even issued to give salmon fishermen some relief, deferring the repayment of loans. That year also saw the biggest die off of Murres, a small seabird, ever recorded in the state.
Human-caused climate disruption impacts had long been noted across the North Pacific, whose climate-change-affected waters were warming to record temperatures that year. While this obviously played a role in such events, what impact the naval exercises had across the Gulf of Alaska remains largely unknown, in part because the Navy refused in 2015 — as it will again this year — to allow independent observers on its ships or to conduct follow-up studies focused on how their war games impacted the environment and marine life.
Local opposition is strong, as 10 Alaskan communities have passed resolutions requesting that the Navy move the timing and location of Northern Edge 2017 and all future training events to the fall or winter months and further offshore to minimize their impact on fisheries and migrations. Furthermore, the mayors of Cordova, Girdwood, Tenakee Springs, and Valdez sent letters to Senator Murkowski, requesting that she ask the Navy to relocate NE 17. The senator, hardly a critic of the military, nonetheless wrote the secretary of the Navy last September to "express concern over the manner in which the Navy is approaching its participation in Northern Edge 2017," and called a lack of naval public affairs guidance "extremely troubling."
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Dennis McGinn replied, "I readily admit we could have done a better job reaching out to potentially affected stakeholders leading up to NE 15."
Stolarcyk is truly a David going up against the naval Goliath. Her dedication to this region of the planet has been and continues to be unwavering.
"How could you live in this place and experience all this beauty and not get how precious this is," she asks with typical intensity as we walk near her town’s harbor and bald eagles soar above us. "I love this place so much, and I can't even let myself feel all my emotions when I'm working on this issue, because I wouldn't be able to function."
The late afternoon sun is just beginning to hint at the evening to come as she stares out into the waters of the Gulf, takes several deep breaths, and says, “We have to defend our lifestyle here, because if we don't do it, who else is going to do it? If the Navy destroys the Gulf of Alaska, they can just leave, while we’re the ones who have to live with whatever is left."
“The Navy Is Getting Away With Murder”
My trip to Alaska to report on the upcoming war games began in the small ski town of Girdwood, a 40-minute drive east of Anchorage. There, Stolarcyk and I met up with her colleague, Christina Hendrickson, as they continued their efforts to push the Navy’s schedule for the war games out of prime wildlife season. Hendrickson, who specializes in environmental law, is a former defense contractor. Like two high-octane lawyers before a big trial, she and Stolarcyk instantly begin talking a mile a minute about what their next moves should be.
They bring me up to speed on the latest Navy maneuvers in what is now a publicity war over Northern Edge 17 and the way its officials have officially opted to "work with the stakeholders." On the other hand, as Hendrickson points out to me, “they have refused to meet with Emily and myself" — and, as it happened at that point, me, too. I'd recently contacted Captain Anastasia Schmidt, director of public affairs for Alaska Command in Anchorage, to arrange a meeting and my request had been denied.
Unfortunately, as Hendrickson points out, the permits the Navy requested from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service allow them to war game their hearts out in the Gulf for the next five years without taking the slightest responsibility for analyzing the potential impact of their actions or dealing with the myriad species migrating through the area during the training period. While those who fish here must adhere to environmental standards, the Navy doesn’t have to.
"Imagine that you have a friend who is a subsistence fisherman,” Hendrickson says, “who is looking at his nets each season, and on the seasons the Navy trains, there seems to be less fish in them, and there are less whales returning, and then there’s a huge Murre die off. There are sick sea otters or sea otters not returning at all. It's obvious to me that the Navy is not connecting these dots."
I ask her what exactly drives her on this issue and she stares out the window at the still snow-covered trees, then looks me dead in the eyes and says, "The Navy is getting away with murder and that upsets me."
“If It Walks, Swims, or Crawls, I’ve Fished It”
Stolarcyk and I fly on to Kodiak Island where we meet up with Tom Lance, the natural resources director for the Sun'aq tribe. We’re there so that the two of them can make a presentation to the island’s Borough Assembly in hopes of inspiring another Alaskan community to pass a resolution against the timing of the exercises.
Lance and I sit down in a café on the outskirts of town and he immediately begins describing the massive whale carcasses floating in the Gulf of Alaska after Northern Edge 15, many of which washed ashore on Kodiak. As he points out, just before those war games began, the Sun'aq and Afognak tribes "admonished the DOD [Department of Defense] for not respecting their people and their resources, and demanded that NE 15 not take place. The Navy told the tribal council representatives, basically, 'thank you.'"
After essentially being blown off, the tribes requested another meeting, which only happened after the exercises were over. At that time, they insisted that the Navy change the season for the next set of exercises to late fall or winter and the location as well. "Another condition was for them to account for fish take [that is, the disturbance or destruction of fish populations], as if it were a commercial fishing operation where they are given a total allowable catch. To this they responded that they don't harvest fish, so why should they have to track that?"
"From my observation,” Lance says, “I see an undercurrent of frustration within the tribes and the community of fishermen that the Navy is going to do what they are going to do no matter what we say." He takes a last sip of coffee and concludes, "Everybody is so focused on the short run right now, they’re forgetting about the long run. If we don't save the ocean as a potential place to farm, we're not going to be able to feed ourselves in the future."
Later, I visit with Alexus Kwachka, a Kodiak commercial fisherman for the last 30 years. A bear of a man, he shakes my hand vigorously while welcoming me into his home, which overlooks Kodiak's massive harbor. When I ask him what he’s fished for, he responds, "If it walks, swims, or crawls, I've fished it."
He wastes no time going after the Navy. “I question their timing. They say they don't want to train in the winter and instead they plan it for during the largest migratory period of marine life and birds here." Fishermen on the island, he assures me, are increasingly apprehensive about the Navy's plans and its impact on their livelihoods, even though "folks here are patriotic and support the military.”
Prior to Northern Edge 15, Kwachka lined his boat up with dozens of others in the harbor in protest. Now, he’s concerned again and feels slighted that the military doesn’t consider his voice worth listening to. He says emphatically, "We’re worried about the fact that they are allowed to bring in a load of boats and blow shit up all over the place." If they do that, he tells me, the ill effects "start out with the little guys then go up through the whole food web, which is another reason not to do it in the Spring when the forage fish are both reproducing and traveling. It’s just not a good time to be introducing toxins and blowing things up on top of them. The chemical fallout from those explosions goes down through the food web and is eaten or absorbed by the fish."
“Food Security Is National Security”
That evening, Stolarcyk, Lance, and I head over to the Kodiak Island borough building for their meeting. In a small, cramped basement room, several members of the assembly are around a table, while the rest of us are seated on chairs along the walls.
The two of them give their brief talks with a slide show. As soon as they’re done, Councilman Matt Van Deale indicates that he’ll sponsor the resolution they want, adding, "Food security is national security and we are a fishing town." A second councilperson responds favorably to the resolution as others nod.
Suddenly, Councilman Kyle Crow speaks up, questioning the threat of toxic wastes. "I know about how hazardous waste is defined and I've seen folks declare a block of concrete with a chip of paint on it as hazardous waste." Stolarcyk promptly projects a slide she’s already shown that displays a chart taken from the Navy’s environmental impact statement indicating that more than five tons of toxic materials could be introduced into the fertile fishing areas of the Gulf each time the Navy conducts a training event.
Crow also questions the dangers of the Navy's use of sonar, comparing theirs to what he uses on his own fishing boat. Again, Stolarcyk pulls up a slide showing that the Navy's sonar generates audible blasts up to 235 decibels — humans begin to suffer hearing damage at 85 decibels — that travel for thousands of miles across the ocean. Crow nods in response to the new information, given that it is straight out of the Navy's own documents.
Councilman Larry LeDoux then requests that the assembly hear the Navy's side of the story and insists that such war games are necessary, as is the missile testing already happening on Kodiak, because of North Korea's ability to reach the United States with a missile. (Not that it can yet.)
Despite these bumps, the majority of the assembly appears to favor the resolution.
The next morning Lance shares an email he sent to councilman Van Deale, thanking him for volunteering to sponsor the resolution. "It is hard to understand,” he wrote to Van Deale, “how some people in Kodiak's local government (and outside) distrust others who work to protect the sustainability of the very resources that have built the same Kodiak Archipelago economy and heritage!"
Two weeks later, Kodiak became the 10th Alaskan community to pass a resolution opposing the timing and location of the Navy’s exercises.
A day after that, in a letter to the commanders of the Navy's Pacific Fleet and U.S. Pacific Command, Senator Murkowski, who is also the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, requested that the Navy “give serious thought” to changing the timing of the 2019 war games and moving their location due to impacts on marine life. “I expect to address these issues with senior leaders when the Navy appears before the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee next month,” she wrote.
“We Just Don’t Know How Bad It’s Going to Be”
Cordova is the image of what coastal Alaska once was. There are no cruise ships and the fishing industry still dominates the town, although some of its fisheries were wiped out in 1989 when the tanker Exxon Valdez spilled at least 11 million gallons of crude oil and they have never recovered.
Two years ago, I met James Wiese here. He is an engineer on an Alaska Department of Fish and Game research vessel. A third generation Cordova mariner, he’s also a local city councilman. At that time, he was already expressing his fears that someday his children might not be able to eat the food that comes out of these waters. He returned to the subject recently, telling me, "Anyone trying to consume seafood here knows how fragile everything is and is very concerned about what is going to happen to it because it's part of their everyday life." He adds that, within his department, the bulk of his colleagues support the resolutions calling on the Navy to alter its plans.
Cordova, he assures me, is "very much in opposition to the training" and still can’t believe the Navy is unable to find a time for their exercises when the salmon and the rest of the sea life in the Gulf aren't at their height. "It's a food web and if salmon get tested and show contaminants from the Navy, everything is at stake. There are safer places for these Navy drills to happen. They need to be conscientious about what they are affecting."
Clay Koplin is Cordova’s mayor. "It's pretty simple," he tells me. "The Navy has the whole span of the year to practice and they picked the absolute worst time to do their exercise. We asked for a conversation in hope of changing the timing," he adds, turning his hands over in a gesture of puzzlement. "That's how a conversation works. We hoped to find some middle ground, but thus far there's been nothing to indicate they are willing to find that middle ground."
That same day, I meet Kelly Weaverling, the first Green Party mayor ever elected in this country. He took office in Cordova in 1990, right after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. A former naval navigator in nuclear fast-attack submarines, he is now a Zen Buddhist monk as well as a fisherman.
Sporting a shaved head and dressed in a black Zen robe, grey turtleneck, and sandals with wool socks, Weaverling strides in quietly, yet purposefully, having come straight from leading a three-hour meditation for the community. "What the Navy is doing, we know it is going to be bad," he begins calmly. "We just don't know how bad it's going to be. It's pretty easy to figure out. Anybody can do that."
I ask him to explain and he responds, as though instructing me before one of his meditation sessions, "Is something positive, negative, or neutral is the question. Anything you do is going to have an effect, even if it’s a non-action... So the question is, what effect is it going to have? The Navy's action will not have a positive effect on the ocean or any of its creatures. It's going to be a negative effect, we just don't know how bad."
“In Your Backyard?”
In the end, I even received a response from Captain Schmidt of the Alaska Command, who agreed to answer some of my questions by email. I asked her what measures the Navy had taken in the wake of NE 15 to mitigate impacts on marine life. She responded by claiming flatly and without qualification that the new exercises would have "no significant impacts to marine life," and that the Navy had already gone through "an extensive and comprehensive permit process" with the National Marine Fisheries Service (as they are, in fact, required to do by law).
Why then, I wondered, do its commanders refuse to allow independent wildlife observers aboard their vessels during the training exercises?
To do so, she insisted "would result in unacceptable impacts to readiness," an odd response given that the only “impact” would assumedly be the use of binoculars.
As Northern Edge 2017 approaches, one thing is clear enough. Despite growing opposition in Alaska, the Navy continues to do just what it wants in the state’s once-pristine, biologically rich Gulf waters. Who knows how long it will be before parts of its vast marine web begin to test positive for the Navy's toxins?
As a journalist, I’ve spent time in Iraq and seen the devastation the U.S. military can visit on a society firsthand. But I must admit that I never expected to see it in Alaska, whose tallest mountains I spent a decade of my life climbing — where, thanks to Denali (the highest peak in North America), I fell madly in love with this planet. As someone who now regularly reports on climate disruption, I wonder daily how many more decades whole areas of the biosphere will even remain habitable. At a purely personal level, that makes the Navy’s ongoing war against Alaska’s waters and the wildlife in them unconscionable to me. And in the age of Trump, it’s unlikely the Navy high command will spend much time worrying about the environmental damage its war games are likely to cause.
For most Americans, Alaska is, of course, a distant, almost mythic place. But don’t be fooled. In Alaska, there’s a broader lesson to be learned from these war games. Christina Hendrickson makes the point in a way that speaks vividly to my own life experience. “If the Navy is able to come up to this pristine, biologically, ecologically and economically important area and train for war across three training cycles spanning six years and not engage local communities,” she says, “and if we're allowing this to happen in areas where subsistence is carried out by people who have relied on it for millennia, why couldn't this happen in your backyard?"
Dahr Jamail, a TomDispatch regular, is a recipient of numerous honors, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for his work in Iraq. He is the author of two books: Beyond the Green Zone and The Will to Resist. His next book will be The End of Ice (the New Press). He is a staff reporter for Truthout. This is a joint TomDispatch/Truthout report.
Copyright 2017 Dahr Jamail
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UWIMAA CANADA'S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2020 GOES TO DR GARTH SMITH
The 2020 Annual General Meeting was held via Zoom for public health purposes.
A tribute to Dr Garth Smith was made by Dr Moodie, recognising his work in developmental paediatrics and especially his work with the First Nations people of Canada.
Dr Moodie presented the award virtually and Dr Smith accepted it and expressed gratitude.
Dr. R Garth Smith graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1981. After completing a Rotating Internship at the Mona Campus, he accepted a Residency Position in Pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1982. He was elected Chief Resident in 1986, and during that year co-Edited the Hospital for Sick Children Residents’ Handbook, published in 1987. He completed a Perinatal Fellowship at Women’s College Hospital in 1988. After doing 9-years of a Consulting Pediatric Practice in Chatham, Ontario, and obtaining further training in Developmental Pediatrics in Chapel Hill, NC, he was successful in obtaining the position of Developmental Pediatrician and subsequently Medical Director of the then Child Development Centre, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Queen’s University. In 2007, he was successful in being promoted to Associate Professor. He works with children with a wide range of Developmental Disabilities including Autism, Neuromuscular Disorders, Hearing Impairment, Acquired Brain Injuries and others. He also works with First Nation Children with disabilities from the James Bay Region. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals, and a a recent chapter on Update in Autism Spectrum Disorder , in a textbook, Update in Pediatrics (Springer, 2018).
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What has changed and what has not changed. Future known changes. And those we don’t know about yet. The world’s current state of uncertainty has created enough anxiety in the C-suites that analysts are being replaced with fortunetellers.
Wow! We made it to December! Time flew as many of us wanted 2020 to go by as fast as possible. And we did it. Now we look forward to a good — or at least a better — 2021. We have so many things to catch up on, so many places to visit, and so many business models to fine-tune…
The best way to do all those things, at least in our industry, is through face-to-face, in-person meetings and live markets. Not at conferences, seminars, or lectures. Enough with talk. Let’s now move into action.
As we all know, the entertainment industry is changing. It has not yet completely changed, but it is getting there, and we need to physically interact in order to figure out the best ways to deal with the changes.
There are a number of elements that have not changed when it comes to the entertainment industry. Among them are production creativity, the need to advertise, the need for content, and the need for face-to-face meetings.
What has changed, in the meanwhile, are production financing methods, adver-tising strategies, content re-quirements, and a reduced number of face-to-face meetings between industry execs.
We also have to deal with a return to the past. The U.S. TV industry was formed and continues to be shaped by hardware companies (see RCA, GE, and now Comcast with NBCUniversal; Sony with Columbia; and AT&T with WarnerMedia). Soon, tech companies will extend their reaches to many other TV entities.
The past is also reflected in the consolidation trend, in the creation of dominant positions, and in reduced regulations. Under these conditions, it is difficult to talk about evolution.
The future — mainly represented by streaming technology and services — combined with past practices, is causing confusion never before seen at corporate levels.
No C-suite is free from anxiety.
If we look back at the times when the TV industry was concentrated into a few entities, we’ll see that the challenge for them was how to best leverage a single technology. And when technology began offering more options, new companies came along to satisfy them (thanks to regulations that reduced concentrations of power). In those years, salaries were relatively low, generating more job opportunities and mo-bility for executives, which made managers less afraid to take chances.
Nowadays, corporations find themselves with the same concentrated power of many years ago, but with many more technological options that are causing confusion, insecurity, anxiety, and indecisiveness (they call it “disruption”). However, corporate executives cannot openly show their fears, or they’d risk losing out on huge paydays. And because of mergers and acquisitions, top positions are not easy to come by.
Corporations must instead rely on surveys, statistics, and predictions in order to deal with all of those challenges. Expect C-suites to start hiring fortunetellers, tarot card readers, and astrologers any day now.
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International Cadet
The Cadet is a class of sailing dinghy designed to be sailed by two children up to the age of 17. It is a one-design class, originally designed by Jack Holt in 1947. Cadets are sailed worldwide in more than 40 countries.
The boat is crewed by two people and sails with a bermuda rigged mainsail, jib and spinnaker. The Cadet is the only recognised two persons youth-boat by World Sailing (formerly ISAF) as an International Competitive Youth Sailing Class since 1958. Over 10,000 Cadets have been built worldwide by registered licensed builders on four continents. The Cadet is sailed internationally throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Originally made of wood, the majority of the international fleet is now constructed of fibreglass. The strongest fleets are currently situated in the Ukraine, Poland, Belgium, Australia and Argentina. Argentine sailors won 14 world championships in the 20-year period between 1991 and 2010. The Cadet is 3.2 metres long, 1.38 m wide, and weighs 54 kilograms.[4] With the centerboard up, the hull draft is 16 cm; the mast is deck-stepped and 5.22 m high, the mainsail area is 3.9 m2, the jib 1.26 m2 and the spinnaker 4.25 m2. The side decks are designed so that a capsize normally does not fill the hull with water. In a mixed fleet, the Cadet has a Portsmouth Yardstick handicap of 1428, the second-slowest in the PY scheme.
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SPORT WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY FEATURE
Zwim gives swimmers a heads-up display through its goggles
The South Korean startup is looking to halt workout interruptions in the pool
If you're a runner, flicking your wrist and keeping an eye on pace or distance is fairly natural. The same goes for cyclists, who simply need to wait for a safe time to look down at their piece of wearable tech or their bike to check on progress.
It's the same for swimmers if you have a decent swimming watch, but what if you want to see all of your data without having to touch a button or attempt to swipe a touchscreen with your wet fingers?
Read this: Best waterproof fitness trackers
Step forward Zwim and its heads-up display (HUD) built into a pair of goggles. The South Korean company, which features engineering graduates from Seoul National University, is now looking for $20,000 from Indiegogo backers ahead of its expected arrival next May. Early bird offers begin at $199, which is almost half of its eventual retail price of $380.
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"I swim around three times a week and also train for triathlons, and the desire came from my personal experience," Zwim CEO Taegoo Kang told us. "I usually use a Garmin smartwatch, but it didn't solve the problem of trying to track my progress because I would have to stop and check it all the time.
"A few years ago there was no real solution for trying to track your heart rate in the water. So I searched around on Amazon, eBay, everywhere, and eventually, after not being able to find anything, decided to design and produce the solution myself."
The result was Zwim, a pair of goggles which feature a module that allows users to tap into a HUD and view a range of metrics without interrupting their activity. In total, Kang indicated that 23 sets of data can be thrown to the user, including detailed information on heart rate – such as current heart rate zone, the session average and a graph of heart rate progress – as well as more basic metrics: calories, time elapsed, lap time and lap count.
And despite so much going on in the lens, Kang noted that test wearers have not found the presence of data too distracting.
"We have had many testers and they don't find it particularly off-putting," he said. "In fact, we found that competitive swimmers were particularly excited about being able to see their lap times and heart rate.
"So far we haven't seen any device in the market that allows users to do what we do for swimming, so while it will take time to be adopted by ordinary people, it's something serious swimmers will appreciate from the start."
Development has not all been straightforward for Zwim, though, despite now making waves towards its funding goal. After initially launching and raising over $16,000 on Kickstarter, the company decided to cancel the project in order to re-launch at a different price point.
"Zwim is now cheaper – initially it was $300 on Kickstarter and now it's $200 – and it's something we wanted to do because we had many people complain about the pricing. We know this is kind of an unusual decision, but we thought it would be better, even if it meant taking away a couple of features for now, to offer the goggles at a lower price," Kang explained.
Crowdfund this?
So after two years of development and several design iterations, Zwim is almost ready to make the jump into swimming pools across the world – but whether you should dip into your pockets and back the project is another matter.
Kang indicated to us that his team is 80% of the way there in terms of securing the likes of manufacturing partners and supply chain logistics, though, as always with production, delays can happen unexpectedly. And in terms of patents, the company has locked up files for its design while continuing to work on patents for its technology.
It's worth pointing out that this isn't the first swimming tracker looking to project its insights from the lens of user's goggles. There was also Instabeat's smart googles, which were supposed to ship in 2013 and have been dogged by delays. They still haven't launched. Until now, nobody has broken into the area and made it their own, despite plenty of promise. If Zwim can deliver everything it sets out to do, it could prove to be just that.
However, we imagine that unless you're a dedicated swimmer who has grown seriously tired of checking your wrist when training, the price may still be too steep for this kind of tech.
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Origins of the earliest Christian settlers
Glastonbury Abbey is connected with legend to a degree that is unparalleled by any other abbey in England.
Since Medieval times it has held legendary status as the earliest Christian foundation in Britain linked to Joseph of Arimathea and the burial place of King Arthur.
The internationally renowned site attracts visitors from around the world for its history, heritage, myths and legends as well as for its spiritual enrichment and there has been a church on the site for at least 1500 years with evidence of even earlier occupation.
Glastonbury was the richest monastery in England at the end of the Saxon period and was second only to Westminster at the close of the middle ages.
Its Abbot lived in considerable splendour and wielded tremendous power with the main surviving example of this power and wealth to be found in the Abbot’s Kitchen, one of only three surviving medieval examples in the world.
It’s history is intertwined with English traditions; one of its Abbots – St Dunstan, wrote the Coronation words last used for the coronation of our present Queen Elizabeth II and William Blake’s popular “Jerusalem” is said to be written about the story that a young Jesus, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathea, visited Glastonbury.
The Holy Thorn which grows at Glastonbury Abbey has become part of the legend of Joseph of Arimathea. According to the story when Joseph arrived in Britain he landed on the island of Avalon and climbed up Wearyall Hill, exhausted he thrust his staff into the ground and rested. By morning his staff had taken root and it grew into the miraculous thorn tree which flowers every Easter and Christmas.
In 1191 the monks told the world they had found the bodies of King Arthur and his Queen found on the south side of the Lady Chapel. On 19th April 1278 their remains were removed in the presence of King Edward 1 and Queen Eleanor to a black marble tomb within the abbey itself. The tomb survived until the dissolution of the abbey in 1539.
In 1536, during the 27th year of the reign of Henry VIII, there were over 800 monasteries, nunneries and friaries in Britain. By 1541 there were none and the last abbot of Glastonbury, Richard Whiting was hung, drawn and quartered on Glastonbury Tor; a brutal end for a pious man.
Today it is a tranquil setting in which visitors can discover the stories behind Glastonbury Abbey with tours from costumed Living History presenters in the grounds; these tours are free but should be booked in advance for groups.
A packed events calendar brings theatre, concerts, exhibitions and workshops to the abbey grounds every year and the abbey’s spectacular Night at the Abbey in September is not to be missed. School and university groups can enjoy tailor-made itineraries and there are specific activities for families too.
An accredited museum showcases items from the abbey’s history and gives more information about the chronology of events, archaeological finds and gives an insight into monastic life. There are 36 acres of parkland to explore with a dedicated wildlife area as well as new Medieval Kitchen Garden.
Groups are welcomed with a pre-booked meet and greet service available too and a special rate; driver and tour guide go free.
A full access statement is on the abbey’s website – www.glastonburyabbey.com – along with maps in 14 different languages.
Find us on Facebook /GlastonburyAbbeySomerset, follow us on Twitter @Glastonburyabbe or give us a call on 01458 832267.
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Cineworld Broad Street Parking
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Cineworld Birmingham is located on Broad Street, just down the road from the International Convention Centre. You’ll find it in the Five Ways Entertainment Centre; a shopping centre with a gym, restaurants, a casino, and the Cineworld cinema. The centre has two multi-storey car parks, offering a total of 751 parking spaces.
Birmingham is located in central England and is home to just over 1.1 million residents. One of the United Kingdom's five major ballet companies, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, is based here, and authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and J. R. R. Tolkien have lived in areas within Birmingham. Birmingham is home to the largest St Patrick's Day parade in Europe outside Dublin, and the UK’s largest two-day Gay Pride. The Birmingham Wholesale Markets are the largest combined wholesale food markets in England. The founder of the Cadbury chocolate company, John Cadbury, was also born in Birmingham.
Cineworld began in 1995 and is the 2nd largest cinema business in the world (by number of screens). It operates in 10 territories (the UK, Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel and America), has 787 sites, 9,500 screens, and employs around 37,482 people. In 2019, it earned 4.37 billion dollars in revenue.
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Dudley Street car park - 0.78 miles away.
Ludgate Hill car park - 0.85 miles away.
Pershore Street multi-storey car park - 0.88 miles away.
Snow Hill multi-storey car park - 0.9 miles away.
Jewellery Quarter multi-storey car park - 0.97 miles away.
Markets multi-storey car park - 0.99 miles away.
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The International Convention Centre is just 12 minutes’ walk away, and offers 10 halls and 10 meeting rooms across 5 levels. Nearby, you’ll also find the Arena Birmingham, a popular venue for concerts, sporting events, and exhibitions.
The National SEA LIFE Centre is less than 10 minutes’ walk away and is home to penguins, sea turtles, sharks, octopus, tropical fish, seahorses, jellyfish, eels, rays, and even piranhas.
The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is right in the centre of Birmingham. It opened in 1885 and has over 40 galleries that display art and applied art, social history, archaeology and ethnography. It has artifacts that span 7 centuries of history, including some from Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt. Alongside the permanent galleries, there is a range of exhibitions which change throughout the year and offer something new to see.
About 15 minutes’ drive south of Birmingham is Cadbury World. Here, you can learn about how Cadbury began and how they make their products, explore the world’s biggest Cadbury store, and even have a go at making your own chocolate. It’s a self-guided tour, so you can explore everything at your own pace.
By Train: The Five Ways train station is a 10-minute walk away and services the West Midlands Trains line.
By Bus: There is a bus stop just across the road from the Five Ways Entertainment Centre which services the 9 Platinum, 12, 12A, 13, 13A, 126, X8 Platinum, and X10 Platinum lines.
By tram: The Library tram station is a 15-minute walk away and services the West Midlands Metro line.
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Where is Cineworld Birmingham?
It is located on Broad Street, inside the Five Ways Entertainment Centre.
What is Cineworld?
Cineworld is the 2nd largest cinema business in the world (by number of screens). It operates in the UK, Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel and America, and has 787 sites in total (128 of those are within the UK). It has 9,500 screens and around 37,482 employees.
What is there to do in Birmingham?
Birmingham is the 2nd largest city in the UK, and the city centre is bursting with things to see and do. You could go and watch the sharks being fed at the National SEA LIFE Centre, then go and see the beautiful stained glass windows at St. Philip's Cathedral. The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is the perfect spot to learn some history and see some beautiful artwork. For all the book worms out there, the Library of Birmingham is Europe’s largest public library. And, after a quick drive, you can find yourself at the largest Cadbury store in the world.
Birmingham Registry Office 0.3 miles away
Barclaycard Arena 0.4 miles away
Birmingham Library 0.5 miles away
Birmingham Hippodrome 0.7 miles away
The Covasettes 3rd February 2021
Red 4th February 2021
House & Garage Orchestra 6th February 2021
The Springsteen Sessions 7th February 2021
BiG HEATH 11th February 2021
Five Ways Station 0.2 miles away
Birmingham New Street Station 0.8 miles away
Birmingham Snow Hill Station 0.9 miles away
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We park here often when visiting family - wish it was more reasonably priced as it is quite expensive for a full day. Staff at the Lansdowne are so helpful, thank you.
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I found it great. I had a job in the station, didn't know how long it was going to take, really close by. 9-2pm just a fiver..... Bargain, felt secure too.
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There was nothing bad about this car parking space!!! I booked the space on the 19th Sep, I got the keys on the 20th. The guy was so lovely! He even met me when his partner was in labour. He also would check in to see if i'm still happy with the space. Also one day I came back to the car park and there was an unknown car in my space, they obviously drove in when the doors were open, thinking it was okay. When I phoned the guy, he immediately sorted the problem, I parked in a different space until the car was moved (It was the same day!). He was also lovely when I told him, I had to leave!
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I found a free bay every time. Good security, telecamera surveillance right next to the main entrance in the hotel. Overall satisfied.
Great and safe parking in the heart of the city. Had no problems going in and out.
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Really good location, very easy to find, very helpful staff always available to help. Will continue to park there after they reopen after Christmas I hope
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World War II Veteran Robert K. Hensman, 95, went to be with his Savior on November 21, 2020. He was living at the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. Robert was born June 14, 1925 in Wallace, Nebraska, the oldest of two sons born to John W. Hensman Jr. and Marion (Ames) Hensman.
Bob attended elementary school in Cheyenne, Wyoming and graduated from high school in Red Cloud, Nebraska, class of 1942. He was a member of the football team, baseball team and choir. He attended one semester of college at Hastings before he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in July of 1943. He began his training at the Jefferson Barracks in Lemay, Missouri. Bob continued training at the University of Minnesota; Santa Ana, California; Thunderbird Field in Phoenix, Arizona and Minter Field in Bakersfield, California. In November 1944, Robert received the silver wings of a pilot at LaJunta Army Air Field, Colorado, advanced two-engine school of the AAF Training Command, graduating as a 2nd Lieutenant. Robert then graduated from the photo reconnaissance pilot school at the Coffeyville, Kansas Army Air Field April 14, 1945. He was trained to fly the famed P-38 Lightning. In combat, his duties were to fly over enemy territory and return to his base with photographic evidence of enemy activity.
At the end of the war, Robert returned to Nebraska and attended Wesleyan University. He graduated in 1952 with a BA in Education, Music and Social Studies. Robert was a member of the Gamma Gamma Gamma Fraternity and sang in the Wesleyan Chapel Choir. Bob married the love of his life, Shirley Meyer on December 23, 1950 and they settled in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Two years later in 1952 Robert and Shirley settled in Wyoming after Bob received a position as a music teacher at the middle school in Worland. He later earned a MA in Counseling and became the middle school Counselor. Their first son Kent was born February 16, 1956 and their second child, Mark was born February 27, 1958. Robert retired in 1985 after 33 years with the Washakie School District #1. After retirement, Bob and Shirley traveled to many countries and states and then settled in Leisure World in Mesa, AZ until they returned to Worland in 2000. Bob and Shirley celebrated 69 years together.
Bob was a member of the First United Methodist Church where he and Shirley sang in the choir. Bob enjoyed golfing, fly fishing, hunting, playing bridge, traveling, working in his flower and vegetable gardens and spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In addition to his wife Shirley, he was preceded in death by his parents and stepmother Grace (Adele), brother John, uncle Bill, aunt Alice, brother-in-law, Harry, and a great-grandson, Keden Sportsman. Survivors include sons, Kent and his wife Linda of Worland, Mark and his wife Diane of Powell; three grandchildren, Brandie Hensman, Jeff Kordonowy, and Heather Hensman; three great-grandchildren, Gwyneth, Jeff Jr., and Reece; sister-in-law, Sharlet Burkey of Lincoln, Nebraska; nephew, Greg: nieces; Sandra and Kiley: cousins, Whit, Anne, James, Christine, Kathy, and Donald.
A service of remembrance will be held in January at the First United Methodist Church in Worland. Those who wish to remember Bob in a special way may make gifts in his memory to: St Jude’s Cancer Center or The First United Methodist Church in Worland and send them to PO Box 524, Worland, Wyoming 82401. Online condolences may be made at http://www.bryantfuneralhomeononline.com.
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A.T. Still University is a privately held graduate health sciences institution, best known for being the founding school of osteopathic medicine. For most of its history, ATSU was a single-campus, one-college institution. Over the past 25 years, however, the university has grown rapidly. Founded as the American School of Osteopathy by Andrew Taylor Still in 1892, what began in a two-room building in Kirksville, Missouri, has evolved into a multi-campus university with 3,100 students from over 35 countries. Today it boasts six colleges, with an additional campus in Mesa, Arizona, and eight clinics with more than 100,000 annual patient visits.
Their guiding principles are to serve as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs with a commitment to continue its osteopathic heritage and focus on whole person healthcare, scholarship, community health, inter-professional education, diversity, and underserved populations.
“Because much of ATSU’s life was as a ‘one-college school’, historically budgeting was simple,” explained Tonya Grimm, Assistant Vice President of Finance/Controller and an 18-year employee of the university. “The process was handled entirely by the Chief Financial Officer, who had direct knowledge of the single college, the dean’s needs, and where money needed to be allocated.”
As the university grew, the number of people involved in the budgeting process grew, with assorted deans, operating unit managers, and university executives outlining needs for their respective areas. In 2008, ATSU brought on dedicated budget personnel. Using Excel, the team began passing spreadsheets around. “The budget process was not well-defined, the process for decision-making was confusing, and the finance office was attempting to make decisions that should have been made by deans and other vice presidents,” said Grimm. “We lacked the complete picture to know what was important to them.”
“It was a fairly siloed approach between our different academic units,” added Courtney Bonnell, Director of Budgeting and Planning, who joined ATSU in 2013 after a 14-year career in banking. “We had a lot of work to do to arrive at a point where we could all collaborate together and move forward. When the CFO came on board and looked at the budget with all of the requests, he described it as a ‘list of wants, hopes, and dreams.’”
A window into the larger picture was missing, and there was little to no communication on detail behind a budget request, and rationale for increases or new line items. Grimm explained: “We used to get phone calls all of the time from managers questioning expenses and not remembering whether they budgeted for something like memberships, for example. They would ask us, ‘Did I budget for this membership?’ And we’d respond, ‘We don’t know. You told us you needed $2,000 in memberships. But we don’t know why or what the reasoning was behind your request.’”
At the same time, ATSU had decided to implement their own version of zero-based budgeting with a 5-year rotating cycle. Each school goes through zero based budgeting once every five years. Zero-based budgeting encourages examining the shifting priorities of a fast-growing organization. Not an easy feat to accomplish across 6 colleges!
They also brought the previously outsourced five-year forecasting in house. “We’d been getting those forecasts as a PDF document and because it was static, it was almost immediately outdated as soon as we received it,” said Grimm.
The tools on hand were no longer right for the university’s changing needs. They needed a tool that would foster communication and collaboration, that would encourage strategic thinking among all users, and would help manage long-term as well as year-to-year budgeting.
“When we looked at where we were going over time, we knew we needed a very different solution,” said Bonnell. “And BudgetPak was a very attractive option. Not only did it have everything we needed, it was easy to use.”
The XLerant Team encourages a train-the-trainer approach for the BudgetPak product so the university can easily self-manage onboarding new users and provide refreshers to those who haven’t used the system recently. “We had wonderful support from the team at XLerant. They were able to really walk us through each and every step of set-up and preparation,” shared Bonnell. “Then they assisted us as we trained our users ‘live’ for the first time.”
With the new system up and running, it was now much easier to introduce new processes. “Budgeting is typically a six- to seven-month process at ATSU, beginning in September. Deans and vice-presidents receive an initial memo, so they can start their planning and be aware of due dates,” explained Bonnell.
The budget is due in early February, giving a several-month window for departments to discuss needs and start entering details in BudgetPak. Rolling deadlines help to ensure the process keeps pace. “Our first big deadline is in mid- October,” Bonnell shared. “That’s where we’re really looking for the big pieces of our budget puzzle. We want to have a full list from them by the middle of October of their needs in relation to capital, new positions, and new initiatives.”
In-person meetings help the finance team understand priorities from deans and vice presidents. Bonnell explained, “There is an incredibly strong relationship between the academic departments, where most of our revenue dollars come from, and the finance office. The relationship we have with the leaders in those areas are imperative to the success of our plan. The president and the board of trustees are also very well informed on the goal and the process. So it’s really been a wonderful implementation for us.”
“What’s interesting and what’s really fun about this is it gives us the opportunity to be transparent,” Bonnell said. “Transparency was a big part of what was missing. Faculty and staff didn’t understand who was making these decisions and why they were deciding to do what they did. Getting the schedule out in front of them, reminding them whose turn it is to do zero-based budgeting this year is key.”
Because the software allows involvement starting at the departmental level, those managers now own their own budgets and can build their department-level strategy. And since 90% of the ATSU revenue is tuition-driven, the academic departments really are the driving force of the university.
“The primary benefit that I have seen is the ability to enter the detail behind the individual budget lines,” said Grimm. “The departments thought that we were keeping track of what’s in that dollar amount and we thought they were keeping track, and really no one was. A lot of times the requests were arbitrary. ‘Oh, we asked for $5,000 last year. We’re going to ask for $6,000 this year.’”
In addition to tracking budget line details over time, and the ability to carry that detail forward every year, BudgetPak helped with collaboration. Instead of getting lost in acres of spreadsheets, staff were able to easily focus on their department and their needs, as well as to understand and participate in the decision making process more easily.
“It really did help dismantle the siloes,” said Bonnell. “The system allows staff to focus on their department and their needs, while understanding what’s going on with the broader picture. And it serves as a communication channel for adjustments and updates.”
BudgetPak also made it much easier to tackle zero-based budgeting (ZBB). Using a hybrid approach, the ATSU team broke up the ZBB process into a rotating 5-year cycle. This approach broke the complex ZBB process into obtainable pieces and enabled the team to develop the process as they go. “We couldn’t have done it without an innovative system in place that everyone can actually use,” said Grimm. “Because BudgetPak stores all the historical details, it’s easy to bring the data forward and our managers are excited about the tools they now have available to them. They feel like they are a partner in the process.”
We can involve everyone at every level in the organization in the budget development process, and now because of the proper communication and transparency they know what is happening. They are very supportive of the way that we are spending the tuition dollars that are coming into the university,” said Bonnell. “Buy-in is essential for transitioning your budget process and getting everyone on board with the strategic plan.”
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LGBTQ advocates call for passage of Equality Act
by: Morgan Wright
Posted: Apr 1, 2019 / 09:27 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 1, 2019 / 10:41 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Legislation seeking to update American Civil Rights laws to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity may be heard by House lawmakers this week.
Democrats say the Equality Act would provide stronger protections for members of the LGBTQ community. Advocates such as Sarah McBride of the Human Rights Campaign are hoping for swift action from Congress.
“In 30 states, LGBTQ people are still at risk of being fired from their job, denied housing, or refused services simply because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” McBride said.
“Every person in every corner of this country should be treated with dignity and fairness,” she continued. “That simple but profound principle is at the heart of the Equality Act.”
The measure would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
“The willingness of survivors to speak out is what has finally forced the nation to see the LGBTQ community’s barriers to the American dream,” Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pennsylvania, said.
Scanlon, who’s the vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said she’s encouraged the House will have a hearing on the topic Tuesday.
“At long last, the Equality Act will be getting the consideration it deserves,” Scanlon added.
However, some see the bill as an overreach by the government and worry it could put women’s safety at risk.
“Biggest issues are really erasing every private space in public for women. Every bathroom, every shower, every locker room,” Marybeth Waddell of the Family Research Council said.
Waddell believes the legislation isn’t needed.
“Everyone has the equal protections of laws and everyone deserves human dignity and respect and has that 100 percent,” she said.
The bill will likely pass the House but has a more difficult road ahead in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Over 735,000 COVID-19 cases in the United States as Michigan officials confirm 31,424 cases and 2,391 deaths
by: Ronnie Das
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – State officials confirm 31,424 coronavirus cases and 2,391 COVID-19 related deaths in Michigan. An increase of 633 cases and 83 deaths from yesterday.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released the number just before 3:00 p.m. today. Yesterday, the department confirmed 30,791 cases and 2,308 deaths.
The state data shows that the City of Detroit has 7,604 cases and 618 deaths, Wayne County has 6,088 cases and 501 deaths, and Oakland County has 6,109 cases and 471 deaths. The three areas have just over 63% of confirmed cases and just over 66% of deaths.
Locally, Ingham County has 308 cases and six deaths while Jackson County has 248 cases and 10 deaths.
The state is asking for COVID-19 volunteers with qualified medical training, experience and health care professionals who can volunteer their expertise.
Even if you don't have symptoms, you could spread #COVID19 to others. Protect others from getting sick: #StayHomeSaveLives. If you have symptoms, call your healthcare provider first. Learn more at https://t.co/daA3Ex8gMN. pic.twitter.com/G5sIktcTgp
— Michigan HHS Dept (@MichiganHHS) April 18, 2020
Michigan is among the top five states in confirmed coronavirus cases, just behind New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts according to numbers updated on Friday, April 17th by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The updated numbers for the country have Michigan at 29,952 cases and Pennsylvania at 29,442 cases.
According to Friday’s update from the CDC, the U.S. has 690,714 cases and 35,443 deaths in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S Virgin Islands.
The death toll in the U.S. is nearing 40,000 with more than 735,000 confirmed infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University of national health reports.
The coronavirus pandemic has increased the need for food pantries throughout the country as millions of people find themselves furloughed, laid off or with businesses that have suffered huge financial blows.
Feeding America has seen an increase in demand from 98% of its member banks, according to a recent survey. The average increase for a member was 63%, while 95% of the association’s food banks reported an increase in operating expenses, the organization said.
Pressures mounted Sunday on governments to ease the economic pain of coronavirus lockdowns after protests from those fearing for their livelihoods, and authorities responded with a wide range of possible dates and solutions.
Shutdowns that began in China in late January and spread to Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere have disrupted economic, social, cultural and religious life across the globe, plunging the world into its most painful economic slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The International Monetary Fund expects the global economy to contract 3% this year — a far bigger loss than 2009′s 0.1% after the global financial crisis.
In the U.S., supporters of President Donald Trump protested in several states Saturday, ignoring social distancing and stay-at-home orders to demand that governors end controls on public activity.
Trump is pushing to relax the U.S. lockdown by May 1, a plan that hinges partly on more testing.
Texas, Indiana and some other states have announced plans to allow some retailing and other activity to resume. Florida and South Carolina have reopened beaches, with some drawing noticeable crowds.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has criticized the federal response as inadequate, rejected pressure to reopen businesses. New York’s daily death toll fell below 550 on Saturday for the first time in two weeks, but Cuomo said hospitals are still reporting nearly 2,000 new patients a day.
“We are not at a point when we are going to be reopening anything immediately,” Cuomo said.
Some countries, like Britain, which is still deep in the middle of its outbreak, say it’s too soon to give definite lockdown easing dates.
In Germany, which has managed to significantly slow the rate of new infections since mid-March, most small stores can reopen Monday.
France’s health agency urged the public to stick to social distancing measures that have been extended until at least May 11
After six weeks of being stuck inside, Spanish authorities say children will be allowed to leave their homes beginning April 27. Spain imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe, helping drive the daily increase in confirmed infections from over 20% down to 2% for a country whose 20,000 virus deaths are only surpassed by the United States and Italy.
Albania plans to let its mining and oil industries reopen Monday, along with hundreds of businesses including small retailers, food and fish factories, farmers and fishing boats.
In Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government bowed to demands by religious leaders and agreed to keep mosques open during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
Pope Francis is urging the faithful to use the coronavirus pandemic’s “time of trial” to prepare for a future where inequalities are abolished and the poorest are no longer left behind.
“This is not some ideology,” Francis said. “It is Christianity.”
Francis traveled a few blocks outside the Vatican walls on Sunday to celebrate Mass at a nearby church to mark a special feast day dedicated to mercy. Only a few priests were in the pews given Italy’s strict virus lockdown.
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George Romney (1734-1802) Portrait of Anne Barbara Russell née Whitworth with her son Sir...
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George Romney (1734-1802) Portrait of Anne Barbara Russell née Whitworth with her son Sir Henry Russell Oil on canvas 144 x 113cm; 56¾ x 40½in Together with a framed account of the sitting by Sir Henry Russell and three books detailed below Provenance: Anne Barbara Russell (1762-1813) was the 5th daughter of Sir Charles Whitworth (1714-1778) of Leybourne, near Maidstone, Kent and his wife Martha Rose Shelley of Castle Goring, Sussex. She married Sir Henry Russell, 1st Baronet (1751-1836) as his second wife in 1782. Their eldest son, also Henry, was born in 1783. She had four more sons and five daughters. Her husband became a judge in India in 1797, Chief Justice of Bengal in 1806, and returned to England and was given a baronetcy in 1812. He survived his wife by 22 years. Sir Henry Russell 2nd Baronet (1782-1852), the little boy in the picture, was British resident at Hyderabad from 1810-1820. He features in William Dalrymple's book "The White Mughals" (Harper Collins 2002). During this period he organised what was called "The Russell Brigade" which comprised 4000 of the Nizam of Hyderabad's Irregular Cavalry under British Officers. He returned to England in 1820 and bought Swallowfield Park near Reading. The picture was in that house from 1838 until 1965 and has been in the possession of the present owner, the sitter's Great Great Grandson, since then. Included in this lot is a framed account of the inception of this painting from Sir Henry Russell, probably written in 1830's after he inherited this painting from his father who died in 1836 On coming one day to dine with my father in Bedford Row, Romney, the painter, found my mother holding me on one of the pier tables, playing with the looking glass. He said, 'That would make a very pretty picture'. 'Then' said my father 'as you think so, you shall paint it', and this picture was the consequence. It was painted in 1786/7 when I was between three and four years old. I was breeched, as it was called, the day I was four years old, the 27 May 1787. I do not remember sitting, or as I ought to call it, standing for the picture but I do remember, such are the whims of memory, my sash being sent for the colour, and I also remember my mother's green satin gown, and the table and the looking glass, both of which were painted from the reality and which were kept by my father until he went to India in 1797. To show how small the prices of even the best painters were in those days, I copy the following entry from my Father's account book. '1789. April 6. Paid Romney for Ann's picture £42.' Collins, the painter, the first day he came to Swallowfield, asked me by whom this picture had been painted? and when I told him Romney. 'Then now, he said, I know what I never knew before; how it was that Romney got his reputation'. Literature: Also included in the lot are: Ward, Humphrey and W. Roberts: Romney, a biographical and critical Essay ... with a Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Agnew & Sons, 1904, Presentation copy (50 of 350) with author's inscription (dated 1904) presenting it to Constance, Lady Russell, widow of the sitter's grandson, Sir George Russell (1828-1898) Hayley, William, Life of George Romney, 1809, 12 plates, including one after William Blake, contemporary polished calf with gilt borders and spine. From the library at Swallowfield Park. Miller Jonathan, Catalogue from the Exhibition 'On Reflection', National Gallery 1998, at which the portrait was exhibited.
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
When I come to church, I do not usually imagine God covering the divine eyes out of disgust for my worship, but this is the exact image this passage places before its readers.
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Commentary on Isaiah 1:10-18
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The poem examines the interplay of sin and sacrifice, asserting that one can negate the efficacy of the other. This is not a new theme in Israelite prophetic literature; Amos 5:21-24 makes a similar assertion. Social injustice nullifies sacrificial good.
It is interesting that this message is part of the opening of the book of Isaiah. The first 39 chapters of the book reflect the devastating invasion of the Assyrian army into the Levant in the eighth century BCE. The Assyrians had built a powerful military force and sought to control the whole Fertile Crescent. First they fought with Babylon for control of Mesopotamia, then set their sights westward, hoping eventually to conquer Egypt. Nations like Israel and Judah stood in their way. The prophecies in the first part of the book contain oracles and later material that address the widespread devastation wrought by the Assyrians. The larger nation of Israel fell to this army in 722, and Jerusalem itself was besieged, teetering on the brink of disaster. The verses immediately preceding this passage reference this siege.
Although the book of Isaiah is often associated with its amazing poems of hope, for a utopian world, much more frequent are poems such as this one that not only reflect the devastation of the invasion, but present the invasion as God’s punishment for their sins. What is important to notice here, however, is that the people are described as appropriately pious. They are making sacrifices, they are attending to their religious obligations. These verses do not accuse them of worshiping other gods. They are law-abiding worshipers of Yahweh … or at least they think they are.
This section contrasts the care that they give to liturgical practice with their disregard for the poor and marginalized within their own community. It may not be obvious to a contemporary audience, but the sacrificial system was hugely expensive. The daily sacrifices referenced in this passage consisted in what are called “whole burnt offerings,” meaning that edible food, in the form of meat, vegetables, and grains were placed on the altar and completely burned as a way to send them up to God. The amount of food was increased on Sabbaths, and even more on the New Moon. The “festivals” referenced in Isaiah 1:14 were probably the three major festivals in Israel’s liturgical calendar, when the amount of food burned was enormous.
What is important to notice is the way in which the passage contrasts these sacrifices with the fate of the oppressed, the orphan, and the widow. These were the very groups that would have had the least access to good food. In fact, few Israelites would have eaten meat on a regular basis, and for the poorest in the community their own access to meat might have been only on festival days like the ones listed here. The passage, therefore, contrasts the extravagance of the sacrificial system with the destitution of large numbers in their own community.
The passage is clearly addressed to the elites, in particular the royalty. Kings were the ones who furnished much of the food for the sacrificial feasts. They were also the ones in charge of the judiciary system for non-landowners, i.e., orphans (poor or disenfranchised males) and widows (women not attached to a landowning male). The activity that Isaiah 1:17 exhorts would play out within the judicial system.
The passage also engages traditions about the city of Sodom, addressing the elite as “the rulers of Sodom.” In Genesis 18-19, Sodom is destroyed because of the widespread injustice in the city. While that lack of social duties is illustrated by the violent sexual abuse of male guests in chapter 19, none of the other eighteen references to Sodom in the Old Testament make reference to the incident at Lot’s house. Instead, Sodom is simply the wickedest city imaginable; Ezekiel 16:49 states that the people of Sodom were destroyed for their “excess of food, and prosperous ease, but (they) did not aid the poor and needy.”
The temple plays a central role in the book of Isaiah, and many scholars view chapter 1 as an introduction to the whole book. Isaiah’s call in chapter 6 takes place in the temple. The poem that opens the second part of the book in chapter 40 contains a satirical condemnation of the Babylonian temple ideology. But it is the third part of the book (chapters 56-66) that is framed by passages about the temple, this time, the second temple, rebuilt after the return of the exiles from Babylon. Chapter 56 opens with the end of our passage, urging the new community to “maintain justice.” It then goes on to describe a worshiping community that includes all of those left out in the system used during the monarchy. The book ends with a vision of the whole world that has become God’s temple, a universal temple no longer in need of animal sacrifice. Our verses from Isaiah 1 seem to anticipate the book’s end.
This passage from Isaiah challenges contemporary communities of faith to align their practices with the ethics embodied in their liturgical rituals. It reminds us that liturgy creates an ethical worldview, and for the book of Isaiah this is an ethic of inclusivity. Who are the Isaiah’s of today’s world? Perhaps they are those who are refusing to come to our institutional churches, the “nones,” because they too see a conflict between what is preached and what is practiced. Perhaps the self-imposed exile of so many of our younger members is really the voice of Isaiah reminding us that God does not listen if our religious life is only defined by our liturgical practice.
Corrine Carvalho
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Commentary on Luke 19:1-10
How you read and preach this familiar story about Jesus and Zacchaeus hinges almost entirely on how you answer one interpretative question:
Commentary on Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4
The heading for the book of Habakkuk reads: “The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw.”
Commentary on Psalm 32:1-7
Psalm 32 is one of the Penitential Psalms (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143).
Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
In 2 Thessalonians, after the greeting, the author writes, “we must always give thanks.”
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Ryanair to launch Majorca flights
Ryanair is to open new flight routes from Majorca and Ibiza in 2012
Budget carrier Ryanair has announced that new flight routes from the Balearic islands of Majorca and Ibiza will be opened next year.
The airline's plans to expand its operations in the two Spanish islands were revealed by Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, during a press conference in Palma.
Between March 25 and 27, the no-frills airline will be opening 22 new flight routes from Ibiza, while 21 new routes will be operated from Palma, according to its website.
Passengers, who are expected to have taken out a comprehensive travel insurance policy before embarking on a journey, can make use of new Ryanair services from Edinburgh, Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester, Bristol, East Midlands, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Leeds/Bradford, Prestwick and Shannon.
Currently, Ryanair does not have a base at Majorca's airport, with flights operated from Madrid, Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga, Valencia, Girona, Gran Canaria, Seville, Lanzarote and Tenerife.
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‘Thousands’ of Iranians claiming asylum in Europe as converts to Christianity
July 19, 2017 By World Watch Monitor Iran Asylum seekers, Baptism, Converts, Europe, Iran, Migrants, Refugees
An Iranian convert to Christianity is baptised in the Netherlands, in a still from the BBC documentary ‘Our World: Praying for Asylum’. One Iranian-born church told the BBC he had baptised thousands of Iranians – from the streets of Paris to Turkey.
Thousands of Iranian asylum-seekers across Europe are turning to Christianity, though observers are not convinced that all claims of conversion are genuine.
A BBC documentary, Praying for Asylum, tells the story of a number of Iranian asylum-seekers in the Netherlands who say they have become Christians and would be exposed to persecution if they were deported.
Iranian-born church leader Masoud Mohammad Amin, who founded Cyrus Church, one of largest Iranian churches in Europe, said he had baptised thousands of Iranians, from the streets of Paris to Turkey.
“It might be situations in countries of origin… It might also be that churches have become more active in evangelising, and it might be that smugglers have been telling them stories about how to get asylum.”
Annick Oerlemans, Dutch Immigration Service
“We didn’t have an Iranian church; we didn’t have Iranian hymns; we didn’t have anyone to tell us about Iran’s role in the Bible… We needed a church with Persian culture,” he said.
He said the church, in the Dutch city of Harderwijk, has been so successful that “8,000 people in the Netherlands and 8,000 people outside the country have been baptised”.
However, a Dutch pastor interviewed, Gijs van den Brink, who baptises around 25 people a year, said he had been approached by some people whose motives he doubted.
He said that if someone asks to be baptised on his first visit to his church, which is east of Utrecht, “then I know enough; I know that he has a case and that he is searching for baptism … and I explain [to] him that it will not help him … because our government is not mad: they can easily come to know if you are a real believer or not… We’re not a group who is helping refugees to get asylum here.”
Annick Oerlemans, an official at the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service, said that more than one interview each day was with an asylum-seeker who claimed they had converted to Christianity. She said the increase began after 2010. “It might be situations in countries of origin… It might also be that churches have become more active in evangelising, and it might be that smugglers have been telling them stories about how to get asylum,” she said.
In order to determine whether someone had genuinely become a Christian, she said interviewers had moved away from asking about Biblical knowledge to asking about people’s personal experiences. “Biblical knowledge can be studied, but when you ask people in-depth questions about their personal thoughts and feelings and experiences, and their motivations, you get a better idea of how genuine the conversion is,” she said.
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Tag: Chechnya
Chechnya: Seven killed in Orthodox church attack
May 21, 2018 Russia Caucasus, Central Asia, Chechnya, Grozny, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church
Seven people were killed in an attack on a church in Chechnya on Saturday (19 May) that was claimed by Islamic State, local sources told World Watch Monitor. The victims included two police officers who were guarding the church, all four militants and one churchgoer, World Watch Monitor was told. . . . Read More
North Korea, China, Russia and Iran ‘forces of instability’
April 24, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Andrew Brunson, Chechnya, China, Human rights, Iran, Liberia, Mexico, Myanmar, North Korea, Rohingya, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uyghurs, Uzbekistan, Venezuela
The US State Department has called North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran “forces of instability” in its latest set of country reports on human rights, saying they “violate the human rights of those within their borders on a daily basis”. The 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, published on . . . Read More
Russia: ‘Extremist’ identified after five women killed in Dagestan church attack
February 19, 2018 Russia Caucasus, Central Asia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Islamic extremism, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Sufi, Women
Authorities in one of the least stable parts of Russia have identified the suspected gunman who killed five women at a church yesterday (18 February) before being shot dead by security forces. The mayoral office in Kizlyar, in the restive and ethnically diverse region of Dagestan, named the assailant as . . . Read More
Life for some Christians in German refugee shelters ‘still unbearable’
October 17, 2016 Afghanistan, Angela Merkel, Chechnya, Eritrea, Europe, Germany, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Migrants, Refugees, Syria
Mahan, 2, an Iranian Christian refugee who along with his parents is seeking asylum in Germany, peeks from behind a glass partition in the dining room at the Spreehotel refugee centre in January 2015 in Bautzen, Germany. About 200 refugees, many from Syria and Tunisia, but also from Chechnya, the . . . Read More
Religion-driven hostility to Christians follows them to German refugee centres
May 13, 2016 Afghanistan, Chechnya, Europe, Iran, Migrants, Refugees, Sweden, Syria
The rise of Islamic extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus
June 6, 2013 Afghanistan, Arab Spring, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Central Asia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Islamic extremism, Kazakhstan, Muslim Brotherhood, Russia, Soviet Union, Uzbekistan
Islamic extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus will further increase in the next few years, predicts a new report by Anna Münster, a Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014, and expected regime changes in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan threaten to . . . Read More
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Newlywed vanishes from Loxahatchee
Chris Wright last seen on Sept. 12
Updated: 9:50 AM EDT Sep 23, 2015
Ari Hait
Chris Wright, 33, was last seen on Saturday, Sept. 12.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a newlywed who has been missing for more than a week.Chris Wright, 33, was last seen on Saturday, Sept. 12.“I’ve had some of the worst days of my life these last 10 days,” said Wright’s wife, Jessica. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.”Jessica said she spoke to her husband by phone around 8 o’clock Saturday night.“He said he was leaving to get something to eat and when I got home around 10, he wasn’t here,” she said. “I didn’t really worry. I just figured he met up with some friends or something and he’d be back.”Jessica said she woke up the next morning and Chris still wasn’t home.“Lots of panic,” she said. “And then I tried calling and his phone wasn’t on.”Since then, nobody has seen or heard from Chris. Jessica said he hasn’t shown up for work.“We’ve been checking phone records, bank and credit cards and there’s been no activity on anything at all,” she said.Jessica said Chris had a history of drug use but said he’s been clean for six years. She doesn’t believe drugs have anything to do with his disappearance.“I just keep hoping that everything is OK and he’s going to turn up,” she said.For more information on the disappearance of Chris Wright, you can check out the website Jessica created to help the search at www.helpfindchris.com.
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla —
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a newlywed who has been missing for more than a week.
“I’ve had some of the worst days of my life these last 10 days,” said Wright’s wife, Jessica. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.”
Jessica said she spoke to her husband by phone around 8 o’clock Saturday night.
“He said he was leaving to get something to eat and when I got home around 10, he wasn’t here,” she said. “I didn’t really worry. I just figured he met up with some friends or something and he’d be back.”
Jessica said she woke up the next morning and Chris still wasn’t home.
“Lots of panic,” she said. “And then I tried calling and his phone wasn’t on.”
Since then, nobody has seen or heard from Chris. Jessica said he hasn’t shown up for work.
“We’ve been checking phone records, bank and credit cards and there’s been no activity on anything at all,” she said.
Jessica said Chris had a history of drug use but said he’s been clean for six years. She doesn’t believe drugs have anything to do with his disappearance.
“I just keep hoping that everything is OK and he’s going to turn up,” she said.
For more information on the disappearance of Chris Wright, you can check out the website Jessica created to help the search at www.helpfindchris.com.
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Puerto Rico governor to run in 2020 local elections
FILE – In this Aug. 16, 2019 file photo, Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at La Fortaleza, the official residence of the governor of Puerto Rico, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gov. Vazquez announced Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 that she plans to run for governor in the 2020 general elections after repeatedly stating she was not interested in the position when she was appointed leader following political upheaval in the U.S. territory earlier this year. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo, File)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez announced Monday that she plans to run in the 2020 general elections after repeatedly stating she was not interested in the position when she was appointed leader following political upheaval in the U.S. territory earlier this year.
Vazquez will face veteran politician Pedro Pierluisi in the primaries of Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood New Progressive Party.
Pierluisi was sworn in as governor in August but held the position less than a week after the island’s Supreme Court found that Vazquez was the constitutional heir to the position after the previous governor stepped down amid political turmoil.
Vazquez, the island’s former justice secretary, had initially said she would serve as governor until December 2020. It is the first time she seeks that position, while it is Pierluisi’s second attempt. He lost in the 2016 local primaries to former governor Ricardo Rossello, who resigned in August following massive protests fueled in part by anger over corruption and the leak of an obscenity-laced chat involving several government officials.
Pierluisi previously served as the island’s congressional representative from 2009 to 2017.
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Home Business Empower Mississippi Expands Communications & Outreach Team
Empower Mississippi Expands Communications & Outreach Team
Empower Mississippi announced the expansion of its communication and outreach team with the addition of Brett Kittredge to Vice President of Marketing and Communications, and the elevation of Joanna Holbert to Director of Outreach.
Kittredge served as Empower’s Director of Communications from 2015 through 2018. He returns to the organization on the heels of his receipt of the 2020 State Policy Network’s Communications Excellence Award. His experience includes serving as editor of the public policy solutions guide “The High Road to Freedom,” contributions to “Promoting Prosperity in Mississippi,” a publication of the Institute for Market Studies at Mississippi State University, and innumerable state and national media placements.
In his new role, Kittredge will oversee marketing and communications strategy for a portfolio of issue initiatives that include a broadening of Empower’s focus on education, the build out of an initiative focused on increasing work opportunities for Mississippians, and a holistic focus on Mississippi’s justice system.
“Mississippi is blessed to be home to some of the best people in the world. We also face some of the biggest challenges in the country. I am excited to rejoin the Empower team and help provide the right solutions so all Mississippians have the opportunity to flourish,” said Kittredge.
Working alongside Kittredge, Holbert’s efforts will be primarily devoted to strengthening Empower’s outreach to individuals who are the most affected by education, work, and justice public policies, with a renewed commitment to providing a platform for these impacted voices. Holbert’s twenty years of experience in the newspaper industry and a resume that includes multiple successful messaging campaigns, including Waitlisted and Broken, make her uniquely qualified to find and share these human stories.
“In this role I’m grateful to be able to tell the stories of the people of my home state who have been impacted by barriers to opportunity. It is an honor to be a part of the Empower Mississippi team as we work to change laws, unleash potential, and transform lives,” Holbert said.
These moves come just months after Empower recruited the former head of Stand Together’s economic and health care initiatives, Russ Latino, to head its advocacy efforts.
“The addition of Brett to head our strategic communications and the focusing of Joanna on outreach is all a part of Empower Mississippi’s plan to expand both its footprint and effectiveness in 2021 and beyond,” said Empower President Grant Callen. “We are building for the future, to be the organization that tackles the biggest challenges facing Mississippians, with a singular desire to help every Mississippian rise to their potential, and I am profoundly grateful to our donor partners across the state whose generous support makes our work possible.”
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A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes
Credit and Copyright: S. Winfrey (U. Michigan), NRAO
Explicatie: (Edit) Pictured above is one of the world's premiere radio astronomical observatories: The Very Large Array (VLA). Each antenna dish is as big as a house (25 meters across) and mounted on railroad tracks. The VLA consists of 27 dishes - together capable of spanning the size of a city (35 kilometers). The VLA is the most sensitive radio telescope ever, and, through interferometry, can resolve a golf ball-sized radio source 150 kilometers away (0.04 arcsec). The VLA is continually making new discoveries, including determining the composition of galaxies, passing comets, quasars, HII regions, and clusters of galaxies. The VLA is also used to receive the weak radio signals broadcast from interplanetary spacecraft. The VLA is located in New Mexico, USA. A significant upgrade of VLA's capabilities is planned.
Imaginea de maine: Help Aldebaran Map the Moon
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ALLAN RAISES TRANSOCEAN WINNER ISSUES
Na h-Eileanan an Iar SNP MSP Alasdair Allan today had a meeting by phone with Hugh Shaw, Secretary of State's Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention, regarding the ongoing situation with the Transocean Winner oil rig which is currently anchored in Broadbay, Isle of Lewis.
Alasdair Allan commented: "I had a useful conversation today and was able to relay a number of the issues which people have been raising with me. Work continues at Dalmore to check the site for any debris and I am pleased to hear that this work will continue to ensure public safety and the protection of the local environment.
"I also raised the issue of the effect the current exclusion zone at Dalmore is having on fishing activity in the area. While I am hopeful this will not be needed for much longer, fishermen affected are very welcome to raise any concerns they have with me so I can take these up with the owners of the rig.
"Obviously, everybody now wants to know when the rig will be moved from Broadbay to its final destination, a question which I raised with Mr Shaw. Now that the damage to the rig has been assessed, clearly the next phase is to assess the best means of moving the rig, something requiring a window of decent weather.
"This has been a complicated task and one in which people from the island and elsewhere have put in long shifts to solve. I would like to pay tribute to the work they have done, and continue to do, and I hope we will see a resolution to this sometime soon."
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(802) 933-2770 coldhollowvets@yahoo.com
Equine Acupuncture
Amy D. Bartholomew
Bates College – Bachelor of Science, Biology (1988)
University of Pennsylvania – Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris (1993)
Internship and Residency in Ambulatory Medicine – University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center (1993 – 1995)
Chi Institute – Attended Equine Acupuncture Course (2014)
Amy has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Bates College. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1993. Following graduation Amy entered a two-year residency program in Field Service at New Bolton Center, UPenn veterinary school’s large animal clinic. There she taught fourth-year students on farm calls and also pursued her interest in neonatal calf health, sheep and goat medicine, and bovine herd health evaluations. After completing her residency Amy worked in both large and small animal clinics in New York and Vermont. At Cold Hollow Veterinary Services she continues to expand her knowledge and experience in small ruminants, alpacas and llamas through continuing education courses and seminars. Most recently Amy attended the Equine Acupuncture Course at the Chi Institute in Reddick, FL. Amy considers acupuncture, either alone or in combination with conventional medicine, a valuable tool in veterinary medicine. It can be especially helpful in organically raised animals. In horses, acupuncture has been shown to effectively alleviate pain and treat disease. Presently, Amy is offering acupuncture for horses, dairy cattle, sheep and goats.
Richard C. Bartholomew, Jr., VMD
University of Vermont—Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry; Bachelor of Arts, Economics (1989)
University of Pennsylvania—Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris (1994)
Rick received a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Vermont. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1994.
After graduation, Rick joined a large animal veterinary clinic in Granville, N.Y. He spent four years in this practice as a bovine and equine clinician. Rick also worked as a nutritional consultant for Feed Commodities Inc. for one year. In 2000 Rick and Amy started Cold Hollow Veterinary Services in Enosburg Falls, VT.
Rick believes it is imperative to treat the entire animal and its environment to successfully improve and maintain the animal’s well-being and general health.
Rick is a strong advocate of continuing education and spends many hours expanding his knowledge through seminars and short courses. He has concentrated on bovine nutrition, internal medicine, reproduction, ventilation systems and procedures to ensure cow and calf comfort in barns. Rick also has advanced training in equine internal medicine, reproduction, lameness, ophthalmology and dentistry.
His veterinary education/experience combined with his knowledge of agricultural economics and nutrition enables Rick to approach animal health issues with a unique perspective that serves both the animals and their owners.
Richard C. Bartholomew, Sr., DVM
University of Vermont (1956 – 1958)
Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine – Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (1958 – 1962)
Faculty – Cornell University (1962 – 1968)
Faculty – University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center (1968 –1996)
Dick attended the University of Vermont and graduated from New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University. He interned in the large animal ambulatory clinic at Cornell before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center for Large Animals. In addition to his clinical teaching responsibilities Dick was Head of the Large Animal Field Service and the Reproduction Department.
Dick and his wife Pat returned to Vermont in 2005. He taught Herd Health Management at Vermont Technical College for four years. He continues to work as a part-time consultant and clinician for his son, Rick, and daughter-in-law Amy.
Julie Kyle, DVM
Bucknell University – Bachelor of Arts, French and Mathematics (1993)
Julie received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both french and mathematics from Bucknell University. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. After graduation, Julie worked in a mixed practice in Plattsburg, N.Y. She joined our growing practice in 2002.
Although she was born and raised in Pennsylvania, Julie considers Vermont to be her true home. She especially enjoys the relationships with farmers and clients that have formed over the years. Julie is dedicated to improving animal welfare and is involved in emergency preparation planning. She has traveled to rural areas of Haiti and Uganda where she lived for several weeks helping the local people in impoverished areas. On these trips she spent her time teaching the principles of good animal health practices as well as treating and vaccinating animals.
Julie lives on a farm in Fairfield with her cats Bungie and Gracie Mae, along with a plethora of friendly barn cats.
Daniel Jackson, DVM
Daniel graduated in 2014, with distinction, from Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Prior to veterinary school, Daniel worked throughout the United States and Asia as a wildlife conservation biologist, focusing on the interaction between agriculture and environmental health.
As a veterinary student, Daniel received awards for proficiency in equine and livestock clinical practice, and published applied research on the epidemiology of zoonotic agricultural disease. Immediately following graduation, Daniel completed a clinical internship for advanced study in livestock medicine, surgery and field service at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He mentored veterinary students and managed a diverse large animal caseload, which included beef and dairy cattle, small ruminants, camelids, swine, and equids. His areas of focus include animal welfare, pain management, epidemiology, metabolic disease, and neonatal critical care.
Daniel lives with his wife and son in Montgomery Center. As a large animal veterinarian, he hopes to strengthen communities and make food safer through bettering the lives of animals and people. When not caring for animals of the north, you might see him cycling the region’s many dirt roads, notches, and trails with his toddler in tow.
Nathan Hill, DVM
Texas A&M – Bachelor of Science, Marine Sciences (1993)
Cornell University – Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (2011)
Nathan is interested in the connection between dairy productivity and animal well-being. He provides on-farm education and training in topics such as bovine lameness, low-stress cattle handling, neonatal calf housing, and calf feeding systems. Nathan’s approach to dairy production focuses on the client’s education as the key to successful management.
Karen Quintin
Bovine Housing and Behavior
As a child, Karen discovered her love of animals by assisting her father tend their cows. When Karen wasn’t diligently maintaining the health of her cattle, she pursued her other passion, horseback riding. Karen, her husband, Andre, and 2 children own and manage a cow farm in North Hero, Vermont where she takes pride in caring for their calves. Karen dedicates her time to caring for her cattle and horseback riding.
Casey Fournier
Casey worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Services for six years before joining the Cold Hollow staff in 2008, as an office manager. Casey’s organizational skills and ability to multitask provides an invaluable asset to Cold Hollow’s growing business. Casey is a native Vermonter and lives in Franklin with her husband, Joe and four children.
Tami Brennan
Tami joined the Cold Hollow family in the spring of 2014 as a part-time office assistant. Prior to scheduling large animal medical appointments, Tami scheduled patients for Alderbrook Dental in Essex Junction, Vermont. After moving to Bakersfield, Tami completed a two-year internship at Doe’s Leap Farm making organic goat cheese and kefir. Tami enjoys spending time with her husband, Terry, their 5 daughters and knitting, reading, and gardening.
Cold Hollow Veterinary Services
682 Duffy Hill Road • Enosburg Falls, Vermont 05450
For after hours emergencies, please call (802) 933-2770.
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TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving his address as 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919-7919 United States of America. Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 09/02/2004. Voter ID number: 104177. When registering, he voluntarily chose to give his telephone number and thereby make it public information. It is 719-302-3000 This is the most recent information, from the voter list as of 1 December 2020.
LAST_NAME MARTIN
FIRST_NAME TIMOTHY
MIDDLE_NAME ANDREW
STREET_NAME GOLDEN HILLS
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RESIDENTIAL_ADDRESS 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD
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VOTER_NAME MARTIN, TIMOTHY ANDREW
1 June 2020: TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving the address 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD , COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919-7919 United States of America. Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 2004/09/02. Voter ID number: 104177.
1 March 2020: TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving the address 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD , COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919-7919 United States of America. Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 9/2/2004. Voter ID number: 104177.
1 December 2019: TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving the address 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD , COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919-7919 United States of America. Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 09/02/2004. Voter ID number: 104177.
1 August 2019: TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving the address 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD , COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919-7919 United States of America. Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 9/2/2004. Voter ID number: 104177.
5 February 2015: TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving the address 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD , COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919-7919 United States of America. Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 09/02/2004. Voter ID number: 104177.
1 May 2014: TIMOTHY ANDREW MARTIN was born in 1969 and registered to vote, giving the address 1355 GOLDEN HILLS RD , COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, Colorado 80919 Party affiliation: UAF Party affiliation date: 09/02/2004. Original registration date: 09/02/2004. Voter ID number: 104177.
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The Brave New World of INSURGENT
Insurgent, the second chapter in Summit Entertainment’s Divergent series, arrives over a year after the first film, but takes place only three days after the climatic battle that ended Divergent, where the heroine, Tris seemed to be heading with her boyfriend Tobias Eaton or “Four” towards the walled “outlands” of a futuristic Chicago, that has been divided into five factions. However, as Insurgent opens, we find that Tris and Tobias are now living in hiding among the Amity faction, led by the kindly Octavia Spencer.
Since I had forgotten much of what took place in Divergent, here is some background on the basic premise of the series, which no doubt will also be helpful for first time viewers:
In a Chicago of the future, survivors have been divided into five factions based on their abilities, temperaments and personal preferences. As the books author Veronica Roth explains, members of “Abnegation believe in selflessness, Candor believe in honesty, Dauntless are into bravery, Erudite value intelligence, and Amity value kindness, peacefulness and friendship. A person in the faction system believes that to be Faction less means to be without community, to be disenfranchised and on your own, and a failure in the most essential way. But, to someone who is Faction less, it means freedom.”
Insurgent gets off to a bang when Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the power crazed head of the Erudite faction has her soldiers ruthlessly search for Tris, and quickly discovers her in the commune like Amity faction. Jeanine also discovers a pentagonal shaped box that Tris’s parents had hidden away, with each side bearing the seal of one of the five factions. Apparently it contains an important message that may well determine the future direction of this dystopian society, but it can only be unlocked by a divergent person, who possesses qualities of each of the factions.
The good news, is that, unlike the second film in The Hunger Games series, Insurgent is not merely a thinly veiled remake of the first movie, but branches off in quite a different direction, as we explore the distinct world of the other factions in depth, as well as those who are “Faction less,” who turn out to be led by Tobias’ own mother, Evelyn (Naomi Watts). But can Evelyn be trusted, or is she just as power crazed as Jeanine is?
We also delve into a surrealistic dream world, more on the order of Inception, as Tris has to endure five separate dream-style tests in order to successfully unlock the secret of the box. Indeed, with her close cropped hair, and also facing a series of seemingly desperate battles, Tris becomes a sort of Joan of Arc figure, who like Joan, willingly surrenders herself to Jeanine, where she will have to undergo a trial by dream ordeal. Shailene Woodley also tends to recall the young Jean Seberg, who of course, was first brought to stardom in Otto Preminger’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.
Interestingly enough, with it’s future society ruled mostly by very strong women characters, Insurgent also recalls the future utopia portrayed in John Boorman’s Zardoz, where the society is also made up of very separate and distinct factions, in a world sealed off from the outside. In fact, in one of Tris’s dream ordeals, she must overcome a surrealistic building on fire, where her mother is entrapped, that is flying through the skies over Chicago, much like Sean Connery had to endure, to enter the sealed off vortex in Zardoz.
Robert Schwentke takes over the directorial reigns from Neil Burger on Insurgent and gives the film a suitable fast pacing, with two brisk opening action sequences, which unfortunately are just a bit too overloaded to be believable, but then he settles things down, allowing the story to focus a bit more on the characters, as well as the action, which makes for a more pleasing blend, as Mr. Schwentke did so nicely with The Time Traveler’s Wife. The film also benefit’s greatly from it’s top-notch cast, with most of it’s young actors having gone on to important starring roles in other films after appearing in Divergent, and now being more familiar, bring a certain gravitas to their roles, as well as a few twists, especially in the characters played by Miles Teller and Ansel Elgort.
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Position: IF
Hometown: Covington , Virginia
Height: 5-10
School: Concord Univeristy
Batted .353 over four seasons as at Concord University… Swiped 10+ bases each season… Named to the Second Team All-MEC in 2014 and 2015… Led the Mountain Lions with a .379 average… Played left, center, second, and DH… Ranked third in the MEC in doubles (17) and runs (53) in 2014… Played for the Petersburg Generals of the Coastal Plain collegiate summer league in 2014.
Playoffs 2016 Midwest Haymakers 3 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 3 .222
Winter 2016 Midwest Haymakers 14 35 5 10 3 0 0 7 2 3 3 .286
Total 17 44 7 12 4 0 0 7 2 6 6 .273
Batting Game Log
Feb 13 @North Stars L 2-8 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.364 0.333 0.222 0.697
Feb 12 Blue Sox W 8-1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.375 0.333 0.167 0.708
Feb 11 Hit King W 7-3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0.750 1.000 0.500 1.750
Feb 9 @Power T 8-8 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.333 0.371 0.286 0.704
Feb 8 @Grizzly L 3-4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.343 0.406 0.313 0.749
Feb 6 Coyotes W 7-6 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.364 0.433 0.333 0.797
Feb 5 As L 2-9 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.367 0.464 0.357 0.831
Feb 3 Colonials W 2-1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.370 0.440 0.360 0.810
Feb 2 @Bombers L 2-7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.333 0.409 0.318 0.742
Jan 31 Chill W 4-1 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.381 0.474 0.368 0.855
Jan 30 @Coyotes L 3-5 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.333 0.438 0.313 0.771
Jan 28 @Jacks W 6-1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0.267 0.308 0.231 0.575
Jan 27 North Stars L 0-3 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.308 0.364 0.273 0.672
Jan 26 @Blue Sox L 0-1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.300 0.250 0.250 0.550
Jan 24 Power W 6-5 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.375 0.333 0.333 0.708
Jan 23 Rush L 1-2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.400 0.250 0.250 0.650
Jan 21 @Snowbirds W 14-4 3 2 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.500 0.333 0.333 0.833
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Home>New Songs>Kris Wu Songs> Kris Wu Grabs Travis Scott For "Deserve"
Kris Wu Grabs Travis Scott For "Deserve"
Kris Wu Feat. Travis Scott
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East meets west on Travis Scott and Kris Wu's new collaboration.
Kris Wu has established himself as a well rounded entertainer. While on this side of the hemisphere, he may be a new name, the singer established himself with Chinese-Korean boy band, Exo. Last year, he ended up embarking on his own solo venture and through the past several years, dabbled in acting as well. He has yet to fully emerge into the American market, other than a few appearances including "XXX: Return Of Xander Cage." Today, he's taking his musical talents over to the U.S. with his latest collaboration with Travis Scott on "Deserve."
Kris Wu got all of his fans excited recently when he announced that he had some work with Travis Scott on the way. It's an appropriate collaboration considering that Wu is a mega star in the eastern hemisphere while Travis Scott is a dominant force in the western music industry. The two of them connect on this club-ready joint. It's a solid middle ground between the two. They bring smooth, high energy to the table. The song was produced by Louis Bell who has produced for Post Malone, DJ Snake and ODESZA. He provides a solid backdrop for both Kris Wu and Travis Scott to find a middle ground with each other.
Kris Wu is making his way to become an international star in the near future. For those who aren't aware of him, now is the time to take notice. The singer is the second Chinese artist to reach the iTunes Top 50 on the U.S Charts. He's been on a steady stream of solo releases over the past few years so with his latest collaboration with Travis Scott, he's bound to really make a mark in the U.S. and Canada in the near future.
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You my favorite song
Add you to my playlist
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Bhad Bhabie Fires Shots At Her Dad On Her "Rubbin Off The Paint" Remix
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Vol 9 No 3 (2020): July 2020 Issue /
The difference of one sayings and its effects on the Hanbalis purity as a model
Mohammad Melqat Alenezi PhD student in Sharia, University of Jordan, Jordan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-5446
Rhayel Muhammad Al-Gharaibeh, Dr. Faculty of Sharia, University of Jordan, Jordan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2020.9.3.1166.1194
This study dealt with tagged: the difference in the views of one word and its effects on the Hanbalis chapter on purity as a model, explaining the meaning of the intakes language and terminology, then I indicated to me the choice of the meaning of the intrusions, then I mentioned the words related to the intakes, and then I mentioned the importance of knowing the intentions of the sayings, and indicated its importance from The words of the jurists, and some of their applications, and how they were expelled with their origins and did not contradict, and then I mentioned the multiplicities of one word and the fruits of its knowledge, and I said that it does not refrain from sense, reason or legitimacy from the multiplicity of sockets even if the result is the same and the methods that are connected to it are multiple or different, and from Then I mentioned the significance of the sayings of theology in the science of graduation, and indicated that it is its greatest pillar, and then examined some applications in the chapter on purity at the Hanbalis, and these applications are included in the research condition, which is that these issues and sayings are the same result; But the difference occurred in its socket and origin, then I showed the implications of that, and then I concluded this research with the most important findings and recommendations. And may God’s prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammed, his family, and all his companions, and praise be to God, Lord of the worlds.
Mohammad Melqat Alenezi, PhD student in Sharia, University of Jordan, Jordan
Rhayel Muhammad Al-Gharaibeh, Dr., Faculty of Sharia, University of Jordan, Jordan
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ALENEZI, Mohammad Melqat; AL-GHARAIBEH, Rhayel Muhammad. The difference of one sayings and its effects on the Hanbalis purity as a model. Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS), [S.l.], v. 9, n. 3, p. 1166.1194, july 2020. ISSN 2305-9249. Available at: <http://centreofexcellence.net/index.php/JSS/article/view/jss.2020.9.3.1166.1194>. Date accessed: 17 jan. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2020.9.3.1166.1194.
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Authority versus Evidence: Arguing About Adoption and Psychological Interventions
Off and on for a couple of years, but especially in the last few months, I’ve found myself upholding the idea that there must be an evidence basis for treatment, against others who believe that statements by people who claim authority are the most powerful of all arguments. I’ve referred to this conflict as a “culture war”, and I am convinced that it is an argument between ideological, a priori assumptions about the world, on the one hand, and positions based on systematic observations and evidence, on the other-- same old Plato versus Aristotle, if you like.
Von and other adoption bloggers argue strongly for a Primal Wound, on the basis of their own experience and on the authority of Nancy Verrier (who, incidentally, has not yet answered the questions I asked a month or so ago). They reject the systematic research evidence provided by Michael Rutter and the English-Romanian Adoptees Project or by other investigators, showing that most adopted children, even those adopted late and after intense social deprivation, do quite well in the long run. For Von and friends, the vividness of personal experience and the statement of an authority establish a set of assumptions that do not need to be tested against other evidence. For Rutter and other researchers, evidence is to be explored carefully as a test of existing assumptions.
Valle Oberg, a proponent of Ronald Federici’s methods of dealing with post-institutionalized children, also appeals to authority as the foundation of her argument. She states (in comments on this blog) that Federici has worked with thousands of children (although the arithmetic on this does not seem to work out very well) and has “saved” them, and that her own children were among those. Therefore, she argues, what she says, and what Federici has said, must be correct. In addition, she proposes that peer-reviewed publication of outcome research is not evidence that methods are effective. Oberg dismisses the view that Federici needs to report his evidence to the public before his methods are said to be effective.
While mulling over these disagreements, I came across a letter to the editor published in Science in 2004 (a silent testimony to the number of papers on my desk). That LTE was in response to discussion at that time about hormone replacement therapy and the way it failed to provide the benefits to heart health that had been expected of it. The authors, Philip Guzelian and Christopher Guzelian, pointed out that it was not surprising or anomalous that the predicted results did not occur. They commented that the outcome was a “dramatic example of the difference between authority-based conclusions (arising from opinion, experience, intuition, judgment, and scientific inference)… and evidence-based conclusions (derived from an objective, unbiased, and systematic analysis of scientific knowledge)… The lesson is quite generalizable. Uncritical acceptance of authority-based opinions as conclusive evidence is pervasive, even though top authorities unsuccessfully predict what scientific knowledge will be preserved as ‘fact’ “. Guzelian and Guzelian noted that there are times when decisions need to be made without adequate scientific evidence, but warn against confusing them with evidence-based conclusions and propose that “the obvious solution is to explicitly acknowledge when shortcomings in the amounts or quality of evidence necessitate a reversion to authority”.
An important point in the contribution of Guzelian and Guzelian is the acknowledgment that evidence-based conclusions are not always available. Those authors were not talking about psychological interventions, but that acknowledgement is an important one in discussion of psychological treatment, where design and implementation of research can be extraordinarily challenging. Although Guzelian and Guzelian did not mention levels of evidence (the idea that some forms of research offer stronger arguments than others), they did imply the need to balance evidence and authority differently in different situations. When evidence is strong, it should be weighed far more heavily than authority; when evidence is weak or non-existent, authority and personal experience are better to rely on than flipping a coin or casting the I Ching.
Perhaps the most important message in the Guzelians’ letter is the need for explicit statement that in the absence of systematic evidence, one is appealing to authority for support of a claim. This is only appropriate, of course, if there is no evidence or if the existing evidence is weak or open to interpretation, and if the maker of the claim can show that this is the case. It is not sufficient to do as Von, Valle Oberg, and many others have done-- to ignore the existing evidence and put forward instead a contradictory claim based on authority, and not only authority, but the authority whose views are welcome.
But, of course, if your way of thinking is to appeal to authority, this will make sense to you only if stated by an authority of your choice.
Labels: adoption, evidence-based conclusions, psychological interventions
You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Can't Pick Your Monkeys: Origins of Attachment Theory
One of the greatest temptations in the field of psychology is the urge to leap from research on animal behavior to a conclusion about human beings. Unfortunately, unless research about human beings substantiates the conclusion, the landing may be a bumpy and unreliable one. This danger does not always stop leapers; Alan Schore’s “modern attachment theory” is based on a number of such leaps, and as I have pointed out elsewhere, Schore does not make much of an effort to insure that readers realize which animals were the actual subjects of the research he cites.
The history of attachment theory, right back to John Bowlby’s time, has been characterized by generalization from animal behavior to human beings’ child care and early development. Bowlby originally compared human emotional attachment to the “imprinting” of ducks on the first moving objects they saw, and their later following of the imprinted object (usually the mother) and eventual courtship and mating with another member of their own species. Imprinting had an enormous impact on the duck’s life, determining that it might spend its early life following a toy train, or in adulthood “fall in love” with a human caretaker and ignore available mates of its own species. Considering the facts of duck behavior, Bowlby at first thought that human attachment would have similar mechanisms and effects, including “monotropy” (an inability to make an attachment to more than one human being). But further observation showed that attachment did not occur in the first days of life as imprinting did, that human beings had the ability to develop more than one attachment, and that a child who lost the first attachment relationship was capable, under the right circumstances, of developing a strong emotional attachment to a new caregiver.
Bowlby realized that the leap had gone too far and had landed on the wrong spot. Although human attachment was in some ways analogous to imprinting, it was not the same thing, and it was not possible to draw safe conclusions about human development simply from observations of duck behavior.
Bowlby and his colleagues then moved on to consider another type of animal behavior-- this time, an animal much more like human beings than ducks are. As is well known, Bowlby was much interested in the work of the comparative psychologist Harry Harlow on rhesus monkeys. Harlow demonstrated that rhesus babies, when separated from their mothers, sought out soft fabric model “mothers” and clung to them even though those “mothers” offered no nourishment. They would leave the soft mother to drink from a wire-framed “mother” that contained a bottle of milk, then scurry back to the soft model. Both Bowlby and Harlow were taken with the fact that the rhesus babies did not seem “attached” to the models that supplied milk; this result was in contradiction to Freud’s belief that the experience of feeding created emotional attachment, and it supported Bowlby’s argument that there was something in the social experience with the caregiver that triggered the development of attachment. Bowlby and Harlow were also interested in the later difficulties of the rhesus babies as adults, when they were reluctant to mate and did a very poor job of caring for their own infants if they had them. This outcome seemed to suggest that attachment experiences determined a great deal about personality development, an idea that was later built into Bowlby’s attachment theory and that has informed much of the later research on attachment.
Here’s an important question, though: What if Harlow had chosen some other kind of monkey? This was an issue which in fact received much attention from psychologists and zoologists in the couple of decades following Harlow’s reports and Bowlby’s adoption of the Harlow studies as evidence for attachment theory. The discussion at the time-- largely forgotten now that everyone has seen films of sad-looking rhesus babies on wire “mothers”-- focused on the fact that monkeys exhibit species differences in maternal-infant behavior. A monkey is not “just a monkey”, but a particular kind of monkey. (Much less work on these differences is done today because of the great expense of field studies and current concerns about the ethical treatment of lab animals.)
Harlow worked with rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta, a monkey that has frequently been employed in various types of research and which gave its common name to the Rh factor well-known to influence human reproductive success. But other researchers pointed out that the results of behavioral work with rhesus monkeys might not be the same as similar work with other types of monkeys. In one review article (Seay & Gottfried [1975]. A phylogenetic perspective for social behavior in primates. Journal of General Psychology, 75, 5-17), the authors described typical maternal-infant behavior and responses to separation in several monkey species in addition to Macaca mulatta.
Seay and Gottfried noted that in spite of the developmental difficulties of the “surrogate”-reared rhesus infants, rhesus monkeys who had somewhat less deprivation all eventually did well, whether they were reared in small groups of infants, reared alone but had a play period with other infants daily, were reared by brutal or abusive mothers, or had normal rearing by their mothers. They concluded that only an extremely unfavorable environment would alter these animals’ play, aggression, or sexual behavior. In addition, they stated that “even the organism maturing in an environment inadequate to support species-typical behavior will not develop unique techniques for coping with that environment. Rather, his behavioral repertoire will consist of fragments of the behavior patterns which ensure individual and species survival for most of his species-mates” (p. 10).
Comparing the rhesus monkey to other species, these authors noted that their own work on a different monkey, Macaca fascicularis, showed results rather similar to that on Macaca mulatta. However, the African red monkey (patas) showed a different pattern of social behavior. If rhesus monkeys were housed in cages such that the infants could go out to a central playground, when one came out, one or more others would join him. When an infant patas monkey came out, though, other patas infants did not join him—or, if one did, the first baby went back to his mother. As patas monkeys got older, they played chasing games, but unlike rhesus monkeys did not contact each other much.
Rhesus mothers object to physical disturbance from their infants, and will bite or hit an annoying baby. However, they will allow “strange” babies to come into the cage, as long as they “behave”. Patas mothers allow their babies to explore or play-attack them, and either do not respond or respond playfully-- but they will not allow a strange baby to come in. When nursing, rhesus babies are belly-to-belly with their mothers; patas babies do not have much of the body surface touching the mother. All monkey babies are disturbed by separation from the mother, but patas babies recover more quickly than rhesus babies do.
Who are we humans like? Should we accept a theory of personality development based on rhesus monkeys, or are we more like patas monkeys? The best guess is that we are like ourselves. Like other species, we have our own patterns of social interaction and of response to environmental changes. We may resemble other species, and their behavior may seem familiar and appealing to us. But when we come down to it, the behavior and development of other species can only provide a hint about what human beings might be like. We need to be cautious about our leaps from animal evidence to theories about humans--- however, cute, sad, and sympathetic those baby monkeys look to us.
Labels: attachment theory, Bowlby, Harlow, maternal-infant behavior, patas monkeys, rhesus monkeys
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder? Further Discussion
I’ve made a number of statements to the effect that violent or aggressive behavior, lying, stealing, and so on, were not diagnostic of Reactive Attachment Disorder. Some readers disagree strongly with this perspective. Reader Valle Oberg, for example, has been arguing against my position for several days at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2010/12/federici-v-mercer-story-behind-lawsuit.html.
I’d like to call people’s attention to a paper by Charles H. Zeanah and Anna Smyke from Tulane University, arguably the leading U.S authorities on Reactive Attachment Disorder (Zeanah, C.H., & Smyke, A.T. [2008]. Attachment disorders in family and social context. Infant Mental Health Journal, 29, 219-233). This paper discusses criteria for attachment disorders and compares the DSM and ICD-10 versions, as well as referring to categories suggested by Zeanah in previous work.
In none of this material is there any reference to violent or aggressive behavior, self-injury, lying, cheating , stealing, refusing eye contact, or any of these issues so much stressed by therapists and parent groups outside the mainstream of psychological and psychiatric thought. Zeanah and Smyke come no nearer to these issues than referring briefly to the possibility of risk-taking as one aspect of a RAD-like category.
Zeanah and Smyke discuss measures of inappropriate behavior suggesting a disorder of attachment. They point out three ways in which such measurement has been approached. One method looked at whether children wandered away from caregivers without becoming distressed, whether they approached strangers, whether they were never shy with new adults, whether they were friendly with new adults, and whether they would go off with strangers. A second approach considered whether children failed to differentiate among adults (that is, treated all adults the same way and did not have a preferred caregiver), readily went with a stranger, and failed to check back with a caregiver (i.e., by looking back to them or calling to them as distance between them increased or separation became likely). The third method looked at not having a preferred caregiver, lack of reticence with a stranger, failure to check back, and willingness to go with a stranger. (Once again, none of these methods looks at aggressive behavior, lying, self-injury, etc., etc.)
Zeanah and his colleagues several years ago wanted to develop a technique of assessing preschool children’s attachment to caregivers without depending on parent or teacher reports. They developed what they called the “Stranger at the Door” procedure. One of the researchers knocked at the door of the child’s home, and the caregiver and the child answered the door together. The stranger looked at the child and said, “My name is ____. What is your name? Let’s go for a walk.” Observers coded the child’s behavior in response (if the child was willing to go, they walked a few feet, then came back into the house). Children’s willingness to go with the stranger was greatest in the group who had been institutionalized, but there was also atypical willingness in a comparison group of children who had been in foster care.
The Zeanah and Smyke paper noted that in a group of children adopted from institutions, there were no cases of the inhibited form of RAD, but a “substantial minority” showed the disinhibited type, with less avoidance of strangers and less preference for familiar caregivers than is typical among family-reared children.
In discussing “self-endangering” behavior as an aspect of RAD (the nearest thing mentioned to the claims of aggression and self-injury made by some advocates of an unorthodox view of attachment disorders), Zeanah and Smyke emphasize the possibility that risk-taking is part of a “two person” disorder which is difficult to describe in present language. They raise the issue of possible relational attachment disorders (different from RAD as now defined) that are evident only in the context of the association between the child and a specific caregiver. I would add that this is a very interesting idea with respect to the claims made by members of ATTACh and similar groups that children with RAD behave angelically outside their homes, but are difficult or even dangerous in interaction with their mothers.
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Labels: measures, Reactive Attachment Disorder, symptoms
What Is Attachment?
What IS attachment, anyway? This word is used constantly by parents and teachers, attorneys and judges, as well as psychologists and social workers. What do they mean? Is attachment one of those things like obscenity, that we can’t define, but “we know it when we see it”?
Actually, one of the problems with understanding attachment is that many people don’t know it when they see it. As a discussion of attachment and child custody decisions pointed out a couple of years ago, “few custody evaluators recognized the distinction between a highly dependent or demonstratively affectionate relationship between a parent and a child and a secure attachment” (Calloway & Erard [2009]. Introduction to the special issue on attachment and child custody. Journal of Child Custody, 6, 1-7). Some quasi-professionals who emphasize attachment believe that the attachment of a child to a caregiver is indicated by physical demonstrations of affection, eye contact “on the parent’s terms”, obedience, and gratitude.
Many textbooks define attachment as an “emotional bond” or “tie” between two people, especially a parent and a child. The organization ATTACh (Association for the Treatment and Training of Attachment in Children) gives the following lengthier definition of attachment:
“Attachment is a reciprocal process by which an emotional connection develops between an infant and his/her primary caregiver. It influences the child’s physical, neurological, cognitive, and psychological development. It becomes the basis for development of basic trust or mistrust, and shapes how the child will relate to the world, learn, and form relationships throughout life.” (www.attach.org)
But let’s parse these definitions. Is it of any help to say that something is an “emotional bond”, without saying what an emotional bond is? Actual bonds involve close physical proximity, enforced by physical methods like ropes or handcuffs. Attachment, then, is being said to be like a bond in that it maintains proximity, but the way it does this is through emotional factors rather than with ropes. This is an analogy rather than a definition, and it is inadequate for two reasons. One is that although attachment does maintain a young child’s physical proximity to a caregiver, continuing development alters the way in which attachment is expressed. In any case, the seeking of proximity is not the same at all times, but occurs when the child feels threatened or uncomfortable. The other problem is that this description of attachment leaves it unclear whether both members of the pair behave in the same way or have the same emotions or motivations relative to maintaining proximity. In fact, in the course of development, parent and child trade several times the position of being the one that wants more proximity; the child who has a toddler clung to the parent who was leaving for work grows to the teenager whose parent is anxious to know where he is going and when he will be back
Now let’s look at the ATTACh version. It’s longer and more complicated, but is it any better? It begins by saying that “attachment is a … process”. No doubt there are processes leading to attachment, but if attachment is a process, it’s difficult to see how we can determine whether attachment is secure or even present. Surely attachment is some sort of end state, and not simply an ongoing process. Perhaps the “emotional connection” which is said to result from the attachment process is the actual attachment, but it too remains undefined.
ATTACh also says that attachment is not just a process, but a “reciprocal process”. I interpret this as meaning that attachment develops in the course of interactions with other people and could not exist in a social vacuum, and this is certainly correct. ATTACh may also intend to say that attachment (emotional connection?) in a child develops in tandem with some emotional change in the adult caregiver, which may be true, but seems to be irrelevant to the later emphasis placed on the child’s own development.
ATTACh speaks of connections between an infant and the primary caregiver and appears to be limiting attachment to this relationship. Here we encounter some problems, because all the evidence is that young children can have many attachment relationships, some more obvious than others, and that these relationships may or may not share qualities like security. On the other hand, caregivers tend to be monotropic and have one or two preferred infants, even if they work with a group of children of similar ages; perhaps the ATTACh authors were thinking of the adult’s connection with a “primary” baby when they wrote this.
ATTACh goes on to cite the various aspects of development that are influenced by attachment (although whether as a process or as a loosely-defined emotional connection is not clear). It is not stated how attachment affects the child’s physical development, or how psychological development is different from cognitive development, but even if these points are set aside, these remarks do not contribute to the definition of attachment, but simply say more about things that are related to the undefined process or end state. Similarly, in the last sentence, references to basic trust and to shaping relationships do nothing more than to say that something called attachment is involved here. (As to the statement about learning, it is far from clear what the authors meant.)
It would seem that neither the textbook definition nor the ATTACh effort is of much use in clarifying what attachment actually means. I’d like to offer an alternative definition that I believe cuts through some of the difficulties we’ve seen here.
I would suggest that attachment is best thought of as an attitude, or a readiness to behave in particular ways toward the object of the attitude. It is an attitude toward human beings that involves the readiness to behave differently toward familiar and unfamiliar people, but to do so in different ways when there is perceived threat than when there is not. Like other attitudes, attachment changes with development, and although young children show their attachment by seeking proximity to familiar people when uncomfortable, they gradually move toward other related behaviors. Also, like other attitudes, attachment involves characteristic emotional responses that may occur together with or instead of observable behavior, and these too change with development. Attachment attitudes vary with experience as well as with age and culminate in an internal working model of human relationships in general as well as the specific reaction to threat which is their foundation.
This may not be the perfect definition, but at least it actually is a definition. Comments and editing are invited.
Labels: attachment, attitudes, definitions, emotional connections
Infant and Toddler Overnights: A Focus of Divorce Disagreements
When couples have children of infant and toddler age, the breakdown of marriage is often followed by intense and bitter argument over allowing the child to have an overnight visit and sleep away from the familiar home. In most cases, the mother is the custodial parent and continues to live in the marital home, while the father is more likely to be the one who moves out, lives elsewhere, and does the “visiting”.
Mothers are very likely to resist overnight visits for young children. They are concerned that the father is unaware of the child’s bedtime rituals or needs, that the child may be distressed by the experience, or even that a father who has behaved violently in the past may lose his temper if the child cries or fusses in the unfamiliar night-time setting. Fathers, on the other hand, may be concerned that the child spends less time with them than with the mothers and may therefore be less attached to the fathers. They may also believe that if the child does not form a strong attachment to the father in the first couple of years, no real relationship will ever be possible.
However the estranged couple work things out, this problem will pass (and of course will be replaced by different issues). The child will get older and reasons to resist overnight visits will gradually disappear. At the beginning, though, the overnight issue seems to be of overwhelming importance. In a recent special issue of the journal Family Court Review (2011, Vol. 49), the issue editor noted that when she surveyed readers to ask what they wanted to know about attachment and child custody, 60% of them asked what to do about overnights.
Several well-known psychiatrists and psychologists who contributed to the issue made a point of commenting on the overnight question. And all of them said about the same thing: overnight visits are problematic for about the first two years of the child’s life. Depending on the child, it may be best to wait as late as age 4 before beginning overnights (George, Solomon & McIntosh [2011]. Divorce in the nursery: On infants and overnight care. Family Court Review, 49, 521-528). The reasoning behind this advice is that children have real individual differences in temperament (for instance, the ease with which they accept a new situation) and in language development (which allows them to understand what they are told about the length of a visit). Children who are easily distressed, who have little concept of time, and who are still immature in their understanding of language may interpret an overnight visit as permanent abandonment by the custodial parent and may not be able to communicate their fears to the other parent-- who may have no wish to hear of the child’s longing for the divorced spouse. When children have handicapping conditions that affect communication and cognition, their level of development may be much more important than their chronological age.
But what if there are no overnights? Does this mean that the child’s relationship to the noncustodial parent is negated from the beginning? Charles Zeanah, the well-known attachment researcher, commented about this: “it’s not necessary for both parents to have attachment relationships with the child in the early years. That can happen later, when the child has more sophisticated abilities to sustain attachment relationships over time and place. Where it is possible, it does make sense for the child to keep contact at the level of comfort and familiarity until they are ready for more” (Lieberman, Zeanah, & McIntosh [2011]. Attachment perspectives on domestic violence and the law. Family Court Review,49, 529-538). Alan Sroufe, another leading attachment researcher, said, “I think that if parents, judges, lawyers, and so on took the view that attachment is a gradual building process, and that each relationship is built on its own terms, there would be less paranoia about this… even if they had no overnights for the first 2 years” (Sroufe & McIntosh [2011]. Divorce and attachment relationships: The longitudinal journey. Family Court Review, 49, 464-473).
These commentators are stressing the best interests of the child, a vague standard indeed, but one which we can clearly distinguish from an emphasis on parents’ rights. They seem to agree that it’s in the child’s best interest to have as calm an infancy and toddlerhood as possible and not to be asked to adjust to unnecessary changes and transitions. They also agree that two caring parents-- even if separated-- are better than one, but that there is no natural process that demands that both sets of relationships must develop simultaneously and early on. The fact that no “window of attachment” closes at age 2 means that it’s possible both to preserve family connections and to support a child’s early needs for a peaceful life.
Separated parents with very young children would do well to take these cautions to heart, but at the same time they may want to consider whether they want to try out visits with an eye to overnights. A gradual approach, including nap-time at the noncustodial residence, may give them an idea whether a child is ready to take the step to an overnight stay. If the child copes well with one overnight visit, it is wise to wait a while for the next one rather than rushing to a new schedule of frequent changes and risking overwhelming him or her. But none of this will work well unless the parents are able to concentrate on the child’s needs and reactions rather than hurrying to blame each other for any distress the child shows.
When overnight visits begin, one point that can be difficult for separated parents to deal with is co-sleeping. Plenty of parents let infants and toddlers sleep with them part or all of the time (and I am far from criticizing this practice). In addition, if a father leaves the household, the mother is likely to respond to the child’s distress and her own by letting the child sleep in her bed. What happens, then, if the child stays overnight with the father? Can the co-sleeping mother deal with having the child share a bed with the father, or will this trigger concerns about sexual behavior? How does the father comfort the child who is accustomed to sharing a bed, except by co-sleeping? This highly emotional situation is one in which straightforward discussion with neutral parties is essential in order to avoid distress, fears, and accusations that are in the great majority of cases completely unrealistic.
P.S. The comments of Alan Sroufe about attachment as a gradual building process are also highly relevant to adoption issues.
P.P. S. The issue of Family Court Review I'm referring to is available for free on line. Google the journal name and you'll see how to get to the articles.
Labels: attachment, divorce, human infants, overnight visits, toddlers
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Egypt’s iron-fisted ruler won’t last
18:13 14 February 2016 Author : Stephanie Thomas
Egyptians have always been ill-served, at best, and brutalized, at worst, by their leaders, whether Ottoman, British, Nasserist or under President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. So instead of asking why Egypt’s revolution of five years ago failed, let’s point a finger at the sorry parade of post-revolutionary leaders who have presumed to lead but failed just as their predecessors did.
Egyptian citizens were ill-served by their first democratically elected leader, President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Overweening and prone to clumsy power grabs that appeared to have less to do with Islam than stupidity, Morsi was more incompetent than he was evil. He was certainly no “terrorist,” as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has labeled him and all other Muslim Brotherhood members.
Egyptians were also failed by the liberal and secular politicians whose self-interest took precedence over the hard work of developing strong alliances, parties and platforms. They espoused pluralistic democratic values but applied them selectively — in 2013, for example, they chose to back the violent overthrow of Morsi rather than let him be voted out of office.
Consider Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, who played the coy politician for two years, tweeting his fatuous aspirations instead of rolling up his sleeves and building the political process. He then joined Sisi’s interim government, only to resign a month later after the Rabaa massacre, in which some 800 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed by security forces.
Egyptians have even been let down by a generation of their own sons and daughters. These young activists often seemed more adept at online organizing and protesting — no matter the cause — than protecting the gains of their protests. After fighting the military throughout 2011 and 2012, many joined the military-backed effort to remove Morsi in the spring of 2013, even protesting when Sisi called for a show of support. Familiar with this pattern, it was inevitable that they would eventually sour on Sisi, which they have.
That said, none of them deserved to be put in prison, where many of them languish.
While covering the protests in Tahrir Square in 2011, I was inspired to leave my television job, move back to Egypt and be a witness to what looked like a promising future. I had lived happily in Cairo as a student studying Arabic in the 1990s and looked forward to working at the American University in Cairo, a campus infused with post-revolutionary energy and potential.
When I arrived in September 2011, the romantic slogans (“The army and the people are one hand”) and alliances forged in Tahrir Square were already fraying badly. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the interim military body that replaced Mubarak, was cracking down on protesters with impunity, most egregiously during what came to be known as the Maspero massacre, in which armored personnel vehicles were caught on camera mowing down fleeing Coptic protesters. When the Muslim Brotherhood swept the parliamentary elections of 2011 and 2012, political demonization become the preferred platform of the feckless secular opposition groups.
Closer to home, I found a giddy array of empowered and politically vocal citizens, a liberated media and a class of public intellectuals sporting shiny new revolutionary personas, and the clothes to match (“revolution chic”). One professor-turned-politician sported long hair, corduroy sport coats and appeared to do a little teaching (sometimes from his car by calling in to a student’s phone that would be set on speakerphone). One former ambassador-turned-dean embodied the values of civil liberty and democracy in elegant suits, then promptly joined the post-Morsi interim military government. A cadre of denim-clad, gel-haired Tahrir activists secretly cooperated with the military to foment a “grass-roots” movement against Morsi.
Even the revolution-anointed leaders were failing Egypt’s citizens. By the time I left Cairo in June 2013, most people I knew at the university supported a return to military rule and seemed to accept as a given the violent and illiberal measures it would take to do so. One self-aware pundit coined the phrase “Egypt’s illiberal liberals.”
Egypt’s current regime, led by Sisi, makes the Mubarak regime look benign. Harsh repression is justified in the name of security and stability, protests are against the law, political groups are banned or emasculated and polarization is promoted by a subservient media.
Sisi’s hold on power has been aided by widening regional chaos. Libya, Syria and Yemen loom conveniently large in case Egyptians forget what premature democracy movements can yield. A spate of recent house arrests and “enforced disappearances” has targeted journalists and civil-rights activists, which has forced the government to acknowledge that hundreds are being illegally detained.
The discovery last week of the body of Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian PhD student, who was left by the side of a road and appeared to have been tortured, was considered particularly unsettling because the Egyptian security forces typically reserve their brutality exclusively for Egyptians. In spite of continuing efforts by Italian authorities, Regeni’s family will almost certainly never find out what happened to their son, just as tens of thousands of Egyptians never learn the truth about the extrajudicial deaths of family members.
Not much is likely to change in the short term. Sisi will probably continue to perform better outside of Egypt than domestically, and he’ll maximize his role as a line of defense against Islamic State in the Sinai. He will likely maneuver for a place in whatever regional coalition is formed to manage the crises in Libya, Syria and Yemen. He will continue to receive international support and military aid in spite of his authoritarian measures. Ninety million Egyptians will continue to struggle with rising food prices, high unemployment, impossible daily commutes, poor healthcare, worse education and an entirely unaccountable government.
Where is the bright side? It is the simple fact of Egypt’s revolution — not its much-debated outcomes. Egyptians have shown that they can depose leaders who serve them badly, whether they’ve done this righteously, cynically or fickly. Egyptians have also shown their capacity for political accommodation and transient loyalties — bad for democracy but useful for getting rid of governments.
With time, as Sisi’s excesses continue, new alliances of convenience and cooperation will form among unexpected allies. Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers may once again align with secular groups; military factions may find the Brotherhood a useful ally against a rogue president. Voices in the media will begin to speak up. Criticism on social media will begin to build up a revolutionary head of steam. One day, Sisi will be replaced — probably not democratically.
I hope whoever replaces him will finally serve Egyptians better.
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Bangladesh Plans to Relocate Rohingyas to the Remote Island of Bhasan Char
In 2015, the government of Bangladesh proposed a relocation of the displaced Rohingyas to Bhasan
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WTA Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo canceled amid COVID-19 worries
July 28 (Xinhua) -- The WTA Pan Pacific Open, due to take place at Tokyo's Ariake Tennis Park in November, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said here on Tuesday.
Organizers said in a statement, "The Executive Committee looked at every possible way to make this tournament happen, including the idea of holding matches without audiences or restricting admissions in order to prioritize the health and safety of everyone involved.
"However, after a series of deliberations, the Executive Committee made a heartrending decision to rule out the postponement, and concluded that the cancellation of the tournament was the best decision in the interest of public health, especially in light of the concern about the second wave of infection spreading in Japan."
The Pan Pacific Open, which has been pushed back from September to November, has become the third and last victim following the cancellations of WTA and ATP Japan Open.
All seven tournaments scheduled in China on the WTA's 2020 provisional calendar will also not be held, the WTA announced last Friday.
The announcement means the cancelation of the China Open, the Wuhan Open, the Jiangxi Open, the Zhengzhou Open, the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, the WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai and the Guangzhou Open, all of which were slated to be held in October and November.
"We are extremely disappointed that our world-class events in China will not take place this year," said Steve Simon, WTA Chairman and CEO. "We share in the disappointment of many around the world who were looking forward to this swing and appreciate all the continued support from our fans, partners and the entire region, as we continue to navigate the remainder of the 2020 season."
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little house on the prairie season 4 episode 18 dailymotion
S9, Ep4 18 Oct. 1982 Caroline and the girls can't help but think the worst when Charles begins to behave mysteriously and later lies about the amount of time he has spent doing carpentry work for their lovely, young neighbor, the widow Elizabeth Thurman. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy Luke falls in love with Nellie. Laura takes the child in and cares for it like it was her own, not knowing it belongs to a timid young woman with an abusive father. Oturum açın. Directed by William F. Claxton. S4:E23. Directed by Michael Landon. The adventures of the Ingalls family continue in Season 5 of “Little House on the Prairie”. Nellie cries to Miss Beadle and Miss Beadle goes to Mr. Simms to tell him that she won't have that kind of treatment in her school. Jeremy says that while in Walnut Grove, Spotted Eagle will be called Joseph Stokes. In that show, Schallert appeared in Season 4, in the two-part episode “Man’s Best Friend.” And even more, interestingly, he portrayed the father of actor Stan Ivar, who played John Carter in Season 9 of “Little House on the Prairie.” More Trivia! "Little House" told the story of the Ingalls family's life on a Minnesota farm in the late 1800s. But soon, Mary finds a source of hope in her new teacher, Adam Kendall, and as the two young people work together they find they have much in common. When they encounter a steep hill, Charles and Alvin agree to take the hill one at a time, with the children staying with the Ingalls wagon. With Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson. TVGuide has every full episode so you can stay-up-to-date and watch your favorite show Little House on the Prairie anytime, anywhere. At the same time, Laura realizes that two guys are coming that are sure to have a good arm, so she tells Nellie that the ... Adam & Luke Simms move to Walnut Grove. ... Freedom Flight. The adventures of the Ingalls Family continue in Season Nine of “Little House on the Prairie.”The original episodes aired from September 27, 1982, to March 21, 1983. tbd: VOTE NOW . After she has sat there for 30 minutes, Nellie comes along to taunt her. To make some more, she agrees to sit in the dunking booth. Tells a Story About Visting Russia. Charles Ingalls and Jonathan Garvey are trying to win a contract for a freight operation. Charles and Caroline have gone out of town and Mary is left in charge of Laura and Carrie. With Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson. Episode Recap Little House on the Prairie on TV.com. Most of the townspeople want to massacre the Indians because of what other Indians had done to them in the past. Little House On The Prairie S04E14 The Rivals - Dailymotion Season 3, Episode 4. His daughter Amelia was rumored to have been kidnapped by some Indians. Charles Ingalls and Jonathan Garvey are trying to win a contract for a freight operation. Little House on the Prairie: Season 4: Episode 8. She is under stress so she is a little too bossy and Laura runs to her tree house as often as possible or hangs out with Andy. After eleven year old Ellen Taylor accidentally drowns while swimming on a hot summer day with the Ingalls girls, her grief-stricken mother, Eloise, first blames Laura for asking Ellen to go to the pond with them and then, unable to accept the reality of her little girl's death, begins to imagine that Laura is Ellen. Directed by Michael Landon. Wikis. Tam ekran izle. Mary, Laura, Nellie and Williego to visit Kezia and find out what a unique, yet kind person she is. Charles and Albert travel with the Cooper family, parents Alvin and Sarah, 11-year-old James and 8-year-old Cassandra, while on a delivery run. 1 "Little House - The Pilot" Movie (1974) 2 Season 1 (1974–75) 3 Season 2 (1975–76) 4 Season 3 (1976–77) 5 Season 4 (1977–78) 6 Season 5 (1978–79) 7 Season 6 (1979–80) 8 Season 7 (1980–81) 9 Season 8 (1981–82) 10 Season 9 (1982–83) 11 Season 10 Movie specials (1983-84) Caroline feels that this new job is her rival. Ara. But, surprises are in store for everyone as both Charles and Mary experience a trip very different from the one they each expected. Laura takes the child in and cares for it like it was her own, not knowing it belongs to a timid young woman with an abusive father. and the Terms and Policies, In this episode, Charles receives word of an inheritance from an eccentric uncle. No score yet. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Miss Peel's determination to drive Mary from town proves to be a severe test to the Ingalls girl's resolve and character. Little House on the Prairie: Season 6. Synopsis:In the first episode of a two-part story, an accident unexpectedly restores Adam Kendall's (Linwood Boomer) eyesight. Little House on the Prairie S01 E00 (Pilot M.) Little House on the Prairie - … As Walnut Grove school begins to study the Civil War, Mary Ingalls unexpectedly learns firsthand information when she starts running errands for two mysterious newcomers who sided with the South. Category:Episodes | Little House on the Prairie Wiki | Fandom. S4:E24. Laura is given an order by her mother to care for her dog, Jack, before going to town to greet a newcomer, Kezia Horn, who lives in a house without walls. Laura and Andy find a Mama in a trap and two pups nearby. With Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson. Soon, the whole town is abuzz, eagerly helping the initially reluctant Ingalls family spend the promised money. Michael Landon directed 89 episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” and his character, Charles Ingalls, was #4 on TV Guide’s 2004 list of the “50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time.” And this is one of the many reasons why we love Pa Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie. Little House On The Prairie S04E13 Freedom ... - Dailymotion In tears, she and her family bury him i… Little House on the Prairie, " based on the young adult book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, was one of the most beloved shows on television when it ran from 1974 to 1983. Directed by Victor French. Louis C.K. As the debt rises, so does Charles' discomfiture...until the consequences of the blessing make it feel more like a curse. I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away Air Date: March 13, 1978. tbd. Meanwhile, back in Walnut Grove, many are forced to consider the real possibility of having to start a new life elsewhere as the town's economy erodes and work becomes scarce. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. 10:37. When young Peter Lundstrom is expelled from his private school for petty theft, his wealthy father sends the boy to stay with Uncle Nels Oleson in Walnut Grove for a long-overdue lesson in values. Meddling Mrs. Oleson starts tongues wagging when a handsome itinerant handyman stays in the Ingalls' barn while helping Caroline with a kitchen addition after Charles is called out of town to work on Mr. Hanson's railroad lumber contract. Since somehow a pickpocket has stolen his wallet, his coworker, Cass McCray agrees to take Mary around and buy her some goodies. USER SCORE. Little House on the Prairie - Season 4 Episode 13. Within 24 hours the family suddenly becomes Harriet Oleson's best pals. Within 24 hours the family suddenly becomes Harriet Oleson's best pals. Watch Little House on the Prairie episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. Alden's recommendation, Mary is hired as a teacher in a small backwoods community called Willow Run. Games Movies TV Video. The following is a list of episodes for the television show Little House on the Prairie, an American Western drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota from the 1870s to the 1890s.The show is a full-colour version of Laura Ingalls Wilder's series of Little House books. She says she won't cash them in but only if they do her this little favor of renaming Walnut Grove Olesenville and that little favor of letting Nels be the Mayor. The Ingalls and others from Walnut Grove go to the fair. The Stranger. 59:59. Michael Landon was already a well known television star of similarly American themed and wholesome fare when he joined the show, and he also had a hand at directing and writing many of the episodes. Charles hides an ailing indigenous American chief and his family when townspeople threaten to fight the tribe. In the United States, the episodes aired from September 12, 1977 to March 13, 1978. Season 4 Episodes tbd. In Season 9 of “Little House on the Prairie”, change is in the air! 3 yıl önce | 2.2K görüntülenme. Soon, the whole town is abuzz, eagerly helping the initially reluctant Ingalls family spend the promised money. Luke gets Mary to help him pick out a ring for Nellie's birthday and Nellie thinks Luke was playing with her affections. ... S4 E18 48m. TVG. The original episodes of season 5 aired from September 11, 1978 to March 19, 1979. Little House on the Prairie: Season 4 is a DVD box set which includes all of the episodes from season four in the Little House on the Prairie television series.It was released in region one format on February 17, 2004 and in region two on May 26, 2008. Things get worse when this newfound fortune threatens the family's relationships with their real friends. Season 4 Episode 13 48m. Kitaplık. S4 E20 48m. Holding himself responsible for a farmer friend's death and unable to face the man's seven-months pregnant widow, a disheartened Doc Baker leaves his Walnut Grove practice in the hands of a self-absorbed Philadelphia physician and decides to raise corn. Laura becomes frustrated at Jack and gives up trying to take the ticks out of his ears. Little House on the Prairie Season 4 View all. Season 4, Episode 8 – The Aftermath Watch all 22 Little House on the Prairie episodes from season 8,view pictures, get episode information and more. Jimmy Hill is Laura's friend. Feeling lost and abandoned, Mary Ingalls battles anger and self-pity at a school for the blind, far away from the little house by Plum Creek. The next day, Laura decides to wear her hair down because it makes her look more grown up and she ... On Rev. Contains flashbacks of LHOTP's greatest episodes. 0:54. Don't have an account? Due to economic problems, the Ingalls, Olesons and Garveys leave Walnut Grove and settle in Winoka for a time. After the Garveys' grain-filled barn burns down and leaves them with no crop to sell, proud Jonathan refuses to accept help from anyone, even his wife Alice, and their marriage is put to the test when neither half of the stubborn couple will consider the other's solution to the problem. ... Little House on the Prairie S01E09 School Mom by Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) Basilberry. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Local TV. They go fishing together and Laura almost falls in the creek, and Jimmy catches her, and for the first time, we see Laura liking a boy because she is a girl. 1:37. There, she is met with pure hatred from its town leader, Miss Peel, an elderly woman who is fiercely opposed to the school. So, it means they will be making good money but they will be on the road for usually two weeks at a time, and usually with only an overnight layover. Traveling Charles Ingalls struggles with a broken wagon wheel and bad weather trying to get home in time to celebrate his wedding anniversary while, back in Plum Creek, waiting wife Caroline tries to keep worry at bay by entertaining their daughters with the tale of another time she was kept waiting and how she and their father first met. Little House on the Prairie Season 4 Episode 5 The Wolves - fiveofseven. When young Peter Lundstrom is expelled from his private school for petty theft, his wealthy father sends the boy to stay with Uncle Nels Oleson in … Harriet finds some old Walnut Grove bonds under a loose step when they are fixing up Mr. Hansen's old house. Laura plays a shell game and quickly uses up her money. An excited Mary Ingalls accompanies her father to the Chicago Grange Convention to surprise her true love, John Edwards, by accepting his invitation to a cotillion in person. Little House on the Prairie is a series that is currently running and has 9 seasons (207 episodes). The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. ... Little Girl Lost October 18, 1976. Copyright © Fandango. Charles and Dr. Baker take the chief, his adult son (acting chief) and his son's two children to Ingalls' house to stay until the chief is well enough to travel. This page is a complete list of episodes for the NBC Little House on the Prairie television series. With Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson. Mary finds her friend Patrick who happens to be working for the balloon show. Sign up here. Charles inherits the entire estate of a wealthy uncle. In this episode, Charles receives word of an inheritance from an eccentric uncle. Little House on the Prairie season 10 episodes: 01 Look Back To Yesterday, 02 Bless All The Dear Children, 03 The Last Farewell. I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away: Part II, Best and Worst Fatherly Advice From Movies and TV, 12 Biggest Emmy Snubs and Surprises of All Time. Jeremy Stokes lives in Walnut Grove. They take the "dogs" home, only to find out they are wolves. When Laura arrives home, she finds old Jack dead in the barn. The Ingalls family … Directed by William F. Claxton. Nellie likes him but he doesn't like to wear shoes and he wears overalls without a shirt over his long underwear, so Harriet thinks he is beneath her and demands that Nellie stop seeing them. ... far away from the little house by Plum Creek. An eccentric old woman who has set up her "house" in the center of town and a stray dog who hitches a ride to Plum Creek from Mankato in Charles Ingalls' wagon both, in their own way, help Laura through the loss of an old friend and teach her and rest Walnut Grove lessons in love and acceptance. A misinterpreted remark from husband Charles plants a seed of worry in newly pregnant Caroline Ingalls that he will be disappointed if the baby isn't a boy. At the same time, some dogs that used to be pets but were released to the wild have gotten really wild and have been attacking some livestock in town. So, it means they will be making good money but they will be on the road for usually two weeks at a time, and usually with only an overnight layover. Long hours studying by candlelight for the state teacher's exam results in tired, blurry eyes for Mary Ingalls, prompting a routine visit to the eye doctor; but when Charles is told that Mary's worsening sight is just the beginning of a much more serious problem, the concerned father can't bring himself to tell his beloved daughter that she will, most certainly, soon be completely blind. Junior detectives Andy and Laura take tips from fictional sleuth Farnsdale Fremont of Scotland Yard to track down the mysterious Walnut Grove chicken thief, ruffling a few feathers of their own along the way. Little House on the Prairie: Season 5. Kayıt ol. Unfortunately, some of the townspeople find out that the chief is there and they want to come kill him, so Charles transports them to safety. A road-weary, aging boxer who has sacrificed his family and his health for the only career he has ever known, comes to a long-dreaded crossroads when he unexpectedly meets his match in a ring in Walnut Grove. Charles inherits the entire estate of a wealthy uncle. Fashion House - Season 1, Episode 2. Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search This wiki This wiki ... Little House on the Prairie: Season 4. Little House on the Prairie season 8 episode guide on TV.com. After finding a number of bottles containing messages, including a photograph, from a mysterious girl, Laura finds an abandoned baby. S4 E19 48m. A Most Precious Gift. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. The series first aired on September 11, 1974. Little House on the Prairie Season show reviews & Metacritic score: At Thanksgiving, the Ingalls family share stories of their favorite memories. They are pressured to make various contributions throughout the community, and even receive newspaper article offers to chronicle this tremendous change in their lives. Esquire. Little House on the Prairie S03E03 The Race izleyin - Doradebiane Dailymotion'da . There is no Audience Score because there are not enough user ratings at this time. All rights reserved. When her husband is killed she and her son, Spotted Eagle, come home to live with her father. With Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson. But Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Dankworth are hiding more than just their war affiliation and the whole town comes under siege when an overzealous posse rides in, prepared to capture them at any cost. Mr. Simms explains the situation and Miss Beadle starts ... An Indian chief needs help from a white man's doctor and the closest town is Walnut Grove. Forgot your password? After finding a number of bottles containing messages, including a photograph, from a mysterious girl, Laura finds an abandoned baby. - Season 4 charles inherits the entire estate of a wealthy uncle to have been kidnapped by Indians. Unique, yet kind person she is: episode 8 to them in the!. | Fandom test to the fair when her husband is killed she and son. 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Activated sludge treatment of selected aqueous organic hazardous waste compounds
60 ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT OF SELECTED
AQUEOUS ORGANIC HAZARDOUS WASTE
Margaret K. Koczwara, Research Assistant
James E. Park, Research Associate
Richard J. Lesiecki, Research Associate
Douglas W. Grosse, Environmental Engineer
Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
As a result of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 and the concurrent land
disposal restrictions rule, EPA is in the process of demonstrating achievable treatment techniques to
be used as alternatives to the land disposal of hazardous wastes. Data are being collected for this
purpose from three types of sources, in the following order of priority: 1) waste generators that also
treat the waste; 2) commercial facilities (other than generators); and 3) EPA in-house research treatment facilities. The work being done at the USEPA Test & Evaluation (T&E) Facility falls in the third
The USEPA, in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, conducts a
variety of pilot and bench scale waste treatment research projects at the T&E Facility. The purpose of
several of the current projects is to develop the capability of evaluating the applicability of proposed
treatment methods to both inorganic and organic hazardous wastes. The inorganic hazardous wastes
to be tested are primarily metals and cyanide-bearing wastes while the organic wastes include spent
halogenated and non-halogenated solvents as well as wastes from still bottoms or process wastewaters.
For aqueous spent solvent wastes containing contaminants in concentrations up to 10,000 mg/L,
the activated sludge process has been proposed as a potential applicable treatment technology. However, these solvent contaminants may be present in the wastes at concentrations toxic to the activated
sludge biomass or they may be easily stripped into the atmosphere, creating an environmental hazard.
Likewise, many of the contaminants may readily be associated with the resultant waste sludges due to
sorption, precluding land disposal of the sludge. It is also possible that they may be recalcitrant and
require a different treatment approach. For these reasons, the removal mechanisms for the contaminants must be assessed. Evaluation of the fate of the contaminants at several concentrations spanning
the range of solubility of the compounds is also desirable.
Prior to testing industrially generated hazardous wastes, two prototype bench-scale activated sludge
systems have been set up and are being used to evaluate the fates of two selected aqueous organic
hazardous waste constituents, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA). Both
compounds will be tested at three different concentrations spaced to span the solubility range for each
compound. The data for two test concentrations of each compound are the subject of this paper.
ACTIVATED SLUDGE PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION
The main components in each system consisted of a completely-mixed, continuous flow reactor
(15.2 cm I.D. cylinder) and two clarifiers (primary and secondary) as shown in Figure I. System
components were composed of either glass (reactors, clarifiers), Teflon (tubing, connectors) or stainless steel (valves, covers) to prevent reactive interactions with the compounds being tested and to
Title Activated sludge treatment of selected aqueous organic hazardous waste compounds
Author Koczwara, Margaret K.
Park, James E.
Lesiecki, Richard J.
Grosse, Douglas W.
Transcript 60 ACTIVATED SLUDGE TREATMENT OF SELECTED AQUEOUS ORGANIC HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPOUNDS Margaret K. Koczwara, Research Assistant James E. Park, Research Associate Richard J. Lesiecki, Research Associate Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 Douglas W. Grosse, Environmental Engineer U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio 45268 INTRODUCTION As a result of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 and the concurrent land disposal restrictions rule, EPA is in the process of demonstrating achievable treatment techniques to be used as alternatives to the land disposal of hazardous wastes. Data are being collected for this purpose from three types of sources, in the following order of priority: 1) waste generators that also treat the waste; 2) commercial facilities (other than generators); and 3) EPA in-house research treatment facilities. The work being done at the USEPA Test & Evaluation (T&E) Facility falls in the third category. The USEPA, in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, conducts a variety of pilot and bench scale waste treatment research projects at the T&E Facility. The purpose of several of the current projects is to develop the capability of evaluating the applicability of proposed treatment methods to both inorganic and organic hazardous wastes. The inorganic hazardous wastes to be tested are primarily metals and cyanide-bearing wastes while the organic wastes include spent halogenated and non-halogenated solvents as well as wastes from still bottoms or process wastewaters. For aqueous spent solvent wastes containing contaminants in concentrations up to 10,000 mg/L, the activated sludge process has been proposed as a potential applicable treatment technology. However, these solvent contaminants may be present in the wastes at concentrations toxic to the activated sludge biomass or they may be easily stripped into the atmosphere, creating an environmental hazard. Likewise, many of the contaminants may readily be associated with the resultant waste sludges due to sorption, precluding land disposal of the sludge. It is also possible that they may be recalcitrant and require a different treatment approach. For these reasons, the removal mechanisms for the contaminants must be assessed. Evaluation of the fate of the contaminants at several concentrations spanning the range of solubility of the compounds is also desirable. Prior to testing industrially generated hazardous wastes, two prototype bench-scale activated sludge systems have been set up and are being used to evaluate the fates of two selected aqueous organic hazardous waste constituents, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA). Both compounds will be tested at three different concentrations spaced to span the solubility range for each compound. The data for two test concentrations of each compound are the subject of this paper. ACTIVATED SLUDGE PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION The main components in each system consisted of a completely-mixed, continuous flow reactor (15.2 cm I.D. cylinder) and two clarifiers (primary and secondary) as shown in Figure I. System components were composed of either glass (reactors, clarifiers), Teflon (tubing, connectors) or stainless steel (valves, covers) to prevent reactive interactions with the compounds being tested and to 585
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‘When will it end?’: Anger over parties in Primrose Hill park
Woman says she was spat on and hit after asking for music to be turned down
30 July, 2020 — By Bronwen Weatherby
SLEEPLESS residents living near Primrose Hill say they are being tormented by people holding parties in the park with blaring sound systems into the early hours.
Unlicensed music events have attracted large groups, it has been warned, with drunk ravers keeping neighbours awake and urinating in the streets.
Lucy Kelsey, who lives in a row of houses opposite the park, said: “We’ve been having a terrible time. One of the main gripes is the amplified music with DJs turning up to play in the park – it’s clearly becoming known as somewhere you can do that.
“Two weeks ago it happened four days in a row. It’s just not on and hard to cope with because you don’t know when it will end.”
She added: “It’s gathered momentum since the lockdown and I think that’s because it’s not being policed.”
A number of residents have told the New Journal they want police to take stronger action.
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Eleanor Sturdy, 55, said she was assaulted after asking one party organiser to turn his music down.
“Two men and a woman came out onto the pavement with a tower of speakers which were still blaring music while they waited for a taxi,” said Ms Sturdy.
“I asked them from my window to turn it down but he said I’d have to go down and turn it off myself. I went down to see them and he started swearing at me and calling me names. He then spat in my face and walloped me around the legs.
“It has really shaken me up to be honest. But the police came and they were really good, they got there quickly and arrested him.”
Ms Sturdy said: “The park is a local treasure and a place people from all around have been able to enjoy for years but now it feels very unsafe.”
Another resident, who has lived in the area for 30 years, said: “Because the park is open all night, unlike many other parks, it is starting to be seen as a place where the rules don’t apply.
“A constant stream of people are coming up our road to urinate.”
Conservative councillor Oliver Cooper said: “From noise, rubbish, damage, and everything else, it needs to be nipped in the bud.
“The use of amplified music is contrary to the by-laws of the Royal Parks, so there are powers that can be used.”
Nick Biddle, Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill park manager, said: “Please be assured that both the police and the Royal Parks are committed to doing all we can to make sure the parks remain pleasant and safe for all visitors.”
Sergeant Alvaro Aracena-Fuentes, from the Primrose Hill Safer Neighbourhoods Team, said: “I understand residents’ frustrations but I want to reassure them that we are using all available resources to us in order to respond to these reports.”
People are asked to call the police on 101 to report anti-social behaviour.
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Lauren Alaina Update 2017
04-29-2017, 05:57 PM, (This post was last modified: 04-29-2017, 05:58 PM by Miguel.)
RE: Lauren Alaina Update 2017
Quote: Six Singles in, Mercury Records Nashville Finally Scores a Hit for Lauren Alaina
For a record-label promotion executive, every chart-topper is a victory. But imagine working with an artist for six years, and through six singles, before finally achieving that elusive hit.
It’s a scenario Mercury Records Nashville vp national promotion Damon Moberly and his team are all too familiar with. So when Lauren Alaina finally hit the summit of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with the appropriately titled “Road Less Traveled” in April, Moberly says the win was “really sweet.”
At a time when new artists typically only get a turn or two at bat without connecting, Mercury parent Universal Music Group Nashville stuck it out with Alaina, now 22. Moberly says that’s partly because of her bubbly, likeable personality, and partly because they saw potential in her newfound maturity and her growing depth and skill as a songwriter. Mostly, however, it was Alaina’s work ethic that kept everyone committed. “She’s hardly ever said no to us when we’ve asked her to go do something for radio,” says Moberly.
Another factor is that Mercury has been partnered with 19/Interscope on Alaina ever since she took second place on American Idol in 2011, so the labels share both profits and expenses, helping mitigate the risks associated with the latter.
Still, early on in her career, Alaina almost became a casualty. “There was a moment on the first record when we had merged [with EMI], and Mike [Dungan] had taken over as the chairman/CEO of the label,” recalls Moberly. “We had worked a couple of singles and they had not succeeded. We had a meeting and talked about maybe moving on. I can remember several of us from promotion raising our hands and saying, ‘We really want to work “Eighteen Inches.” ’ We thought that could be a hit.”
“Eighteen Inches” wasn’t a big radio hit: It peaked at No. 34 in 2012. “But at that point, I knew we had some investment from everybody in the building,” says Moberly. “We just all had this unbelievable belief that something was going to happen and now, luckily, we’re seeing that come to fruition.”
The label swung and missed one more time with “Next Boyfriend,” the first single from Alaina’s sophomore album, which debuted at No. 3 on Top Country Albums in February. Although follow-up “Road Less Traveled” ascended relatively quickly once it charted — hitting No. 1 in its 34th week on the list — it took a while to get started on the front end. The label went for adds on July 11, 2016, but the single didn’t chart for another six weeks when spins from iHeart Media’s “On the Verge” program kicked it.
From there, it was pretty smooth sailing until the record reached the teens, where it hovered for several weeks as Moberly and his team waited for radio research to kick in. Once it began testing well, he says, “We got in gear and got up into the top 15. We had so many stations that weren’t yet in heavy [rotation] after we had already made the top 15. We thought, ‘If we can just continue to convert a decent percentage of these each week, we may have an opportunity,’ and obviously it worked out.” (Next single, “Doin’ Fine,” goes for adds in the third week of May.)
In February, Alaina got radio’s attention at the label’s Country Radio Seminar showcase at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium when she was given the opportunity to perform just one song. Instead of “Road Less Traveled,” she made the riskier choice of debuting “Three,” a poignant ballad about her struggles to achieve airplay success. (The title refers to the three-minute length of most radio hits.) It paid off, with Alaina receiving a standing ovation from an audience packed with key decision makers.
“Radio programmers could really appreciate what it was because she was really speaking to them, thanking them for her three minutes on the radio, and it really touched the nerve with lots of people in the room,” says Moberly, who thinks the performance gave “Road” added momentum.
...As the single approached the summit, Moberly was reminded of a gift Alaina had given him. Last year, just before the staff began working “Next Boyfriend,” the singer had popped into his office and delivered a bottle of champagne with a note instructing him to save it until they could celebrate her first No. 1. In her note, she told Moberly, “I know we’ll get there.”
Alaina likely thought “Next Boyfriend” would be that No. 1. But, Moberly says, “we didn’t even crack the top 20 with that single. So I had to make the fifth of five really tough telephone calls to Lauren and her manager saying, ‘We’ve kind of reached the end of the road, and we need to come off this thing before we do damage by pressing it down.’
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"So I had to make the fifth of five really tough telephone calls to Lauren and her manager saying... 'we need to come off this thing before we do damage by pressing it down.'"
Thought this was an interesting comment. Would like to know more about what he meant. Harming their credibility with programming directors by promoting a song that wasn't going anywhere? Wasting promo opportunities? Getting exposure that didn't leave a favorable impression?
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(End of) 2018 update
Lauren got a new years eve gig in NYC
Lauren will be opening for Blake Shelton in his coming U.S. tour.
I still suspect that Lauren had thought she might to do this song at some point on Idol, but Haley beat her to it. And regardless, I wonder if Haley's rendition shook her confidence a bit.
01-02-2019, 11:05 AM,
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Donnie McClurkin (1996)
The McClurkin Project (by The McClurkins) (1999)
Live In London and more... (2000)
...again (2003)
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs - Disc 1 (2005)
Donnie McClurkin Biography
His world was characterized by violence, alcoholism, and abuse, but young Donnie McClurkin found a safe haven in his church, Bethel Gospel Tabernacle, Assemblies of God. It was there, at the age of nine, when he made a commitment to Christ. Throughout his troubled youth, amidst the strife of daily life, he learned to stand on the promises in the scripture. "A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men." (Prov 18:16) "I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it" (Rev. 3:8).
Donnie was born, and raised in Amityville, New York. Because of a God-given gift of music that ran in his family, Donnie formed the McClurkin Singers with his siblings, and a few close friends in 1979. It wasn't long after that when Donnie began to feel a calling to preach. He went on to meet gospel-legend Andrae Crouch, who became a mentor to him. Through that relationship, grew a friendship that would shape the entire course of Donnie's future.
Donnie went on to form the New York Restoration Choir, who recorded the album I Feel Well in 1989. The song Speak to My Heart forged a strong following in the gospel community that continued to build the groups reputation. "God just got behind it, just like He got behind that rock David threw at Goliath!" Donnie, says, chuckling, "It's been nothing else but Him."
In 1996, Donnie released his self-titled, debut project on Warner-Alliance Records. This album featured the hit song Stand, as well as a re-recorded Speak to My Heart, which garnered him two stellar awards, as well as Grammy , and Dove award nominations.
Live in London and More was recorded in 1999 at the historic Fairfield Hall in Croydon, England. Released August 2001, the album quickly became a best seller with it's Dove award winning song We Fall Down and held the number one spot on all of the gospel charts. In six months time, it achieved gold status with 500,000 records sold and by nine months was platinum (1,000,000). This project, recorded on the Verity Label, has opened doors around the world including The U.K., and The Carribean.
After being an associate Pastor to Marvin L. Winans for nearly a decade, Donnie became ordained and is Senor Pastor at Perfecting Faith, Located in Freeport, NY.
In 2001, Donnie had his first book published by Pneuma Life Publishing. Eternal Victim/Eternal Victor reflects on Donnie's past and parallels his family circumstances with biblical families. "Victims and victors have one thing in common-suffering -it is how one handles those events that classifies whether they are one or the other," says McClurkin.
In September of 2002, Donnie recorded his sophomore Verity album at West Angeles Church of God In Christ. Donnie McClurkin...Again, released March of 2003, has already captured critics and fans alike with the sure to-be-classic song "The Prayer" with Yolanda Adams.
Donnie McClurkin feels his purpose in life is to worship God, and to minister to people. He frequently ministers at some of America's great gatherings such as Promise Keepers, Carlton Pearson's Azusa Conferences, Benny Hinn crusades, TD Jakes Ministry events, as well as Rod Parsley's Dominion Camp Meetings. Some interesting highlights of Donnie's ministry are performing at the White House before United States Presidents Bush, and Clinton. He has made appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has an award winning song on the soundtrack of the animated film, The Prince of Egypt.
McClurkin's message is clear, as real today as the day he committed his life to Christ at nine years old: "I want to introduce Jesus Christ to the world, not as a religious leader, but as an intimate Friend who wants to radically change our lives,"he explains. "I want the world to know that we can sit down and embrace Him, He can embrace us, and He can handle any problem we are going through. He loves each of us individually, one by one."
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Islamic Perspectives on Theory Building in the Social Sciences
The issue of the relevance of Islam to modem "scientific" thinking is flanked on both sides by extreme positions. On further investigation, however, these positions turn out to reflect certain misconceptions only, perpetuated by certain structural and personal factors that lend themselves readily to systematic analysis and, hopefully, correction. On the one hand, we have legions of Muslim social scientists who still flinch at hearing of attempts to integrate divine revelation with science. Many of them would find the title of this paper problematic, if not outright self-contradictory. What does Islam, or any other religion for that matter, have to do with science or with theory building, they would ask.
Ibrahim A Ragab
The Quest for an Islamic Methodology: The Islamization of Knowledge Project in Its Second Decade
The Islamization of knowledge is one of the dominant themes that continue to preoccupy contemporary Muslim intellectuals. Since Ismail al Faruqi presented this thesis little over a decade ago, numerous papers, monographs, and books have been written on the subject. This paper attempts to examine the progress of the project of Islamization in the last decade by outlining the general framework of Islamization and examining the work of its proponents and critics. Modifications aimed at overcoming the difficulties inherent in the original plan are then proposed.
Louay Safi
Reflections into the Spirit of the Islamic Corpus of Knowledge and the Rise of the New Science
There is no question that contemporary western civilization has been dominant in the field of science since the Renaissance. Western scientific superiority is not limited to specific scientific disciplines, but is rather an overall scientific domination covering both the so-called exact and the human-social sciences. Western science is the primary reference for specialists in such areas as physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, economics, psychology, and sociology. It is in this sense that Third World underdevelopment is not only economic, social, and industrial; it also suffers from scientific-cultural underdevelopment, or what we call "The Other Underdevelopment" (Dhaouadi 1988).
Mahmoud Dhaouadi
The Crisis of Thought and Ijtihad
The Muslim mind experienced a crisis of thought when, during the early centuries of the Islamic era ijtihad began to be viewed as limited to legal matters rather than as a methodology for dealing with all aspects of life. This limited understanding engendered a malaise that allowed taqlid to attain such prominence and respectability that its cancerous, constricting, and irrelevant fiqh spread throughout Muslim life. Had ijtihad retained more of its lexical meaning and creativity, and had fiqh been considered only one of its uses, perhaps Muslims would have overcome many of the problems that confronted them. However, this particularization of ijtihad confined the Muslim mind, and taqlid eventually led to the paralysis of its creative abilities.
Revelation and Political Philosophy: What Is Islamization of Knowledge?
This is a "work in progress" presentation based on research I am now conducting about the development of Islamic political philosophy during the classical period of Islam. My contention is that a better understanding of that tradition puts the current debate about Islamic fundamentalism or resurgence into a new perspective. Behind the sensational, popular demands for greater adherence to the strictures of the revealed law of Islam lies an issue of fundamental importance: how divine revelation is to be understood and interpreted for political guidance. Those who developed Islamic political philosophy spoke directly to this issue and did so in a manner that merits the attention of contemporary Muslim activists, scholars interested in Islam, and thoughtful human beings in general. They thought clearly about the relationship between religious belief and political practice because they addressed the issue directly and without preconceptions. Consequently, whatever our religious and cultural origins, we can benefit greatly from their teaching.
Charles E Butterworth
The Methodology of the Islamic Behavioral Sciences
Methodology is the means of formulating the principles that determine the guidelines for various sciences. Or, in other words, it is the system of practices and procedures that, when applied to a specific branch of knowledge, will result in furthering the particulars of that knowledge. The concept of studying methodology is not new. In fact, some trace it back to Plato and Aristotle, who gave it special consideration. Its study has developed to such an extent that it has now become a science in and of itself under the formal title of "methodology." Its content has also become intertwined with the philosophy of the sciences themselves.
Mahmoud AbuSaud
Towards a Unified Approach to the Shari'ah and Social Inference
Forging a new methodology capable of analyzing complicated social phenomena on the one hand, and facilitating the derivation of rules and concepts from divine revelation on the other, is one of the paramount concerns of contemporary Islamic scholarship and the sole concern of this paper. In dealing with this concern the paper pursues two main themes. First, an attempt is made to underscore the need for reestablishing revelation as a primary source of social theorizing. Second, a primordial model of a unified methodological approach for analyzing both revealed texts and social phenomena is outlined.
Assumptions Concerning the Social Sciences: A Comparative Perspective
This paper comprises three major sections. The first section discusses modern social assumptions concerning the existence of human beings and their societies. It also explains the impact of these assumptions on organizational theory. The second section explores Islamic assumptions concerning these same two elements and explains a major attribute of Islamic organizations. The third section compares the above-mentioned assumptions of modern social science to those of Islam and illustrates that knowledge-transfer creates its own organizational and social problems.
Ebtihaj AlA‘ali
Contemporary Social Theory: Tawhidi Projections
Contemporary social theory is conventionally addressed from within the dominant tradition of inquiry. Rarely is it subject to a critical reflection from beyond its own ken. This is a pity, for the subject matter and scope of social theory go beyond the confines of any exclusive tradition, while its reach and influence in the global context of our times merely reinforce its extended compass. Given the fact that the ambitious claims made by social theorists about the universality of their project are hardly borne out by the reality, any pretensions at exclusivism or hegemony would be as anachronistic as they are morally reprehensible. The gap between the legitimate ambitions for a universally relevant social theory and the reality of a field grounded in its historical constraints and cultural prejudices can be filled only by a critical and constructive initiative taken from within the profession to constitute a candid, open, and reflexive self-encounter. The opportuneness for such an initiative is enhanced by its urgency: the discrepancies that follow on the ineptitude of our social knowledge can only raise doubts about the relevance of our science to our social condition.
Mona M AbulFadl
A Critique of Modernist Synthesis in Islamic Thought: Special Reference to Political Economy
Is it the realm of theoretical constructs or positive applications that defines the essence of scientific inquiry? Is there unison between the normative and the positive, between the inductive and deductive contents, between perception and reality, between the micro- and macro-phenomena of reality as technically understood? In short, is there a possibility for unification of knowledge in modernist epistemological comprehension? Is knowledge perceived in conception and application as systemic dichotomy between the purely epistemic (in the metaphysically a priori sense) and the purely ontic (in the purely positivistically a posteriori sense) at all a reflection of reality? Is knowledge possible in such a dichotomy or plurality?
Masudul Alam Choudhury
The Islamization of Knowledge: Yesterday and Today
Within the Islamization of Knowledge school, the idea of the Islamization of Knowledge has always been understood as an intellectual and methodological outlook rather than as an academic field, a specialization, an ideology, or a new sect. Thus, the school has sought to view issues of knowledge and methodology from the perspectives of reform, inquiry, and self-discovery without any preconceptions, doctrinal or temporal constraints, or limitations on its intellectual horizons. The school is keenly aware of the workings of time on ideas as they pass from stage to stage and mature and is therefore the first to say that the Islamization of Knowledge is not to be understood as a set of axioms, a rigid ideology, or a religious movement. Rather, in order to comprehend the full meaning of the term, it must be viewed as designating a methodology for dealing with knowledge and its sources or as an intellectual outlook in its beginning stages.
The Islamization of Social Sciences in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects
The Islamization of social sciences is part and parcel of developing and promoting knowledge that conforms to the norms of Islam. This can be attained by motivating scholars to develop scholarship using an Islamic perspective through the introduction of new social science courses based on Islam, Islamizing (i.e., rearticulating along Islamic lines) existing conventional social science disciplines, and promoting the movement of Islamic attitude to knowledge.
Aminu S Mikailu
Some Remarks on the Islamic and the Secular Paradigms of Knowledge
By the time secularist thought had succeeded, at an intellectual level, in challenging the authority of the Church, its roots had already taken firm hold in western soil. Later, when western political and economic systems began to prevail throughout the world, it was only natural that secularism, as the driving force behind these systems, should gain ascendency worldwide. In time, and with varying degrees of success, the paradigm of positivism gradually displaced traditional and religious modes of thinking, with the result that generations of third world thinkers grew up convinced that the only way to “progress” and reform their societies was the way of the secular West. Moreover, since the experience of the West was that it began to progress politically, economically, and intellectually only after the influence of the Church had been marginalized, people in the colonies believed that they would have to marginalize the influence of their particular religions in order to achieve a similar degree of progress. Under the terms of the new paradigm, turning to religion for solutions to contemporary issues is an absurdity, for religion is viewed as something from humanity’s formative years, from a “dark” age of superstition and myth whose time has now passed. As such, religion has no relevance to the present, and all attempts to revive it are doomed to failure and are a waste of time.
Taqlid and Ijtihad
From the second hijri century until the present day, the reality, the essence, the rules, the conditions, the premises, the means, and the scope of ijtihad have remained a source of debate engaging some of the Islamic world's greatest theologians, scholars of al usul and fuqaha: This debate has also been enriched by proponents of the view that the door of ijtihad was closed and that the fiqh left by the Four Imams obviated the need for any further ijtihad, as well as by those who claimed that this door was still open and that the existing fiqh was not sufficient to guide the contemporary Muslim world.
The reform of Muslim education and the quest for intellectual renewal
Keynote address by Anwar Ibrahim at the Symposium on “Reform of Higher Education in Muslim Societies,” organized by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) on December 9-10, 2013 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
The crisis in higher education in Muslim societies is manifested in myriad ways not the least of which are impacting socioeconomic development. Among the root causes of the crisis are those related to choice, content, quality and financial resources and issues of governance.
Desacralizing Secularism
No Muslim endeavor to face the intellectual challenge of the western tradition can afford to ignore the critical discourse of postmodernism or fail to recognize the Nietzschean claim about truth's complicity with power. Secularism as truth, as doctrine, therefore, cannot be separated from the theory and practice of secular power. As the praxis of statecraft, secularism claims universal sovereignty, and as the theoria of history, it subordinates all religious and moral claims to its own version of the truth. The secularist enterprise, furthermore, has been immensely successful in transforming the historical order of our times. But as such, it is a subject proper to the discipline of (political) history and merits the Muslim scholar's fullest attention there.
S Parvez Manzoor
Social Science’s Need for a Cultural Symbols Paradigm
Abstract: The thesis of this paper is that human beings are remarkably distinct from other living beings (animals, birds, insects, etc.) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines (computers, robots, etc.) by what we would like to call cultural symbols. The latter refers to such cultural components as language, science, knowledge, religious beliefs, thought, myths, cultural norms and values.
General Outlines of the IIIT’s Plan for Reforming the University Education Curriculum
The International Institute of Islamic Thought, in its reformational vision for the university education curriculum, aims at laying down a foundation for intellectual, cultural and civilizational dimension within the framework of Islamic reform efforts. The goal of this foundation is to build the personality of the university student, to deepen his universal Islamic vision, and to make him aware of the situation of his Ummah and what it needs to achieve the desired cultural revival in order to able to have the necessary competence and efficiency to give, achieve and be creative in his area of specialization. At the same time, it will make him have sense of belonging in his society and Ummah by investing his energy and using his achievements in its service and upliftment, and in development of its future.
Social Sciences in Crisis: A Dialogue with Professor Neil Smelser on the Future of Social Sciences
Professor Mahmoud Dhaouadi is a sociologist at the University of Tunis, Tunisia. As part of his Fulbright Research on “the State of American Sociology Today,” he interviewed Professor Smelser on January 5, 2001, director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California. Here are some excerpts.
DHAOUADI: Based on my own observations and impressions, one talks more about sociology as a discipline having a crisis, than about psychology or political science. How do you respond to that?
SMELSER: I heard this kind of talk among sociologists. Among the questions raised in their frequent conversations are: What is the field about? What are the boundaries about? Is it (sociology) fragmented? Is it practiced … etc?
Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt: Shifting Worlds
Although the debate on the arrival of the Islamization of knowledge (IOK) concept continues among today’s scholars, giving it a practical framework is generally credited to the late Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, a Palestinian-American scholar and a founding member of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). Mona Abaza, associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo, acknowledges this. She took over 10 years to collect and present her research in this book. The book is divided into three parts with 14 chapters, a hefty 71 pages of notes and bibliography, and a small index. The facts and figures about Malaysia covered in the initial pages are from mid-1998 and therefore, unfortunately, are outdated.
Mona Abaza
Classification of Knowledge in Islam: An Islamic Architecture of Knowledge
Classification of Knowledge in Islam: Items to be discussed
Welcome to the world of Islamic architecture of knowledge
Classification of knowledge as an landmark in Islamic intellectual history
Historical overview of classifications of knowledge in Islam
Why is classification of knowledge important to the Islamic mind?
When and why did classification of knowledge stop as an intellectual activity in Islamic civilization?
The relevance of the Islamic idea of classification of knowledge to the contemporary world
The need to revive the Islamic tradition of classification of knowledge
Osman Bakar
Divided World, Divided Religion: Western Roots, Muslim Problem
The idea that religion is one segment of a total dimension of human existence, or that it is a product of the human mind and the human condition, is an idea of recent times. This idea could be traced to the Enlightenment and the Social Sciences, two Western intellectual movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries respectively. Contemporary Muslim intellectuals attributed to Western imperialism and colonialism for the introduction of an idea of religion nurtured in Enlightenment thought and the Social Sciences into the Muslim understanding of religion. If we are to gauge to what extent this Muslim attribution is true it is then instrumental for us to understand the fate of religion in Western history.
Yamin Cheng
The Intellect in Islamic Thought: Mind and Heart
Introduction: The Arabic term al-„aql / ―intelligence/understanding/ reason‖ is one among half-a-dozen of the most important concepts occurring throughout Islamic experience and thought. From the beginning of the Islamic era, it had been an opaque term, and Muslim scholars did not always agree that „aql was univocal in meaning. In its early Islamic unfolding the concept of „aql comprised the intersection of primarily Arab and Qur‘anic as well as Biblicic components with Hellenic and Iranian traditions. „Aql became the carrier of multiple overlapping or diverging meanings, if not already before Islam among the old Arabs; it assumed particular significances in ethics, humanistic studies (adab), prosody and rhetoric, law, theology, philosophy, as well as in spiritual and metaphysical speculations.1 A review of the Islamic understanding of ‗reason‘ and ‗rationality‘ would have to deal with the chief disciplines wherein rationality played an extensive role: legal theory (usul al-fiqh), speculative theology (kalam), philosophy (falsafah) and rational spirituality (hikmah & „irfan). Attention should also be given to pronounced anti-rationalist features of Traditionalism.
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Game 10: at Massachusetts
by jjwagner
Hofstra Star Charles Jenkins' Sophomore Season
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SAT 12/20/08
MASSACHUSETTS 97, HOFSTRA 81
HOFSTRA SEASON RECORDS: 8-2, 1-0 CAA
PLACE IN CAA STANDINGS: tied for 1st
JENKINS SEASON AVERAGES: 19.7 pts, 5.7 reb, 4.5 ast, 3.5 to
Well folks, it's now official. Charles Jenkins is in a shooting slump. Yup, he's gone as suddenly cold as the recent Northeast weather.
The good news for Jenkins and the Pride is that Jenkins' offensive decline has only been over the past 5 halves, and that Hofstra has managed to win 2 of those 3 games.
The lone defeat in that stretch however, on Saturday, up in snowy Massachusetts, wasn't pretty.
Although Jenkins scored 12 points to score in double figures for the 25th straight game and for the 37th time in 39 career games, he was off again, continuing a trend that dates back to the second half of Hofstra's win at Stony Brook on December 10th.
After going 7-for-10 from the field in the first half of Hofstra's win at Stony Brook, Jenkins was shooting 49% (57-117) from the floor, for the season.
Since then, he's shot just 25% (8-32), which has included 0-3 in the second half at Stony Brook, 4-16 in Hofstra's December 13th win against St. Francis, and 4-13 in the Pride's loss today, at UMass. That poor stretch has led to Jenkins' scoring averaging dipping under 20 points per game (at 19.7 ppg) for the first time this season.
Adding to the shooting issues on Sunday were that despite grabbing 6 boards and handing out 4 assists, Jenkins had 7 of the Pride's 19 turnovers. I told you, it wasn't pretty.
In fact, UMass led by as many at 28 (96-68 with 3:24 left) before the Pride closed on a 13-1 run to make the final margin a lot more respectable.
Amazingly, Hofstra lost that badly despite crushing UMass on the boards (61-32) and taking 26 more shots (85 fga to 59).
The loss in itself though, wasn't a terrible thing for Hofstra, since as mentioned in a previous blog, the Pride will likely have only one route to the NCAA tournament this season, and that road likely winds through Richmond (and the CAA tournament) in March.
Although the Minutemen came in just 3-6, this was a tough spot for Hofstra, making the trek through bad weather to play a well-rested UMass team coming off an impressive win in Kansas City over defending champion Kansas (though the then-nationally ranked Jayhawks are younger and aren't championship caliber this season).
However, what was even more alarming than Jenkins' recent shooting troubles is the lack of defense that Hofstra has played and the vast difference in the numbers its allowed when the competition has been ratcheted up.
In 8 games this season against the likes of Western Michigan, East Tennessee State, (D-III) Old Westbury, Manhattan, Fordham, Towson, Stony Brook, and St. Francis, Hofstra allowed just 35% shooting from the field (157-444), including only 30% (49-164) from three-point range.
However, 25th-ranked, 11-0 Clemson (out of the ACC) shot 51% (32-63) from the floor and 53% (9-17) from behind the arc against the Pride; and today, A-10 foe UMass made 53% (31 of 59) of its field goals, while hitting 15 of 26 (58%) from three-point range.
So, where does that leave Jenkins and Hofstra now? Well, all of the overall numbers look nice: the 8-2 record, Jenkins still scoring nearly 20 points per game, and the Pride allowing under 40% shooting from the field in ALL games.
But, that could all be fool's gold if Jenkins doesn't go back to being the consistently good shooter and dangerous scorer that he had been earlier this season, and if Hofstra doesn't step up the defense when the level of its competition is stepped up, especially against upper echelon CAA teams.
Those are things that Jenkins and Hofstra will have to iron out in its final two December non-conference games (against Iona and at New Hampshire) coming up next week, before the "real" season -- CAA play -- starts just after New Year's Day (against Drexel on January 3rd).
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Manchester Climbers Find Their Holy Grail
With no climbing centre in Manchester, it’s taken the renovation of a 19th century church to stop the steady stream of climbers crossing the Pennines every weekend to visit the climbing mecca of Yorkshire instead.
Unfortunately, Chris Bonington, famed explorer, mountaineer and currently a lecturer, couldn’t make the opening the newly renovated St Benedict's Church due to illness, but the Lord Mayor of Manchester Tom O’Callaghan and internationally acclaimed climber John Dunne were on hand to open the climbing centre in Ardwick.
Those who turned up for the grand opening (and there was plenty of them) had the opportunity to test out the new climbing walls, with instructors giving expert advice.
Unfortunately our usually steadfast reporters were forced to pull out of the test climb due to injury - me sporting a crippling neck injury brought on by years of hard work, and top climber Rob Hill suffering from cracked ribs after falling off his chair in Kro 2. There was plenty on show though for Rob to cast his spidie-sense climbing eye over though as hordes scaled the walls to background music and the slightly bizarre choice ofSimply Red - not very apt when your at the top of the wall considering it contained the lines ‘I Wanna Fall From The Stars’....
Rob, a climber with over ten years experience, was suitably impressed: “It looks to be among the best walls I’ve been to, certainly the best in the area. It’s also probably the nicest setting of all the climbing walls I’ve been to. All the equipment is brand new so that’s bound to be a plus point when it comes to safety. The only problem this place might have is overcrowding, and that’s only because it’s going to be so popular!
“The facilities are good, I don’t know of many other walls that have showers. The café and shop upstairs looked like a decent place to take a break mid-session.”
The team of 25 climbing instructors has been recruited by John Dunne himself to work on the construction of the project and hopefully a continuing high level of expertise, instruction and advice. Lessons and a full range of equipment are all on hand for top level experienced climbers down to beginners who struggle to climb the stairs. The team of instructors will oversee a 20m lead wall, top roping, large bouldering area and 75 rope lines.
St Benedicts Church, a grade II listed building, has been under intense renovation since November 2004 after two years of planning to bring Manchester it’s first dedicated climbing centre. Recent months have seen local climbers crossing over to the Pennines to scale the ice wall in Yorkshire.
The building has been transformed from a nineteenth century church to a state of the art leisure facility. Importantly though, and with spectacular results, the building has retained its Italianate structure and features such as the stain glass windows and ornate tile floors. Much of the renovation is down to a £70,000 grant from English Heritage, allowing emergency repair work to be made to the building.
The surrounding area seemed fairly daunting, but there is a secure car park and if the centre is pretty easy to find, you can’t miss a bloody great church after all.
Tim Gough
Manchester Climbing Centre
St.Benedict's Church
Bennett Street
Ardwick
M12 5ND
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Ardgillan Castle
On the coast, halfway between Skerries and Balbriggan, lies the bay of Barnageeragh whose sandy beach is backed by cliffs. The area gets its name from two Irish words, bearna meaning a gap and caora meaning a sheep.
On the hills overlooking this bay stands Ardgillan castle, which was originally known as Prospect, because of the fine view from there of Skerries and the coast northwards to the Mourne Mountains. The castle is situated on 194 acres of land.
In 1737 this property was purchased from a Dublin wine merchant, Robert Usher, by the Rev. Robert Taylor. Rev. Taylor was the Dean of Clonfert. The Taylor family held the castle and lands for over 200 years. In 1962 Richard Taylor sold the property to Heinrich Pott of Westphalia in Germany. In 1982 Dublin County Council purchased the estate.
The original house was built in the 1730s. It was extended in the late 18th. and 19th. centuries. East and west wings were added as were towers and battlements, which were for decoration only.
A yard was added to the east end of the house and a walled garden was built close to the west end. The ground also contained an old ice house in the woods north of the garden.
South of the house the terrace lined with yew trees is separated from the parkland by a ha-ha (an open ditch). The extensive parkland which surrounds the house has a series of woodland walks running through it. These were originally laid out by the Taylor family for their women folk. The parkland is connected to a section of Barnageeragh beach by a footbridge across the road and railway. This footbridge is called the Lady’s stairs. The section of the beach to which this bridge led was private and was known as the Lady’s Bathing place.
Nowadays the castle and grounds are open to the public and a visitor can get an insight into life in one of Ireland’s “Great Houses.”
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Mason City Schools » Departments » Communication & Connection » News » Mason Honors Students’ Commitment
Twelve members of the William Mason High School Class of 2018 were honored for their decision to serve their country during a Blue Star Ceremony in the school’s auditorium on May 14.
"We are so proud of each one of you," shared Dr. Gail Kist-Kline, superintendent during her opening remarks to the students and their families and classmates. “Thank you, on behalf of everyone here, for your dedication, commitment and willingness to serve your country to protect our freedoms."
Students honored at the ceremony included: Alexander Amaya (West Point Academy), Adrianna Bennett (Marine Corps), Kent Cooper (ROTC at Citadel), Andrew Drabek (Marine Corps Reserves), Hailey Himmel (Coast Guard), Christian Hutchison (Naval Academy), Chris Jedding (ROTC at Lourdes University), Brian Karl (ROTC at George Washington University), Anna Owens (Army Reserves), Joseph Sheedy (Marine Corps), Nickolas Wead (ROTC at The Ohio State University), and Blake William (Army).
The school's choir sang a moving a capella rendition of The National Anthem, and members of the American Legion Post 194 presented the flags. MHS Assistant Principal Amy Hull introduced each senior and recognized the students' branches of service. District Attendance Officer Rick Huff shared closing remarks and a blessing.
“Today during this Blue Star ceremony, we pay tribute to all those who have gone before us, and it here that we pass freedom’s torch to a new generation of heroes. This group of courageous young men and women will be entrusted with the future and legacy of the United States of America. Today we say thank you for choosing the path of honor, sacrifice, courage and service. We will pray that God brings you back to us, and should you not come back to us, we trust that you will be safe with Him until we meet again,” said Huff. Following the ceremony, Mason City Schools Board of Education members, along with MHS faculty, administration, students and families, had the opportunity to meet the 12 seniors, shake their hands, and offer their thanks.
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Graeme moved to New York in 2004 to become Head of Market Risk for the Capital Markets trading businesses in the U. In 2011, Graeme move to London to take on the role as Chief Risk Officer for Europe & Asia. Most recently, Graeme was EVP, Retail & Commercial Credit Risk, where he led a number of teams that provide the primary risk management support to RBC’s Insurance, Wealth Management and Personal and Commercial Banking (P&CB) businesses. Graeme is a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst and has a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Doug Mc Gregor is Group Head, RBC Capital Markets and RBC Investor & Treasury Services, Chairman and CEO of RBC Capital Markets, and is a member of RBC’s Group Executive. As Chairman and CEO of RBC Capital Markets, Doug has global oversight of the firm’s Corporate & Investment Banking and Global Markets activities conducted by its approximately 7,500 employees worldwide. He also directly leads the investment bank’s real estate lending businesses. As Group Head of RBC Investor & Treasury Services, Doug is responsible for this business’ custody, treasury and financing services for institutional clients globally. Doug began his career in corporate finance and then institutional equity sales at Pitfield Mackay Ross Ltd. In 1983, he became a real estate investment banker with Marcil Trust, which was later acquired by RBC Capital Markets in 1990. Doug holds an Honours BA (Business) and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. While at university, his accomplishments as an athlete earned him the Purple Blanket for achievement in wrestling at the national level and induction into the “W” Club Hall of Fame. In 2016, Doug was recognized by Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia with an Honorary Doctor of Commerce degree for his accomplishments in the financial services industry, contributions to the community and support for advanced learning. An involved community member, Doug serves on the University Health Network’s Board of Trustees in Toronto and is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. He is an active fundraiser for The United Way and for Ingles House, a home for young women recovering from addiction, and its parent organization, LOFT Community Services. As Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, Neil Mc Laughlin is responsible for RBC’s banking businesses in Canada and the Caribbean, including personal and commercial financial services, credit cards and payments, digital solutions, as well as RBC’s sales and branch distribution, operations and advice centres. Together with other members of Group Executive, Mr. Mc Laughlin is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC. Immediately prior to this position, as Executive Vice President, Business Financial Services for RBC’s Canadian Banking division, Neil was responsible for setting the strategic direction and leading all lines of business that serve small business and commercial clients through an extensive business banking network. Neil joined RBC in 1998 and has held a wide range of senior management and executive positions within Canadian Banking, including roles in the Credit Card and Personal Lending lines of businesses and distribution and operations. As well, Neil was Senior Vice President Marketing & Channel Strategy, responsible for leading Brand, Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorship, with direct accountability for digital channels, the physical distribution network, client knowledge and insights and the client information management team. He also served as Senior Vice President, Risk Operations within Canadian Banking Operations, responsible for credit adjudication, fraud, collections, operational risk and the Commercial Advisory Group. Neil holds a Bachelors of Commerce degree and an MBA. He lives in Toronto with his wife and their two children and currently serves on the board of the Children’s Wish Foundation, Ontario Chapter. As Group Head, Technology & Operations, RBC, Bruce Ross is responsible for the strategy and overall management of global technology and operations for RBC, which includes applications development, infrastructure and enterprise operations. In addition, as a member of Group Executive, he is one of nine executives responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC. Bruce is a seasoned executive with more than 28 years of technology and business experience. Prior to joining RBC, he was the General Manager, Global Technology Services, North America at IBM. He was a member of IBM’s Performance Team setting the operational direction of the corporation. He was also a member of IBM’s Strategy Team which set the long term direction for the business including its investments in emerging markets, Cloud, and Analytics. His prior roles included General Manager, Global Technology Services, Europe for IBM, General Manager and President, IBM Canada, General Manager, Global Technology Services UK, Ireland, and South Africa. Bruce’s areas of responsibility have included providing thought leadership and services to financial institutions globally. Bruce is active in a number of business and community organizations in Canada, serving as a Board Member for both the International Board of Advisors as well as the University of Western Ontario. He is also a member of the 2017 Toronto & York Region United Way Campaign Cabinet. In recent years, he served as the Chair of the Ontario Brain Institute Liaison Council. He also sat on the Board of Directors of the Conference Board of Canada, and was a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Bruce is a professional engineer and a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. He is married with two children and lives in Toronto, Canada. As RBC’s Chief Administrative Officer Jennifer Tory has responsibility for Brand, Citizenship, Communications, Procurement and Real Estate functions globally. Additionally, she provides leadership and oversight of transformational initiatives, with a particular focus on how the enterprise works together to further RBC’s success. Along with other members of Group Executive, Jennifer is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC. Prior to her current role, Jennifer was Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking responsible for RBC’s banking businesses in Canada and the Caribbean, including personal and financial services, credit cards and payments, digital solutions, as well as RBC’s sales and branch distribution, operations and advice centres. During her career, Jennifer has held successively senior leadership roles including Senior Vice President Sales Effectiveness, Senior Vice President Operations, and Regional President, Greater Toronto Region. Awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2012, Jennifer has a long history of supporting numerous community causes. She is Chair, Toronto International Film Festival Board and sits on the Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation Board; Jennifer is also a fundraiser for several other charitable organizations including WE (formerly Free the Children) and United Way. A recipient of the 2011 Catalyst Canada Honour for championing women in business, Jennifer has been recognized by Women’s Executive Network (WXN) as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 and was inducted into the WXN Hall of Fame in 2017. D designation through the Institute of Corporate Directors at the Rotman School of Management. Dear fellow shareholders, Opportunities and challenges in the financial services industry continue to abound, as businesses face disruption from changing customer expectations, new sources of competition and rapidly-emerging technologies. She has been acknowledged both internally and externally for her leadership in diversity and received a number of awards, including a Harry Jerome Award in 2013 and the Leading Executive Ally Award by Start Proud (formerly Out on Bay) in 2016. Your board plays a critical role in providing oversight and stewardship of RBC’s strategic direction, helping to innovate, grow and build the bank of the future. We provide guidance to management as they invest in areas of strategic growth, while continually assessing whether those plans are effectively balanced with the bank’s risk appetite. Our record financial results in 2018 reflect that focus, and reinforce RBC’s ability to achieve our medium-term objectives. Of course, people are the cornerstone of our continued success. As part of our focus on talent management, the board takes a comprehensive approach to succession planning for senior executive positions. In line with the bank’s value of diversity and inclusion, we also ensure that this talent pipeline includes the wide variety of experiences, perspectives and backgrounds required to successfully lead RBC into the future. The board also collaborates closely with management to set the tone and promote an open and transparent culture that influences RBC at every level, both within the organization as well as externally in our relationships with clients, community partners and other stakeholders. In particular, we encourage employees to speak up and challenge behaviour that does not align with our values. Not only is this the right thing to do, but it is a critical way to protect and enhance the reputation of RBC and ensure we achieve the bank’s vision of being one of the world’s most trusted financial institutions. The board believes strongly that achieving sustainable growth goes beyond generating profits, and that RBC has an important role to play as a corporate citizen that is fully involved in each of the communities where we do business. Specifically, we recognize that climate change is the most pressing issue of our age, and we oversee the bank’s enterprise-wide approach to accelerating clean economic growth and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2018, we were pleased to have been recognized for our governance efforts with two awards from Governance Professionals of Canada: the Best Overall Corporate Governance award and the Best Practices to Enhance Boardroom Diversity award. Mc Cain David Mc Kay Heather Munroe-Blum Kathleen Taylor Bridget A. This is a validation of our commitment to good governance, including our focus on engaging with clients, communities and investors, which is an integral part of ensuring the bank’s continuing success. It also highlights our strong determination to increase diverse representation both within RBC and at the board level. On behalf of the entire board, I would like to thank Dave Mc Kay and his leadership team for their continued dedication to RBC’s clients, colleagues and communities. We would also like to thank each and every RBC employee for their unwavering commitment to RBC’s purpose of helping clients thrive and communities prosper. Rbc mclaughlin rbc hrs Jan started with RBC Financial in 2003, after graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts Sociology. She joined our team in 2006 and has completed the Canadian Securities Course and Conduct and Practices Course through the Canadian Securities Institute. As Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, Neil McLaughlin is responsible for RBC’s banking businesses in Canada and the Caribbean, including personal and commercial financial services, credit cards and payments, digital solutions, as well as RBC’s sales and branch distribution, operations and advice centres. Routing Number is used in Canada to identify the bank and the branch to which the payment is directed. Routing number for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) have two formats:1. Paper Transaction Routing Number: Routing transit number for paper items (or MICR-encoded items) is in the format of XXXXX-YYY which is comprised of a five-digit branch transit number (XXXXX) and a three-digit financial institution number (YYY).2. Electronic Payments Routing Number: It's a 9 digit number which starts with 0 used for electronic fund transactions. If paper routing is XXXXX-YYY, then EFT routing number will be 0YYYXXXXX. 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Routing Number is used in Canada to identify the bank and the branch to which the payment is directed. Routing number for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) have two formats:1. Paper Transaction Routing Number: Routing transit number for paper items (or MICR-encoded items) is in the format of XXXXX-YYY which is comprised of a five-digit branch transit number (XXXXX) and a three-digit financial institution number (YYY).2. Electronic Payments Routing Number: It's a 9 digit number which starts with 0 used for electronic fund transactions. If paper routing is XXXXX-YYY, then EFT routing number will be 0YYYXXXXX. Brampton-Castlemore Rd & Mc Vean Dr BChinguacousy & Charolais Branch Bramalea & Orenda Br Main Br - Brampton Queen & Kennedy Branch Brampton Shopping Centre Branch Sunny Meadow & Bovaird Branch Brampton-Hwy 50 & Ebenezer Branch Brampton-Airport & Queen Branch Bramalea City Centre Branch Brampton-Mayfield & Highway 10 Br Brampton-Miss Rd & Williams Pkwy Br Creditview & Sandalwood Branch Mountainash & Bovaird Branch RT-Main Br-Brampton Heart Lake Plaza Branch Hwy 10 & County Court Branch Mc Laughlin & Bovaird West Br Bank of Montreal (1613) Bank of Nova Scotia (2185) Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) (2114) CENTRAL 1 CREDIT UNION (1182) CREDIT UNION CENTRAL ALBERTA LIMITED (372) CREDIT UNION CENTRAL OF MANITOBA (224) CREDIT UNION CENTRAL OF SASKATCHEWAN (356) FEDERATION DES CAISSES DESJ.
As Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, Neil Mc Laughlin is responsible for RBC’s banking businesses in Canada and the Caribbean, including personal and commercial financial services, credit cards and payments, digital solutions, as well as RBC’s sales and branch distribution, operations and advice centres. Together with other members of Group Executive, Mr. Mc Laughlin is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC. Immediately prior to this position, as Executive Vice President, Business Financial Services for RBC’s Canadian Banking division, Neil was responsible for setting the strategic direction and leading all lines of business that serve small business and commercial clients through an extensive business banking network. Neil joined RBC in 1998 and has held a wide range of senior management and executive positions within Canadian Banking, including roles in the Credit Card and Personal Lending lines of businesses and distribution and operations. As well, Neil was Senior Vice President Marketing & Channel Strategy, responsible for leading Brand, Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorship, with direct accountability for digital channels, the physical distribution network, client knowledge and insights and the client information management team. He also served as Senior Vice President, Risk Operations within Canadian Banking Operations, responsible for credit adjudication, fraud, collections, operational risk and the Commercial Advisory Group. In 2020, Neil was appointed Chair of the Canadian Bankers Association’s Executive Council and currently serves on the board of the Children’s Wish Foundation, Ontario Chapter. He holds a Bachelors of Commerce degree and an MBA and lives in Toronto with his wife and their two children. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, to parents Frank Mc Laughlin and Frankie L. Earle Mc Laughlin graduated with the gold medal in commerce from Queen's University and joined the Royal Bank of Canada in 1936. In 1960, at an age considered very young at the time, 45-year-old Mc Laughlin was appointed the bank's general manager and then shortly thereafter, president. In addition to the Royal Bank, Mc Laughlin served on the board of directors of a number of corporations including Canadian Pacific Railway, Algoma Steel, Metropolitan Life and General Motors (a board which he was appointed to after the retirement of Sam Mc Laughlin, his first cousin once removed). He was a member of the board of governors of the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Council of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Following his retirement from banking, he served as chancellor of Concordia University (1982–1986) and was a trustee of Queen's University who awarded him their alumni John B. Mc Laughlin died in Montreal in 1991 and buried at Mont Royal Cemetery. Earle Mc Laughlin was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981. His grandson, Kevin Mc Laughlin, now continues the family automotive tradition with Auto Share. Rbc mclaughlin me and rbc RBC has the largest branch and ATM network across Canada. Use our locator tool to find the RBC branch or ATM nearest you. Branch and ATM Locator - RBC Royal Bank - Search Results RBC Wealth Management – U. S. "Having a basic understanding of how money, investing and our broader financial system works is critical in our society today. Yet there is a growing realization, particularly in the wake of the last financial crisis, that many people don't understand budgeting, investing or how simple financial products like. Jan started with RBC Financial in 2003, after graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts Sociology. She joined our team in 2006 and has completed the Canadian Securities Course and Conduct and Practices Course through the Canadian Securities Institute. Canada’s biggest bank sees the decision to tweak the mortgage stress tests as having a relatively small effect on would-be homeowners who are still dealing with a housing market saddled with a lack of supply. The Royal Bank of Canada’s group head of personal and commercial banking Neil Mc Laughlin said Friday they see the federal government’s announcement earlier this week of a new floor for the minimum qualifying rates for borrowers as “having quite a minimal impact.”That new floor is set to come into effect for both insured and uninsured mortgage stress tests on April 6.“Our analysis so far looks like it would be about 25 to 30 basis points reduction in the qualifying rate,” Mc Laughlin said during a conference call with analysts. “That’ll really translate into a fairly small increase in purchasing power for the average borrower, probably in the neighborhood of about $20,000, $25,000 on an average mortgage.” RBC’s real interest, along with some of the other big banks, lies in the constraints on housing supply.“With household demand being supported by economic and population growth, including immigration, we would support measures to address an increasingly limited housing supply,” said Dave Mc Kay, RBC’s president and chief executive. The comments from Mc Kay came after Toronto-based RBC reported net income of $3.5 billion for the three months ended Jan. 31, an increase of 11 per cent from a year earlier. Adjusted earnings per share were $2.44 for RBC’s first quarter, up 11 per cent year-over-year and above the analyst consensus of $2.30. RBC’s quarter was helped by the recent resurgence of the Canadian housing sector, with Mc Kay saying on the call that they continue to see the market strengthen in Toronto, in addition to seeing signs of recovery in Vancouver and high levels of activity in Montreal and Ottawa. In personal and commercial banking, RBC reported net income of almost $1.7 billion for the first quarter, an increase of seven per cent over the same quarter a year earlier. The unit saw average loan growth of seven per cent, which the bank said reflected increasing residential mortgages and deposits in Canadian banking. Even with the upswing in housing activity, the federal government said the tweaks to the stress tests are necessary to make them more in line with actual market conditions. At the same time, however, more people are still searching that market for homes, and there is only so much supply to go around. This could create anxiety for would-be buyers and put pressure on prices.“I think the lack of supply in the major urban markets is still the real focus for where the policy needs to go,” Mc Laughlin said. Stress tests, however, are aimed at demand, not supply. And the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s Benjamin Tal predicted Friday in a report that the changes would buy the median household in Canada another $13,500 of house, or a boost of less than three per cent to their purchasing power. It is, according to Tal, “becoming more and more apparent that, short of drastic measures, it’s impossible to fight supply issues with demand tools.”“Increased supply (rental or otherwise) is the only reasonable solution to the housing affordability crisis that many Canadians are facing,” the economist added. Outside of the housing market, RBC said its latest results were driven by an especially strong showing from its investment bank. The capital-markets business saw net income increase to $882 million for the quarter, up 35 per cent from a year earlier, when investors were grappling with concerns around interest rates and slowing economic growth. And although Canadian banks have faced a “normalization” of credit recently, the amount of money RBC had to set aside for bad loans declined for the quarter as well, with provisions for credit losses falling to $419 million. This was down from $499 million in the previous quarter and from $514 million a year earlier, when the bank was hit hard by a provision connected to a single utilities account. RBC also saw strong growth out of the United States for the first quarter, where its earnings rose about 37 per cent from a year earlier, to $705 million. Mc Kay said increasing deposits is now “of paramount importance,” and that the lender would likely launch a direct-to-consumer bank in the U. at some point late this year or early next that would focus on higher-net-worth customers. But market conditions may not be as rosy for next quarter’s results, given the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China and rail blockades in Canada (the latter of which began after the end of RBC’s first quarter). Mc Kay said RBC has limited direct exposure to the regions hit hardest by the virus, but said the uncertainty related to the outbreak is “reigniting downside risk to the global economic outlook, given the potential for disruption to global supply chains.”The bank announced a three-cent increase to its quarterly dividend on Friday as well, raising it to $1.08 per share. RBC is the first of the Big Six banks to report this earnings season. The other five members will report their first-quarter results next week. Financial Post• Email: gzochodne@| Twitter: Geoff Zochodne Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. 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Gerald Brandt is an international bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy, and the author of the cyberpunk San Angeles sci-fi trilogy: The Courier, The Operative, and The Rebel. The first of the trilogy was a finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Novel. His short story “Storm” appeared in the 2013 Prix Aurora Award-winning anthology Blood & Water. By day, he’s an IT professional and coding guru. In his limited spare time, he enjoys riding his motorcycle, rock climbing, camping, and spending time with his family. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife Marnie, and their two sons Jared and Ryan.
Brandt applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Threader Origins - Book One of The Quantum Empirica, and reported the following:
Page 69 in Threader Origins shows the very first lesson Darwin (the main character) gets in using the Threads (quantum strings generated by a machine).
The harder he looked at them, the clearer they became. “Yes.”
“Good. I’m making the Threads stronger so you can See them. Watch the Threads. In which direction do they seem thicker? Is the thickest Thread pulling or pushing the stick in a particular direction?”
He watched the Threads as they wove around the stick. They all looked the same, thin and translucent, ethereal, like gauze pulled through liquid. He concentrated harder. The Threads partly disappeared as images flashed in their place. They were almost carbon copies of each other as the images of the stick split, and split again. Suddenly, in one, the stick fell to the right, while in another it fell to the left and in a third the stick remained upright. He raised his hand to his head, expecting the pain he’d felt earlier with his Coke can. Only a faint buzzing came through.
The images disappeared, and with it the faint background buzz.
“Yeah . . . yeah. Last time that happened it felt like my head was going to explode, and I passed out.”
“And this time?”
“Nothing, just a small buzzing in my head.”
“Good! That’s the inhibitor doing its job. Even the noise will disappear as you get stronger. Let’s do it again. Concentrate on the Threads.”
It was easier this time. The Threads appeared as insubstantial as before, and then disappeared, replaced by the images. The image of the stick tipping left seemed stronger, brighter, more real than the one falling right and definitely more substantial than the balancing stick.
“It will go left.”
Bill let go of the stick and it fell to the left. “Excellent. Let’s do it again.”
I'd have to say this is almost a perfect page for a potential reader to land on. The only thing it could do better is name the speaking characters. It shows Darwin's interpretation and viewing of the Threads, and the first time he actually uses them on purpose. From this point on, Darwin's world changes in so many ways.
Darwin has no idea what's going to happen, and the book covers his journey in learning how to use the Threads, regaining something he has lost long ago and then losing it again, and realizing that no one can work in isolation. Friends and family, whether of blood or not, can make you stronger than you ever thought you could be.
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Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (United States)
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The 3rd Special Troops Battalion is a support battalion assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team 187th Infantry Regiment ("Rakkasans"), 101st Airborne Division , Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Created on 15 September 2004 as part of the U.S. Army's brigade realignment plan to transform brigades into units of action (UA). Companies from the 326th Engineer Battalion, 311th Military Intelligence Battalion, 501st Signal Battalion, and the 3rd Platoon of the 101st Military Police Company were pulled together to form the 3rd STB. The integration of one or more support battalions into each brigade allows brigades to be self-sustaining and they no longer need to deploy with the entire division in order to utilize division assets.
The battalion mottoes "Rak Solid Rakkasans" and "Belong to the Warrior" are statements of the battalion's support and loyalty to the 187th Infantry Regiment.
The 3rd Special Troops Battalion comprises the following companies:
Headquarters and Headquarters Company – HHC provides staff support; a Support Platoon including mechanics, medics, cooks, and security; a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) "Recce" Platoon, and a Military Police platoon for the 3rd STB.
Alpha Company – Providing Combat Engineer support to the brigade.
Bravo Company – Providing Military Intelligence assets.
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Wijk Aan Zee 2009 group A preview
Posted on January 10, 2009 by chessdom
article by Aviv Friedman for coruschess.com
More on 2009 Corus chess tournament
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Discussion about Corus 2009
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Corus 2009 poll
Alexander Morozevich
World Ranking: 2
The Muscovite crowd-pleaser is making his return to Corus A after a 3-year hiatus – he finished next to last in 2005, with only 4.5/13. This time around he is back eyeing the other side of the cross table, with a new world ranking high, and close to his all time rating high. Alexander is a two-time Russian champion and a candidate for the world championships, who appeared on the chess scene radar in 1994, with his resounding 9.5/10 score in Lloyds Bank in London.
In 2008 he had a few mediocre results finishing equal fourth in the Russian championship, where he was the defending champion, and scoring 6/10 playing 3-4 board for Russia at the Olympiad. He won Bosnia with an impressive 7.5/9, a full point and a half ahead of second place, and tied for second at the Tal memorial (5/9) which he might have won if not for a slow finish.
Moro earns his popularity with his original, combative style, and by introducing openings or variations that are off the beaten track. Alexander is one of the heavy favorites, and is ‘marked’ by many as the one to watch in January.
World Ranking: 3-4
The Norwegian Magnus express is simply not stopping. The Corus A 2008 co-champion is returning to defend his title, with a hefty new personal best rating, and a near-pinnacle position on the world-ranking list (including a brief stint as the world’s number 1 at one ‘real time’ moment). If last year we said he was en route to the top 10, having broken the 2700 milestone, this time around he is only thinking of the top spot, and a hairs distance away from crossing the magical number of 2800.
In addition to his great success in Corus, Carlsen had other very notable achievements: Second place at the super strong Linares, with an 8/14 result – second only to Vishy Anand a half a point above him, a tie for first at the Baku FIDE Grand Prix tournament with plus 3, and his best result: first place at the Aerosvit super GM event, with a stunning 8/11 score. He tied for second at the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam final, and only his Olympiad and Biel performances (two very reasonable results anyways), were below 2800 TPR!
One needs not ask or guess that top honors in January 2009’s Corus A edition is the only thing Magnus must be aiming for. It’s doubtful that you’d find many (or any!) who would bet against that.
Vassily Ivanchuk
Twenty years ago a virtually unknown 19-year-old Ukrainian came, saw and conquered the super strong New York open, ahead of many established Grandmasters, and announced his arrival on the chess scene. By now a regular at the very elite, Vassily is one of the most active players on the circuit. After an amazing year in 2007, this year has been quite a roller coaster one for Chuky: After peaking at 2787 he dropped nearly 50 ELO points, only to regain all of them but one!
In last year’s Corus A he tied for 5th place with 7/13, and later scored fantastically at both the Tal Memorial – first place with 6/9, a full point ahead of his nearest rivals, and his best success: clear first in M-Tel, with 8/10 – a stunning 1.5 points ahead of second place. He further sweetened the experience at the same venue, by winning the ultra-strong blitz tournament, held after the main event. Ivanchuk also had two strong second place finishes in the Aerosvit tournament (7/11), and the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam finals (Shared, with 5/10).
It’s been 13 years since the Ukrainian had won in Corus, can this be the year?
Levon Aronian
It won’t take a mind reader to tell that consciously or not, the pleasant Armenian is coming to Wijk aan Zee with a determined intention of a ‘threepeat’. Having co-won in both the 2007 and 2008 editions of Corus A, Aronian is in good form to try for his hat trick. The former world under 12 and world junior champion is ‘Golden fresh’ after leading his national team to first place at the Dresden Olympiad – the second such gold in a row!
After winning in Corus, Levon tied for third in Linares (7.5/14), and went on to dominate Melody Amber, winning the rapid event, tying for first in the blindfold tournament, and winning the joint event by a cool 2.5 points. He convincingly won clear first at the FIDE Grand Prix in Sochi with 8.5/13, and finished equal second at the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam tournament. Aronian also proved his ability in rapid chess, winning the sentimental Karen Asrian memorial tournament in his hometown of Yerevan with 8.5/14.
Teymour Radjabov
Country: Azerbaijan
The Corus A group has been very good to Azerbaijan’s top player: he won it in 2007, and tied for 2nd in the 2008 edition. Radjabov is at his highest ELO point peak, with more point scheduled to come when the latest events are calculated. One of the youngest to ever receive the GM title (at 14, in 2001), Teymour is a former world under 10 champion, and a bronze medallist from the 2004 cycle of the world championship. The always-confident Azeri GM has a dynamic and aggressive style and choice of black openings, which brought him a series of wins with that color versus some of the world’s current and former number ones.
Teymour’s best successes after Corus in 2008 were his win at the Odessa world rapid tournament, and his strong unshared second place in the Sochi FIDE Grand Prix. He tied for third in M-Tel with 5.5/10, finished with 50% in Linares, but had a very lukewarm second FIDE Grand Prix result (6/13) on home soil in Baku.
Wang Yue
World ranking: 11
Anonymous no more, China’s leading Grandmaster is making giant steps towards conquering a long term claim to a spot on the world’s elite list. His rise to number 11 in the world (the highest of any Chinese player ever) has been meteoric: since 2004 when he was right near 2500, his ELO has risen nearly 250 points. Currently a student at the Nankai University in Tianjin, Yue started playing chess at the age of 6, and before he was 12 was already a world youth champion for his age group. He got his GM title in 2004 at age 17, and quickly amassed a list of wins and high finishes at many open and closed events around the world.
He won the championship of his country in 2004, and not long after that the world junior championship. Wang made it to the fourth round of the world cup in Khanty Mansisk in 2007, and claimed his biggest success yet when he co-won the Baku FIDE Grand Prix (8/11) earlier this year. He followed that with a respectable tie for 3rd at the second Grand Prix in Sochi with 7.5/13. Another recent fantastic achievement was his runaway victory at the NH Hotels event in Amsterdam, where he got 8.5/10.
Wang held an amazing record of 85 games without a loss in 2008, a record that was broken with his first round loss to Jakovenko at the recently started Grand Prix event in Elista.
Mickey is one of the ‘regulars’ in Wijk aan Zee, making his tenth or so visit to play in the GM A group. He is a former champion of his country, and a multiple time candidate for the world championships – having made it thrice to the semi finals, and once to the very end, losing to Kasimdzanov in 2004. England’s leading player for many years, the British GM is a true gentleman and an exemplary professional, known for his calm demeanor.
After finishing with 50% in Corus 2008, Adams’ most notable successes have been his wins at the Staunton Memorial (second win in a row) with a strong 8/11, and in the Magistral Ruy Lopez with 5.5/7. At the European Championships in Liverpool, Mickey scored 7.5/10, enough for a tie for second place. He played in the FIDE Grand Prix event in Baku, scoring a solid 6.5/13 result. Adams have never won Corus, but finished in a tie for third place several times, and as high as a tie for second once. Can he do this this year?
Sergei Movsesian
Country: Slovakia
With his victory in the star-studded Corus B group last year (an awesome 9.5/13 tally), the sympathetic Slovak has earned himself a spot in this year’s premier group. Sergei can be called ‘universal’: born in Tiblisi, Georgia, moved to his family’s fatherland of Armenia till his teens, living in the Czech Republic, and playing for Sloviakia! After many years of having his rating in the mid to high 2600’s, he continued his rating rise from last year, and finally crossed the ever-elusive coveted 2700 mark with a nice cushion. He is expected to increase that, after his fine 5.5/7 score at the European club cup, where he beat Svidler and Carlsen.
Movsesian is a very active European leagues player, playing on teams from France, to Spain, Russia, Germany, Greece, Bosnia, as well as his homeland. His more than fine scores there are partially responsible to his recent rating increase. Sergei tied for first at the Chigorin Memorial with 6.5/9, and shared second at the Euro champs in Plovdiv.
Sergey Karjakin
The Ukrainian prodigy is another player who is making a return to Corus after a break (skipped last year’s event). Still the holder of ‘youngest ever to achieve the GM title’, Karjakin is another Corus A player to have crossed the magical 2700 milestone this year. Looking at his ELO rating graph never ceases to amaze: from year 2000 till now there is an exponential rise of well more than 500 rating points! Unfortunately for him, he finished the year on a weak note with poor performances at the European club championships and the Spanish league, which will take a small bite from his near-peak high.
Sergey’s name became known when in 2002, before he was 12 years old, and before he made his GM title, when Ponomariov appointed him as his second for the FIDE world championships match with Ivanchuk. His biggest ‘big league’ success was making it all the way to the semi-finals of the 2007 World Cup, where Shirov eliminated him. Among his most noted result for 2008 was tying for third in Aerosvit (6/11). He also took part at both the FIDE Grand Prix events, scoring +1 in one, and –1 in the other.
Gata Kamsky
Four and a half years after his surprising return to chess, the former FIDE vice champion, and PCA semi finalist, has once again advanced close to the top. Gata scored an incredible win at the 2007 world cup, eliminating the likes of Ponomariov, Carlsen, Svidler, among others, and defeating Shirov in the finals. This earned him a match versus Topalov (scheduled to take place two weeks after Corus) for the right to play a match against the world champion Anand later on. A spectacular achievement for someone who was there twice, but then had an unprecedented 8-year break from chess (save for one 2-game mini match in 1999).
A former junior champion of the USSR, Kamsky’s ascent started soon after his move to the USA in 1989. He was a strong Grandmaster within a year, and made a name for himself by winning countless events – from his country’s national championship to co-winning Tilburg and many in between. His famous tenacity brought him envious results in match play, which propelled him to the aforementioned success in the two world championship cycles. In 2008 he had mixed results: tying for third in the Sochi Grand Prix, only 4/9 at the Tal Memorial, -1 in the Baku Grand Prix, and a solid 6.5/10 on board one of the US Bronze team at the Olympiad.
The first visit to Wijk aan Zee in 2006 was when he was still ‘elite-rusty’, and surely this time around we will see the ‘rust-free’ version of Gata.
Leinier Dominguez
Cuba’s leading player and their board one holder during the last Olympiad where he scored a solid 6/10, Leinier is another new member of the exclusive 2700+ club, having crossed it a bit earlier this year. Multiple times champion of his country, Dominguez recently won the strong and exclusive world blitz championship, with 11.5/15. He first made a name for himself when in the 2004 FIDE knockout world championships managed to advance as far as the fifth round, where Radjabov finally stopped him. His win at the 2006 powerful Barcelona tournament with an 8/9 result, marked his performance rating at a sky-reaching 2932(!).
Making his debut in Corus, the Cuban GM’s results in 2008 have already signaled that his placement is fitting. He shared first place in Biel with 6.5/10, took clear first place at the Capablanca Memorial (with 6/9), and claimed second spot at the Bosnia super GM event. With such form it is safe to say that the GM from Havana is eagerly awaiting his chances to sting here in January.
Loek van Wely
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Year 2008 was a chess year to forget for the friendly Dutch local hero. His ELO, which at one time was over 2700 has taken a slopey slide and is at a 5-year low, and for the first time in many years the once top 10 player is now out of the top 100 list. Many times his country’s national champion, Loek’s year started with a 5/13 result in Corus A and a shared last place, which unfortunately was the sign of things to come. Mixed results in the several European league matches he took part in are partially responsible for the dent in his rating (especially the Russian teams competition where he shed 16 points).
Van Wely played in two super GM events, but without success: in Aerosvit he ended up with a 4/11 score and a penultimate place on the cross table, while Dortmund was simply a total eclipse of the mind, with a winless 1/7 finish. Loeky scored 6/9 at the Baku President’s Cup open, but it was against a low average opposition, and more points went. His one moment of shine in 2008 was his clear second at the Staunton Memorial, with a very good 7.5/11 points. A good result in the 2009 edition of Corus A would be a very welcome new start for the veteran participant!
Daniel Stellwagen
This year’s Corus A will the first such experience for the Chemistry graduate student from Utrecht. For the last several years he participated in the GM B group, with varying results. After a few years of continuous rise, 2008 have been a bit of a slow year for the friendly Dutchman, as his ELO dipped 30 some points from its peak last year. Still, his results were mixed almost evenly.
There were two disappointing ones: penultimate place in the Marxd Memorial in Hungary and only 4.5/11 in the German Bundesliga (where last year he gained the lion’s share of his points), Two mediocre ones: -1 in Corus B, and an even score at the NH Hotels tournament (5/10), and two very good ones: tie for second at the Dutch championship with a strong 7/11 (Daniel led the event, and only a last round loss prevented him from winning the event), and clear second place at the Siegman & co in Sweden (6.5/9). Stellwagen also scored a solid 6/9 playing third board for Holland in the Olympiad.
In a recent candid interview van Wely spoke very highly of Daniel’s undisputed chess talent and understanding, saying/hinting that he would go much further if he handled adversity a bit better. A good idea for a first 2009 resolution!
Jan Smeets
Chess pro-turned Economics student Jan has some good reasons to be happy: his rating took a nice climb of nearly 50 ELO points, allowing to break 2600 for the first time, and he took clear first in his national championship (an impressive 7.5/11, including a last round win against Stellwagen). His good results didn’t end there: his 7/11 points netted him unshared third place in the Staunton Memorial, and he was part of a big tie for fifth place at the GM-infested European Championships in Liverpool with a +3 finish (a big positive change in an event that last year was his worst tournament ever!).
Smeets had a decent showing on Holland’s second board at the Olympiad, scoring 5.5/10. His only lukewarm events of 2008 were Corus B last year (6/13), and in the Essent Crown Group (2.5/6). Jan is a self-described aggressive (and tricky!) player, whose calm attitude at the board had paid off for him many times. He is also making his first appearance in Corus A after competing several times in the other two GM groups. In the last two years he started strongly with 3.5/4 and 3/4 respectively, can he maintain a longer stamina this time around?
Corus 2009 group B preview
Posted on January 8, 2009 by chessdom
Krishnan Sasikiran
Top seed in the ultra-strong GM B group is India’s second highest ranked player. Now only 4 points shy of his peak of 2700, Sasikiran is expected to climb comfortably over his peak when all is registered and calculated. A Grandmaster since 2000, Krishnan is a former Asian champion, who climbed through the ranks by placing high in strong events all over the world around the start of the Millennium. Recently the Grandmaster from Chennai played on board one for his country – substituting for his city-mate world champion Anand – and scoring a very respectable 6/10.
‘Sasi’ is a very solid player, and is well prepared in the openings. He learned how to play chess at the relatively late age of 9, and was initially coached by his dad. His quick progress brought him wins at the under age 18 championships of both India and the British Commonwealth. In 2002 he beat Anand at the World cup, in a strong showing. His most noted results this year were first place at the top group of the Mazovian tournament in Poland with 6.5/9, a tie for first at the strong Kolkata open with 8.5/10.
Krishnan is making his first appearance in Wijk aan Zee, and is surely one of the favorites to win his group.
Zahar Efimenko
Zahar is a former world under 14 champion and is another debutant in Corus 2009. His sharp style of play often leads to exciting, tactical crowd-pleasing battles, especially from the white side of some Sicilians such as the Najdorf and the Dragon. Efimenko got his GM title in 2002; he is also a former champion of his homeland in 2006, and a winner of several strong events in the early 2000’s such as the Hastings challengers and Gibraltar.
Right now the Grandmaster from Kramatorsk is at the zenith of his rating, sporting a high of 2680 – a nice (temporary!) culmination to a 5-year climb that netted him 550 ELO points! In 2008 Zahar was very active in the European leagues, playing in Russia (a disappointing 3.5/10), Serbia (a solid 6.5/10), the Ukraine (a strong 6.5/8), and a plus 2 in the German Bundesliga. He tied for second at the strong-fielded Moscow open with 7/9, shared third at the Gib Telecom with 7.5/10, and finished highly at the European championships in Plovdiv with 7.5/11. Later in the year, Efimenko held the fourth board for his country at the Olympiad, scoring 6/9 with a 2726 performance. Can he step up his form and win a ticket to the A group for 2010?
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
World Ranking: 49-50
The closing years of the previous decade were also the blooming years for the talented Grandmaster from Tashkent: He almost won the world junior championship (ended second), and did win the Asian continental championship. After that he became active on the European opens circuit, leaving his mark by winning some of them – a few by a noticeable margin. He won an individual bronze medal on top board at the 2000 Olympiad, with a fantastic score of 9.5/12.
Rustam’s real claims to fame came in the grueling elimination competitions: in 2002 he made it all the way to the finals of the world cup, where it took no less than Vishy Anand to stop him. In 2004 he proved really unstoppable at the Tripoli FIDE world championship, where he advanced round by round and eliminating stars such as Ivanchuk, Topalov, Grischuk, and Adams (in the finals) to win it. In 2005 at the San Luis FIDE world championship tournament he tied for 6th place, and in 2007 was eliminated at the Mexico Candidates tournament in round one.
In 2008 Kasim wasn’t very active, playing in several leagues and again holding top board for his country at the Olympiad (6.5/9). He was one of the seconds of Vishy Anand in his match with Kramnik. He played twice before in Corus, in 1999 and 2002 – scoring only 5/13 and 4.5/13 respectively.
Alexander Motylev
The quiet Grandmaster from Yekaterinburg could be a poster boy for the Russian chess education system. A son to a chess fan and a candidate master by his own right, Alexander picked up the game as early as it comes (4.5) and was quickly recognized as some with great potential. Regular coaching from a very young age brought him up the ranks: he was a strong master at his early teens, and then won his country’s present and future star studded junior championships under age 16 and 18.
Motylev’s biggest eye-catching result was his qualification to, and his eventual shared first place (and win on tie-breaks) at the always-strong Russian championship of 2001 – a tournament he later qualified to several times and having mixed results, scoring 6.5/11 in the last one. His successes in the mid-2000’s propelled his rating to a high of 2680, a record he is not far from today. In 2008 he shared second place in the Aeroflot open, tied for third at the Moscow A group, and played in several leagues.
He is no stranger in Corus, where in 2006 a fantastic score of 9/13 tied him for first place with Carlsen, sending both players to the Grandmaster A group in 2007, where he scored an unexciting 5/13.
Francisco Vallejo Pons
Spain’s second highest rated player (and top native born), Paco is his country’s current champion – an event he also won in 2006. He is a former world youth champion under age 18 (won in 2000). His first performance under the limelight was his participation at the 2002 edition of the Linares tournament, where he scored a very respectable 5/12 points – a score he repeated the following two years as well. Vallejo qualified to the 2004 FIDE world championships, but was knocked out in round one, but later that year had a strong showing on second board for his country at the Olympiad.
At the 2005 world cup in Russia, Paco finished around the middle with 7/14, and in the elimination version of the same event at the same venue, he made it to the second round, where he got knocked out. He is an active league and open tournaments player, with varying results, and although he may be 20 points off his all time high, he is expected to cross the 2700 milestone number after all recent events are calculated. His main success in 2008 has to be his outstanding 9/11 result on second board for his country, at the Olympiad. In addition to being a top class player, Valleo has been dabbling as a second to Veselin Topalov. This is his first playing visit to Wijk aan Zee.
Andrei Volokitin
Andrei is another one of the new faces to play in Corus 2009, and is one of the youngest to achieve the Grandmaster title – he got it at age 15, in 2001. He is a two-time winner of his country’s championship (2001, 2004), and a former world under age 12 champion in 1998. Volokitin took part in the FIDE world championship knockouts in 2001, but was ousted in the first round, he made it one round further at the world cup in 2007. He has been a regular in the European league circuit, and played in a long list of open tournaments, with moderate success. Andrei has been a regular member of his country’s Olympic team, last scoring an undefeated 4.5/7 as first reserve at Dresden.
In 2008, the Grandmaster from Lviv finished with 50% in Aerosvit, a disappointing 3.5/9 at the Karpov International, and a very lukewarm 6/11 at the European championships. He was most active in the several leagues he participates in, playing most of the games.
Volokitin has yet to prove himself against top competition, and save for a few solid results (winning Biel 2005, for example) has had several sub par performances at the high end competitions, could Corus B be his time to shine?
Nigel Short
Nigel is one of the more seasoned participants in the GM B group, a former wunderkind whose illustrious career spans over three decades. Among his many achievements are being a candidate for the world championship several times, including runner up to Kasparov in 1993. He won countless open and closed tournaments since the early 1980’s, including twice in Corus (where he played many times) in 1986 and 1987. Grandmaster since age 19, the youngest to get the title at the time, Short is a multi time British and English champion, and British Commonwealth champion.
He is an author and a columnist, and has worked as a coach to several of the most contemporary talents around, including Harikrishna, Negi and Karjakin. In appreciation of his many accomplishments, he was appointed a Member of the British Empire in 1999. Currently Nigel is at an all time low rating wise, 70 ELO points down from his 2712 peak several years ago, but continuously keep showing he hasn’t lost the ability to sting. Last year in Corus he tied for second with a very good 8.5/13, and more points will be coming: a tie for second at the European championships (7.5/10), his clear first place finish at the Commonwealth championship (a dominating 9.5/11) and a fantastic 7/10 in the Olympiad.
Other notable results were a clear first at the King’s veterans tournament in Romania (7/10), a shared first in Baku (7/9).
Fabiano Caruana
US born Fabiano (who also holds an Italian citizenship) left America for Europe in search of a more saturated chess scene. Initially moving to Spain for training, his family then moved to Hungary and is based there. At age 13 he changed his chess affiliation to Italy, where he is now the highest ranked player. A recognized talent the youngster caught fire and in no time fulfilled the required norms for the IM title. By age 14 he was already a Grandmaster – one of the world’s youngest ever, and the youngest either the US or Italy have ever produced.
Caruana is a two-time Pan American champion – in 2002 (boys under 10), and 2003 (boys under 12), and the current Italian champion (a tournament he also won last year, and tied for first in a year earlier). He is now at his rating peak, with even more points to arrive from events yet to register. Fab’s rating chart looks like the route of a ballistic missile: he rose over 600 ELO points in a span of 6 years or so!
The home schooled academically Fabiano is making his second trip to Corus, after a Carlsen-like routing victory in the GM C group last year (10.5/13), which earned him a place in GM group B – a place he could have also earned thanks to his rating. Will he pull another ‘Carlsen’ to advance to the top group in 2010?
David Navara
Country: Czech Republic
David started playing chess at age 6, and was practically self-taught from a book he got from his grandma, since no one in his family really played. In no time he shows his gift for the game, when he won several national titles for boys, starting at age 8. He represented his country multiple times in world events, such as the world youth and the European youth, often finishing in the top five places. Navara was already an IM at age 14, and three years later already obtained his Grandmaster title. He played many times in his country’s national championship, winning it several times, and is a regular member and first board for his Olympic team.
The Grandmaster from Parague is making his third trip to Wijk aan Zee after a one-year break. He scored solidly in the GM B group in 2006 with 7.5/13, but his crossing over the 2700 mark got him invited to the top tournament where he ended with a respectable even score. He is down nearly 100 points from his all time high, and is a bit in a slump. His latest results in the several leagues he plays at were sub par, and he had a rather forgettable experience at the two world cup events he took part in: 5.5/13 in Baku, and only 4/13 in Sochi. Perhaps the sympathetic Navara could spring back to form in January!
Erwin L’Ami
Erwin’s ‘connection to chess’ started at age 5, with the encouragement of his father. He took to the game pretty quickly, and became a part of a talented group of youngsters who took part at national, and later world events. His first significant breakthrough was in 2004 when he achieved the IM title, following it quickly in 2005 when he fulfilled the requirements for Grandmaster. L’Ami’s rating rise was very impressive, climbing from the 2200’s to cross the 2600 mark in just a few years.
The Dutchman is a very active player, averaging 30 rated ELO games per rating period. He mostly plays in Western European open and closed events, and in several leagues as well. In 2008 some of his noted results were a solid performance on board four for his national team at the Olympiad, scoring 6/9, and a tie for second place with a fantastic 8/11 finish at the European championships in Plovdiv. Erwin also scored a very respectable 7/11 in the next such event in Liverpool, and aside from a few mediocre results his only poor showing was 2.5/8 at the Bundesliga.
At the M-Tel tournament earlier this year, L’Ami had his first experience as a second (to Bulgarian GM Cheparinov), a experience that was demanding and tiring, but also enriching and ‘inspiring’ for him. A regular at Corus, Erwi scored –1 in last year’s Corus B.
Jan Werle
When he was 5 years old Jan witnessed his dad engaging in a casual game of chess, and got hooked. He became an active youth player, playing in competitions domestically, and then internationally – collecting a bronze medal in the European youth championships for the boys under 16 in 2000, and a silver for the under 18 section in 2001, the same year he reached the IM title. Werle has described himself as a positional player who can handle tactical melees. Recognizing that he had opening issues, Jan associated himself with some of the top local Dutch players – a collaboration that proved fruitful.
In 2008 Jan who scored 3.5/5 as first reserve in the Olympiad, made headlines by winning clear first place in the super-strong European individual championship, scoring a very convincing 8/10. Not bad considering his decision to play was a last-minute one! When this event and others get calculated, the Grandmaster from Groningen will have the pleasure of seeing his ELO climb over 2600, to a new all time high.
Three years ago the Dutchman scored a fantastic 9/13 in the GM C group, promoting him to the B group for 2007, where he scored a disappointing 4.5/13. Now in much better form he will surely make this coming visit to Wijk aan Zee a much more memorable one.
The youngest participant in Group B (all GM groups for that matter!) is now a household name in the chess circles. Despite her young age, Yifan already has an impressive resume of achievements and record-breakings. She is one of the world’s youngest to ever achieve the GM title at 14.5 years (she got it this year, not much after she got her IM title), and the youngest finalist to the women’s world championship (she is the sub-champion, having lost to Kosteniuk in the finals). Prior to that she was the first Chinese women’s champion to do it at age 13.
What started at age 3 as a kid’s visual fascination for glass chess pieces she saw at a local library quickly became a lot more than that. As soon as she started playing the game, no one in her family was a challenge, and recognizing her amazing talent she was soon under the care of strong professionals. After winning the world youth girls under 10 section in 2003, she decided to play in the boys/open section of that event from the next year on, winning the bronze on her first try in 2004.
Soon invitations started coming, and the young Chinese girl started playing extensively in women’s events, strong opens, and GM invitationals, increasing her results from event to event. Her first time in Corus in 2007 was a good one, finishing in fifth place in the C group and collecting her WGM title afterwards. Last year in group B she scored –1.
Hou’s rating skyrocketed over 400 points in about 3-4 years, and she is closing in on 2600. Maybe Corus 2009 would put her over?
Henrique Mecking
Date of Birth: 23/1/1952
The Godfather of Brazil’s chess and its first grandmaster is the elder statesman of the GM B group in 2009. Henrique was a chess wunderkind with unusual talent, who in his teens was already taking part and holding his own in strong competitions such as the Interzonals. He got his Grandmaster title at age 19, and two years later made his first big mark when he won the very strong Petropolis Interzonal with an undefeated score of 12/17 – beating Smyslov and Reshevsky among others. It took none other than Viktor Kortchnoi to eliminate him in the quarterfinals of the Candidates 7.5-5.5.
In the next cycle Mecking repeated his achievement, taking first place in the Manila Interzonal scoring 13/19, and losing only one game (to Spassky). He lost his Candidates match with Polugaevsky by the narrowest of margins, 6.5-5.5 (one win and 11 draws). He reached his rating peak in 1977 with 2635 (when a 2600 ELO was like today’s 2700++!), and was ranked third in the world, behind only Karpov and Kortchnoi. His illustrious career came to a halt due to health issues, and he retired from chess for many years.
In the early 90’s Henrique made a comeback, and although he was past his prime, he proved to still be a formidable opponent. He isn’t very active nowadays, and his latest event was the King’s veterans’ tournament in Romania where he scored 50%. This will be his third visit to Wijk aan Zee, having played in 1971 and 1978, finishing in sixth and seventh place, respectively.
Dimitri Reinderman
A look at Dimitri’s ELO rating chart might make one raise one’s eyebrows: a relatively consistent rise for a long while, then a significant decline till mid-decade, and then a nice escalation. Perhaps the reason (or one of them) for that is that for many years the Dutch Grandmaster was gainfully employed in a ‘non-chessic job, and only relatively recently returned to full time play and coaching. He served as a coach for the Dutch youth team in world events, such as the world youth championships, and recently captained the South African women’s team for the Dresden Olympiad.
In 2008 Reinderman played in several European leagues with decent results, and his best event was the Dutch closed championship where he scored a very good 7/11, to share second place. He had two disappointing results: in Groningen where he had 5/9 against a low average of opposition, and the Limburg open.
Dimitri returns to Corus after his strong showing in the C group last year, tying for second place (and top Dutchman – his ticket into GM B) with 8/13. He is possibly the most colorful (literally) player in the GM B group: his hairdos have range from mainstream colors to blonde, orange, green, blue, if I haven’t missed more! Can this vegetarian ‘go for the flesh’ in January 2009?
Altanoch Genden, Chief Arbiter of the 1st World Mind Sports Games
Posted on October 11, 2008 by chessdom
FM, IA, IO Genden was born 21 October 1961 in Khovd in Western Mongolia
Meet Altanoch Genden, Chief Arbiter of the 1st World Mind Sports Games. He is indeed very qualified for this job being both a FIDE International Arbiter and a FIDE International Organiser (besides being very hardworking, responsible, and diplomatic!).
And he is not a bad player at all as he is also a FIDE Master who has represented his country in 4 Olympiads starting with Moscow 1994 and ending in Calvia Spain 2004.
FM, IA, IO Genden was born 21 October 1961 in Khovd in Western Mongolia, the eldest of 8 children born to his doctor parents. He too is also Dr Genden but only because he has a Ph D. in Economics!
Like so many Genden learned the moves early from his father, an avid chessplayer, but only became really interested when 16. But this late start has resulted in a love affair has now continued for over 30 years.
Genden is fluent in German, having spend 10 years there, beginning as a student from 1979-1985 where he completed the equivalent of a Masters degree in Software Engineering.
Altanoch Genden
Returning to Mongolia he found he had to organise events to play in them and threw himself into this work with passion, even writing his own swiss pairing software until he found there were programs in the market he could use. And he has done well as a trainer too, with many of his students now the top players in Mongolia (including GM Sharavroj and IM Ganbold).
Married with 2 children, he is today a consultant-researcher in the fields of ICT and Management Science and Economics after quitting the rat race in 2005 where he had held many senior positions in R&D firms including a long stint in Datacom.
Genden first got international recognition as an organiser with the World Universities Championships held in Ulan Bator, Mongolia where he was the Chief Arbiter and since then he has been involved in many high profile events.
These include the Singapore Open 2005, the Asian Games 2007 in Doha, Qatar, MAIGOC 2007 in Macau, China, and the World Chess Championship 2007 in Mexico.
But surprisingly the German speaking and extremely experienced International Arbiter will not be going to the Dresden Olympiad as his application to be a Match Arbiter was somehow not accepted!
Since 1989 he has served on the Board of the Mongolian Chess Federation and since 1990 been their FIDE Delegate. From 2002-2006 he was also a member of the FIDE Executive Board.
Article by Peter Long
Posted on April 22, 2008 by chessdom
My name is David Navara, I am 23 years old and my current rating (2672) is the lowest among the participants. I am not used to such a role, but if I am in a good form, I can finish somewhere in the middle or even slightly better. On the other hand, being in a poor form I can easily finish last. I did not participate in many such difficult tournaments, but I usually play better against stronger opposition, avoiding excessive risk.
I started to play chess at the age of 6. It turned out gradually that I was very talented. But I had a good support as well. Grandmaster Ludek Pachman trained me in a short period around 1995, but my most important trainers were IM Josef Pribyl and especially GM Vlastimil Jansa. I managed to finish third at a World Junior Championship in B12 category in Cannes (FRA), 1997 an second in B14 category in Oropesa del Mar (ESP), 1998. At the age of 15 I succeeded in the European U20 championship in Avilés (ESP) and World U18 championship in Oropesa del Mar, but did not get a medal.
My real breakthrough was Leon 2001, where I scored 7/9 on the 2nd board. Since then I reached several comparable results, including 6/6 in the British League 2005/2006, 8.5/12 at the Chess Olympiad 2006 (Torino, ITA), 6/9 at the European Team Championship at Crete (2007) or the shared 1st place at the rapid tournament in Mainz, 2007.
My worst recent result is 4.5/13 in the German Bundesliga 2006/2007, but I achieved several other bad results recently. I probably played my best chess from August 2005 to July 2006, but then my results deteriorated again. Therefore now I am the weakest participant of the Grand Prix Tournament in Baku.
I live in Prague. I am a student, even though not a very good one. I study logic, but I am more interested in sociology. My father is an university teacher and scientist (mathematician), my mother is a dentist. I have one younger brother and no sister. I am trying not to ignore the outside world, but I do not have any major hobby except for chess and sociology. Except for Czech, I can speak English and Russian more or less fluently. My knowledge of German is not very good.
With the help of Viktor Novotný from Novoborský Chess Club
WIM Zehra Topel
20-years old Turkish Female Champion
WIM Zehra Topel won the 2007 Turkey Women Championship after already being three-times Turkish U18 champion. This talented and perspective player was born on April 1987 in Shumen, Bulgaria and at the age of 8 she started visiting local chess club in Shumen after her mother taught her how to move pieces.
The family moved to Istanbul, Turkey on 1997 and on 2000 they were granted Turkish citizenship. Currently, Zehra is studying 2nd year of English Philology at the Istanbul University and she is member of the Istanbul Technical University chess club.
Thanks to our friend Frederic Sellier of the Pokemon Chess Blog for sending the profile. Read the entire article (in French and English) on his weblog.
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko
Posted on June 29, 2007 by chessdom
His next tournament will be round-robin in Banja Luka, BIH Republika Srpska, on July 22-30
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko was born in Kherson, Ukraine on 8th of February, 1978. He started to play chess when he was five years old, and in 2000 became an International Master. From that time Yuri has won many open tournaments in different countries of Europe. Finally recognized as Grandmaster in January 2007, when his rating was close to 2600 already. Now his ELO is 2580.
Best tournaments results: 1st place in Rochefort, France, 2003 and 2005; shared 1st place in Hamburg, Germany, 2005; 3rd place in Voronezh, Russia, 2006; 1st place in Chambery, France, 2006; shared 1st place in Rodatychi, Ukraine, 2006.
Member of chess clubs SF Gerresheim (Germany), Echiquier Niortais (France) and Escacs Figueres (Spain).
His next tournament will be round-robin in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, on July 22-30. The organizers are “Krajiski Chess Club” and City of Banja Luka. Those interested in chess history will remember that the same team brought then unrated Garry Kasparov to his first GM tournament on 1978, which he convincingly won with 11.5/15, ahead of Andersson, Petrosian, Smeykal and other strong players.
The 8th Banja Luka International tournament will feature: GM Viktor Korchnoi (SUI) 2609, GM Mihajlo Stojanović (SRB) 2601, GM Yuri Solodovnichenko (UKR) 2577, GM Robert Ruck (HUN) 2564, GM Ulf Andersson (SWE) 2524, GM Zlatko Ilinčić (SRB) 2509, GM Milan Vukić (BIH) 2481, IM Vlado Jakovljević 2440 (BIH) and IM Aleksandar Savanović 2432 (BIH). 10th player will be known after the qualifying tournament.
Article by GM Yuri Solodovnichenko
Vladimir Malakhov
Valdimir Malakhov (Russia) is born on November 27, 1980. He has been in the world chess elite for the last 5-8 years, and is number 30 in the FIDE rating list (July 2007). Among his best results are the second place in the Istanbull 2003 European Championship and the participation in the Candidate Matches in Elista 2007. In 2006 Malakhov won the prestigious Salona 2006 in front of Dreev, Movsesian, V. Georgiev, A. Stefanova, etc.
Vladimir Malakhov is top seeded for the Politiken Cup 2007 that starts July 21.
More on Malakhov:
64 moves game Malakhov – Grishchuk – Candidate matches Elista 2007
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Posted on May 1, 2007 by chessdom
The magnificent winning streak lifted him up to fourth place on the January 2007 FIDE rating list.
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov comes from a sports family. His sisters are WGM and WIM respectively, and his father is a former weight lifting champion. Born on April 12, 1985, Mamedyarov first attracted public attention after winning the 2002 European U18 championship with a fantastic score 10/11. A year later he took his first World U20 championship.
Playing mostly in open tournaments and national team events, Shakhriyar patiently built his rating towards the 2700 mark. He finished 3rd in Lausanne 2004 and Corus-B 2005 and took another World U20 championship on 2005 with a performance above 2900! His tactical and unorthodox style proved to be deadly for “regular” Grandmasters
2006 was the year of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. He didn’t start too well, finishing in the mid table at Corus-A, where he replaced Kramnik on a short notice. But then he won Moscow Aeroflot, Reykjavik Open, Baku Open, the exceptionally strong rapid Villa Cañada de Calatrava and the Mainz Open which qualified him for the main knockout tournament this year.
In the closed high rated events, Mamedyarov finished fourth in the 18th category Foros Aerosvit and won the 20th category Hoogeven Essent ahead of Topalov and Polgar. The magnificent season saw him reaching fourth place on the January 2007 FIDE rating list. After short period of inactivity, he is now rated 7th in the World. Hungry for success, Shakhriyar is one of the main contenders for winning the third Mtel Masters.
Video interview – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
The best Romanian player of all times
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is the best Romanian player of all times, eclipsing the glory of Gheorgiu and Suba. In his early 20′s we knew him only from his crazy games published in “Chess Informant”. Later on he surprised the world by breaking into the semi-finals of the first FIDE knockout World Championship in Las Vegas 1999. He eliminated Azmaiparashvili, Leitao, Ivanchuk and Shirov in the process, losing only in tiebreaks against the future champion Khalifman.
Liviu-Dieter was born on August 1st 1976. If you wonder about his name, take note that he lived in Germany for a long time before moving to Bucharest. In the late 90′s, he won a number of local tournaments: the Romanian Championsip, in Balatonbereny and in Budapest on 1996, the Radulescu Memorial 1999, the Ciocaltea Memorial 1997 and 2001. During 2004 he tied 2nd with Sasikiran in a very strong Dubai Open (Mamedyarov was 1st). After that he won the 16th category Pune Super GM.
His biggest achievement so far came in 2005 when he won the European Championship in Warsaw. In an interview, he said he felt relief more than happiness because he put huge effort into study. His success made him a national hero and boosted chess in Romania. Wherever Nisipeanu is playing, the audience is following his wild games with particular interest.
In April 6th-9th 2006 Nisipeanu faced Veselin Topalov in 4-games friendly match in Bucharest named “The match of the champions”. Topalov won 3-1 and the games were broadcasted live on Realitatea TV with commentary provided by GMs Mihail Marin and Dorian Rogozenco. The match Topalov- Nisipeanu was for the promotion of Bulgaria and Romania and their future entry in the European Union.
Liviu-Dieter has also won the strong 7th Sants Intl Open in Barcelona and the Bosna Championship 2006 in Sarajevo. Mtel Masters will be his first super-tournament and he is certainly looking for a good result to secure entry into the exclusive 2700+ club.
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> Industry News > High-speed rail network adopts e-ticket system
CHINA DAILY: All high-speed railway stations will allow passengers to use electronic tickets as part of the effort to streamline boarding procedures and improve service amid robust traffic during the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush, the national railway operator said on Thursday.
“So far, high-speed and intercity railway stations nationwide have adopted the e-ticket service, in which passengers don’t need printed tickets anymore,” Li Wenxin, deputy general manager of China State Railway Co, said at a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office.
According to the company, as of Thursday, passengers can check in without paper tickets at 1,020 railway stations across the country.
The service was launched on the high-speed rail line in Hainan province in November 2018, and another four high-speed intercity railways have piloted it from last July.
With the service, when entering the station and checking in, passengers only need to swipe an identification card－a second-generation ID card for Chinese mainland residents, a permanent residence permit for foreign “green card” holders, or a mainland residence permit or travel permit for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents－at the self-service counters.
Those whose card or permit cannot be read by the machines are also able to check in by scanning an electronic or printed QR code.
“It’s very fast and convenient. Instead of collecting tickets at the station, I just need to bring my ID card or scan QR codes,” said Zhang Pengbo, 28, who works for a real estate company in Zhengzhou, Henan province.
“With the new method reducing the crowds in front of ticket booths and ticket checking machines, it greatly enhances the travel efficiency and improves the travel experience for people who travel a lot by train,” he added.
With two weeks until Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan 25, e-tickets will also help the rail network better cope with surging traffic during the travel rush as families reunite for the traditional holiday, said Zhao Jian, a professor of rail transportation economics at Beijing Jiaotong University.
“With all high-speed railway stations adopting the paperless system during this year’s travel rush, it will further ease the traffic burden and increase travel efficiency,” said Zhao.
The nation’s railway system is expected to handle about 440 million passenger trips during this year’s 40-day-long Spring Festival travel rush, which will start on Jan 10 and last until Feb 18, an 8 percent year-on-year increase, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.
Zhang Zhiqian, a researcher at the China Academy of Rail Sciences, said that as part of the company’s efforts to improve passengers’ travel experience, e-tickets will not only be available at high-speed train stations but will be further promoted at train stations nationwide.
The company confirmed at its annual work conference that it will start piloting the application of digital ticketing this year on a number of regular railway lines.
“We will step up efforts to carry out research on the facial-recognition check-in system, as well as electronic receipts to make train trips more convenient for people,” he added.
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The Anxiety of Influence and Failed Sequels:
Frank Miller and The Dark Knight Strikes Again
by Forrest Helvie | in Articles | Thu, 26 April 2012
“I mean the criticism teaches not a language of criticism […] but a language in which poetry already is written, the language of influence, of the dialectic…” (Bloom 25).
In his controversial work, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory on Poetry, Harold Bloom asserts writers cannot escape the influence of those writers from the past. Tolkien expert Michael Drout underscores this phenomena when he asserts that J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth mythology (best seen in The Hobbit and the epic Lord of the Rings) had such a drastic impact on shaping fantasy literature that all later writers of the genre could not escape his influence. Of course, Drout does not claim fantasy writers can’t eventually move on to create their own worlds, but each does find him or herself in a position where they must respond to—or push against—Tolkien’s groundbreaking texts. There is a similar occurrence to Bloom’s notion of this “anxiety of influence” that comics scholars find in Frank Miller’s Dark Knight books, particularly focusing on the impact of The Dark Knight Returns (DKR) on comics and the less critically acclaimed The Dark Knight Strikes Again (DK2) that was published 15 years later. The question often debated amongst comics fans and critics is whether or not Miller’s later work can be viewed as equally successful or a failure.[1]
Before attempting to ascertain the place of The Dark Knight Strikes Again in the comics canon, it’s important to understand some of the major criticism’s levied against it. Perhaps the most common concern about Miller’s later efforts centers on the way it employs a number of poorly constructed stereotypes to drive its social commentary. Certainly, one can look at the portrayals of American youth and the dialogue used to see how readers might come to this conclusion:
“I hope you realize this is all about me.”
“Marr, if this is treason, then treason rocks!”
“OHMYGOD!!! A superchix meltdown!!! It’s a totally tragedy!!! But you couldn’t even hear about it with all the noise and shooting and stuff!!!” (Miller vol. 3, 9-10).
Clearly, the youthful reporters are more focused on issues of entertainment than the political violence taking place before them. Even those who recognize the uprisings against Luthor’s corrupt government portray it in a sensationalistic manner geared more towards titillating than informing their viewers. This notion of titillating the viewers (and by extension, the readers) is continually reinforced from the first page of the 3-part series to the end. In particular, Miller’s art often portrays parts of women to communicate double entendres. On the first page of the first book, a disembodied pair of luscious lips is seen telling the reader “You want it… you must have it […] we’ll never let your stocks go flaccid” (Vol. 1, 1-3) at which point a toned and voluptuous nude female body is shown covered in money—not terribly subtle. It is clear Miller is reacting against the overly vapid and sexualized nature of contemporary media in the aforementioned examples; however, the problem is that it is painfully clear when taking into consideration the all-too-easily identifiable real world portrayals he provides the reader with appearances by “John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Will, and George Stephanopoulos” (Harris-Fein 153). Although Miller might have some legitimate concerns about the priorities of adolescent programming when taking into account the explosion of reality television shows—the height of vapid titillation on television—he can also be viewed as painting the picture in black and white terms. Either you are a militant protestor (such as Carrie Kelly) or you’re a mindless youth sucked in by the media. An appeal through such a logical fallacy as this does lend fodder to critics in their panning of DK2. However, this isn’t the only criticism laid against Miller’s sequel to DKR, and the issue of continuity is one readers must face.
One of the biggest challenges facing the comics publishing industry is that many new readers simply do not possess sufficient background knowledge to make the jump into reading new comics. In the first decades of comics, readers could pick up a single issue and find a self-contained story arc with few examples of needing to read multiple issues to reach that narrative’s logical conclusion. Starting with the Marvel Age of comics in the 1960s, however, continuity of storylines began taking hold and is now the industry standard. For example, in order for contemporary comic readers to understand who Robin[2] is, they must be aware of a source from 1987 titled The Son of the Demon; elsewise, readers will be totally unaware that Batman even had a child who has now inherited the mantle of “Boy Wonder.” This same problem arises in DK2 as Miller calls upon a greater number of DC characters when he takes the conflict out of Gotham and goes global. Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman (as well as Joker) are fairly well known characters in mainstream culture and did not present a mjor problem in DKR; however, only a niche demographic would be at all familiar with Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Elongated Man, Black Canary, Brainiac and the many others that Miller calls forth. In DKR, the cast of characters is limited thereby requiring less “insider” knowledge and making it far more accessible to mainstream readers. Faced with the need for such background knowledge and familiarity with these characters in DK2, however, it is no wonder it received far less fanfare from those mainstream outlets that heralded DKR as the game-changing event that it has since proven to be.
It should be clear that The Dark Knight Strikes Again is simply not the game-changing comics event that its predecessor was. However, despite these criticisms, DK2 is still a collected work that comic fans and critiques need to be aware of in relation to the much-praised Dark Knight Returns if for no other reason than it provides a greater understanding of the impact DKR had on modern comics readers. Further, it does provide a natural conclusion to Miller’s post-apocalyptic vision—however satisfying or unsatisfying—for readers.
In some regards, The Dark Knight Strikes Again was doomed to failure at some level. When Frank Miller and Klaus Jansen published The Dark Knight Returns, it essentially reinvented the styles, tropes, layouts, and character portrayals (amongst many other elements of comics) that were the norm for decades leading up to this work. DK2, however, simply continues in this tradition—aping the form in a stereotypical approach as some critics might claim—with few significant changes. Miller does update his presentation of media to include a digital President of the United States courtesy of Lex Luthor; however, no real new ground is broken. So is it fair to view Miller from 2001-02 as aping Miller from 1986? I would argue this is not a fair assessment. In his review of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, C.S. Lewis defends Milton against his critics who also claimed he was a purveyor of bad stereotypes and sensationalistic style. Lewis contends that Milton’s elevation of style is accomplished through his Continued allusion to all the sources of heightened interest in our sensual experience (light, darkness, storm, flowers, sexual love, and the like), but all over the top” (40). Now, I am not claiming Frank Miller is on the same playing field as John Milton; however, looking at Milton’s influence on later writers’ (and cultures’) image of Satan and comparing it to the influence Miller’s DKR had on later writers’ understanding of Batman, a similarity can be found as each played a significant role in shaping his respective subject’s make up. Further, these later writers would have to face that influence in one way or another—adding to or pushing against that work.
Lewis further elaborates his defense of Milton when he states: “Sensitive writers are so tired of seeing good Stock responses aped by bad writers that when at last they meet the reality they mistake it for one more instance of bad posturing” (51). The reality is that Miller referenced politics and culture of the 1980s in his seminal DKR; yet this is rarely criticized because his scathing approach hadn’t been done in that way before in mainstream comics. By the time DK2 was published fifteen years later, this style was interpreted as “bad posturing.” The style of driving the narrative through the vapid media’s talking heads was new and innovative in 1986’s DKR; dressing it in a 2.0 form for the 2001-02 DK2 simply appeared as rehashing the old style in a non-innovative manner. Critical readers, however, must ask “What happened in fifteen years to make Miller’s work go from fresh and cutting edge to stale and dull?”
I suggest the answer lies in the fifteen years worth of responses and reactions to Miller, where nearly every other creative team who would work on Batman, Detective Comics, and any other Batman title would be forced to work under his shadow in some fashion or another. And it doesn’t help that Miller also redefined mainstream continuity’s understanding of Batman’s origins with his “Year One” story arc in Batman the year following DKR’s publication.[3] There is simply no escaping Miller’s revolutionary vision of Batman from the 1980s. I also believe that this newly defined conceptualization of the imperfect, psychologically damaged hero had such an impact on the superhero genre as a whole that other creators throughout the industry needed to reassess how we envisioned our heroes. One need only look at the rise of the anti-hero following DKR’s success to see Miller’s influence.
When Frank Miller produced a work that looked and felt quite similar to his original post-apocalyptic Batman story with the added requirement of greater comic background knowledge, it is no wonder readers and critics perceived it as a lesser work that appeared to only mimic The Dark Knight Returns. However, The Dark Knight Strikes Again should be read alongside DKR without the fifteen years of baggage accompanying the original collected work. Doing so provides readers and critics with a more complete picture of the vision Miller intended for Batman in his struggle to protect Gotham. While there are concerns about the way Miller closes out DK2 with its rushed introduction and destruction of Dick Grayson and the insinuation of a borderline incestuous “winter-spring” relationship between the near-geriatric Bruce Wayne and the all-too-underage Carrie Kelly, there are elements of DK2 that make it a worthwhile read for any critic or fan of Miller’s DKR.
Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory on Poetry. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.
Drout, Michael. “ Rings, Monsters, and Swords: Exploring Fantasy Literature.” The Modern Scholar. Prince Frederick: Recorded Book, 2006. Audio CD.
Harris-Fain, Darren. “Revisionist Superhero Graphic Novels: Teaching Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight books.” Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick. New York: MLA, 2009. 147-62. Print.
Lewis, C.S. “The Style of Secondary Epic.” A Preface to Paradise Lost. New Delhi, 2005. 38-48. Print.
Miller, Frank and Lynn Varley. The Dark Knight Strikes Again vol.1. New York: DC, 2001. Print.
—. The Dark Knight Strikes Again vol. 2 & 3. New York: DC, 2002. Print.
—. The Dark Knight Strikes Again vol. 3. New York: DC, 2002. Print.
[1] This thesis overlooks the possibility that DK2 could be a superior work. While there might be some critics willing to make this argument, this not a position I believe tenable nor worth pursuing.
[2] The current Robin is Damien Wayne — the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul — is generally understood to be the fifth person to serve as Batman’s sidekick.
[3] See Batman #404-407.
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Dr. Forrest C. Helvie lives in Bristol, CT with his wife and two sons. He is an assistant professor of developmental English at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature & Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he wrote his dissertation on the influence of canonical American literature on the development of the comic book superhero. His literary interests are broad-ranging from medieval Arthurian to 19th-century American, and most importantly, pedagogy, comics studies, and super-heroes. He regularly writes for Sequart and reviews comics for Newsarama. Forrest can also be found on Twitter (@fhelvie) discussing all things comics related.
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Gene Phillips says:
26 April 2012 at 5:41pm
I would agree that Miller poses a great deal of “anxiety of influence” upon the creators following (however indirectly) in his footsteps, but part of that is that Miller’s act looks like something that others might be able to copy– as opposed to Alan Moore, who’s in the same sphere of popularity but whose approach is more difficult to imitate. In actual practice, though, it’s a lot harder to imitate Miller than it looks, and I’m not sure I can think of any well-known creator who succeeded, even to the extent that Mike Grell succeeded in channeling aspects of Neal Adams.
Forrest Helvie says:
I would agree Moore is another one of those creators whose influence is one that many later writers have to deal with at some point. As much as I really hate quoting from Harold Bloom, this concept he brings up is one I see playing out in comics as well, and it’s a connection between these sources I thought worth bringing up. I think the difficulty these sort of creators place before newer writers and artists CAN be the illusion of being able to surpass / bypass them, as you point out with Miller but is less certain with Moore. The reality, by and large, is that whether or not they *do* successfully recreate or surpass the original, they are still reinforcing the notion that creators like Miller and Moore are common ground that everyone must tread (so to speak).
Colin S. S. says:
There is a lot I like about DK2: the attitude, the loudness of the art, one-liners like “I don’t care if the president doesn’t exist, he’s still a great American!” But it’s definitely flawed in a number of ways. The cast is definitely a problem, but I think not so much for how insidery it is, but how large. In DKR, Green Arrow was given time to be introduced and explained, and to serve his purpose. In DK2 new characters show up in every scene, many for no apparent reason. It’s all so franticly paced, which was clearly Miller’s point, but jarring and incoherent on purpose is still jarring and incoherent. Which also exacerbates Miller’s tendency for oversimplification. While Miller generally thinks in extreme and dramatic terms, DKR’s slower pace allowed more time to build contrasts, parallels, and ironies. While DK2 keeps barreling forward, smashing ideas out of its way.
Also interesting in DK2 is that most of the personal turmoil, doubt, and emotional journeying is shouldered by Superman. Batman is mostly just kicking ass and barking orders, and enjoying himself immensely.
And yeah, Dick Grayson. What the hell was that about?
Jason Mehmel says:
30 April 2012 at 11:07pm
Another thought in terms of tone: DKR has as it’s main dramatic tension the struggle between age and passion. From the mutants, to Joker, to Superman, the real question is if Bruce is up to it, if he’s going to survive it. The end of the story says yes, he can, but not without cost.
DK2 conversely mostly ignores Bruce from a health perspective; Bruce Wayne has now been repurposed through the SIN CITY lens, where all pain is on the surface and having an excess of toughness/skill will get you through all physical encounters.
I’d say this element, though often not referenced (that I’ve seen) is a big culprit in why DK2 doesn’t connect with it’s readers in the same way. DKR made it’s character more human, (and Miller’s writing of the period was often attempting to capture the verisimilitudes of life) whereas his newer work is louder, brasher, and though still biting, also easily dismissed.
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Transregional Center for Democratic Studies responds to COVID-19 and explores a path for political recovery
In 2019, The New School began its fall semester like most other years. Students excitedly returned to campus, some walking through its doors for the first time. There was an added layer of exhilaration in the air as the academic year marked The New School’s centennial. The university looked back to its beginnings in 1919 with the founding of its University in Exile — the predecessor to The New School for Social Research — as a safe haven for scholars fleeing Nazi Germany, and a century’s worth of scholarship and community activism. It also began to map its next century amid a current time of unprecedented global turmoil.
Building on this spirit, the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) launched its Democracy Seminar amid the October Festival of New. This “worldwide network of democratic correspondence” met to celebrate the centennial as well as to navigate the rise of authoritarianism around the globe and chart a path forward for the preservation and advancement of liberal democracy.
TCDS was founded at The New School for Social Research in the 1990s, inspired by the dismantling of communist governments in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989. Since then, TCDS has been dedicated to an interdisciplinary and international examination of democratic theory and practice.
Now, almost a year after that October meeting, the fall 2020 semester looks and feels much different, as does most of daily life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, TCDS has transitioned much of its global programming online, including holding virtual conferences to address pressing issues of the current moment.
Democracy and the Pandemic
Democracy Seminar is a revival and reimagining of the Democracy Seminar of the late 1980s and early 1990s, conceived of by Polish dissident Adam Michnik and brought to life by Michnik; Jeffrey Goldfarb, Gellert Professor of Sociology and Democracy Seminar chair; and Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and TCDS director. The original Democracy Seminars were semi-clandestine cross-border meetings of pro-democracy intellectual dissidents in East and Central Europe.
Democracy Seminar — also organized by Goldfarb, Matynia, and Jeffrey Isaac, Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington — now fosters worldwide and open discussion among pro-democracy academics, journalists, activists, and more. Originally the group was supposed to reconvene in person this summer for an update on global democracy. Instead, they met over Zoom. On May 20, TCDS held its conference “Democracy & the Pandemic.” In July, they held a public panel: Democracy in a Time of Plague: Challenges & Opportunities in the Struggles Against Authoritarianism, COVID-19 and Racism.
“The Democracy Seminar, our worldwide committee of democratic correspondence, moved to Zoom in May,” says Goldfarb. “We met to urgently consider how the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of authoritarianism are related. There was bad and good news reported from Brazil, China, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey and the United States. While the virus is being used by authoritarians to strengthen their positions in innovative ways, their opponents are also innovatively working to strengthen their opposition, and we used our conference to compare notes. I think there was a general consensus that the situation is bleak, but not hopeless.”
“The alarming worldwide trend of abandoning democratic rule began at least five years ago, but the pandemic has sharpened its visibility,” says Matynia. “We discussed how the pandemic has provided opportunities for authoritarian regimes everywhere to expand their emergency powers in order to consolidate their peculiar autocratic legalism; but we also asked whether it might — under certain conditions — serve to topple them? The issue that was of particular interest to me was whether the very experience of this borderless occurrence, the pandemic, might provide an opportunity for the rebuilding of cross-national bonds of social solidarity.”
Student Collaboration
Students across NSSR participated in the discussions. “The Democracy Seminar is a great and meaningful event for me to hear the voices of the international scholars and activists from all over the world and their insightful reflections on the current global pandemic and democratic crisis,” says Sociology MA student Chang Liu, who contributed an article on China and the pandemic.
“The virtual Democracy Seminar was a truly inspiring event for me,” said Malkhaz Toria, a Sociology MA student and coordinator of the Memory Studies Group at The New School. Toria is also an associate professor of history and head of the Memory Studies Center at the Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. “The distinguishing participants — scholars, journalists, activists, and graduate students from the Americas, Eastern Europe, South Africa, and China — addressed backsliding from democracy exposed by COVID-19. In many countries, we witnessed rising authoritarian rule and right-wing populism before the coronavirus outbreak. However, the already existent pressing issues re-appeared in new lights during the ongoing pandemic. Insightful discussions and debates at the seminar covered an array of topics on how the pandemic is employed by authoritarian governments elsewhere. The Coronavirus revealed disturbing practices of using and abusing power to further impose governmental rules and restrict civil rights while failing to deal with the public health crisis caused by the COVID-19. But panelists also observed democratic ‘innovation’ and ‘awakenings’ to protest and resist these troubling signs of undermining democracy. Fortunately, we also hear strong critical voices from observed countries, and the Democracy Seminar exemplified these sincere hopes for the global defense of democracy.”
In the Same Boat
After a summer of rigorous online programming and intellectual discussion, Goldfarb published an update on the Democracy Seminar, titled “We’re All in the Same Boat.”
“As I wrote over two years ago, when our current group first began to take shape, this is the second iteration of the Democracy Seminar,” wrote Goldfarb “Back then, our immediate situations were strikingly different on each side of the “iron curtain.” Now, we are all in the same boat. The papers prepared for the conference, and our discussions on Zoom all attest to this.” Reflections on TCDS work done this past summer and more ongoing writing can be viewed on Democracy Seminar at Public Seminar.
TCDS is preparing for an online fall 2020 semester and another season of programming via Zoom. They are re-launching the Memory Studies Group at The New School and are looking at summer 2021 for holding their next graduate Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland. Among the first events of the semester, TCDS will host Toria and Mykola Balaban, two former Open Society Foundations (OSF) Global Dialogue Fellows at TCDS (2016). They will talk in an online public panel about their collaborative research on “Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era, Facing Revisionist Russia: Ukraine and Georgia in Comparative Perspective,” supported by a ‘Global Dialogs’ Collaborative Research Grant, funded by OSF (2019-2020).
TCDS plans to continue to grow and adapt, standing up to the ever-evolving threats to liberal democracy.
Alexa Mauzy-Lewis is a Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism MA student. She is a writer, editor, and the student advisor for CPCJ with her cat, Goat. Read more of her work at www.alexamauzylewis.xyz
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Alexa Mauzy
New Ways to Approach Global Mental Health Challenges
Mental health disorders are currently the leading cause of disability worldwide. Still, access to culturally relevant treatment is complicated by a wide range of social and economic barriers. And with more than 40 percent of the world population under the age of 25, many child and adolescent mental health problems are largely neglected.
Faculty and students at The New School for Social Research are spearheading a major effort to expand both research on global mental health and interventions to help people on the ground.
An Interdisciplinary Cohort
In Fall 2019, NSSR launched the Global Mental Health subject area as a way for Psychology students to explore this specialized area of study while deepening their research, developing closer relationships with faculty, connecting with outside job opportunities, and more.
Adam Brown, Associate Professor of Psychology and head of the subject area, notes that courses on the topic have filled up quickly, and that the cohort of students interested in Global Mental Health — like Psychology PhD student Evan Neuwirth — is growing substantially. And it’s not just Psychology students who are involved; increasing numbers of Parsons School of Design students interested in how design can support mental health are enrolling in courses, too.
Adam Brown, Associate Professor of Psychology and head of the Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab at NSSR
Opportunities in the field are also growing. Students in Brown’s Spring 2020 Global Mental Health course were excited to partner with the Mayor’s Office of ThriveNYC to help address critical gaps in New York City’s mental healthcare system — a project that was unfortunately disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Brown says, “it speaks to amazing potential community partnerships that exist locally with international implications about ways to work with different organizations and agencies, while building on the creativity and knowledge basis of New School students.
New External Support
One of the classes offered in the Global Mental Health subject area is Child and Adolescent Global Mental Health, taught by Miriam Steele, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Attachment Research.
“This is a very innovative program because there are very few global health programs within psychology doing this kind of work,” Steele says. Steele’s work has largely looked at childhood development, bridging psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice with contemporary research practices.
Her current course explores current trends in child and adolescent mental health services and examines responses to social and cultural traumas, with specific focus on refugee populations and displaced children. NSSR MA and PhD students from across disciplines, as well as Parsons design students, engage in team-based project work, partnering with government agencies and NGOs working to deliver interventions to children in Africa and South Asia. Together, they work to find innovative solutions and prototypes for the global mental health challenges their stakeholders propose.
The course’s Teaching Assistant, Zishan Jiwani, is a Psychology MA student and a Zolberg-IRC Fellow in Mental Health in Humanitarian Settings who has also studied transdisciplinary design at Parsons. “Zishan and I will really co-teach the class,” Steele says. “Together, we will deliver a blend of psychology, intervention science and design education to guide students in conducting user experience research, prototyping, and testing solutions remotely.”
Miriam Steele, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Attachment Research (left), and Zishan Jiwani, Psychology MA student (right)
“An important objective of this class is to support the cultivation of a deep understanding of how mental health and psychosocial support is delivered for children and families in low-income settings in the Global South,” Steele says. “The interdisciplinary design challenge helps students engage meaningfully with the promise and pitfall of mental health interventions.”
The course will benefit from a distinguished list of guest speakers who are at the helm of child and adolescent global health include Aisha Yousafzai from Harvard School of Public Health, Lisa Cogrove from the University of Massachusetts – Boston, Marinus van IJzendoorn from Erasmus University Rotterdam & the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.
Mentors from partnering organizations will help guide the student teams through the nuances of their specific challenges. Current projects include partnering with Strengthening Families for the Well-being of Children in Nairobi, Kenya to support teen mothers reintegrate into society after giving birth, and working with the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana to help parents of special needs children cope with their children’s diagnosis.
For the Fall 2020 semester, Steele and Jiwani were successful in securing funding from the Association for Psychological Science Teaching Fund, which was then matched by the Two Lilies Fund, a global early childhood mental health initiative. Microgrants will be awarded to all group projects that show courage, creativity, depth and provide a clear rationale for how they plan to use the funding. Teams will also have an opportunity to request a small amount of funding to develop prototypes midway through the semester.
Steele hopes that publicizing this work will inspire students from across a range of disciplines to engage with these crucial issues at The New School, which is unique in its ability to blend design and psychology in this particular way. The class, which will be offered online in Fall 2020, will also set up a protocol for other universities to develop their own global mental health studies, as well as offer an outline for an engaging and experiential online classroom experience.
“COVID-19 has presented an unprecedented challenge for teaching complex subjects like child and adolescent global mental health through an online format,” Steele said. “However, we plan to use the online format to greatly benefit the classroom experience by expanding our reach outside of New York and bringing in more collaborators virtually.”
From the Lab to the People
In Brown’s Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab, faculty and students are investigating disparities in mental health issues as well as developing innovative solutions and interventions that can reduce barriers to care in low and medium-resourced contexts, especially in the wake of COVID-19.
Recently, Brown connected with the World Health Organization about a short-term mental health treatment plan called Problem Management Plus (PM+). The pilot program to train his Lab students in PM+ would have been conducted in partnership with the Danish Red Cross, which has used PM+ primarily in areas facing humanitarian crises. Now, his ab students are learning PM+ remotely so they can help deliver it online to those in need. Read more in this New School News story.
Brown is also working with three students — Psychology MA students Camila Figueroa Restrepo and Jamie Gardella, and Milano MA student Maria Francisca Paz y Mino Maya — on a study about intergenerational memories among immigrant communities in New York City.
Together with a local nonprofit, they’re working with families of Ecuadorian heritage to understand how their narratives of migration get passed down through generations, and the extent to which knowledge of that narrative is connected with better mental health outcomes.
And, funded by a grant from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Brown and his lab students are working with Danny Horesh of Bar Ilan University on an international study examining the psychological implications of the pandemic. Together, they are assessing multiple factors including stress, anxiety, and quality of life, and looking at predictors of distress and well-being.
Social Research on Plagues
The journal’s update of 1988’s “In Time of Plague” examines the human history of pandemics and what it means for the current moment
“After decades of dividing our time between apocalyptic fears of nuclear holocaust and private fears of personal ruin, we now face a threat that is profoundly social, requiring a public, community response. Most of us until recently have assumed, perhaps without thinking, that the number of life-threatening infectious diseases was finite, soon to be cured and prevented by medical science…. Now it appears that this idea—that we stand outside our own history, that we, unlike our forebears, are immune to widespread medical disasters—is very doubtful.”
This description feels very poignant in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Yet these are the words Arien Mack used to introduce the Fall 1988 issue of Social Research, which addressed the HIV/AIDS crisis. Called “In Time of Plague,” the special issue followed the journal’s first-ever public conference, “In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease.” Now, more than 30 years later, Social Research is publishing a new issue with the same title this summer — on COVID-19.
NSSR’s Flagship Journal
“Social Research has been a part of The New School for Social Research since its beginning,” Mack says. Founded as an international quarterly in 1934, one year after The New School’s first president created the University in Exile as a refuge for scholars forced to flee Hitler’s Europe, Social Research aimed to create a public voice for the growing university. The flagship NSSR journal now operates in partnership with the school’s Center for Public Scholarship (CPS), founded and directed by Mack, which is dedicated to promoting “free inquiry and public discussion, bringing the best scholarship in and outside of the academy to bear on the critical and contested issues of our times.”
Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology, became editor of Social Research in 1970. Under her leadership, Social Research pivoted to thematic issues, and from 1988 onward paired some of them with large public conferences that explore current, pressing social issues in their historical contexts. Past issues have looked at such complex concepts as loyalty, fairness, and unknowability, as well as more focused subjects like the future of Cuba and transitions to and then from democracy. As Mack said in a 2020 Public Seminar interview with Jim Miller, Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies and Director of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program, “Had I been in any other university, I would have been [only an experimental] psychologist. I would have published, probably more academic research. But I would not have had the kind of extraordinary run of intellectual fun that [editing] Social Research has offered me.”
“We held our first funded conference at a moment where there was an enormous amount of hysteria around the HIV-AIDS crisis,” Mack says of the program, whose proceedings were published in the 1988 “In Time of the Plague” issue. Her intention in organizing the conference was to examine the epidemic in light of the long human history of plagues, with the goal of fostering open dialogue among scholars and scientists, combating misinformation around AIDS, and offering a more effective and nuanced public response.
The Right Time to Republish
“Pandemics and plagues have been with us since the beginning of time,” Mack continues. “There are things we have learned and things we have ignored. It occurred to us that this was a great moment to republish this issue and invite authors, some who contributed to the first issue and some new contributors, to comment on the new pandemic.”
Cara Schlesinger, Managing Editor of Social Research, underscores this point. “One of the important takeaways from this issue,” she says, “is that there were lessons that were learned during the AIDS crisis and lessons that were forgotten… and when we forget history, we risk repeating it. Almost every event we [at Social Research] have done has addressed that idea in some way and tried to bring the past to bear on the present. Unfortunately, this time the past we are reminded of is very recent. Despite all of the powers and pressures working against that memory, maybe this time we will do a little better at remembering.”
The COVID-19 edition of In Time of Plague is divided into two sections. The new essays that comprise the first section navigate the moral dilemmas, inequalities, and misinformation that shadow the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing comparisons to the AIDS crisis. The second section republishes the complete collection of original papers. Contributors of both the original and new material were drawn from across disciplines.
Charles Rosenberg, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, wrote a paper in 1988 on the definition of disease as well as a new piece on shaping a pandemic narrative. Willam Foege, former executive director of the Carter Center and famed epidemiologist, originally published “Plagues: Perceptions of Risk and Social Responses” and has now contributed an essay entitled “Plague Revisited.” New contributors include Teresa Ghilarducci, NSSR’s Schwartz Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis and director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, with “When Economists Take a Back Seat to Virologists”; William Hirst, NSSR’s Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology, on how the pandemic will be remembered; Mariano Aguirre, advisor to the Human Rights Institute, on the connections between inequality and the impacts of COVID-19; and Mary T. Bassett, former commissioner of health for New York City, who explores how “epidemics track along the fissures of our society, exacting the highest toll among the marginalized, discriminated, and excluded.”
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The Center for Public Scholarship will also be holding a two-part public webinar series to launch the new edition of In Time of Plague. See more information and register here.
The first panel, “Inequalities and Plague,” will be held Wednesday, August 5, 12:30-2:00 p.m. EDT. Panelists include Ghilarducci, Aguirre, and Bassett, as well as Ahmed Bawa, Chief Executive Officer of Universities South Africa.
The second panel, “Comparing Plagues: AIDS and COVID-19,” will be held Wednesday, August 12, 12:30-2:00 p.m. EDT and will be moderated by Ron Bayer, elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Panelists include Foege; Ruth Macklin, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Gerald Oppenheimer, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University; and David A. J. Richards, Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University.
Since its first issue, Social Research has aimed to preserve the founding ideals of The New School for Social Research and to make intellectual inquiry around social and political issues more accessible for the New York community and beyond. In the introduction of this new issue, Mack writes, “It is my hope that by reissuing our 1988 issue, with new comments by experts on how the current COVID-19 pandemic resembles and differs from the AIDS epidemic, we will once again help our readers better understand what is happening now and what we might expect.”
New Social Philosophy Prize Awards Challenges to Canon
A collaboration between NSSR and Vanderbilt reflects the evolving field of social philosophy
Within the broader field of philosophy, an increased focus on social thought has led to an upsurge of interest in critical theories of race, gender, and class. In response, a group of faculty and students at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) and Vanderbilt University — including Alice Crary, University Distinguished Professor at NSSR, and Matthew Congdon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt and NSSR Philosophy PhD 2014 alumnus — have created the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Social Philosophy, which seeks to recognize “groundbreaking, courageous, critical work” in the field.
The inaugural recipient of the biennial prize is Robert Gooding-Williams, M. Moran West/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies, Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
Research Matters sat down digitally with Crary, Congdon, and Gooding-Williams to talk about social philosophy and its history at The New School, as well as what this award represents.
Collaborating for Visibility in the Field
Crary and Congdon’s collaboration began when Crary served as Congdon’s PhD advisor in NSSR’s Philosophy department. Crary, who has written extensively on ethics, was a natural fit as a mentor for Congdon, whose research focuses on moral psychology and the intersections of ethics and epistemology.
The two continue to talk often, and in 2019 ran a successful workshop at Vanderbilt on social visibility; topics included the visibility of racism in the United States, the critical significance of art and aesthetic experiences, and the epistemology of ideology critique. They met for coffee the day after the workshop to debrief and both were pleased with how the presentations had gone. That was what led to the idea of further collaboration.
“Partly we were interested in the significance of the fact that, in Anglo-American circles, the idea of social philosophy is a relative newcomer,” says Crary. “We wanted to look afresh at what it means to explore specifically social thought and criticism. What we were doing in pulling together the original workshop was identifying a set of exciting philosophers and political theorists who are working across intellectual traditions not only in theorizing about these things but also in bringing theory to bear on practice.”
They felt momentum growing in the field and wanted to turn their one-time effort into something more sustained. Crary and Congdon developed the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Social Philosophy and formed a prize committee, which includes Karen Ng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt and an NSSR Philosophy PhD 2013 alum; Dora Suarez, a current NSSR Philosophy PhD student; Daniel Rodriguez-Navas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NSSR; and Eric MacPhail, a current Vanderbilt Philosophy PhD student and an NSSR Philosophy MA 2016 alum.
It makes sense that NSSR is so strongly represented on the committee. The field of social philosophy has strong connections to intellectual traditions represented at The New School since the 1930s, in particular Critical Theory. So while analytic philosophers have increasingly turned to social philosophy in the past 20 years, “these conversations were happening at The New School many decades earlier,” Congdon says. Here, “philosophy is looked at as a distinctively social phenomenon. How inhabiting shared forms of life shapes one’s vision and perception of that world, and shapes what objects are actually in that world. Or how our shared history shapes one’s perception of that world…. That was something that was just in the air at The New School from the beginning; to study just about any philosophical problem was already to want to situate it in a kind of a social context.” Congdon also found the intellectual climate of The New School to include a shared sense of political activism, with students often involved in community organizing and political events on and outside of campus.
Vanderbilt also has a pluralistic Philosophy department, which Crary says is not something to be taken for granted. “Here pluralism means something like — we’re not going to be factional and say the only legitimate kind of philosophy is the kind that’s being practiced in the Anglo-American world, or is in the European philosophical scene, or elsewhere. We both think that this kind of open-mindedness is decisive for philosophizing that is productively engaged with the world and guided by a commitment to social justice. It’s rarer than you would think.”
Changing Who Gets to Be a Philosopher
The first prize recipient, Robert Gooding-Williams, has been instrumental in legitimizing social philosophy.
Challenging the philosophy canon since the 1980s, Gooding-Williams has helped make discussions about race a decisive area for philosophical study — one now recognized by the American Philosophical Association. As a historian of African-American philosophy and a scholar of W.E.B. Dubois, Gooding-Williams has questioned the exclusion of Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass from consideration as prominent political philosophers.
“My contributions to social philosophy have largely concerned the diagnosis of social problems, specifically racism and white supremacy,” Gooding-Williams says, as well as “the analyses and political-philosophical responses to racism and white supremacy in the history of African American political thought.”
His essay collection, Look, A Negro! Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and Politics (Routledge, 2005), explores the concept of Black identity, the nature of Black political solidarity, the significance of Afro-centrism for American democracy, and the impact of racial ideology on aesthetic judgment, while In the Shadow of Du Bois (Harvard University Press, 2011) analyzes Afro-Modern political thought in the U.S. In a forthcoming paper, Gooding-Williams builds on other philosophers’ recent efforts to understand racial domination in terms of practices and the concepts that constitute them; an excerpt of that paper revisits the Ferguson Report and how anti-Black concepts influence police practices.
“He is doing great historical work and also telling a story about what good political philosophy is. He leads us to see clearly that the exclusion of Du Bois and others is a function of racism,” Crary says. “His work is incredibly important and powerful.”
Congdon describes the courageousness in Gooding-Williams’ methodology: “His contribution [is] basically creating and legitimizing whole areas of philosophy that had been delegitimized or not recognized as important.”
Crary and Congdon had planned to make an occasion of the first prize, honoring Gooding-Williams as well as organizing a public lecture featuring prominent philosophers and social theorists, and recognizing graduate students with the NSSR-Vanderbilt Graduate Student Prize in Social Philosophy. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they are monitoring the situation and will make a decision about the event in the coming months, making the health and well-being of the event’s participants a top priority. More information, as well as the organizers’ full congratulatory message to Gooding-Williams, can be found on the NSSR website.
Photo Credits: Left: Matthew Congdon and Alice Crary at a philosophy conference in Paris, 2019; Right: Robert Gooding-Williams via American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018.
NSSR Welcomes Lillian Polanco-Roman to Psychology Department
The new assistant professor brings expertise on mental health disparities in at-risk populations
Lillian Polanco-Roman joins the Psychology department faculty at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in Fall 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. With a background as a clinical psychologist, Polanco-Roman studies how cultural experiences can impact psychopathology, especially in racial minorities and immigrant youth populations. Specifically, her research tackles demographic disparities in suicidal ideation and behaviors in youth.
Research Matters sat down (digitally) with Polanco-Roman to discuss her research, what drew her to the work, and what she’s looking forward to doing at NSSR.
Elevating ‘Social Research’
“I’m interested in the ‘social research’ part of The New School,” Polanco-Roman says. “Part of its mission includes looking at social justice, social and environmental factors, and how that might impact development. These ideas play a huge role in my research. This focus is something that really aligns with me, with research, with my passion.”
Polanco-Roman studies the ‘casualties of racism’ and how racial and ethnic discrimination influences suicidal thoughts and behaviors in minority emerging adults. Culturally related experiences are rarely analyzed in risk assessment for suicide, and she hopes to better understand and highlight the relationships between ethnic identity and depressive symptoms.
Her path to an academic career grew out of her roots right here in New York City. A first-generation college student born and raised in Brooklyn, Polanco-Roman received a BS in Psychology from Fordham University, an MA in Psychology from Hunter College — where she also taught the subject — and her PhD from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University in the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and has counseled in a clinical setting.
Her upbringing played a strong role in shaping her scholarly interests. “Studying and working here made a lot of sense given the population I’m interested in working with, which is ethnic minority youth and immigrant youth,” she says. “They are well represented in New York City and it’s what drew me to this work. I want to give back to my community.”
During her time at CUNY, Polanco-Roman pieced together her own program of study, first finding faculty studying suicide risk in adolescence. She then connected with a professor who specialized in the impact of racial discrimination on psychopathology. “Working with both of them, I was able to create essentially a tailored programmed where I was looking at cultural experiences of suicide risk and youth by combining these two.”
While forging her own specialized path of study, Polanco-Roman began to translate her research into real-life suicide prevention and minority youth support. While working in the Counseling Services Center at John Jay College, she co-facilitated a group for college students with chronic depression and suicidal ideation that focused on healthy coping strategies. As a training therapist at City College, she also conducted long-term individual psychotherapy in English and Spanish for children and adults at a community-based mental health clinic.
Polanco-Roman is a member of the Youth Suicide Research Consortium, an interdisciplinary network of researchers that aims to improve research on youth suicidal behavior, suicide prevention, and treatment, and to increase research on suicide among underrepresented populations of youth. Her work — which has been published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence; Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy; Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and other leading psychology journals — has helped illuminate the need for psychologists to account for experiences of ethnic discrimination as a potential source of psychological distress in diagnosing and treating suicidal behavior.
Looking Ahead to Fall 2020
Finding and creating community within larger urban settings is a key part of Polanco-Roman’s life, and it’s also what’s attracted her to The New School and NSSR. City campuses are like a “microcosm of the larger New York City,” she says. “It’s kind of like this dual identity component. I like the small feel within this larger environment. I find it to be more intimate and there’s a lot more learning that can go on there, and stronger connections that can be made.”
These connections can be critical for graduate students. As Polanco-Roman explains, the city setting provides ample opportunities for Psychology MA and PhD students to develop their concentrations. “Whatever one can imagine that they want to study or learn or train in, they can find it here.”
Polanco-Roman looks forward to building on her research with these resources, and collaborating with other NSSR faculty.
She finds herself drawn to the work of Wendy D’Andrea, Associate Professor of Psychology, who runs the Trauma and Affective Psychophysiology Lab. “I’m interested in learning more about the relationship between how traumatic experiences, particularly early childhood experiences, might impact risk for suicide later into adolescence, maybe even young adulthood,” Polanco-Roman says.
Curious about the potential interplay of traumatic experiences, attachment theory, and risk for suicide, Polanco-Roman is also drawn to the work of Howard Steele and Miriam Steele, both Professors of Psychology and co-directors of the Center for Attachment Research.
Polanco-Roman is scheduled to teach courses like Research Methods in the fall, which provides hands-on experience in designing, running, and reporting psychology experiments.
Although academia at large has and continues to make major adjustments to learning due to COVID-19, Polanco-Roman is ready to adapt and be flexible in her first semester at NSSR, using the global pandemic affecting cities and communities as a teaching moment.
“Regardless of using distance learning or being in the classroom, I’m excited to start and I’m excited to work with my new NSSR family, faculty, and students, and make new connections,” she says.
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Appropriation (art)
Composition with Fruit, Guitar and Glass. 1912. Pablo Picasso.
To appropriate something involves taking possession of it. In the visual arts, the term appropriation often refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of new work. The borrowed elements may include images, forms or styles from art history or from popular culture, or materials and techniques from non-art contexts. Since the 1980s the term has also referred more specifically to quoting the work of another artist to create a new work. The new work does not actually alter the original per se; the new work uses the original to create a new work. In most cases the original remains accessible as the original, without change.
2 Appropriation art and copyrights
3 Artists using Appropriation
[edit] History
Aspects of appropriation appear in all areas of visual art history if one considers the basic act of making art as the borrowing of images or concepts from the surrounding world and re-interpreting them as art. For example, some might classify Leonardo da Vinci as an appropriation artist, because he used recombinant methods of appropriation, borrowing from sources as diverse as biology, mathematics, engineering and art, and then synthesizing them into inventions and artworks.
Some art historians regard Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as the first modern artists to appropriate items from a non-art context into their work. In 1912, Picasso pasted a piece of oil cloth onto the canvas. Subsequent compositions, such as Guitar, Newspaper, Glass and Bottle (1913) in which Picasso used newspaper clippings to create forms, became categorized as synthetic cubism. The two artists incorporated aspects of the "real world" into their canvases, opening up discussion of signification and artistic representation.
Five years later, in 1917, Marcel Duchamp introduced the idea of the readymade. That year he entered Fountain into the American Society of Independent Artists exhibition. The work consisted of a urinal, lying on its side atop a pedestal with the signature "R. Mutt". The urinal appeared neither original nor rare, Duchamp's "creativity" as an artist lies in the gesture of selecting the urinal as an art piece and displaying it in an artistic context. Duchamp also went so far as to use existing art in his work, appropriating an apparent copy of the Mona Lisa into his piece, L.H.O.O.Q. Recent speculation regarding Duchamp's appropriated urinal claimed that the urinal was "non-standard" and "non-functional", and that Duchamp "allegedly custom-designed it along with his other supposed readymades,"[citation needed] however, this has never been substantiated.
The Dada movement (including Duchamp as an associate) continued with the appropriation of everyday objects, but their appropriation did not attempt to elevate the "low" to "high" art status, rather it produced art in which chance and randomness formed the basis of creation. Dada artists included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Jean Arp, Hans Richter, Richard Huelsenbeck, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, and Francis Picabia. A reaction to oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society, Dada works featured deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art. Kurt Schwitters, who produced art at the same time as the Dadaists, shows a similar sense of the bizarre in his "merz" works. He constructed these from found objects, and they took the form of large constructions that later generations would call installations.
The Surrealists, coming after the Dada movement, also incorporated the use of "found" objects such as Méret Oppenheim's Object (Luncheon in Fur) (1936). These objects took on new meaning when combined with other unlikely and unsettling objects.
In the 1950s Robert Rauschenberg used what he dubbed "combines", literally combining readymade objects such as tires or beds, painting, silk-screens, collage, and photography. Similarly, Jasper Johns, working at the same time as Rauschenberg, incorporated found objects into his work. Johns also appropriated symbolic images such as the American flag or the "target" symbol into his work.
The Fluxus art movement also utilised appropriation: its members blended different artistic disciplines including visual art, music, and literature. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s they staged "action" events, engaged in politics and public speaking, and produced sculptural works featuring unconventional materials. The group even appropriated the postal system in developing mail art. The performances sought to elevate the banal by appropriating it as "art" and dissembling the high culture of serious music.
Along with artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol appropriated images from commercial art and popular culture as well as the techniques of these industries. Often called "pop artists", they saw mass popular culture as the main vernacular culture, shared by all irrespective of education. These artists fully engaged with the ephemera produced from this mass-produced culture, embracing expendability and distancing themselves from the evidence of an artist's hand.
The term appropriation art came into common use in the 1980s with artists such as Sherrie Levine, who addressed the act of appropriating itself as a theme in art. Levine often quotes entire works in her own work, for example photographing photographs of Walker Evans. Challenging ideas of originality, drawing attention to relations between power, gender and creativity, consumerism and commodity value, the social sources and uses of art, Levine plays with the theme of "almost same".
During the 1970s and 1980s Richard Prince re-photographed advertisements such as for Marlboro cigarettes or photo-journalism shots. Prince's work spoke to issues of materialism and the idea of spectacle over lived experience. His work takes anonymous and ubiquitous cigarette billboard advertising campaigns, elevates the status and focusses our gaze on the images. The viewer questions the concept of masculinity portrayed in these heroic billboards and their relationship to the advertising campaign.
Appropriation artists comment on all aspects of culture and society. Joseph Kosuth appropriated images to engage with philosophy and epistemological theory. Other artists working with appropriation during this time with included Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, and Malcolm Morley.
In the 1990s artists continued to produce appropriation art, using it as a medium to address theories and social issues, rather than focussing on the works themselves. Damian Loeb used film and cinema to comment on themes of simulacrum and reality. Other high-profile artists working at this time included Christian Marclay, Deborah Kass and Damien Hirst.
Artists working today[update] increasingly incorporate and quote from both art and non-art elements. For example, Cory Arcangel incorporates aspects of cultural nostalgia through re-working vintage video games and computer software. Other contemporary appropriation artists include the Chapman brothers, Benjamin Edwards, Joy Garnett, Nikki S. Lee, Paul Pfeiffer, Pierre Huyghe, Rico Gatson.
[edit] Appropriation art and copyrights
The nature of appropriation art, the borrowing of elements for new work, has resulted in contentious copyright issues which reflects more restrictive copyright legislation. The U.S. has been particularly litigious in this respect. A number of case-law examples have emerged that investigate the division between transformative works and derivative works. Many countries are following the U.S lead toward more restrictive copyright, which risks making this art practice difficult if not illegal. Canada is currently involved in debating copyright with extraordinary public and artist reaction. [1]
Campbell's Soup (1968). Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol faced a series of law-suits from photographers whose work he appropriated and silk-screened. Patricia Caulfield, one such photographer, had taken a picture of flowers for a photography demonstration for a photography magazine. Warhol had covered the walls of Leo Castelli's New York gallery in 1964 with the silk-screened reproductions of Caulfield's photograph. After seeing a poster of his work in a bookstore, Caulfield claimed ownership of the image and while Warhol was the author of the successful silk screens, he settled out of court, giving Caulfield a royalty for future use of the image as well as two of the paintings.
On the other hand, Warhol's famous Campbell's Soup Cans are generally held to be non-infringing, despite being clearly appropriated, because "the public was unlikely to see the painting as sponsored by the soup company or representing a competing product. Paintings and soup cans are not in themselves competing products", according to expert trademark lawyer Jerome Gilson[2].
Jeff Koons has also confronted issues of copyright due to his appropriation work (see Rogers v. Koons). Photographer Art Rogers brought suit against Koons for copyright infringement in 1989. Koons' work, String of Puppies sculpturally reproduced Rogers' black and white photograph that had appeared on an airport greeting card that Koons had bought. Though he claimed fair use and parody in his defense, Koons lost the case, partially due to the tremendous success he had as an artist and the manner in which he was portrayed in the media. The parody argument also failed, as the appeals court drew a distinction between creating a parody of modern society in general and a parody directed at a specific work, finding parody of a specific work, especially of a very obscure one, too weak to justify the fair use of the original.
In October 2006, Koons won one for "fair use." For a seven-painting commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Koons drew on part of a photograph taken by Andrea Blanch titled Silk Sandals by Gucci and published in the August 2000 issue of Allure magazine to illustrate an article on metallic makeup. Koons took the image of the legs and diamond sandals from that photo (omitting other background details) and used it in his painting Niagara, which also includes three other pairs of women's legs dangling surreally over a landscape of pies and cakes.
In his court filing, Koons' lawyer, John Koegel, said that Niagara is "an entirely new artistic work... that comments on and celebrates society's appetites and indulgences, as reflected in and encouraged by a ubiquitous barrage of advertising and promotional images of food, entertainment, fashion and beauty."
In his decision, Judge Louis L. Stanton of U.S. District Court found that Niagara was indeed a "transformative use" of Blanch's photograph. "The painting's use does not 'supersede' or duplicate the objective of the original", the judge wrote, "but uses it as raw material in a novel way to create new information, new aesthetics and new insights. Such use, whether successful or not artistically, is transformative."
The detail of Blanch's photograph used by Koons is only marginally copyrightable. Blanch has no rights to the Gucci sandals, "perhaps the most striking element of the photograph", the judge wrote. And without the sandals, only a representation of a women's legs remains -- and this was seen as "not sufficiently original to deserve much copyright protection."
In 2000, Damien Hirst's sculpture Hymn (which Charles Saatchi had bought for a reported £1m) was exhibited in Ant Noises in the Saatchi Gallery. Hirst was sued for breach of copyright over this sculpture despite the fact that he transformed the subject. The subject was a 'Young Scientist Anatomy Set' belonging to his son Connor, 10,000 of which are sold a year by Hull (Emms) Toy Manufacturer. Hirst created a 20 foot, six ton enlargement of the Science Set figure, radically changing the perception of the object. Hirst paid an undisclosed sum to two charities, Children Nationwide and the Toy Trust in an out-of-court settlement. The charitable donation was less than Emms had hoped for. Hirst sold three more copies of his sculpture for similar amounts to the first.
[edit] Artists using Appropriation
J. Tobias Anderson
Martin Arnold
Gordon Bennett
Mike Bidlo
Reginald Case
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Mark Divo
Benjamin Edwards
Rico Gatson
Leon Golub
Pierre Huyghe
Karen Kilimnik
Matthieu Laurette
Lennie Lee
Nikki s. lee
Damian Loeb
Norm Magnusson
John McHale
Aleksandra Mir
Yasumasa Morimura
Tom Phillips
Bern Porter
Rick Prelinger
Rob Scholte
Peter Saville
Cornelia Sollfrank [1]
Elaine Sturtevant
Philip Taaffe
Kelley Walker
Art intervention
Classificatory disputes about art
[edit] Notes
^ www.appropriationart.ca
^ as quoted in Grant,Daniel, The Business of Being an Artist (New York: Allworth Press, 1996), p. 142
[edit] External links
Appropriation Art Coalition-Canada
Blanche v. Koons Decision (August 2005)
Koons Wins Landmark Copyright Lawsuit 1/2006
Blanch v. Koons, 05-6433-cv 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; decided October 26, 2006
Artist Koons' 'Transformative' Use of Photo Affirmed by 2nd Circuit Koons wins appeal (2006); article on Law.com
Fair Use Network
Free Culture an international student movement
The New York Institute for the Humanities Comedies of Fair U$e conference (Archive.org)
Open Source Culture: Intellectual Property, Technology, and the Arts, Columbia Digital Media Center lecture series
Sherri Levine Interview
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In the Supreme Court w/c 4 April 2011
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This week Supreme Court was due to hear the case of Shell UK Ltd & Ors v Total UK Ltd & Or – which concerned the Buncefield oil terminal fire. However, this case has now been settled so the Court will instead hear two other appeals. First, on Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 April 2011, Lord Rodger, Lady Hale, Lords Brown, Kerr and Dyson will hear R (McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Court will decide whether the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea carried out an unlawful needs assessment; violated the Appellant’s Article 8 rights and/or discriminated against the Appellant by reducing her care funding. The Supreme Court case details are here.
Second, on 6 and 7 April 2011, Lords Phillips, Rodger, Walker, Mance and Clarke will hear Jivraj v Hashwani. The issue is whether arbitrators are employees for the purposes of anti-discrimination legislation and whether a term in an arbitration agreement providing that all arbitrators must be of a certain religious belief, if unlawful, renders the whole of the arbitration agreement void. Here are the Supreme Court case details and here is our case preview.
The Supreme Court has announced that the judgments of the following will be handed down on Wednesday 6 April 2011:
– Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, heard 7 – 8 February 2011 (here is our case preview); and
– Farstad Supply A/S v Enviroco Limited, heard 19-20 January 2011 (here is our case preview).
There are no cases to be heard in the Privy Council this week and there are no judgments to be handed down.
Judgments outstanding
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NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina, heard 29 – 30 March 2011.
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Maxo Tido v The Queen (Bahamas), heard 7 March 2011
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Tabeel Lewis v The State (Republic of Trinidad & Tobago), heard 10 March 2011.
Peter Stewart v The Queen (Jamaica), heard 28 March 2011.
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Memoirs of Rev. David Rice: Introduction of the Gospel into Virginia
Continued from the Memoirs of Rev. David Rice (Chapter III): Relief Obtained
This is from Chapter IV of the memoirs of Rev. David Rice, which were included in An Outline of the History of the Church in the State of Kentucky, During a Period of Forty Years by Robert Hamilton Bishop and published in 1824.
"My aunt, Mary Rice, was married to a John Symms. John Symms in some part of his life, by what means I know no, probably by little more than reading the Scriptures, got deeply impressed with the necessity and importance of a better religion than that which he possessed. Under a deep conviction of his being a guilty depraved sinner, he continued for ten or twelve years, earnestly seeking the bread of life, while he found none to break it to him. At length, by the same means of reading the Bible, he found that God had made provision for such sinners, and that it was revealed to them in the Gospel. He believed in Christ as a Savior, and embraced the plan of salvation, and the deep gloom of a long night of darkness was dispelled by the beams of the son of righteousness. From that time to the close of his life he appeared to be a tender, sober, and exemplary Christian.
About the same time, or perhaps a little later, my uncle, James Rice, got under similar impressions, and probably by similar means, only his convictions appeared to be more pungent and terrifying. He told me himself that for three months he did not remember to have slept so sound as not to hear a cock crow or a dog bark at any time of the night. On receiving deliverances by the Gospel of God's grace, his joy appeared to be proportionally ecstatic. I do not remember ever to have heard him mention the love of God manifested in the suffering of Christ in the room of guilty men, but with tears of affection and gratitude in his eyes.
My grandmother, Rice, was esteemed truly a religious woman; but when or by what means she obtained religion I do not remember to have heard.
There was in the same neighborhood with them a James Hooper, who was also esteemed a pious man. These four seldom attended their parish church, but used to meet together at one or other of their houses, and spend the Sabbath in religious conversations. 'Then they that feared the Lord spoke often to one another, and a book of remembrance was written before him,' etc. For fifteen or twenty years my uncle James never walked but with crutches, or when at best with a staff in each hand; yet when he had been helped on a horse he rode tolerably well. He had in the country round a number of old acquaintance, whom he used occasionally to visit. In some of these houses he found a few old books, which had been imported by the first settlers, written by the Puritans, or the great divines who lived in England when the Westminster confession of faith was composed. He found also Luther on the Galatians, or on justification by grace without the works of the law. From these old books he made large extracts, and by frequently reading them over, his memory being good, he could give a pretty good account of the whole of them. When his neighbors came to see him, he would commonly introduce religious conversation, and often repeat whole pages from these extracts. His conversation at length began to make some serious impression on his neighbors. One in particular became deeply sensible of his being in a ruined condition, and condemned by the law of God. To give him relief my uncle lent him Luther on the Galatians. While my uncle was one day looking out of his door, he saw this man running with all his might, and this book in his arms. As soon as he was within call, he cried out as in a transport, James! I have found it! James! I have found it! meaning that he had found out the way made known in the gospel for the justification of the sinner without the works of the law. This man, being a pretty good reader, and of a more forward disposition than my uncle, invited his neighbors to come to his house on Sabbath days to hear him read this book. This at length gained the attention of people, and produced some religious stir among them, and caused a few earnestly to inquire what they should do to be saved. He soon had a small congregation who regularly attended him on the Sabbath -- though they had no prayer or singing. The omission of the former was probably owing to strong prejudices which they had imbibed against the prayer of the church of England, from having often heard it canted over with an air of levity, without even the appearance of serious devotion. By which means they and thousands besides lost the benefit of the many appropriate petitions contained in that book. Their omission of singing was probably owing to their total ignorance of church music.
About this time a dark cloud of persecution almost threatened the destruction of the little church. Several of its members were present for not attending their parish church as often as was required by a penal statute, and were consequently under the necessity of answering for their conduct before the governor and council. They had, however, by this time, learned that there was an English act of toleration for protestant dissenters. Being interrogated by the governor on the reason of their not attending their parish churches, they pled they were protestant dissenters. His excellency asked them, of what denomination? Here they were at a loss, for they had as yet assumed no name. At length one of them, more ready witted than the rest, replied that they were Lutherans. Thus, by the name of Luther, and the affinity between the church of Luther and the church of England, the cloud was dissipated, and they allowed to return home in peace.
During this period the inhabitants of the upper part of Virginia, that lies west of the South mountain, who were emigrants from Pennsylvania, used to go down to what they called Old Virginia to purchase iron, salt, etc. One of these Augusta men, in one of his trips, fell in with some of these new Lutherans, and having some religious conversations with them, he found their sentiments very different from what was common in that part of the country. Upon which he asked them what place of worship they attended? They replied, none. He asked them if they did not believe it to be a duty to worship God publicly? They replied they did -- but did not think it worth while to go and hear men preach who did not preach the gospel of the grace of God, and that their ministers did not preach this gospel.
The Augusta man informed them that there had lately been a minister preaching in their country, whom; should they hear, they would think preached the true gospel. They eagerly asked his name -- whence he came -- and whither he had gone/ They were answered, his name is Robinson -- he is from Pennsylvania -- and is gone to Colwell's settlement. Upon this a messenger was dispatched in quest of the unknown preacher. He was found, but just on the eve of starting homeward. However, on receiving their earnest request, he resolved to comply with it. He tarried with them only a few days, preached to them two or three sermons, advised them to continue their meetings, and taught them to add singing and prayer to their former exercises. He left them also one or two volumes of Erskine's sermons, which was a very considerable addition to their former stock. With these improvements their meetings were greatly enlarged, and excited considerable attention. Erskine's sermons were particularly esteemed. Some of their best readers were invited to go fifteen, twenty, and even thirty miles to read these sermons. The effects produced were considerable. In fact, one of these readers read his discourses much more oratorically than one half of the preachers of this country deliver their sermons. The pronunciation of a number of these is spoiled by the rules of art illy understand and illy applied, or by a servile imitation of some particular person. The reader in the new Lutheran church followed nature. After Mr. Robinson returned to Pennsylvania, there came in succession a number of ministers and preachers, who preached in Hanover and some adjacent places -- Their labors were crowned with considerable success. These supplies continued till the arrival of Rev. Samuel Davies, a man of great talents and eminent piety, who after the previous steps were taken, settled in Hanover county, and took charge of two or three congregations.
Rev. Samuel Davies; image courtesy of Wikipedia
Thus the Presbyterian doctrine and the discipline were introduced into Old Virginia. This doctrine was in substance the doctrine of the established church of England, and of all Reformed churches. Their government and discipline were in the main that which was adopted by John Calvin, one of the first reformers.'
(Thus far father Rice, from memory alone, in the last year of his life, as the patriarchs of old did, rehearsed to his children and grandchildren the wonderful works of God. The following extract from the Memoirs of Rev. Dr. Rodgers, of New York, by Rev. Dr. Miller, gives a more particular account of this interesting subject.)
The rise and progress of the body of Presbyterians in Virginia, to whom the labors of Mr. Davies and Mr. Rodgers were now directed, deserve some notice, before we proceed. They deserve this notice not only as being remarkably interesting in themselves, but also as throwing light on the treatment received by the subject of these Memoirs, in the course of the southern mission of which we are speaking.
The first settlers in Virginia were greatly connected with the Episcopal church. Episcopacy was early established in the dominion by law, and remained so until the revolution which terminated in American independence.* A very small number of Presbyterians from Scotland, and a still smaller number of dissenters from south Britain were thinly scattered through the Colony; but they were so few and so destitute of religious zeal, that no ecclesiastical organization, different from that of the establishment, seems to have been thought of, (excepting on a small scale on the eastern shore, as will hereafter appear,) until between the years 1730 and 1743. During that period, a few Presbyterian churches were formed under circumstances to remarkable and interesting to pass unnoticed.
About the year 1730, there resided in the great northern neck, between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, a certain John Organ, a pious schoolmaster, from Scotland. Soon after his establishment in that country, finding there was no place of public worship in his immediate neighborhood, and that a large portion of the people wholly disregarded the ordinances of religion, and were sunk in carelessness and profligacy, his spirit was stirred within him to attempt something for the spiritual advantage of his neighbors. Accordingly, he collected, in private houses, such of them as were tolerably decent and sober, and had any sense of religion, and read to them the Scriptures and other pious writings, accompanied with prayer and singing. These exercises were much blessed, to the awakening and conversion of a number of souls. For several years nothing more was attempted; especially as the frowns of the government were soon towards this little flock, and the laws against dissenters rigorously enforced against them. In a short time, however, after the formation of the Synod of Philadelphia, the people of Organ's neighborhood made an application to that body for supplies. This request was granted; and the Rev. Mr. Anderson, who had before resided in New York, but was then settled in Pennsylvania, was sent by the Synod to preach among them, to organize a church, and to interceded with the government on their behalf. Mr. Anderson succeeded in attaining all these objects. He preached with great acceptance and with much impression; and formed a church which has continued to the present day.
While these things were going one in one neighborhood, events of a similar kind, but still more extraordinary, were taking place in another.
In Hanover, and the adjacent counties, the aspect of religion and morals had long been extremely low and discouraging. The established clergy were many of them notoriously profligate in their lives, and very few of them preached, or appeared to understand, the Gospel of Christ. It was under these circumstances that some pious books, or fragments of books, which fell into the hands of a few individuals, were made the means of awakening them to a concern for their eternal interest, and of commencing a work of grace, which was afterwards most powerfully and happily extended.
Boston's Fourfold State was one of these books. A few leaves of this inestimable work, which ad belonged to a pious Scot woman, fell into the hands of a wealthy planter. Being pleased and surprised at what he read, and finding the title page among the leaves, he sent a commission, with his next cargo of tobacco, to procure for him a copy of the book. He obtained it; and the more he read, the more he found himself interested in its contents; until he was brought, as there was every reason to believe, to a saving acquaintance with the truth as it is in Jesus. Another wealthy planter, Mr. Samuel Morris, of Hanover, having providentially fallen in with an old copy of Luther on the Galatians, perused it with eagerness and astonishment. He there found representations of Gospel truth, such as he had never met with before, and widely different from what he had received from the pulpit.** Deeply affected with the view of human nature, and of the way of salvation, which this work exhibits, he never ceased to read, to inquire, and to pray, until he found consolation in Christ, as the Lord his righteousness and strength. Nor was this all. It is one of the glorious distinctions of the genuine Gospel of the grace of God, that wherever its power is felt in the heart, and in proportion to the degree in which that power is felt, there will always be manifested a tender love to the souls of men, and an ardent zeal for spreading the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Not the warmth of mere party zeal; not the strange fire of bigotry and contention for modes and forms; but an affectionate desire that men may be saved, and that Christ in all things may be glorified. Such was the spirit excited in this remarkable convert. He no sooner had obtained a comfortable hope for himself, than he was filled with concern for the spiritual welfare of his neighbors. He invited them to come to his house, and to hear him read passages from the book which had been so much blessed to his own sol. They attended, particularly on the Sabbath, for this purpose. At first, and indeed for a considerable time afterwards, no other exercise than that of reading was attempted. Extemporary prayer was a thing so unknown among them, that none durst attempt it. Their whole time, when together, was employed in reading; and Mr. Morris, being an excellent reader, was enabled, to a very unusual degree, to keep up their attention. And the spirit of God visibly attended the exercise. A number of persons were seriously impressed, and some hopefully converted. In 1743, a young Scottish gentleman, having received from his friends at home a volume of Whitefield's Sermons, published a short time before, put them into the hands of Mr. Morris, who perused them himself with much profit, and soon began to read them to his assembled neighbors. The plainness and fervor of these discourses were blessed to the awakening and hopeful conversion of several persons. The curiosity of some, and the serious impressions of others, increasing, people began to meet on weekdays for this exercise, as well as on the Sabbath. In a short time Mr. Morris' house became too small to accommodate those who attended; on which he and his neighbors determined to erect a building expressly for their accommodation at these religious meetings. This building was commonly called "Morris' reading-house," and was generally crowded with hearers. The knowledge of these circumstances spreading, Mr. Morris was invited to attend, at several distant places, for the purpose of reading the books, and especially Whitefield's Sermons, which had been so acceptable and useful in his immediate neighborhood. He complied with these invitations; and thus the religious awakening and anxiety became considerably extended.
About this time Mr. Morris and his friends attracted the notice of the government. Their absenting themselves from their parish churches, contrary, as was alleged, to the laws of the land, was considered and treated as an offense. They were called upon by the court to assign their reasons for this absence, and to declare to what denomination they belonged. The latter question embarrassed them not a little. Having known scarcely any other denomination of dissenters besides Quakers; and not being aware that any body of people then on earth embraced the same opinions on the subject of religion with themselves, they were at a loss what name to assume. In this embarrassment they begged of the court a little time to retire, and determine by what name they chose to be known. After a short consultation, recollecting that Luther was a noted reformer, and that some of his works had been of peculiar service among them, they resolved to take their denomination from him; they accordingly returned into court, and declared themselves Lutherans. By this answer the members of the court were embarrassed in their turn, not finding any law or precedent which directed them how to proceed against Lutherans; and, after a little consideration, dismissed Mr. Morris and his friends without perusing their design further at the time.
Things were in this situation, when, in the year 1743, the Rev. William Robinson, a member of the Presbytery of New Brunswick,# who had been ordained sine titulo, with a view of his being sent as an Evangelist to preach the Gospel on the frontier settlements, in the course of his mission, entered Virginia, and preached with considerable success in some of the more remote counties of the Colony. While he was thus employed, some young people from the neighborhood of Mr. Morris, and the children of his friends, being on a visit to that part of the country, heard him preach, and recognizing in his sermons the same doctrines which they had been accustomed to hear at the reading house, they communicated the intelligence to their parents in Hanover, who immediately dispatched two men to Cub Creek where he had been heard by their children, in search of Mr. Robinson. He had left the place, however, before the arrival of the messengers, and they were obliged to follow him a hundred miles on his journey. They at length found him, and prevailed on him to appoint a time for visiting Hanover.
At the appointed time Mr. Robinson came. He had been obliged to ride the whole of the preceding night in order to avoid disappointing the people. When he arrived at the reading-house, they were assembled in crowds, waiting for the preacher. On his appearance a scene ensued which marked at once the conscientiousness and the simplicity of the parties on both sides. Mr. Morris and his friends, though they had heard a high character of Mr. Robinson from their children and others, thought proper to be more certain as to his testimonials and his creed, before they suffered him to address the congregation which had assembled. They, therefore, took him aside, while the people waited, and not only requested to see his testimonials, which were ample; but also proceeded to examine him as to his views of the leading doctrines of the Gospel. To this Mr. Robinson submitted, not only with meekness, but with affection, and having entirely satisfied his examiners, he went into the house and began to address the people. Mr. Morris himself, to a letter to President Davies, thus describes the scene which ensued.
'On the 6th of July, 1743, Mr. Robinson preached his first sermon to us from Luke xiii. 3, and continued with us preaching four days successively. The congregation was large the first day, and vastly increased the three following. It is hard for the liveliest imagination to form an image of the condition of the assembly on these glorious days of the Son of man. Such of us as had been hungering for the word before, were lost in an agreeable surprise and astonishment, and some could not refrain from publicly declaring their transport. We were overwhelmed with the thoughts of the unexpected goodness of God in allowing us to hear the Gospel preached in a manner that surpassed our hopes. Many that came through curiosity, were pricked to the heart; and not a few in the numerous assemblies on these four days appeared unaffected. They returned alarmed with apprehensions of their dangerous condition, convinced of their former entire ignorance of religion, and anxiously inquiring what they should do to be saved. And there is reason to believe that there was as much good done by these four sermons as by all the sermons preached in these parts before or since.'
These pious people, after formally taken the names to themselves in the presence of the court, steadily called themselves Lutherans. When Mr. Robinson visited them, they inquired of him to what denomination he belonged. On his informing them that he was a Presbyterian, and laying before them the import and reasons of this denomination, the agreed to adopt it. They accordingly took the earliest opportunity of connecting themselves with the Presbytery of New Castle, which was the nearest body of that kind to the place of their residence; and ever afterwards they called themselves Presbyterians.
What too place subsequent to the short visit of Mr. Robinson at Hanover, will appear from the following continued account by Mr. Morris, in the same letter from which the former quotation was made. 'Before Mr. Robinson left us he successfully endeavored to correct some of our mistakes, and to bring us to carry on the worship of God more regularly at our meetings. After this we met to read good sermons, and began and concluded with prayer and singing of psalms, which till then we had omitted. The blessing of God remarkably attended these more private means, and it was really astonishing to observe the solemn impressions begun, or continued in many, by hearing good discourses read. I had repeated invitations to come to many places round, some of them thirty or forty miles distant, to read. Considerable numbers attended with eager attention and awful solemnity, and several were, in a judgment of charity, turned to God, and thereupon erected meeting-homes, and chose readers among themselves, by which the work was more extensively carried on. Soon after Mr. Robinson left us, the Re. Mr. John Blair paid us a visit; and truly he came to us in the fullness of the Gospel of Christ. Former impressions were ripened, and new ones made on many hearts. one night in particular a whole house full of people was quite overcome with the power of the word, particularly one pungent sentence, and they could hardly sit or stand, or keep their passions under any proper restraint. So general was the concern, during his stay with us, and so ignorant were we of the danger of apostasy, that we pleased ourselves with the thoughts of more being brought to Christ at that time, than now appear to have been, though there is still the greatest reason to hope that several bound themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant, never to be forgotten. Some time after this, the Rev. Mr. Roan was sent to us, by the Presbytery of New Castle. He continued with us longer than any of the former, and the happy effects of his ministrations are still apparent. He was instrumental in beginning and promoting a religious concern in several places where there was little appearance of it before. This, together with his speaking pretty freely about the degeneracy of the clergy in this colony, gave a general alarm, and some measures were concerted to suppress us. To incense the indignation of the government the more, a perfidious wretch deposed he heard Mr. Roan utter blasphemous expressions in his sermon. An indictment was thereupon drawn up against Mr. Roan, (though by that time he had departed the colony,) and some who had invited him to preach at their houses were cited to appear before the general court, and two of them were fined. While my cause was upon trial, I had reason to rejoice that the throne of grace is accessible in all places, and that helpless creatures can send up their desires unseen in the midst of a crowd. Six witnesses were cited to prove the indictment against Mr. Roan, but their depositions were in his favor; and the witness who accused him of blasphemy, when he heard of the arrival of Messrs. Tennent and Finley, he fled, and has not returned since; so that the indictment was dropped. But I had reason to fear being banished the colony, and all circumstances seemed to threaten the extirpation of religion among the dissenters in these parts. In these difficulties, having no person of a public charter to appear in our favor, we were determined to acquaint the synod of New York with our case. Accordingly, four of us went to the synod, May, 1745, when the Lord favored us with success. The synod drew up an address to our governor, the honorable Sir William Gooch, and sent it with Messrs. Tennent and Finley, who were received by the governor with respect, and had liberty granted to preach amongst us. By this means the dreadful cloud was scattered for a while, and our languid hopes revived. They continued with us about a week, and though the deluge of passion in which we were at first overwhelmed, was by this time somewhat abated, yet much good was done by their ministry. The people of God were refreshed and several careless sinners were awakened. Some that had trusted before in their moral conduct, and religious duties, were convinced of the depravity of their nature, and the necessity of regeneration, though indeed there were but few unregenerate persons among us at that time, that could claim so regular a character; the most part indulging themselves in criminal liberties, and being remiss in the duties of religion, which alas! is too commonly the case still, in such parts of the colony as the late revival did not extend to. After they left us, we continued vacant for a considerable time, and kept up our meetings for reading and prayer, in several places, and the Lord favored us with his presence. I was again repeatedly presented and fined in court, for absenting myself from church, and keeping up unlawful meetings, as they were called; as they were called; but the bush flourished in the flames. The next that were appointed to supply us, were the Rev. Messrs. William Tennet and Samuel Blair. They administered the Lord's supper among us; and we have reason ever to remember it as a most glorious day of the Son of man. The assembly was large, and the novelty of the manner of the administration did peculiarly engage their attention. It appeared as one of the days of heaven to some of us; and we could hardly help wishing we could, with Joshua, have delayed the revolutions of the heavens to prolong it. After Messrs. Tennent and Blair were gone, Mr. Whitefield came and preached four or five days, which was the happy means of giving us further encouragement, and engaging others to the Lord, especially among the church people, who received the Gospel more readily from him than from ministers of the Presbyterian denomination. After his departure, we were destitute of a minister, and followed our usual method of reading and prayer at our meetings, till the Rev. Mr. Davies, our present pastor, was sent us by the Presbytery, to supply us a few weeks in the spring of 1747, when our discouragements from the government were renewed and multiplied; for, upon a Lord's day, a proclamation was set up at our meeting-house, strictly requiring all magistrates to suppress and prohibit, as far as they lawfully could, all itinerant preachers, etc. which occasioned us to forbear reading that day, till we had time to deliberate and consult what was expedient to do; but how joyfully were we surprised, before the next Sabbath, when we unexpectedly heard that Mr. Davies was come to preach so long among us, and especially that he had qualified himself according to law, and obtained the licensing of four meeting-houses among us, which had never been done before. Thus man's extremity is the Lord's opportunity. For this seasonable interposition of divine providence, we desire to offer our grateful praises, and we importune the friends of Zion to concur with us.'
*In 1618 a law was passed in Virginia which enacted, that "every person should go to church on Sundays and holy days, or lie neck and heels that night, and be a slave to the Colony the following week." For the second offense he was to be a slave for a month; and for the third, a year and a day." Stith's History, p. 148, in 1642 a law passed, which enacted that "no minister shall be permitted to officiate in the country but such as shall produce to the governor a testimonial that he hath received his ordination from some Bishop in England; and shall then subscribe to be conformable to the orders and constitutions of the Church of England; and if any other person, pretending himself to be a minister, shall, contrary to this act, presume to teach or preach, publicly or privately, the governor and council are hereby desired and empowered to suspend and silence the person so offending; and upon his obstinate persistence, to compel him to depart the country with the first convenience." Laws of Virginia, Edit. 1769, p. 3.
Several of these laws were afterwards repealed, or their penalties mitigated; but they remained severe until the revolution. We are accustomed to smile at what are called the blue laws of Connecticut; but it would be difficult to find anything in them equal to the first act above mentioned.
**It will be considered, by many, not a little remarkable, that those who loved and admired Boston's Fourfold State, (a strongly Calvinistic work,) should equally relish Luther on the Galatians; and should consider themselves as finding the same precious system of truth in both. An impression seems to have been received by multitudes, that Luther and Calvin differed materially on important points, particularly on the subject of the divine Decree, or the doctrine of sovereign Election. Nothing can be more erroneous than this impression. Excepting in the single article of Christ's presence in the Eucharist, there was the most entire harmony of opinion between these two great reformers. Those who wish to see what Luther believed on the doctrines of Predestination and Grace, would do well to consult his book De Servo Arbitrio, in which they will find as high-toned Calvinism as was ever penned. Indeed, all the eminent reformers, were agreed on these points. The leading men among them were all doctrinal Calvinists. It is notorious, that, for a number of years, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I, Calvin's Institutes was the great standard book put by authority into the hands of the students of divinity in the British universities, and considered as the foundation of their studies. This is acknowledged by Heylin and others in terms of bitterest regret. Nay, by a convocation held at Oxford, that book was recommended to the general study of the nation. Let those who deny the Calvinism of the early reformers and standards of the Church of England, impartially consult Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, the Lambeth Articles, (drawn and signed by Archbishop Whitgift, and declared by him to be true, and corresponding with the doctrines professed in the Church of England,) the writings of Hall, Davenant, and Horsely, and they will perceive and be ashamed of their mistake. But to return; it is certain that Luther was not only a strong doctrinal Calvinist, but also a Presbyterian; that is to say, he early and uniformly maintained the parity of ministers by divine right, and the scriptural authority of Presbyters to ordain. He himself, though only a Presbyter, freely ordained, at an early period of his Protestant ministry, and he did the same only a few days before his death.
#Mr. Robinson was the son of a wealthy Quaker in England. Being permitted to pay a visit of a few weeks to an aunt in the city of London, from whom he had considerable expectations he greatly overstayed the time which had been allowed him; and becoming deeply involved in the dissipations of the town, he incurred large debts, which he knew his father would never pay, and which his aunt refused to discharge. In this situation, fearing to return home, and unable to remain longer in London, he determined to quit his native country, and seek his fortune in America. In this determination his aunt reluctantly acquiesced, and furnished him with a small sum of money for the purpose. Soon after his arrival in America, he had recourse, for the subsistence, to teaching a school, in New Jersey, within the bounds of the Presbytery of New Brunswick. He had been, for some time, engaged in this business, without any practical sense of religion, when it pleased God to bring him to a knowledge of himself, and of the way of salvation, in a remarkable manner. He was riding at a late hour, one evening, when the moon and stars sone with unusual brightness, and when every thing around him was calculated to excite reflection. While he was meditating on the beauty and the grandeur of the scene which the firmament presented, and was saying to himself, 'How transcendently glorious must he the author of all this beauty, and grandeur!' the thought struck him with the suddenness and the force of lightning, 'But what do I know of this God? Have I ever sought his favor or made him my friend?' This happy impression, which proved, by its permanency and its effects, to have come from the best of all sources, never left him until he took refuge in Christ as the hope and life of his soul. He soon resolved to devote himself to the work of the Gospel ministry; completed his academical education, and studied theology, while he went on with his school; and was, in due time, licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, as above stated. Mr. Robinson was remarkable for the native vigor of his mind, and still more for the fervor of his piety. Wherever he went, it pleased God to grant him some precious fruits of his ministry. Few names in the American church rank higher than his on the scale of usefulness. He died at St. George's in Delaware, in the month of April, 1746.
I am publishing a chapter of Rev. David Rice's memoirs every Monday.
Rev. David Rice (1733-1816) was my fifth great grandfather.
Memoirs of Rev. David Rice: Relief Obtained
Memoirs of Rev. David Rice: Further Convictions
Memoirs of Rev. David Rice: Birth, Parentage, and First Convictions
Preparing for the Revolutionary War
Pray Together, Stay Together
Apostle of Kentucky
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Continued from Memoirs of Rev. David Rice (Chapter II): Further Convictions
This is from Chapter III of the memoirs of Rev. David Rice, which were included in An Outline of the History of the Church in the State of Kentucky, During a Period of Forty Years by Robert Hamilton Bishop and published in 1824.
"No son of Adam ever yet sought the Lord in vain. A high sovereignity is indeed displayed as to the time, and manner, and extent, in which prayer is answered; but he continues faithful who has promised -- not onle prayer from a penitent heart shall be forgotten, and though weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning. -- See Luxe xi. 9-18.
At the end of the two weeks mentioned above, Mr. Rice retired one evening to a secret place, to meditate on his deplorable condition, and plead for mercy. His attention was soon turned again to the fullness and suitableness of Christ as a Savior, and the display of divine perfections in the work of redemption. He saw what he appears never to have seen before, that the Savior and this plan of salvation were just such as suited him. He had been puzzled with this difficulty, 'How can that righteousness which is inherent in Christ justify a being in whom it is not inherent?' This difficulty was solved by the recollection of the words of the Savior concerning Jerusalem, 'How often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' He considered that though the feathers were inherent in the hen, yet they were as sufficient to secure the chickens that were under her wings as if they were inherent in the chickens. So the righteousness of Christ, applied by an act of God's grace, was as sufficient to justify him in the sight of God, as if it were his own personal righteousness. He considered that though there was nothing good in himself, nor any thing good done by him, yet the faithfulness and truth of God in his word were sufficient encouragement for him to venture his all upon this Savior. Thus encouraged he endeavored on the spot to secure God's Son as his unspeakable gift. -- To lay hold of him as made unto him by God himself, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. In short, that evening he in very deed received it as a faithful saying and worthy of all acception, 'That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinner, of whom he acknowledged himself the chief.'
Upon his closing with the gospel offer, the gloom under which he had labored for years, was dispelled, and a peace and tranquility were produced which he had never enjoyed before. 'I seemed,' says he 'for a while to forget myself, and to be wholly taken up with viewing the displays of divine perfections in the astonishing work of redemption.' After spending some time in these delightful experiences he returned homeward. The serenity of the night corresponded with the calmness of his mind. The great mercy of God to such miserable creatures was still the object of his admiration. He began to say, 'Shall I ever sin against so great and glorious a being any more?' But from the sense he had of human frailty, and the examples of the best men of whom he had read, he concluded that he would probably even yet become forgetful, and, through the temptations by which he was surrounded, sin against God. This thought caused him to stop several times and weep bitterly. Yet even in these tears there was a joy and a peace which he would not have exchanged for all the joy of the world. Old Testament prophecy was once fulfilled. -- See Zac. xii. 10-14, and xiii. 1.
These mixed view and mixed exercises continued with him for some months. Though he had his darkness and his doubts, they were not of the tormenting kind with which he had formerly been afflicted. Like the spouse of old, he found his beloved sometimes gone, but still he was his beloved; even his seeking and his doubts were attended with a considerable degree of confidence. His warrent to believe as a sinner was never lost sight of. And he frequently enjoyed, during this period, such confidence as may be expressed by the 'full assurance of grace.' 'This assurance,' says he, 'did not arise from any thing good in myself, but from the direct act of faith in Christ and the promises of God. I felt a comfortable persuasion that I should be supported by grace and ket by divine power through faith unto salvation. This persuasion arose not from any confidence in my own faithfulness but from an apprehension of the work of redemption in the hands of an all-sufficient Mediator. This Mediator I was fully persuaded was able to keep safely unto that day that which I had committed to his trust.
During these exercises he got such a sense of his danger of sinning, (an excellent mark of genuine faith) and dishonoring his God and Redeemer, that he was often willing and even desirous to die, that he might be beyond the reach of sinning. He had read or heard of Christians personally covenanting God, and that it ought to be done with solemn fasting and prayer. This he considered a duty and a great privilege, and felt a strong desire to join himself unto his Lord in a perpetual covenant which should never be forgotten. To perform this with the usual forms he had not time at his own disposal and he was ashamed to ask it of his father, to whom his religious exercises were unknown. -- Another excellent mark of genuine faith, -- it was humble, and modest, and calm, and just. He consequently determined to do it as well as he could at his daily labor, and in walking from place to place, and in his secret retirements. In this work he was frequently engaged for about two weeks. He endeavored in so many words to renounce the devil and all his works, the pomp and the vanities of the world, and all the lusts of the flesh. He also in express terms renounced all self-righteousness and self-sufficiency, and devoted all the members of his body and all the powers of his soul, his whole man, to the service of God forever. All this he endeavored to do in the name and in the strength of Christ. 'I endeavored,' says he, 'in a particular manner to take God the Father to be my father, God the Son to be my savior, and God the Holy Ghost to be my sanctifier, my guide, my comfort, and my support. I took also that Law, which no longer appeared a galling yoke, but holy, just and good, to be the rule of my life, and the Gospel to be the support and the solace of my heart.' He adds, 'Near views of Christ and the covenant of grace were so far from removing a penitential sense of sin, that I think they greatly increased it. I looked on him whom I had pierced, and mourned for him as one mourneth for any only son, and was in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for a first born. And all united in increasing in me a hatred of sin, and a desire after conformity to God in holiness. My heart was also expanded in benevolence towards my fellow creatures, and the love of God towards our lost race seemed not only to transport but to transform my soul into the same divine image.'
Having this in secret solemnly devoted himself to the Lord, he considered it to be at once his duty and his privilege publicly to avow himself a child of the covenant, and on the Lord's side. As opportunity soon offered, in the Lord's supper being to be be dispensed in the congregation, in the bounds of which he resided.
The Rev. John Todd had at that time become a resident in Virginia, and was stated minister in the congregation which Mr. Rice lived. Mr. Davis assisted him on the sacramental occasions. At a convenient season, previous to the administration of the ordinance, he conversed with a minister on the subject, and, according to the custom of the society, received a token of admission. On the Sabbath of the administration a sermon was preached by the pastor of the congregation on the sufferings of Christ for the redemption of mankind when he bore our sins in his own body on the tree. -- 'While the sermon was delivering,' says he, 'I felt a hardness of heart which I conceived to be inconsistent with the love and gratitude to God in which the inward exercises of religion very much consists. Hence I concluded I was not qualified to take a seat at the Lord's table.' After the sermon, which was preached out of doors, was finished, a psalm or an hymn was given out, and the intended communicants generally retired to the meeting-house, and took their seats at the table. After the singing, the boy of the congregation walked also toward the house. In the crowd Mr. Rice found himself walking close by the side of the minister from whom he had received the token of admission. He offered to return the token, intimating that he did not think he could sit down at the table. The minister refused to take it back, and told him to come with him into the house, and he would hear more of the matter. He accordingly entered, and found the minister who had preached addressing the people nearly on the same subject, observing that he who knew no sin, was made for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. On hearing this, and on seeing the intended communicants seated, 'One of the first thoughts,' says he, 'that entered my mind was, here is a number of the fallen sons of Adam seated at the table of the King of kings. The thought made me tremble from head to foot, and made my knees smite one upon another. I at the same time, however, saw a glory, and fitness, and excellency in Christ, and in the plan of salvation, which encouraged me to roll myself with all my guilt and all my moral and natural weakness and imperfection, upon his all-sufficiency, taking him for my Prophet, Priest, and King, and resting on him for wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. And thus receiving an all-sufficient Savior, and thus devoting myself wholly to him, I ventured to take my seat and publicly partake of his broken body and shed blood.'
Sacramental Scene in a Western Forest, lithograph by P. S. Duval, 1801; Library
of Congress
The above forming what may be called the first period in the history of our worthy father, it may not be unprofitable to pause and make a reflection or two.
Divine sovereignty is here illustriously displayed. There were many needy and hardened and lost sinners besides young David Rice in the county of Hanover at the time referred to in these Memoirs. Yet David Rice was called, and the majority of his companions and equals in age and in wickedness were perhaps passed over. Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Sovereignty was also displayed in the length of time Mr. Rice labored under convictions. Though he was early the subject of religious convictions, and never was distinguished as an open and hardened sinner, yet years of sore trouble were endured before relief was obtained.
In the very worst of times, and under the most unfavorable circumstances, Jehovah can raise up a seed to serve his Son. When God himself gives the word, neither earth nor hell shall be able to withstand him. And the good work being begun shall be carried on till it is perfected, in spite of every difficulty. Judging after the manner of men, it was extremely improbably that the first serious impressions of Mr. Rice should end in genuine conversion. Thousands of young men at least under more favorable opportunities have made shipwreck of the faith.
What encouragement have those whose office it is to preach the Gospel of God's grace to persevere, though they should have but little visible evidence of success. It is probable Mr. Davies never knew what signal benefit he was to Mr. Rice; nor is it in the nature of things possible to calculate the good effects of that single sermon, till all who have benefited by Mr. Rice's labors are called together. Let us stand in our place and minister in the name and strength of our Master; the great day only will reveal the amount of our success.
A firm belief in the doctrines of personal and unconditional election does not necessarily lead men to be careless about the use of means for either their own salvation or the salvation of others. In Mr. Rice at least this belief produced quite the opposite effect.
Whatever may be the means which are used for the conviction and conversion of sinners, a new nature will display itself by the same marks in all men and in all parts of the world, -- a hatred of sin, an abhorrence of sin, an ardent desire of holiness, a spirit of prayer, a love for all God's ordinances, a concern for the eternal welfare of our fellow men, a low opinion of ourselves, a high opinion of Christ and the way of salvation by him; -- these are the genuine marks of a new nature; they were all displayed in Mr. Rice in that part of his history which we have been reviewing. Careless sinner, formal professor, genuine believer, try your state and your character by these.
Continued from Memoirs of Rev. David Rice (Chapter I): Birth, Parentage, and First Convictions.
This is from Chapter II of the memoirs of Rev. David Rice, which were included in An Outline of the History of the Church in the State of Kentucky, During a Period of Forty Years by Robert Hamilton Bishop and published in 1824.
Having formed the resolution to persevere in seeking God in all the appointed means of his grace, Mr. Rice was careful not to lose the advantage which he had gained; knowing the treachery of his own heart, he committed it to writing, and daily carried it in his pocket, that he might always have a monitor at hand. This expedient appears to have been remarkably blest. From that time he was in a great measure preserved from his former occasional languor and indifference, and was enabled to persevere with a considerable degree of ardor and regularity in the use of the appointed means, till he was brought to discover the way of salvation through a Redeemer.
During this period he had a growing sense of the corruption of his own nature, particularly of his unbelief and hardness of heart. The two things which appeared to him the greatest wonders, were the goodness of God in the gift of his only begotten Son for the redemption of mankind, and his own ingratitude for so great a gift. He saw and felt that salvation was freely offered to him in the Gospel, and that nothing separated him from it but unbelief. "This unbelief," says he, "I viewed and felt as the greatest sin of my life, that it reflected dishonor on the greatest and best of beings, rejected the council of God against my own soul, refused the greatest and best gift of God to man, and bound the guilt of all my other sins on my conscience. I wondered that I was suffered to have a place on God's earth, to breathe his air, or enjoy any of the blessings of his providence."
He thus went for sometime with the sentence of death in his heart. To obtain relief he determined to spend the Sabbath in an old house on his father's plantation, in reading, meditation, and prayer. The day was spent in a kind of mixed exercise and mixed feeling. His wretched state was at one time the object of his meditations, and at others his mind dwelt with some considerable delight on the provisions made in the plan of salvation for perishing sinners.
Christ in the Desert, Ivan Kramskol, 1872, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow;
He sometimes thought he had a glimpse of the excellency and the preciousness of the way of salvation, and the wisdom of God in devising a method of grace that at once secured his own glory and the salvation of sinners. He saw at times so much of the beauty and excellency of the gospel plan, that his heart seemed ready to spring forward and embrace it. Then darkness and unbelief would again prevail.
He returned in the evening without having obtained any relief, and the two weeks which followed were the darkest and most distressing period of his whole life. He thought he was just on the point of being given up to the dominion of his own hardened and unbelieving heart. "I thought," said he, "I had these glimpses of punishment for my abuse of former privileges. I knew that as to outward conduct I had been more orderly than many, yet I viewed myself the most miserable sinner under heaven." No human needed now unfold unto him the import of "Cursed is everyone who continueth no in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." He felt, without the assistance of any comment, the force of the Apostle's exclamation, "O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death."
USS California (ACR-6)
The USS California (ACR-6) was the second ship so named in the U.S. Navy. It was an armored cruiser and the only one of the Pennsylvania cruiser class built. She was launched in 1904 by Union Iron Works of San Francisco.
She joined the 2nd Division, Pacific Fleet, and took part in a Naval review in San Francisco in May 1908. She cruised to Hawaii and Samoa in the autumn of 1909 and then operated mostly along the west coast of the United States, training and drilling her sailors.
She sailed to Hawaii in December 1911 and then in early 1912 sailed to the Asiatic Station where she joined other ships stationed in the Far East representing American power and prestige. She returned home from the Asiatic Station in August 1912 and was quickly sent to Corinto, Nicaragua, which was then in the throes of a political disturbance. Her primary objective was to protect American lives and property.
She then kept a watchful eye on Mexico, which was also suffering from political disturbances, by sailing in Pacific coastal waters. While there the USS California was involved in an international incident in which two of her crew were shot and killed.
She was renamed the USS San Diego sometime before 1915 and at one time was the flagship of the Pacific Fleet.
USS California (ACR-6) circa 1915 after she had been renamed USS San Diego;
photograph courtesy of Wikipedia
On 19 July 1918 she was sunk off Long Island by a German mine.
Alexander Muir was stationed aboard the USS California when the 1910 census was enumerated. According to his World War I draft registration card, he had served in the U.S. Navy for four years. So he likely participated in the events in Nicaragua and Mexico and perhaps the ship's initial cruise to the Far East.
Labels: Muir, World War I
Staged His Own Disappearance
Arthur Edwin Jenks disappeared on the night of 12 July 1934 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Four days later his abandoned car was found on the side of a state highway, it's left front door torn by bullets and blood stained. Deputy sheriffs learned Arthur's wife, Lillian Mabel (Koch) had filed for divorce two days before he disappeared. What happened?
Arthur was born in Elkhart County, Indiana, to Samuel Edward Jenks and Bertha "Birdie" Krontz on 31 May 1906. He grew up in Butler, Indiana, was a high school athlete and graduated in 1924. At the time of his disappearance he was 29 years old and worked for the Wabash Railroad. Before marrying Lillian, he had been married previously and had a son.
Arthur Edwin Jenks class photograph; courtesy of
His second wife, Lillian, was questioned by the deputies and told them she believed Arthur had staged his own disappearance and abandoned car to cast suspicion on her. For whatever reason the deputies believed her but came no closer to solving the mystery until late August 1934. Arthur wrote to his parents and told them he was staying with a sister in Fort Wayne.
Lillian's divorce suit was heard on 12 September 1934. The court awarded her a divorce decree and restored her maiden name. She told the court Arthur "struck and cursed her numerous times during their marriage," which lasted twenty-one months.
That wasn't Arthur's first brush with divorce. He married Bessie Irene Matson on 8 December 1926 six months after she graduated from Waterloo High School. They had a son in 1928 but divorced in February 1932 after Bessie claimed "her husband had an ungovernable temper and frequently cursed and absued her, struck and beat her." Bessie was awarded $2 a week in child support. In August 1933 Bessie was back in court attempting to receive $40 in back child support.
Article from 30 November 1931 Garrett Clipper; image courtesy of
Newspapers.com
Arthur was not finished with marriage, however. He married Elizabeth Caswell, my grandmother's first cousin on 12 May 1936 in Peru, Indiana. Elizabeth was born in Missouri to Robert Caswell and Margaret "Maggie" Muir, who was the younger sister of my great grandfather, Robert Muir. Elizabeth grew up in Danville, Illinois, where her father worked as a miner. After their marriage Arthur and Elizabeth lived in Danville. They raised two children and Arthur worked at a variety of jobs, including in the coal mines, as a state policeman, and as a dock man at Merchants' Delivery.
Arthur Edwin Jenks died 1989; Elizabeth in 1995. They were interred at Lake View Cemetery in Hertel, Wisconsin, where their daughter lived, and share a headstone.
After Bessie Irene Matson and Arthur divorced, she married Harley Earl Spence (1902-1974). After his death she married Peter William Urban (1901-1998). Bessie died 4 January 1998 and was interred at Waterloo Cemetery, Waterloo, Indiana.
Lillian Mabel Koch married Henry Clayton McKee (1900-1970) in 1941, but they divorced by 1943 when Henry married again. Lillian then married Frank Ellsworth Clouse (1891-1969). Lillian died on 14 October 1981 and was interred at White City Cemetery in Spencerville, Indiana.
The research for this story was conducted by Sarah Semple.
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Labels: Crime, Indiana, Muir
Memoirs of David Rice (1733-1816): Birth, Parentage and First Convictions
This is from Chapter I of the memoirs of Rev. David Rice, which were included in An Outline of the History of the Church in the State of Kentucky, During a Period of Forty Years by Robert Hamilton Bishop and published in 1824.
The Rev. David Rice was born in Hanover County, Virginia, on 29 January 1733.[1]
His grandfather, Thomas Rice, was an Englishman by birth, of Welch extraction. He was an early adventurer into Virginia. Where he spent the first part of his life is not certainly known. In the latter part of his life he owned a small plantation in the lower part of what is now called Hanover County. Here he left his wife, with nine sons and three daughters, and went to England to receive a considerable estate which had been left him, but returned no more. The sailors reported that he died at sea. It was supposed that he was assassinated. No return was ever made of the property after which he had gone, and his family were left destitute in a strange land.
A widow and fatherless children, really suffering for want of the necessaries of life, is, perhaps not to be found in the whole history of some men. "Leave thy fatherless children," said Jehovah to Esau, "I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me."
The family being left without an earthly father, were distressed, but they were in the good providence of God provided for. The greater part moved about thirty miles farther up the country, where they procured small plantations, on which they raised numerous families. Four or five of them became serious professors of religion, and were succeeded in their religious professions by a considerable number of their children.
Hanover County, Virginia, Courthouse; courtesy of Virginia Department of
His father, David Rice, was a plain farmer, who having food and raiment by his daily labor, was therewith content. The spirit of speculation had not in those happy days possessed the American people. He never had any slaves, as he considered them more plague than profit. His wife was averse to it from principle; as being a traffic in human flesh, and an unjust infringement on the rights of our fellow creatures. They were both members of the established church, and taught their children the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the ten Commandments.
Mr. Rice was early the subject of religious impressions. "When I was," says he, "only six or seven years old, I often prayed in secret, and ardently desired to escape punishment and obtain happiness after death. My prayers were frequently accompanied with many tears. After having gone on in this way for perhaps two years, I began to inquire what was necessary in order to escape punishment and obtain happiness, and found that it was necessary to repent and believe. But I took my prayers and my tears to have repentance, and believing in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, according to the creed which my parents and school masters had taught me. I thought that this was faith, and consequently I was happy. This persuasion filled one with much delight, yes, I may say, with joy unspeakable. Nor were my wishes and my prayers confined to myself. I felt a deep concern for my friends and fellow creatures. For these I frequently wrestled with God, and sometimes even to an agony."
Religious instructions were not wholly neglected in the neighborhood where Mr. Rice was raised. Yet there was little or nothing of the power of religion either seen or felt. Parents required their children on Sabbath morning to clean themselves, and read a chapter or two in the holy scriptures, and after this, instead of spending the day as the Sabbath of the Lord, they met promiscuously and spent the remainder of the day in idle amusements, such as fishing, bunting, etc. etc. Those exercises were extremely agreeable to the carnal mind; but the Sabbath thus being a day of idleness or dissipation, more sin was committed or done in all the week besides.
This state of things was a great grief of mind to young Rice, and was a matter of much secret mourning.
"Truly," says he, "I had a great zeal for God, but it was not according to knowledge." There was a John Whitehead, a boy in whose welfare Mr. Rice felt deeply interested. This boy he visited early one Sabbath morning, and having stated to him, in the best manner he could, the necessity for secret prayer, meditation, and reading the Bible, he invited him to go along with him to a solitary place, and spend the day together in religious exercises. Whitehead laughed at the proposal, but proposed in his turn that if Rice would go and play at ball with him half the day, he would go and read with him the other half. Thinking the end might justify the means, Rice consented, though with considerable reluctance. The tasteless playtime having been spent, Rice renewed his suit with additional earnestness, and urged upon Whitehead his promise, but in vain. Whitehead laughed, Rice wept, caught him in his arms, and still urged his claim. The sinner became more hardened and more insulting; the tender conscience went home with a sobbing heart and eyes bathed in tears. (What became of Whitehead?) when these two men again meet at the resurrection of the just we will hear something more of this Sabbath day's work.
When he was about thirteen years of age, his father having one day broken his plough in the field, sent him to the house for a handsaw. While he was returning with the saw in his hand, he happened to stop a few minutes by the side of a stump, and without any particular design, began to saw a notch in a splinter of the stump. While thus engaged this text of scripture came with particular force on his mind, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." This convinced him that something was wanting which he had not yet experienced. What this being born again was he knew not, but supposed that it must be a change of heart from the love and practice of sin to the love and practice of holiness. "I then drew the conclusion," says he, "that I was a lost and condemned sinner, and under this conviction continued about four years without entertaining any other thought during this whole period, but dying in that state I should be undone forever. This turned my play into prayer, which I practiced from one to seven times a day, yet all this prayer and all this seriousness, I afterwards found proceeded from no higher principle than self-love. The avoiding of misery and the obtaining of happiness were the sum of my motives."
To obtain the desired relief he read the promises particularly, "Ask and and ye shall receive," "seek and ye shall find." Bet here a formidable objection presented itself. "I cannot," said he to himself, "ask without pure motives, my seeking must have something morally good in it, as humility, love of God, love to holiness, faith in Christ, etc. etc.; but my heart is carnal, is enmity against God, is not subject to his law, neither indeed can be. Therefore my prayers cannot be acceptable, but must be an abomination to the Lord." These and similar discoveries convinced him that the sinful manner of his religious performances was of itself a sufficient ground for his eternal condemnation. This conviction so discouraged him that he was almost ready to give up all, and risk the consequences. Still, however, the thought occurred to him, "Our God is a consuming fire, who can dwell with everlasting burnings?" And thus alarmed, he could not rest without continuing in the use of the means of grace.
Under these agitations he became more and more convinced that such obedience as his could not be acceptable to God, that he could not do anything to recommend himself to the divine favor, and that salvation must be a sovereign act of divine power.
The necessity of his having a new heart and a new nature, before he could ever come to God in the name of Christ, was also strongly impressed up his mind. For this he sought and most earnestly prayed, but instead of becoming better prepared for coming to Christ, he appeared to himself to be more and more unprepared. "I found," says he, "the longer sin remained in my heart the deeper root it took, and the more deeply affected all the mental powers." He appears, in fact, to have been in that state described by the apostle, Rom. vii. 8-11.
Still, however, he thought he could not come to Christ without some price in his hand. Of coming to Christ without money and without price he had no conception. Having become depraved and sinful before he was condemned, he supposed that something of spiritual life and moral rectitude, though it should be bestowed by another, must be possessed before he could come to Christ as the way, the truth and the life. Thus he labored in the fire, seeking after some preparatory qualification, till he had nearly sunk into a state of despair. At length, either by some instructions received, or by the reflections of his own mind, be was brought to the full conviction, that he must come to Christ just as he was, empty and condemned, without anything to recommend him to the divine favor arising from anything wrought in him or done by him.
He was at the same time greatly distressed on account of the corruption of his nature. Original sin, as explained in the IX Article of the church of England, was felt by him and seen by him in all its force and all its malignity. It was seen and felt by him to be the root of all actual transgression, and of itself a sufficient ground of eternal condemnation.
About the same time he became thoroughly convinced that if ever he were saved, he could be saved only by the free and sovereign grace of God. Hence, also, he became fully established in the doctrine of par-particular election, knowing of no other doctrine that could preserve him from despair. He learned the doctrine from no author, but from his own experience and the Bible. "And indeed," says he, "I cannot find to this day how any rationally convinced sinner can find any ground of encouragement in the use of the means of grace from any other doctrine. But by this doctrine I do not mean, that if we are elected we shall be saved, let us do as we will, or if we are not elected, we shall be lost let us do as we will; but I mean that God has decreed to effect salvation in the use of certain means, that he has put these means in our hands, and in the use of these means we are encouraged to hope in his sovereign mercy."
From this view of things, he was encouraged to continue in the use of the means, though sometimes, through the depravity of human nature, he became remiss and negligent.
There was a something in the means of grace, which made them always an object of his desire, though the degree of this desire was extremely fluctuating. At one time it was remarkably strong, at another time it just existed, so that he could not refrain from using them. So high a value did he put on sermons and sacramental occasions, that he frequently rose early on the Sabbath morning, baked himself a cake, which he took with him, and walked twelve or fifteen miles to the place of worship, and sometimes returned on the same day. A spirit of prayer was generally enjoyed by him at this time to a considerable degree. He prayed before, and prayed after, and prayed while he was hearing for God's blessing on his own truths, and his own ordinances. He went to meeting sometimes walking, and sometimes running, frequently praying as he went. Thus he went on for upwards of a year or eighteen months. Sometimes attending upon the public and private means of grace with a great deal of fervor, and at other times with a great deal of languor, and with something like indifference, till at length, in holy and good providence, he went to hear the Rev. Samuel Davies, whose ministry he had frequently attended without having received from it any special or direct benefit.
In this sermon however that man of God pointed out to him the road he had been traveling with more clearness than he could have done himself, and at the same time showed him the great danger to which he was exposed. "When Satan," said the preacher, "cannot induce men to renounce religion entirely and forever, he will lead them on step by step, supported by their own resolutions, until the thread of life break, and they drop into eternal ruin."
This description sunk into his very heart. "I knew it,: says he, "to be true history, and believed the dreadful consequences as pointed out would most assuredly follow. This brought me to a sad dilemma -- whether I should persevere or give it over forever. But the thought would regurn again and again.
Finally, I resolved to persevere in seeking; and if I perished I would perish on my knees.
[1] The birthdate on his headstone, which is located at the Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Danville, Kentucky, is 20 December 1733.
Labels: Rice, Virginia
Justin Richard Colby, His Many Wives and a Surprise
Justin Richard Colby was born on 11 September 1882 to Jeddiah "Jed" Colby and Evaline Stephenson. Some time around 1906 he began a relationship with or married Florence (Farwell) Hamlin, daughter of Thomas Farwell and Warrnetta Kronk. She was 12 years his senior and a widow with six children by previous husband, Albert Hamlin.
In 1910 Justin and Florence lived in Chicago. With them were their three oldest children and Florence's four youngest children from her first marriage. By 1918 Justin and his family, which now included four children of his own, lived in Detroit, Michigan. In 1920 his family lived with his brother-in-law, sister, and their children.
Justin and Florence must have broken up because on 28 May 1925 he married Pauline (Sinor/Shenor) Blum Dodge in Highland Park, Michigan. She said she had been married two times previously and Justin said he had never been married. Pauline immigrated from Bohemia, which was part of the Austrian Empire as a young girl. This marriage didn't last long. Pauline was awarded a divorce on 10 November 1926 for "extreme and repeated cruelty and non-support. But Justin had already married again. On 16 April 1926 he wed Florence Aetna (McElwain) Ball in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.[1] So for the first seven months of their marriage Justin was a bigamist. At the time of this marriage, Justin lived in Chicago.
Pauline (Sinor/Shenor) Colby Divorce Record; image courtesy of Ancestry.com
In 1930 Justin and Florence lived in Pontiac, Michigan, with Justin's youngest son by the first Florence. This relationship did not last either. On 14 September 1939 Justin was in Gate City, Virginia, marrying 36-year-old widow, Millie Virginia (Hackler) Carter. When they married, Justin said he's been married two times previously. Like his other relationships, this one was destined to be short. Minnie was granted an absolute divorce on 1 August 1939 because Justin had deserted her.
When the 1940 census was enumerated Justin was married yet again to Edith Sheets, daughter of George Washington Sheets and Esther May Canbler. and lived in Pontiac. He died on 5 April 1945 in Pontiac. But this tale of the oft-married Justin Colby had one more twist...
On October 1945, barely six month's after Justin's death, Edith married his eldest son, Jeddiah Richard Colby, who was about 16 years her junior. This marriage record had me shaking my head. It's not every day you find a woman marrying her step-son.
[1] Florence Aetna McElwain was the daughter of Hiram McElwain and Mary A. Palmer.
Florence (Farwell) Hamlin Colby died in 1948 in Lincoln Park, Michigan
Pauline (Sinor or Shenor) Bllum Dodge Colby Rhead died in 1960 and was interred in Napoleon, Michigan.
Florence Aetna (McElwain) Ball Colby died in 1968 in Ashland, Ohio.
Millie Virginia (Hackler) Carter Colby Stacy died in 1987 in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Edith (Sheets) was born about about 1889 or 1890; I do not know when she died.
Justin Richard Colby is not related to me. Millie Virginia (Hackler) Carter Colby Stacy was the wife of a third cousin once removed of my cousin's husband.
Labels: Illinois, Michigan, Virginia
Nancy (Mitchell) Wilson or Nancy (Mitchell) Raines?
My father and his older brother married sisters. My aunt and uncle's children, my siblings, and I are double first cousins and share the same four grandparents. When they graciously agreed to DNA test, the company threw in the towel and merely labeled our predicted relationship as close family. But one of my double first cousins had a DNA match that the rest of us did not share. The common shared ancestor was our five times great grandfather, Robert Mitchell (1714-1799).[1]
I'm fortunate to know more about Robert Mitchell than is typical because several of his supposedly 13 children became prominent or well-known in their time, including my four times great grandfather, Rev. James Mitchell (1747-1841). However, those 13 children have caused issues in my family tree as I have Robert Mitchell and his wife, Mary Enos, with 15 children.
One of Robert Mitchell's confirmed sons, Stephen Mitchell (1749-c1806), married Katurah "Kitty" Wade and had eleven known children, the eldest being Nancy Mitchell. During a trip to the Bedford County courthouse, I found a marriage record for a Nancy Mitchell, who married a William Wilson. I assumed it was "my" Nancy Mitchell because Stephen Mitchell (father) provided the surety and she was married by Rev. James Mitchell (uncle). I could find no trace of Nancy and her husband after their marriage on 26 January 1802.
However, this new DNA match had a different marriage date and husband for Stephen Mitchell's daughter, Nancy -- a Benjamin Rains. Which husband was correct?
I renewed my search for William and Nancy (Mitchell) Wilson and Benjamin and Nancy (Mitchell) Rains and finally found a possible hint, which was a Find A Grave memorial for Nancy (Mitchell) Wilson.
The footstone of Nancy (Mitchell) Wilson's grave, indicating she was the
daughter of a Revolutionary War soldier; photograph courtesy of Marc Doty
The memorial page also included a reference to a book entitled The History of Hendricks County. On page 632 there was a biographical sketch about William Wilson and Nancy Mitchell:
William Wilson Family
"Early in the summer of 1835 William Wilson and his wife, Nancy Mitchell Wilson, and three of his married daughters, their husbands and families formed a colony of about 25 people who moved from Bedford County, Virginia, to Hendricks County, Indiana, and settled in what is now known as the White Lick neighborhood.
William Wilson and Nancy Mitchell were married on July 24, 1802, according to a certified document in the clerk's office at Bedford, Virginia. She was the daughter of Stephen and Katurah Wade Mitchell, who were married on March 18, 1783.
Nancy's father, Stephen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was the son of Robert Mitchell of Bedford County, Virginia, as evidenced in Will Record "B" of Bedford County Records.
Stephen Mitchell enlisted on December 26, 1776, as a private in the 14th Battalion of the Continental Regulars, commanded by Capt. George Lambert, who later rose to the rank of colonel. Later, Stephen became a sergeant and was honorably discharged on December 26, 1777. Col. Lambert's unit was part of Big. Gen. Weeden's brigade, which was part of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Green's army, which was part of Gen. George Washington's Continental Army in 1777.
William and Nancy Mitchell Wilson were parents of:
Katurah Wilson (b. 1804) did not come with her parents to Indiana
Elizabeth (b. 1806) married Stephen Hylton[2]
Patsy (b. 1808) married William Worrell
Stephen (b. 1811) married Margaret McKinzie
Polly (b. 1813) married Nathaniel Hylton
Eleander (b. 1815) married Charles Larsh
Celicia (b. 1817) married Isaac Nash
Lucinda married Isaiah Free
Theressa was born in 1832
Alexander Wilson (b. 1825)
In 1837, William Wilson purchased 80 acres of land east of the present site of the White Lick church. Three sons-in-law -- Stephen Hylton[2], husband of Elizabeth Wilson; Nathaniel Hylton, husband of Polly Wilson; and William Worrell, who married Patsy Wilson -- purchased land in the immediate vicinity.
The younger children of William and Nancy Wilson married after the family moved to Indiana. The marriage records of Hendricks County show that in 1841 Celicia Wilson and Isaac Nash were married; in 1842, Eleander Wilson and Charles Larsh were married; and in 1845, Lucinda Wilson and Isaiah Free were married.
Celicia and Isaac Nash established their home a few miles north of Brownsburg, Indiana, and reared a family of five sons and three daughters. The old homestead still remains in the possession of the Nash descendants.
Eleander and Charles Larsh moved to Marion County and Lucinda and Isaiah Free moved to Iowa.
Stephen Wilson, the only son to reach manhood, married Margaret McKinzie in 1831. Their daughter, Jane, was the last one of her family to bear the Wilson name. Her son, Thomas Legrand Harris, of Greencastle, Indiana, knows much of the family history.
In the White Lick Cemetery, which was originally the Wilson Cemetery, are gravestones recording the early deaths of many of the family. Some were victims of cholera and other diseases which swept central Indiana in 1840-1842. Two of William Wilson's sons, John and Alexander, died in 1840; Nathaniel Hylton died in 1841, Nathaniel's brother, Samuel, in 1842, leaving young widows and orphaned children. William and Nancy Wilson, William Worrell and Patsy, Samuel and Elizabeth Hylton, children and grandchildren are buried there."
While this is secondary evidence, at best, that my tree is correct, I am satisfied until my next research trip to Bedford County.
[1] Robert Mitchell is the common shared ancestor according to Ancestry.com and my paper trail. However, the common shared ancestor could be a branch of my family tree I know nothing about.
[2] Stephen Hylton is incorrect; the hustand of Elizabeth Wilson was Samuel Hylton. The article uses the incorrect name initially and then changes Elizabeth's husband's given name to Samuel later in the article. Only Samuel Hylton was interred in the White Lick Presbyterian Cemetery
Robert Mitchell, the Elder
Labels: Indiana, Mitchell, Virginia
Worldwide Genealogy: Registering Your U.S. WWII Solider
On 11 November we in the United States celebrated Veterans Day, which was originally called Armistice Day. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed 11 November 1919 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day when he said, "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with great gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations..." The U.S. Congress created Armistice Day as a national holiday on 4 June 1926. The name of the day of commemoration was changed to Veterans Day in 1954.
In my bi-monthly post for Worldwide Genealogy -- A Genealogical Collaboration, I detail how you can commemorate your U.S. World War II ancestor at the National World War II Memorial in Washington and the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
World War II Memorial in Washington, District of Columbia; courtesy of
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House Fire Reveals a Terrible Horror
The skies were cloudy and spitting a light rain on 12 January 1950 in Hammond, Indiana, when firemen responded to an early morning alarm on the southeast side of town. Inside a fire-swept bungalow were the bodies of four adults and two children. The deputy coroner, B. W. Tidlaw, told the press there was evidence of a murder suicide and "blood was all over the place." According to the Decatur Daily Review, Tidlaw revealed machinist Felix Samas, 33, killed himself and apparently killed his wife, Kathryn, 26, and their two children, Felix Jr., 4, and 18-month-old Phyllis Elaine; and two roomers, Richard Norman, 23, and his bride, Shirley, 18.
Kathryn Coleman before her marriage; courtesy
of Ancestry.com member neonscarf
The bodies of Samas, his wife, and the children were found in one bedroom. The bodies of the Normans were found in a second bedroom. It was believed the murders were committed with a small caliber pistol and some butcher knives. The Normans and Mrs. Samas were stabbed and shot. In addition, Mrs. Samas had been beaten over the head and a portion of the butt of a .22-caliber pistol was found embedded in her head. The children were shot through the head.
Further investigation revealed the couple was estranged and Mrs. Samas was seeking a divorce. Felix lived Chicago and a 7-page letter written in red ink told the embittered husband's side of the story. The 13 January 1950 edition of the Terre Haute Tribune quoted from the letter in an article on page 17:
"I married my wife, Kathryn, while both of us were under the influence of liquor. She was 13...I want custody of my son, as I believe she is an unfit mother. We have a girl who is one year old. I don't want custody as I don't believe it is mine. I also want the baby and I to have a blood type to see if it is possible that I am the father....She claims I am violent, etc. -- This is for one reason only -- she thinks by having the police after me continuously I will not try to see my son, but judge gave me permission to see my son at our divorce hearing.
Terre Haute Tribune 13 January 1950 edition, page 17; courtesy of
Samas wrote that his wife had once been fined and put on probation for attacking her sister with a butcher knife. "I would like this incident brought out in court to show that my wife is the violent one and not I...I hired a housekeeper to help with the housework and Kathryn, my wife, would never take an interest in our family life any more...she liked the popularity of being the boss of the restaurant...Also I have always done the washing and the ironing."
Felix, Kathryn, Felix, Jr., and Phyllis were interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Hammond.
Felix Joseph Samas was born on 24 June 1917 to Justin Samas and Elizabeth Marie (Samas) Samas in Chicago Heights, Illinois. His parents were Lithuanian immigrants who were from the same home town in Lithuania and were probably cousins. Kathryn (Coleman) Samas was the daughter of George Coleman and Ollie May Woods and was born in Du Quin, Illinois. She and Felix married on 17 August 1941 in Cape Giradeau, Missouri. They lived in Hammond after Felix completed his Army service during World War II and owned a lunch counter-type restaurant, which Kathryn managed.
Felix Joseph Samas was the brother-in-law of first cousin twice removed, Bernice "Bea" Marie (Muir) Samas, who married Alexander Francis Samas about three years before this tragedy occurred.
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William Joseph Parker (1904-1938): Bigamist Came to a Tragic End
Idella Scott Franklin married William Joseph Parker on 20 April 1928 in Hopewell, Virginia. They separated on 9 February 1931 and Idella was granted an absolute divorce decree on 30 March 1938 by the Richmond City Circuit Court. They had no children. The reason Idella sued for the divorce was desertion and bigamy.
The back of the divorce decree had the following handwritten information:
Idella Scott Franklin Parker and William Joseph Parker divorce decree;
courtesy of Ancestry.com
"This man was indicted in Pennsylvania on complaint from his wife for having married another woman in 1931 in Elkton, Maryland, and is also wanted in Maryland to answer charges there. This marriage took place after the desertion from the first wife."
Twelve days later William was dead. According to his death certificate, hee committed suicide by drinking ink solvent in Berks Prison.
William Joseph Parker obituary as published in
the Richmond Times-Dispatch on 14 April 1938;
courtesy of the Library of Virginia
William's parents were Joseph John Parker and Magnolia "Nolia" Melison Clayton. He was born in Belhaven, North Carolina, on 15 May 1904.
He was also married to Marian Ulshafer, daughter of Ralph Ulshafer and Rose Kirk. She was born on 3 October 1910 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She and William had one son. Was this the marriage that took place in Elkton, Maryland?
I have assumed he was in prison because he had been arrested for bigamy. Was that the reason he committed suicide?
Idella Scott Franklin was my third cousin once removed. We both descend from John W. Jennings, Sr. (1776-1858). John W. Jennings, Sr. >> John William Jennings, Jr. >> John Arias Jennings >> Maude Florence Jennings >> Idella Scott Franklin
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Labels: Jennings, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Early-Muir Marriages: Andrew Airlie (1877-1944) and Martha Muir (1876-1961)
Three children of my three times great uncle, Robert Orr Muir (1839-1917), married siblings. Andrew Airlie[1] and Martha Muir were the last of the three pairs of siblings to marry.
The Early-Muir marriages; created using Microsoft PowerPoint
Martha Muir was born on 12 April 1876 in Lesmagahow Parish in Lanarkshire, Scotland, to Robert Orr Muir and his second wife, MaryWatson Shaw. The birth occurred at her parent's home on Shoulderigg Road in the Coalburn area of the parish. Her father was a coal minter.
When the 1881 census was enumerated, the family still lived on Shouldrigg Road. The three living children from Robert Orr Muir's first marriage lived with their parents and several children from Robert's second marriage, but Martha was not listed with the family. By 1891 Robert had moved his family to Bathgate Parish, in West Lothian. He continued to work as a coal miner. Martha was 14 years old had finished her schooling and worked as a dress maker. By 1901, Martha worked as a domestic in the home of Robert Rutherford, a wholesale grocer, in Edinburgh.
She married Andrew Airlie on 27 December 1901in Gatashiels, a town in Bathgate Parish. Andrew was the son of Ralph Early and Catherine McNair White. He was a year younger than Martha, worked as a coal miner, and lived in Coalburn -- where Martha was born. They were married according to the forms of the United Free Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the unification of several denominations which had broken away from the national church after the Schism of 1843.
Martha had their first son, Alexander, on 3 August 1903 in Coalburn. Nearly a year later, on 21 May 1904, the family left for Nova Scotia aboard the Allan Line's SS Mongolian. Their destination was Sydney in the Cape Breton area of Nova Scotia. The province was Canada's foremost producer of coal from 1827 until 1945, according to the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry.
Coal pier in Sydney, Nova Scotia, circa 1900; courtesy of Wikipedia
Their second son, Robert Orr Muir Airlie, was born on 8 June 1905 in New Aberdeen, Nova Scotia. The neighborhood developed in the latter part of the 19th century to house workers at the Number 20, or Dominion Number 2 coal mine. The mine was owned by the Dominion Steel and Coal Company.
They returned to Scotland by 1906 and rented a house in Bridgend, which was located in Bathgate. Their third child, Andrew Airlie was born on 23 April 1907at that location. He died on 16 April 1908 of food poisoning.
Their youngest child, Mary Watson Shaw Airlie, was born on 31 August 1910 at Smith's Buildings in Bridgend. The family lived at the same location when the 1911 census was taken. However, in 1915 they had moved to 16 Tinto View Terrace in Coalburn.
By 1920 the family was back in West Lothian and lived at 10 George Terrace in the Blackburn area of Whitburn Parish. They remained at there until they moved to their final address, 36 Redmill, in the same parish by 1930.
Andrew remained a coal miner the rest of his life and died suddenly on 4 July 1944 at his home of a supposed heart attack. His widow, Martha (Muir) Airlie lived another 17 years, dying on 15 April 1961 in Coalburn. She had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage a month earlier. Her son-in-law, Archibald Naismith, was present at the time of her death and registered it with parish authorities.
Alexander Airlie, born 3 August 1903 in Coalburn, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire; death date and location unknown; married Jane O'Rorke, daughter of James O'Rorke and Anne Keirnan, on 31 December 1925 in Whitburn, West Lothian
Robert Orr Muir Airlie, born 8 June 1905 in New Aberdeen, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 23 April 1981 in Hollywood, Florida; married 1) his second cousin, Annie Lee Muir, daughter of Robert Muir and Annie Robertson Lee, on 3 October 1930 in Finleyville, Pennsylvania, and 2) Mary Madeline (White) Kenny, on 14 April 1979
Andrew Airlie, born 23 April 1907 in Bathgate, West Lothian; died 16 August 1908 in Bathgate
Mary Watson Shaw Airlie, born 31 August 1910 in Bathgate; died 3 June 1986 in Coalburn, Lanarkshire; married Archibald "Archie" Gray Naismith, a son of George Naismith and Margaret Taylor, on 29 March 1952 in Whitburn, West Lothian. Neither had been married previously
[1] The Airlie surname was spelled in a variety of ways in the records on ScotlandsPeople, including Airley, Earlie, Early, and Earley. Andrew's surname was spelled Early on his birth registration but he changed it to Airlie and all his children followed suit.
Early-Muir Marriages: Ralph Early (1863-1909) and Elizabeth Hamilton Muir (1867-1902)
Early-Muir Marriages: Robert Muir (1863-1927) and Janet Early (1868-1939)
Immigration Redux
Labels: Muir, Nova Scotia, Scotland
River House: House Plan
"Where we love is home -- home that our feet may leave but not our hearts."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Dad was a mechanical engineer by degree who worked at an architecture and engineering firm and then with a manufacturers' representative company, designing commercial heating, air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC) systems and selling the equipment. He and Mom were inveterate remodelers of every house in which they lived. (I got those genes.) They designed their last two houses, which they built; and Dad did most of the construction of their house on Dawson's Creek. Some of my fondest memories of Mom are sitting with her at the kitchen table and looking at house plan books. Building a custom home is a project I anticipate eagerly.
After I retired in 2015, Pete and I decided it was time to move to New Bern. He was commuting by plane every week to Albany, New York, and figured it didn't matter where home was. So I started looking at house plans in earnest...And missing Mom’s opinions. We knew we wanted the house to designed in the Southern vernacular -- wide porches, transom windows, high ceilings, metal roof and board and batten siding.
After looking at several plans seriously, we selected a mash-up of three different house plans by the same company, it will look something like this:
Modern Farmhouse Plan with Front-loading garage; courtesy of Architectural
The three different plans were:
51754HZ -- this was the plan I saw first. We took the foyer, great room, kitchen/dining area and front porch from this plan
51758HZ -- this was the smallest variation of the plan and we used it for the guest bedrooms
51781HZ -- we took the garage/master bedroom wing from this plan
All the plans were created by House Plan Zone in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I worked with Rachel, a great architect, who was able to turn this mess into a wonderful plan that will be just perfect for us.
The three house plans "mashed-up"; personal collection
Open floor plans are all the rage and there are several benefits, such as improved traffic flow and shared light but they also come with downsides. Two, I knew, would drive me crazy:
Spaces can appear cluttered
Lack of privacy
Reducing Clutter Opportunities
I cannot stand clutter; it makes me uncomfortable. I cook about four nights a week and when I do Pete and I share a bottle of wine. After one or two glasses of wine, I do not feel like hand washing my pots, pans, and cooking utensils. So they sit on the kitchen counter or in the sink until the next morning. I wash them after my morning cup of coffee. In this floor plan, those dirty dishes would be visible from many places in our home. Who wants that? So I extended the pantry two feet and added a sink under the window. The dirty dishes will be hand washed in the pantry sink and will be out of the way until I get to them.
Extending built-in cabinets in the great room to the wall is another tactic in my war against clutter, but the most ingenious tactic is a message center. This is built-in cabinet near the door we use most often that houses a wastebasket, phone chargers, and a place for mail. I'm hopeful this will reduce the amount of paper clutter that seems to trail Pete around the house. The mail center is an idea I discovered in Sarah Susanka's Not So Big House.
Creating Private Space
In open plans people crave space that offers privacy from the socializing and noise of other people. Sarah Susanka calls it an "away room." It's an idea that resonated with both Pete and me as we both like our alone time. We felt we didn't need a formal dining space as it doesn't suit our style of entertaining. So we created our "away room," or den, from the open space that used to be the dining room. We plan to watch television after dinner in this room so we needed storage space for electronic equipment and those pesky DVDs we still own. Again, built-in cabinets solved those storage problems.
Taking Advantage of the View
The plan mash-up also enabled us to have a large screen porch overlooking the river. But some other changes allowed us to take full advantage of this view.
Pete overlooking his new "domain;" personal collection
We flipped the location of the upstairs Bonus Room. In North Carolina these rooms are often called FROGs -- Free, or Flex, Room Over Garage. So we don't have a FROG anymore; we have a FROM! We plan to use this room as an office. Pete will be able to gaze out at the river while he pays bills. This idea was an excellent one and came from our builder during our initial meeting to review the plan and talk about next steps.
Flipping the Bonus Room so it has a
view of the river; created using
The one thing that really bothered me about the house plan was our master bedroom. The view wall was also the only wall on which the bed could be placed, which meant you couldn't see the river from the bed. It took me months to solve that problem. All it took was moving the bathroom door. It certainly wasn't a big change, but it has a major impact! I have no idea why it took me so long to figure it out.
Modifications to Master Bedroom and Bath to accommodate a large bank
of windows so we can see the river from two sides of the house;
created using Microsoft PowerPoint
The last big change was mirroring, or flipping, the house plan to take advantage of the down river view, which is slightly better than up river. You can see the final version of the plan (above right) includes a bank of four windows, which will overlook the river. The triple bank of windows will have this view:
View down the Neuse River toward the Pamlico Sound; photographed by
Ted Jennings
Thanks to my brother, Ted, for stopping by the lot and helping us decide which view we wanted from our bedroom!
River House: The Lot
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The Virginia Conservative
Liberty With Responsibility!
Posted on October 8, 2012 by Joshua
Romney vs. Quincy Adams
Today, at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney offered his thoughts regarding U.S. foreign policy. The full text of his speech can be found here, but to follow is an excerpt:
The greater tragedy of it all is that we are missing an historic opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the Middle East—friends who are fighting for their own futures against the very same violent extremists, and evil tyrants, and angry mobs who seek to harm us. Unfortunately, so many of these people who could be our friends feel that our President is indifferent to their quest for freedom and dignity. As one Syrian woman put it, ‘We will not forget that you forgot about us.’…
…I will restore the permanent presence of aircraft carrier task forces in both the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf region—and work with Israel to increase our military assistance and coordination.
Now compare these ideas with those of John Quincy Adams, our 6th President. While serving as Secretary of State, on July 4th 1821, he said the following:
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America’s] heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But, she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator of her own.
Quite a difference of opinion, don’t you think? Both seek to remake the world, but while Adams calls for a policy of peace and leading through example, Romney’s plan will invariably lead to bloodshed and is a call for either direct or covert military action, overthrowing regimes and installing ones more friendly to the United States and her ideals.
It wasn’t too long ago when both those on the left and those on the right would have rejected Romney’s plan of action and instead have embraced the reasoning of Quincy Adams. As recently as the presidency of Bill Clinton, Republicans condemned the president’s military adventurism in the former Yugoslavia due to the fact that the conflict in no way threatened the security of the United States or her citizens. In fact, the Kosovo Liberation Army, the group the United States supported in the conflict, had previously been declared a terrorist organization. But the “isolationist” line of thinking of people like John Quincy Adams and the GOP ought to have changed after the attacks of 9-11, right?
In order to answer that question, we must ask another; what motivated the airline hijackings on 9/11? Was it due to a rejection of our supposedly decadent American lifestyles and immorality? Perhaps it was…in some small part. But, if that reasoning alone was sufficient, why attack the United States? Aren’t there a variety of “evil” countries closer to the Middle East that could have served as a target just as easily? Could it be that there might be additional reasons?
It seems that a considerable number of Americans have little to no knowledge of Middle Eastern history prior to the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 to 1981. However, if we turn back the clock several decades, we find a prime example of when the United States interfered in the internal affairs of a Middle Eastern nation with unfortunate results. Back in the 1950s, Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran sought to wrest control of Iran’s oil fields from the British. In response, the British and the United States governments teamed up to launch a coup against Mosaddegh and propped up the Shah, a man who many Iranians came to view as an increasingly brutal dictator and an unwelcome westernization of their nation. His overthrow in early 1979 led to the Islamic state, which now rules in Iran and remains hostile to the United States and her allies, as well as leading to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. I am also certain these actions taken in Iran by the United States helped fuel the hatred and actions of the hijackers on 9/11.
Now I know what you are thinking, two wrongs don’t make a right. And, of course, I agree. Regardless of any U.S. foreign policy, the 9/11 hijackers were in no way justified in their actions and ought to be condemned by every civilized people. But, if two wrongs don’t make a right, shouldn’t we also agree that three wrongs don’t make a right either? Doesn’t Romney’s plan repeat the mistakes we made in Iran? If we wouldn’t appreciate a foreign nation either overthrowing our leaders or propping up our despots, what makes us think that some other group of people would? And isn’t it also possible that if we overthrow either the government of Syria or Iran such an action could lead to blowback that is far greater than what we have seen?
We seem to have forgotten that the primary purpose of both the United States government and its military is to protect the lives, liberties, and property of American citizens. It is not intended to dole out taxpayer money to foreign governments, install puppet regimes, or promote the horribly misguided Wilsonian idea of “making the world safe for democracy.” Should we ask our soldiers to give up their lives in order to promote governments that very well might have ties to the same ideology and people who attacked us on 9/11?
Therefore, we must reject any foreign policy that deviates from the limitations imposed by the Constitution. Although it might be interesting to speculate how our government could mold a better world, we have seen far too many domestic failings of the feds first-hand through bailouts, subsidies, regulations, and overburdensome security at our airports. What would make us think that the rest of the world would either desire or appreciate the same treatment? As bad a leader as many of us think Barack Obama is, what would your reaction be if the Iranian government removed him from power and gave us a new president?
Haven’t we learned that we can no longer afford a neo-conservative foreign policy? More importantly, doesn’t stumbling down this path foster greater hatred of the United States and, in the long run, make us less safe? Don’t you think that it time to return to the wisdom of men like John Quincy Adams?
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Tipperary’s Cáit Devane ‘anxious to make the next step’ this Saturday
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The Tipperary camogie team will be looking to reach a first All-Ireland final in 14 years this weekend.
They face reigning champions Galway on Saturday in the All-Ireland Semi-Final.
The game throws-in at 2.15 in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
After losing two semi-finals in the past two years, Tipp forward Cait Devane is hoping they can take the next step an reach this year’s final:
“We’re anxious to make that next step and break into the top three of Cork, Kilkenny and Galway.
“That’s definitely our goal looking at the weekend.
“Galway are going to pose a massive challenge for us but when you’re playing in an All-Ireland semi-final you know the team you’re going to be playing are very good.
“They’re the matches you want to be playing in and preparing for and challenging yourself.
“We’re all really looking forward to the challenge and to hopefully take the next step in Tipperary camogie.”
We’ll have live commentary of that game here on Tipp FM with thanks to Daybreak, Woodview Service Station, Mitchelstown Rd, Cahir.
All Ireland semi-final
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Have They Miscast The Hunger Games?
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen (Lionsgate)
Warning spoilers and persnickety comments below:
Admittedly, I'm being a shallow fan-girl. Please feel free to call me on it. It's just my opinion.
The popular novel The Hunger Games was destined to be a movie. Written by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is a young adult science fiction book about the brutal and post-apocalyptic world of 16-year old Katniss Everdeen. Think, The Running Man meets The Most Dangerous Game with teenagers.
Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: First Class
Now for the matter at hand, has Jennifer Lawrence been miscast in this role? 20-year old Jennifer Lawrence is best known for her roles in X-Men: First Class and in her Oscar-nominated role, Winter's Bone. So there's no doubt that Jennifer is a super-talented glamazon. As such, she's a natural fit for most roles, but has she been miscast as the starving, yet strong, Katniss Everdeen?
I don't care about hair color as that can be easily changed, but the novel depicts Katniss with a much smaller frame, as the people of her district are not well-fed and are frequently near starvation. Even though Katniss is an avid hunter, she is no stranger to hunger. On the other hand, the career tributes (Katniss' other opponents in the Hunger Games) are well-fed, athletic, and tall, very similar to Jennifer. The whole point of the novel was that there was this stark difference in health and livelihood in the different districts. Jennifer is absolutely stunning and healthy in every way, but is she right for the role of the diminutive Katniss Everdeen?
Josh Hutcherson as Peeta
Likewise, have Josh Hutcherson (Peeta) and Liam Hemsworth (Gale) been miscast? Liam is well over six feet tall, similar to the other Hemsworth brothers. Liam's most famous brother is Chris Hemsworth, best known for his role as Thor. Josh is a respectable 5'-7", which is fine. Five-feet seven inches is the height of the average American male, but should there be this much of a physical difference between the characters? Also, as a baker's son, Peeta was well-built and well-fed. Personally, I think Jennifer's X-Men co-star, Nicholas Hoult (see below) would have been a much better choice for Peeta.
Liam Hemsworth as Gale (left) next to Chris Hemsworth
Nicholas Hoult would have made a great Peeta
Overall I'm still looking forward to this movie, but I really hope they don't Twilight-it-up. No more Edward versus Jacob tomfoolery. Please...please...please, don't mess w/ the game. The Hunger Games is currently being filmed in the mountains of North Carolina and will hit theaters March 23, 2012.
In case you haven't heard of it, The Hunger Games was originally released in 2008 and is about the annual event called the Hunger Games. Yes, this story has been done before, but the reason The Hunger Games is unique is because it involves children between the ages of 12 to 18. Despite being a young adult book, it's exceptional and recommended for all ages.
The Hunger Games were created by the cruel rulers in the Capitol called Panem. Panem rules the other 12 districts with an iron hand and demands that the districts send them two tributes: one boy and one girl. Tributes from each district are then thrown into some form of nature preserve in which they are required to fight to the death. The Capitol is also able to control things in the preserve like weather. The games are of course televised for their own viewing pleasure.
Sylar Wednesday, August 24, 2011
nice post :P
ADB Thursday, August 25, 2011
She looks like a chic I lost my virginity to in High School, I think this is relevant:s
The Angry Lurker Thursday, August 25, 2011
Not sure yet, need more info and footage.
Unknown Thursday, August 25, 2011
That sounds very much like Battle Royale.
Alex J. Cavanaugh Thursday, August 25, 2011
She was great in Winter's Bone, but I thought she was miscast in the X-Men movie.
Jaccstev Thursday, August 25, 2011
Never read the novel so I don't know what to say about the cast before I watch the movie. But I think Jennifer Lawrence is one very potential actress.
nowaysj Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wait, why is a frog playing Peeta?
Kamatacci Thursday, August 25, 2011
I picked up the novel quite literally the day before a huge media blitz. I just wanted it because it's like Battle Royale and Stephan King likes it.
Also, it is impossible for Jennifer Lawrence to be miscast. She could play Gandhi and pull it off.
Justin Thursday, August 25, 2011
bleh some miscastings are horrid! but a tiny few work out.. just look at Leonardo DiCaprio :P
Andrew Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Hunger Games looks absolutely awesome....
msmariah Friday, August 26, 2011
Sylar-- Thanks a bunch.
Natural one-- Ha, then you have to see it.
Angry Lurker-- You're right of course. We do need info on it.
@Bonjour-- I need to read Battle Royale. I keep hearing about it.
@Alex-- She was great in Winter's Bone, but I'm with you. I thought she was miscast in X-Men and I think she's been miscast here. She may be the new 'it' girl but that doesn't mean she's a fit for everything.
@Jaccstev-- I agree. Jennifer Lawrence is incredible. I just don't know if she's right for this role.
Nowaysj-- Ha, I agree. I have no idea.
Kamatacci-- Ha, I like Jennifer as well, just not for this part.
Justin-- So true!
Andrew-- I think you'll like it.
Chip Lary Saturday, August 27, 2011
I completely agree with the miscasting. In addition to Lawrence's height, she is also too old. In this one she can get away with playing 16, but in the 2 sequels she'll be years older trying to play 17.
As you said, Peeta is supposed to be a big guy, big enough that he can hang with the Tributes. This is the worst miscasting of all. Maybe swap the two actor's roles.
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Respect and Reconciliation
A Sermon on Matthew 18: 15-20
There is a simple story I'd like to share with you this morning about respect and reconciliation written by an unknown author.
Once upon a time two brothers lived on the family farm with their father. Their father grew old in age and could no longer run the farm. So the father called his sons in and told them he was going to split the farm into two, one half for each brother, since he knew they work well together and will always be friends.
The brothers were delighted and worked joyously next to one another on their farms. Until one day they got into a big fight and stopped speaking to one another. Years went by and the silent grew between them. Then one day a carpenter came to the older brother's door asking for work. The brother replied, "Yes, I would like you to build a high fence around my property. Start down by the river where my little brother's property meets mine, and please build a very high fence I don't ever want to see my brother again!"
The eldest brother left the carpenter to work while he went into town for a while. When he got back he was shocked to see the carpenter had not built a fence at all! Instead the carpenter built bridge over the river connecting the two brothers' farms. In disbelief the older brother ran down to the bridge to get a good look at what the carpenter had done. While he was down at the bridge, the younger brother walked towards him. Then, the younger brother said in amazement, "After all the terrible things I have done to you, I cannot believe you built a bridge to welcome me back." And gave his big brother a huge hug.
The older brother, amazed at all that had happened, went back to his farmhouse to talk to the carpenter. He thanked the carpenter and asked him to stay. But the carpenter replied, "I'm sorry but I must be on my way, there are many other bridges that need to be built."
(Adapted from http://www.sermons4kids.com/)
Just like the brothers in this story, when conflict arises, our human inclination is to put up a wall, a barrier, or even a fence. We try to avoid the person, we don't want to see them or talk to them, and we often end up talking to everyone else but them about the problem. We put up emotional walls in hopes to not get hurt again. We put up walls in hopes to not feel guilty or shameful for what we have done. We put up walls in order to keep others out, yet we often find the walls can trap us in.
Instead of building walls, Jesus tells us to build bridges.
Instead of shutting others out, or talking behind their back, we are challenged to go talk to that person directly. To approach our brother or sister in Christ in person, face to face, and talk with them in a loving and respectful way, all in hopes of reconciliation�of restoration and healing of the relationship. We are to be genuine, honest, loving, and respectful. We are to build bridges instead of building walls.
Did you know that as Christians, we actually vow to do this? Yes, if we look back at our baptism liturgy, we'll see that one of our very own baptismal vows is to "respect the dignity of every human being" (BCP, 305). I ask, are we respecting the dignity of others if we shut them out? Start rumors about them? File our complaints with some else? Are we respecting the other's dignity if we build a wall instead of a bridge?
As the German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "We give dignity to each other by the way we listen to each other, in a spirit of trust and of dying to oneself so that the other may live, grow and give."
Now, this may be a forgotten concept for many of us; as we live and breathe in such an individualistic society where finding the "truth" and being "right" seems to be most important in any argument. Self preservation is too often top priority in times of conflict, but when studying Scripture we must be reminded of the Eastern mindset: emphasis lies on upholding the dignity of the other party, especially in times of trouble and conflict.
Think back to Jesus' first recorded miracle: turning water into wine. Now this was not just a party trick or a way to show off. Rather, Jesus turning water into wine was an act of saving the wedding party from shame and disgrace; a way of helping to "save face" or protect the bride and groom. Jesus acted as though the bride and groom were his family, his very own brother or sister, and wanted to protect them from public and societal shame. Jesus was respecting the dignity of the other in that time of crisis.
Today's Gospel reveals that Jesus wants us to behave the same way. Granted, we may not be able to turn water into wine, but we are to live in community and care for one another as though we are family; to live and to care as though we are one unit in which our actions affect one another. Our words and decisions impact one another.
Sometimes when living in community, we may hurt our brother or sister unintentionally. We bump into each other, we disagree, and conflict inevitably arises. But Christ teaches us that when those scenarios arise--and conflicts and disagreement will inevitably arise--Jesus teaches us to be honest, loving, and respectful to each other.
Today's Gospel passage is more than a simple Christian's code of conduct. Actually, many scholars refer to this passage as the "Rule of Christ" because it redefines the reasons for why we as Christians are to act. When we pay close attention to this passage we reveal that the goal of seeking the offender--our brother or sister--is for restoration and reconciliation of our relationships. The intent should not be to bash the other or to take friends to gang up on the offender. Rather, our mission is to approach the person who has harmed you in a loving and direct way. Expressing the truth in love while respecting the dignity of our brother or sister; and as Bonhoeffer says, to "listen to each other, in a spirit of trust and of dying to oneself"--all the while in hope for the relationship to be healed and restored.
Reflect on that for a minute. (pause) Quite the different mindset than trying to figure out the "truth" and who is "right", verses who is "wrong", huh? Remember Jesus invites us to build 'bridges' instead of 'walls.' Christ charges us to respect each other and reconcile our relationships. But we don't have to do this tough work alone.
God is in our midst. In our community, our conflict, our confrontation, God's presence is with us. Jesus says, "for where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."
This is our saving grace in today's Gospel; the promise and hope of God's presence with us. God is with us during times of disagreement, despair, destruction, and even and especially in times close to death.
May you be challenged and inspired to be a courageous Christian: to follow Christ's desire to respect the dignity of every human being, and seek reconciliation in our relationships--to build bridges instead of building walls.
�The Rev. Jessica T. Knowles
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Colin Hay – E-Mail Of The Day (The Lefsetz Letter)
by Colin Hay, March 29, 2011
E-Mail Of The Day
From The Lefsetz Letter | ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Subject: Credibility
My name’s Colin Hay. My good friend Michael Georgiades turned me on to your letters.
I was in Men At Work in the 80′s, and have been living in California for the last 20 years, making albums and touring across the land, as a solo performer primarily.
Your piece holds many truths and insights, into the still exciting world of making music.
Firstly, I am very lucky. I made some money with Men At Work, so I could put not only food on the table, but put together a proper home studio, in which to write and record. I then go out and play live and sell cds, and try and constantly build my audience. It’s working. In 1983, I played with Men At Work to 150,000 people at the US Festival. We broke up shortly thereafter. After a few years of swanning around, thinking I was quite important, and drinking for Scotland and Australia, I realized I was slowly doing myself in, with the single malts and guinness chasers. Occasionally I had noticed my steel string acoustic in the corner, mocking me with it’s eternal patience and optimism. Eventually I picked it up, and ran away to live in California, to start again. I have been gainfully self- employed ever since. I started playing acoustic shows in the late 80s and that’s what I’m still doing. My first show in Melbourne after MAW split attracted 4 people. At the present time I have a new disc called “Gathering Mercury” and am on tour in support of it. Now after a decade plus, my audience has built to a massive 900 people or so in New York City, or Philadelphia, or slightly less in charming Clayton, NC. It’s good work, rewarding, nourishing and funny. After the shows I sign cds. I like it. I meet all kinds of people for a minute or so. It’s important to me because when I got dropped by a major label, my live audience was all I had, apart from my self belief, to let me know I was on the correct path. They also, for the most part, let me be myself. And isn’t that what we all want at any given moment, to be who we are, and not who someone else wants us to be.
You are correct when you stress the importance of establishing a core audience, before you go in search of radio success. My old band had massive radio success and MTV exposure to the max, and when that went away, so did most of the audience. It’s like building a house with no foundations, you can’t.
Lately, I’ve had good organic TV success. I play at Largo in Hollywood, and Zach Braff had seen me there, many years ago, before he was in Scrubs. He brought down Bill Lawrence, who created the show, and he asked me why my songs weren’t being played on the radio. This was a question I had no answer for. He said he was going to use some of my songs in his show, which he did. It has increased awareness of my music considerably. I remain in their debt.
I was on Columbia Records with Men At Work and for one ill fated solo album. I was then offered a deal on MCA Records by a guy named Al Teller. That’s a whole other story, and not particularly interesting. The most exciting thing about being on that label was being dropped by them. The relief I felt was palpable. I felt like I was floating, like I’d gotten my life back. Turns out I had. Now I make my own albums and work with Compass Records, an independent label out of Nashville. Feels good.
I take your advice, and run my own race for the most part. I enjoy writing, recording and playing music for a living. Last year I was sound checking at the Birchmere in Virginia, a delightful venue, and I was filled with an inexplicable euphoria. Its intensity lasted a few seconds but it was powerful. A simple experience, the wait staff was setting up tables for the night, the sound crew were twiddling knobs, and I realized that I was exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing, and all was well in my world.
I go out on stage nightly by myself and attempt to entertain people for a couple of hours. It’s risky, but you’re right, there’s always more risks you can take. And, I’m not talking about repairing your own roof, (that didn’t go so well).
I did make a big splash, I did descend into obscurity, and alcoholism. But, my salvation was, and still is, artistic expression, and a vague quest to strip away and reveal something essential, which is seductive, and ever elusive.
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2015 Yamaha YZF-R1
Posted by john in Yamaha
The 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 is ready to beat Kawasaki’s latest 998cc-superbike H2 and Honda’s RC213V-S, which is still a prototype. Unveiled at the 2014 EICMA show in Italy, the 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 a new powertrain, electronics, chassis as well as a revamped look.
The 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 is powered by the same crossplane-crank, inline 4-cylinder engine as the predecessors, but with a larger bore and shorter stroke (79mm and 50.9mm vs 78mm and 52.2mm), plus larger intake and exhaust valves. Intake and exhaust ports have been reworked and the valve angle has been updated also. Yamaha hasn’t revealed power figures at the moment, but rumors say it will put out 200hp without ram-air and 82.9 ft-lbs of torque.
According to Yamaha, the 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 has new fuel injection system and features “two-directional 12-hole main injectors which direct their high pressure spray at the back of the two new large diameter intake valves.”
Overall, the new engine which dubbed as the CP4 engine is 9 pounds lighter than the previous model, and the crank is an inch and a half narrower than the old one.
The 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 features a six-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) that utilizes gyros and accelerometers. The IMU is able to establish R1’s lean angle, slide speed and pitching rate, and then communicates with the ECU to provide data and instantly adjusts the R1’s Yamaha’s powerful electronics package including a rear wheel Slide Control System (SCS), Front Lift Control system (LIF), Launch Control System (LQS), Traction Control System (TCS), Quick Shift System (QSS), and Yamaha Ride Control system (YRC) in order to achieve optimum performance with high levels of controllability. ABS system now comes with a Unified Braking System (UBS).
Other features include LED headlights, a TFT display, cast magnesium wheels, a new subframe made of magnesium, KYB fully-adjustable suspension front and rear, lightweight engine internals, large-capacity force-fed airbox, titanium 4-2-1 exhaust system, compact new LED headlights and an optional communication control unit (CCU). The 2015 Yamaha R1’s Deltabox frame and fuel tank now are composed of aluminum.
The 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 will be available in Yamaha Blue/White, Raven Black and Red/White color schemes, and it will retail for $16,490.
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