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Study: Sugary drinks linked to higher risk of premature death, especially for women
This entry was posted by johnh59 on April 3, 2019 at 11:08 pm
WASHINGTON — Frequent consumption of sugary drinks such as sodas, sports drinks and juice is linked to an increased risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease and, to a lesser extent, from cancer, according to new research.
Compared with women who had sugary beverages less than once per month, those who had more than two servings a day — defined as a standard glass, bottle or can — had a 63 percent increased risk of premature death, according to a study published Monday in the journal Circulation.
Men who did the same had a 29 percent increase in risk.
Those who consumed more than one sugary beverage per month but fewer than two per day seemed to experience a dose effect: The more they drank, the greater the risk.
The association weakened but remained true when researchers adjusted for lifestyle factors including dietary factors and physical activity, demographics and family history of Type 2 diabetes.
“There’s been previous studies that have shown strong and consistent links between the consumption of sweetened beverages and weight gain, Type 2 diabetes, as well as other cardiometabolic conditions such as heart disease and stroke,” said lead study author Vasanti Malik, a research scientist and adjunct lecturer in the Department of Nutrition in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The next step, Malik explains, was to examine how sugary beverages relate to the risk of premature death.
The researchers used data from 37,716 American men in the Health Professionals follow-up study — which started in 1986 — and 80,647 American women in the Nurses’ Health Study — which started in 1976. The results are a snapshot of the halfway point of the studies in 1994.
The main cause of premature death in the new research was cardiovascular disease, followed by cancer, primarily of the colon and breast, according to the study.
Overall, the consumption of sugary beverages was found to increase the risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease by 31 percent and from cancer by 18 percent when the group who drank more than two per day was compared with those who had fewer than one per month.
The researchers also examined the effects of artificially sweetened beverages, considered by many to be a safer alternative to sugary drinks.
Substituting one sugary beverage per day with an artificially sweetened one was found to lower the risk of premature death, but drinking four or more artificially sweetened beverages increased the risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease in women.
The same effect was not seen for men, and it was not seen for the risk of dying from cancer.
A similar study published last month based on the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-term national study, found an association between drinking two or more artificially sweetened beverages per day and an increase in the risk of strokes, heart attacks and premature deaths in women over 50.
Both studies indicate a link between artificially sweetened beverages and women’s risk of death, said Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who was author of last month’s study.
Exactly what is different about women that increases the association between consuming artificially sweetened beverages and the risk of dying prematurely, requires more research, Mossavar-Rahmani said.
Because it is observational, the new study cannot establish cause and effect, Malik said.
Robert Rankin, president of the Calorie Control Council, an organization representing the low- and reduced-calorie food and beverage industry, cautions against drawing conclusions from this and other observational studies.
“It is likely study subjects were already at a greater risk for these conditions and chose low-calorie sweetened beverages to manage their calorie and sugar intake, as these products are proven safe and beneficial for those managing their weight and blood glucose levels,” he said in a statement.
William Dermody Jr., a spokesman for the American Beverage Association, said in a statement that “Soft drinks, like all the beverages made by our industry, are safe to consume as part of a balanced diet.
“The sugar used in our beverages is the same as sugar used in other food products. We don’t think anyone should overconsume sugar, that’s why we’re working to reduce the sugar people consume from beverages across the country. … [L]ow- and no-calorie sweeteners have been repeatedly confirmed as safe by regulatory bodies around the world,” he added.
Given prior research on the effects of sugary drinks on weight gain, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, Malik said her team’s new findings provide further evidence that consumers should strive to cut back on their consumption.
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Faculty of Arts, Convocation
Dr. Marc Doucet receives the Stewart Medal for Excellence in Teaching
For the great impact he has had on his students in their current and future studies, and for the inspiring leadership he provides his colleagues, Dr. Marc Doucet has been awarded the Reverend William A. Stewart, S.J., Medal for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Doucet is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Saint Mary’s, where he has taught since 2000. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Université de Moncton, his Master of Arts in Political Science and Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Ottawa.
Dr. Doucet describes his teaching philosophy as “facilitating the creation of an environment, inside and outside the classroom where students can cultivate their learning capabilities and hone their analytical skills”. This philosophy is proven in his engaging classes and tireless work with the Model UN Delegation, which sees great success each year under Dr. Doucet’s guidance.
Highly regarded by his colleagues for his teaching methods, service as department Chair, and published academic works, Dr. Doucet proves again and again his passion for the study of politics and world issues.
Students greatly enjoy his classes and have found his in-class learning exercises to be engaging and thought provoking. In their comments on his teaching, current and former students often highlight his Model UN course, which is described as “the gem of the Political Science Department and the University as a whole” and has been credited with “shaping students future aspirations in academia and beyond”.
Dr. Doucet guides students through the course, which culminates with attending the annual National Model UN (NMUN) Conference in New York, where Saint Mary’s students have received numerous awards and honours in recognition of their outstanding individual and group achievements.
The award is in honour of Reverend William A. Stewart, who faithfully served the Saint Mary’s community for many years, both as a teacher of Philosophy and an academic administrator. In 1983, the Alumni Association, in cooperation with the Faculty Union and the Students’ Representative Council, established the award, which is open to faculty members who have made an extraordinary contribution to the education of Saint Mary’s students through teaching in the University’s tradition of quality undergraduate education.
Convocation, Faculty of Science
Dr. Kathy Singfield Honoured with Educational Leadership Award
Dr. Kathy Singfield
Dr. Kathy Singfield, faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the Dr. Geraldine Thomas Educational Leadership Award.
In 2007, the Quality of Teaching Committee (now the Senate Committee on Learning and Teaching) established an Educational Leadership Award to recognize the long-term commitment of faculty who develop, enhance, and promote the quality of teaching at Saint Mary’s and beyond. The Committee gratefully acknowledges the support of the Saint Mary’s University Faculty Union for this Award. The Award is named for Dr. Geraldine Thomas, national teaching award winner and founding member of the Quality of Teaching Committee. Throughout her academic career, Dr. Thomas supported efforts to improve teaching and learning within the University, the Atlantic region, and nationally.
As both an educator and an administrator, Dr. Kathy Singfield has made an outstanding contribution to student success at Saint Mary’s University. Since joining the Department of Chemistry in 1997, through her work as Department Chair, and as Associate Dean of Science – Curriculum, Dr. Singfield has been guided by a single passion: to help shape and manage the experiences through which Saint Mary’s students prepare for their own life-long learning in careers, further study, and as engaged citizens.
From classroom to community, Dr. Singfield has demonstrated remarkable leadership and mentorship of both her fellow faculty and students. In the Department of Chemistry, she championed the implementation of active learning strategies, creating over fifty popular YouTube instructional videos for first-year chemistry student lab and coursework. As Chair of Saint Mary’s Department of Chemistry in 2009, she was instrumental in the development of the unit’s first strategic five-year plan.
Drawing from her commitment to staying abreast of high-impact education practices, Dr. Singfield has made significant contributions to the success of new students at Saint Mary’s. Within the Faculty of Science, she initiated and managed a science faculty-student mentor program that ran for over a decade until, under her leadership, it evolved into the PEER One Mentorship program in 2013. In recent years, Dr. Singfield has led academic orientation for all science students.
At the university-wide level, her colleagues credit her for her tremendous leadership of the Committee on Academic Planning, which spearheaded many of the initiatives that will form the core of Saint Mary’s comprehensive new first-year student experience. Following this, the conceptual framework she introduced through her role on the Community and Student Engagement (CASE) Committee, will further guide the development of this new programming.
A true scientist, Dr. Singfield believes that “change involves decision making that is supported by evidence.” Consequently, she is deeply committed to the employment of high-impact practices and developments in teaching and learning, and higher education development. She believes strongly in sharing this information with her colleagues across disciplines, because, as she is wont to say, “It is always about the students.”
Five Exceptional Leaders Recognized with Honorary Degrees
Dr. Joseph Jabbra, Louise Bradley, John S. Fitzpatrick, Dr. Donald Julien, William (Bill) Ritchie
The accomplishments of five exceptional individuals will be recognized this May with honorary degrees at Saint Mary’s University’s Spring Convocation 2017.
William (Bill) Ritchie, a Nova Scotian financier, entrepreneur, mentor, angel investor, and Nova Scotia film industry co-founder. Mr. Ritchie will be receiving his Doctor of Commerce, Honoris Causa on May 17, 2017.
Louise Bradley, CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada and a healthcare leader and pioneer who has dedicated her professional life to improving the mental health of Canadians. Ms. Bradley will be receiving her Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa on May 18, 2017.
Dr. Joseph Jabbra, President of the Lebanese American University, author and senior administrator who has played an important role in North America in accreditation for university and college programs. Dr. Jabbra will receive his Doctor of Civil Law, Honoris Causa on May 18, 2017.
John S. Fitzpatrick, Q.C., a senior partner at BOYNECLARKE LLP, former Saint Mary’s Board of Governors Chair and Vice-Chair, literacy advocate, and award winning community organizer. Mr. Fitzpatrick will receive his Doctor of Civil law, Honoris Causa on May 19, 2017
Dr. Donald Julien, a Mi’kmaw historian, human rights advocate, and leader with over 40 years of experience researching and documenting Mi’kmaw history. Dr. Julien will receive his Doctor of Civil Law, Honoris Causa on May 19, 2017.
“This year’s honorary degree recipients represent the fundamental Santamarian values of our university,” said Saint Mary’s University President Dr. Robert Summerby-Murray. “All five of the recipients are exemplars in their chosen fields whose contributions have helped shape for the better our communities on the local and global scale.”
Tagged: 2017, Spring17
Convocation Profile: Shane Theunissen
Shane Theunissen
When Shane Theunissen was 17 years old, he and his family emigrated to Canada from Apartheid-era South Africa in what might seem an unlikely vehicle: a homemade, 36-foot sailboat.
“You don’t usually imagine sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat,” says Theunissen. “But when you do something like that, you quickly realize, ‘why not’? It’s quite liberating when you realize the freedoms that you really have, and how big the world really is. It challenges your perspectives.”
Shane has spent much of his subsequent life challenging entrenched perspectives, both in his own academic career and in his work as an educator—which has included time spent as a sailing instructor in the Caribbean, as an elementary-school teacher in the Cree community of Attawapiskat in Northern Ontario, and ten years as a part-time instructor in Saint Mary’s IDS program, where in 2012 he won an Excellence in Teaching award. Last July, he was hired as a full-time professor in Mount Saint Vincent University’s Child and Youth Study department.
And this March, Theunissen—who previously earned an M.A. in Education from Queen’s University—became the first Saint Mary’s student to earn a PhD in International Development Studies, after defending a thesis which explored some of those same perspective-challenging ideas. He looked at how Indigenous groups in colonial societies, including the Maori in New Zealand, the Aymara of Bolivia, and the Karretjiemense in South Africa, have asserted their cultural viability.
“When we look at education imposed from outside on Indigenous communities, it’s typically assimilative,” he says. “So how can we subvert that to allow for Indigenous people to assert more control?”
A real-world example is found in Shane’s past work with youth in Attawapiskat. “In Southern Ontario or most of Nova Scotia,” says Theunissen, “most students’ life experiences and cultural capital are beneficial within that standard curriculum, and the topics of discussion in class. But a Cree student in Northern Ontario, for example, may not have that same luxury, especially if they’re looking at a curriculum imposed from the south.”
In response to that challenge, Theunissen helped create an environmental education program in Attawapiskat, which in some cases involved fairly simple changes that produced major effects. “Instead of playing basketball during Phys. Ed.,” he says, “we might go out on the land and hunt, or perform a small-engine repair course, utilizing some of the cultural capital that students already had in their lives, which they could bring into the classroom to find accreditation. Hopefully that levels the playing field to a degree.”
After six years in Attawapiskat, Shane and his wife moved to downtown Dartmouth, in search of reasonable housing costs (“We wanted a life outside of paying for a house”), access to educational institutions where he could continue his path in academia, and, of course, somewhere to sail.
That latter, lifelong pastime has come to figure in Shane’s work as an educator, and the ways in which he’s putting his Saint Mary’s PhD research into practice, via partnerships with Nova Scotia schools and institutions—including the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, with which he’s partnering on a program to create boat-building programs for at-risk youth in Halifax.
“The idea is to build a safe space,” says Shane. “You build the boat, you build the space.” This year, Shane will be working with his MSVU students and the Maritime Museum on the project. Next year, he’ll be taking a similar initiative to Pictou Landing First Nation School, where boat building will become part of the math curriculum for students in grades five and six, with students building 12-foot skiffs.
“Instead of learning math purely through abstraction,” says Shane, “we’ll learn through this concrete exercise, which is very applicable to the area’s maritime history. It involves measuring and spatial awareness and other skills…and once the boat is completed, it will be a way to access nature and further the curriculum, in Phys. Ed., science, etc. I see it as being part of a much bigger process.”
Not only do these approaches help Indigenous students in achieving academic success, they help to preserve their “cultural capital”—meaning that rather diverse ways of thinking about and approaching the world are preserved throughout Canadian society.
“When we look at something like assimilative education, it basically means everyone is getting into the same box, thinking similarly about the world,” says Shane. “But to solve problems in the future, we’ll need novel approaches. And to have novel ideas, we need diversity and different perspectives. Promoting diversity is crucial, not just for students, but for the wellbeing of humanity, forever.”
Sobey School of Business, Convocation
Everyday Heroes: Sobey School of Business Convocation 2017
Source: http://www.smu.ca/academics/sobey/blogs/blogentries/everyday-heroes-sobey-school-of-business-convocation-2017.html
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Walmart Sponsors Women in Computer Science and Computer Engineering to Attend Celebration
From left: Kylie McClanahan, Sarah Colpitts, Victoria Hobbs and Lauren Rainbolt.
Four University of Arkansas students had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration this fall thanks to the generosity of Walmart. The Grace Hopper Celebration is the world's largest gathering of women technologists.
The Grace Hopper Celebration is a three-day conference with the goal of bringing together women in computing to discuss research, career interests, and emerging technologies. The conference is named after Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a computer programming pioneer whose work paved the way for some of the first compiler tools and programming languages.
The four sponsored Computer Science and Computer Engineering students, all female, attended this exciting event from Oct. 4-6 in Orlando, Florida. While attending the Grace Hopper Celebration, the students were able to participate in a variety of professional development activities, not the least of which being a Career Expo with major companies such as Walmart, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many others.
There were numerous presentations on Emerging Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Career Building. The students also had the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops (i.e., one workshop introduced the inaugural Grace Hopper Capture the Flag Competition). Together, the four students were able to attend a talk by Melinda Gates and explore many activities that interested them personally. By sponsoring the students' attendance at this conference, Walmart aims to increase the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and math, the STEM disciplines at the University of Arkansas, and to address the STEM gender gap.
Jessica Margetich, manager on Walmart's STEM strategy team, said, "I graduated with a STEM degree a few years back and had never attended or even heard of the GHC. Upon seeing it for myself, I was blown away by its incredible value; allowing students to understand current STEM market needs, interview for dream-worthy entry jobs, and learn from thousands of available, enthusiastic technologists. I am humbled to work for a company [Walmart] that is actively breaking down barriers to STEM-related fields and am very excited to further our GHC sponsorship program."
Surrounded by 18,000 of their peers, they learned from and were exposed to women, companies, and ideas that would have been unavailable otherwise.
Lauren Rainbolt, one of the sponsored students, said, "I encourage any woman who is in the technology field or interested in technology, to attend this conference. We are so grateful to Walmart for allowing us this opportunity. I am returning to the University of Arkansas empowered and excited to share what I've seen and learned." She also wrote about the experience, "Every person that I met had a different background and an exciting story. We don't all have the same path or the same interests, but technology connects us. There is a great need for more women technologists because together we are building a better world."
Frank Liu, head of the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, said, "The Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department encourages female students to study computing and data technology at the University of Arkansas. Opportunities like the Grace Hopper Celebration allow our female students to learn more about the world of technology and connect with their peers. We appreciate Walmart's generosity in sponsoring their attendance."
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Autumn Lewis, assistant director of development
479-575-6764, autumnl@uark.edu
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Grab and throw: South Korea makes flower vase fire extinguisher
By Minwoo Park
A throwable fire extinguisher that looks like a flower vase is seen in Seoul
SEOUL, (Reuters) - In a panic after a fire has broken out and can't remember where the fire extinguisher is, let alone how to use it?
Worry no more. Now you can simply pick up a vase and throw it to douse the flames.
Developed by South Korean ad agency Cheil Worldwide, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, the innovative "firevase" contains liquid potassium carbonate, which can block oxygen, effectively suppressing a fire.
When the vase is hurled at a blaze and shatters, 770ml of the liquid is released to put out the fire.
The vase itself is made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to reduce the danger of the fragments causing harm.
And, yes, it can also be used for a small bunch of flowers.
"At the early stage of fire-fighting, a fire extinguisher is equivalent to one fire engine," said Hwang Seong-phil, associate creative director at Cheil Worldwide.
"However, people don't remember where they put it and cannot find it when they need. So we came up with the idea of making a fire extinguisher which people can always keep handy in the home."
Roughly 60% of fire fatalities in South Korea in the decade to 2017 occurred in homes, according to the National Fire Agency, accounting for about 2,000 deaths in total.
Though it is mandatory to have a fire extinguisher and a smoke detector installed in homes, the agency reported that only 49% of residents actually own an extinguisher.
In 2018, Cheil Worldwide and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance manufactured and distributed 110,000 firevases to their clients. They are planning to give out another 100,000 this year.
Park Gi-jong, 62, who has just got his vase, said he was reassured to have it in his terraced house and office building.
"Anyone can just throw it," he said. "Even if I am not around, my wife or my children can take some action right away."
(Reporting by Minwoo Park Editing by Karishma Singh, Robert Birsel)
6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes near Indonesia's popular tourist island Bali
Buzz Aldrin explains why Neil Armstrong was the first person on the moon
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Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters 2010 [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)
120 points by npalli on Feb 26, 2011 | hide | past | web | favorite | 65 comments
juiceandjuice on Feb 26, 2011
On his frugality and practicality:
>> Airlines have often jacked up prices – sometimes dramatically so – for the Berkshire weekend. If you are coming from far away, compare the cost of flying to Kansas City versus Omaha. The drive is about 21 ⁄2 hours and it may be that you can save significant money, particularly if you had planned to rent a car in Omaha
diego on Feb 26, 2011
If someone else said that, he'd probably get panned. If you are a BH shareholder, odds are that the added five hours of driving cost you much more (time, effort, risk) than the difference in ticket prices, especially if you are flying in for a weekend.
kalvin on Feb 26, 2011
That's definitely not the case. This isn't your usual shareholder meeting. 40,000 shareholders (I'd call many of them "fans", really) showed up last year and many of them have more enthusiasm than wealth. You can get tickets just by holding a mutual fund that owns Berkshire and calling up the fund.
(My mom and I among them. "At Berkshire, our time horizon is forever." And he pretty much means it.)
aboyeji on Feb 26, 2011
Wow. Thanks for posting this. There are some amazing quotes from that:
"Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America."
"Commentators today often talk of “great uncertainty.” But think back, for example, to December 6, 1941, October 18, 1987 and September 10, 2001. No matter how serene today may be, tomorrow is always uncertain.Don’t let that reality spook you. Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born. The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective."
Is it any wonder I want to move to America ASAP?
-Jaded kid languishing in a publicly funded Canadian chill out(University) forced to educate himself because the kids in his crew don't get it.
dean on Feb 26, 2011
Hey, if you want to chill out instead of studying, that's your call. Don't blame it on the country.
SkyMarshal on Feb 26, 2011
...forced to educate himself...
He wasn't referring to himself with 'chill out'.
rhizome on Feb 26, 2011
...or "his crew."
cheez on Feb 26, 2011
Wait, you don't have to pay for university? What is this accounting magic? I had to pay!
chrisaycock on Feb 26, 2011
I love Buffet's response to anyone concerned about America's future:
> The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective.
HSO on Feb 26, 2011
>> "the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective"
as feel-goody as that might sound to patriotic american ears, you also have to take into account that america pretty much had the playing field (much) to itself for a long time. there was competition of different systems and it turns out the market-based system is best. good.
now that everybody has learnt that and is busy implementing that system (more or less gradually), there is no obvious reason why america should remain special.
turns out human potential is great everywhere, and in the brief period after world war 2, i'd say germany, japan, korea, etc. have done a mighty good job catching up and even surpassing the us in many areas, measured by social as well as industrial metrics. now comes china et al.
if i was american, i wouldn't take anything for granted. you guys were lucky to live in the winning system, other than that, there is nothing special about you.
gxs on Feb 27, 2011
>>Human potential is far from exhausted
At no point did Buffett say American Human potential.
And yes - the system that worked is the system Americans chose to implement, sure - it's ok to be proud of that.
>> there is nothing special about you.
Your post comes across as spiteful - almost resentful. I am sorry for whatever hardships you've had to deal with - if that motivates you, great. But the inferiority complex jumps out astonishingly in your writing.
getpost on Feb 26, 2011
I appreciate the positive outlook expressed in these letters, and it's helpful to reflect on progress our society has made in so many areas.
Coca-Cola's performance is striking. In 2011 you can still make a fortune, as Steve Jobs put it, 'selling sugar water to children.'[1] Does Mr Buffett care about, or even consider, the public health and social costs of the success of Coke and its products?[2]
Philip Morris has traditionally had strong financial performance as well. It's safe to say drug dealers can be financially successful. Should we be celebrating that fact?
I admire Mr Buffet's modest, down-to-earth style. He seems proud that his investment in BNSF will promote the greater good. I wish he had that goal for all his investments.
[1] Jobs was referring to Sculley's work at Pepsi, of course. http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html [2] Lustig, Sugar, The Bitter Truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
xiaoma on Feb 27, 2011
Coca Cola's performance is about the brand and the distribution, not the product. They also own and successfully operate much healthier product lines. At this time, they aren't what the market wants for the most part. Most place a higher value on the extremely low cost and good taste of sugary fizzy water. When that changes, whether for cultural, regulatory or other reasons, the Coca-Cola company will still be in an excellent position and possibly make even more money from its healthier products.
Also, as a private consumer, I don't really appreciate attempts to protect me from myself.
firebones on Feb 27, 2011
Your comment got me thinking. Buffett has pledged 99% of his net worth to charity when he's gone, and has enlisted other wealthy entrepreneurs to follow suit by donating at least 50%. Will that allocation of capital produce greater good than would a lesser amount garnered through investments based not on seeking the best ROI but instead based on furthering the greater good?
Honest questions, and ones that I don't have the answers to: has his contribution to Coca-Cola and Philip Morris as an investor harmed the greater good more than the $44 billion or so of his net worth that will flow to charities? Could entrepreneurs and capitalists create more good with that $44 billion than the Gates Foundation?
robryan on Feb 27, 2011
I don't think the tech companies get off free here though, Apple have reportedly turned a blind eye in the past to conditions in factories producing their products.
Coca-Cola does sell a lot more than their flagship drink though, when it comes to ethics of what you can legally invest in they could do a lot worse.
vladd on Feb 26, 2011
Some of this year's jewellery for those that need the motivation to begin reading it:
>> Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born. The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor that is certain: Human potential is far from exhausted, and the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective. <<
>> Coca-Cola paid us $88 million in 1995, the year after we finished purchasing the stock. Every year since, Coke has increased its dividend. In 2011, we will almost certainly receive $376 million from Coke, up $24 million from last year. Within ten years, I would expect that $376 million to double. By the end of that period, I wouldn’t be surprised to see our share of Coke’s annual earnings exceed 100% of what we paid for the investment. Time is the friend of the wonderful business. <<
>> The highlight of 2010 was our acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, a purchase that’s working out even better than I expected. [We] are enthusiastic about BNSF’s future because railroads have major cost and environmental advantages over trucking, their main competitor. Last year BNSF moved each ton of freight it carried a record 500 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel. That’s three times more fuel-efficient than trucking is, which means our railroad owns an important advantage in operating costs. Concurrently, our country gains because of reduced greenhouse emissions and a much smaller need for imported oil. When traffic travels by rail, society benefits. Over time, the movement of goods in the United States will increase, and BNSF should get its full share of the gain. The railroad will need to invest massively to bring about this growth, but no one is better situated than Berkshire to supply the funds required. However slow the economy, or chaotic the markets, our checks will clear. <<
>> The fundamental principle of auto racing is that to finish first, you must first finish. That dictum is equally applicable to business and guides our every action at Berkshire. Unquestionably, some people have become very rich through the use of borrowed money. However, that’s also been a way to get very poor. Companies with large debts often assume that these obligations can be refinanced as they mature. That assumption is usually valid. Occasionally, though, either because of company-specific problems or a worldwide shortage of credit, maturities must actually be met by payment. For that, only cash will do the job. Borrowers then learn that credit is like oxygen. When either is abundant, its presence goes unnoticed. When either is missing, that’s all that is noticed. Even a short absence of credit can bring a company to its knees. [We, at Berkshire] have pledged that we will hold at least $10 billion of cash. We customarily keep at least $20 billion. By being so cautious in respect to leverage, we penalize our returns by a minor amount. Having loads of liquidity, though, lets us sleep well. Moreover, during the episodes of financial chaos that occasionally erupt in our economy, we will be equipped both financially and emotionally to play offense while others scramble for survival. That’s what allowed us to invest $15.6 billion in 25 days of panic following the Lehman bankruptcy in 2008. <<
jacobolus on Feb 26, 2011
On the subject of the social benefits of railroads, I really liked this Tony Judt essay a while ago, “Bring Back the Rails” http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/bring-b...
Symmetry on Feb 26, 2011
The problem is that its hard to schedule both passenger trains and freight trains on the same railways, and the benefits of transporting freight by train instead of truck are both economically and environmentally more important. OTOH high speed rails with their own tracks are awesome and let us get around this dilemma.
pstuart on Feb 26, 2011
Perhaps I'm naive, but with today's technology (GPS, processing power for scheduling, communications, etc.) and a modest investment in some more switching tracks (compared to high speed rail) why couldn't we saturate the bus?
Because of geography and property rights this is pretty much a monopoly as a class of transport. And while the government's stewardship of rail thus far is not seen as a paragon of efficiency or customer service (http://reason.com/archives/2005/12/01/amtrak-sucks), the only way to make this work would be to have the tracks effectively nationalized.
Class 1 Railroads of North Ameria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Class1rr.png
rdl on Feb 27, 2011
The issue is that high speed passenger rail requires trainsets that are built basically like aircraft, and really do not do well in a collision with a freight train built and loaded like...a freight train.
It is definitely reasonable to use improved signaling to increase capacity, but rails for HSR need to be smoother, different grade limits, possibly banked, etc. They can often but not always share right of way with existing freight lines. Still, designing them to be grade separated, protected from incursions by malfunctioning freight, etc. is a hard problem.
I think the low hanging fruit is increasing investment in conventional freight, metro area rail for passengers, and limited investment in dedicated HSR only on routes where air travel faces capacity limits -- northeast corridor, los Angeles to las Vegas, and probably unfortunately not sf to la (as much as I would personally enjoy it).
samtp on Feb 26, 2011
> Yet our citizens now live an astonishing six times better than when I was born.
By what metric? From everything I've read the income disparity in America has increased steadily since the 1950s. Are we 6x happier? 6x Healthier? 6x More free?
starpilot on Feb 26, 2011
Buffett was born in 1930. The US GDP per capita was about $7,200 then, today it is about $42,000 (both values in 2005 dollars from http://www.measuringworth.com/usgdp/).
Per capita GDP is frequently used to measure standard of living, in addition to per capita income, ref http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/steckel.standard.living.u... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_Unite...
gnosis on Feb 26, 2011
I'd be much more interested in seeing the differences in median wealth (for the population as a whole, and broken down by race/ethnicity), adjusted for inflation.
The term "wealth" refers to "private assets (such as savings and property) minus debts. It is what you own minus what you owe. In other words, it is net assets. Income, on the other hand, refers to wages, salary, interest that you earn, Social Security benefits, etc."
"In the 22 years between 1976 and 1998, the share of the nation's private wealth held by the top 1% nearly doubled, going from 22% to 38%. During those two decades, the size of the overall "wealth pie" grew, but the ownership of that wealth is now more concentrated than at any time since the 1920s."
Source: http://www.osjspm.org/101_wealth.aspx#6
The stats above are kind of dated, but I'd be willing to bet the disparity in wealth between the richest and poorest in America is even more pronounced now.
Here is a measure of the increase of "U.S. median family net worth by percentile of net worth" from 1989 to 2007:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/MedianNet...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States
forensic on Feb 26, 2011
Wealth distribution isn't the same as wealth though.
I'm not sure what you're getting at by pointing out this obvious difference. Could you elaborate?
"I'd be much more interested in seeing the differences in median wealth (for the population as a whole, and broken down by race/ethnicity), adjusted for inflation."
Which I agree with wholeheartedly.
But then to my disappointment, you posted information about wealth distribution rather than median wealth.
I got the impression you were saying that wealth distribution says something about median wealth. I don't think it does.
The wikipedia links were good though, so thanks.
jongraehl on Feb 27, 2011
Knowing a distribution, you know its median. Even if you just know the weight in a quantile (e.g. X% of wealth is in the hands of the top Y% of people), then you can upper bound the median wealth once you know per-capita wealth. And if you're willing to make some assumption about the general shape of the distribution, knowing it tells you even more.
bricestacey on Feb 27, 2011
Your original comment is about relative wealth. Therefore, I think his point is that your original comment is irrelevant in the context of a 6x increase in wealth.
Are they using the same methods for GDP in both time periods? I doubt it.
epistasis on Feb 26, 2011
Per capita is not a great metric, especially since GDP is not distributed per capita across the country, and there are many ways of measuring GDP.
Even bad metrics can be better than nothing, and they can also be worse than nothing, but if you're going to quantify it, GDP is probably the only way to go. Based on my limited knowledge of 1930, I'd still much rather be living in 2011. Maybe not 6x, but at least 1.5x more. Back then they didn't even have Turing machines down on paper, much less actual physical hardware...
guygurari on Feb 27, 2011
There's more than one way to use GDP. I think that, for describing standard of living, median GDP would be better than average GDP (= GDP per capita).
Averages are sensitive to outlier performance. This is important when the distribution follows a power law, as in the case of wealth distribution.
jakarta on Feb 26, 2011
You honestly have to ask this question? In the 1950s a significant percentage of our population was without civil rights. Beyond that:
Life expectancy at birth: 69.9 to 77.9 (we live longer)
Infant mortality: 26.0 to 6.7 (less of us are dead on arrival)
% of population over 25 with 4 yrs or more of college education: 7.7% to 29.5% (access to education has improved)
Estimated Hourly Wage PPP, 2009 USD: $16.87 to $25.31 (we are making more money)
Real labor productivity index (in 1960): 100 to 172.8 (we are more productive)
blurry on Feb 26, 2011
As overdue as it was, women and blacks being able to vote is not "6 times better".
60 years to 80 years life expectancy is not "6 times better".
26 to 7 infant mortality is not "6 times better".
8% to 30% college graduation rate is not "6 times better".
Estimated hourly wages have actually fallen drastically, when estimated apples to apples (i.e. adjusted for inflation).
Labor productivity is mostly based on advances in technology, and in any event, working harder is hardly the same as being "6 times better" off.
In other words, let's stay within the context of what is actually being argued. Plus, it's rude to open your argument with, You honestly have to ask this question? If you have something to say, you can say it without implying that @samtp is too dumb to see the obvious.
If you want to quibble about his use of the "6 times" figure, go ahead.
The fact remains that we live much better today than in 1930, when Buffett was born (during the Great Depression).
If you don't want to "quibble" about it the why do you keep posting? If you think this thread is immaterial, you are free to leave.
funthree on Feb 27, 2011
I bet the internet makes your life at least 6 times better than what it would have been in 1930.
bzbarsky on Feb 27, 2011
For what its worth, jakarta's hourly wage number _does_ claim to be adjusted for inflation.
I'd love to see references from both of you on the hourly wage numbers.
powertower on Feb 26, 2011
Language and comprehension skills: Down 76%
Happiness index: Down 65%
Opinions: Up 435%
abecedarius on Feb 27, 2011
There's some double-counting here: life expectancy at birth includes infant mortality. (Taking your figures, 1.35 years of the 8-year life-expectancy difference comes from the infant-mortality difference.)
But does any of this equate to a 6x better life? This is extremely subjective, but I'd measure overall happiness, autonomy, and ability to participate in power as key ingredients for a better life. And going by those metrics, I seriously doubt that we are 6x better (or even 2x better).
All of the stats that you provided point to Americans being more productive over a longer period of time. People are becoming better at producing and consuming. However, by only looking at these numbers, you ignore what I feel makes us human. I don't think that the ultimate goal in a person's life is to add to their country's GDP. We are more than a cog in a machine. You can point to improvements centered around work, but what about enjoyment and free time? Surely a better life is one where you have more time to enjoy with family and friends, rather than being able to exceed your company's 3rd quarter sales projections.
adamtj on Feb 27, 2011
That's not a percentage. It's likely per 1,000 or 100,000 or something.
huhtenberg on Feb 27, 2011
Yes, it's per 1000.
waterlesscloud on Feb 26, 2011
And now you know why income disparity has nothing to do with increases in standard of living.
cema on Feb 26, 2011
All of that. But also 6x grumpier, it seems.
Average US salary in today's dollars:
1930 - $ 250,000 2010 - $ 50,000
Add to that the declining purchasing power of the dollar, the growing income disparity and the thinning out of the middle and upper-middle class, etc, etc.
Average life expectancy in the US:
1930 - 60 yrs 2010 - 78 yrs
Clearly, Mr. Buffet's statement is PR rather than fact.
I don't understand your salary number. Do you mean that if you earned $250K in 1930, that is equivalent to $50K today? Isn't that good?
The line break disappeared when I posted. With the line break, it was:
1930 - $ 250,000
2010 - $ 50,000
So, no, it's not good. When adjusted for inflation, the average American has about 5 times less purchasing power.
cheez on Mar 4, 2011
I understand now but you should have some sources to back that up!
patrickgzill on Feb 26, 2011
He is a creature of fiat and baby boom population expansion.
Since Charlie Munger's "suck it up" comment and WB's heavily profiting from TARP, I have developed a jaundiced view of what the real business is that BH engages in... he is less free market than he would have you believe.
My favorite quote:
"The Flat Earth Society probably views a ship’s circling of the globe as an annoying, but inconsequential, anomaly"
Also available from Berkshire's website:
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
CCs on Feb 26, 2011
"We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation."
bufordtwain on Feb 27, 2011
A couple more gems copied from Buffett's Memo to Berkshire Hathaway Managers at the end of the letter:
"If you see anything whose propriety or legality causes you to hesitate, be sure to give me a call.However, it’s very likely that if a given course of action evokes such hesitation, it’s too close to the line and should be abandoned. There’s plenty of money to be made in the center of the court. If it’s questionable whether some action is close to the line, just assume it is outside and forget it.
As a corollary, let me know promptly if there’s any significant bad news. I can handle bad news but I don’t like to deal with it after it has festered for awhile. A reluctance to face up immediately to bad news is what turned a problem at Salomon from one that could have easily been disposed of into one that almost caused the demise of a firm with 8,000 employees."
netcan on Feb 27, 2011
A good little snippet:
Charlie and I hope that the per-share earnings of our non-insurance businesses continue to increase at a decent rate. But the job gets tougher as the numbers get larger. We will need both good performance from our current businesses and more major acquisitions. We’re prepared. Our elephant gun has been reloaded, and my trigger finger is itchy
jorgem on Feb 26, 2011
BOO: This is so NOT what I read HN for.
gatsby on Feb 26, 2011
Sorry to hear that. It should be obvious that 100% of the articles/sites/documents posted won't appeal to 100% of the HN community.
That said, I encourage you to actually read this letter, or at least skim it. At the end of the day, Warren's letters aren't so much about investing and returns as they are about good customer relations and transparency - two things everyone from startup hackers to billionaire executives should find interesting and refreshing.
I read it before I posted. It's interesting, but not technical or appropriate.
Off I go to delete my HN account. I think that's it for me.
EDIT: If I could figure out how to delete my account.
getsat on Feb 27, 2011
You can't.
Warren Buffet does the exact same thing PG does: invests in great people. The Berkshire newsletters are very much on-topic for this very reason, especially for the grains of wisdom that have been quoted in the comments here.
Warren Buffet invests in huge railroads and insurance companies. Not the same as tech startups.
davidw on Feb 26, 2011
I regularly complain about off topic stories about politics or other topics that wind people up.
This, however, seems fairly pertinent to the 'business' side of HN.
Maybe you're not reading it with the right expectations? http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.
On a sidenote, Buffett's frugality is reminiscent of Zuckerberg's lifestyle.
link2009 on Feb 26, 2011
> On a sidenote, Buffett's frugality is reminiscent of Zuckerberg's lifestyle.
Could you expand on this?
pmorici on Feb 26, 2011
They are both known for living modestly relative to their vast wealth.
dedward on Feb 26, 2011
Far more poignant in Buffet's case given his age and the length of time he's been in the game, and the sheer financial impact he has on the country. He's not a paper tiger.
Mr. Zuckerberg is exceptionally wealthy for his age, but he's young, and it's all based on a single assett. So while not judging, let's hold off on comparing the two for a couple of decades at least.
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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine Review: Asian-American Actors Revisit Vietnam War Protest by Priests
New York Theater February 6, 2019 Leave a comment
More than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, they entered the office of the local draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, grabbed boxes full of files, brought them to the parking lot, and set on fire the draft records of 378 young men who had been designated 1-A — about to be drafted. They used a homemade version of napalm, a chemical weapon that the U.S. military was using in the war. “I believe to pour napalm on pieces of paper is certainly preferable to pouring napalm on human beings,” said one of the participants, a nurse named Mary Moylan.
Three years after the ensuing trial, one of the defendants, Father Daniel Berrigan, wrote a play about it in free verse. Rewritten by Saul Levitt, relying mostly on court transcripts, “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine” ran on Broadway for 29 performances in June, 1971, with a 16-member cast including Sam Waterston and James Woods. Later that year, Gregory Peck produced a film version.
Now, the Transport Group is presenting what it calls a radical re-imagining of the play, in partnership with the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO.)
Director Jack Cummings III, Transport’s artistic director, is credited with adapting the script; there are updates on what happened to some of the people after the trial, mostly recounting when they died.
What’s changed most drastically is the staging. In place of 16 actors, there are now only three who juggle all the characters. All three of the performers are Asian-American: David Huynh, Mia Katigbak, and Eunice Wong
The audience joins the actors on the stage of the theater at the Abrons Art Center, sitting on benches that resemble those one might find in a courtroom, around a set of metal desks that one could find in a drab office. These desks, though, are all shoved together in the center, and every surface is covered with photographs that look as if they might be of Vietnamese civilians during the war; we’re never given a close look. (The set design is by Peiyi Wong). Lighting designer R. Lee Kennedy goes to town with the lights, alternating between madly flickering fluorescent, blindingly white, and disturbingly deep red. Sound designer Fan Zhang offers a dramatic underscoring through most of the 90-minute piece.
The actors begin and end the play by playing songs from the period on a record player.
At the very end, just before the three performers leave the stage and exit through the haze-filled auditorium, actor David Huynh plays Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It Is Worth,” which begins:
There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
The lyrics felt apt. There’s a powerful theatricality happening here in “The Trial of The Catonsville Nine,” but the reasoning behind some of the choices is not exactly clear.
The casting of Asian-American performers is certainly intriguing, especially David Huynh, the Vancouver-born son of Vietnamese refugees. At one point, Huynh speaks in Vietnamese while Mia Katigbak translates into English: “All men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights….” Huynh then tells us the words were from Ho Chi Minh’s 1945 Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Choosing such a cast gets us thinking — about how much more ethnically diverse our society has become, perhaps about the oddness of a protest movement in defense of a people that didn’t include any of the people being defended.
But why just three performers? There is little effort to distinguish the different characters through change of voice or carriage; the male and female characters – defendants, witnesses, prosecution and judge — are divvied up indiscriminately among the one man and two women in the cast; the actors even sometimes portray the same character at different times in the show. It’s harder to be impressed by the actors’ dramatic emoting at any particular moment if we’re not certain who they are then.
Yes, the designers are reproducing the sensory assault of combat – such as the bright lights of a bomb raid – and, when the curtain closes and a door clangs shut during jury deliberations, we are meant to feel the claustrophobia that comes with a legal process that closes out conscience in the name of the law.
But does it all have to be so…aggressive? It’s as if the creative team was worried that the words would not be enough to engage us. As it turns out, they do engage us. On the stand, the defendants tell their fascinating stories — of what turned them into activists, of how it’s changed their lives, of the reasons for the revulsion they feel toward U.S. domestic and foreign policy. “The US government is not on trial,” the judge says repeatedly. But in a way, it is.
A priest and a nun met doing missionary work in Guatemala, at a time when U.S. military were conducting furtive assassinations. “We thought instead of talking about the life to come, perhaps we could do a little to help their conditions on this earth.” They both left their orders, and got married. But then Marjorie Melville didn’t want her new husband Thomas Melville to participate in the civil disobedience at the Selective Service office. She didn’t want him to go to jail so soon after they married. But he was stubborn, so she joined him.
“We were teachers, nurses, veterans, priests and nuns. All we wanted to prove is that ordinary people in small numbers could make a difference.”
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
By Daniel Berrigan
Adapted and directed by Jack Cummings III.
Set and costume design by Peiyi Wong; lighting design by R. Lee Kennedy; sound design by Fan Zhang.
Cast: David Huynh, Mia Katigbak, and Eunice Wong
Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is on stage through February 23, 2019.
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The Staten Island Art Intersects Workshops – Be As Creative With Your Business As You Are With Art
Published by Mark Revello On November 8, 2013 Leave a response
Artists and entrepreneurs are often thought of as two distinct and separate types of people in the business world, but aspiring artists who wish to turn their creativity into a sustainable living must be the creative, human resources, billing, sales, and advertising departments all rolled into one person to succeed.
The Art Intersects Workshops hosted by Staten Island Arts, formerly known as COAHSI, in partnership with Staten Island MakerSpace, is teaching aspiring artists how to be the agents of their own success and turn their work into money.
“There are people who have these skill sets and business ideas rooted in their creative work but don’t have a venue to sell their art to the public,” said the Director of Development and Community Programming at Staten Island Arts, Monica Valenzuela. “We’re trying to connect artists with business skills.”
Art Intersects is a four-part workshop aimed at providing constructive information on the organization, operation, creation of a business model, other related concerns that Staten Island artists may encounter while trying to make a living from creative works. Art Intersects will also give Staten Island artists, makers, and designers the ability to meet and network with others in their field as well as establish a dialogue with other artists.
The first of the Art Intersects series will be focusing on assessing the products and services that an artist has to offer, as well as how to price that creative value.
“Your time is valuable. People get paid for their time, but there isn’t a hard and fast rule about your price as an artist,” said Valenzuela. “It’s scary to put a price out there when you’re always told as an artist that it’s about the exposure, and that’s what happens a majority of the time.”
The second and third workshops will focus on creative business models and explore some of the reasons that artists have trouble embracing a more business oriented mindset while the final will examine how to hatch the ideas of their business model, keeping accountable to the goals of their occupation, and how to measure success and failure.
“I wish I knew the details about setting up a business and setting up the technical aspects; the differences between an incorporation, an LLC, or a proprietorship, I just went to my accountant and asked what should I do? He said do this and I did,” said Valenzuela, who also owns a small photography business, Hart and Sol East. “I wish I had more business skill knowledge. I could provide the service, but I didn’t know how to pay my taxes. I just wanted someone to tell me that if I made a mistake that it was okay.”
The Art Intersects workshops will be held at the Staten Island MakerSpace, at 450 Front Street. The Staten Island MakerSpace is a non-profit, community, based workspace started by Scott Van Campen and DB Lampman that offers equipment, tools, and a 6000 square foot space to turn creative ideas into tangible art.
The Art Intersects workshops cost $10 in advance or $15 at the door and require an RSVP. The workshops are free for Staten Island Arts and MakerSpace members. If you are interested in honing your business skill-set, reserve a seat for the workshop here.
The Art Intersects workshops are also supported by JPMorgan Chase, New York Community Trust, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Economic Development Corporation, NY State Council on the Arts, and Live With Design.
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Splitting your game in two
27Feb 2016 17 Apr 2016
A few weeks ago, Daybreak Games announced H1Z1 being split into two games, H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Hill. Is splitting your games in two about to become a trend now?
The first time I read it recently was with The Repopulation and Fragmented. But those two games are not the first that get this “treatment”. Landmark was originally just supposed to be a sandbox with tools for the community to create buildings and other things which could be transferred over to the MMORPG Everquest Next if they were done well enough. Over time, Landmark got more and more features that made it less of a “tool” and more of a game, like combat. H1Z1 and Landmark/Everquest belong to the same game company, Daybreak Games, so maybe that is where the H1Z1 developers got the idea from in the first place.
And then there is Godus and Godus Wars with Peter Molyneux saying that he had envisioned it to be two games from the beginning on.
Now they all mention more or less different reasons for doing those splits: Some say it was always imagined to be two different games, others say that one game will help with the development of the other game.
What I’m wondering is: Is it really a good idea to do it like that?
Unless they get more developers, development has to be split between those two games resulting in each game getting less attention per se. I get it for The Repopulation, because here Fragmented is supposed to be the basis for The Repopulation with the new engine (probably a bit like Landmark is to Everquest Next). And since they more or less did not have a choice than to move to a different engine, they need to find something which could give them some extra income in the meantime while also giving us, the backers, something to do as long as we are waiting for the new version to come out. With Godus and H1Z1, I’m not so sure. Is it really necessary to split? Are the playerbases – well, the H1z1 one, at least, so diverse and different in tastes that you need to make such a split? So, on the other hand, if that is the case, then it could also be a good idea to split your game, as that allows the developers to cater more to a specific kind of playerbase and they can focus more on specific features relevant to each game instead of trying to squash it all into one game and make it work.
Near Freedomtown. The city you ended up in after the first tutorial zone.
If I’m being negative here, I would say they all just want to grab as much money as possible. However, this does not make sense for The Repopulation and Godus. In the case of The Repopulation, it seems to be more their way of trying to earn money while working on porting their MMO to the other engine. So yes, it is about making money, but not about making more money. That reason does not apply to Godus either, because if you buy Godus Wars, you do get Godus as well for free. In this case, I would go with them probably trying to get away from the vastly negative reviews that Godus had gotten and sort of “hiding” behind Godus Wars now, a new game which just happens to give you Godus as well. I haven’t given Godus Wars a good try yet – only logged in for a few minutes – so I will refrain from saying anything, bad or good, about the game, but the current state of the reviews does not look positive either. Everquest Next still seems to be so far away, that I would say Landmark is like Fragmented. Not a way to make more money, but a way to make any kind of money while development is ongoing.
This leaves H1Z1… The Massively post quotes them saying it was something the community had wanted them to do. However, both games are “buy to play”, so there is more money, as you would have to buy both if you want to play both. I hope that it was not done just to get more money for those two games, but also because they want to give the playerbases games tailored to their needs.
At the end of it all, the big question is probably: Is it for the best each of these games? And can the developers adequately support both game modes to please the community? If that is the case, then it is a smart choice to split your game in two.
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Rakuno says:
27 Feb 2016 at 13:05
Hm. I didn’t notice it being a trend until you pointed out. I also don’t know if I really like the idea either not only because of the points you made but because I think it might end being more expensive for the consumer too if they want to experience everything.
Anyway, at least in the case of 3 of these games I think they came to this approach independently of each other. Landmark went that route because they realized that people were doing a lot of non-fantasy stuff that was pretty good. Which isn’t really surprising to anyone who ever played a creative game but I guess it was for them since they decided it would be better to make its own game so they could showcase and encourage non-fantasy types of work. :p
In the case of Fragmented, I have a guildie who is working in Repopulation. According to her work on it started on November of last year with the intention of being a project to keep the team together and to make some revenue while they waited for the Hero Engine problems to be resolved.
Godus Wars… I think it is pretty much what you said. Which to me feels very shady to say the least.
Just H1Z1 might be following the others because they thought it might be a good idea. Like the Godus games I haven’t been following this one so I can’t really say.
paeroka says:
Yeah, as I said for Fragmented: It’s to get *some* money while they switch to another engine (which was a possibility, but not a certainty back in November due to their issues).
No worries about Godus Wars, though, as I saw that the reviews are just as bad as the original ones were. Maybe slightly higher (but they did add content, we should give them that!).
Out of the 4 games, I absolutely understand – and support – it for Fragmented/The Repopulation and I think it was a smart thing to do with Landmark, because it does give the Landmark players more freedom. At the same time, it gives those players something to do, keeps them occupied and entertained while waiting for Everquest Next. I would guess that they really want those super creative players to stick around until EQ Next comes out, as they are the ones building stuff. :p
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Analisis of leptospirosis lethal cases in Lviv region
Olena Zubach, A Zinchuk
Study of the structure of lethal cases in patients diagnosed with leptospirosis in the Lviv Region.
Mortality rate of leptospirosis in Ukraine remains high year after year. The study of the peculiarities of lethal cases over a long period enables researchers to specify possible mechanisms of infection which cause the development of the severest cases of leptospirosis and to prevent disease emergence by applying adequate preventive measures.
Methods: We have analyzed case reports of patients diagnosed with leptospirosis, who were treated and died in Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases from 1987-2016.
Over the last 30 years, 942 patients with leptospirosis were treated in Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, and 125 of them died. The mortality rate was 13.27%. Men died twice as often as women – 83 (66.4%) and 42 (33.6%), respectively, p<0.001. The average age at death was 56.5±11.98 years old. Women died at older age (59.62±9.6) as compared to men (54.93±12.78), p<0.05. Patients who died from leptospirosis were admitted into the hospital on the 5.81±2.31 day, which is considered to be a late admission. The average length of stay in the inpatient department was 6.21±6.54 days. Rural residents died much more often, 78 cases (62.4%) compared with city residents, 47 cases (37.6%), p<0.01. The mortality from leptospirosis was lowest during the summer months (6.79%) compared to winter (19.85%, p <0.001), spring (23.81%, p <0.001) and autumn (13.78%, p < 0.01) months. It should be noted that the mortality during the autumn-summer period was significantly lower (10%) than during the spring-winter period (21.76%, p <0.001). The causative agent was verified by microscopic agglutination test and lysis in 66 (52.8%) of the deceased patients, and in 59 individuals (47.2%) the agent could not be identified due to early period of serological investigation, when no anti-leptospirosis antibodies had been produced so far. In these cases the diagnosis of leptospirosis was based on typical clinical signs and epidemiological anamnesis. The main serogroups of leptospirae, which caused lethal cases, were L. icterohaemorrhagiae – 51 (40.8%), L. grippotyphosa – 5 (4%), L. kabura – 3 (2.4%), mixed L. Icterohaemorrhagiaeplus L. Grippotyphosa – 3 (2.4%), L. Cynopteri and L.Hebdomadis - 2 (1.6%) patients each. Epidemiological anamnesis could be determined in 84 (67.2%) patients. Most often, patients associated the disease with the following factors: 45 (36%) – with the presence of rats or mice-like rodents in a house, yard or workplace, 26 (20.8%) – with agricultural work, where contact with rodents' feces was also possible, 5 (4%) – with professional activity, 4 (3.2%) – with fishing, and 4 (3.2%) – with swimming in water pools. In 41 (32.8%) patients, leptospirosis could not be associated with any factor.
L.icterohaemorrhagiae still remains the most common cause of mortality of leptospirosis – 51 (40.8%). In 56.8% of the cases, the disease was caused by contact with rodents. Over the last 30 years, men died more often of leptospirosis in the Lviv region than women (p<0.001), whereas, the deceased women were considerably older than men (p<0.05). Rural residents died much more often than city residents (p<0.01). The highest mortality rate was recorded in the spring – 23.81%, the lowest was recorded in summer – 6.79% (p <0.001). Active deratization measures help to reduce morbidity and mortality of leptospirosis.
We believe that the question regarding the accuracy of the final diagnosis of "leptospirosis" in 59 (47.2%) dead patients is still under discussion, as the diagnosis was established based on clinical symptoms only, while PMA result was negative. After all, the clinical picture of the severe forms of leptospirosis is similar to the typical symptoms of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and Crimean hemorrhagic fever.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v10i1.8680
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Fundamentally Transformed: City after City Seeing Rising Crime Rates
By Jack Dunphy 2016-05-19T02:01:20
Gentle reader, you may be forgiven if you’ve come to think I write about nothing but the “Ferguson effect,” i.e., the current tendency among many police officers to refrain from proactive police work or else risk a life-altering confrontation while trying to make an arrest. My previous four columns (find them here) have covered this topic, and now here I am again, banging on that same tired drum. I don’t do this for lack of desire to write about other things. Rather, this phenomenon is simply the most important development in police work since the advent of data-driven police work some 25 years ago. In 1990 there were 2,245 murders in New York City; in 2014 there were 328. In Los Angeles, there were 1,092 murders in 1992; in 2014 there were 260.
More than any other factor, it was data-driven police work, carried out by well-trained, well-informed, and well-motivated cops that brought these grim numbers to their currently more tolerable levels. But now it’s all being undone, and in city after city the trend is once again pointing toward higher crime. America’s police officers are today just as well trained and informed, but they are less motivated to do the proactive police work that keeps criminals in check.
And, as I’ve written before, over and over again, the Ferguson effect and the Black Lives Matter movement that gave rise to it are based on the poisonous lie that the greatest peril to young black men in America is that posed by racist, trigger-happy cops. Put aside for the moment the fact that for every black man killed by a police officer there are dozens killed by other black men. There is now evidence that police officers are less likely to shoot a black suspect than a white one.
Call it a corollary to the Ferguson effect. The Washington Post reported last month on research conducted at Washington State University that attempted to measure racial bias in a group of police officers and how that bias affected the officers’ actions in simulated encounters. The researchers used training simulators in which officers carry weapons that fire an infrared beam onto a screen, on which are projected various scenarios in which an officer may find himself. The officers, 80 volunteers from the Spokane Police Department, were each put through six scenarios in which they encountered armed and unarmed suspects, some of them black, others white. More than 1,500 scenarios were recorded and measured.
The tests were conducted between August 2012 and November 2013, well before the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Mo., that launched the Black Lives Matter movement and gave the Ferguson effect its name. The officers were nearly all male and all white, reflecting the makeup of the Spokane police force. In addition to the scenarios, the officers were given a series of tests, including the Harvard Implicit Association Test, which seeks to detect racial bias by linking pictures of black and white faces with pictures of weapons. “Perhaps stunningly,” reports the Post, “96 percent of the nearly all white officers demonstrated implicit racial bias, with 78 percent strongly or moderately associating blacks with weapons, and zero percent associating whites with weapons. So that’s the baseline test group for the study.” (Italics in the original.)
Despite this, the study showed that “officers took significantly longer to shoot armed black suspects than armed white suspects.” On average, the officers took 0.23 seconds longer to shoot an armed black suspect than an armed white suspect. Of the unarmed suspects, whites were shot 54 times but blacks only twice. Adjusting for the actual ratio of blacks to whites among the suspects, the researchers found that “officers were slightly more than three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white suspects.” One of the researchers, Lois James, summed it up nicely. “These findings,” she said, “call into question the validity of the widespread assumption that implicit racial bias is the cause of the disproportionate number of racial minorities in officer-involved shootings.”
James believes the difference detected can be traced to officers’ fears of the “consequences of shooting a member of a historically oppressed racial group…paired with the awareness of media backlash that follows an officer shooting a minority suspect.”
One doubts that the officers use terms like “historically oppressed racial group,” but so be it. Remember, the study was conducted before the uproar that followed the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, which was not a singular event marking a sea change in police work, but was rather a highly charged and highly publicized example of a trend that began years ago. Indeed, back in 2001 I concluded a column at National Review Online with a little prayer that summed up the police officer’s lot, then as now: “God, if I have to hurt someone today, please let it be a white guy.”
To this point, James cited an interview conducted by my friend David Klinger, a former LAPD officer now working as a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Klinger has done extensive research on police shootings, some of which can be found in his book, Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force. Klinger interviewed an officer who recounted an incident in which a black suspect was menacing people with a rifle. “The whole time I was telling him I was going to shoot him,” he told Klinger. “I was thinking, ‘They’ll crucify me on the news tomorrow if I shoot this black guy in the back.’”
Just so. That interview took place in 2004, and based on recent events one can speculate that the typical police officer is today even more circumspect when it comes to using force on black suspects. But here’s the rub: as officers retreat from the proactive police work that makes crime go down, the increase in crime will result in more radio calls, some of which will lead to confrontations with suspects who have not yet made their escape. And some of those suspects, now emboldened by the police retreat, will be more likely to resist efforts to arrest them.
Perhaps some sense of sanity will be restored before New York sees 2,000 murder in a year or Los Angeles sees 1,000. But with the current state of political leadership in those two cities and elsewhere, I don’t see the trend going anywhere but up.
(Artwork created using multiple Shutterstock.com images.)
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Husky Women Host Final Exhibition With Vanguard Monday
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Washington women's basketball will host its final exhibition game with Vanguard University, Monday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. at Bank of America Arena. Admission is free. The Huskies look to make it 2-0 in exhibition play, coming off an 86-49 victory over Baden Sports, Oct. 31. Washington officially opens the 31st season of women's basketball hosting the WBCA BTI Classic, Sunday, Nov. 14, through Monday, Nov. 15. South Carolina, UNLV and No. 14 Minnesota will take part in the tournament.
Radio Coverage:
All Husky women's basketball games, with the exception of both exhibition contests, can be heard live on the radio at KKNW 1150 AM. Steve Sandmeyer enters his sixth season calling the action, while former Husky Elise (Niemela) Woodward will join Sandmeyer on home broadcasts. Fan can also listen to games on the internet at www.gohuskies.com.
Schedule Change:
Please take note that Washington's Pac-10 game at Washington State in Pullman, Jan. 22, has been moved to 7 p.m. and will be televised by Fox Sports Net Northwest. The addition gives UW a guarantee of eight televised games this season.
Scouting Vanguard University:
Vanguard University, located in Costa Mesa, Calif., was one of the top teams in NAIA Division I last year, advancing to the quarterfinals of the NAIA Tournament and finishing with an overall record of 31-3. The Lions won their second straight Great State Athletic Conference title with an 18-2 league mark. Coach Russ Davis was named GSAC Coach of the Year and guard Lisa Faulkner was selected GSAC Player of the Year. Faulkner, a senior, and sophomore forward Kelly Schmidt were 2004 NAIA All-Americans and are two of five returning starters. Monday's game is Vanguard's first of the year. The Lions have two players with Nortwest ties as Faulkner and senior guard Lacey Mills are graduates of Oregon City High School in Oregon City, Ore.
2004-2005 Season Outlook:
Washington returns seven letterwinners and two starters from last year's squad that finished sixth in the Pac-10 (9-9) and advanced to the second round of the WNIT, finishing with an 18-13 overall record. Sophomore guard Cameo Hicks, a Pac-10 All-Freshman honoree last season, and sophomore forward Breanne Watson are the two returning starters. Also high on the list is sophomore forward Jill Bell who earned Pac-10 All-Freshman honorable mention honors in 2004 and was the team's second leading rebounder as a freshman. The Huskies add three players who redshirted last year, including junior guard Kayla Burt, junior guard Kristen O'Neill and sophomore guard Erica Schelly. Five freshmen join the team this year, led by guard Dominique Banks from Stockton, Calif. Also joining up are guard Stefanie Clark, guard Emily Florence, guard Jackie Hollands and forward Andrea Plouffe. The Huskies are young - the roster is void of any seniors. Burt and O'Neill will co-captain the squad, the two elder statesmen on a team with 12 underclassmen. With the exception of Schelly who redshirted last year, Washington's other six sophomores all saw significant playing time last year, and have experience beyond what their one varsity letter may indicate.
Burt Leads Huskies To Exhibition Victory:
Washington junior Kayla Burt scored 13 points in her first game since suffering a cardiac arrest on Dec. 31, 2002, leading the Huskies to an 86-49 exhibition win over Baden Sports, Oct. 31. Fans cheered loudly for Burt during pregame introductions, and roared when the Arlington, Wash., native scored just seven seconds into her UW return, taking a touch pass off the opening tipoff into the lane for a left-to-right layin. Burt's 13 points led four Huskies in double digits, including sophomore Jill Bell (12), freshman Dominque Banks (11) and sophomore Cameo Hicks (10). Baden Sports, a team comprised of former Division-I players from up and down the West Coast, were led by the 10 points of Nevada alum KaTrina Crenshaw. Former Huskies Emily Autrey, Sara Best and Alicia Heathcote each started for the Baden Sports squad, combining for 10 points in the contest. Washington dominated the rebounds on their own end of the court, turning 35 offensive rebounds into 37 second-chance points. For the game, the Huskies finished with a 60-36 rebounding advantage, and hit nine of 23 (.391) three-point attempts, opposite just one-of-11 (.091) for the visitors.
Life After Giuli:
The Huskies will have the challenge of playing without 2003 Pac-10 Player of the Year and two-time honorable mention All-American, Giuliana Mendiola, who averaged 21.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists last season. Mendiola finished her career as UW's second all-time leading scorer and set school records for points and assists in a single season, among many other milestones. Giuli isn't the only player UW will be missing as seniors Andrea Lalum and Gioconda Mendiola were the team's next two leading scorers from a year ago. Last season those three seniors accounted for 63 percent of the team's points and 39 percent of its rebounding.
We're Back:
Juniors Kayla Burt and Kristen O'Neill, along with sophomore Erica Schelly, return to active duty after all using redshirt years last year. O'Neill was sidelined with a stress fracture in her left foot, and Schelly missed the season after suffering a broken foot in the first day of practice. Burt rejoined the roster this year after initally retiring from basketball after a cardiac arrest episode on New Year's Eve, 2002. At the time she was diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome, but further testing came up negative for the condition. Burt was granted permission by the university to rejoin the team in August, 2004. She will play with a defibrillator implanted in her chest.
The Schedule:
Washington will face a challenging schedule this year, facing seven teams that participated in the NCAA Tournament last season and three teams that advanced to the WNIT. Washington will host two home tournaments, the WBCA BTI Classic Nov. 14-15 and the Seattle Times Classic, Nov. 26-27. Seven regular season games will be televised by Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports Net Northwest. Among those teams highlighting the 2004-05 docket include 2004 NCAA Final Four team Minnesota, Elite Eight team Stanford and Sweet 16 teams Notre Dame and Baylor.
Home Sweet Home:
Washington will have the luxury of playing four of its first five games at home, where it has recorded an overall record of 25-5 over the past two seasons. The Huskies will make their official season debut in the second game of the WBCA BTI Classic, Nov. 14. UW will face South Carolina at 3 p.m., a game preceded by a contest between UNLV and Minnesota at 1 p.m. The Huskies will face the Golden Gophers on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. After a quick trip to play Michigan on Nov. 22, UW will return home to host the Seattle Times Husky Classic, Nov. 26-27.
Huskies On Television:
Eight games have been selected for either national or local broadcast by Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports Northwest. UW's schedule will kick off with an FSN national broadcast of its home game with Baylor, Wed., Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. Washington's next home game against Colorado, Tues., Dec. 21, at 8 p.m. will be televised locally on FSN Northwest. The Huskies' other FSN nationally televised game will be at Oregon State, Saturday, Jan. 15, at 3 p.m. FSN Northwest will pick up three additional home contests including Arizona State (Dec. 29, 7 p.m.), USC (Jan. 7, 7 p.m.) and Washington State (Feb. 19, 6 p.m.). Washington's road games at Stanford, Jan. 4, and at WSU, Jan. 22, will also be picked up by FSN Northwest. Two more games have the potential to be broadcast as a wildcard selection by FSN, the Feb. 12 home game versus Oregon and the Feb. 26 regular season finale at Arizona.
UW Picked Fifth In Pac-10 Media Poll, Sixth In Coaches Poll:
The Huskies were picked to finish fifth in the Pac-10 according to a poll of media members who regularly cover the leavue. UW was tabbed to finish sixth according to the Pac-10 Coaches Poll. Stanford and Arizona were picked by the media to tie for the Pac-10 title, while the Cardinal alone was chosen by the coaches to finish first.
Husky Coaching Staff:
June Daugherty enters her ninth season as the head coach of the Husky women's basketball team, having led Washington to the postseason all but one year of her tenure. She has guided UW to four NCAA Tournaments, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2000-01, and three trips to the WNIT. She was also one of 25 finalists for the prestigious Naismith Coach of the Year award in 2002-03. Twice has a Daugherty squad reached the 22-win plateau and only once has a Husky squad finished with less than 16 wins in a season. Daugherty has compiled a UW record of 140-99, and a career record of 263-173. She coached seven seasons at Boise State before coming to Seattle. Her husband, Mike, is the Huskies' Associate Head Coach, while Janet Soderberg and Kellie Lewis-Jay are the two assistants. Mike Daugherty is in his ninth year with the team, while Soderberg begins her first season and Lewis-Jay enters her second year.
The Boise Connection:
Washington's entire coaching staff, as well as two players, all have connections to Boise, Idaho. June and Mike Daugherty coached at Boise State from 1990-1996, and among the players they coached were current UW assistants Janet Soderberg and Kellie Lewis-Jay. Soderberg also coached with the Daughertys for one season at BSU (1995-96), and coached Lewis-Jay as a player from 1995-98. Sophomore Maggie O'Hara and freshman Emily Florence both hail from Boise, Idaho, and were teammates at Timberline High School. Lewis-Jay coached the pair on an AAU Idaho Elite team during their prep careers.
Youth Movement:
It's safe to say that Washington is beginning a new era in women's basketball, as 12 of the 15 players on the roster are underclassmen - seven sophomores and five freshmen. UW's elder states'women' are redshirt juniors Kayla Burt, Nicole Castro and Kristen O'Neill. Student assistant Kirsten Brockman is a senior, but was forced to retire from basketball after suffering from severe stress fracture injuries. The last time Washington did not have a single senior on its roster was 1999-2000.
Huskies Top Attendance Charts:
Washington led the Pac-10 in home attendance the last two years, as well as ranking among the Top-20 national leaders in home attendance. The Huskies' average attendance in 2003-04 was 4,255 fans per game. UW attracted over 6,000 fans for two home games last year, versus Arizona and USC. In 2002-03, UW set an all-time women's basketball attendance record at the arena, when 8,408 fans packed the house to watch the Huskies defeat UCLA 111-77. And for the first time in school history, UW had back-to-back crowds of over 8,000 when 8,083 attended the game versus Stanford on Feb. 13. Washington's average home attendance in 2002-03 was 4,981 and for Pac-10 home games, an average of 5,839 fans were on hand to cheer on the Huskies.
Injury Report:
Redshirt-sophomore guard Angie Jones had arthroscopic surgery on her right knee Oct. 26. Jones, who had two ACL reconstruction surgeries on that same knee, is expected to be back in 3-4 weeks.
March Madness Is Back In Seattle:
For the second straight year, Washington will play host to NCAA March Madness. After hosting the NCAA West Regional last year, UW will host the 2005 NCAA Women's Basketball First and Second Rounds, Saturday, March 19, and Monday, March 21. The first and second rounds will be conducted at eight predetermined sites, which represents a change from the previous 16 first and second round sites. Tickets are available by calling the Husky ticket office at 206-543-2200 or by logging onto www.gohuskies.com. All-session ticket prices for adults are $40, while student and youth (under age 18) will be $24. Single-session prices are $16 for adults and $10 for student/youth. Should the Huskies advance to the NCAA Tournament, they would play on their home court at Bank of America Arena.
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Was It Public Diplomacy or a Telling Of America’s Story?
Fred Becchetti, USIA 1962-89
In 1962 on my first day at USIA Edward R. Murrow greeted me at the front door of 1776 Pennsylvania Avenue. He smiled and said good morning to me as he hurried out the main door to his waiting car.
Somewhat stunned by seeing him, I smiled back and thought how great to be greeted by the USIA director himself on my arrival from Arizona to help him tell America’s story.
Nobody ever told me how to tell that story, but for 27 years I told a story in Latin America that won me many good friends in five different countries and earned me various Agency awards. Officers of my generation, also without instructions on telling America’s story, told stories similar to mine around the world.
We were a relatively undisciplined bunch working hard on our stories on the fringe of American embassies staffed by very serious State people who never quite understood us. We, in turn, never understood why they were always so serious. After all, there was always a wonderful story of America to tell, no matter how we told it.
The term “public diplomacy” didn’t get invented until the mid-1960’s. Most of us in USIA never quite understood what it meant. I never heard the term in ordinary conversation, but I saw it in documents meant to impress people with how serious we were.
Now, a half-century later, I analyze some of my own projects and hear the exploits of some of my contemporaries in our war against Soviet communism and I wonder if what we were doing could be listed under the high-falutin term of “public diplomacy.” It may be that we were just having a good time being Americans and making friends.
Softball: For example, take the distinguished silver-haired CAO and the BNC director in Honduras who played first and second base for two years on a Honduran softball team and drank beer with their Honduran teammates in a local cantina after every game, win or lose, while replaying every inning and razzing one another in Spanish.
Space: Then there was the officer who spent an hour explaining to his family’s Panamanian maid what she had seen on the television screen when the scenes of the Apollo moon landing were shown. Bursting with pride, he told her that two American men — Si, Maria, americanos! — had actually walked on the moon. The maid listened courteously and informed him that she didn’t believe it. He asked why. With great seriousness and addressing the officer as though he were a child, Maria explained that a man cannot stand or walk on light.
Balalaika Diplomacy: High in the Bolivian Andes, an officer told his story of America to the tune of his balalaika. His artistry on the instrument won him fame throughout Bolivia, earning him invitations to concertize in other Latin American countries. His address in retirement is Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Crafts: An officer led a group of Indians attired in their native dress and carrying bulky bags through the Marine checkpoint and up the stairs of an American Embassy to his office in the USIS section. He invited the Indians to sit on the floor of an anteroom and display their crafts. Embassy personnel drifted in to haggle and purchase items. On an invitation from the Indians, the officer later visited their village.
Opera: On a visit to the American Canal Zone, the BNC-Panama director met an American lieutenant colonel, whose sister, Metropolitan Opera star Leontyne Price, was visiting him in the Zone and wanted to go across “to see the real Panama.” The officer invited her to his binational center, housed in a dilapidated mansion in Old Panama. Accompanied by her brother, the opera singer visited the BNC and spent the afternoon chatting delightfully with members of Panama’s music community, including descendants of the men from the Caribbean islands who worked on building the Canal.
MOMA: An officer in Chile read of a retrospective exhibit of Picasso’s works to be mounted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He persuaded forty members of the Chilean art community to pay their own way to New York to see the exhibit, tour New York City and take a side tour to Philadelphia to visit the art museum there as well as Liberty Hall and the Liberty Bell.
TESOL: With his English-teaching seminars, an officer became friends with hundreds of Venezuelan English teachers. He organized a delegation of thirty-five teachers to travel to Miami Beach at their own cost to the first convention of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), where they were introduced to the revolutionary methodology of the time. On their return, the teachers founded their own English teacher association, updated the country’s English program and traveled to subsequent TESOL gatherings in San Antonio, Denver and other American cities.
Street Art: In the Benjamin Franklin American Cultural Center in Mexico City, an officer mounted an exhibit of art to be seen on the streets of the Mexican capital. It included a specially constructed window display of wedding dresses and a vendor’s street cart stacked artistically with colorfully packaged candies. That same officer even presented a musical program in which the same short composition was played over and over, day and night, for sixteen solid hours by Mexico’s leading pianists in relay.
Jazz: And there was the CAO in Panama who learned that Duke Ellington and his orchestra ending a tour in South America would be laying-over one day in Panama on their way back to the States. The officer contacted Duke Ellington and received a commitment that the group would do a concert in Panama the night of their arrival. In the space of five days, the officer found a local sponsor, lined up a concert venue and organized the sale of 7,000 tickets. The 70-year old Ellington was on stage the entire concert and spent another hour and a half into the night with Panamanian musicians lined up after the concert to express their admiration and show him their own compositions, standing in awe when he played their own works on the piano.
Theater: The Agency sent a huge presentation of the musical “Showboat” to Venezuela. The BNC officer arranged with the city fathers for the placement of the monstrous inflated tent theater in the middle of the city’s large park, Parque del Este. He also recruited American and Venezuelan families to take in cast members during their stay. The wife of the BNC director even did some personal laundry for cast members who stayed with them. Later, in Panama, she would do laundry for members of an American basketball team.
Ask just about any so-called USIA “warrior” of the Cold War and you will hear of similar projects such as:
Wheelchairs: A fund-raising campaign to purchase wheelchairs for the disabled.
College Counseling : The establishment of a counseling center for foreigners planning to attend college in the U.S.
Radio: A radio program of American classical music using Agency-furnished vinyl records and moderated by an American officer speaking in Anglo-accented Spanish.
English: The teaching of English to the president and top officials of the country.
High schools: Graduation speeches and the handing out of diplomas to hundreds of teenage graduates, including girls who, because of tradition, had to be kissed on both cheeks.
Art: Arrangements for exchanges between young artists and American artists like Roy Lichtenstein, who when asked why he painted large cartoons, replied, “Because they are there.”
English Centers: The management of large BNC English-teaching centers with enrollments of up to 10,000 students from kindergarten to college levels, with courses in typing and computers.
Were we diplomats without striped pants or were we simply Americans winging it in country after country? All I know is that we were a corps of exciting and hard-working men and women who charged fearlessly into new cultures all over the world and emerged rich in friendships forged with sophisticated and intelligent men and women, many of whom rose to leadership positions in their countries perhaps because of the story of America that we told in our wanderings under the inspiration of Edward R. Murrow, the man who greeted me at the door of USIA.
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Washington Capitals 2012-2013 Previews -- Defensemen: Jeff Schultz
Jeff Schultz
Theme: “Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Over a 129-game stretch, from December 28, 2008, through November 5, 2010, Jeff Schultz played to a plus-71. That included his plus-50 in 73 games in the 2009-2010, the highest plus-minus of any player since Lockout I, and the highest for a defenseman since Chris Pronger was plus-52 in 1999-2000. Since then, however, Schultz is a more pedestrian minus-4 in his last 113 games.
Whatever you think of that plus-minus statistic, Schultz’ change of fortune largely mirrors that of the Capitals. In that 129-game run the Caps were 85-28-16 (a 118-standings point pace). Since then, the Caps are 81-51-19 overall (a 98-point pace), and Schultz has found ice time harder to come by, down from 19:17 a game in his big 2009-2010 season to an average of 15:17 last season.
His underlying statistics since that 2009-2010 season to point to a drop in efficiency in his play. His raw Corsi values at 5-on-5, for example, dropped from 8.52 to -2.62 to -4.94 (numbers from behindthenet.ca). His goals-against on ice per 60 minutes jumped from 1.61 to 2.27 before settling at 2.11. The difference between goals-against scored on ice to goals-against scored off ice per 60 minutes was a sparkling -0.74 in 2009-2010 (minus being the better number here), while in 2010-2011 it was +0.33 and -0.51 in 2011-2012. And if you think that 2011-2012 mark is an improvement over2010-2011 (it is), it also should be tempered by the fact that Schultz has been facing lower quality of competition relative to his teammates, too – second on the club in 2009-2010 (to Tom Poti among defensemen playing the entire season with the Caps and appearing in at least 40 games), third in 2010-2011 (Karl Alzner, John Carlson), and fourth last season (Alzner, Carlson, Dennis Wideman).
Fearless’ Take…
There is one area in which Schultz has improved, though. Last season he finished with his highest hits-per-game (0.91) in his six-year career. It was comparable to the values for Karl Alzner (0.90) and Mike Green (0.84). We mention this because some Caps fans seem to place considerable importance on this statistic with respect to Schultz.
Cheerless’ Take…
Can we get back to semi-serious stuff? If there is one thing that might linger as a reason Schultz will lurk on the edge of a third-pair spot it is that in 29 playoff games he is a minus-10. He has been on ice for 27 goals against is 29 career playoff games (0.93/game). That looks a lot like Mike Green (0.94 in 50 career playoff games), but there are two differences. First, Schultz is a “defensive” defenseman. He doesn't do anything else than to keep the other team from scoring. If he is not doing that, then is there a reason for him to be out there? Second, if looks to me like Green’s numbers are headed in the right direction faster than Schultz. In his first three playoffs Green was on ice for 34 goals in 28 games (1.21/game). In his last two post-seasons that number dropped to 13 in 22 games (0.59). Compare that to Schultz, who was 13 goals on ice in 11 games in his first three playoff seasons (1.18) and 14 in 19 over his last three post-seasons (0.74).
The Big Question… Is Jeff Schultz suited to the sort of game Adam Oates wants to play?
Again, no one has seen Adam Oates coach a game in anger yet, so his philosophy is a big unknown to Caps fans. We hear he will not be as buttoned down as Dale Hunter, but not as Animal House as Bruce Boudreau. Even if he achieves a happy median, it might not look too good for Jeff Schultz. After all, Schultz dressed for only 33 of 60 games under Hunter, and he did not distinguish himself in ten playoff games (no points, minus-7) in place of Dmitry Orlov, who was effectively benched for the post-season.
For Schultz, will a game that could be more up-tempo than what Dale Hunter implemented be compatible with his skills? Well, Schultz was that plus-50 under Bruce Boudreau, so it is not as if he is a slug out there. The answer to the question might be more in whether Schultz can shake off any rust that playing in only 126 of the last 164 regular season games might leave him with or if he can find happiness – or at least stability – with this, his third coach in the space of 11 months.
Last season was Schultz’ first as a “minus” player in his six-year career. And while a minus-2 did not have quite the impact of a minus-8 from Dennis Wideman or a team-worst minus-15 from John Carlson, five defensemen playing more than 25 games for the Caps were on the plus side of the ledger. Being a minus player should not be an expected result. And for those who are counting, Schultz has the third most regular season games played for the Capitals since the lockout among defensemen (373), one fewer than Shaone Morrisonn and 25 fewer than Mike Green. Youth is not an excuse for sub-par play, and at age 26 he is too young for regression in his game to seep in and be accepted as part of the normal course of a player’s career.
Morrisonn actually is an apt comparable here. Let us set aside the irony that Morrisonn and the first round draft pick that became Schultz came to Washington in the same trade (along for a second roundr pick for Sergei Gonchar). Morrisonn was almost exclusively a defensive defenseman who might put up 10-15 points, but who was expected to be solid, if not flashy in his own end. He was just that for Washington for his first three-plus seasons in DC, seasons in which he averaged more than 20 minutes of ice time a night and was plus-14 in 237 games. But then his ice time was cut (from 20:16 a game in 2007-2008 to 17:59 in 2008-2009) and slightly more again (17:34) in 2009-2010. He left Washington for Buffalo as a free agent at the end of the 2009-2010 season.
It was a case of some – including Schultz – perhaps passing Morrisonn by. Now we might have Schultz being passed by in ice time by Karl Alzner, John Carlson, and Dmitry Orlov. It will be interesting to see if Schultz’ can recover enough of his game, if not to be the near 20-minute-a-game player he was in 2009-2010, to be a player who gets a sweater on a night-in, night-out basis.
Projection: 58 games, 1-5-6, plus-6
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Labels: 2012-2013 previews, Jeff Schultz, NHL, the peerless prognosticator, Washington Capitals
Washington Capitals 2012-2013 Previews -- Defensemen: Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov
Theme: “Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
-- Vince Lombardi
At this time last year Dmitry Orlov was in rookie camp preparing himself for what was expected to be a season in Hershey in which he would develop both on and off the ice. In fact he would be assigned to the AHL Hershey Bears in the first week of October, one of the last cuts of training camp. His ability to stick around through both rookie and training camps was a harbinger of things to come.
Orlov, who already had 19 regular season and six playoff games for Hershey at the end of the 2010-2011 season, would not last that long at Hershey in his second visit. He was recalled from Hershey on November 20th after 15 games with the Bears, the Caps needing a spark in the midst of 3-6-1 stretch. It was a bit much to think that a rookie call-up could provide enough of a spark by himself, and the Caps continued their slide, culminating in the firing of Head Coach Bruce Boudreau a week after Orlov’s promotion.
Orlov stuck, though, playing in 60 of the last 64 games of the regular season. He would finish the regular season fourth in total scoring among rookie defensemen, tied for second in assists, fifth in hits, 16th in blocked shots, sixth in takeaways, and in the top-25 in average ice time. It was a very productive season for a youngster who was supposed to spend the year in Hershey.
His underlying numbers were what one might have expected of a rookie who was not thought of in the preseason as being a lock to make the parent roster. He got a break in terms of quality of competition (173rd of 198 defensemen playing in at least 40 games) and offensive zone starts (82nd among that same group). Even with those advantages his Corsi value relative to quality of competition was 170th of those 198 defensemen, and his offensive zone finishes were 156th (all numbers from behindthenet.ca). There were possession issues in his game that should not have been a surprise.
But with 60 NHL games under his belt he got a jump start on his development. That is what makes the lockout unfortunate in terms of Orlov’s progress. Delaying the chance to build on that experience for a month or two, or worse an entire season, jeopardizes those fortuitous gains.
Let us remember that Orlov is still only two months removed from his 21st birthday. Since the lockout Orlov is one of only 14 defensemen between the ages of 18 and 20 in their first season who played in at least 60 games and recorded at least 19 points. And that list is rather impressive, including as it does: Tyler Myers, Andrej Meszaros, Dion Phaneuf, Drew Doughty, Michael Del Zotto, Cam Fowler, Victor Hedman, Justin Faulk, and Erik Karlsson.
Guys, here are two words for you…”play offs.” Orlov did not play so much as one second in the post season. Jeff Schultz, who dressed for only 29 of the last 55 regular season games, got a sweater for 10 of the Caps’ 14 playoff games. John Erskine, who dressed for one game – one game – out of the last 33 regular season games, got the other four playoff games as the sixth defenseman instead of Orlov. Is he really ready for prime time?
The Big Question… Does Orlov’s absence in the 2012 post-season portend a sophomore slump in 2012-2013?
Base on the company he keeps in terms of his first-year production, the temptation is to say “no.” But of course, this is really a question that has only a speculative answer in advance. His being withheld from the post-season did not appear to be a clear product of any late-season slump. He was 1-8-9, plus-3 in his last 20 games while averaging almost 17 minutes a game. It is certainly harder to shelter a player when the level of competition ramps up, as in the playoffs. It will be difficult to do so this season if Orlov gets some of the minutes that Dennis Wideman took to Calgary. But that is going to be part of the pain to be endured as Orlov develops the defensive side of his game. His offensive game is further developed at this stage than his game in his own end, and one might expect in that regard that he will not suffer such a sophomore slump.
In the history of the Washington Capitals franchise, do you know how many defensemen aged 20 or younger played 60 or more games in their first season with the club?
Three.
Scott Stevens in 1982-1983, Robert Picard in 1977-1978, and Dmitry Orlov last season. Both Stevens and Picard enjoyed long NHL careers, Stevens playing for 22 seasons and Picard playing for 13 seasons. This is not to say that Orlov’s upside is the Hall of Fame career assembled by Scott Stevens, but he has at least a toe-hold on the ladder to a productive career in the NHL.
Given the state of the Capitals’ roster, Orlov probably gets slotted as the fifth defenseman. He has the offensive game to at least spell Mike Green or John Carlson on the power play squad (he averaged 44 seconds of power play time per game last season). And while it is probably convenient to say he has to work on his game in the defensive zone, he was on ice for only 36 goals against in 60 games last season. His goals against on-ice per 60 minutes at 5-on-5 was second best on the club. That is a value that has to be taken in the context of his advantageous minutes and situations (especially when you consider that John Erskine had the best such mark), but he did not necessarily fail to suggest there is something to work with there.
For Dmitry Orlov the trick is going to be playing this season in a way in which he corrects the shortcomings of his first season. That is how he can quickly become a fixture in the Capitals’ lineup for years to come.
Projection: 67 games, 5-17-22, plus-4
Labels: 2012-2013 previews, dmitry orlov, NHL, the peerless prognosticator, Washington Capitals
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Ubud is a small and enchanting town set toward the southern end of Indonesia's sun-struck island of Bali. The town is surrounded by deep lush jungle, peaceful rice paddies, and rocky ravines - making for a picture-perfect tropical setting. Ubud is also a paradise for culture and history fiends, being flush with inspiring museums and galleries. There are also old-world temples and opulent palaces to explore.
Start your other-worldly Ubud day by taking in some of the buzzing town’s top heritage sites. The Ubud Palace is a great place to start - a pyramid-style stacked building that towers into Bali’s blue skies, delicately decorated with intricate patterns. There are bright red-roofed halls in the flower-flecked palace grounds, where you can catch live dance performances. After, head to the weird and wonderful Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, just outside of Ubud. This jungle haven - stippled with vine-clad ruins - is home to dozens of playful monkeys that are known for interacting with visitors - making for an unforgettable day out. Back in Ubud, art-lovers should check out the Agung Rai Museum of Art, a tranquil gallery showcasing paintings, carvings, and sculptures from local Balinese and international artists. The museum is set in lush green grounds, where you can stroll through paddy fields.
Hotels in Ubud
Ubud absolutely overflows with hotels, which cater to all types of tastes and budgets. If you’re a backpacking island explorer looking for a cheap and easy place to bed down, check out the 2-star hotels in Ubud. Here, you’ll benefit from handy amenities like free WiFi and complimentary breakfasts. For something a little fancier, stay in a 3-star hotel, and unwind in the large air-conditioned rooms that come with four-poster beds and adjoining balconies. The luxury-seeking holidaymaker, meanwhile, can immerse themselves in the supreme relaxation of a 5-star Ubud hotel, which offer sublime spa services and shimmering pools.
While Ubud feels like a relatively small town, it has expanded over the years to subsume the surrounding villages into its booming, cultural core. As such, there’s a mix of diverse vibes and atmospheres spread throughout. But for no-holds-barred energy and excitement, where you’ll be surrounded by electrifying streets lined with cool cafes and bouncing bars, stay in central Ubud. Shoppers will also love the eclectic street markets in this area. For something more peaceful, with easy access to a wealth of outdoor activities, stay slightly west, beside the gently rolling rice paddies. If you’re after easy access to the nearby city of Denpasar, stay south of the centre.
How to get to Ubud
Surrounded by such dense, flourishing jungle, Ubud feels like an isolated urban wonderland - but it’s actually very easy to get to. Catch a flight to Ngurah Rai International Airport - the gateway to Bali - based just south of Denpasar. Fly in from dozens of destinations across Asia and Australia - there’s even a flight from Amsterdam. From there, simply hop in a taxi at the airport - make sure to take one from the official taxi office - and sit back as you’re whizzed the 1 hour 15 minutes to Ubud. Once there, you can take shared shuttle buses to get around the main sights. Alternatively, motorcycle rentals are a popular - and fun - way to get around.
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State of Maricopa County: Economic growth, new projects
Danny Imes on 02/21/2019
All News > State of Maricopa County: Economic growth, new projects
On February 20, the Greater Phoenix Chamber hosted its inaugural State of Maricopa County event as a part of the Economic Development Insider Series.
Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Bill Gates, kicked off the event with an overview of the economic state of Maricopa County and provided insights into what county officials are doing to move the region forward.
Last year, Maricopa County was named the fastest growing county in the country. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maricopa County saw a 1.7% population increase and is still considered the fourth most populous county in the U.S. This growth signals big things on the horizon for the region.
“I represent District 3. I want to tell you a little bit about our vision today. Our vision is for a Maricopa County that has a smart government that is using technology and innovating to provide the best services to residents,” said Gates. “We’re working hard as a Board to be the most forward-thinking county in the U.S.”
Gates highlighted several county projects including the redaptive reuse of old county buildings, evaluating how elections function to make it easier for voters, fostering partnerships that make it easier for residents to utilize services, and focusing on working collaboratively with cities to resolve county-wide issues like homelessness.
The county is also focused on continuing to be a large source of big data.
“We are an incredible source of big data. Because of that, back in 2016, our medical examiners started to see this opioid crisis. Recently, Maricopa County has filed a lawsuit against the drug manufacturers at the center of this opioid crisis,” said Gates.
With a strong focus on keeping regulations and the tax burden low, Maricopa County is looking toward the future.
“In Maricopa County, we want to become the first smart region,” said Gates. “We look forward to working alongside the Chamber and other organizations to establish Maricopa County as a smart region. Maricopa County is a natural place for this development.”
Key priorities across the county
After the Gates’ remarks, a panel of representatives from various cities and communities discussed key activities that are boosting the vitality of the region.
Each city representative shared their insights on economic development, key growth industries, working collaboratively together and with the County to resolve issues, and the biggest challenges they face in moving forward.
For Bill Jabiniak, the Economic Development Director at the City of Mesa, a big focus is on quality jobs. While Mesa city officials are interested in supporting businesses that bring quality jobs, many businesses are facing workforce challenges; a challenge other cities and the county know all too well.
“Companies are now focused on workforce, workforce, workforce,” said Chris Mackay, Community & Economic Development Director at the City of Phoenix. “We’re focusing on upskilling our underemployed workforce.”
In addition to that though, Mackay highlighted that Arizona’s universities, community colleges, and technical certificate programs are staples in the community, stating that Arizona is retaining the workforce it is educating.
Focusing on talent and jobs is vital to the West Valley as well. Jeanine Jerkovic, Economic Development Director of the City of Surprise discussed the west valley’s growth.
“We’re seeing huge growth in health care jobs,” said Jerkovic. “Destiny Springs Behavioral Health just opened and is hiring 300 people out of the gate.”
Alongside industry growth, the City of Surprise is excited to see Ottawa Univesity complete its residential campus and be on track to house 800 students next year.
“[We’re] creating a hometown university to close our skills gap,” said Jerkovic. She added that existing universities do a great job, but the West Valley needed something further west to meet the needs of that community.
In Chandler, creating a strong and stable foundation for business is key for their continued development.
“We look for partnerships when it comes to workforce training,” said Micah Miranda, Economic Development Director with the City of Chandler. “We’re planting the seeds today for where we are looking to grow ten years from now.”
From the conversation with the panelists, it’s clear that Arizona’s cities are working together and with the County to resolve regional issues such as workforce and infrastructure, and to achieve new goals to make Maricopa County the most competitive county in the nation.
Interested in learning about more about economic development projects in the county? Read an update from Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors.
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Rate request: 36.6 percent increase
Decision: Approved October 25, 2018
On September 12, 2018, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company requested an increase of 36.6 percent for a small book of business individual long-term care plans that provide coverage for nursing home facilities. The plans were marketed from 1994 to 1998 and are no longer being offered. There are approximately 120 policies currently in effect in Connecticut.
The company said the rate increase is needed because the benefit costs have exceeded original pricing expectations. The company said it has been paying benefit costs longer than expected and there are more policies in effect that what the company had anticipated.
Unlike medical health insurance with premiums set to cover expenses incurred only during the upcoming policy year, long term care premiums are set to cover expenses that are not expected to occur until a distant date, sometimes 20 years in the future.
After an actuarial review, the Department determined that experience on this block of business continues to deteriorate, even after the implementation of a 40 percent rate increase in 2016. Additionally, the statutory 60 percent loss ratio requirement has also been met on these policies, meaning the company is spending at least 60 cents of every premium dollar on benefit costs. As a result, the Department approved the rate request on October 25, 2018.
The company said it would offer its policyholders benefit options in order to mitigate the impact of a rate increase. Under Connecticut law, increases of 20 percent or more must be phased in over three years.
Find the filing documents here at Long-Term Care Insurance Rate Filing
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News Release: Union Representing Port of Churchill Workers Reacts to Omnitrax’s Cynical NAFTA Claim
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Winnipeg – The union representing Port of Churchill workers is calling on the federal government to finally recognize that Omnitrax will play no further role in the future of the Hudson Bay Railway, the Port of Churchill, and the communities affected by their negligence. Today, Omnitrax declared its intention to sue the federal government under NAFTA rather than live up to its duty to repair the rail line.
“It has been clear from day one that Omnitrax has abandoned its responsibility to Churchill,” said Marianne Hladun, Regional Executive Vice-President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Prairie Region. “Waiting for lawsuits and counter suits to solve this issue will only mean more delay, more devastation and more hardship for the people of Churchill. The time is now to bring the Port and the railway into public hands.”
Similar to an airport authority, port authority status would allow community and government representatives to sit on the board and be accountable to various stakeholders, including municipalities and Indigenous communities, instead of being focused solely on corporate shareholders. The Minister of Transport has the authority under the Canada Marine Act to amend the list of regulated port authorities by Order in Council or regulation.
In addition to calling on the government to save the port by converting the Port of Churchill into a Port Authority under federal jurisdiction, the PSAC and the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees (UCTE) want the Province of Manitoba to institute a fuel subsidy to offset the exorbitant gasoline prices that northern communities are facing, and sit down with all the partners in Churchill to help develop an economic plan that includes fixing the rail line and re-opening the valuable Port of Churchill for business again.
“Both the federal and provincial governments have had their heads in the sand, ignoring the fact that Omnitrax has made it clear it will not take the necessary steps to repair the rail line and get the Port of Churchill back to work,” said Teresa Eschuk, UCTE National Vice-President. “It’s time to kick Omnitrax out, and get to work with the real partners dedicated to the future of Churchill.”
PSAC represents more than 170,000 workers across Canada, including more than 60 workers at the Port of Churchill. UCTE is a component of the PSAC that represents members working at Transport Canada, Canadian Coast Guard, Nav Canada, and airports across the country.
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The On-Deck Circle: No. 10 Georgia Tech (10-3) at NC State (9-2)
Friday: Buck Farmer, RHP (2-1, 3.32) vs. Anthony Tzamtzis, RHP (1-0, 4.50), 3:00 p.m.
Saturday: Matt Grimes, RHP (2-1, 1.80) vs. Carlos Rodon, LHP (2-0, 1.35), 2:00 p.m.
Sunday: Dusty Isaacs, RHP (3-0, 2.89) vs. Logan Jernigan, RHP (2-0, 2.25), 1:00 p.m.
No. 10 Georgia Tech opens ACC play this weekend as they travel to Doak Field in Raleigh, N.C., to take on the Wolfpack of North Carolina State.
The Jackets will try to bounce back from Wednesday’s frustrating 5-4 loss to Georgia State that ended their five-game winning streak. Cole Pitts (2-1) took the loss despite allowing only two earned runs and five hits over four innings. Daniel Palka hit his fourth homer of the season in the seventh, extending his hitting streak to 12 straight games, and Jake Davies had two hits and scored a run, but the Jackets left men on base in every inning and stranded 13 in coming up one run short. Tech’s four errors in the fifth inning contributed to a GSU three-run rally that extended the lead to 5-1. The Jackets rallied for two in the seventh and another in the ninth but couldn’t push across the equalizer.
NC State won its fourth in a row on Wednesday, blasting Davidson, 11-0. The Wolfpack has outscored its opponents 38-6 during their streak. Junior righty Danny Healey (2-0) got the win, entering the game in the third inning, following starter Logan Jernigan, and throwing three innings of one-hit ball. Outfielder Logan Ratledge went 3-for-5 with a run and three RBIs, and shortstop Chris Diaz had two hits, extending his season-long hitting streak to 11 games, with a run scored and two RBIs to lead the 13-hit assault. State broke open the game with a six-run third inning, helped by three of Davidson’s eight errors on the day.
Georgia Tech and NC State renew a rivalry that dates back to 1921. The Yellow Jackets hold a 70-46 lead in the series and have dominated of late, having won six straight meetings and 11 of the last 14. The series is a lot tighter at Doak, where the Wolfpack holds a 24-21 edge all time and has won the last two series.
All three games can be heard on WREK, 91.1 FM with Nolan Alexander and Wade Rogers calling the action. The games also will be webcast on RamblinWreck.com and Gametracker is available. Saturday’s and Sunday’s games also can be seen on ESPN3.
Last Time We Met: Georgia Tech extended its season winning streak to 12, blowing away NC State last March 18-20 at Russ Chandler Stadium, outscoring the Wolfpack 32-6 in the weekend set. In the opener, Kyle Wren (4-for-6) and Jacob Esch (3-for-5) went a combined 7-for-11 with three runs scored in the 1-2 slots and Mott Hyde’s two-run double in the sixth broke a 1-1 tie in a 9-2 victory. Mark Pope allowed a run and three hits over eight innings to get the win. The Jackets, who had 13 hits, broke the game open late scoring two in the seventh and four in the eighth. The bats stayed hot on Saturday, pounding out 17 hits in a 12-0 victory. Matt Skole’s three-run double and Jake Davies’ three-run homer highlighted a six-run third inning that opened the scoring and provided more than enough support for Jed Bradley, who threw seven innings of five-hit, shutout ball and had a no-hitter through three. Tech swept the series, routing State on Sunday, 11-4, behind Daniel Palka’s 3-for-5, four RBI day and the pitching of Buck Farmer, who allowed four runs and six hits, while striking out seven in 6 2/3 innings. Palka, who singled, doubled and tripled, blasted a two-run, ground-rule double as part of a four-run first and Tech was on its way. Wren had two hits on Sunday and finished the series batting .643 (9-for-14), with five runs scored. Palka hit .417 (5-for-12), with six RBIs. The Jackets out-hit State, .389 to .177 in the three games.
Sam, Bam!: Sam Dove has really found his groove. Since starting the season hitting .176 over his first five games (3-for-17), the junior and former walk-on has been flying high. He heads into the weekend leading the Jackets in hitting at .404, and over the last eight games is batting .533 (16-for-30). He’s currently tied with Palka with six multi-hit games, including a team-high four three-hit games. He also ranks second on the team with two game-winning runs.
(Not) Close and Late: The Jackets may be called a lot of things, but not slow starters. The Jackets have outscored opponents 10-5 in the first inning, 11-3 in the second, 21-7 in the third and 16-7 in the fourth. That’s a 58-22 edge. By contrast, NC State is outscoring opponents 39-12 over the first four, but 10-0 in the fifth and 46-9 in the seventh, eighth and ninth, including an incredible 30-4 in the eighth.
Can You See a Trend?: Tech’s been quite good closing things out as well. The Jackets are 10-0 when tied or leading after six innings (8-0 when leading, 2-0 when tied), they’re 10-0 when tied or leading after seven (9-0, 1-0), and 10-0 when tied or leading after eight (10-0, 0-0). Part of that has been the effectiveness of the bullpen, as Tech has allowed 13 runs over the final three innings. Their shutdown ability has gotten better as the game goes on, as opposing production falls off as the game gets later. Jackets pitchers have allowed seven runs in the seventh, five in the eighth and one in the ninth.
Dirty Dozen: Luke Bard’s streak of appearances without allowing an earned run is up to 12. The junior closer’s shutout streak has reached 22 innings, dating back to April 24, 2011, when he allowed a ninth-inning RBI single against Boston College’s Matt McGovern at Russ Chandler in Tech’s 10-8 victory. Thus far in 2012, Bard has put up zeroes in all six appearances (covering eight innings), and has recorded two saves. He also has 12 career saves, ranking him ninth all-time on the school’s career list. Bard begins the weekend one save behind Brian Burks (2001-04) and is only 10 behind Tech’s career leader, Jim Poole, who had 22 from 1985-88.
On Deck: Georgia Tech hosts Wagner on Tuesday then has its first home ACC weekend series, taking on Virginia Tech. State visits Elon on Tuesday then hosts Wake Forest over the weekend.
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The Multi Talented Manish Paul!
Manish Paul, is one of the most popular and sort after names on Indian Television. From being a radio jockey to anchoring television shows to acting in daily soaps, to being a comedian and finally singing……he has done it all!!
Manish was recently seen as a contestant displaying his singing talent in Zee TV’s reality show Star Ya Rock Star.
Manish grew up in Delhi where he completed his academics. After completion of college, he started anchoring corporate shows and entertainment events. In 2005, he came down to Mumbai, to fulfill his dream of becoming an Actor. But he soon realized that nothing comes easy.
Manish started his career as a Radio Jockey with Radio City’s morning drive time – Kasakai Mumbai.
He got his first break as an anchor and narrator on Zee TV’s show Kahani Shuru with Love Guru. In 2007, he acted in serials like Chhoona Hai Aasmaan, Radha Ki Betiyaan, Kuch Kar Dikhayengi which became quite popular. Nevertheless, it was the game show Ghar Ghar Mein in 2009 that gave him a lot of recognition. He also participated in Comedy Circus aired on Sony Entertainment Television.
However, anchoring Zee TV’s popular Dance reality show, ‘Dance India Dance L’il Masters’ made Manish Paul a household name and was the biggest turning point in his career.
Manish is considered one of the most fun loving and natural host of reality shows. He believes in improvising on the stage rather than going by the script while hosting for any show.
Manish bagged the ‘Best Anchor’ award for Zee TV’s DID L’il Masters at the 4th Boroplus Gold Awards.
After spending over five years in the industry, the actor cum anchor is happy with his journey.
Posted by rangmunchtv on December 19, 2011 in DID L'il Masters, gold awards, manish paul, Rangmunch, star ya rockstar, Swati Ghosh, Zee TV
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Home Articles The Eternal Apartheid and the Power of Myth
The Eternal Apartheid and the Power of Myth
Quentin Ferreira
Every culture has a founding myth, which serves in part to connect people living in the present to the wisdom of those who came before them. For instance, the founding myth of the Roman Empire is that of the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who suckled at the breast of a she-wolf. The characteristics of the Romulus in particular came to represent certain fundamental organising aspects of Roman society, such as the legal, religious and political systems. South African culture, to the extent that such a thing exists, is founded on the myth of the “Eternal Apartheid.” The Eternal Apartheid possesses similar characteristics to other founding myths, in that it too reveals and shapes perceptions of South African society. The power of myth is its ability to imbue the mind of the individual with a shared psychological foundation upon which further ways of perceiving, describing and being in the world are built. This article will discuss the psychological significance and genesis of The Eternal Apartheid mythology, and will describe how the Eternal Apartheid evolved into and persists as a form of social control.
In South African culture, The Eternal Apartheid is the Alpha and Omega, the Original Sin and the cornerstone that our nation-builders failed to reject. Ever present and all-encompassing, The Eternal Apartheid looms large in the psyche of all South Africans. At its core, The Eternal Apartheid describes the societal forces which arose from the clash between Western modernity and African culture, and can be best understood as the post-Apartheid frame through which our society is interpreted. In Jungian terms, it reduces the archetypal interplay between order and chaos into a battle between the “Unrepentant White” and the “Perpetually Victimised African.” Under The Eternal Apartheid, aspects of social and political life influenced by Western modernity are ascribed the status of tyrannical order, which exists only to stultify the emergent utopian society promised by revolutionary African leaders. Given that conscious attitudes serve a compensatory function with regards to our unconscious attitudes, it is not surprising that South African society is descending even further into chaos. The more chaotic the contents of our collective unconscious, the more we will witness the imposition of The Eternal Apartheid upon our society. The homeostatic interplay between the forces of order and chaos is a part of the natural dualism inherent in the human condition; The Eternal Apartheid may thus be understood as perversion of the process of what the famed anthropologist Gregory Bateson termed schismogenesis.
Schismogenesis describes the way in which new cultural norms arise as a result of iterated interactions between groups or individuals. Since the South African psyche has indeed suffered under the yoke of despotic order under Apartheid, it was vital that some benevolent chaos was introduced into the culture in order to facilitate a degree of entropy and create the conditions for a cultural rebirth. Tragically it seems that the destructive aspect chaos could not be reined in, and instead of a reconstitution of a new, benevolent order, The Eternal Apartheid arose. Our founding myth is therefore best conceptualised as the shadow-side of chaos wearing the mask of a benevolent order. In this way, The Eternal Apartheid mirrors the Apartheid which it was meant to supersede.
Having explored the conception of The Eternal Apartheid myth, we must turn to an understanding of how it has been able to perpetuate. In order to do so, one must first explore the concept of memes. In his 1976 work “The Selfish Gene,” Richard Dawkins defines a meme as that which “conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.” In Darwinian terms, memes are the genes of cultural evolution; they are concepts or behaviours which form part of the broader cultural genome.
Words and symbols are types of memes, as are communicable procedures such as tool-making. When a number of memes cohere around a common theme, this is known as a “Memeplex.” Similar to the manner in which Darwinian selection acts on genes and organisms, a meme or memeplex can evolve and flourish if it confers a survival advantage onto a group of people. Any myth or cultural practice that is passed down through socialisation is thus a meme or memeplex which has proven beneficial to that particular culture. As an example of survival benefits conferred by a memeplex, one need look no further than religion’s ability to engender cohesive bonds between its followers. Environmental pressure thus determines the social utility of memes, and memes are transmitted through repeated usage by members of a particular culture. It should be clear, even to the casual observer, that the social and political milieu of post-Apartheid South Africa provides fertile ground for the perpetuation and evolution of The Eternal Apartheid myth. In an environment where economic inequality was exacerbated by government tyranny, a repeated recourse to The Eternal Apartheid provides a seemingly plausible explanation for the persistence of various problems besetting South African society.
In addition to the fact that memes can spread by repetitive usage, another essential quality of memetic evolution is that they can be transmitted in either a top-down or a bottom-up manner. For instance, a top-down political decision may be taken to adopt a state-religion, to the effect that the proliferation of competing memeplexes is arrested. During the First Council of Nicaea, for example, the custodians of Christianity codified an official doctrine with the goal of standardising certain practices across the Roman Empire. Crucially, the adoption of a particular belief system always requires an appeal to the moral instinct, which is a human universal. Our existence as moral beings is inextricably linked to our status as social animals; we identify with others who share our moral convictions and are quick to ostracise or even harm those who transgress them. The evolutionary significance of morality cannot be overstated, as it rests partly upon the emotional foundations of disgust. At an evolutionary level, disgust is extremely powerful as it compels us to expel unclean foreign bodies from our midst, lest we succumb to infection. The power of this emotion is exemplified in the dehumanising language that was employed during the Rwandan Genocide, where Hutus branded Tutsis as “cockroaches” and then went on to exterminate them. It is noteworthy how the ANC/EFF alliance, the custodians of The Eternal Apartheid, have appealed to our moral nature in order to facilitate our acceptance of their mythology. As the idea of the “Rainbow Nation” began to fade, we have witnessed an incremental othering of those who resisted the imposition of The Eternal Apartheid upon our minds. The invectives levelled against heretics have varied, but in particular those such as “settlers” or “land-thieves” rely on the disgust-based impulse to purge these elements from the cultural at large. Repetitive usage of such language further embeds The Eternal Apartheid in our collective consciousness, while simultaneously entrenching power in the hands of the custodians of this myth. Thus, what was once an emergent cultural phenomenon has been increasingly become imposed from above by the custodians of The Eternal Apartheid. When the occasion for exculpation arises, the political elite know that the Eternal Apartheid provides the perfect obscurantist alibi, and they never fail to remind us that is present in every interracial interaction.
The tragedy of The Eternal Apartheid mythology is that although it purports to offer salvation from vestigial Apartheid tyranny, it has itself become yet another “Mind-forged manacle.” While it is clear that this particular memeplex arose under conditions where black South Africans were in the process of articulating their psychological distress as second-class citizens in a country ruled by a racist, authoritarian government, it has been hijacked by the political elite and has not borne the fruit that was promised by its propagators. Through repeated recourse to this myth, we contribute to a linguistic and cultural environment where the custodians of The Eternal Apartheid have been able to ensure their survival while simultaneously robbing the population at large of the psychological ability to perceive reality as it truly is. When you prostrate yourself at the altar of The Eternal Apartheid, you are not demonstrating appropriate contrition for the sins of the past. When you exercise your democratic right to vote for the custodians of The Eternal Apartheid, you do not usher in a “New Dawn.” In both instances, you are actively participating in one of the greatest lies ever told on South African soil; the lie that the interests of black and white people are diametrically opposed and that our respective cultures cannot coexist peacefully unless we learn to love our bondage and humble ourselves at the feet of our “Revolutionary heroes.”
How can we hope to break this cycle? A possible solution lies in a return Hegel’s dialectical method and applying this to the phenomenon of schismogenesis outlined above. Hegel viewed societal change as non-liner, and believed that our attempts to move from one position to its opposite would invariably involve a degree of overcompensation. When viewed this way, The Eternal Apartheid can be understood as the antithesis which was meant to negate the thesis of Apartheid. South African society is presently trapped under the crushing weight that the Eternal Apartheid foists upon the collective unconscious, and for this reason we have been unable to find a synthesis between conflicting modes of being. The Eternal Apartheid offers nothing in the way of a path towards the good, and thus it is little wonder that there is a sense of nihilism pervading the nation. Heidegger believed that pervasive cultural nihilism would lead to a situation where, “There is no longer any goal in and through which all the forces of the historical existence of peoples can cohere and in the direction of which they can develop.” For us to escape the destructive effects of nihilism, we need to stop viewing The Eternal Apartheid as the culmination of the fight against Apartheid, and in doing so attempt to understand it as an overcompensation in the process towards a synthesis of Western Modernity and African culture. In practical terms, this would require a reconstitution of psychological order, with an accompanying admission that the chaos of The Eternal Apartheid has outlived its purpose. South African culture must therefore confront the evils of both Apartheid and our collective reaction to it, whilst also trying to reconcile the positive aspects of Western and African culture into a utilitarian synthesis. This is easier said than done.
In closing, it is evident that the myth of The Eternal Apartheid began as a psychological rebellion against the tyrannical order of Apartheid, was spread through repetitive usage by members of our culture and has been cynically deployed by the custodians of the myth to perpetuate the psychological and sociocultural status quo through an appeal to our moral instincts. Our present political reality follows inexorably from this, and unless we break these mental shackles we will be trapped in an interminable cycle of cultural decline. I urge the reader to reflect upon the ways in which they prolong the hegemony of this most pernicious myth. If you intend to be compassionate in your way of speaking about Apartheid or acting to address its legacy, be mindful of the manner in which you approach this as you may inadvertently come to enact The Eternal Apartheid. We must move beyond thinking in terms of the “Unrepentant White” and “Perpetually Victimised African.” A group of white people certainly instituted Apartheid, but whites in general are also patriots who love their country and when given the chance have proven that they are willing to work towards a common good. Black people were undoubtedly the victims of Apartheid, but they are not bereft of the agency and will to improve their condition. Our Indian and coloured compatriots must not be excluded from the conversation either, for they too have an important role to play in the definition of a new culture. At the same time, and perhaps most crucially, we must recognise that both black and white have the propensity for evil; for as Breyten Breytenbach once wrote: “No one is guilty of innocence.” Our failure to achieve a psychological and cultural synthesis will mean the end of the Rainbow Nation dream.
* Quentin Ferreira is a qualified clinical psychologist. Originally from Johannesburg, he now lives in self-imposed and reluctant exile in The Netherlands. As a libertarian, Quentin hopes his writing will help defend liberty, justice & secularity.
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Home Living Health Struggle for Stability
Struggle for Stability
by Kate Andrews
Eight-year-old Wilson Pearson (left) bonds with mother Laurie, father Brad and brother Xander at home. Jay Paul photos.
Wilson Pearson, tie clipped to his T-shirt, gets a serious look on his round face and declares, "Sometimes I'm the Dark Knight. Sometimes I'm Bruce Wayne; playboy by day, crime fighter by night."
The tie means he's Wayne, the billionaire alter-ego of Batman, 8-year-old Wilson's favorite superhero.
When Wilson spells third-grade-level words perfectly or talks about swimming lessons, it's easy to forget that he has Asperger syndrome, a milder point on the autism spectrum. Even his father, Chesterfield County teacher Brad Pearson, sometimes forgets. But life hasn't always been this stable for the Pearson family.
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People diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder often have trouble relating to others and recognizing social and emotional boundaries, and many show repetitive behavioral patterns and are delayed speakers. Some never communicate vocally.
A few coughs and snorts punctuate Wilson's conversation when he gets anxious, and he will kick out a leg repetitively, but he is engaged in the world and freely hugs his 3-year-old brother, Xander, who is not autistic. Wilson, a husky blond, is a whiz at spelling and reading comprehension; he's also strong in math. "He's so high-functioning," Brad says.
Xander, a miniature version of his older brother, today wearing a Robin cape and rain boots, is "a really nice kid," Wilson says. "I've decided he can go in my room anytime." The two have bonded over a common love of caped heroes and Mario Brothers video games.
But Wilson's unorthodox nighttime habits complicate family life. He often wakes between 2 and 5 a.m., and either his mom or dad must supervise him, so they typically sleep apart — one in Wilson's room, the other in the master bedroom.
And the brothers' close relationship is relatively new, dating back to October, says their mother, Laurie Pearson, a Spanish teacher for online education company K12. Before, Wilson would strike out at Xander, trying to hurt him. At school, kindergarten was fairly peaceful for Wilson, but the greater demands of first grade presented immediate difficulty. The Pearsons were called almost daily to the principal's office; Wilson once threw a walkie-talkie at an administrator and ran out into the street in a desperate bid to go home.
"I couldn't do anything fun," Wilson says about his previous school, a public elementary in Chesterfield, "so I got really mad." It became clear to the Pearsons, teachers and administrators that Wilson wouldn't succeed in this environment, so in February 2009, he was sent to the Faison School for Autism, with the Chesterfield school system paying the annual tuition of $59,000.
Rising School Population
Wilson is one of 87 students at Faison, an 11-year-old Richmond institution that works with children and young adults up to age 22 diagnosed with autism or showing autistic symptoms. It was started by Markel Chairman Alan Kirshner and his ex-wife, Flo Guzman; their granddaughter was diagnosed with autism.
Faison, located on Byrd Avenue west of Willow Lawn Drive, uses techniques from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the only proven course of treatment for autism, according to Kathy Matthews, Faison's director of education. Invented in the 1930s, ABA uses positive reinforcement to help autistic children learn social, academic and life skills, as well as break bad habits such as aggression toward others.
Faison's goal for many of its students is to keep them there only temporarily — figuring out accommodations that will help them succeed in their home school. And many of the students do just that, which helps the school move along its eight-week waiting list (in April, only two names were on it). All but a handful of Faison's students come from public systems that are required by law to pay for their education, bills that reach into the millions for some systems, as more children are diagnosed with autism and other disorders that require treatment outside traditional schools.
The number of autistic students in Virginia's public schools has more than quadrupled in the last decade, in part because doctors have gotten better at diagnosing autism and also because the state's special-education classifications have changed. Autistic students, showing different levels of ability and impairment, were previously classified under different labels; now they're grouped under the larger autism umbrella.
A yearly census taken in Virginia's public schools counted 2,226 autistic students between the ages of 2 and 22 in 2000; that number rose to 9,136 in 2008, according to John Eisenberg, director of the state Department of Education's office of instructional support and related services. And the 2009 estimate is 10,092, nearly a 10 percent increase from the previous year.
Chesterfield County recorded 352 autistic students in January 2008, 396 in January 2009 and 474 on Dec. 1, 2009 — a leap of 78 students in the last calendar year. The school system's 2009-10 operating budget allocates $52 million for its special-education services, in addition to a $10.4 million federal grant, a 5-to-1 local-to-federal funding ratio.
The majority of the state's autistic students stay in their home schools with assistance from special-education programs, Eisenberg says, but some students attend institutions such as Faison. Chesterfield has 34 students diagnosed with autism as a primary or secondary disability who attend a private institution; 13 go to Faison.
These decisions are made by a group of parents, teachers and others involved in a student's education known as an IEP team, standing for Individual Education Plan. Generally, the team members are on the same page, Eisenberg says, but parents have options if they think their child should attend a private school even though the home school system disagrees.
Occasionally, the courts get involved, as in a 2006 Henrico County case that compelled the county school system to reimburse a couple for their son's tuition at Faison. Eisenberg says that it would be illegal for a school system to make a decision on a child's IEP based on finances, but he does acknowledge that the rise in autism diagnoses — and expensive treatments — is "strapping a lot of school divisions."
Laurie Pearson says that Wilson's passage to Faison was fairly smooth, although his Chesterfield County IEP designation was officially "emotionally disturbed" for some time, despite the fact that a doctor has never made such a diagnosis. After more time and more paperwork, Wilson now has a second label: "autistic."
Warning Signs The diagnosis, which has dominated the family's life, wasn't obvious to his parents at first. When he was a toddler, Wilson would lie down on his stomach and roll toy cars in front of his eyes over and over again, his mother says, and she and Brad just thought it was part of his personality. But day-care workers observed the same repetitive action — combined with a lack of speech — and believed "something was not quite right," Laurie says.
Chesterfield mental-health staffers who observed 2-year-old Wilson at the Pearsons' home determined that he had a developmental disorder.
"That's when the big race starts," Laurie says. Wilson's primary pediatrician disagreed that anything was seriously wrong with the boy, saying, "He's just strong-willed," Laurie recalls. Wilson then went to a series of specialists, including neuropediatricians, and was diagnosed by two doctors as autistic when he was 4 and 5.
He also struggled with diarrhea and constipation, conditions that left him scrawny and with dark circles under his eyes, a far cry from the current Wilson, who bears a resemblance to Dennis the Menace.
Vitamins improved his digestion problems, and cod-liver oil, prescribed by one doctor, seemed to help remove Wilson from his "bubble" and begin speaking at age 4, his parents say. Before, "he had his own language," Laurie says — sounds and other gibberish. He was quiet most of the time, except when tantrums would erupt out of the blue, causing Wilson to bang his head on the floor sometimes. Cod-liver oil, which has vitamins A and D, has been found to help unblock neural pathways in some autistic people.
The Pearsons began exploring prescription medicine for Wilson when he was 5, seeking to "take the edge off" of his tantrums, Laurie says. Doctors prescribed ADHD medications at first, a disaster, she says. The low point — which occurred when Wilson had started school — came when he started taking Wellbutrin, an antidepressant. Wilson's symptoms became worse, and he developed bizarre behaviors, including a fixation on fire and freezing objects. He placed Lego pieces on light bulbs and urinated in a microwave.
"It was unmanageable," Laurie says. "Years zero through seven were completely unstable."
But he's since gone on Prozac, which has helped calm him, and neurofeedback, a treatment in which electrodes are placed on a patient's scalp and earlobes to measure brainwave activity. The patient does not feel a shock or other sensation, according to Wilson's clinical psychologist, Dr. Glenn Weiner at Dominion Behavioral Health Care.
Wilson receives less than 15 minutes of Low Energy Neurofeedback System, or LENS, at each weekly session. LENS is "designed to gently help the brain become more flexible and self-regulating," according to an article by D. Corydon Hammond, a psychologist at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
He's shown "significantly better mood control, much less irritability; [he's] much less impulsive, more flexible and compliant," Weiner says. Also, his dosage of Prozac has been reduced. But Weiner, who has practiced neurofeedback for 11 years, says that he hasn't seen enough autistic patients to tell if this treatment will be broadly successful; traditional neurofeedback was introduced in the 1970s, and studies show it works for many ADHD and epileptic people, but the first published paper about the treatment on autism came out in 2002.
Staying on Schedule In Wilson's classroom, seven teachers and seven students — six boys and one girl, grouped by their advanced ability to communicate — sit at desks built for two people. Each table has a digital stopwatch, helping the class run on a strict schedule, which school administrators view as a key element for students' success.
Wilson's class incorporates several academic disciplines each day — although he and his fellow students get to select the order. He picks spelling first, a natural choice. Outside class, Wilson complains that he hasn't learned how to spell "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," the word from the movie Mary Poppins, but he has a good handle on plenty of other words.
Later, he'll read aloud from his science textbook and answer questions about plants, writing on a plastic-encased handout with a dry-erase pen. All the while, one of his teachers, Rachel Lewis, takes constant notes on a clipboard. Wilson receives pluses when he gets a question right (nearly always), or a minus for a missed answer.
Wilson and the other kids receive points for finishing their lessons, earning them free time and activities of their choice. On a spring morning, Wilson sprawls across a rug in the class' play area, playing dinosaurs with Aubri, a girl with springy brown curls and a blue hoodie. It looks like Wilson's herbivores are about to defeat Aubri's T-Rex, but then her sabertooth tiger jumps in at the last minute and kills one of Wilson's dinosaurs.
"Wah-wah-waaaah," Wilson sings, imitating the sad, muted trumpet from old cartoons. He's a good sport, and doesn't begrudge Aubri her victory.
In the halls and the lunchroom, a broader spectrum of Faison students is present: Teachers guide children wearing helmets for their own protection, while T-shirted teenage boys spend a bit of free time playing video games. One small boy sits groaning at a lunch table in the corner, supervised by a teacher, when he begins throwing pieces of his sandwich. Wilson's table hardly bats an eye — the school does not encourage attention when a child exhibits tics or misbehaves. But a teacher quietly exchanges chairs with a student, blocking the space between Wilson's table and the boy. A moment later, he hurls a sneaker, which lands close to the table.
Cause Unknown
According to the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health, released in 2009, the United States has an estimated 673,000 children ages 3 to 17 with an autism spectrum disorder. Boys are about four times more likely to be autistic than girls, and white, non-Hispanic children are much more likely than their black and multiracial counterparts to have the disorder. Between 1 million and 1.5 million children and adults in the United States are estimated to be on the spectrum.
The cause of autism is not known, but most researchers agree that genes are a risk factor: If one identical twin is autistic, the other has a 60 percent to 96 percent chance of also being affected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Faison's Matthews notes that among her students, other problems often accompany the disorder — from intestinal complaints like Wilson's, to Tourette's syndrome, a neuropsychotic disorder characterized by physical and vocal tics, notably shouting out curse words.
Vaccines have garnered a great deal of attention in recent years as a possible link to autism, leading some parents to decide not to vaccinate their children against childhood diseases. A mercury-containing preservative, thimerosal, has been tested in several studies to see if there is a link between it and autism — a link that has not been proven, according to the CDC. A federal court backed up the agency's assertion in March, ruling in three test cases that thimerosal does not cause autism.
However, groups like the Coalition for Vaccine Safety and SafeMinds continue to argue that there is a connection between autism and the preservative, which was present in flu shots. Thimerosal has been removed from many vaccines in the United States.
Douglas Greer, a Columbia University professor who developed the teaching method used at Faison, says that autistic children should be studied individually. "Inoculations may be a variable" in some cases of autism, he says, but adds that this result wouldn't necessarily show up in the large studies already conducted.
Matthews agrees with the government's view that shots do not cause autism, and that changing dietary habits — such as avoiding glutens or sugar — does not cure the disorder (researchers say there is no cure), although she does agree that such diets can help some autistic people because of accompanying conditions. "Some information parents are getting is really bad," Matthews says. "Parents are so desperate; they'll do anything for their kids."
A panel at a recent autism conference hosted by Richmond-based Commonwealth Autism Services featured five teens and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, all of whom have managed to be successful in school or work.
Tamara Eastman, 49, could be considered a success story even without the hurdle of autism. She has traveled extensively and enjoys a fulfilling professional life.
And yet when she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 30 — after an observant professor at her community college suggested that she be tested for autism — Eastman says that her father thought "she would never amount to anything."
Eastman remembers being "isolated and punished" during her childhood, blamed by her teachers and parents for her outbursts, which were often triggered by boredom. But her adulthood has been far more satisfying.
An expert in the field of female pirates, she has conducted research all over the world and assisted with a documentary on pirates filmed in Jamaica. Eastman has to make accommodations for her condition — avoiding loud, sudden noises when she can and begging off from happy hours at bars.
At Fort Lee, where she is a military historian, her boss gives her gentle signals "when to stop talking and get to work," Eastman jokes. She was hired under the Schedule A hiring authority, a program started to employ disabled individuals as 2 percent of the federal workforce.
"This is real work we're doing, not just stuffing envelopes," she says forcefully.
The prejudices of Eastman's childhood and young adulthood are less present today as the public becomes more aware of the autism spectrum — the growing number of diagnoses means we're more likely to know an autistic person. But challenges still exist, as the Pearsons and other affected families are reminded daily.
Laurie is cautiously optimistic about Wilson's future — he's a bright student, and Faison, with its consistency and positive reinforcement, has helped him feel settled for the first time in his life. And he's got two parents well-versed in the intricacies of the American education system.
Wilson may not remain at Faison forever, but Laurie says she hopes her son can find a home in a nontraditional program without the pressures of a regular public-school schedule that Wilson finds so overwhelming. "We'll navigate our own way," she says. "If Brad and I had our own way, we'd love to start our own little private school for kids that don't fit in."
NOTE: This story has been corrected since publication.
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Dylan Hartley – captain of England Rugby XV Six Nations 2017
Date: March 17, 2017Author: charlierugbybratislava 0 Comments
Full name Dylan Michael Hartley
Date of birth 24 March 1986
Place of birth Rotorua, New Zealand
Hartley was named captain of England in January 2016, prior to the 2016 Six Nations. Hartley captained England to the Grand Slam in 2016.
Dylan Hartley has called on England to finish the Six Nations job against Ireland and then take aim at rugby’s No 1 ranking.
Eddie Jones’ side beat Scotland 61-21 on Saturday to secure the title and equal New Zealand’s record of 18 consecutive Test wins..
Victory in Dublin on Saturday would mean the outright record and a second straight Grand Slam, but captain Hartley says England’s ambitions extend way beyond next weekend.
Hartley has become infamous for acts of indiscipline.
In April 2007 Hartley was banned for 26 weeks for making contact with the eye of Wasps forwards James Haskell and Jonny O’Connor.
He was banned again in March 2012 for 8 weeks for biting Ireland forward Stephen Ferris in a Six Nations match.
Then in December 2012 he was banned for two weeks for punching Ulster hooker Rory Best in a Heineken Cup match.
In May 2013 Hartley was sent off in the Aviva Premiership final against Leicester and banned for 11 weeks after being found guilty of verbally abusing a match official.This act cost Hartley his place in the 2013 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia.
In December 2014, Hartley was banned for three weeks for an elbowing offence in the match against Leicester Tigers. His elbow made contact with the nose of winger Matt Smith.
In May 2015, Hartley was found guilty of making contact with the head of opposite number Jamie George in the semi-final English premiership loss to Saracens at Franklin’s Gardens. He was found guilty by the citing commissioner and banned for four weeks, putting his England Rugby World Cup 2015 selection in jeopardy, as he would be unavailable for the first week of the tournament.
On 29 May 2015 Stuart Lancaster (England Coach) confirmed that Hartley would be dropped from the England training squad, he was replaced by the receiver of his headbutt, Saracen’s Jamie George.
Despite his disciplinary record, in 2016 new England coach Eddie Jones named Hartley as England captain, believing that his experience as Northampton captain, his passionate and aggressive approach to the game, gave him the qualities to lead the England team.
In December 2016, he was banned for 6 weeks having caught Leinster Rugby player Sean O’Brien with a swinging arm to the back of the head in a European Champions’ Cup game.
In total, Hartley has accumulated 60 weeks of bans since 2011.
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Littleton, Alabama
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The location of Littleton
Below is our collection of tidbits, odds 'n ends for Littleton.
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As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Littleton, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Littleton and the surrounding area.
Weather ...
Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
The National Weather Service forecast for Littleton and surrounding area.
Astronomy ...
Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help amateurs find their way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website lists the visible planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their track across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass the location for Littleton. Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude for your actual position.
The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Littleton.
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website to find local sighting reports and hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
The Jefferson County sighting report from eBird.
Since Littleton is near Walker County and also Blount County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
Sighting report for Walker County
Sighting report for Blount County
Waymarking ...
Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
The Waymark.com website, centered on Littleton.
How Far From Littleton to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Littleton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Littleton and extending to:
Birmingham [Map], which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km] to the Southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Littleton to Birmingham, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Montgomery [Map], which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 99 miles [159.3 km] to the South Southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC [Map]) is 660 miles [1,062.2 km] to the Northeast (NE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 38 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock [Map]) is 6,551 miles [10,542.8 km] and it lies to the Northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba [Map]) is 7,261 miles [11,685.4 km] and it lies to the Northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican [Map]) is 5,138 miles [8,268.8 km] and it lies to the Northeast (NE).<6>
We have found 18 communities that share the name Littleton.
Within Alabama, there is just one other community named Littleton. Using our Gazetteer, we have found another 17 communities in the United States and Canada - with 17 of those located in the United States.
We have broken our list into two sections:
Other communities located in Alabama
Communities outside of Alabama
Jump ahead to ...
Colorado Kentucky New Hampshire South Carolina
Illinois Maine New Jersey Utah
Iowa Manitoba North Carolina Virginia
Kansas Massachusetts Ohio West Virginia
Our profile page for Littleton, Arapahoe County [Map]
Distance: About 1,075 miles [1,730 km] to the West Northwest.
Our profile page for Littleton, Schuyler County [Map]
Distance: About 494 miles [795 km] to the North Northwest.
Our profile page for Littleton, Buchanan County [Map]
Distance: About 668 miles [1,075 km] to the North Northwest.
Sumner County
Our profile page for Littleton, Sumner County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<7>
Although located in Sumner County, we don't know the location of this community within the county.
Our profile page for Littleton, Carter County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.
Although located in Carter County, we don't know the location of this community within the county.
Our profile page for Littleton, Clay County [Map]
Distance: About 301 miles [484.4 km] to the Northeast.
Aroostook County
Our profile page for Littleton, Aroostook County [Map]
Distance: About 1,327 miles [2,135.6 km] to the Northeast.
Our profile page for Littleton [Map]
This community is historic.<8>
Distance: About 1,256 miles [2,021.3 km] to the North Northwest.
Our profile page for Littleton, Middlesex County [Map]
Grafton County
Our profile page for Littleton, Grafton County [Map]
Our profile page for Littleton, Morris County [Map]
Distance: About 846 miles [1,361.5 km] to the Northeast.
Our profile page for Littleton, Halifax County [Map]
Distance: About 547 miles [880.3 km] to the East Northeast.
Our profile page for Littleton, Highland County
Although located in Highland County, we don't know the location of this community within the county.
Our profile page for Littleton, Richland County [Map]
Distance: About 335 miles [539.1 km] to the East.
Our profile page for Littleton, Morgan County [Map]
Distance: About 1,442 miles [2,320.7 km] to the West Northwest.
Our profile page for Littleton, Sussex County [Map]
Wetzel County
Our profile page for Littleton, Wetzel County [Map]
Curious and Interesting Names Near Littleton ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always talk about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
Bryan - 2 miles [3.2 km] to the West of Littleton [Map]
Flat Top - 2 miles [3.2 km] to the Southwest [Map]
Glover Ferry - 3 miles [4.8 km] to the Southwest [Map]
Graysville - 2 miles [3.2 km] to the Southeast [Map]
Jet - 4 miles [6.4 km] to the East [Map]
Littleton Ferry - Less than 2 miles to the Southwest [Map]
Media - 3 miles [4.8 km] to the Southwest [Map]
Petes Crossroads - 4 miles [6.4 km] to the North [Map]
Robbins Crossroads - 3 miles [4.8 km] to the North [Map]
Snowtown - 2 miles [3.2 km] to the Southwest [Map]
Vulcan - Less than 2 miles to the East [Map]
This is a new section for us and we are still collecting data.
Below is our list of notable people who were born, died or were buried in the area surrounding Littleton. Please note that while we are collecting data on an ongoing basis, it's a big task and it's unlikely that our list will ever be more than a sample.
Actress. She was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Wednesday April 3, 1918 and died in Burbank (California) on Sunday April 6, 2014 at an age of 96. She was buried at Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Los Angeles County, California) [Map].
Birmingham [Map] is located 15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast of Littleton
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Mary Anderson<9>
Inez McConico Andrews
Singer, songwriter. She was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Sunday April 14, 1929 and died in Chicago (Illinois) on Wednesday December 19, 2012 at an age of 83. She was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery (Cook County, Illinois) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Inez McConico Andrews
Mary Badham
Oscar nominated actress. She was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Tueday October 7, 1952
Frances Westerman Bergen
Actress. She was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Thursday September 14, 1922 and died in Los Angeles (California) on Monday October 2, 2006 at an age of 84. She was buried at Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Los Angeles County, California) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Frances Westerman Bergen
Lyman Wesley Bostock, Jr.
Major League Baseball. He was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Wednesday November 22, 1950 and died in Gary (Indiana) on Saturday September 23, 1978 at an age of 27. He was buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery (Los Angeles County, California) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Lyman Wesley Bostock, Jr.
Robert Randall 'Bobby' Bragan
Major League Baseball. He was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Tueday October 30, 1917 and died in Fort Worth (Texas) on Thursday January 21, 2010 at an age of 92. He was buried at Greenwood Memorial Park (Tarrant County, Texas) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Robert Randall 'Bobby' Bragan
Nell Carter (Born as Nell Ruth Hardy)
Singer, actress. She was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Monday September 13, 1948 and died in Beverly Hills (California) on Thursday January 23, 2003 at an age of 54. She was buried at Hillside Memorial Park (Los Angeles County, California) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Nell Carter
William Joseph 'Bill' Cartridge
Actor. He was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Sunday October 4, 1914 and died in Santa Barbara (California) on Friday July 11, 1975 at an age of 60. He was buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery (Santa Barbara County, California) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: William Joseph 'Bill' Cartridge
William Benjamin 'Ben' Chapman
Major League Baseball. He was born in Nashville (Tennessee) on Friday December 25, 1908 and died in Hoover (Alabama) on Wednesday July 7, 1993 at an age of 84. He was buried at Elmwood Cemetery (Jefferson County, Alabama) [Map].
Hoover [Map] is located 24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast of Littleton
Find-A-Grave Memorial: William Benjamin 'Ben' Chapman
Joseph John Domnanovich
Professional football. He was born in South Bend (Indiana) on Tueday March 18, 1919 and died in Birmingham (Alabama) on Tueday January 20, 2009 at an age of 89. He was buried at Elmwood Cemetery (Jefferson County, Alabama) [Map].
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Joseph John Domnanovich
Dennis Edwards
Musician - a member of 'The Temptations'. He was born in Fairfield (Alabama) on Wednesday February 3, 1943 and died in Chicago (Illinois) on Friday February 2, 2018 at an age of 75.
Fairfield [Map] is located 14 miles [22.5 km] to the south of Littleton
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Dennis Edwards
Louise Fletcher (Estelle Louise Fletcher)
Oscar winning actress. She was born in Birmingham (Alabama) on Sunday July 22, 1934
Oscar Gamble
Major League Baseball. He was born in Ramer (Alabama) on Tueday December 20, 1949 and died in Birmingham (Alabama) on Wednesday January 31, 2018 at an age of 68.
Find-A-Grave Memorial: Oscar Gamble
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<1> Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Littleton) to Point B.
Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Littleton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6887, Longitude: -86.9981 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for Littleton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2> While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<3> The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Littleton to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<4> The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.805 degrees.
<5> The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.46 degrees.
<6> The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.339 degrees.
<7> If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Also keep in mind that Littleton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<8> We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Littleton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
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Every two years the world comes together as one to honor the Special Olympics World Games. In 2017, we came together as a globe in Austria, where the Winter World Games were held from March 14th through March 25th. This was the largest sports and humanitarian event in the world that year with a total of over 3,000 athletes and 1,100 coaches from 110 different countries. Over 3,000 volunteers and thousands of spectators followed.
This year we get ready for Special Olympics Summer World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 that is expected to have over 7,500 athletes, 3,000 coaches, and 20,000 volunteers representing 190 countries. With 24 events ready for competition, there are expected be over 500,000 spectators watching from across the globe.
Many American athletes compete in these games as well as our National Games that were most recently held in Seattle in 2018. Let’s take a look back at a certain athlete that has represented the five values of Special Olympics Team USA: Sportsmanship, Teamwork, Accountability, Integrity, and Respect.
Thirteen-year-old Riley Baxter represented her home state of Illinois in the 2018 Special Olympics National Games, competing in four events. Baxter brought home a silver medal in the 400-meter relay and a bronze medal in the 400-meter dash. Baxter won these medals despite being born with foot deformities and currently wears orthotic braces on both legs. She has recovered from three surgeries on her left leg and one on her right.
Baxter has not let the braces hold her back as she is now proud of two National Special Olympic medals. She also competed in the 800-meter race and the running long jump.
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On the Campus In Short: Cowley *85 To Head PPPL; Diverse Portraits; M.S. Chada Center for Global India; and More
The University is commissioning PORTRAITS of eight alumni and former administrators to reflect the diversity of the Princeton community: former Sen. Bill Bradley ’65; Denny Chin ’75, the first Asian American appointed a U.S. district judge outside California and Hawaii; cell biologist and National Medal of Science winner Elaine Fuchs *77; Robert J. Rivers ’53, one of Princeton’s first black students and a retired professor of clinical surgery; Sonia Sotomayor ’76, the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice; computer science pioneer Alan Turing *38, an icon in the history of LGBT rights; Carl A. Fields, a Princeton official who was the first black dean in the Ivy League; and Ruth Simmons, a Princeton administrator who became the first woman president of Brown University and the first black president of an Ivy League school.
The University said the portraits will recognize individuals who “have been pre-eminent in a particular field, have excelled in the nation’s service and the service of humanity, or have made a significant contribution to the culture of Princeton.”
A gift from Sumir Chadha ’93 has enabled the creation of the M.S. CHADHA CENTER FOR GLOBAL INDIA, which will explore contemporary India and its economy, politics, and culture. The center is named for Chadha’s grandfather, who served as the director general of health services for India. Chadha is the co-founder and managing director of WestBridge Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on India.
Gifts from six other alumni also will support the study of India and its impact on the world, including a professorship and a global seminar. “India is a key to the world of tomorrow — precisely what we’re educating our students for,” said history professor Stephen Kotkin, the director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).
Courtesy Steven Cowley *85
STEVEN COWLEY *85, a theoretical physicist with international experience in plasma physics and fusion science, will become director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL) July 1. Cowley was a staff scientist at PPPL from 1987 to 1993 and also taught at the University. He was a UCLA faculty member from 1993 to 2008 before leading the fusion-research program for the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2016. Most recently, he has been president of Corpus Christi College and professor of physics at Oxford University. President Eisgruber ’83 praised Cowley as “a spectacularly good physicist and a proven leader of large-scale scientific projects.”
Four faculty members are among 173 recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships to pursue scholarly and creative projects in the arts. They are: classics professor BROOKE HOLMES, whose research focuses on ancient medicine and life science, Greek literature, and ancient philosophy; MARTIN KERN, professor of East Asian studies, for his project “Performance, Memory, and Authorship in Ancient China: The Formation of the Poetic Tradition”; history professor EKATERINA PRAVILOVA, for her project “Political Money: A History of the Russian Ruble, 1768-1917”; and MONICA YOUN ’93, lecturer in creative writing, who has written three books of poetry.
More than 100 students took part in the PRINCETON ECOTRACKER challenge held in April, making small lifestyle changes to be more ecologically friendly such as washing their clothes with cold water or eating more vegetarian meals. Using an app developed by Amber Lin ’19 for an engineering course, the students earned points that could be redeemed for gift cards at eco-friendly businesses. The goal, Lin said, is to lower barriers — such as concerns about cost or convenience — to acting sustainably, and she hopes to expand the app for her senior thesis.
Whose Portraits?
By Charles S. Rockey Jr. ’57
Class Close-Up: Rising Waters
Motivated by climate change, students seek social impact in video games
Stella ’58, Unbound and on Display
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On the Campus 11 Named as Scholarship Recipients
Published online December 15, 2016
Top row, from left: Aaron Robertson ’17, Joani Etskovitz ’17, Ellie Sell ’17, Becca Keener ’17, and Shannon Osaka ’17. Bottom row, from left: Emery Real Bird ’17, Jacob Cannon ’17, Kevin Wong ’17, Molly Reiner ’17, Preston Lim ’17, and Samuel Maron ’17.
Photos courtesy of the students, except for: Monique Claiborne ’17 (Keener); Peter Hyungjun Yoon ’20 (Osaka); Denise Applewhite/Office of Communications (Maron)
Eleven Princeton seniors will continue their studies overseas next year as recipients of prominent scholarships.
Rhodes scholar Aaron Robertson ’17, of Redford, Mich., is a concentrator in Italian and co-editor-in-chief of the Nassau Literary Review. At Oxford, he will purse a master’s degree in modern languages.
Marshall scholar Joani Etskovitz ’17, of Wayne, Pa., is an English major completing certificates in humanistic studies and European cultural studies. She will seek master’s degrees in English literature at Oxford and at King’s College London, with plans to pursue a Ph.D. and to become a professor.
Mitchell scholar Ellie Sell ’17, of Tallahassee, Fla., will study gender, sexuality, and culture at University College Dublin. Sell, a chemistry major who plans to pursue a medical degree, hopes to build an academic foundation that will be valuable as a physician and researcher.
Becca Keener ’17 and Shannon Osaka ’17 (photos from top) will receive the Daniel M. Sachs ’60 scholarship to study, work, or travel abroad after graduation.
Keener, of Pilot Mountain, N.C., is a religion major with certificates in Near Eastern studies and Arabic language and culture. She will pursue a master’s degree at the London School of Economics in “Global Europe: Culture and Conflict.”
Osaka, of San Jose, Calif., is an independent concentrator in environmental science and environmental studies; she will receive certificates in creative writing, technology and society, and environmental studies. She plans to pursue an M.Phil. in nature, society, and environmental governance at Worcester College, Oxford University.
The following six students were named to the second class of Schwarzman scholars. They will live in China as they complete a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University:
Emery Real Bird ’17, of McNary, Ariz., is a concentrator in the politics department with a certificate in East Asian studies. He is the founder and president of Natives at Princeton, and plans to help develop public policy relating to American Indians and ethnic minorities.
Jacob Cannon ’17, of Scarsdale, N.Y., is majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School with a certificate in Chinese language and culture. He hopes to have a career in public service.
Kevin Wong ’17, of Thornhill, Ontario, is a Davis scholar and philosophy major. Wong hopes to develop the skills to advance social change in Canada.
Molly Reiner ’17, of Potomac, Md., is a Woodrow Wilson School major, interested in the intersection of diplomacy and business in China. She plans to use her Chinese in work in both the public and private sectors.
Preston Lim ’17, of Vancouver, British Columbia, is majoring in Near Eastern studies and minoring in history and the practice of diplomacy. He plans to study China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative.
Samuel Maron ’17, of Petersham, Mass., studies neuroscience. Maron plans to explore health-care and business opportunities in China.
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Azerbaijan refused to register Evangelical communities
Due to legislative innovations and ensuing bureaucratic obstacles many religious communities in Azerbaijan failed to re-register within the prescribed period before January 1, 2010, reports The Institute of Religious Freedom. As a result, most of them have been banned from conducting any of the religious activities and threatened with liquidation the status of “juridical entity”, said the Institute of Religious Freedom, Kyiv based on the documents obtained from city Baku.
According to the IRF, the official refusal to renew the registration in order to comply with the new edition of the Azerbaijani “Law on Religion” was issued to the “Nehemiah” Church, "Cathedral of Praise” Church in Baku as well as the Seventh Day Adventists, Baptist and Pentecostal Churches in Azerbaijan.
The biggest obstacle to religious freedom in Azerbaijan became the new procedure of state registration of religious communities. The amendments into the Law made it overly cumbersome and now it consists of more requirements to the founders, than ever before. From now on a religious community must submit a certificate of the date of its occurrence, information about religious education and relations toward secular education.
Moreover, it is prohibited for a religious community to use for its official registration a personal address of a believer. Legislative changes have also limited a congregation’s activity to only the territory where it is officially registered.
However under Article 12 of the Azerbaijani “Law on Religion” religious communities can conduct their activities only at the legal address. Such a rule is often used by the State Committee of Azerbaijan on Relations with Religious Organizations to prohibit a church to perform it’s activity in leased premises. As a result, the religious communities which do not own premises for worship remained outside the law.
A striking example of infringement of religious freedom in Azerbaijan on the basis of the new “Law on Religion” is the situation with the "Cathedral of Praise" Evangelical Church in city Baku.
This religious community provided all the necessary documents for re-registration in time. However in May 2010 it received a copy of an official refusal adopted by the State Committee two months ago. Other Christian Protestant communities also faced similar situation.
The "Cathedral of Praise" Evangelical Church was the first one to object and file an appeal against the refusal of registration in the judiciary. However, representatives of the authorities referred to the formal inconsistency of information about the founders of the community with the data submitted during the initial registration in 2001. On the 30th of July to the utmost surprise of believers, their appeal was turned down. In spite of the complete absence of the necessary documentary evidences the court supported the position of the authorities.
Following on January 2010 the place where the "Cathedral of Praise" Church in Baku worshiped was completely destroyed by fire.
Prior to this in the end of 2008, the building of the Protestant community which was purchased by the believers was confiscated. This happened without any compensation and as a result of a rather questionable trial in favor of the local oil refinery “Azerneftyag”.
The "Cathedral of Praise" Evangelical Church was founded in Baku in 1994 and currently has about 1000 members. At the same time according to official data the majority of Azerbaijan’s population confesses Shia Islam along with its other developments.
In February 2010, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) noted the deteriorating situation in Azerbaijan during the past five years. These legislative changes, hastily adopted in Azerbaijan in May 2009, were particularly alarming for experts and defenders.
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by bobegods | January 15, 2009 · 6:30 am
Adrian Blackman "Sweet Life" CD Review
With an ease-inducing voice reminiscent of Shaday and musical stylings that reflect her Caribbean heritage, Avion Blackman’s new album Sweet Life is a breezy blend of folk, worship, World, soca, R&B and neo-soul.
Aside from her solo career, Blackman is also a member of the group Christafari. She continues to perform with the band, performing more than 100 shows in 25 countries in 2008 alone, including concerts in the USA, Iceland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, England, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain, Antigua, Trinidad and Brazil.
Born in Trinidad, Blackman lived in luxury as a daughter of the famous calypsonian, Lord Shorty, who was the inventor of Soca (the pulse of Carnival) and Jamoo music. As a young dreadlocked child, she began singing on stage in front of crowds at 4 years old. That year, her life drastically changed when on a spiritual quest, her father transplanted his massive family to the jungle, where she would spend the next 20 years living seven rugged miles from the remote Indian village of Pirapo.
The Blackman home was a log cabin with no doors, windows, plumbing or electricity. Blackman was home-schooled and her large family (24 brothers and sisters) lived primarily off the land growing virtually everything that they ate. Their days were filled with Bible study, intense rehearsals, various tour dates and regular performances for curious visitors.
Blackman learned the art of harmony while touring and singing background for her father, who took on the name Ras Shorty I after his conversion to Christianity. At 14, she began playing bass for the family band, The Love Circle, and eventually began recording solo material of her own.
In 2003, she moved to Los Angeles and married Christafari founder and lead vocalist Mark Mohr, and subsequently became Christafari’s bassist and one of the group’s vocalists.
Avion Blackman released her debut album, Onyinye, in 2005, and the following year the project was nominated for nine Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards. Blackman took the top honor, becoming the first non-Jamaican to win Album of the Year. She also won Marlin Awards for Contemporary Female Vocal Performance of the Year (“Marvelous Beauty”) and Packaging of the Year. In addition to her solo work and Christafari, Blackman has lent her voice to an assortment of songs for network television, where she can be heard regularly on popular shows such as General Hospital and One Life to Live.
On her new album, Blackman combines honest worship with island rhythms.
Some songs, like ‘Sweet Life,’ have jazz undertones, and are the perfect compliment to a Sunday afternoon drive around town.
“On ‘Sweet Life,’ I unapologetically sing about the sweetest life of all,” Blackman says. “The abundant and eternal life that is freely given to those who place their faith in Jesus Christ.”
Other songs on the album, like “It Is For Freedom,” incorporate melodious Caribbean melodies minus the steel drums. Blackman’s music introduces spiritual themes, from forgiveness to progressing in the spiritual walk, to trusting God.
For more information, visit Adrian Blackman’s web site at www.avionblackman.com.
This article is printed in the January/February 2009 issue of RETHINK Monthly.
Lindsay Goodier is a journalist living in Houston, Texas who loves the beach, sailing and running.
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Hoosiers Check All The Boxes, But Still Fall Just Short Against Purdue
January 29, 2018 qsaturda Hoosiers In The NCAA archie miller, Indiana, Indiana Basketball, Indiana Hoosiers, IU-Purdue, iubb, Juwan Morgan, Purdue, Quinn Saturday, Rob Johnson, Victor Oladipo
It was an incredible effort from the Indiana Hoosiers on Sunday afternoon against their archrivals the Purdue Boilermakers. Unfortunately it just wasn’t enough as Purdue held off Indiana 74-67.
The Hoosiers checked all the boxes they needed filled if they were to have a chance of beating the third-ranked team in the country.
They out-rebounded Purdue 31-30.
They held the second best three-point shooting team in the country (44.2% shooting coming into the game) to just 5 of 18 (27.8%) from long range.
They turned the ball over only 10 times.
They got excellent performances from their two best players in Juwan Morgan (24 points and 7 rebounds) and Rob Johnson (21 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 assists).
They held Carsen Edwards (averaging 17.0ppg) to just 10 points on 3 of 10 shooting.
They held Purdue to just 74 points, tied for the second lowest amount the Boilers have scored in a Big Ten game this season.
Yet it just didn’t end up being enough.
The Hoosiers shot 50.0% for the game but were ice cold on three-pointers, hitting only 3 of 16 (18.8%), including 0 of 7 in the second half. The Hoosiers also struggled at the free throw line again, hitting only 10 of 17 (58.8%) free throws.
Then there was senior giant Isaac Haas. The 7’2″ center took full advantage of his seven-inch height advantage and tied his career-high of 26 points during a game he played a career-high 30 minutes.
“We were in a catch 22 there with the big fella (Haas),” said Indiana Head Coach Archie Miller. “He’s a tough cover, especially for our guys in terms of size differential. We didn’t do a good enough job in our post coverages.”
Miller also had praise for the Boilermakers, who he acknowledged didn’t play their best game.
“Hats off to Purdue. Give them credit. That’s what really good teams do. They find a way when it’s not their day, in a tough environment, and they are able to get the job done. Our guys played really hard.”
Meanwhile on the other side, Purdue Head Coach Painter had a lot of praise for the performances of Morgan and Johnson.
“They are good players; Juwan Morgan is the most improved guy we have seen all year. He is unbelievable from where he was to where he is now. Sometimes that happens between opportunity and natural growth, but man he’s good. I’ve always been a huge fam of Robert Johnson (too).”
The Hoosiers can’t let this close loss dwell on them, as they still have to face two more of the top teams in the Big Ten (Ohio State on Tuesday and Michigan State on Saturday) this upcoming week.
“For us we have to have short-term memory loss,” said Miller. “It’s all about recovery, we have a quick turnaround. You’re playing against the best teams in your conference. The stage is big.”
Despite Bryant’s Best Effort, Indiana’s Offense Unable To Outscore Purdue
February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017 qsaturda Hoosiers In The NCAA blarge, game recap, Indiana, Indiana Basketball, Indiana Hoosiers, Indiana University, injuries, IU-Purdue, iubb, James Blackmon Jr., offense, Purdue, Quinn Saturday, Thomas Bryant
The Indiana Hoosiers held the Purdue Boilermakers, the Big Ten’s best three-point shooting team, to just 28.6% from behind the arc. The Hoosiers grabbed the same number of rebounds (35 each) and even kept the turnovers fairly close (14 to 12).
Yet despite all that, the Hoosiers again failed to gain another resume-building win as they lost to Purdue 69-64 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Thursday night.
The main cause for the loss was an unproductive offense. The usually potent IU offense struggled as Indiana shot 38.6% from the floor and 33.3% from behind the arc. In fact it’s not just this game as Indiana (averaging 81.3 points per game on the season) has averaged just 69.8 points over the last five games. When you take into account that one of those games was a triple overtime game where the Hoosiers scored 110 points against Penn State, those scoring numbers look even worse (for reference, the Hoosiers have averaged 59.8 points in the other four games)
It’s no secret that the “injury bug” has bitten the Hoosiers hard this year, but this game more than any of the last five games showed how short-handed the Hoosiers are at the moment.
Despite getting James Blackmon Jr. back from a leg injury, Blackmon very rarely looked like himself as he struggled with his shot all night, finishing 3 of 14 from the floor including 1 of 7 from deep.
Juwan Morgan, who’s playing while still injured, started strong but got into foul trouble and didn’t score after halftime.
Devonte Green, who had been playing well replacing Blackmon in the starting lineup, was limited to five minutes due to getting a back spasm lifting weights earlier in the week.
On top of all that, De’Ron Davis took a shot to the face early in the second half and missed the rest of the game.
Perhaps Purdue Head Coach Matt Painter explained it best as to why injuries really played a huge role in Indiana’s loss.
“You have to understand that Indiana doesn’t have a lot of their guys,” said Painter. “Collin Hartman is a good player, he affects winning and OG (Anunoby) is a really good player, so now when they get into foul trouble (like they did tonight) it’s not normal foul trouble, now it’s two guys are out, one just came back from injury and then you have a couple of guys in foul trouble.”
The one shining light, and the reason Indiana had a chance of actually winning the game was Thomas Bryant.
After being held in check in the first half due to foul trouble, Bryant singlehandedly carried the Hoosiers in the second half, scoring 17 of the Hoosiers’ 28 second half points. He finished with 23 points on 8 of 12 shooting, 3 of 4 from three-point range. Over the last five games, Bryant has averaged 20.2 points on an eye-popping 68.4% (39 of 57) shooting.
So when the controversial “blarge” was called with 44 seconds left (What’s a blarge? Well one referee called a blocking foul while the other called a charging foul, so the refs copped out and called a double foul. It’s okay if that definition just confuses you more because honestly it confuses me too.), Indiana’s fate was sealed as Thomas Bryant picked up his fifth foul.
If Bryant can keep up this level of production and can get some help from his teammates that are either not 100% yet (Blackmon, Morgan) or are wildly inconsistent as of late (Josh Newkirk, Rob Johnson), then the Hoosiers can still make the NCAA Tournament. But with six games left in the regular season, time is starting to run out.
Mistake-Free Indiana Able To Hold Off Rival Purdue
February 21, 2016 qsaturda Hoosiers In The NCAA game recap, Indiana Basketball, Indiana Hoosiers, Indiana University, IU-Purdue, iubb, Max Bielfeldt, Purdue, Quinn Saturday, Thomas Bryant, Troy Williams, turnovers, Yogi Ferrell
The Indiana Hoosiers’ Achilles’ Heel all season has been turnovers and so the question became “how good would the Hoosiers be if they didn’t commit turnovers?”
They answered that question on Saturday when IU committed only four turnovers as they beat archrival Purdue 77-73 to break a three-game losing streak in the series.
The Hoosiers went the first 17:06 of the first half without committing a turnover and only had one at half while the Boilermakers had eight. The four total turnovers for the game ties for the fewest by the Hoosiers in the last three seasons.
“We want to play fast, we just don’t want to play reckless,” said Indiana Head Coach Tom Crean about how the team’s mindset led the way for there being so few turnovers. “I think (our players) have a lot of respect for Purdue. They know how good that defense is. They put a lot of pressure on you. So to me, we needed to make the simple play.”
Indiana (22-6, 12-3) also showed it has multiple players who can take a game over at a moment’s notice. The first half featured Troy Williams and Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell ripping apart Purdue’s defense as the duo accounted for 28 of IU’s 35 first half points. In the second half, Thomas Bryant scored the Hoosiers’ first seven points of the second half while Max Bielfeldt had all of his 10 points and 6 rebounds after halftime, including a stretch where he was responsible for eight points during a 12-0 IU run.
Williams led all scorers with 19 points and in the process became the 49th Hoosier to score 1,000 career points. Ferrell also broke out of his shooting slump as he went 7 of 13 from the floor to score 18 points.
The Boilermakers (21-7, 9-6) were led by freshman big man Caleb Swanigan, who had 14 points and eight rebounds. He was also a key player behind Purdue’s 21-9 rally during the final seven minutes of the game, in which he scored half of his points.
Purdue almost had a shot to tie or take the lead when A.J. Hammons blocked Ferrell’s drive to the basket with 7.1 seconds left but was called for goaltending. Despite looking like a questionable call in the moment, replay showed that Hammons touched the rim during the block attempt which by rules certifies a goaltend. Indiana was able to hang on from there.
The Hoosiers won’t play until this Thursday when they travel to face Illinois. The game will be at 9pm eastern time and will be on ESPN.
For those of you who want proof that Indiana only turned the ball over four times (and I don’t really blame the skepticism), here is a list of the four turnovers and what happened during those possessions:
The first one didn’t come until the 2:54 mark of the first half and it came on a Robert Johnson offensive foul, which technically counts as a turnover because you did something that gave the ball to the opponent without the reason being a missed shot.
The second one came with 9:07 left in the second half and was credited to Yogi Ferrell.
Max Bielfeldt committed the third one with 7:36 left in the second half.
It wasn’t until the fourth and final turnover that Purdue made Indiana pay for a mistake. Ferrell’s second turnover of the game with 44 seconds left was a result of a Purdue player poking out the ball from behind while Ferrell was dealing with the press in front of him. P.J. Thompson got the steal and assisted on a Dakota Mathias three-pointer that made it a one-possession game.
This is the third time in the last 20 years that the Hoosiers have won 12 of their first 15 Big Ten games. The other times were 2008 and 2013.
Ferrell, after shooting 10 of 40 his last four games, ended his slump when he made 7 of 13 on Saturday.
This was Ferrell’s 130th career start at IU which ties him with Christian Watford for the most career starts by a Hoosier.
Troy Williams becomes the 49th Hoosier with 1,000 career points and the eighth player to do it under IU head coach Tom Crean.
Having only 4 turnovers to Purdue’s 13 is great, but what’s even better is that IU had 20 points off turnovers compared to Purdue’s 3 points off turnovers.
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DfE to test and ‘quality-mark’ education apps
Freddie Whittaker
Fri 11th Jan 2019, 7.00
The Department for Education plans to assess and “quality-mark” smartphone and tablet education apps for younger pupils.
Officials will also consider extending the assessment to apps for older children if the process is a success.
But experts in educational technology say that the scheme’s success will hinge on whether teachers with experience of learning with apps are the ones chosen to test them.
Its members must have relevant, recent experience of the use of apps in the early years
Others have questioned why the DfE wants to regulate the ed tech market, but has been reluctant to regulate other areas, such as home education.
Applications to join the expert panel on early years language, literacy and communication apps closed earlier this week.
Once appointed, the team of between five and seven will draw up a set of quality assurance criteria “against which to assess educational apps aimed at 0-5 year olds”, government documents show.
The process is aimed at helping parents choose the educational apps their children use at home, rather than as an aid to teachers seeking ed tech solutions for the classroom.
However, there is nothing to stop teachers using the quality mark to help them to select apps for school use.
“It’s really important that teachers using technology in the early years dominate this panel,” said Bob Harrison, a school and college governor and former education adviser to Toshiba. “Its members must have relevant, recent experience of the use of apps in the early years.”
It’s not the first time a government organisation has sought to help schools access technology.
The National Council for Educational Technology was set up in 1967 as a conduit between schools and technology providers. It went through several guises and was eventually replaced with the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, or “Becta”, in 1998.
However, the organisation was mothballed in 2011 and has not been replaced.
Towards the end of its life it was criticised for being under the influence of technology providers and for failing to keep up with new trends, leading the government to move away from its “top-down approach”.
The Department for Education has confirmed that if the process works for it will consider extending assessment to apps for older children.
Harrison said the proposal was “really good news” and welcomed the focus on “expanding learning outside the classroom”.
But he warned that ed tech could, if not correctly supported, widen the attainment gap between poorer and better-off pupils.
“There is a question about access to technology and connectivity that will need to be considered,” he said.
Priya Lakhani, the founder and chief executive of CENTURY Tech, warned MPs this week that without input from schools, “artificial intelligence has the ability to create social mobility issues”.
Ty Goddard, co-founder of the Education Foundation and chair of Edtech UK, said the kitemark would be a “positive development” as long as it “stays agile and responsive to a developing market”.
Sue Cowley, an early-years expert and education author, said a quality mark “might be an OK idea”, but she would not be encouraging youngsters to spend more time on phones and screens.
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Home Earth, Energy & Environment A step toward biodegradable plastics
A step toward biodegradable plastics
MIT chemists have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an advance that could help chemical engineers tweak the enzyme to make it even more industrially useful.
The enzyme generates long polymer chains that can form either hard or soft plastics, depending on the starting materials that go into them. Learning more about the enzyme’s structure could help engineers control the polymers’ composition and size, a possible step toward commercial production of these plastics, which, unlike conventional plastic formed from petroleum products, should be biodegradable.
“I’m hoping that this structure will help people in thinking about a way that we can use this knowledge from nature to do something better for our planet,” says Catherine Drennan, an MIT professor of chemistry and biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. “I believe you want to have a good fundamental understanding of enzymes like this before you start engineering them.”
Drennan and JoAnne Stubbe, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a professor emeritus of biology, are the senior authors of the study, which appears in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The paper’s lead author is graduate student Elizabeth Wittenborn.
An elusive structure
The enzyme polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase is found in nearly all bacteria, which use it to produce large polymers that store carbon when food is scarce. The bacterium Cupriavidus necator can store up to 85 percent of its dry weight as these polymers.
The enzyme produces different types of polymers depending on the starting material, usually one or more of the numerous variants of a molecule called hydroxyalkyl-coenzyme A, where the term alkyl refers to a variable chemical group that helps determine the polymers’ properties. Some of these materials form hard plastics, while others are softer and more flexible or have elastic properties that are more similar to rubber.
PHA synthase holds great interest for chemists and chemical engineers because it can string together up to 30,000 subunits, or monomers, in a precisely controlled way.
“What nature can do in this case and many others is make huge polymers, bigger than what humans can make,” Stubbe says. “And they have uniform molecular weight, which makes the properties of these polymers distinct.”
Drennan, Stubbe, and other chemists have been pursuing this enzyme’s structure for many years, but until now it has proven stubbornly elusive because of the difficulty in crystallizing the protein. Crystallization is a necessary step to performing X-ray crystallography, which reveals the atomic and molecular structure of the protein.
Two former graduate students, Marco Jost and Yifeng Wei, who are also co-authors on the paper, worked on the crystallization as a side project and succeeded just before leaving MIT.
Once the researchers had the crystals, Wittenborn collected and analyzed the resulting crystallographic data to come up with the structure. The analysis revealed that PHA synthase consists of two identical subunits that form what is known as a dimer. Each subunit has an active site in which the polymerization occurs, thus eliminating an earlier proposal that the active site would be located at the dimer interface.
The analysis also revealed that the enzyme has two openings — one where the starting materials enter and another that allows the growing polymer chain to exit.
“The coenzyme A part of the substrate has to come back out because you have to put in another monomer,” Stubbe says. “There’s a lot of gymnastics that are going on, which I think makes this fascinating.”
The location of the entry channel was obvious as a gaping hole bordered by highly conserved amino acids, that is, amino acids that have remained constant as the enzyme has evolved. The exit channel was more difficult to identify because it is a much smaller opening, but the researchers were able to find it in part because it is also surrounded by conserved amino acids.
“The conserved residues form an arc-like network around the exit channel,” Wittenborn says. “They’re almost completely surrounding a very narrow portion of the channel, and we think they’re there to help secure the protein as the polymer starts to push its way through this tube.”
New framework
Drennan’s lab now plans to try to solve structures of the enzyme while it is bound to substrates and products, which should yield even more information critical to understanding how it works.
“This is the beginning of a new era of studying these systems where we now have this framework, and with every experiment we do, we’re going to be learning more,” Drennan says.
Some biotechnology companies have pursued making PHAs using PHA synthase and other enzymes needed to make the polymer, and one company is now using it to make polymers for medical use. Although for the most part the process is not cost-efficient enough to be economically competitive with low-cost conventional plastics derived from oil, the technology has enabled the production of unique PHA polymer compositions that can be used for specialty polymer additives, latex, and medical applications.
The new structural information yielded by this study will have little impact on cost but may open up the possibility of other new materials and applications, says Kristi Snell, the chief scientific officer and vice president of research at Yield10 Bioscience/Metabolix, which recently sold its PHA biopolymer technology to another company.
“The structure and mechanism of this enzyme has been a big question for over 20 years, and finding the structure could provide insight to help researchers make better polymers with unique properties,” Snell says.
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Andrew Coulson, RIP
By Michael Q. McShane on Feb 10, 2016
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Every once in a while I stumble across a sentence and think man, I wish I’d written that.
One of my favorite examples of this, and a passage that I have quoted more times than I can remember, was written by Andrew Coulson, the former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, who passed away over the weekend. It came from a book he contributed to in 2002. Here’s what he wrote:
We are all losers when our differing views become declarations of war: when, instead of allowing many distinct communities of ideas to coexist harmoniously, our schools force us to battle one another in a needless and destructive fight for ideological supremacy.
Andrew’s writing was the first to introduce me to the idea that school choice might not just be good for kids academically, but could help us create more harmonious communities. If we don’t have to fight each other over what gets taught in history or science class, and we respect our fellow citizens’ rights to instruct their children in the way that best fits their needs and their values, we can get along better with each other. What a great idea.
We truly do stand on the shoulders of giants. God bless his memory.
Michael McShane
Senior Fellow of Education Policy
Mike McShane is Senior Fellow of Education Policy for the Show-Me Institute. He is a former high school teacher and earned his PhD in Education Policy at the University of Arkansas. Before coming to the Show-Me Institute, Mike worked at the American Enterprise Institute as a research fellow.
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February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of the year (320 in leap years).
1637 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
1690 - Constantin Cremer, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sitiu.
1760 - British ship HMS Ramilles strands at Bolt Head near Plymouth, England, after a navigation error. Around 700 people on board are killed. 26 survive.
1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1786 - The "Cat's Eye" nebula is discovered by William Herschel.
1794 - The Tricolore becomes the national flag of France.
1798 - The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon Bonaparte, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
1804 - The Serbian Revolution begins.
1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
1855 - French frigate La Semillante breaks apart in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia, killing all 693 people on board.
1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1879 - Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases at the United States Supreme Court.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana, Cuba, killing over 260 people. This leads to the US declaring war on Spain.
1901 - Peruvian football club Alianza Lima is founded under the name "Sport Alianza".
1909 - The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico, kills 250 people.
1923 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar, becoming the last European country to do so.
1925 - 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Alaska: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto as the lead dog of the last team.
1933 - In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara tries to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt but instead shoots Mayor of Chicago Anton J. Cermak, who dies on March 6.
1942 - World War II: Singapore falls to the Japanese.
1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino in Italy begins.
1945 - World War II: Third day of the Fire Bombing of Dresden.
1946 - ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania.
1952 - The funeral of King George VI of the United Kingdom is held in London.
1953 - Liechtenstein holds its first parliamentary election.
1956 – Urho Kekkonen is elected President of Finland.
1961 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73 people, including the entire US figure skating team.
1965 – The Maple Leaf flag becomes Canada's flag
1967 – Chicago, a musical group forms.
1970 - A Dominican DC-9 airplane crashes into the sea shortly after take-off from Santo Domingo, killing 102 people.
1971 – Britain adopts decimal currency.
1972 - Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador, is overthrown by a military coup.
1979 - Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia.
1989 – The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan.
1994 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Sumatra, killing 207 people.
1996 - The tanker Sea Empress runs aground at Milford Haven, South Wales, leaking oil.
2000 - The European Union starts membership talks with Slovakia, Latvia and Bulgaria.
2001 - The first draft of the complete human genome is published in the Nature journal.
2003 – Millions of people around the world protest against the planned US-led invasion of Iraq.
2005 – YouTube is founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
2012 - A major fire at a prison in Honduras kills over 360 people.
2013 - 2013 Russian meteor event: A meteor crashes down over Chelyabinsk, Russia, shattering windows and injuring over 1,000 people. Coincidentally, near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 passed within 27,700 kilometers of distance to Earth's surface later on this date.
1368 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1437)
1377 - Ladislaus of Naples (died 1414)
1458 - Ivan the Young, son of Ivan III of Russia (died 1490)
1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian ruler (died 1503)
1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician (died 1642)
1571 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (died 1621)
1620 - Francois Charpentier, French archaeologist (died 1702)
1621 - Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French founder of Montreal (died 1676)
1710 – King Louis XV of France (died 1774)
1725 - Abraham Clark, American founding father (died 1794)
1739 - Alexander-Theodore Brogniart, French architect (died 1813)
1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (died 1832)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, German painter (died 1829)
1759 - Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist (died 1824)
1760 - Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer (died 1837)
1774 - Prince Frederick of Orange-Nassau (died 1799)
1792 - Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (died 1866)
1803 - John Sutter, Swiss-American pioneer (died 1880)
1809 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (died 1857)
1809 - Cyrus McCormack, American inventor (died 1884)
1811 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (died 1888)
1812 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweller (died 1902)
1813 - Fredrick Holbrook, Governor of Vermont (died 1909)
1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American women's civil rights leader (died 1906)
1820 - Arvid Posse, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1901)
1825 - Carter Harrison, Sr., Mayor of Chicago (died 1893)
1826 - George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist (d. 1911)
1831 - Adolf Deucher, Swiss politician (d. 1912)
1834 - Vasile Alexandrescu Urechia, Moldovan-Romanian politician, historian and writer (died 1901)
1835 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek sports official (died 1908)
1835 - Nguyen Khuyen, Vietnamese scholar, poet and teacher (died 1909)
1840 - Titu Maiorescu, Prime Minister of Romania (died 1917)
1841 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (died 1913)
1845 – Elihu Root, American politician (died 1937)
1847 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (died 1927)
1851 - Spiru Haret, Romanian-American mathematician, astronomer and politician (died 1912)
1856 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (died 1926)
1858 - William Henry Pickering, American astronomer (died 1938)
1859 - Louis-Joseph Maurin, French cardinal (died 1936)
1860 - Scott C. Pone, American Territorial Governor of Alaska (died 1936)
1861 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist (died 1938)
1861 – Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician (died 1947)
1861 - Billy Adams, 24th Governor of Colorado (died 1954)
1873 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (died 1964)
1874 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (died 1922)
1877 - Louis Renault, French automobile executive (died 1944)
1890 - Robert Ley, German Nazi official (died 1945)
1891 - Dino Borgioli, Italian lyric tenor (died 1960)
1892 - James Forrestal, United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1949)
1893 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (died 1947)
1899 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (died 1985)
1904 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (died 1893)
1905 – Harold Arlen, American composer (died 1986)
1907 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (died 1991)
1907 – Cesar Romero, American actor (died 1994)
1908 - Sarto Fournier, 38th Mayor of Montreal (died 1980)
1908 - Toto, Italian actor (died 1967)
1909 – Miep Gies, Dutch helper of Anne Frank and other Jews (died 2010)
1909 - Guillermo Gorostiza, Spanish footballer (died 1966)
1910 – Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (died 2008)
1910 – Stanley Vann, British musician (died 2010)
1912 - Andrei Lupan, Moldovan writer and politician (died 1992)
1913 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (died 1997)
1914 - Hale Boggs, American politician (died 1972)
1914 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (died 2010)
1916 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress
1917 - Gösta Andersson, Swedish wrestler (died 1975)
1920 - Endicott Peabody, Governor of Massachusetts (died 1997)
1922 - John B. Anderson, American politician
1923 - Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (died 2011)
1927 - Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal (died 2012)
1928 - Norman Bridwell, American author and cartoonist (died 2014)
1929 - Graham Hill, British racing driver (died 1975)
1929 - James R. Schlesinger, American politician (died 2014)
1931 – Claire Bloom, British actress
1934 - Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
1935 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (died 1967)
1939 - Robert Hansen, American serial killer (died 2014)
1940 - Hamzah Haz, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
1944 - Mick Avory, English drummer (The Kinks)
1945 - John Helliwell, English musician (Supertramp)
1946 - Clare Short, British politician
1947 - Marisa Berenson, American actress
1948 – Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
1948 - Tino Insana, American actor, writer and movie producer
1948 - Bernd Pischetsrieder, German automobile engineer and manager
1949 - Francisco Maturana, Colombian footballer
1951 – Jane Seymour, British actress
1951 – Melissa Manchester, American singer
1952 – Tomislav Nikolic, President of Serbia
1953 – Derek Conway, English politician
1954 – Matt Groening, American writer and cartoonist, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
1954 – Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete
1955 – Janice Dickinson, American supermodel
1955 – Christopher McDonald, American actor
1956 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (died 1992)
1956 – Desmond Haynes, Barbadian cricketer
1957 – Jimmy Spencer, American racing driver
1959 – Ali Campbell, British musician (UB40)
1959 – Martin Rowson, English author and illustrator
1960 – Mikey Craig, English musician (Culture Club)
1960 – Roman Kostrzewski, Polish musician
1961 – Neale Daniher, Australian rules footballer
1962 – Milo Dukanovic, 29th Prime Minister of Montenegro
1964 – Chris Farley, American comedian (died 1997)
1964 – Leland D. Melvin, American engineer and astronaut
1964 – Mark Price, American basketball player and coach
1967 – Craig Simpson, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
1972 – Anna-Jane Casey, English actress, writer and dancer
1972 – Jaromir Jagr, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Katerina Neumannova, Czech cross-country skier
1973 – Alex Borstein, American actress
1973 – Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
1974 – Toni Puutansuu, Finnish singer (Lordi)
1974 – Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, American businesswoman and actress
1974 – Miranda July, American actress, screenwriter and director
1976 - Brandon Boyd, American musician
1976 - Oscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
1976 - Giorgos Karagoutis, Greek basketball player
1976 - Ronnie Vannucci, Jr., American musician (The Killers)
1979 – Scott Severin, Scottish footballer
1980 - Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter
1980 - Josh Sole, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
1981 – Heurelho Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Olivia, American singer
1981 - Rita Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
1983 – David Degen, Swiss footballer
1983 – Philipp Degen, Swiss footballer
1983 - Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer
1984 - Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer
1986 - Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
1986 - Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1986 - Amber Riley, American actress and singer
1987 - Jarrod Sammut, Australian rugby player
1988 - Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer
1988 - Rui Patricio, Portuguese footballer
1988 - Tim Mannah, Australian rugby player
1990 - Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
1990 - Charles Pic, French racing driver
1990 - Stephanie Vogt, Liechtenstein tennis player
1991 - Angel Sepulveda, Mexican footballer
1991 - Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Greek footballer
1992 - Greer Grammer, American actress
1995 - Sara Daebritz, German footballer
1998 - Zachary Gordon, American actor
670 - Oswiu of Northumbria (b. 612)
706 - Leontios, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
706 - Tiberios III, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
1145 – Pope Lucius II
1152 - Conrad, Holy Roman Emperor
1621 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
1637 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
1738 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1775 – Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer and philosopher (b. 1729)
1818 – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
1835 – Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
1848 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
1864 - Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1785)
1869 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (b. 1796)
1897 - Dimitrie Ghica, Romanian politician (b. 1816)
1905 - Lew Wallace, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 - Theodor Escherich, German paediatrician (b. 1859)
1919 - André Prévost, French tennis player (b. 1880)
1924 - Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
1926 – Piero Gobetti, Italian publisher, activist and politician (b. 1901)
1928 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
1932 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, Broadway actress (b. 1865)
1933 - Pat Sullivan, Australian cartoonist, animator and producer (b. 1887)
1953 - Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete (b. 1881)
1959 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1961 - Bradley Lord, American figure skater (b. 1939)
1961 - Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880)
1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
1966 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
1967 - William Christian Bullitt, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1891)
1968 - Little Walter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1930)
1970 - Hugh Dowding, English RAF commander (b. 1882)
1973 – Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
1973 – Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
1974 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
1981 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1944)
1981 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
1984 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
1988 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1991 - Birger Malmsten, Swedish actor (b. 1920)
1996 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
1996 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
1999 – Big L (Lamont Coleman), American rapper (b. 1974)
1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2000 - Angus MacLean, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
2002 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
2002 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2004 – Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and International Court of Justice judge (b. 1917)
2004 – Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 - Hasse Ekman, Swedish actor and director (b. 1915)
2005 – Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2007 - Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2013 - Todor Kolev, Bulgarian actor (b. 1939)
2014 - Federico Campbell, Mexican writer (b. 1941)
2014 - Christopher Malcolm, Scottish actor (b. 1946)
2015 - Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
2015 - Haron Amin, Afghan diplomat (b. 1969)
2015 - Eileen Essell, English actress (b. 1922)
2016 - Vanity, Canadian singer (b. 1959)
2016 - Fighton Simukonda, Zambian footballer (b. 1958)
2016 - George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
2016 - Salman Natour, Israeli-Palestinian author (b. 1949)
2017 - Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra, Portuguese royal (b. 1949)
2017 - Manfred Kaiser, German footballer (b. 1929)
2017 - Stuart McLean, Canadian radio broadcaster (b. 1948)
Day of the Flag of Canada
Liberation Day (Afghanistan)
National Day (Serbia)
Candlemas (Eastern Orthodox Church)
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September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year.
275 – In Rome, the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Roman Emperor.
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, northern France.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1237 – Scotland and England sign the Treaty of York, marking their common border.
1396 – Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1493 – From Cadiz, Spain, Christopher Columbus sets sail on his second voyage.
1513 – Spanish explorers become the first Europeans to sight the Pacific Ocean.
1621 – Swedish troops take Riga in the Polish-Swedish War.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.
1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments (changes) to the United States Constitution.
1790 – Peking opera begins, to celebrate the birthday of Qianlong Emperor of China.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 – Mexican-American War: US forces under Zachary Taylor capture Monterrey, Mexico.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
1890 – Sequoia National Park in California is founded.
1906 – In presence of the King of Spain and a big crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of 'Telekino' in the Basque port city of Bilbao, guiding a boat from shore, in what is now considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1913 – Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.
1915 – World War I: Start of the Second Battle of Champagne.
1926 – The International Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field, proving that full instrument flying from take-off to landing is possible.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Minor but morale-boosting victory for Chinese forces.
1938 – American Don Budge becomes the first tennis player to win all four Grand Slams in one year.
1942 – Holocaust: Switzerland denies entry to Jewish refugees.
1944 – World War II: The British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem, Netherlands, ending Operation Market Garden.
1950 – Korean War: UN forces enter Seoul.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine (under the sea) transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated with help from United States Army troops.
1959 – Sri Lankan Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike is shot by Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is proclaimed.
1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins.
1964 – Mozambique's War of Independence from Portugal begins.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1972 – In a referendum, voters in Norway reject membership of the European Community.
1976 – Irish rock band U2 forms in Dublin, Ireland.
1977 – The first Chicago Marathon takes place, with around 4,200 runners taking part.
1978 – A mid-air collision between two planes over San Diego, California results in 144 deaths.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1981 – Belize joins the UN.
1983 – The UK's biggest prison break-out since World War II occurs when 38 Republican prisoners at Maze Prison, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out.
1983 – The TGV high-speed train track from Paris to Lyon, is opened along its entire length.
1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer to the planet Mars. It would fail 11 months later.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
1998 – Mikulas Dzurinda becomes Prime Minister of Slovakia.
2000 – With the Islamic King Fahd Cultural Centre, the biggest Mosque in Latin America is opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003 – A magnitude 8 earthquake hits Hokkaido, Japan.
2003 – It is announced that 14,802 people died in France during the previous month's heatwave.
2005 – Fernando Alonso wins the Formula One world championship, becoming the youngest Formula One world champion in history at the time, though the record has since been beaten by Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
2008 – Thabo Mbeki resigns as President of South Africa.
2008 – The Shenzhou spacecraft is launched by China.
2009 – In a joint television appearance at the G-20 Summit, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy accuse Iran of building a uranium enrichment facility.
2017 – Iraqi Kurdistan holds a vote on independence.
1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1403 – Louis III of Naples (d. 1434)
1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1667)
1613 – Claude Perrault, French architect, physician and naturalist (d. 1688)
1644 – Ole Romer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
1694 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 – Qianlong, Chinese Emperor (d. 1799)
1725 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
1729 – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German classical scholar (d. 1812)
1734 – Cardinal de Rohan, French cardinal and Bishop of Strasbourg (d. 1803)
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician (d. 1789)
1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech composer, violinist, music director and writer (d. 1805)
1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1749 – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German mineralogist (d. 1817)
1764 – Fletcher Christian, English mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1822)
1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian naturalist, entomologist and botanist (d. 1856)
1782 – Charles Maturin, Irish dramatist and writer (d. 1824)
1793 – Felicia Hemans, British poet (d. 1835)
1807 – Alfred Vail, American engineer (d. 1859)
1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d. 1879)
1829 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
1860 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 1st Governor-General of Australia (d. 1908)
1862 – Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist (d. 1945)
1867 – Augusto de Vasconcelos, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1951)
1877 – Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico (d. 1945)
1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1889 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author (d. 1930)
1896 – Sandro Pertini, President of Italy (d. 1990)
1897 – William Faulkner, American writer (d. 1962)
1901 – Robert Bresson, French director (d. 1999)
1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (d. 1970)
1906 – Jose Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician (d. 1990)
1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1911 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1914 – Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (d. 2015)
1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American executed for espionage (d. 1953)
1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1922 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal
1923 – Sam Rivers, American musician (d. 2011)
1924 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian activist and politician (d. 2016)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016)
1927 – Colin Davis, British conductor (d. 2013)
1929 – Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1929 – Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1930 – Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer
1930 – Shel Silverstein, American humorist, singer-songwriter and writer (d. 1999)
1932 – Jerry Medwin, Welsh footballer
1932 – Adolfo Suárez, former Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
1935 – Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer
1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1936 – Moussa Traore, former President of Mali
1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
1939 – Harald Ringstorff, German politician
1939 – Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer
1939 – Leon Brittan, English politician (d. 2015)
1940 – Takao Sakurai, Japanese boxer
1942 – John Taylor, American jazz musician (d. 2015)
1942 – Henri Pescarolo, French Formula One driver
1943 – Robert Walden, American actor
1943 – Robert Gates, American politician
1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor
1945 – Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1945 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
1946 – Felicity Kendal, British actress
1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress
1949 – Steve Mackay, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
1949 – Pedro Almodovar, Spanish filmmaker
1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
1952 – Bell hooks, American author, feminist and social activist
1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
1954 – Sakis Boulas, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1954 – Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014)
1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish football manager
1955 – Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and musician
1955 – Steven Severin, English musician, songwriter and producer
1955 – Peter Müller, German politician
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1956 – Salvatore Bagni, Italian footballer
1957 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian politician (d. 2014)
1957 – Michael Madsen, American actor and producer
1960 – Ihor Belanov, Soviet-Ukrainian footballer
1960 – Shinji Tanaka, Japanese footballer
1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress
1961 – Mark Gil, Filipino actor (d. 2014)
1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress
1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
1964 – Barbara Dennerlein, German jazz musician
1965 – Kenta Hasegawa, Japanese footballer
1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
1966 – Jason Flemyng, British actor
1968 – Will Smith, American actor and rapper
1968 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands (d. 2013)
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1969 – Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
1971 – Jessie Wallace, English actress
1974 – Richie Edwards, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Victor Pacheco, Colombian footballer
1975 – Declan Donnelly, English actor, television presenter and musician (Ant and Dec)
1976 – Petit, Portuguese footballer
1976 – Charlotte Ayanne, Puerto Rican actress and model
1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 – Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer-songwriter
1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
1980 – Nikola Zigic, Serbian footballer
1983 – Donald Glover, American actor, rapper, producer and screenwriter
1983 – Yuhei Tokunaga, Japanese footballer
1984 – Siphiwe Tshabalala, South African footballer
1984 – Matias Silvestre, Argentine footballer
1988 – Joe Prospero, English actor
1989 – Samantha Murray, English athlete
1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1991 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
1992 – Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor
1995 – Ryan Beatty, American singer
1995 – Caitlin Fields, American figure skater
303 – Saint Fermin of Pamplona
1066 – Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1020)
1066 – King Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1496 – Pietro Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1506 – Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar and reformer (b. 1525)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
1617 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (b. 1548)
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbeses, Italian general and politician (b. 1569)
1665 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer (b. 1728)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1849 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, 11th Premier of Quebec (b. 1832)
1900 – John N. Palmer, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle, English general (b. 1835)
1918 – Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1928 – Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist (b. 1863)
1931 – Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist (b. 1848)
1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1940 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (b. 1883)
1941 – Foxall P. Keane, American polo player, golfer and racing driver (b. 1867)
1944 – Walter Breisky, Austrian politician (b. 1871)
1960 – Emily Post, American author (b. 1873)
1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (b. 1898)
1971 – Hugo Black, American politician and jurist (b. 1886)
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower, actor and singer (b. 1915)
1980 – John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
1980 – Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
1983 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1983 – Gunnar Thoroddsen, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1910)
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist (b. 1896)
1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
1990 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)
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Fr. John C. Zanetos
Died: January 1, 1994
Reverend John C. Zanetos had a distinguished career as clergyman in the Greek Orthodox Church in America for forty-eight years.
Father Zanetos was born on March 16, 1920, the son of Costantinos Zanetos and Evghenia Spanos in the town of Karavas, on the island of Cyprus. Upon his graduation from the Pancyprian Gymnasium, he immigrated to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized citizen. First Graduate of The Greek Orthodox Seminary in America.
In 1938 he entered the newly formed Greek Orthodox Seminary at Pomfret, Connecticut and as a member of the first graduating class, earning his diploma in 1942. He also attended the Hartford Seminary where he received his B.D. degree in 1945.
In 1945 he married Irene Greos of New Britain Connecticut, and in the same year was ordained to the priesthood.
Liturgical Assignments throughout the United States
Father Zanetos' first assignment was in 1945 to the Assumption Church in Poughkeepsie, New York.
In 1949, he was appointed to the Church of Saint Spyridon in Washington Heights, New York City.
In 1950, he was appointed to the Church of Saints Constantine and Helen in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1956, he attained the position of Dean of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England, in Boston, at the Church of the Annunciation where he served for twenty-six years until 1982.
In California, he was assigned the Church of Saint Anthony in Pasadena, where he ministered until he retired to Boca Raton, Florida in 1986.
Highlights of Associated Religious Affiliations & Activities
In the course of his career, Father Zanetos taught for four years at the Teachers College at Saint Basil's Academy in Garrison, New York.
He served on the Board of Education of the Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church of North and South America.
He served terms as chaplain at both Vassar College and Columbia University.
In 1952 he sponsored federal legislation through Congressman Dorn of Brooklyn allowing Orthodoxy to be recognized as a religion on the dog tags of servicemen.
While in New York, he founded and was the first national president of the Pan Cyprian Society of America to aid Cyprus during its revolution for independence.
He represented the Orthodox Church on numerous television shows in New York with hosts such as Hugh Downs, Arlene Francis and others.
During his tenure in Boston in 1965, he was ordained "Protopresbyter" (Archpriest) the highest rank for a married priest in the Orthodox Church.
From 1959 through 1975 he hosted and produced a half hour weekly radio program, broadcast in Boston.
From 1965 through 1972 he was a member and officer of the Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews.
He served on the Archdiocesan Council.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Hellenic College and Holy Cross School of Theology.
He was a member of the Spiritual Tribunal and the Diocesan Council of the Diocese of Boston.
In 1975 he copyrighted and published his translations for "The Marriage Ceremony Of The Orthodox Church" and "Funeral Services Of The Orthodox Church."
He served as a member of The Committee of Ethics For The State of Massachusetts under Governor Volpe, Governor Furcalo and Governor Peabody.
He served as the director and as trustee of the American Friends of the Blind in Greece for twenty five years.
He was a member of various inter-Church and inter-faith committees and organizations throughout the United States.
He represented the Orthodox Church in the American Council of Churches.
While retired, he organized and founded the Retired Greek Orthodox Clergy of America and served as its first president for four years.
He was, until the time of his death, a member of the Spiritual Tribunal of the Diocese of Atlanta.
Churches Administered During Retirement
Churches he served during his years of retirement include:
Saint Andrew's Church in Miami, Florida.
Saint Anthony's Church in Pasadena, California.
Annunciation Church in North Miami, Florida.
Holly Trinity Church in Clearwater, Florida.
On January 1, 1994 at 12:05 a.m., Father John Zanetos died from complications of a heart attack and stroke suffered on November 19, 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida.
Surviving Family
Father Zanetos is survived by:
His wife, Irene.
His son Dean Zanetos, residing in Los Angeles, California.
His daughter Eugenia Buba, living in Andover, Massachusetts.
He is also survived by grandchildren:
Jonathan and Stephan Buba.
John D. Zanetos and Christina Zanetos.
Forty-eight Years of Service
"Live each day as if it were your last on this earth, yet pursue every day as if you expect to live forever."
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Tebow in Denver
Posted by mizzou1028 on April 23, 2010
Let’s cut to the chase with this: the selection of Tim Tebow by the Denver Broncos at number 25 overall is without question the craziest, riskiest pick I have seen from an NFL team in years, maybe ever. Here you have a guy in Tebow who just two months ago was being projected as a fifth or sixth round selection, largely due to a poor performance in the Senior Bowl and his showing the scouting combine. We were told there are major flaws in Tebow’s mechanics and footwork. Many still think he is nothing more than a backup quarterback at best. There are others however who have seen him work insanely hard to improve his mechanics in the past two months and value his intangibles of hard work and leadership, thus valuing him much higher. Rumor has it the Broncos weren’t the only team targeting Tebow tonight. Reports have the Buffalo Bills as extremely disappointed, and others say perhaps the Patriots or Vikings were hoping Tebow would fall to them. Bottom line: Tebow is perhaps the most polarizing player I have ever seen. People either love him or hate him, there is no middle ground, and how he does in Denver will almost certainly define the Josh McDaniels era.
I think it is safe to say that the pick was a surprise, no surprise is too soft a word. Let’s try shock. That’s much better, I would say everyone in Broncos Country, and heck the entire league, was shocked to actually see Tebow selected in round one. Many think he was selected too high. Clearly, Josh McDaniels values him enough to have made him a first round selection. This does seem very curious considering the recent trade for Brady Quinn and the other needs on the roster, not the least of which is the offensive line, of which there is no center currently on the roster. I think it is safe to say that Tebow will not be starting at quarterback right away. Right now that job still belongs to Kyle Orton, although he will certainly have competition breathing down his neck. I could see Tebow being used initially in short yardage situations, perhaps some Wildcat formations, and basically deployed at specific times in a game to try and generate an impact.
Frankly, I think it will take minimum two and probably three seasons to truly judge this pick. It will take time for Tebow to develop, and maybe that’s the problem that many fans have. People want impact players in the first round, guys who will step in right away and make a difference. Broncos fans are upset that Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall have been traded and they are having a hard time seeing what the Broncos got for those two players. My views on Cutler are very clear (short version: if he keeps leading the league in picks, Chicago can have him) and Marshall was clearly someone who no longer wanted to be in Denver. While the frustration is understandable, I think it’s clear that McDaniels wouldn’t have made those moves if he didn’t feel they made the team better. Clearly he thinks Tebow can help. So in that regard, I say let’s give the guy a chance to see what he can do before we label the pick as a bust.
Here is what I like about Tebow: His track record at Florida is outstanding. He is the winner of two national championships, and his stats were off the charts. The guy won games, he proved to be a superb leader in the huddle and in the locker room. He has many qualities you want in a quarterback; he exudes confidence, has an ability to take charge, is very intelligent, and knows the playbook inside and out. With his skillset he can also be very capable as an H-back type out of the backfield, and he is as tough as they come on the field. He is one of those guys who is the first to arrive at practice and the last to leave. This is a guy who will do whatever it takes and then some to improve, be a leader and win football games. He has proven adept to running Urban Meyer’s offense at Florida, which is more similar to an NFL offense than that used by many other colleges. He is in many ways an ideal teammate. He is a team first player all the way, someone who will not worry about contracts or individual stats. He is also not a guy who will get in trouble a la Ben Roethlisberger.
Now here is what I don’t like about Tebow: His improved mechanics have only been on display for two months, so it will be very interesting to see how he will do against real NFL competition. I still wonder if he has the ability to throw the deep ball, something that was noticeably absent in the Broncos offense last year. I also pause when I think of how many other Heisman Trophy winners and good college quarterbacks have struggled mightily in the NFL. The NFL is completely different from the college game, so there is no guarantee his success at Florida will translate to the Broncos.
There is another reason I have not to this point been the biggest fan of Tebow, and it’s perhaps one that won’t make me very popular. While I admire his character off the field, I am not at all a fan of the way he sometimes uses football as a launching pad for his personal and religious views. It is for this reason that I have found him to be a very difficult player to root for. I realize this sounds strange considering he hasn’t gotten himself into any embarrassing trouble, and this is not to say that I resent him for his views. Plenty of NFL players share Tebow’s views, you just don’t see them using the NFL to fuel political or religious agendas. I would say the same thing whether I agreed with Tebow or not: there is a time and place for expression of such views, and game interviews and press conferences are not the time. I guess what I’m saying is I don’t want the starting quarterback of my team telling me that his off the field views are correct and that mine are wrong. I do respect that he is very confident in himself and who he is. Obviously I don’t want Ben Roethlisberger on my team, or anyone else who would behave as irresponsibly as he has, so I’m not saying the Broncos shouldn’t draft/sign players of good character. Tim Tebow has very good character and I admire him for that, and I’m glad the Broncos are pursuing players with high morals. I just think at times Tebow has gone overboard with his message.
Overall I think Tebow is a player worth taking a chance on because he is a sure bet to be a good teammate and he has the intangibles necessary to be a good quarterback and good leader of a football team. While I may personally not care for the way he expresses some of his views, that doesn’t change the fact he is a person of good character and is someone who will clearly put the team first, and that is something that has been missing from the Broncos locker room, specifically at key positions. I think in time if he continues to work on his mechanics, he can develop into a good quarterback. Nothing is guaranteed of course. There is no question McDaniels is taking a huge risk, especially if the Broncos could have gotten him at a later slot in the draft than the first round. There is no way to know for sure, but the common opinion seems to be Tebow was selected too high, that the Broncos might have been able to wait until Friday to take him. I think if Tebow turns out to be a good player that won’t matter. If Tebow is successful, it might just restore the opinion of McDaniels in Bronco land. It might be enough to make people forget about Cutler and Marshall and even Mike Shanahan. If Tebow is a bust, McDaniels will be run out of town on a rail and his tenure will be defined by the moves he made and the risks he took. He could well be remembered as the coach who blew up the Broncos. What will it be? It’ll probably be at least two years before we find out.
One footnote: Let’s not forget about Demaryius Thomas, the receiver from Georgia Tech that the Broncos selected three spots before Tebow. Thomas is a playmaker with a body type very similar to Brandon Marshall. He has the ability to make tough catches in traffic and McDaniels believes he is faster than Marshall. He is the type of receiver that could be able to make an immediate impact alongside Eddie Royal. I like this pick very much. Now they need to address the offensive line.
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Marshall to Miami – Now let’s move on
By now you should know the specifics of the deal: Brandon Marshall has been traded to the Miami Dolphins for a pair of second round picks, one in next week’s draft (number 45 overall) and another in 2011. At first I thought the Broncos got robbed, that they didn’t get enough in return for Marshall. When looking at the receiver market around the league however, the Broncos actually did as well as could realistically be expected. The Cardinals only received a third and fifth round pick for Anquan Boldin, and the Steelers got only a measly fifth round pick for Santonio Holmes. It could be more than a reasonable argument that Marshall has not accomplished as much as those two wideouts, but at the very least Marshall is in their class from a talent standpoint. While it would have been nice for the Broncos if a team signed Marshall to an offer sheet and had to surrender the tender of a first round pick, that just wasn’t going to happen because teams knew he could be had for less. That’s just the way it works.
I know many Broncos fans are feeling frustrated because they feel like the talent of the team is being destroyed (Tony Scheffler is almost certainly on his way out too, perhaps to rejoin Mike Shanahan in Washington). While I admit I am a little concerned about who will be there to throw the ball to in September (Eddie Royal MUST have more than 37 catches for starters), I think the move was so inevitable that Marshall’s presence in the locker room would have caused more of a distraction than it would have helped. Let’s make no bones about this, Marshall wanted out of Denver. He may have put on a happy face last year, and he did get his 100 catches, but he was never playing for the team. Let’s not forget he did earn a one game suspension from Josh McDaniels at the beginning of last season, and only when he returned from that did he even start playing hard. Let’s also not forget that he couldn’t figure out a way to get on the field in the finale against Kansas City, even though it was obvious (and even stated by McDaniels) that other players were gutting it out with worse injuries. The fact Marshall was too hurt to play in a do or die game where the playoffs were on the line but managed to be on the field in the completely meaningless Pro Bowl just a few weeks later says a lot about his character or lack thereof. Marshall was only concerned with a big payday and as far he was concerned he had his 100 catches.
As far as I’m concerned (I said this about Jay Cutler as well), if a player doesn’t want to be here, get rid of him. Marshall had several reasons for wanting out of Denver, not the least of which is the Broncos weren’t about to reward him with a large contract when he is just one more transgression away from a major suspension by Roger Goodell. Marshall’s off the field behavior has been questionable at best (which is probably the biggest reason he was a fourth round draft pick), and I frankly shudder to think of what might happen when Marshall takes his new paycheck to South Beach. Marshall is certainly a very talented receiver, and I’ll be the first to say they just don’t fall off the tree, but in the NFL a good locker room environment is just as important as the talent on the field. In this case, an unhappy Marshall was just going to cause more of a distraction. Think of Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco, and other receivers with large personalities. How many playoff games have those receivers won? Think about the distractions those receivers cause. Good receivers are important, but good character is more important. That’s why the Broncos made this trade, and really why they felt they didn’t have much choice.
I do think this a team with many more questions than answers. I think this is a very important draft for the Broncos, for they still have major holes at guard and center along the offensive line. They also could use another linebacker in the 3-4 scheme. Speaking of linebacker, they need to figure out a way to make Elvis Dumervil happy. Dumervil missed out on a big payday thanks in large part to the uncapped year as a result of the collective bargaining agreement not being renewed. The Broncos did address the defensive line in the offseason and that should be much improved. It will also be interesting to see if the Broncos try to tab a receiver somewhere in the draft, and of course how the quarterback battle between Kyle Orton and Brady Quinn shakes out. The Broncos are definitely a team with major questions, but I am always the eternal optimist. Let’s see what happens next week in the draft and we’ll go from there.
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Wednesday — July 27th, 2016
ULTRA South Africa Announces New Venue, Early Birds on Sale August 2nd
Early Bird Ticket Registration Now Open
Cape Town – Friday, February 24
Cape Town Stadium
Johannesburg – Saturday, February 25
Nasrec Expo Centre
ULTRA SOUTH AFRICA proudly announces its return with the 2017 festival dates, a brand new venue for Cape Town, and for those that are quick on the draw, a limited number of early bird tickets that will be available at the lowest prices guaranteed.
As South Africa’s biggest electronic music festival, ULTRA South Africa has built a name that, like the global brand, is synonymous with the world best DJs, and the hottest destination venues, coupled with the most advanced sound and lighting production SA has ever seen. ULTRA South Africa has continued to raise the festival bar year on year, and 2017 will be no different.
Five months after the 2016 shows, it can finally be revealed that Africa’s largest electronic music festival will be held for the first time in 2017 at the iconic and world-renowned CAPE TOWN STADIUM, Green Point on Friday, February 24. This venue, the landmark of the Mother City, will create an entirely new ULTRA experience for Capetonian electronic music lovers, ensuring that loyal patrons will experience something entirely unique, while new Ultranauts will have a completely unforgettable festival experience.
The Johannesburg event will remain at its lifelong home, the NASREC EXPO CENTRE on Saturday, February 25, offering the same earth-shaking music experience that it has every year.
Early bird registration opened to an overwhelming response on 20th July, and early bird tickets go on sale (for those that registered) on Tuesday 2nd August on a first come, first served basis. Please note that this will be the best ticket price for ULTRA South Africa 2017; see all three tiers of ticket prices below.
Early Bird (by registration only): R650
Tier 1: R800
Early Bird (by registration only): R1000
Tier 1: R1400
Tier 1: R3000
Tier 1: R750
Prices do not include booking fees.
Follow ULTRA South Africa on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for real-time updates on artists, tickets and festival updates.
About ULTRA Worldwide™
ULTRA WORLDWIDE™ IS THE GLOBAL EDITION OF THE WORLD’S PREMIER ELECTRONIC MUSIC EVENT, ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL®.
The ULTRA brand in relation to live events was founded in 1997 in Miami by Executive Producer, President & CEO, Russell Faibisch, who began by producing electronic music events which led to the inaugural Ultra Music Festival® in 1999 on the sands of Miami Beach.
The internationally renowned festival, which has taken place every March since its inception, celebrated its eighteenth anniversary on March 18-20, 2016 by bringing over 165,000 music enthusiasts to the sold out waterfront event in the heart of the City of Miami. Ultra Music Festival®, recently voted the world’s #1 Festival by DJ Mag, returns to Bayfront Park for its nineteenth annual edition on March 24-26, 2017.
Choosing to follow a unique and creative vision and a wholly organic growth focused on its true love for music, artists and fans alike, the ULTRA and ULTRA Worldwide™ brands represent not only the world’s biggest and most successful remaining INDEPENDENT electronic music festival brand, but also the most international festival brand in the world. Event organizers continue to transport the unrivaled experience from the Miami flagship festival to an ever-growing number of destinations and Ultranauts all over the globe.
Over the past eighteen years, thousands of the world’s most iconic DJs, producers and live acts have mesmerized audiences with awe-inspiring sets at ULTRA festivals in ARGENTINA, BALI, BRAZIL, CHILE, CROATIA, IBIZA, JAPAN, KOREA, SOUTH AFRICA and of course MIAMI, as well as ROAD TO ULTRA® events in BOLIVIA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, JAPAN, KOREA, MACAU, PARAGUAY, PERU, THE PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, THAILAND and the USA. Each new global edition has been founded on the same successful recipe that has been perfected over eighteen years in Miami, combining the most diverse electronic talent with the most technologically advanced, large-scale festival productions in the world.
The ULTRA brands have pioneered the live stream experience with ‘ULTRA LIVE’ (bringing the festival online to over 20 million unique viewers globally) and the audio broadcasting platform ‘UMF RADIO’ (syndicated to FM Radio in over 62 countries and reaching more than 22 million listeners weekly). Also UMF FILMS’ collaboration with FINAL KID has seen some of the most visually breathtaking festival aftermovies in the music space, including a feature-length documentary exploring the explosion of dance music, entitled CAN U FEEL IT™, which was premiered on the red carpet at the Klipsch Amphitheater in Miami in 2012 and was exhibited in over 500 theaters across the Unites States.
2016 will see the ULTRA and ULTRA WORLDWIDE™ brands continue to push the boundaries even further, bringing an unparalleled combination of cutting edge productions and the world’s best electronic acts back to previous strongholds and new frontiers across the globe. With a brand new edition of ULTRA Brasil® confirmed to take place in Rio de Janeiro on October 14-15, 2016, ULTRA Singapore™ becoming a full scale two-day festival on September 10-11 and with ROAD TO ULTRA® entering Hong Kong later this year, the ULTRA brand has now united TWENTY COUNTRIES across FIVE CONTINENTS worldwide.
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Out of sight, out of mind
ECB, participation, Sky, village cricket
An abbreviated version of this article appeared in All Out Cricket magazine, June 2015
Two weeks before this season began, we heard that one of the sides in our division (Division Two of the Derbyshire County Cricket League) had pulled out, unable to guarantee enough players for two teams. The week before the season began, three more teams pulled out of divisions lower down the leagues. This is becoming a familiar pattern. It is the tangible evidence to match the ECB’s figures released last November, which revealed that in recreational cricket across England and Wales the number of players aged 14 to 65 dropped from 908,000 in 2013 to 844,000 in 2014, and more than 5% of games were conceded because at least one of the clubs was unable to field a side.
There are many reasons for this worrying drop. It’s a complex picture which has much to do with the times in which we live. However, one overriding factor eclipses all others: Sky TV.
Great, comprehensive coverage it may be but so few people can see it. In the glorious summer of 2005, there were days when the test matches on Channel 4 had 8.4 million viewers. Cricket was part of the national collective consciousness, a thread woven into the fabric of society, a national cultural reference point. It was also so exciting and such great sporting drama, that you couldn’t wait to get down the cricket club to share the thrill with your team-mates.
How did the ECB ride the crest of this wave? Take it off terrestrial television and move the decimal point on those viewing figures in the wrong direction.
The ECB’s solution seems to be predicated on funnelling large amounts of Sky money into ambitious player recruitment projects. These are, by and large, undeniably a good idea – Chance to Shine, for example. What’s not to like about a programme to take cricket into schools and introduce kids to the game?
But Chance to Shine – and other ideas – are simply making the best of a bad job. Having someone come into schools to teach cricket might interest one or two for a while but when the coaching stops, in all likelihood the interest will stop too. In contrast, a child grows up in a family that loves cricket, where cricket is on the television and where the local club is part of their lives, and there’s a much stronger base for the creation of a cricketer for life. People need to learn the joys of cricket, not be told them. Schemes imposed from the top down simply don’t work as well as organic growth from the grass roots.
Part of the issue is that the joy of cricket is not always immediate. It is in its nuances, in the reading between the lines, in the story that is so much bigger than its constituent chapters. By growing up with cricket all around you, on the television, down at the cricket club, you grow to understand that it’s not all about the occasional blast of action, it’s also about the barely noticeable tremors. It’s about a bowler’s skill, a batsman’s temperament, a mental battle, a verbal joust, a tactical fight, the pitch, the weather, the state of the ball. This is a game where moving one fielder one yard could change everything. You don’t pick up this kind of nuance by seeing a 30 second clip on the news. This is the stuff that seeps into your consciousness over long periods of time, catalysed perhaps by the insight of Benaud, Cozier or Atherton.
Without the deeply-rooted love of the game fostered in their youth, adults too easily lose the habit of playing. The complete absorption I find in the game seems to be thinner on the ground these days. Saturday cricket was (and to a large extent remains) the focus of my week in the summer months but for many these days, it is simply something to do if they have nothing else on.
Numbers, therefore, are falling. Clubs find it difficult to keep going. Once a club is struggling, it can be a slippery slope. Players have the choice of staying with their local club which may be struggling to put teams out, can’t pay a groundsman, can’t afford to repair the showers and so on, or they can go to one of the big clubs, with its four Saturday teams, grant-funded clubhouse, club pro and belting track. One player goes, then another, and another and the tipping point is soon reached. Another club falls by the wayside.
Sadly these clubs that are falling are often the traditional, small village clubs – clubs that used to work perfectly in their unique environs. They don’t have any ambitions to be a big club with 10 junior teams, four senior teams and a host of ex-professionals. But the latter is exactly the kind of club that receives most of the focus, and has the wherewithal to secure funding and support. So this kind of club keeps getting bigger and the little village clubs continue to die away. It’s a self-perpetuating homogenisation of the recreational game that is not helpful in the long term. With participation decreasing, surely we should be more creative and less prescriptive?
As clubs disappear, we’re in danger of losing cricket as a broad church and consequently the diversity to attract different people to take up and stay in this beautiful game. No amount of Chance to Shine money is going to arrest this decline.
2 thoughts on “Out of sight, out of mind”
whenfatestepsin said:
Fully agree Nick. It is an incredible shame that smaller teams are having to close due to lack of interest. The emails from my team (a small village team in East Sussex) start like this, ‘Monday – we have five players and need 6 more’… up to Friday, ‘SOS, SOS, we still need three players’, and this happens week after week.
Is it perhaps a sign of late urbanisation, where cricket players (like jobs) are now found in the city and town rather than the country? My view is that the decline is down to various factors:
1. Village teams tend to include a core group of families who have lived in the area for donkeys (figuratively, not literally). Fathers with their fathers who bring their sons and grandsons to the team. My experience of village teams is that they can be very cliquey, beset by rivalries and spoiled by the ‘village elders’ with their power issues.
2. Some village teams get grants and build better facilities and can afford better players. This attracts the players from a smaller village club with few facilities.
3. There is still an incredible number of cricket clubs, considering how much time a match requires (a whole day, compared to the 90 minutes of a football game) and the land (and wicket) required for a cricket club. It may change the traditional view of John Major’s tea and cricket greens, but is it so bad that we go to bigger clubs, with more players, more competiton, better nets facilities and a better stocked bar?
4. Do we respect or even like English cricketer’s anymore? I never had illusions ‘role model’ status of Messrs Gatting, Botham, Tufnell, etc, but at least they were likeable. Perhaps I’m getting old, but I don’t get excited about any current English cricketer (KP excluded, but that’s another story). If there’s nobody to emulate, why would we get interested in cricket?
5. Inaccessibility. You and I know that there are a hundred and one cricket clubs out there. I can point to 7 clubs within a 4 mile radius of my house (in Bromley, Kent). So why do I bump into someone who lives down the road, is a huge cricket fan with a bowling machine and net in his garden, ask me how he gets involved in a local cricket team? Okay, maybe he didn’t look in his yellow pages or his google, but I think it is difficult for a person to ‘break into’ a local cricket club. Perhaps this is because we don’t find out everything about our local area, or maybe it’s down to the ‘cliquey-ness’.
6. No teaching of cricket in state schools.
Of course, as you so correctly point out, the worst thing the ECB did was to sell out to Sky. I appreciate the money has changed the face of cricket in many good ways, mainly by giving it a level of professionalism which never existed before. Even at club level you see athletic youngsters playing cricket in a way which didn’t happen before. However, (as you say) the love of cricket comes from the experience of being immersed in it. Coming home after school with the test match being on; getting out of bed in the school holidays, coming downstairs and putting the cricket on (and it staying on all day). This just doesn’t happen anymore. And it’s a crying shame.
When someone asks me why I love cricket so if is difficult to explain – when they ask me why I love a five day test match it is especially difficult to explain – it comes from a childhood love, the experience of appreciating every ball, every catch, every stroke of a bat. The rollercoaster of a test match, the game turning in one session. Someone once said the beauty of cricket was that every ball bowled is like a penalty shoot-out, so a whole game was 240 or so penalties for five days. You can’t explain a love of cricket to someone who doesn’t love it too. This love is borne out of a life’s love, an appreciation of a village green, of a school cricket pavilion, of a victorian photograph of a county side, an old scoreboard, a rusty roller or a cracked piece of willow. Without cricket on the telly, and without a team of heroes we can look up to, I can’t see how this will continue. The younger generation do not have the same experience of cricket that we have. How do we get this to change? Get it back on the telly? Or accept that we no longer have time for the five day game and only 20/20 will work? I have no answers, but I hope the cricket lovers (who keep this game alive) find the solution soon.
nickcampion175 said:
Beautifully put Sandip – some really considered points. The only thing I’d really take issue with is about cliques preventing people joining. Yes, some clubs are like that but I find the vast majority of clubs welcome new players with open arms (and considerable gratitude) – and if one doesn’t then as you say, there’s usually another down the road. The other challenges you mention are all certainly significant. As you say, it’s hard to explain the joy of cricket so someone new to it so you have to get people young – which is hard with no live cricket on terrestrial TV.
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Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
Portraits of two beloved icons–Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel–are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit.
Theodore Bikel, the unstoppable performer whose career spans more than 150 screen roles (including an Oscar-nominated turn in “The Defiant Ones”) and countless stage and musical productions, is also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem’s work. Now 90, Bikel has played Tevye the Milkman on stage more than 2,000 times, and he has animated Aleichem’s work through his creation of two celebrated musical plays about the great Russian author.
The new film Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem combines Bikel’s charismatic storytelling and masterful performances with a broader exploration of Aleichem’s remarkable life and work.
A pioneer of modern Jewish literature who championed and luxuriated in the Yiddish language, Sholom Aleichem created dozens of indelible characters. His Tevye the Milkman, Motl the Cantor’s Son, and Menachem Mendl–“shtetl Jews” for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin–remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life, real and imagined.
Watch the Trailer!
Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (Trailer) from National Center for Jewish Film on Vimeo.
The National Center for Jewish Film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive and distributor. This month several screenings of Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem will be presented across Florida.
Below you will find information on these screenings and where tickets can be purchased.
Sarasota, FL - March 8 & 10 2015
Jewish Film Festival of Sarasota-Manatee OPENING NIGHT WITH THEODORE BIKEL RECEPTION FOLLOWING Sunday, March 8, 6:30 pm at Hyatt Regency Sarasota Encore Screening (film only) Tuesday, March 10, 3pm at Jewish Federation See Festival website for tickets Tampa, FL – Friday, March 13, 2015
Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival Friday, March 13, 1:15 pm at Villagio Cinemas North Tampa Buy Tickets! LIMITED SEATING Delray Beach, FL – March 13-19
Week Theatrical Run March 13-19 Tickets and showtimes coming soon! Lake Worth, FL – March 13-19
Week Theatrical Run March 13-19 Tickets and showtimes coming soon!
Live long and prosper – Leonard Nimoy
Did you know Star Trek’s Mr. Spock was Jewish?
Leonard Nimoy passed away February 27, 2015 in Los Angeles at the age of 83.
The son of Yiddish speaking Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Soviet Union, Nimoy began acting at the age of 8.
He starred in minor movie roles through the 1950s, but he is probably best remembered for his role as Spock. Nimoy captivated audiences in his role as the half Vulcan, half human Spock in the original Star Trek TV series (1966-1969), and earned himself three Emmy nominations. He later appeared in numerous Star Trek and other films and directed Nimoy directed Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in 1984 and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in 1986.
The Vulcan salute, which became identified with him was created by Nimoy from his childhood memories of the way kohanim (Jewish priests) hold their hand when giving blessings.
In the clip below Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan hand signal.
Video by Yiddish Book Center on Publish Date February 27, 2015.
Beyond acting and directing Nimoy was a recording artist and released five albums.
The Recorded Sound Archives at FAU Libraries is delighted to share the following recordings by Alberto Mizrahi and the Western Wind, featuring Leonard Nimoy as the narrator.
The Birth of the World, Part 1: Rosh Hashanah
The Birth of the World, Part 2: Yom Kippur
Taste of Eternity – A Musical Shabbat Part 1: Friday Night Service
Taste of Enternity – A Musical Shabbat, Part 2: Saturday Morning Service
Chanukah in Story and Song
February 28 – March 7, 2014 7th Annual Kultur Celebration
Festival Highlights Klezmer Company Orchestra
FAU – Carole & Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium, Boca Raton, FL
Sun, Mar 1, 2015 03:00 PM
Aaron Kula leads KCO in vintage Klezmer melodies re-mixed …more
Great Jewish Composers of the 20th Century
FAU – Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, FL
Tue, Mar 3, 2015 02:00 PM
Discover musical treasures featuring iconic Jewish composers …more Moroccan Soul with Aaron Bensoussan
Thu, Mar 5, 2015 07:30 PM
Listen to a unique soulful mix of genres including Judao Moro …more
Jewish Melodies in Jazztime – Brian Potts Vibraphone Quartet
FAU - Wimberly Library, Boca Raton, FL
Sat, Mar 7, 2015 07:30 PM
Vibraphonist Brian Potts brings his accomplished jazz quartet …more
Songs of the Second World War
The Second World War waged around the globe from 1939 to 1945.
The impact of WWII on the daily lives of Americans and Europeans cannot be overstated. As the atrocities of the Nazis raged in Europe, American men were drafted and called to war. American music of the WWII era spoke to the soldiers far from home and also to those they left behind.
The Second World War changed the course of history in many ways. One of the things that changed was music…what it sounded like, how we listened to it and how intimately it touched our lives.
During WWII music became personal as well as entertaining. Major technological advances such as radio and phonograph recordings took music out of the theater and into middle-class homes. Big Bands, Jazz and Swing created a new vibe that defined a generation.
The Recorded Sound Archives has digitized two very special collections from the Second World War era. V-discs were produced between October 1943 and May 1949 by the US Armed Forces for military personnel overseas. Vogue Picture Records were produced between May 1946 and April 1947 by Sav-Way Industries using a special process engineered by Tom Saffady.
Enjoy the music that defined a generation – the best loved songs from the World War II era. Many thanks to all those who sent in the titles of their favorite songs from the 1940s and 1950s.
Click here to listen to Songs of the Second World War. Due to copyright concerns, some recordings may be limited to 45-second snippets. Full versions are available to users of the RSA Research Station.
Click here for Youtube videos.
FAU events that may interest you.
2/17/15 (Tuesday) @ 5pm – FAU Wimberly Library: The Most Controversial Decision - Lecture by Wilson Miscamble. Mr. Miscamble is a prize-winning author and historian.
2/18/15 (Wednesday) @ 3:30pm – FAU Barry Kaye Auditorium: Truman’s Presidency and WWII - Lecture by David McCullough. David McCullough is is an American author, narrator, and historian. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
3/18/15 (Wednesday) @ 3:30 pm – FAU Wimberly Library: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence and the Cold War – Lecture by Dr. Norman Goda. Norman Goda received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies modern European history and specializes in the history of the Holocaust, war crimes trials, and twentieth century diplomacy.
Top ten reasons to volunteer at the RSA
Looking for local volunteers
RSA’s sound technician, Ben Roth, set up a table and tried to entice passersby to sign up at Boca Pointe’s Volunteer Fair on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Not much luck.
People are often amazed at the number of recordings that the RSA has been able to digitize and put online. “How do you do it?” That’s a question we often hear.
The answer? VOLUNTEERS!!!!
But why should you volunteer when you have so many other things to do? What’s in it for you? So here is my top ten reasons to volunteer at the Recorded Sound Archives in FAU Libraries, Boca Raton.
10. You can reminisce about some of the world’s greatest Jazz musicians as you enter information from LPs into the database.
9. You can learn more about Jazz history, songs and musicians by reading the backs of album covers.
8. You can improve your mind and improve your memory by exercising your brain muscles.
7. You can improve your manual dexterity and keyboard skills.
6. You can feel good about spending your time doing something useful and worthwhile.
5. You can volunteer whenever you have time to kill as long as it is on Mon through Thurs between 9am and 4pm.
4. You can enjoy the ambiance of FAU’s beautiful Boca Raton campus and the Wimberly Library.
3. You might make new friends.
2. You can see and hear demonstrations of the RSA’s antique equipment, including an original Edison cylinder player and two console Victrolas from the 1920s.
And the number 1 reason to volunteer at the RSA…..
Contact Alethea Perez at 561-297-0080 for more information.
Gone but not forgotten – the Barry Sisters
Bagelman Sisters/Barry Sisters early photo with Claire Barry on the right.
Yiddish music icons, Merna and Claire Barry, entertained generations of Jewish Americans with their jazzy versions of Yiddish songs.
For over 40 years the Bagelman Sisters, later known as the Barry Sisters, were the darlings of Jewish entertainment. Their recordings could be found in almost every Jewish household in the 1950s and 60s. The younger of the two sisters, Merna, passed away in 1976. The older sister, Claire Barry, died on November 22, 2014 in Hollywood, FL at 94. Click here for full NY Times obituary.
Who were the Barry Sisters?
Two beautiful girls, dressed in the latest fashion, hair perfectly coiffed, singing with sultry voices that could make your heart leap.
New Yorkers. Clara and Minnie Bagelman. started as the Bagelman Sisters. Many saw them as the Yiddish answer to the popular Andrews Sisters in the 1940s. They combined old Jewish folk songs and Yiddish Theater ditties with swing arrangements and perfect harmony. When Clara and Minnie changed their names to Claire and Merna The Bagelman Sisters became The Barry Sisters. They have often been credited with creating Yiddish Swing, a music genre which did not exist previously.
The glamorous Barry Sisters were regular guests at Yiddish radio programs like Yiddish Melodies in Swing. They toured with the Ed Sullivan Show to the Soviet Union and performed in Israel in October 1962.
The popularity of their catchy and jazzy tunes may have paved the way for the Broadway hit, Fiddler on the Roof, and the klezmer revival of the late 70s.
Listed below are some of their most popular tunes. The Judaica Sound Archives has 41 recordings by this dynamic duo of Yiddish music.
Abi Gezunt (Stay healthy)
In Meine Oigen Bistie Shain (To me you are beautiful)
Channah from Havannah (A Gala Concert with Moishe Oysher album, no. 3).
Bublitchki (About the last bagel)
Dem Neyem Sher (At Home With album, no. 2).
Click here for more Barry Sisters recordings. Due to copyright concerns only snippets can be heard on our public website. Full versions are available to users of the RSA Research Station.
Hanukkah music for grown-ups
Everyone loves the traditional Hanukkah songs we all learned in childhood. We teach these songs to our children and our grandchildren. L’dor v’dor.
Today we highlight an album that encourages us to experience Hanukkah as an adult. Embracing the mood and sounds of Swing and Jazz era music, Kenny Ellis has created a truly one-of-a-kind album.
The album includes many old favorites and two wonderful medleys that evoke an upbeat Post WW2 vibe. This is Hanukkah music as you have never heard it before.
Hanu-calypso is so funny that it just might replace Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song as my go-to Hanukkah ditty.
For more information about Kenny Ellis or to purchase this CD, click here.
Yiddish recordings a big hit at international conference
RSA Director, Maxine Schackman, at the IAYC conference on Nov. 15 in Boca Raton, FL.
RSA director, Maxine Schackman, told the audience at the International Association of Yiddish Clubs conference in Boca Raton that FAU Libraries has been collecting Judaic recordings since 2002.
“We take these antique recordings and digitize them so that a new generation can learn and enjoy what came before them,” she said.
The Recorded Sound Archives website has the largest searchable online collection of Jewish music in the world with recordings by 7,344 Jewish performers, 13,776 albums and 72, 577 song titles.
Among the musical pieces Schackman presented that had the audience laughing and singing along were “Roumania, Roumania,” written and performed by Yiddish theater star Aaron Lebedeff; “Good Night ‘Oy Vey’ Irene”, a Yiddish parody of “Good Night Irene” sung by Seymour Rechtzeit and written by his wife, Miraim Kressyn; and “Bei Mir Bistu Shein,” a Yiddish swing song that became a number-one single in America in 1938 as recorded by the Andrews Sisters.
CLICK HERE to listen to a selection of Yiddish recordings.
CLICK HERE for full story written by Randall Lieberman and published in Jewish Journal.
Cantor Todros Greenberg: a family pays homage to their roots
Cantor Todros Greenberg’s great-granddaughter wanted her son to hear his great-great- grandfather sing, but all she had was a tangle of tapes from dozens of reel-to-reel recordings. What could she do?
After locating a box full of tapes belonging to her great-grandfather, Cheryl Silver reached out to the JSA. With her son Noah’s Bar Mitzvah only a few months away she wanted to preserve the music on the tapes as part of Noah’s Mitzvah Project.
Although most of the tapes seemed to be in fairly good condition they were in total disarray. The home-made tapes were not clearly identified. We had no idea who was singing what on which tape.
A bit of good luck: As it happened, Cantor Joseph Gross, friend of the JSA, remembered Cantor Greenberg and could identify his voice. Hour after hour after hour, Cantor Gross sat with ear phones listening to tapes and making notes. JSA sound technician, Ben Roth-Aroni meticulously digitized the tapes, created separate tracks and organized the songs on CDs for the family.
Well-known among Cantors for his talents as an educator and composer, Cantor Greenberg’s 40 year collaboration with Cantor Sholom Kalib resulted in the critically acclaimed book, Heichal Han’gina V’hatfila. Vol.1, published in 1961 by the Cantor’s Assembly.
His compositions have been included in the Milken Archive’s CD: The First S’lihot by Benzion Miller and in The Milken Archive’s 50 CD boxed set. They were also featured as part of the 8-program WFMT (Chicago) radio series, The Art of the Cantor, hosted by Cantor Alberto Mizrahi. But, recordings of this great Cantor’s voice have been rare …..until now.
The Judaica Sound Archives is proud of its role in preserving the recorded music legacy of Cantor Todros Greenberg.The digitized music in this collection was lovingly and painstakingly created from Cantor Greenberg’s personal reel-to-reel tapes which were donated to the Judaica Sound Archives by Cantor Greenberg’s family in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of his great-great-grandson, Noah Johnson.
Click here to read more about Cantor Greenberg and to hear his recordings.
Leo Fuld: A forgotten man?
Do you know this person? Clue: He is a Dutch man who was once called the King of Yiddish Music.
Leo Fuld was one of the premier Yiddish performers in America during the 1950′s and 1960′s. Audiences loved to hear him sing Yiddish favorites in a combination of Yiddish and English. They loved his music which evoked the emotions and hardships of the Jewish people. Simply put, audiences loved the truth in his music.
One of his most famous compositions “Vi Ahin Zol lch Geyn? (Where Can I Go?)”, can still wrench the heart. It sold over one and a half million copies worldwide. Leo Fuld not only composed Yiddish songs, he also performed them with great success. His list of recorded hits include: Ich Hab Dich Zu Viel Lieb (I Love You Much Too Much), Wus Geween Ist Geween, My Yiddishe Mama, Zigany Melody. The lyrics to his song, Mazzel, tells us something that we all know….a little luck can make a big difference!
You gotta have a little mazzel,
Mazzel means good luck,
‘Cause with a little mazzel,
You always make a buck.
And if you have no mazzel,
Although you’re on the ball,
You try and try and can’t get by,
You beat your head against the wall.
Don’t ever try to figure, why you seem to be to blame,
That some folks have a million, and can’t even write their name!
Fuld was born into a large family (the third of ten) in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He served as a cantor in the synagogue when only 16 years old. Like other young men of the time, however, he was also attracted to popular music. Just before the outbreak of World War II, he left for America, established himself as a singer of Yiddish songs and became a well-known and successful performer.
Returning home after the war, Fuld was devastated to find his beloved Rotterdam bombed beyond recognition and his entire family murdered. With his red-hair and European accent he became a very recognizable Jewish performer when he returned to the USA. Combining Yiddish songs with swing music, and using both Yiddish and English lyrics he achieved stardom among Jewish audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Performing with super-stars like Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf his admirers ran the gamut and included such luminaries as Frankie Laine, Billie Holiday, Al Jolson, Danny Kaye and even Albert Einstein.
Click here for more songs by Leo Fuld.
This blog was written by RSA guest blogger, Niels Falch. An independent researcher, Mr. Falch is especially interested in the influence of Jewish music on American popular songs. He lives near Amsterdam in Holland. Additional material supplied by Maxine Schackman, Director of the Recorded Sound Archives at FAU Libraries in Boca Raton, FL.
Vinyl record give-away a big hit with FAU students
FAU students Allyson and Alexander browse through vinyl LPs.
Over 300 FAU students and invited guests participated in the Recorded Sound Archives Vinyl Record Give-away event on October 20 and 21, 2014 at the Wimberly Library’s fifth floor on FAU’s Boca Raton campus.
More than 1,500 vinyl LP records were distributed as well as cassette tapes, and 45 rpm records (singles).
Established in 2002 to collect, organize and protect vintage audio recordings, the RSA houses more than 250,000 classical, jazz, Judaic and other vintage recordings, making FAU Libraries one of the top academic libraries in the nation for sound recordings.
All the recordings in the archives were donated to the university by collectors and institutions. Recent efforts to organize and inventory the back-log of thousands of donated recordings resulted in the identification of duplicate and excess records that were not needed for the RSA collection. The RSA regularly receives about 10,000 donated recordings each year.
Happy students,Kelly and Sydney, are looking forward to sharing their vinyl finds with their families.
Some students expressed disappointment when they learned that classic rock icons such as the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and Alice Cooper were not among the recordings being offered. One student commented, “Man, these are really, really old records.”
Yet, they were scooping up albums by Frank Sinatra, Petula Clark, Jack Benny and Robert Goulet. “Why did you choose this record I asked?” Very often the answer was something like, “I’m not sure but I think I remember my grandmother mentioning that she liked this singer.” For many adults of my age these recordings represented a “walk down memory lane”, but for these students it was a treasure trove of discovery. They asked for historical information about shows like “My Fair Lady” and “Oklahoma.” They showed me recordings of operas and wanted to know if Leontyne Price or Robert Merrill were good singers.
Marianna never heard of Jack Benny but she was interested to find out.
A group of young men scooped up a bunch of 45 rpm records and were surprised when I mentioned to them that they would need a special insert to fit in the large hole in order to play them on a standard phonograph. Many students said they had phonograph players and some said that they would go out and buy one just so they could listen to the music they had collected. A few lucky students were able to find used turntables at the give-away which also included several pieces of used equipment.
William was happy to find this classic Simon and Garfunkel album.
Austrian museum explores history of Jewish music
Jukebox. Jewkbox! An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in collaboration with the Jewish Museum Munich will run from October 19, 2014 until March 8, 2015.
According to the website of the Hohenems Jewish Museum in Austria the exhibit presents the history of Jewish recordings “from the first gramophones and shellac records to the dissolution of this medium in World Wide Web.”
This sounds like a wonderful project. Looking at sound recordings as cultural mirrors of the 20th century experience, the exhibitors write that “the omnipresent sound of the 20th century, its best known songs, musicals and soundtracks was not always Jewish music – but always also a product of Jewish history and experience.”
We do not know which recorded gems are included in this European exhibit but the Judaic Collection/Recorded Sound Archives at FAU Libraries in Boca Raton FL hopes you will enjoy the following authentic recordings from the early 20th century.
Molly Picon – Abi Gesind Simon Paskal – Aheim Aheim Al Jolson – Angel Child Arthur Pryors Band – At a Hebrew Wedding
M Kanewsky – Auf’n Pripetchok
Andrews Sisters – Bei Mir Bist du Shon (snippet)
Benny Bell – Celebration Freylach
Your favorite place for lstening to Jewish music just got better!
Take Jewish music with you wherever you go!
Now you can listen to your favorite Jewish songs on your i-phone, i-pad, smart phone or other mobile device!
New online registration for the JSA Research Station makes it quicker and easier than ever to research and study Jewish music and performers.
The current JSA website is merging with the Recorded Sound Archives at FAU website (rsa.fau.edu).
All the music, images and information on the JSA site that you are familiar with will also be available on the new RSA website. . . plus a lot more!
Click here to visit the new RSA website
Be among the first to see the newly updated, expanded and totally redesigned website.
Browse among Jewish recordings for the songs and performers you like or expand your search to include our Vintage and Jazz collections.
Access the music you want with your mobile device.
Any user of the Research Station can log in directly from our website. No additional downloads or special procedures are required.
The current JSA website will only be available until January 1, 2015. After 1/1/15 you will automatically be re-directed to the new RSA website.
Romance is in the Air: Efrem Zimbalist & Alma Gluck
Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist
Before there was Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt…before there was Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall…before there was Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton…There was Efrem Zimbalist and Alma Gluck.
A little over100 years ago, a nice Jewish boy who happened to be a violin genius met a lovely Jewish young woman who was making a name for herself as a singer. I guess you could say that when these two Jewish superstars of classical music fell in love they were destined to make beautiful music together.
The Zimbalist-Gluck romance provided lots of material for the gossips of their day. While the idea of such a wonderful pairing of talents was thrilling, there were those who pointed out that Gluck was six years older, as well as a divorcee with a daughter. Scandalous!
Read more about Alma Gluck’s relationship with Efrem Zimbalist.
Read more about Efrem Zimbalist.
Browse 40 recordings the talented couple made together.
Cantor Elias Rosemberg
Growing up in a family of Hazzans and Klezmer musicians, Cantor Elias Rosemberg may have been born to perform.
From his early days as a wedding singer in Buenos Aires to his present position as the Cantor for Temple Emanuel in Newton, MA. (the largest Conservative synagogue in New England) his talent and energy have made him a stand-out performer. No stranger to radio, television, and the recording industry, he won the “Argentina Sings for Israel” vocal contest in 1998.
Since coming to the United States in 2000, he has continued to receive honors and recognition for his talent as a great singer and as a gifted Hazzan. His repertoire includes Cantorial, Israeli, Yiddish, and Ladino, as well as opera and Broadway selections. True to his Argentinean roots, he also enjoys singing Tango. At the Cantors Assembly Convention in 2002 he was asked to sing the memorial prayer at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
You can visit his YouTube channel to see live performances.
The Judaica Sound Archives is proud to include these four wonderful recordings by Cantor Rosemberg. Click album cover to play.
Israel’s history is playing. Are you listening?
Israel is 66 years old! Celebrate by revisiting the early years. Listen to the authentic recordings from the Vistas of Israel radio series.
Historic radio broadcast of the Israel Broadcasting Company celebrating the millionth immigrant to Israel (8/29/61). Click on label to play.
From the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the early 1970s the State of Israel sought to inform Americans and others about their young country’s culture and accomplishments through a series of radio broadcasts in English.
These programs featured popular Israeli performers, topical discussions, and interviews with prominent Israelis and others. These original radio broadcasts were aired on local stations throughout the USA.
The Judaica Sound Archives has an extensive collection of these historic “Vistas of Israel” radio programs. There are over 400 recorded broadcasts in the collection and about 250 of them have been digitized so far.
Click here for more about Vistas of Israel radio broadcasts.
JSA celebrates Israel’s Statehood (5/5/2011)
JoAmar: A pioneer of Israeli Music
Israeli Performer: Shosaha Damari
Selected Israeli Songs
Prestigious award goes to Dean of FAU Libraries
Dr. William Miller, winner of the 2014 Gilbert Mudge Award, stands in the atrium of the Wimberly Library on FAU’s Boca Raton campus.
Most of us have never heard of the Gilbert Mudge Award, but in the world of reference librarians it is the equivalent of winning an Oscar.
The Judaica Sound Archives and the entire staff of the Recorded Sound Archives is pleased to congratulate Dr. Miller on this well-deserved award. Excellence in reference librarianship with a strong commitment to instruction has been the hallmark of his long and distinguished career.
Since his arrival at FAU in 1987 the Wimberly Library has undergone amazing changes. Modern technologies have dramatically changed the way that students and faculty use library spaces. Stacks once filled with scientific journals have been replaced by rows of computers where students can access a myriad of electronic journals and proprietary databases in addition to the ever-popular Google.
Dr. Miller has also been committed to strengthening the library’s relationship with its surrounding community. Wanting to make the library relevant and distinctive has been the driving force behind the creation of projects and programs which are truly unique in the world of academic libraries.
Thanks to the vision of Dr. William Miller, the last two decades have been a time of innovative change at FAU Libraries’ special collections. Below is a list of his most notable accomplishments in this area.
Established in 1997, the Klezmer Company Orchestra,is the only professional ensemble-in-residence at any academic library. Using the library’s sheet music collection to create new and exciting programs, the KCO concert is the cornerstone of the annual Kultur Festival, a week-long celebration of Jewish culture.
The library acquired the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection of rare Americana in 2006. These authentic artifacts are often on display in a newly constructed suite on the Wimberly Library’s 5th floor.
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts is unique for viewing “books as art.” It features handmade, one-of-a-kind books created by artists. It opened in 2007 in a newly constructed suite on the Library’s 3rd floor.
Beginning with only a few hundred Cantorial recordings in 2002, the Judaica Sound Archives has grown into the world’s largest online collection of recorded Jewish music. Today, more than 150,000 donated sound recordings constitute the rapidly growing Recorded Sound Archives, which continues the JSA mission and website (www.fau.edu/jsa) and also contains an impressive collection of early vintage phonograph records and more than 21,000 Jazz albums.
Why is this holiday different from all others?
On this holiday, we celebrate the gift of freedom, we remember Jewish history through special Seder foods and we teach the lessons of the haggadah to the next generation. The Judaica Sound Archives invites you to add music and song to your family’s Passover traditions.
The Judaica Sound Archives has compiled a mix of Passover songs that the whole family can enjoy. From Cantorial splendor to children’s play-songs, music expresses the heart of the Jewish people. Give Jewish music a special place in your home for the holidays. All the songs in this compilation can be heard all year long on the JSA website.
You may also enjoy the following albums:
Passover Seder Songs – Cantor Deborah Katchko Gray
Passover in Song and Story – Gold and Wertheim
Canciones de Pesah – Cantor Bogomolni
Passover Music Box – Cohen and Gamliel
Passover Collection – Safam
Passover Medley – Jan Peerce
Passover Sing-A-Long – Children’s Village
Let My People Sing—Cantor Elias Rosemberg
Cantor Joseph Gross
Cantor Joseph Gross is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge about Jewish liturgy, Cantorial music, Cantorial voices and the history of the Cantorate in North America.
A delightful gentleman who has stored a lifetime of learning into his diminutive frame, Cantor Joseph Gross showed up at the Judaica Sound Archives a little over three years ago wondering if he could be of any help. His warmth and his big smile took us in immediately. But what captivated us was his encyclopedic knowledge of all things Cantorial and liturgical.
As he spoke I could not help but think that he has probably forgotten more than most of us will ever know on the topic. But as he continued, I realized that he is blessed with almost perfect recall. Not much seems to have been forgotten at all. You may have heard of people with photographic memories, but Cantor Gross is the only person I have ever met with “phonographic memory,” i.e. he can recall voice and music impeccably.
A master cantor and composer, Joseph Gross has been a regular volunteer at the JSA for over three years now. Several of our Cantorial music restoration projects have been possible only with his guidance and help.
The JSA has created three albums from the original tape recordings of Cantor Gross. These recordings are not available anywhere else and have never been commercially released. They were restored under the vigilant supervision of the Cantor himself.
March 1 – 8, 2014 6th Annual Kultur Celebration
Festival Highlights Saturday, March 1, 2014 @ 7:00 p.m Film: “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness”
Chock full of humor, this documentary film explores the rebellious life of Sholem Aleichem as he experiences the tug of war between nostalgia and a modern Jewish identity.
Sunday, March 2, 2014 @ 3:00 p.m. Klezmer Company Orchestra — ¡Jubano Jazz!
Energetic arrangements of Klezmer melodies fused with Latin percussion, Argentinean Tango and Afro-Cuban dance beats and revitalized classic songs from the Yiddish theatre.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Martin Bookspan Reminisces: My famous musical friends
Renowned PBS commentator of Live from Lincoln Center, Martin Bookspan is also a noted author, and the well-known host for live radio broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. He shares personal stories and photographs about his friendships with legends such as Serge Koussevitzky, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Jan Pierce, Richard Tucker and Michael Tilson Thomas. Presented in conjunction with the Judaica Sound Archives.
Thursday, March 6, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Leonard Lehrman, pianist and Helene Williams, soprano, return to Kultur Festival with guest cantors from New York City: soprano Faith Steinsnyder and tenor David Perper performing a unique concert of “Jewish Opera” in various languages. Highlights include excerpts of Halévy’s famous La Juive, Spektor’s Lady of the Castle, Mandelbaum’s The Village, Blitzstein/Lehrman’s Tales of Malamud, and arias by Goldfaden.
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15 July 2019 Julie Leave a comment
14 July 2019: Rupert was to have been a guest at the convention Myth & Magic in Birmingham, England on 17-19 April 2020, along with fellow Merlin alumni Emilia Fox (Morgause), Fintan McKeown (King Odin), Michelle Ryan (Nimueh) and Alex Vlahos (Mordred). Unfortunately Rupert will no longer be able to attend this convention. Alex and the other Merlin actors will be there, though!
25 April 2019: Rupert was to have been a guest at the convention Magic Con to be held in Bonn, Germany on 26-28 April 2019, along with Alex Vlahos (Mordred in Merlin). Unfortunately, Rupert had to cancel with short notice, due to “a new filming role”.
5 December 2018: Rupert was to have been a guest at the convention Highway to Albion in Paris on 26 January 2019. Unfortunately the event was cancelled due to low ticket sales. Alas and alack!!!
19 September 2018: Rupert was to have attended the convention MCM Comic Con Scotland in Glasgow on 22-23 September 2018, along with Merlin’s Alex Vlahos (Mordred). Unfortunately, Rupert had to cancel with short notice, due to a change in rehearsal schedule for Twelfth Night. He sent his sincere apologies.
22 June 2018: Rupert was the first guest announced as attending Celtic Reminders, a Merlin convention to be held in Paris on 13-14 October 2018. Unfortunately, however, this event has now been cancelled.
4 June 2015: Justin Young’s play In My Father’s Words is featuring in Brits Off Broadway! It runs from 4-28 June 2015 at 59E59 Theaters in New York. For more details, check the 59E59 website.
30 November 2014: Unfortunately Rupert couldn’t attend Wales Comic Con 2014 Part 2 in Wrexham on Sunday 30 November. It seems this was because he went to the Supanova conventions in Australia in lieu of Eoin Macken and Alex Vlahos.
19 June 2014: Rupert’s brother Justin Young wrote a play titled In My Father’s Words which was performed at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow on 19-28 June 2014, before touring Scotland throughout July. See the Dundee Rep Ensemble page for full details.
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The Bisexual (2018)
10 October 2018 Julie 1 Comment
Rupert appears as James, a reporter, in the first episode of 6-part comedy-drama The Bisexual.
episode: #1.1 (10 October 2018)
director: Desiree Akhavan
links: IMDB; All 4
Alas, Rupert is only in a couple of scenes in the early parts of the episode. James is interviewing Leila (Desiree Akhavan) and Sadie (Maxine Peake) about their personal and professional relationships with each other.
The interview seems pleasant enough, but once James starts directing the photo shoot, things start getting a bit weird … and come to think of it, perhaps it’s just as well that we don’t see him again!
Leila does accuse him of being “so fucking pretty”, so obviously Rupert was cast for more than one reason!
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Kapow! (2018)
8 October 2018 Julie Leave a comment
Rupert was interviewed by Chris Daniel for Kapow! to mark the tenth anniversary of BBC Merlin.
“I was always interested in the stories of King Arthur and Merlin growing up, but I definitely became more immersed in it after becoming involved with the show,” Young said. …
“Merlin definitely opened doors for me,” Young said. “Being in a worldwide hit show definitely has got me into audition rooms I wouldn’t have got in before and so pretty much all of the jobs I’ve had since the show finished, I probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity to audition for had it not been for the show”. …
“What surprised me most was how well the series was received,” Young concluded. “I always knew I was joining a great show with brilliant people and a fantastic story that people would enjoy, but the sheer volume of people who watched it and connected with it from all over the world was staggering.”
You can read the full interview here.
Chris also interviewed Rupert’s Merlin colleague Alex Vlahos the previous week; you can read that interview here.
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Twelfth Night (2018)
2 October 2018 Julie 2 Comments
Rupert stars as the Duke Orsino in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night. The adaptation was conceived by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub, with Taub writing the music and lyrics, and is co-directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Oskar Eustis. It is Kwei-Armah’s first offering as Artistic Director at the Young Vic Theatre.
The show runs from 2 October to 17 November 2018 at the Young Vic in London. More details and tickets available at the official website.
You can read an interesting interview with Gabrielle Brooks (Viola) by Kate Berrington, about the accessibility of Shakespeare, in the British Vogue, 14 October 2018.
The banner is from a production photo by Johan Persson, sourced on the Young Vic page on Facebook.
Julie’s Response (with spoilers)
I’ve been lucky enough to see this play twice now, and I’ve loved it. I have to admit to being a bit wary the first time, as the reviews (quoted below) had led me to fear the play was Not Quite Shakespeare, and maybe there wouldn’t be enough Orsino, either. So I was very relieved to find that none of this was so.
The story we’re already familiar with from Shakespeare’s play was certainly compressed in this adaptation, but it was all in there. (And it’s not one of his longer plays, anyway.) The romance and comedy from the original was emphasised in this version, and the cruelty and pain featured less so, but again it was all there. Or maybe I just didn’t miss a lesser emphasis on the aspects of the play I find most challenging and/or problematic…?
Or maybe we feel the pain less because in this production Malvolio retains his self-love, his belief in his own intrinsic greatness, despite being so cruelly dealt with. I’ve seen productions which end things very bitterly, with Sir Toby’s marriage to Maria being foreshadowed as disastrous, Malvolio’s threat of revenge coming from a broken man, Feste alone, Andrew Aguecheek dismissed, and so on. This adaptation does not interpret the outcomes in such ways, and I don’t know that there’s any reason in the original text why it shouldn’t do so. Why not, instead, end with not only the main romances being properly aligned, but also with a joyous song including everyone in a renewed community, and Orsino and Antonio (formerly wartime enemies) shaking hands in a spirit of kindness and reconciliation…?
The themes of this show are love and joy, acceptance of others as they are, and having the courage to be one’s own full self. To find such subject matter in Twelfth Night is no stretch at all.
Much of the spoken dialogue came directly from Shakespeare, and the lyrics were often inspired by the original play as well. I can’t imagine Shakespeare himself being fastidious about such a joyous and accessible experience. He created popular entertainment, too, after all!
As for Rupert … oh, he does play a lover so very well! Orsino isn’t exactly the largest role in the original play. However, this adaptation focuses more on the confused triangle of love between Orsino, Olivia and Cesario/Viola, and so we are blessed with more Rupert than I’d feared! Alas, he is absent for a longish stretch in the latter parts of the play, but he has so much lovely stuff to do in the early parts and in the last scenes, that I can cope with that.
It’s not unexpected to find Rupert called “effortlessly charming” in reviews, including one reviewer this time who wondered why on earth Olivia was resisting him at all! But we know that love doesn’t work like that, or at least not in this play. It was sweet to watch Orsino feeling heart-wrenched by Olivia, but also responding despite himself to Cesario. Right from the start he’s noticing Cesario’s irresistible smile, and soon he’s returning it in kind. (This comes with extra frisson, as Brooks is the most convincing Cesario I’ve seen.) The love triangle is all very genuine, as is the resolution once Sebastian makes a fourth – which compares nicely to the irresponsible antics of Sir Toby’s crew, and to Malvolio’s self-important dramatics.
Everyone does an absolutely terrific job here, though my heart was mostly caught up by Rupert, Gabrielle Brooks (Cesario/Viola) and Natalie Dew (Olivia). There is lots of laughter and lots of energy along the way, and only one scene which left me a bit indifferent. The community chorus were superb, and it was great to see they were diverse in all kinds of ways – including age, with a few older characters. Inclusion is, self-evidently, the way to go!
So, it’s five stars and three cheers from me for the Young Vic and the artistic directions of Kwame Kwei-Armah!
Review Round-Up by Fergus Morgan, The Stage, 10 October 2018.
The first show by a new Artistic Director is an important indicator of what’s to come, a chance to establish the tone for the ensuing years with a memorable statement about the kind of theatre they want to make. In assuming responsibility for the Young Vic, a musical version of Twelfth Night may not be the obvious choice for an inaugural show but it’s community-based inclusive staging and strong equality message has Kwame Kwei-Armah setting-out his stall from the start. … This version of Twelfth Night is designed to engage the audience as much as possible beginning with barbecue food and interaction with some of the performers. Robert Jones’ cartoonish set juts-out into the audience guaranteeing everyone a good view, while maximum use is made of the auditorium’s exit points and staircases. They really want you to have a good time and with plenty of comic focus and a rousing love-in finale the feel-good factor is dialled-up to the max. … Gerard Carey may be the best Malvolio you’ve ever seen, utterly embodying Olivia’s taunt that “you are sick of self-love” and given the most astonishing tap routine with a hilarious interpretation of the yellow stockings segment. … Olivia (Natalie Drew) becomes amusingly beguiled by Cesario, an interaction played for comic effect which Drew sells superbly, but Orsino’s devotion is almost entirely serious and Rupert Young is charming as the heartbroken Duke aching with unrequited love. Brooks is equally enchanting as the suffering Viola in disguise, but the emphasis on the humour takes away from some of the pain of Shakespeare’s original, that fine balance between light and dark captured in the songs isn’t reflected in the storytelling as well as it could be. 3.5 stars from Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub, 12 October 2018
Continue reading Twelfth Night (2018) →
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Merlin’s 10 Year Anniversary
20 September 2018 Julie Leave a comment
It was the tenth anniversary since Merlin first aired on BBC One, on 20 September 2018. We were all feeling sentimental – including Bradley James, who Tweeted the above shot of cast and crew at the Chateau de Pierrefonds. Rupert is there in his Sir Leon costume. Bradley said:
10 Years since #Merlin aired for the first time. One of the first things my memory jumps to is great times with our crew. Not all pictured but much missed. Many a laugh shared with a team who became family (and they put up with me for 5 years 🏅)
Bradley also shared the following photo of Arthur and some of the Knights, including Leon, on Instagram.
Bradley said:
Just sat round the fire 🔥reminiscing ⚔️🛡🐉🤴🏼. Night all #10YearsofMerlin
Happy Merlin-versary, all!
update: Rupert was interviewed by Chris Daniel for Kapow! to mark the tenth anniversary.
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Twelfth Night, London (2018)
Gallery 18 September 2018 Julie Leave a comment
Rupert in rehearsals for Twelfth Night 2018, photograph by Johan Persson
The Twelfth Night cast, tweeted by Natalie Dew (Olivia).
Twelfth Night 2018 promotional video snip – Gabrielle Brooks and Rupert Young
Twelfth Night 2018 promotional video snip – Natalie Dew and Rupert Young
Twelfth Night 2018 production photo by Johan Persson – Cesario and Orsino
Twelfth Night 2018 production photo by Johan Persson – Olivia and Orsino
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David Holmes Cricket Cup, London (2018)
28 August 2018 Julie Leave a comment
To quote from various sources: “The David Holmes Cricket Cup began in the summer of 2009 to raise money for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH). Since then, each summer, the event has been hosted for David’s family and friends, where the two teams, Gryffindor and Slytherin, have battled it out for the trophy and continued to raise money for the RNOH. It’s a fun, family day out with our famous Cricket Match and our Auction, Raffle, Bar, BBQ, Face Painting and Bouncy Castle providing further entertainment.”
Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter) says: “David Holmes [a stuntman] was seriously injured in January 2009 while filming a harnessed aerial sequence for the final installment of the film franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”
Davey Holmes was so grateful to the RNOH for their care of him following this injury that he’s been raising funds for them ever since through this annual cricket event.
Bradley James (Arthur in Merlin) has regularly taken the field for Gryffindor, and has often been joined by our Rupert. I have found team photographs featuring Rupert for the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2018, with thanks to “A Shot of Brad” Live Journal account, Bradley’s Instagram account, and Google! Which is not to say Rupert didn’t participate in other years. However, few photos from the event are shared online, so there’s no one official source that covers the whole period.
Here are the goodies…
Team Gryffindor in 2011. Rupert is on the far left, looking very knightly.
Continue reading David Holmes Cricket Cup, London (2018) →
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Cicero (2018)
31 May 2018 Julie Leave a comment
Rupert features as Atticus, in this series of audio plays focussed on “ambitious young lawyer” Cicero, and set amidst the politics, crimes and scandals of ancient Rome.
Episode VI (May 2018)
Director: Scott Handcock
Unfortunately Atticus only appears in the last of the six episodes – which is particularly frustrating when most of the episodes are framed by Cicero’s letters to his BFF Atticus, who lives in Athens. The episodes are all well worth a listen, though, with some interesting stories told. Samuel Barnett is utterly charming as the main character, Marcus Tullius Cicero, finding a nice balance between naivety and wisdom. George Naylor as his brother Quintus Tullius Cicero, and Laura Riseborough as his wife Terentia, round out a superb main team. Which is not to say I wasn’t delighted to hear Atticus finally cry out a hearty greeting when the Cicero brothers go visit him in Athens!
And Rupert does a fine job with the character, of course. It doesn’t take us long to suspect there’s a lot more to Atticus than the expansive cheer and expensive estate.
The first episode of this series was recorded on 3 October 2016, at The Moat Studios. The remaining episodes were recorded on 18-22 September 2017, at The Soundhouse.
You can purchase the CD or audio files from the Big Finish website.
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birthday wishes (2018)
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photo by the lovely Mark James Woods
Emma: A New Musical (2018)
12 April 2018 Julie Leave a comment
I was blown and overblown with bliss to discover that Rupert was taking part in the London workshop for a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, titled Emma, A New Musical. Rupert was quite naturally cast as that quintessential English gentleman Mr Knightley. A separate (presumably concurrent) production is planned for Broadway.
We don’t have any details of dates yet, but here’s the announcement in broadwayworld.com.
And I would just like to add OMFG!!!
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Microsoft Is Basically Starting a Bank for Affordable Housing in Seattle
How much good can that do? We’re about to find out.
By Henry Grabar
Jan 23, 20193:05 PM
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Last week, Microsoft announced it would set aside $500 million to create a workforce housing fund—the largest philanthropic commitment in the company’s history.
It comes as Microsoft is expanding its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to make room for 8,000 more employees. Those people won’t have too much trouble in bidding wars in the Seattle suburbs. But the company says the Puget Sound–area housing crisis for teachers, firefighters, and service workers is ultimately its problem too:
Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community. And a healthy community must have housing that is within the economic reach of every part of the community, including the many dedicated people that provide the vital services on which we all rely.
Cynical? Maybe. Impactful? Probably. Solving the regional housing crisis? Definitely not.
Not that even one of the world’s most valuable companies would expect to. According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft executives started to think about a housing commitment in 2018, after threats from Amazon killed a Seattle employment tax that would have raised money for homeless shelters and low-income housing. After working with consultants, a local nonprofit, and Zillow, Microsoft decided its best path forward was to get into housing finance.
What that means, exactly, is complicated. Over three years, the company says it will commit $25 million in grants and subsidies to address regional homelessness. It will also lend $250 million to low-income housing developers and another $225 million at below-market rates to workforce housing developers. Then, as that money is repaid, Microsoft will make more loans.
To start, let’s look at the first part, which is the only piece of this that qualifies as straightforward corporate charity. Seattle is the nation’s 18th-largest city, but it has the third-largest homeless population. To start, Microsoft is giving grants to support legal aid for tenants and a new local homelessness agency. It’s the kind of thing that corporations regularly do in their home cities.
How far can Microsoft go in the region just by issuing targeted or low-interest loans?
From there, things get more complicated. Microsoft is basically starting a housing trust fund—an idea that’s become the go-to city- and state-level affordable housing tool as Washington has steadily retreated from housing policy. The approaches of the country’s hundreds of housing trust funds vary, but they mostly include some combination of grants and loans. Counties, cities, and states generate nearly $1.3 billion in revenues for housing trust funds every year. Then they lend some of that money out to affordable housing developers, and distribute some of it as grants to fund housing for very low-income families or formerly homeless individuals.
So, if you’re a developer trying to build low-income units, you might look to your local housing trust fund for financing. You’ll probably get it on better terms than you would from a bank, which would permit you to select a slightly more expensive site for the project or open up apartments to lower-income tenants.
Marty Kooistra, the executive director of the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County, said it was good to see corporations taking a role in housing construction. “I think you need to be honest with the reality that Microsoft doesn’t do anything without studying it to death,” he said, speculating on the fund’s potential impact. “If there’s below-market financing available, that will change the entire pro forma and inspire more development to take place.”
Housing trust funds typically boast that they leverage their contributions heavily, ensuring that $1 in fund investment can pull in $7 from other sources. That appears to be Microsoft’s vision: that knocking the debt service off a bunch of loans can open up a whole new range of housing possibilities.
It might give affordable developers a leg up in competing with their luxury peers. “We have to act quickly,” said Sharon Lee, the executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute. The nonprofit owns a handful of properties in South Lake Union, where Amazon has built its campus. Lee added, “We have to apply for state and city funds to put together financing, and to the extent Microsoft can help us with acquisition or bridge financing that would be terrific. The person that shows up with all cash at closing will get the property, so we need to be able to say to an owner, ‘We’d like this site for affordable housing, and here’s the money.’ ”
$225 million of Microsoft’s money is in low-interest loans. With another $250 million, the company is seeking market-rate returns—but only investing in low-income housing. One nonprofit developer I spoke to was skeptical about that: “It sounds more like a business. We need lower-cost financing, otherwise we could just get it from the bank.”
How far can Microsoft go in the region just by issuing targeted or low-interest loans? Even the company doesn’t know, and there aren’t many precedents. Silicon Valley has a (much smaller) nonprofit housing trust fund that served as a model for Microsoft. Even Washington state’s housing trust fund is dwarfed by the company’s proposal.
“If you look at a project, the cost of the debt is not typically one of the biggest line items,” said Danny Natsch, a managing director at McBride Capital, an advisory firm in Portland, Oregon, that arranges debt financing for real estate projects. “There’s a lot of liquid capital in the markets right now for real estate.” At the end of the day, he said, housing production in the Pacific Northwest isn’t expensive because of interest rates, but because of the costs of labor, materials, and land.
The potential impact of grants and subsidies that don’t have to be repaid is virtually limitless, given the scale of housing insecurity in the region. King County, which includes Seattle and Redmond, needs 244,000 new affordable units by 2040, according to a December report from a countywide task force. The current annual production rate is about 80 percent lower than that. But that’s not where Microsoft is focusing.
How much of a bottleneck is dedicated finance for developers? We’re about to find out.
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Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate’s Moneybox.
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Station Benefit Concert Nets $25,000 After Broadcast
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STATION BENEFIT CONCERT NETS $25,000 AFTER BROADCAST:
A memorial fund that raises money for survivors of The Station nightclub fire received at least $25,000 in donations after a benefit concert aired on television, organizers said today.
The Feb. 25 concert at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center was broadcast Sunday night on VH1 and VH1 Classic.
Todd King, a founder of The Station Family Fund, said today the fund received at least $25,000 through its Web site. King says proceeds from the concert totaled $173,000 before it aired on television, and organizers expect to take in roughly $300,000 overall.
The Feb. 20, 2003, fire at the West Warwick nightclub killed 100 people and injured more than 200 others. It began when pyrotechnics used by the 1980s rock band Great White set fire to highly flammable foam used as soundproofing on the club’s walls and ceiling.
The concert last month featured performances by rock bands including Twisted Sister, Winger and Tesla and country acts Gretchen Wilson and John Rich. Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider served as master of ceremonies, and the band closed out the concert with their hit song, “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” which Snider described as the “unofficial anthem” for the event.
“These people will not be forgotten. You won’t let it be forgotten. We won’t let it be forgotten. The world is going to know what happened here,” Snider told the crowd.
The one-hour special mixed highlights from the benefit concert with interviews with survivors, who recall the early moments of the fire as well as their lingering injuries and difficulties paying for medical care.
“I turn around and looked up and there were people all the way up to the ceiling, on top of me, and they were all passed out,” fire survivor Gina Gauvin said in the TV special. “I felt like I was the only one awake.”
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Einstein taught us: It’s all ‘relative’
A century ago, this physicist radically altered how we would come to view the universe
This image shows that celestial objects make dents in the fabric of space-time. The Earth, being 81 times more massive than its moon (right), induces a much greater curvature. According to general relativity, this curvature is what we perceive as gravity.
Mark Garlick / Science Source
While still a relatively young scientist, Albert Einstein painted a new picture of the universe. Some of his final brush strokes emerged on November 4, 1915 — a century ago today. That’s when this physicist shared the first of four new papers with the Prussian Academy in Berlin, Germany. Together, those new papers would outline what would be his general theory of relativity.
Before Einstein came along, scientists believed that space always stayed the same. Time moved at a rate that never changed. And gravity pulled massive objects toward each other. Apples fell from trees to the ground because of the Earth’s strong pull.
All of those ideas came from the mind of Isaac Newton, who wrote about them in a famous 1687 book. Albert Einstein was born 192 years later. He grew up to show that Newton was wrong. Space and time were not unvarying, as Newton had described them. And Einstein had a better idea about gravity.
Earlier, Einstein had discovered that time does not always flow at the same rate. It slows down if you are moving very fast. If you were traveling at high speed in a spaceship, any clocks onboard or even your pulse rate would slow down compared with your friends back home on Earth. That clock-slowing is part of what Einstein called his special theory of relativity.
Later, Einstein would realize that space, too, was not always constant. It changed notably in the neighborhood of very massive objects, such as a planet, the sun or a black hole. So a spaceship — or even a ray of light — would move on a curved line through space as it neared a massive object. And that was because that massive object had contorted the shape of the space.
Einstein also showed that the way mass alters space makes bodies move as if they were pulling upon each other, just as Newton had described. So Einstein’s theory was a different way of describing gravity. But it was also a more accurate one. Newton’s idea worked when gravity is not especially strong on all scales, such as near the sun or maybe a black hole. Einstein’s descriptions, by contrast, would work even in these environments.
It took several years for Einstein to figure all of this out. He had to learn new kinds of math. And his first try didn’t really work. But finally, in November 1915, he found the right equation for describing gravity and space. He called this new idea for gravity the general theory of relativity.
Relativity is the key word here. Einstein’s math had indicated that time would not seem to slow down to an observer who was speeding along. It only showed up by comparing that person’s time relative to what it was back on Earth.
Nor was time the only thing that could stretch with relativity. In Einstein’s theory, time and space are closely related. So events in the universe are referred to as locations in spacetime. Matter moves through spacetime along curving pathways. And those pathways are created by the effect of matter on spacetime.
Today scientists believe that Einstein’s theory is the best way to describe not only gravity, but also the entire universe.
Strange — but very useful
Relativity sounds like a very strange theory. So why did anyone believe it? At first, many people didn’t. But Einstein pointed out that his theory was better than Newton’s theory of gravity because it solved a problem about the planet Mercury.
Astronomers keep good records about the orbits of planets moving about the sun. Mercury’s orbit puzzled them. Each trip around the sun, Mercury’s closest approach was a little beyond where it had been the orbit before. Why would the orbit change like that?
Some astronomers said that gravity from other planets must be tugging on Mercury and shifting its orbit a bit. But when they did the calculations, they found that gravity from the known planets couldn’t explain all of the shift. So some thought there might be another planet, closer to the sun, that also tugged on Mercury.
Einstein disagreed, arguing there was no other planet. Using his theory of relativity, he calculated how much Mercury’s orbit should shift. And it was exactly what astronomers had measured.
Still, this did not satisfy everyone. So Einstein recommended another way that scientists might test his theory. He pointed out that the sun’s mass should bend the light from a distant star slightly as its beam passed near to the sun. That bending would make the star’s position in the sky look like it was slightly moved from where it would usually be. Of course, the sun is too bright to see stars just beyond its edges (or anywhere when the sun is shining). But during a total eclipse, the sun’s intense light briefly becomes masked. And now stars become visible.
In 1919, astronomers trekked to South America and Africa to view a total eclipse of the sun. To test Einstein’s theory, they measured the locations of some stars. And the shift in the stars’ location was just what Einstein’s theory had predicted.
From then on, Einstein would be known as the man who replaced Newton’s theory of gravity.
Newton is still mostly right.
Newton’s theory still works pretty well in most instances. But not for everything. For example, Einstein’s theory called for gravity to slow down some clocks. A clock on a beach should tick just a bit slower than one on a mountaintop, where gravity is weaker.
It’s not a big difference, and not even important if all you want to know is when it’s time for lunch. But it can matter big-time for things like the GPS devices you might have seen in cars that give driving directions. These global-positioning-system devices pick up signals from satellites. A GPS device can identify where you are by comparing the differences in the time it takes for a signal to arrive from each of several satellites. Those times have to be adjusted for the way time slows down on the ground compared to in space. Without adjusting for that effect of general relativity, your location could be off by more than a mile. Why? The mismatch in time would grow, second by second, since the ground clock and the satellite’s clock were keeping time at different rates.
But the benefits of general relativity go far beyond just helping us stay on the right road. It helps science explain the universe.
Early on, for instance, scientists studying general relativity realized that the universe might be getting bigger all the time. Only later would astronomers show that the universe actually is expanding. The math used to explain general relativity also led experts to foresee that fantastic objects like black holes could exist. Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, even light. Einstein’s theory also suggests that gravity can create ripples in space that speed across the universe. Scientists have built huge structures using lasers and mirrors to try to detect those ripples, known as gravitational waves.
Einstein didn’t know about such things as gravitational waves and black holes when he started working on his theory. He was just interested in trying to figure out gravity. Finding the right math to describe gravity, he reasoned, would make sure that scientists could find laws of motion that would not depend on how anybody was moving.
And it makes sense, when you think about it.
The laws of motion should be able to describe how matter moves, and how that motion is affected by forces (such as gravity or magnetism).
Gravity = acceleration?
But what happens when it is two people that are moving in different speeds and directions? Would both use the same laws to describe what they see? Think about it: If you’re riding on a merry-go-round, the movements of people nearby look very different from what they look like to someone standing still.
In his first theory of relativity (known as the “special” one) Einstein showed that two people in motion could both use the same laws — but only as long as each was moving in straight lines at a constant speed. He couldn’t figure out how to make one set of laws work when people moved in a circle or changed speed.
Then he found a clue. One day he was looking out of his office window and imagined someone falling off the roof of a nearby building. Einstein realized that, while falling, that person would feel weightless. (Please do not try jumping off a building to test this, though. Take Einstein’s word for it.)
To someone on the ground, gravity would appear to make the person fall faster and faster. In other words, the speed of their fall would accelerate. Gravity, Einstein suddenly realized, was the same thing as acceleration!
Imagine standing on the floor of a rocket ship. There are no windows. You feel your weight against the floor. If you try to lift your foot, it wants to go back down. So maybe your ship is on the ground. But it is also possible that your ship might be flying. If it is moving upward at a faster and faster speed — accelerating smoothly by just the right amount — your feet will feel pulled to the floor just as they had when the ship was sitting on the ground.
Once Einstein realized that gravity and acceleration are one and the same, he thought he could find a new theory of gravity. He just had to find the math that would describe any possible acceleration for any object. In other words, no matter how the motions of objects appeared from one point of view, you would have a formula to describe them just as correctly from any other point of view.
Finding that formula did not prove easy.
For one thing, objects moving through space with gravity don’t follow straight lines. Imagine an ant walking across a sheet of paper without changing direction. Its path should be straight. But suppose there’s a bump in the path because a marble is under the paper. When walking over the bump, the ant’s path would curve. The same thing happens to a beam of light in space. A mass (like a star) makes a “bump” in space just like the marble under the paper.
Because of this effect of mass on space, the math for describing straight lines on a flat sheet of paper doesn’t work anymore. That flat-paper math is known as Euclidean geometry. It describes things like shapes made from segments of lines and angles where lines cross. And it works fine on flat surfaces, but not on bumpy surfaces or curved surfaces (such as the outside of a ball). And it doesn’t work in space where mass makes space bumpy or curved.
So Einstein needed a new kind of geometry. Luckily, some mathematicians had already invented what he needed. It is called, not surprisingly, non-Euclidean geometry. At the time, Einstein didn’t know anything about it. So he got help from a math teacher from his school days. With his new knowledge about this improved geometry, Einstein was now able to move ahead.
Until he got stuck again. That new math worked for many points of view, he found, but not all possible ones. He concluded that this was the best he — or anybody — could do. Nature just wouldn’t allow the complete theory of gravity that Einstein wanted.
Or so he thought.
But then he got a new job. He moved to Berlin, to a physics institute where he did not have to teach. He could spend all of his time thinking about gravity, undistracted. And, here, in 1915, he saw a way to make his theory work. In November, he wrote four papers outlining the details. He presented them to a major German science academy.
The really big picture
Soon afterwards, Einstein began thinking about what his new theory of gravity would mean for understanding the whole universe. To his surprise, his equations suggested that space could be expanding or shrinking. The universe would have to be getting bigger or it would collapse as gravity pulled everything together. But at that time, everybody thought the size of the universe today was as it had always been and always would be. So Einstein tweaked his equation to make sure the universe would stay still.
Years later, Einstein admitted that had been a mistake. In 1929, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe truly is expanding. Galaxies, huge clumps of stars, flew apart from each other in all directions as space expanded. This meant that Einstein’s math had been right the first time.
Based largely on Einstein’s theory, astronomers today have figured out that the universe we live in began in a big explosion. Called the Big Bang, it took place almost 14 billion years ago. The universe started out tiny but has been growing bigger ever since.
Over the years, many experiments and discoveries have shown that Einstein’s theory is the best explanation that scientists have for gravity and many features of the universe. Weird things in space, like black holes, were predicted by people studying general relativity long before astronomers discovered them. Whenever new measurements are made of things like the bending of light or the slowing of time, general relativity’s math always gets the right answer.
Clifford Will works at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where is an expert on relativity. “It is remarkable that this theory, born 100 years ago out of almost pure thought, has managed to survive every test,” he has written.
Without Einstein’s theory, scientists wouldn’t understand very much about the universe at all.
Yet when Einstein died, in 1955, very few scientists were studying his theory. Since then, the physics of general relativity has grown to become one of the most important theories in the history of science. It helps scientists explain not only gravity, but also how the whole universe works. Scientists have used general relativity to map how matter is arranged in the universe. It’s also used to study the mysterious “dark matter” that doesn’t shine like stars. General relativity’s effects also help in the search for faraway worlds now known as exoplanets.
“The implications for the further reaches of the universe,” the famous physicist Stephen Hawking once wrote, “were more surprising than even Einstein ever realized.”
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acceleration A change in the speed or direction of some object.
astronomy The area of science that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. People who work in this field are called astronomers.
Big Bang The rapid expansion of dense matter that, according to current theory, marked the origin of the universe. It is supported by physics’ current understanding of the composition and structure of the universe.
black hole A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation (including light) can escape.
dark matter Physical objects or particles that emit no detectable radiation of their own. They are believed to exist because of unexplained gravitational forces that they appear to exert on other, visible astronomical objects.
eclipse The temporary masking of one celestial body (such as the sun or moon) by another passing in front of it (from our vantage point on Earth). An eclipse can be full, where the more distant object totally disappears for a time, or partial, where some part of it remains visible at all times to viewers on Earth.
equation In mathematics, the statement that two quantities are equal. In geometry, equations are often used to determine the shape of a curve or surface.
Euclid A famous ancient mathematician born around 325 B.C. and who has come to be known as the father of geometry. He taught in Alexandria, Egypt, and wrote a book that would serve as the foundation for mathematical teaching over the next two millennia. It was known simply as The Elements.
Euclidian geometry It describes the mathematical relationships between points, lines and other shapes on a flat plane. For instance, it showed that in this environment, the shortest path between two points is a straight line; the sum of all angles in any triangle equals 180 degrees; and that parallel lines will never cross, no matter how long they are extended.
geometry The mathematical study of shapes, especially points, lines, planes, curves and surfaces.
global positioning system Best known by its acronym GPS, this system uses a device to calculate the position of individuals or things (in terms of latitude, longitude and elevation — or altitude) from any place on the ground or in the air. The device does this by comparing how long it takes signals from different satellites to reach it.
gravity waves (also known as gravitational waves) Ripples in the fabric of space that are produced when masses undergo sudden acceleration. Some are believed to have been unleashed during the Big Bang, when the universe got its explosive start.
gravity Schools tend to teach that gravity is the force that attracts anything with mass, or bulk, toward any other thing with mass. The more mass that something has, the greater its gravity. But Einstein’s general theory of relativity redefined it, showing that gravity is not an ordinary force, but instead a property of space-time geometry. Gravity essentially can be viewed as a curve in spacetime, because as a body moves through space, it follows a curved path owing to the far greater mass of one or more objects in its vicinity.
Isaac Newton This English physicist and mathematician became most famous for describing his law of gravity. Born in 1642, he developed into a scientist with wide-ranging interests. Among some of his discoveries: that white light is made from a combination of all the colors in the rainbow, which can be split apart again using a prism; the mathematics that describe the orbital motions of things around a center of force; that the speed of sound waves can be calculated from the density of air; early elements of the mathematics now known as calculus; and an explanation for why things “fall:” the gravitational pull of one object towards another, which would be proportional to the mass of each. Newton died in 1727.
laser A device that generates an intense beam of coherent light of a single color. Lasers are used in drilling and cutting, alignment and guidance, in data storage and in surgery.
magnetism The attractive influence, or force, created by certain materials, called magnets, or by the movement of electric charges.
mass A number that shows how much an object resists speeding up and slowing down — basically a measure of how much matter that object is made from.
matter Something which occupies space and has mass. Anything with matter will weigh something on Earth.
orbit The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet or moon. One complete circuit around a celestial body.
physics The scientific study of the nature and properties of matter and energy. Classical physics is an explanation of the nature and properties of matter and energy that relies on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion. Quantum physics, a field of study which emerged later, is a more accurate way of explaining the motions and behavior of matter. A scientist who works in that field is known as a physicist.
planet A celestial object that orbits a star, is big enough for gravity to have squashed it into a roundish ball and it must have cleared other objects out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. To accomplish the third feat, it must be big enough to pull neighboring objects into the planet itself or to sling-shot them around the planet and off into outer space. Astronomers of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created this three-part scientific definition of a planet in August 2006 to determine Pluto’s status. Based on that definition, IAU ruled that Pluto did not qualify. The solar system now includes eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
relativity A theory developed by physicist Albert Einstein showing that neither space nor time are constant, but instead affected by one’s velocity and and the mass of things in your vicinity.
satellite A moon orbiting a planet or a vehicle or other manufactured object that orbits some celestial body in space.
spacetime A term made essential by Einstein’s theory of relativity, it describes a designation for some spot given in terms of its three-dimensional coordinates in space, along with a fourth coordinate corresponding to time.
star The basic building block from which galaxies are made. Stars develop when gravity compacts clouds of gas. When they become dense enough to sustain nuclear-fusion reactions, stars will emit light and sometimes other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The sun is our closest star.
theory (in science) A description of some aspect of the natural world based on extensive observations, tests and reason. A theory can also be a way of organizing a broad body of knowledge that applies in a broad range of circumstances to explain what will happen. Unlike the common definition of theory, a theory in science is not just a hunch. Ideas or conclusions that are based on a theory — and not yet on firm data or observations — are referred to as theoretical. Scientists who use mathematics and/or existing data to project what might happen in new situations are known as theorists.
universe The entire cosmos: All things that exist throughout space and time. It has been expanding since its formation during an event known as the Big Bang, some 13.8 billion years ago (give or take a few hundred million years).
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PREMIERE: Aviator dive deep into mental health with “Introvertebrate”
Joel Funk
It’s the beginning of a new week and I’m starting it off by not telling you all that I’m still a sucker for catchy pop-punk. Instead, I’ve decided to talk about how much I love bands that really capture the full gamut of the human condition. Don’t get me wrong, I love being able to escape my problems by getting lost in a superficially high-energy chorus, but that doesn’t change the fact that sometimes I just want to feel like there’s somebody that I can commiserate with. Thankfully, the Massachusetts-based melodic-hardcore mavens in Aviator have been at the forefront of this for as long as I can remember.
They’re constantly using their brand of emotionally wrought hardcore as a vessel for unbridled catharsis by painting with strokes broad enough that they touch on a myriad of emotions and experiences and packing enough detail to ensure listeners that it’s coming from something truly personal. Today, I couldn’t be more excited to share a new song called “Introvertebrate” with y’all. The tack is finally seeing the light of day, nearly one-year after being cut from their sophomore album, Loneliness Leaves The Light On For Me. In true Aviator fashion, this song hits like an emotional sucker punch to the stomach– leaving you winded, tear-stained, and ready for round two.
Talking about the track, Aviator mentions that “Introvertebrate” was one of the earliest products to come out of the writing process that ultimately yielded Loneliness Leaves The Light On For Me, but was cut at the 11th hour because the original vocal performance and lyrics weren’t deemed to be on par with the rest of the album. Vocalist TJ Copello wrote and recorded a new set of lyrics in late summer 2017, stating “It’s about depression and ADD feeding into one another, and how other people suggest I deal with it vs. how I want to…I tried Adderall for the first time this year and didn’t like it, and that’s what prompted me to write this.”
You can stream “Introvertebrate” below.
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Breaking News; Peter Mayhew Passes Away Aged 74
May 3, 2019 by SWT Leave a Comment
So Long Chewie. We’re all Going to Miss you
Sad, sad new just in. The actor Peter Mayhew has passed away at his Texas home his family has announced. No details as to the cause of death has been given as yet, but it is widely known his health has been failing in recent years.
Mayhew was born on 19 May 1944 in Barnes, Surrey, UK where he was also raised. His height was not a product of gigantism; “I don’t have the big head”, Mayhew said when asked about the cause of his height. His peak height was 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m).
Mayhew got his first acting job in 1976 when the producers of Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger discovered him from a photograph in a newspaper article about men with large feet, and cast him in the role of the minotaur.
When casting his first Star Wars film, creator George Lucas needed a tall actor who could fit the role of the hairy alien Chewbacca. He originally had in mind 6-foot-6-inch (1.98 m) bodybuilder David Prowse, but Prowse chose to play Darth Vader. This led Lucas on a search in-which he discovered Mayhew, who was working as an orderly in the radiology department of King’s College Hospital, London, and said that all he had to do to be cast in the role of Chewbacca was stand up.
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Baby Jacob weighs 7.14 pounds - some infants aren't as lucky.
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Jackie is StateImpact Oklahoma's health care reporter. In a partnership with Kaiser Health News and National Public Radio, Jackie covers health in Oklahoma and the health care industry for local and national audiences. She has many journalism awards to her name during her years of multi-media reporting in Colorado and was part of a team recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists with a Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in breaking news reporting in 2013. She is a former young professional fellow of the Journalism and Women's Symposium, and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Reporters without Borders, and a lifetime member of Kappa Tau Alpha, awarded for her thesis on disability and technology in news reporting. She holds a bachelor's degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Colorado State University and a Master of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder. When she's not reporting, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three cats.
Baby Jacob weighs 7.14 pounds – some infants aren't as lucky.
Jacob is just a few hours old when registered nurse Amy Burnett begins one of the simplest measurements to tell if a newborn is healthy — their weight.
“You want to make sure that they are naked, they have no diaper, and you bring him to the scale,” she says as she removes his tiny Pampers.
She gently picks him up, confidently balancing his body on her forearm like a football. Her purple gloved fingers encircle his neck as she hits a button on the scale, which beeps loudly, zeroing it out.
He squirms as she places his head toward the top of the plastic rim.
“Now you let it think,” she says gazing at the newborn.
This data are key. Unlike height, a baby’s weight can impact their future. Think of birth weight like Goldilocks. Not too big: That can cause health problems; not too small: Babies should weigh more than 5 and a half pounds.
A few seconds later, the scale makes another loud beep. His weight displays in red digits: 7.14 pounds.
Baby Jacob is just right.
“He’s doing great,” Burnett says.
Poverty, stress and smaller babies
Why pay such close attention to how much babies weigh at birth?
Sharyl Kinney, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Public Health, says babies born at less than 5 and a half pounds have a higher risk of death and are more likely to have developmental disabilities later in life.
”They’re more likely to have psychomotor problems, to have failure in school and to have health problems,” she says.
About 7.8 percent of babies born in Oklahoma are low birth weight, which translates to roughly 4,000 of 50,000 annual births, Kinney says.
CDC, Center For Vital Statistics
More than 7 percent of babies are born at a low birth weight in Oklahoma in 2017.
Many of those low-weight births are considered preventable; the babies don’t have a significant health problem, so their weights could have been improved by outside factors, like money.
“Birth outcomes, including low birth weight, is a health indicator that is very sensitive to poverty,” says Kelli Komro, a professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta.
Komro is one of the authors of a study published in the American Journal of Public Health that looked at how changing the minimum wage in different states over three decades affected birth weights.
“Our estimate is that if a state would increase the minimum wage by $1 above the federal minimum wage, that would lead to one to 2 percent fewer low-birth-weight births,” she says.
That means if Oklahoma were to raise its minimum wage by $1, up to $8.25 per hour, as many as 80 babies a year could weigh more at birth. That would decrease the likelihood that they would need special education in school or grow up with other health issues — both of which could save the state a lot of money down the road.
Changing the minimum wage affects women the most. That’s because, in Oklahoma and many other states, women make up two-thirds of minimum wage earners.
The maternity unit at Norman Regional HealthPlex.
Komro says other researchers have found that increasing the minimum wage leads to “increased access to prenatal care and reduced smoking among mothers. It could also reduce a mother’s stress, and we know that reducing stress would be beneficial for birth outcomes.”
Legislators in some states are starting to address the link between wages and newborn health outcomes. Komro says a few policymakers have requested data from her team, wanting to know how exactly raising the minimum wage would help kids in their state. Oklahoma officials have not requested data.
“Our hope is that policymakers will take the health effects of these policies into consideration in their debates,” she says.
In 2011, the Oklahoma state health department launched programs to increase the number of full-term pregnancies, and Oklahoma’s birth weights are improving. But health officials are reluctant to push for more. They say advocating for a change to the minimum wage — even if research says it might help — isn’t their job: That’s up to the Legislature.
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Non League Day – Cheshire groundhop
Non League Day is an event held once a season during an international break, encouraging supporters from Premiership and Championship teams to go and watch their local non-league side during their break from club football. I had previously made a couple of trips to watch Midlands based Chasetown FC due to their FA Cup bond with Cardiff City, and had an excellent time when doing so. Examining the non-league fixtures in the Manchester area I discovered something called the Cheshire Groundhop. With a free coach between games and a little bit of tinkering with kick off times, it was possible to take in three football matches in one day. After consulting with my friend for all of two seconds, we decided to go for it. The first game of the day would be Macclesfield Town vs. Newport County, followed by Stockport County vs. Kidderminster Harriers and ending with Hyde FC vs. Tamworth United. Somewhat ironically with what transpired at Cardiff City over the summer, all three of these fixtures would feature a team in blue against a team in red.
First up was the Moss Rose ground of Macclesfield Town, built in 1891 and one of the oldest remaining in Britain. Indeed, before their relegation from League Two it was the second oldest in the Football League. Moss Rose is a classic football ground, with everything a nostalgic football fan could ask for. Three sides of the ground contain terracing, with one fully seated stand and a small smattering of seats across the others.
There was also a friendly man called ‘Roary’ in a Lion costume. I see what they did there.
The game itself was a good encounter, Newport flying high at the top of the league and Macclesfield looking to play the ball on the ground, a world away from the non league cliche of hoofing the ball 50 yards into the air. Ryan Jackson in particular was hugely impressive, a 22-year-old fullback who surely will not be playing in the lower divisions for long. He made a mockery of Newport at times, beating men at will and putting killer balls into the box. With better strikers to supply he could have had a hat-trick of assists in the first half. Matthew Barnes-Homer (who Wikipedia tells me used to play for the simply fantastically named Syracuse Salty Dogs) was the pick of the forwards for the home side, however this may be due to him having a haircut like the briefly famous rapper Sisqó.
Despite Macclesfield starting well thanks to the sublime work of Jackson, Newport are top of the league for a reason and they overcame the shaky start to get back in the game. A free kick just before half time in a dangerous position saw Macclesfield construct a defensive wall that would have struggled to stop a pensioner with one leg getting past them. “That wall is rubbish, they’re going to score here” I said to my friend. The ball came in and score they did, instantly elevating myself to being a better pundit than Alan Shearer. The difference in attitudes at non league level was reflected perfectly by this goal and the fans reaction. In the upper reaches of the leagues fans would have been screaming all sorts of obscenities at the goalkeeper and defender for daring to concede, whereas the Silkmen fans were fairly chilled about the whole situation, simply urging their side to get back in the game.
Two minutes later it should have been game over, as Newport conspired to miss the openest of open goals. Newport player Aaron O’Connor could have knelt down and headed the ball into the net playground style, but instead put it not only over the bar, but over the stadium and probably through the window of a house five streets away.
Half time – Macclesfield Town 0 – Newport County 1
The other highlight of the first half was a Newport player clearing the ball into the crowd, followed by a sensational diving header from an old man who had time to remove his cap before meeting the ball with a connection any professional would have been proud of. If it wasn’t for this sign, he could probably have done a job up front.
The second half was to be a very different story to the first, with Macclesfield bossing proceedings for almost the entire 45 minutes. One of the Newport coaching staff also revealed himself to be the angriest man in the world, on several occasions looking to be mere seconds away from kung fu kicking the referee.
Several times it looked as if Macclesfield must surely level the scores, only to be denied in increasingly unlikely ways. Barnes-Homer had a ball cleared off the line (presumably shouting DOH immediately afterwards) and the best player on the pitch Jackson continuing to impress. He was on such a different level to everyone else it was like watching somebody play FIFA on amateur. Newport showed why they are doing so well in the league by displaying the defiance of champions, but no team could survive such pressure for so long without conceding.
With less than ten minutes to go it was that man Barnes-Homer, who overcame his extremely silly hair to level the scores. Macclesfield had a flurry of corners to try to win the game and Newport’s coach got angrier and angrier, but there was to be no winner. The referee ended a highly enjoyable game with the scores level at 1 – 1, an excellent start to a day I had feared deep down could bring three goalless draws.
Full time – Macclesfield Town 1 – Newport County 1
Just enough time to clap the players off the pitch and tweet Real Madrid about the availability of Ryan Jackson, and it was on to the next game. Stockport County were a Football League side for 110 years and have produced eight players who currently play in the Premier League, including Welsh internationals Ashley Williams and Wayne Hennessey. As recently as 2002 they played in the equivalent of the Championship, but financial problems and the close proximity to Manchester City and Manchester United has seen them plummet through the leagues. Still, this recent Football League status makes Edgeley Park a welcoming ground that an outsider would not expect to be home to a side with non league status. An additional bonus are the floodlights, which look to have come straight out of Subutteo.
Despite this fall from grace, Stockport still attracted over 3,500 fans and created an excellent atmosphere. The highlight of their support being their anthem ‘the scarf my father wore’, complete with a giant scarf the length of the stand. I couldn’t get a good picture of this on my phone, so in true Piers Morgan style here’s one I found without knowing the source.
Stockport came into this game firmly in midtable, while Kidderminster are threatened with relegation. In the first game of the day Macclesfield had defied league position, but this was not to be the case here. Nathan Vaughan in goal for Kidderminster produced a performance similar to the one I witnessed from Joe Hart against Borussia Dortmund, pulling off a string of excellent saves.
Neither side could defend, making this a game full of chances. Kidderminster player Josh Gowling was the rare exception to the rule ‘if you have an afro you must be good’. He had an afro, he was just a bit rubbish.
Despite a string of chances at both ends, it took a penalty to break the deadlock. Afroman Gowling giving away a spot kick for a fairly blatant foul, and Sean Newton stepped up to score. Newton is best known for playing while ineligible due to suspension, causing Droylsden to be expelled from the FA Cup despite beating Chesterfield 2 – 1 with two goals from Newton.
A minute later Kidderminster should have had the chance to make it 1 – 1 with a penalty of their own, with the Stockport goalkeeper performing attempted murder on a Kidderminster player without punishment. It was noticeable throughout all three games that the referees were willing to allow play to go on far more so than their higher division colleagues. Tackles in which the player left the ground were greeted with applause rather than a three game suspension.
The second half was much the same as the first, plenty of chances for each side but the Kidderminster players not good enough to finish and the Stockport players frustrated by a series of incredible saves. The Stockport fans kept up the strong support of their side, with the giant scarf making a number of repeat appearances and a song which can be described as optimistic at best declaring County as better than both City and United.
The game finished with just the single goal, however only Vaughan in the Kidderminster goal knows how. Not the best game of football you’re ever likely to see, but made more than worthwhile by the excellent Stockport fans. Non league football, but top class support from those brave enough to favour their local team rather than the success a short train ride away.
The final leg of the non league treble was to take place at Hyde FC, the team bottom of the league taking on playoff contenders Tamworth. Hyde are an example of the work Manchester City continue to do to help the local area, much of it going unnoticed with pundits quick to run down “greedy city”.
Manchester City have put in over £300,000 to Hyde, helping them to maintain the pitch and do up the ground. This came after the Blue Square North side went to both of their Premier League neighbours asking for help. There was to be no response from United, while City began the redevelopment and began to play their reserve games at the stadium. It was not without controversy, Hyde undergoing a rebranding of their own which saw them become simply Hyde instead of Hyde United. It is perhaps unsurprising that MCFC did not want to be too closely linked to anything with United in the title.
The biggest surprise of the day was the Hyde supporters. I had expected a small crowd with the stereotypical man and his dog in attendance, however this was far from the case. The Shed End was well populated and they produced an atmosphere genuinely better than that at Old Trafford. The classic football fan humour was on full display, making for a highly enjoyable ending to a day of football. “One, two, three four, can you hear the tigers roar?” followed by deliberately camp roaring a particular highlight. Also on display was the most awkward moment of all three matches, as the Tamworth fullback was serenaded with the descriptive but not particularly imaginative “Number two, you’re a knob” before a woman stormed out of the stadium, stopping only to declare “he’s not a knob, he’s my BROTHER!!!”. As you can imagine, the Hyde supporters were extremely apologetic and not at all amused by this development. Ahem. Incidentally, his surname was pronounced in the same way as Alan Tate, with disliking fullbacks by that name apparently a universal thing.
On the field, Hyde were looking every bit the team bottom of the league. Tamworth had a fairly decent away support (although Stoke fans would probably have an issue with the giant ‘pride of Staffordshire’ flag on display) and they would have been enjoying what they saw. Passing the ball around nicely, the aforementioned number two was able to get his revenge by supplying Lee Hendire (yes, that Lee Hendrie) with the ball to set up Marcus Kelly to score with a well placed lofted finish nestling in the back of the net.
Tamworth looked as if they may kill the game off before half time, piling on the pressure and having a number of chances. The tigers were not completely toothless at the other end, veteran striker Phil Jevons looking the most likely to score for the home side. This was another frantic game, with a feature of non league being fast paced and frantic football. Despite chances at either end, the visitors maintained their 1 – 0 advantage at half time as darkness fell over Manchester.
Half time – Hyde FC 0 – Tamworth United 1
Another defeat on the cards for newly promoted Hyde, who looked like they would slip still further behind their fellow relegation battlers. If that was the script, nobody told Hyde who came out a completely different side in the second half. Less than ten minutes into the second period the scores were level, that man Phil Jevons producing a strike of genuine quality. The keeper was left rooted to the line as Jevons curled one from long-range into the corner of the net, the Hyde fans bouncing up and down like Tigger at a pogo stick competition.
Not that it was giving them false delusions of grandeur, however. The next chant after the goal was “We’re *expletive*, but we’re not losing!” While nobody in the crowd was getting carried away, the team were right back in the game and performing so differently from the first half it was as if City had lent them a couple of players as well as the cash.
The confidence had gone from Tamworth, living up to their nickname of the lambs. I can’t talk much as someone who puts so much pride in the bluebird, but it’s hardly a nickname to strike fear into the hearts of the opposition. The pressure was near enough constant by this stage, the good work done by Tamworth in the first half undone by meekly submitting to the bottom club.
The only question was if Hyde could take sufficient advantage of their new-found superiority in the game to take all three points. The attempts on goal were raining in, but the clock was ticking down and the scores remained level. Cometh the hour, cometh the 33-year-old former Yeovil man. A foul in the box saw a penalty awarded, which Phil Jevons had to wait an age to take due to some rather unsubtle delaying tactics from the Tamworth players.
Jevons has far too much experience for this kind of thing to get to him, converting the penalty and putting Hyde into the lead. Once again the Hyde fans went berserk, leaping up and down with joy despite being bottom of the league and a million miles away from the Premier League we are told every fan dreams of.
There was still time for one more unique chant from the Hyde supporters, launching into a chant about what Louis Walsh does in his spare time when alone. This was aimed at a number of the Tamworth supporters, who had complained the change in kick off time would make them miss X Factor. At least, this is the story I was told and I like it too much for it not to be true.
Full time arrived and with it three much-needed points for Hyde, who remained bottom of the league despite this win. It was the end of a hugely enjoyable Non League Day but only the start of my non league adventures. There are many more little known sides in the Manchester area and beyond to discover, while I fully intend to go back to Macclesfield and to experience the Hyde vs. Stalybridge Celtic derby next time it comes around. The Non League Day website gives further details on their mission, and where to find your local side.
Thanks to all six teams and their supporters for a great experience (especially those at @hyde_chat on Twitter who were very welcoming) and being such good ambassadors of non league football, and when Ryan Jackson is on the cover of FIFA 2017, remember where you heard it first…
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Career And Travel Trump Marriage, Kids And Homeownership, According To New Study
By Hilarey Wojtowicz ‧ 01/14/2019 ‧ Explore / Thrive /
Retirement may feel light years away, but it’ll be here before we know it. Now’s the time to focus on what really matters in life so that, come retirement, we can feel fulfilled and have no regrets. But what does that look like exactly? According to a new study, millennials and generation X are focusing on successful careers and travel experiences.
Travel And Career Top The List
The recent study from Flash Pack, a group travel company for solo travelers in their 30s and 40s, found that traveling the world topped the list of must-dos among people between the ages of 30 and 49. Respondents said traveling was more important to them than marriage, having children and owning a home.
Of the 1,000 respondents, 54 percent said that they’d rather invest in experiences than save for a house, and 44 percent said they want to have amazing experiences before getting married or having children.
Even more, 84 percent said they would totally spend $4,000 on a trip of a lifetime, yet 66 percent said they’d think twice about spending the average $33,391 on a wedding.
And while so many people enjoy traveling with friends or loved ones, 62 percent of respondents said that they’ve considered booking a solo trip or have already traveled alone in the last year.
For those millennials and generation Xers who also want a very successful career, many said it was a top priority before other life events. Forty-three percent of respondents said they’d like to advance in their career before getting married and having children. In fact, respondents said that having a dream profession is a goal that’s three times more desirable than having children.
Retirement May Not Be Everything Anymore
Burst/Jessica Devnani
While the study looked at what matters most right now, it also asked respondents about their future. Eighty percent of respondents said that seeing aging family members with ailments and restrictions makes them want to live more right now and even spend their retirement funds sooner than later.
Travel is a higher priority than other life events, and it may be because 88 percent of respondents said they fear that they may not be able to travel in retirement. Fifty-five percent said they worry that they may not have enough money, while 53 percent said they’re nervous that they won’t be healthy enough to travel once retired.
Flash Pack’s study and the No More Not Yets campaign may show how people from ages 30 to 49 are focusing less on saving for the future than spending on experiences right now, but it’s important to remember to keep saving money. Even though retirement is in the distant future and that trip to Thailand can happen this year, don’t give up on saving for your future goals.
There are ways to travel on a budget, have a successful career and still achieve marriage, kids and homeownership if that’s what you desire. It’s all doable, and you can thrive in multiple parts of your life with a little bit of strategy. Just stay focused — you can have everything you want in life and more.
Survey: This Is The Single Biggest Issue That Gets In The Way Of Saving For Retirement
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Here’s Exactly How Much You Should Have Saved In Your Retirement Account
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Pelosi Responds To AOC’s Criticism That She’s ‘Singling Out’ Women Of Color Reps.
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call Group
By Cristina Cabrera
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday responded to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) calling her out for “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
When reporters asked Pelosi about Ocasio-Cortez’s comment during a press conference, the House speaker gave a terse answer.
“What I said in the caucus yesterday got an overwhelming response from my members, because they know what the facts are and what we’re responding to,” Pelosi said. “We respect the value of every member of our caucus. The diversity of it all is a wonderful thing. Diversity is our strength, unity is our power. And we have a big fight. We’re in the arena.”
“And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject,” she concluded. “So if you want to waste your question, you can waste your question.”
Pelosi held a closed-door meeting with her Democratic caucus on Wednesday, during which she scolded Democrats for publicly airing their complaints about fellow Democrats. Though Pelosi didn’t mention explicitly who she was talking about, the meeting was understood to be a rebuke against four outspoken progressive Democrats: Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
It wasn’t the first time Pelosi had chided the freshmen (aka “The Squad”). In an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, the Democratic leader criticized them for voting against the emergency border funding bill last month.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she told Dowd. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
By Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez seemed to have had enough.
“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post. “But the persistent singling out…it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful…the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
Watch Pelosi below:
Pelosi responds to AOC's criticism: "Diversity is our strength, unity is our power" pic.twitter.com/wbn4QziQsa
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) July 11, 2019
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Predators sign Suter, Fiddler
September 9, 2004 theahl
The Nashville Predators, parent club of the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, announced today that the club has signed their 2003 first-round draft choice, defenseman Ryan Suter, along with forward Vernon Fiddler. Fiddler was a member of the Admirals’ Calder Cup championship team last season.
Suter, 19, was the seventh overall pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He finished his freshman season at the University of Wisconsin in 2003-04 and was named the All-WCHA Third Team, the All-WCHA Rookie Team and USCHO.com’s All-Rookie Team.
The 6-1, 183-pound, Madison, Wis., native ranked second on the Badgers with a plus-19 rating, third with 93 penalty minutes and led team defensemen with 16 assists. Suter also helped the United States capture its first-ever gold medal at the World Junior Championships in 2004.
In addition to the 2004 World Junior Championships, Suter also played for the U.S. at the 2003 World Junior Championships. He is the only member of the U.S. National Team development program to win two gold medals in one season in 2002, when he won gold at the U-18 and U-17 World Championships.
Ryan’s father Bob was a member of the United States’ gold-medal Olympic team in 1980, and his uncle Gary played 17 NHL seasons from 1985-2002.
Fiddler, 24, has played in 101 games with the Admirals over the last two seasons. The 5-11, 200-pound native of Edmonton registered eight points (five goals, three assists) in the Calder Cup 2004 Playoffs and led the Ads in playoff penalty minutes (36). He posted 24 points (9g, 15a) in 47 regular-season games with Milwaukee in 2003-04.
Fiddler has four goals and two assists in 36 career NHL games with Nashville over the last two years. He was originally signed as a free agent by Nashville on May 6, 2002.
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Can a person change?
If so, is it done by denying your past or by accepting it?
And who determines how you should change? You or others? Are we creatures of our culture or autonomous individuals?
Charles Dickens funded a home for ‘fallen’ women. This play by Seanna van Helten explores the state of five of these women as they prepare for a new life in the colonies.
Image by Marnya Rothe
Historical fiction always serves a contemporary fantasy. The Victorian world fascinates us because we can posit it as a cautionary tale: this is repression. There’s the danger we can be smug or complacent in our comparison, but used appropriately, it’s a yardstick to hold up to our own society and judge if we’re doing much better.
The rule in this home for ‘fallen’ woman is that your past is not to be discussed. It’s a perfect metaphor for the silencing of women’s voices.
Dickens doesn’t appear, so we never hear his take. And, intriguingly, we don’t hear too much from the women themselves. The characters silence each other, and the playwright chooses to tell us little about their backgrounds, or about the outcome of the whole experiment. The plot becomes the relationships between the women in that place, that time. It’s a fascinating miniature.
The play could be read by a misogynist as an indictment of bullying, manipulation and emotional immaturity. That’s not the intention, of course – no more than Hamlet (say) is meant as a criticism of men. The play acknowledges that we are, to a huge degree, products of our environment. If this small contained world of women is less than perfect it reflects only a larger, more deeply flawed, world.
Now, let’s change it.
Fallen by Seanna van Helten
directed by Penny Harpham
at the Reginald at Seymour til 22nd April
Tix and more info here
Tags: Fallen, Seymour Centre
The Screwtape Letters
When I read The Screwtape Letters years ago I loved it. C.S. Lewis is a first-rate Christian apologist and an incomparable stylist.
What is an apologist? Apologists defend the claims of Christianity, but not by a call to faith, but rather by historical evidence, philosophical arguments and the like.
Apologists attempt to make the magical appear possible, the absurd seem reasonable.
What Lewis does in The Screwtape Letters is save the Devil.
What I mean is that he saves the concept of the Devil from contemporary cultural forces that would have us view temptation as exciting and evil as transgressive.
Lewis presents Satan as hell bent, not on some metaphysical concept of damnation, but rather on human misery. As one human soul says, as he finds himself in Hell, I have arrived here by doing neither what I ought nor what I enjoyed.
Screwtape is a senior devil dispensing advice to a junior devil on how to best make the human soul in his charge damnable – that is miserable.
Photo by John Leung
It’s a cute conceit, and one of Lewis’ neat tricks is to make Hell a bureaucracy. Sharp letters go back and forth between the departments, and it’s all great fun, but the result is that we’re given some wonderful insights into how we can potentially waste our lives: in sleepwalking habit, in obsession with trivia, in petty vanities. (A simple example: Encourage your human charge to read, suggests Screwtape, though not for enjoyment, but that he may say clever things to his friends.)
There have been several stage adaptations of the book, and this version by director Hailey McQueen works well. This is an achievement; the original source material is not fundamentally dramatic, nor even a dramatic monologue, but rather a set of essays framed in Lewis’ ironic epistolary form.
To make it work, you need a top notch cast, and Yannick Lawry and George Zhao provide the goods. As Screwtape, Lawry is suitably dapper and articulate, classically and coldly reasonable…until provoked. Zhao as Toadpipe gives a wonderful physical performance, his clowning providing the necessary texture which allows us to appreciate Lewis’ rich, beautiful prose.
Do you have to be Christian to enjoy this?
I’m not and I did.
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (adaptation by Hailey McQueen)
Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, Tuesday 22 November- Saturday 10 December, then Melbourne and Canberra.
Tags: Seymour Centre, The Screwtape Letters
American royalty. That phrase says it all: the paradox of the great democracy obsessing over the privileged minority.
With book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie, Grey Gardens tells the story of a troubled mother and daughter relationship. This particular pair just happen to be Jackie Kennedy’s relations. But, as Noel Coward would say, even duchesses have problems.
The story is presented in two acts. In the first of these, set in 1941, mother and daughter battle out the younger woman’s right to a suitor. Beth Daly and Caitlin Berry do excellent work. And so does Simon McLachlan, who plays the suitor – Joe Kennedy.
Photo by Michael Francis, Francis Photography
The next act is set thirty years on. We’re still in Grey Gardens, the family home, but things have changed. I’m not really sure how. It’s still the same mother and daughter and they’re still fighting, but they’ve become cat ladies, living in squalor. Standard music theatre fare this is not. The two roles are now played respectively (and powerfully) by Maggie Blinco and Beth Daly.
Directed by Jay James-Moody, the show is technically and musically tight. Squabbalogic have a reputation for quality and it’s well deserved. The show’s all class (though considering my earlier comments this might sound like a cheap pun.)
It was pointed out to the audience that the true cost of the production might be much more than will be recouped by ticket sales. Theatre’s a tough business and money must be saved where ever possible. For example, it appears Squabbalogic has purchased the rights for only two of the acts of this three act musical.
Of course, it’s not a three act musical – but the greatest challenge of Grey Gardens, or perhaps its most intriguing element, is that missing thirty years.
Veronica Kaye
Grey Gardens (Book Doug Wright, Music Scott Frankel, Lyrics Michael Korie)
Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, til Dec 12
Tags: Grey Gardens, Seymour Centre
Make ‘em laugh. Make ‘em cry. Make ‘em wait. Which is what Grounded does. And it’s absolutely brilliant theatre.
Penned by George Brant, there’s not a single word wasted. The narrative is straight forward, but seemingly innocent phrases and events are revisited, and on each return take on a greater sense of foreboding. It’s magnificent writing. (And director Kirsten Von Bibra gives it the uncluttered simplicity it deserves.)
Grounded is for a single actor. It tells the story of a female officer of the United States Air Force. After becoming pregnant, she’s no longer permitted to fly fighter jets. But she is retrained – and deployed in what is currently the most controversial field of combat. (As Simone Weil would say, it’s only imaginary good that’s simple. The real thing, out in the world, is so hard, and so very, very complex. The glory that is the gender revolution has given birth to a monster: women now share the privilege of being active perpetrators of the horrors of war.)
Grounded is a masterpiece of dramatic irony. She’s after the ‘bad guys’. Combing the deserts of the Middle East, she will find ‘the guilty’. We know she has a dreadful lesson to learn, that she’s painfully naïve, but we like her anyway.
Actor Kate Cole is extraordinary. She creates a character that is tough, almost a ladette, but it’s not all bravado. The character is grounded. Like Macduff in Macbeth, her emotions aren’t the opposite of her strength; they derive from the very same source. It’s an incredibly moving performance.
I don’t think there’s a spoiler in anything I have written so far, but perhaps there is in what follows. I’m going to briefly discuss the final moments of the play.
After Cole’s character has been inevitably shattered, and we’re busy congratulating ourselves on both our moral superiority and our generosity of spirit for warming to her despite her faults, we’re in for a shock. She rises from the ashes, more powerful than before, and delivers the most confronting of accusations. It’s not for the complacent. It’s life changing theatre.
Grounded by George Brant
Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre til 16 May
http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/grounded/
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The Legend of King O’Malley
The Faust myth is oddly enduring.
It’s fascinating how we’ll repeat stories in which people sell their soul to the devil for earthly rewards; fascinating because who actually believes in the devil? Or, indeed, the soul?
So what’s its meaning? That if you achieve anything (knowledge, influence, sexual allure) you must pay an enormous cost? A cost so disproportionate that you’d have to be mad with self importance to agree to it in the first place?
Nietzsche might call it a slave philosophy. It seems to suggest that anyone who succeeds in this world is inherently evil, and evil will inevitably come to them. A philosophy like that can only be of comfort to the powerless. (Or those wishing to pretend they are more powerless than they actually are – which I usually argue is pretty much anyone who has the time and money to attend theatre in Australia. Myself included.)
In The Legend of King O’Malley the titular character sells his soul for wealth and power. It’s a particularly strange take on the myth because O’Malley was a real person, an American preacher who migrated to Australia and was elected to our fledgling federal parliament.
As O’Malley was a real person, I think it’s safe to assume that the writers, Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis, have invented the whole ‘deal with the devil’ bit. I’m not sure why. (I’m also not sure why the first act, which deals with O’Malley’s time as a preacher, is as long as it is.)
Photo by Afshar Hodar
Director Phil Rouse’s production is a relentlessly raucous ragtag rat bag revue. (OK, despite being wonderfully high energy, it’s not actually relentlessly raucous. I just got on a roll with the alliteration.) There are beautifully vibrant performances from the entire cast, but there are also some moments of stillness and emotional impact.
James Cook as King O’Malley and Matt Hickey as Billy Hughes do terrific work in the playful scenes, but they change gear magnificently to provide the dramatic heart of the piece. (Spoiler Alert) It’s during World War One. Prime Minister Hughes supports conscription, but O’Malley does not. O’Malley resigns from Hughes’ cabinet, and then fails to win his seat at the next election. Or indeed any election after that. (O’Malley lived till 1953, and at the time of his death was the last surviving member of our first national parliament.)
When the play was written, in 1970, conscription was Australian policy. We were sending our young men to fight in Vietnam. I suspect this is what led Boddy and Ellis to choose O’Malley’s story. As a piece of political propaganda, arguing that the state exists for the individual and not the opposite, it’s effective and intensely moving.
And perhaps, despite my earlier questioning, the play’s form serves a purpose. Boddy and Ellis’ O’Malley is a shyster and raconteur – so much so that only an appropriation of a grand myth could make sense of him. But he still put us “lazy, dumb” Australians to shame.
Or at least shook us up.
Of course, the Australian people never did vote ‘Yes’ to conscription in the First War. And in 1972, two years after this play was originally presented, we finally voted in a government that ended conscription’s most recent incarnation.
This production is a timely reminder of the power of our elected representatives, and how it’s our responsibility to continue to push them to create a more just society.
The Legend Of King O’Malley by Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis
Seymour Centre til 13 Dec
http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/the-legend-of-king-omalley/
Tags: Bob Ellis, Michael Boddy, Phil Rouse, Seymour Centre, The Legend Of King O'Malley
Sondheim on Sondheim
A rare night of theatre. I mean in the sense of being uncommon.
It consists of songs performed live by the extraordinarily talented band and cast, interspersed with projections of Sondheim talking.
He talks about his art and life. I left knowing not much about either. I suspect that was the point.
The man has a certain charm, somewhere between imp and self-obsessed genius. At least, that’s his onscreen persona. He drops one mask in order to show another. It is Sondheim on Sondheim, after all. For a musical ignoramus like myself, another voice would be helpful, one that could begin to place Sondheim’s achievement somewhere in the vast theatrical landscape. But, of course, this is not a documentary. It’s much more playful and entertaining than that.
And it’s certainly an opportunity to hear some of Sondheim’s vast catalogue performed brilliantly. I expect fans of the American legend will absolutely love this show.
Photo by Michael Francis
Sondheim doesn’t do melody. (The show jokes about it.) I sort of wish he did, but then, as I’ve said, I’m a music theatre philistine. (If that’s not a tautology.) His lyrics are very clever, and most of the time I could understand them. Presented out of the context of the individual shows for which they were originally created, and with which I’m not familiar, I did have a creeping fear that their intensity was being diluted.
But there’s certainly enough here for the music theatre novice to be intrigued and enticed. Everyone knows Send in the Clowns (performed wonderfully by Debora Krizak), but there are plenty of other gems. One example is The Gun Song, performed powerfully by Blake Erickson, Rob Johnson, Phillip Lowe and Monique Salle. It’s from Assassins (a Sondheim musical I do know!) Telling of the various attempts on the lives of American presidents, it’s a fascinating exploration of violence and identity, and indicative of Sondheim’s ability to take the musical into previously uncharted territory.
I never tire of pointing out that I don’t really write reviews. I write what shows make me think about. (Yes, self-obsession, but without the genius.) And this one? It made me think about the concept of work.
Sondheim has worked for over fifty years. He’s over 80. God only knows how many songs he’s written. There’s some terrific ones in this show. He’s done the work.
Completely left field biblical allusion: Adam and Eve tended the Garden of Eden even before the Fall. Work is not what you do for a reward; it is the reward.
(Not that you shouldn’t come along to this show and enjoy somebody else’s work; the work of Sondheim and the terrific team behind this very entertaining production, Squabbalogic.)
Seymour Centre til 18 Oct
http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/sondheim-on-sondheim/
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Syria, North Korea on Front-Burner This Week as Congress Disappears…
President Trump isn’t going to be able to “move on” quickly in the aftermath of his Syrian airstrike and, just as he did with healthcare, he’s likely to discover Syria is “so complicated.” Nobody knew, right?
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to tell Russia to stop supporting Assad during his trip to Moscow later this week. Tillerson may suggest Russia “bears at least partial responsibility for Wednesday’s chemical attack,” according to the Washington Post. Getting tough on Russia also helps Trump fight back suggestions and his campaign colluded with Putin during the election.
The hypocrisy of ordering airstrikes to send a message after Trump saw “beautiful babies” killed in the chemical bombing, while at the same time refusing to let those beautiful babies into the US is a hard argument to defend. CNN’s Jack Tapper asked UN Ambassador Nikki Haley “Certainly you don’t think Syrian children pose a risk to the American people?” Haley replied that “Syrian children have to come with Syrian adults” and then said its hard to know based on the vetting process. [Huffington Post]
Haley also tried to defend Trump from his stunning policy reversal on Syrian. You’ll recall, Trump tweeted to Obama in 2013, in all CAPS, so you know he was serious: “TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA – IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!” Haley’s weak response: “Well he wasn’t president in 2013.” [Huffington Post] 2013 Donald Trump might have some big issues with 2017 Donald Trump. When the media get the next chance to question Trump, will they ask him about this change of view?
Some of Trump’s biggest supporters are wondering WTF happened to “America First.” Inside the White House, reports say Steve Bannon argued against the airstrike, but couldn’t convince Trump. For more, check out this article from Newsweek this weekend on “The Death of ‘America First.’
Dan Rather wisely called out fellow journalists for their coverage of the Syrian Air Strike in a recent Facebook post. He wrote “The number of members of the press who have lauded the actions last night as ‘presidential’ is concerning. War must never be considered a public relations operation.” He didn’t single out anyone by name, but the worst offenders were CNN’s Fareed Zakaria who said “Donald Trump became president of the United States” when the attacks started and MSNBC’s Brian Williams, who called the deadly Tomahawk attack “beautiful” several times. We will call out the left as well as the right media when they deserve it.
North Korea Next?
It isn’t unusual for the US Navy to move ships around, but it is unusual to publicly announce a redeployment. So the fact that the Pacific Command told everyone a carrier group is currently being redirected to the Korean peninsula is significant. Navy Times. This as North Korea has adopted a more threatening stance against the U.S. and its allies, and is making more aggressive claims about its capabilities. While North Korea frequently makes aggressive claims about a lot of things, we do know it has nuclear weapons. What we don’t know is the range of these weapons. Mainly, could they reach the U.S. mainland? That may not matter if the targets are U.S. military bases in South Korea and Japan.
As Russia:Syria, China:North Korea. So it’s worth watching what China does. Reuters Although China may also let scenarios play out a little further to gauge the Trump Administration’s resolve.
The Second Coming…of Andrew Jackson?
There’s been a lot of speculation of an imminent cabinet shake-up. We do not report on purely speculative stories: when something happens, we’ll tell you. So far the only somewhat significant move is offering NSA #2 K. T. McFarland an ambassadorship to Singapore. This is important only because when McFarland’s original boss, General Michael Flynn, resigned as chief of the NSA, President Trump insisted she would stay. Bloomberg
And there’s some interesting history here: President Trump views himself as a modern-day Andrew Jackson, (even though Jackson founded the DEMOCRATIC Party), and reveres the man so much, Jackson’s portrait hangs prominently in the Oval Office:
This is where it gets interesting: when Jackson got elected, he brought along the people who’d helped him along, and gave them all cabinet positions. By his 2nd year in office, every single one of them (except for the Postmaster General) had been replaced. You can read more about it here Now, there were many fewer cabinet members in those days (and Postmaster General is no longer a cabinet position.) And many in Jackson’s original cabinet continued to hang around, forming what was called the “Kitchen Cabinet”. So if we look at history, and President Trump looks to emulate Jackson: big shake-up seems more likely than not.
Congress Takes A Holiday
The White House is likely to come under more scrutiny in the next week or two as congress disappears for spring break. (April 10-21.) In years past, this is most typically when members of congress would go on junkets, which are trips to faraway places they didn’t have to pay for because lobbyists did. But those have been curbed to a large extent. Most will return to their home districts, and may hold a Town Hall or two. It’s worth looking them up if you’ve got something you want to say face-to-face.
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Magic beans and buzzing coffee win international science award
Projects to grow drought resistant beans and create energy from coffee waste are among the winners of the 2018 Newton Prize.
The annual £1 million Newton Prize recognises pioneering research and innovations that come from international partnerships between the UK and Newton Fund partner countries around the world, with each project helping to solve global development challenges.
Business Secretary Greg Clark said:
These prize winning international projects are uniting the brightest and best minds from across the globe to transform lives now and for generations to come. The Newton Prize and Newton Fund create, cultivate and celebrate these partnerships and I congratulate all the winners on their excellent work.
This year the Newton Prize focussed on partnerships between the UK and Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. The 2019 Newton Prize will celebrate partnerships between the UK and China, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Winning projects
The winning 5 projects are:
Improving the lives of the Guarani people by saving the Atlantic Forest (awarded up to £200,000)
This project between researchers at University College London and the Indigenous Work Centre in Brazil is helping the indigenous Guarani restore the Atlantic Forest in their territory. By drawing from Guarani ancestral agricultural knowledge and established agroforestry techniques, and by promoting a better understanding of the importance of indigenous peoples for environmental conservation, the team are supporting the preservation and restoration of the forest and improving the wellbeing of Guarani communities. The results of the project could also inform conservation efforts elsewhere.
Strengthening energy infrastructure to withstand extreme weather and natural disasters (awarded up to £200,000)
Scientists at the University of Manchester and University of Chile are using mathematical models to strengthen power systems in Chile and other countries vulnerable to environmental hazards, helping energy providers prevent or reduce widescale electricity outages. It will inform planning practices to help shape a robust, cost-effective and low-carbon Chilean transmission network. National and international networks developed through the project have built the capacity of researchers in the wider region, and the potential impact of this project could benefit countries affected by extreme weather and natural hazards worldwide.
Turning environmentally damaging coffee waste into electricity (awarded up to £98,327)
Researchers from the University of Surrey and University of Antioquia in Colombia have found that environmentally damaging coffee waste could be turned into electricity. They discovered that if they fed coffee waste to microbes, the tiny creatures would eat it, producing energy. This energy could then be captured in the form of electricity. The researchers are now developing small fuel cell devices, and they hope to engage with large coffee companies in Europe to adopt the same approach to treating their waste if used successfully in Colombia.
New drought resistant beans for sustainable food supply in Mexico (awarded up to £199,019)
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the Institute of Biotechnology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico are developing bean varieties to combat drought-related crop losses. The researchers have potentially found out how to reduce bean water use by up to 40 percent, potentially saving up to three percent of Mexico’s entire agricultural water use. The project has the potential to secure a reduction in rural poverty, while improving bean yields and minimising fertiliser use will also benefit soils, reduce desertification and improve water quality.
Documenting the past for a more peaceful future (awarded up to £192,400)
The final Newton Prize, the Chair’s Award, was given to a project between Goldsmiths University of London and the Alberto Hurtado University, in Chile. The research team has shown how the act of documenting politically-motivated imprisonment, torture or execution is an important way of resisting human rights violations. It allows affected societies to appreciate – often for the first time – the depth and scale of the trauma suffered by fellow citizens. This new line of research will support public policy and measures that help to move towards a more peaceful future.
Newton Prize
This is the second year of the Newton Prize, which is part of the Newton Fund. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with 17 partner countries to support their economic development and social welfare, and to develop their research and innovation capacity for long-term sustainable growth. The prize allows researchers to take their existing Newton Fund projects to the next level.
Scam awareness campaign prompts tens of thousands of pension holders to seek information
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Bye-bye CBGB - Persephone Yavanna the Entwife
01:51 pm - Bye-bye CBGB
It's official. CBGB will be closing its doors in October 2006.
According to the bulletin released on MySpace, they are looking to relocate in NYC, but have yet to find a place.
Here's the text of the bulletin:
CBGB is closing... it's official
We are closing. Our landlord had neither the obligation nor the interest to give us a new lease when our old lease expired in August. Since then, we have been fighting a losing battle, trying to buy time, against our eviction.
Unless a miracle were to happen, or the landlord were to have a change of heart, we knew we were gong to close. We just didn't know when. Now we do.
An agreement has been reached... not to give us a new lease, but to give us time to find a new location.
CBGB is officially closing by October 2006. No postponements, no court dates, no appeals... that's it.
We are using this time to try and find a new location in New York.
The rumors of us trying to open in Las Vegas and/or elsewhere are true... but not what you may think. We are staying in New York and we are looking for a space in downtown Manhattan. We are not moving to Las Vegas or anywhere else. We are, however, looking at opening up a sister club elsewhere... perhaps a CBGB West. But the original CBGB, though it will have to move, will remain in New York.
I hope they can find a new place -- it would be sad to lose such an important rock and roll landmark altogether.
~~ crosses fingers ~~
Current Mood: sad
Current Music: "I'm in the Industry" by Lesion
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24 Things A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Album Is Like
Listening to Mannheim Steamroller at Christmas sounds like Jim McMahon’s shades harbored a secret desire to be a classical conductor.
December 22, 2016 By Mary Katharine Ham
Everyone has a Christmas song that evokes the opposite of the Christmas spirit for her. For me, it is Mannheim Steamroller’s “Deck the Halls,” which makes me viscerally, physically angry and near inflicting harm on my fellow man, particularly those who had a part in the making of Mannheim Steamroller’s “Deck the Halls.”
It’s like someone said, “Hey, maybe the best way to honor the birth of the Christ child would be to turn some of the best-loved tunes of all time into a barely recognizable ’80s fever dream.” Here are some other things it is like.
It’s like an interminable, festive search for the brown note.
It’s like a beautiful Douglas fir decorated with cassette-tape tinsel.
It’s like if Jim McMahon’s shades harbored a secret desire to be a classical conductor.
It’s like a harpsichord did a few lines and had ill-advised sex with a Moog.
It’s like if Jesus wore a pink IZOD with a popped collar.
It’s like if Santa’s sleigh was only available in black laquer or “DeLorean.”
It’s like the Ghost of Christmas Past is Jules from “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
It’s like the shoulder-padded blazer of Christmas music.
It’s like if Patrick Bateman produced a Christmas album.
It’s like Bing Crosby decided to collaborate with the neighbors in “Christmas Vacation.”
It’s like someone wanted to create a Christmas album with all the joie de vivre of a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
It’s like someone wanted to create a Christmas album with all the joie de vivre of a Bret Easton Ellis movie adaptation.
It’s like Jane Fonda was doing a holiday aerobics extravaganza and needed a backing track.
It’s like if the two dudes from “Weird Science” performed their experiment with Christmas wreaths on their heads.
It’s like someone saw the “Star Wars Holiday Special” and needed to top it for ‘80s festive fail. But unfortunately, it has not yet been lost to time and left us with the mere myth and urban legend of its awfulness.
It’s like if the Super Bowl Shuffle were inspired by the birth of our Lord and Savior.
It’s like if Handel wrote his “Messiah” for a cheap Casio keyboard instead of an orchestra.
It’s the Axel F of Christmas music.
It’s like if you mixed the theme from “Spaceballs” with Amy Grant’s Christmas album and then overlaid a really loud track of a garbage disposal.
It’s like Guy Fieri decided to get “all classical and stuff.”
It’s like if Giorgio Moroder orchestrated the soundtrack to the secret hidden Christmas level of an Atari game.
It’s like if a Doritos Locos Taco took some ecstasy and decided to get nasty with the synth track from Van Halen’s “Jump.”
It’s like a “Miami Vice” boat chase during their Very Special Christmas episode.
It’s like Yes replaced David Bowie in that Bing Crosby Christmas special.
It’s like the team behind “Convoy” created something that ripped off classical and New Age themes at the same time. Actually, that one is just a factual description.
(Ben Domenech, Sean Davis, John Davidson, Mark Hemingway, Tom Nichols, Scott Lincicome, and Rich Cromwell contributed to the “reporting” of this piece.)
Mary Katharine Ham is a CNN contributor.
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The Jonas Brothers Are Back, But They Took Off Their Purity Rings
In a new documentary, the band members laugh off their purity rings instead of chastising the adults who mocked them for acknowledging that sex truly matters.
Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need To Calm Down’ Is Breathtakingly Elitist
The stereotypes are so crude they border on parody. You would think someone who was thrust into super stardom by country music fans might have more respect for people from different backgrounds.
Lizzo Illuminates The Perils Of Millennial Self-Love And Singleness
As she finally makes her well-deserved entree into the mainstream, Lizzo is revealing the identity of her soulmate. It’s Lizzo.
Banning Morrissey Only Makes Him Stronger
The world’s oldest record store has banned Morrissey’s albums. But the legendary lyricist and singer just keeps thrilling his fans.
5 Songs To Prepare You For The New Vampire Weekend Album
Revisit these five songs from their previous records to get into the Vampire Weekend zone ahead of Friday’s new release, ‘Father of the Bride.’
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NY Public Library Is Bringing Wifi to New Yorkers Without Internet Access
Joshua Kleyman
@joshuakleyman
The New York Public Library was one of nineteen projects that was awarded a prize to strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation. The winning organizations will receive $3.4 million as winners of the Knight News Challenge. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation made the announcement at the 2014 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference at the MIT Media Lab.
The winners provide a mix of solutions to promote an open Internet that is free and accessible to all. They address issues from privacy and censorship, to expanding the diversity of the tech workforce, to improving digital access and connecting communities with online content in easier, more useful ways.
In a city where 27 percent of households don’t have access to broadband, the New York Public Library will expand its efforts to bridge the digital divide by allowing the public to borrow portable wifi hotspot devices for up to a year. Through its pilot project launching in September, the project seeks to reach 10,000 households, providing 24/7 quality access to people whose current access to the Internet is limited to 40-minute, once-a-day timeslots, available on a first-come, first-serve basis in one of the library’s 92 branches. Providing continuous access will expand their ability to participate fully in the modern economy and allow them to continue to learn, work, explore, and create after the library’s doors have closed.
“The winning projects strengthen or defend the power of the Internet to inform communities and help innovation thrive; they help build a more inclusive, open Internet that represents diverse voices and ideas,” said Michael Maness, Knight Foundation vice president of journalism and media innovation. “Including prototypes in this round of winners further reinforces the need to build a stronger Internet and quickly test new ideas in this evolving space.”
Launched in February, the challenge is a collaboration between Knight, the Ford Foundation, and the Mozilla Foundation. Ford Foundation contributed $250,000 to the challenge.
The Knight News Challenge asked innovators for ideas that strengthen the Internet for freedom of expression and innovation, recognizing its power as an essential resource for creativity, news, economic growth, education, and human interaction.
Tech Cocktail received a $150,000 grant from the Knight Foundation last year.
Facebook AI Beats Professional Poker Players
By Adam Rowe | Jul 15, 2019 at 4:10 pm
For the first time, an artificial intelligence system has beaten a team of professional poker players in a game of six-player no-limit Texas hold 'em. It's just the latest and greatest example yet of AI-powered bots excelling at games that once belonged entirely to humans.
Josh is the Managing Director of Indurit Holdings, a consulting, investments and management company. He is passionate about helping young companies and individuals create both social and economic value. Josh is also the founder and chairman of the National Student Initiative, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
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9th Circuit Stands Tall and Rules Against the Travel Ban
Update: One of the ninth circuit judges (anonymously, so not necessarily one of the three judges who issued the decision) “has made a sua sponte request that a vote be taken as
to whether the order issued by the three judge motions panel on February 9, 2017, should be reconsidered en banc.” Order available here. I’ve heard that this is common in high profile cases. More info from the court on what this all means is available here.
I’ve never been prouder of the 9th Circuit.
After listening to the oral arguments, I’ll admit I was nervous. The judges pressed both sides, and I was worried there would be a divided bench- or worse, that the 9th Circuit would “punt” the whole thing over standing. Or, worst of all, that the 9th Circuit would be forced by legalese to reinstate the travel ban. I needn’t have worried.
In what appears to me to be three human beings setting aside politics to do what is right, they issued a unanimous decision (available here):
1. The 9th Circuit Has Jurisdiction
(the Temporary Restraining Order was appealable):
“In light of the unusual circumstances of this case, in which the Government has argued that emergency relief is necessary to support its efforts to prevent terrorism, we believe that this period is long enough that the TRO should be considered to have the qualities of a reviewable preliminary injunction.”
2. The States Have Standing
“We therefore conclude that the States have alleged harms to their proprietary interests traceable to the Executive Order. The necessary connection can be drawn in at most two logical steps: (1) the Executive Order prevents nationals of seven countries from entering Washington and Minnesota; (2) as a result, some of these people will not enter state universities, some will not join those universities as faculty, some will be prevented from performing research, and some will not be permitted to return if they leave. And we have no difficulty concluding that the States’ injuries would be redressed if they could obtain the relief they ask for: a declaration that the Executive Order violates the Constitution and an injunction barring its enforcement. The Government does not argue otherwise.”
3. The Executive Order is Reviewable
“Although our jurisprudence has long counseled deference to the political branches on matters of immigration and national security, neither the Supreme Court nor our court has ever held that courts lack the authority to review executive action in those arenas for compliance with the Constitution. To the contrary, the Supreme Court has repeatedly and explicitly rejected the notion that the political branches have unreviewable authority over immigration or are not subject to the Constitution when policymaking in that context.”
4. They Even Gave Detailed Reasoning for their Ruling
“Our decision is guided by four questions: “(1) whether the stay applicant has made a strong showing that he is likely to succeed on the merits; (2) whether the applicant will be irreparably injured absent a stay; (3) whether issuance of the stay will substantially injure the other parties interested in the proceeding; and (4) where the public interest lies.”
We conclude that the Government has failed to clear each of the first two critical steps. We also conclude that the final two factors do not militate in favor of a stay.
The Government has not shown that it is likely to succeed on appeal on its arguments about, at least, the States’ Due Process Clause claim, and we also note the serious nature of the allegations the States have raised with respect to their religious discrimination claims.”
They proceeded to detail why they ruled the way they did on the due process claim, the religious discrimination claim, and the “balance of hardships and the public interest” claim (“The Government has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the Order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States.” 😬 The 9th Circuit totally just called Trump out.
5. #9thCircuitMicDrop
“For the foregoing reasons, the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is DENIED.”
6. Our President responded… in all caps, and on Twitter
SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!
#SMH (shaking my head)
Well, at least people finally like lawyers! People are carrying signs saying to “hug a lawyer”. How cool is that?!?
You know what would be even more amazing than a unanimous 9th Circuit ruling stopping reinstatement of the travel ban? A unanimous Supreme Court ruling. Hey, a girl can dream! 🙂
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Ed Schultz is an American television and radio host, a liberal political commentator, and a former sports broadcaster. He was the host of The Ed Show, a weekday news talk program on MSNBC, and The Ed Schultz Show, a talk radio show, nationally syndicated by Dial Global. Ed has won three Eric Sevareid Awards and has managed and been lead talent for a broadcast team that has won two Marconis and a prestigious Peabody Award. Ed has been named one of the top ten radio hosts in the country by Talkers Magazine for a number of years. Ed Schultz has been a nominee by Syndicated News/Talk Personality of the year by Radio & Records.
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Abbott warns sheriffs to comply with federal immigration requests
Gov. Greg Abbott amped up his campaign against so-called sanctuary cities Wednesday, sending a warning letter to all Texas sheriffs that if they don’t fully comply with all federal requests for detaining “criminal immigrants” being held in their jails, he will deny them some criminal justice grant funding under his control.
“I am establishing new standards for Sheriff’s Departments that seek grants from the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division (CJD),” Abbott wrote. “Beginning now, all CJD grant awards will require that Sheriff’s Departments fully honor ICE’s detention requests for criminal immigrants. Any applicant that cannot certify that their office will honor all ICE detainers for criminal immigrants will be ineligible for CJD funding. Further, any applicant that certifies full compliance with ICE detainer requests — but subsequently fails to honor an ICE detainer — will be subject to claw-back provisions and must refund the full amount of their CJD grant award.”
The letter places Abbott, a fierce critic of federal incursions on state power, in the novel situation of using his authority to demand that local Texas law enforcement officials discard their discretion in fealty to federal immigration policy, a demand the federal government cannot and doesn’t attempt to enforce on its own.
But, in the hot-button politics of immigration, it allows the governor to take a tough stance that wins headlines and plaudits on Fox News — “good job in Texas, I’ll tell you that,” Sean Hannity said last week — and placates the Republican base, while deflecting calls from some legislators and tea party groups for a special session of the Legislature on sanctuary cities and other efforts designed to crack down on unauthorized immigration.
Read more: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/abbott-warns-sheriffs-to-comply-with-federal-immig/npGbk/
Posted by TexasTowelie | Thu Nov 5, 2015, 12:30 AM (0 replies)
Paxton: Police can display “In God We Trust” on patrol vehicles
AUSTIN — In an official opinion, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said law enforcement agencies displaying “In God We Trust” on their patrol cars would likely win any court battles over the issue.
“…Displaying ‘In God We Trust’ on police vehicles is a passive use of a motto steeped in our nation’s history that does not coerce Citizen approval or participation,” Paxton wrote in his opinion. “A law enforcement department’s decision to display the national motto on its vehicles is consistent with that history. Thus, a court is likely to conclude that a law enforcement department’s display of ‘In God We Trust’ on its patrol vehicles is permissible under the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
The phrase became a point of controversy earlier this year when the Freedom From Religion Foundation told the Childress Police Department to remove it from patrol cars. Childress Police Department Chief Adrian Garcia became a social media star when he shared his response to the foundation on Facebook, which included him telling the foundation to “go fly a kite.”
Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, and Rep. Drew Springer, R-Muenster, asked in October whether or not police departments can display the phrase, which was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956.
Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/paxton-police-can-display-in-god-we-trust-on-patrol-vehicles.html/
Posted by TexasTowelie | Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:56 PM (4 replies)
Outraged Conservative Christians Claim Chick-fil-A 'Goes Gay'
A conservative Christian has created a Change.org petition demanding Chick-fil-A explain why it is sponsoring Level Ground, an organization that hosts an annual LGBT Christian film festival.
"Per our research and findings, Chick-fil-A is a sponsor of 'On Level Ground' ... which is 'a movement' that 'creates space for dialogue about faith, gender, and sexuality through the arts,'" the petition reads.
And it attacks the Level Ground's sponsors, claiming they "promote an agenda which is contrary to Chick-fil-A's corporate stance on Christian values regarding marriage and stewardship."
"In light of these findings, we ask that Chick-fil-A issues an official response regarding this sponsorship, along with any statement your team feels is necessary to clarify Chick-fil-A's corporate stance regarding previously stated Christian values on marriage and stewardship."
Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/conservatives_outraged_chick_fil_a_going_gay_over_sponsorship_of_christian_lgbt_film_festival
Posted by TexasTowelie | Wed Nov 4, 2015, 08:20 AM (5 replies)
‘Liberal Media’ Columnist Officially Declares War On Ted Cruz – And It’s Hilarious
Ted Cruz declared war on the liberal media in a fundraising letter that Chicago Tribune columnist Rex Huppke received. Cruz called CNBC’s moderators “left-wing operatives,” according to The Hill, and actually got angry with them during the debate itself. Huppke won’t take this lying down, and has declared war on Ted Cruz.
Huppke started his column, which he called, “Ted Cruz declares war on ‘liberal media’ — so I declare war on Ted Cruz,” by flat-out saying he declares war on Cruz. Just like the headline states. Huppke isn’t known for beating around the bush in his commentaries, so it’s not totally surprising that he would be this blunt this early.
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OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF WAR:
Whereas Ted Cruz has formally declared war against the people of the mainstream (or lamestream or liberal) media of the United States of America:
Therefore, be it Resolved by the Secret Cabal of Liberal Media Overlords that the state of war between the media and Ted Cruz, which has thus been thrust upon the media by Ted Cruz being a total jerk, is hereby formally declared. Rex Huppke, as a representative of the media, is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire forces available to the media, including but not limited to: pens that can be waved in a menacing manner; paper-cut inducing notepads; barrels of ink; and limitless Internet space, to carry on war against Ted Cruz and to bring the conflict to a successful termination.
Read more: http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/liberal-media-columnist-officially-declares-war-on-ted-cruz-and-its-hilarious/
Franklin Graham Goes To Russia, Praises Putin, Slams America, Attacks Obama, Denigrates Gay People
In 2003, just before America invaded Iraq, the Dixie Chicks gave a concert in London. During one song, "Travelin' soldier," lead singer Natalie Maines told the audience, "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."
That comment, a negative remark about the President of the United States on foreign soil, drew such heated outrage from conservatives it drew death threats and greatly harmed their career.
This past week Christian evangelical Franklin Graham went to Russia.
He praised Vladimir Putin, repeatedly attacked President Barack Obama, America, and gay people, and yet not one peep of outrage has been voiced by conservatives.
Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/gays_take_other_people_s_children_franklin_graham_goes_to_russia_praises_putin_and_slams_america
Rep. Gohmert Disturbed That Americans Don’t Want Obama Impeached
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert laments that there isn’t enough will to impeach President Obama.
Gohmert added that Congress would be right to impeach Obama but won’t do so because “there are not enough in the people in the country, across America, that want him removed from office before his office is over,” at least, not yet. As he explained, the GOP attempt to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen may pave the way for Obama’s impeachment.
“I would have hoped that once we start removing people from office because of the lies, misrepresentation and treason, if that comes out, or just so detrimental to the country, then we would have a case that could be made involving the president,” he said. “But the will of the American people is just not there, that’s my problem. He has done grave damage and this Iran deal, it’s really a treaty, he’s lied about it up and down, and now we’re finding out Iran is violating the treaty, yet this administration is defending Iran and betraying Israel right and left.” He went on to claim that the administration accused Israel of “war crimes” and “terrorism.”
After telling the caller that he appreciated his “concern because it tells me that you are a red-blooded American” and that “obviously you care about America,” he said that “we’ll keep pushing to see if there’s something to be done.”
http://www.alan.com/2015/11/02/rep-gohmert-disturbed-that-americans-dont-want-obama-impeached/#
Posted by TexasTowelie | Wed Nov 4, 2015, 07:38 AM (10 replies)
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Confederate flag rally organizer: Bring rifles, 'extra magazines just in case' to San Antonio event
SAN ANTONIO — A local organizer is encouraging supporters of open carry and the Confederate flag to bring rifles and "extra magazines just in case" to a rally in downtown San Antonio Friday.
Lamar Russell, a member of the San Antonio chapter of Open Carry Texas, said he expects roughly a dozen people to show up.
“We want to show that Southern pride and the Confederate flag are not racist,” said Russell, who is black.
Russell said the group will also carry rifles for two reasons: to show support for the Second Amendment and “for our protection.”
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Confederate-flag-rally-organizer-Bring-rifles-6607742.php
Pat Robertson: “Gay People Should Wear Specially-Colored Clothes To Warn Straight People”
Televangelist Pat Robertson recently repeated his prediction that LGBT rights will provoke God to destroy America’s financial markets, warning “The 700 Club” viewers that God’s wrath is on its way. He claimed that the U.S. is turning into Sodom now that it has “enshrined sodomy into the United States Constitution” and cities like Houston are trying to “force women to go into men’s bathrooms and men to go into women’s bathrooms.”
“Now it’s a constitutional right for sodomites to marry each other,” he lamented, warning that “the wrath of God is revealed against this stuff.” He explained: “I don’t want the wrath of God to hit this country, it’s a great country, I’d like to see America continue strong, but this is one way of weakening it. First of all, we’re going to have this financial collapse. We’re setting up for a massive financial collapse and I think if God is going to hurt this country that’s probably the way he’d do it.”
At that point, a viewer called in and inquired Robertson whether his grim predictions of such a crisis can somehow be averted, to which Robertson gave a somewhat confusing answer: “I believe so, yes, but we need to stop spreading lesbianism and homosexuality in order to achieve that. And the only way to stop the spread of these diseases that are plaguing the country is to make some sort of obvious distinction between gay people and normal, straight people.”
“I personally believe that we must impose a rule on the gay population that would require them to wear specially-colored clothes, for example. I’m thinking we need to go through the Senate with this and we need to make it official. That way, regular people would know that the person wearing the said color is a deviant sodomite and that they need to stay away from them at all cost, as well as keep their children away from their reach,” Robertson opined.
Read more: http://religionlo.com/pat-robertson-gay-people-should-wear-specially-colored-clothes-to-warn-straight-people/
[font color=330099]Now that I know the dress code...[/font]
Capitalism and mortality: Death rate soars for middle-aged US workers
A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents a sharp rise in the mortality rate for white, middle-aged working-class Americans over the past fifteen years. The report’s authors are Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and Anne Case, both economists at Princeton University.
Their calculations show that the rising death rate since 1999 for this segment of the population translates into 96,000 more deaths than if the mortality rate had remained flat. Had the rate continued on its declining trajectory for the period 1978-1998, the authors state, there would be 500,000 more people alive today in the United States.
“Only HIV/AIDS in contemporary times has done anything like this,” commented Deaton.
The increase in the mortality rate is due mainly to a dramatic rise in the rate of deaths from suicide, drug abuse and alcoholism—all expressions of social and personal crisis.
Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/11/04/pers-n04.html
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New Details for Proposed 8th & Fig Tower
Longtime owner of DTLA parking lot finally pushes forward with development plans.
An initial study published by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning offers up new details for the Fig & 8th development, a proposed high-rise development that would replace one of Downtown's most prominent parking lots.
Mitsui Fudosan America, the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Mitsui Fudosan, has owned the one-acre subject site at 8th and Figueroa Streets for more than 20 years. They plan to remove the existing parking lot to construct a 42-story high-rise edifice that would feature 436 residential units, approximately 10,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a 479-car garage with four below-grade levels and four above-grade levels.
The proposed 489-foot tall tower is being designed by Johnson Fain, the Chinatown-based architecture firm behind recent Downtown developments such as Blossom Plaza, College Station and the La Plaza Cultura Village. Renderings of the finished product portray a shimmering glass and steel tower, rising above a podium. Outdoor amenity decks would be situated at both the rooftop and above the building's parking garage.
Per the initial study, construction of 8th & Fig is expected to commence in March 2018 with a targeted completion date in the third quarter of 2020.
The project finds itself at the eye of the storm in the booming Financial District, which has recently seen expansive makeovers at both the Figat7th shopping center and the Bloc. One block north at 7th Street, the construction of the 73-story Wilshire Grand tower has captured the attention of Angelenos for the past three years.
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Renee Zellweger gets fans ready for 'Bridget Jones's Baby' by debuting the trailer
March 23, 2016 by HOLA! USA
It's finally here! Renee Zellweger treated fans to a special surprise during her visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show when she debuted the long-awaited trailer for her new film, Bridget Jones's Baby.
Renee delivered a special surprise during her trip to the Ellen show Photo: Michael Rozman / Warner Bros.
While in the hot seat, the 46-year-old actress promised that the only info she could deliver about the film, which will be released in September, is the trailer. "I can't give it up," Renee said when Ellen asked if this film will feature any fight scenes. "I can't tell."
What fans do know is that Bridget has been living her best life since she left the big screen 12 years ago in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Now a producer at a news program, Bridget proclaims she is loving her new single life following her split from Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
Renee couldn't spill any details about the film out in September Photo: Michael Rozman / Warner Bros.
However her life becomes somewhat complicated when she meets handsome Jack Qwant (played by the "lovely" Patrick Dempsey) at the Glastonbury Festival. The discovery that she is pregnant just a few weeks later poses the question – who is the father?
Fans won't find out the answer until the film is released later this year, and it appears the cast is being left in the dark about how the film concludes too, as screenwriter Helen Fielding wrote three different endings to avoid any spoilers.
"It's kind of brilliant," Renee told the Sunday Express. "None of the cast know who fathered Bridget's baby or who she'll choose as her beau. The plan is to keep us all in the dark, right up to the premiere."
Renee was joined by Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey to film the new movie in London late last year. The film also features a cameo from Ed Sheeran – who appears in the trailer – and told fans he "loved" having the opportunity to become an actor for the day.
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Is there a good way to reform welfare & taxation?
Let's be honest. Reforming welfare isn't easy. Every individual's circumstances are different and there are a whole series of complex and confusing measures in place to try to make sure that those who need help get it and those who don't can't work the system. Few people understand the way that benefits and tax relief work together. In any one year a person could be a potential recipient of housing benefit, tax credits, disability payments, unemployment benefits, child benefits and a whole series of other potential forms of help.
Experts who have studied the system for years get the interactions wrong yet we expect the ordinary claimant - who may have low levels of literacy and numeracy - to find their way through the labyrinth. That is one of the reasons why there has been increasing enthusiasm in recent years from both right and left for simplification. Many on the left like the idea of the citizens income. Many on the right want to cut benefits by combining them - as Iain Duncan Smith was famously trying to do with his Welfare to Work initiative before the cuts went beyond what even he could stomach.
In theory simplifying sounds very attractive. Why not get rid of all that pesky complexity?
I think many of these efforts are doomed to failure because of one simple truth. People are complex things and their circumstances do vary. Over simplify and you are quite likely to end up with some very nasty unintended consequences.
For example, if you pay a flat rate citizens' income to everyone then you will be making welfare payments to the children of some of the richest people in the country. You will also be paying people equally regardless of what disability they have, what the cost of their housing is, how many children they have, whether they are a single parent, and whether or not they are too sick to work. If you start to complicate the system by introducing supplements to citizens income to take account of these things then you are back to a means tested system. So either you introduce very generous arrangements for the healthy and wealthy using money that could have gone to the needy or you pretend to have a simple citizens income but vary it according to need. The moment you start trying to deal with real people's varying needs you go straight back into some form of means testing. Which I happen to think is a lot more realistic as a way of getting money to the right people than a flat payment.
There is, however, another way of approaching reform of tax and welfare. You could combine income tax with all welfare payments. Why not openly admit that it makes sense to assess people's needs but do it once? One government agency could assess every aspect of the needs of individuals and determine what tax or benefits they should receive accordingly. Get people to fill out one tax and benefit assessment and then ensure that the needs of the individual are met and decide how much they can contribute to society. By doing it this way you can avoid hidden problems for families like suddenly losing a significant benefit when family income rises. It becomes much easier to ensure that there is always a reasonable incentive for working.
There are huge advantages to such an arrangement. The individual would no longer have to be subject to constantly filling out forms and being assessed by different government agencies trying to find out whether they were in need of different forms of support. Instead the one tax and benefit agency could request all relevant information and put together information about your housing needs, your disability, your childcare, your school uniform costs and so on. The saving in terms of government bureaucracy would be enormous and if those savings were used sensibly you could replace unconnected staff in different agencies that are currently hurriedly looking at the same information about the same person with a single client manager who would have sufficient time to look properly into the circumstances of each individual. The official could develop a proper knowledge of the situation in which their client lives. All individuals, whether rich or poor, would need to develop a relationship with the tax and benefits office and the same would be true in reverse.
From the citizens point of view you would have one government department to ring and talk to whenever your circumstances changed. Easy to understand. Easy to deal with. From the government's point of view there would be one official looking into the circumstances of each individual and developing a relationship with them. Easy to administer and much easier to detect tax avoidance or benefit fraud because someone would have the whole picture and the time and the knowledge to examine anything that looked suspicious.
Devising the rules for such a system would of course be a serious challenge but in essence involves codifying current rules and making them clearer and simpler. It also has to be admitted that whenever you simplify the system there is always someone who wins out and someone else who loses and those who lose could be placed in difficulty. The way to overcome this is to phase in a new system by applying it to new claimants. This would also enable the new system to be tested and refined with relatively small numbers of people at first so that any errors could be ironed out.
We have just been given a huge lesson by Iain Duncan Smith and George Osborne in the difficulties of trying to combine and simplify 6 benefits at the same time as cutting them. They were wrong to think this would be simple, wrong to rush to implement it without listening sufficiently to criticisms, wrong to try to use this reform to cut down on payments to the poorest people in our society and wrong to blame the poor for needing help. This does not mean that they were wrong in thinking that the current system has become so complex and unwieldy that it is no longer helping people as effectively as it could and that it is costing a fortune to administer and needs change.
If we really want to target money to where it is needed and to simplify arrangements why not consider phasing in a single tax and benefit system administered by one Department?
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Tag: Sinclair Lewis
By Wes F. in Morris on May 20, 2014 May 20, 2014
Continuing with the twin themes of Richard Nixon and resentment as a political tool, here are two links which have been on my mind recently.
This link considers prejudice against Appalachians in academia, and this link examines Sauk Centre, MN, Sinclair Lewis’s hometown and the model for Gopher Prairie in Main Street.
The first article makes me think – what happens when someone willingly embraces the stereotypes of that group, and then uses those stereotypes as a marker of culture? Do the stereotypes become self-generating at that point? Is it a matter of “You think I’m a redneck? I’ll show you a redneck!” There is a natural human response of wagon-circling when a member of your tribe is attacked, to be sure, and I suspect there’s some of that at work here. But it can go to far, and ideology can obscure reality. (Read that link, by the way. It is outstanding.) Sinclair Lewis hit on this when he wrote Main Street. In an insular community, outsiders – or more specifically, ideas promulgated by outsiders – are rarely accepted or even tolerated. I found this out earlier this year when my hometown was in the news for less than good reasons. Even though it was home in a technical sense, I never felt like I belonged there, much in the same way that Lewis never felt like he belonged in Sauk Centre. Yet, that is where his ashes are buried, and it is not beyond the pale of possibility that my earthly remains will at least in part end up back home as well. I have felt the resentment of those who accepted things as they were, and I have also nurtured strong resentments myself at those same people. I love my family, and I wouldn’t trade my upbringing for anything, but Bedford is not home. It is simply where I am from. (Short form: having a non-majority temperament or views in a small town is tough. I doubt I’m alone in this.)
This politics of resentment is how Nixon captured the White House in 1968. He was careful enough to not be openly resentful in the way that George Wallace was (and arguably having Wallace in the race, instead of splitting the Right, allowed Nixon to use better code language and secure his position as the “Center”), but he still tapped into that. His language throughout his term in office (“Silent Majority,” the constant allusions to a giant conspiracy during Watergate) sent dog-whistles to the resentful base. And as we saw in yesterday’s post, he came by this honestly and at an early age.
I get Nixon. But for differences on political issues, I could be Nixon. In many cases, so could you. And that is why, as much of a populist as I am on economic issues, I have to keep it in check. Because when unchecked, it turns a President who was truly masterful at many aspects of foreign policy* into a punchline, a paranoiac, and a cautionary tale.
This has been a rather rambling excursion into my brain. I hope it resonated with at least some people.
*I propose that Nixon did what he did domestically (EPA, price/wage controls, Keynesian economic policy, etc.) to keep the heat off his foreign policy, making him the mirror of LBJ (who was hawkish in Vietnam to keep his opponents on his side, allowing him to pass his domestic policies).
Whatcha reading?
By Wes F. in Morris on June 8, 2011 June 8, 2011
This might end up being a weekly feature as well, at least during the summer months.
Now that the diss is in the can, I find myself able to read for my own edification/amusement much more. I thought I’d take this opportunity to share what’s been on my bookshelf in the past few weeks.
Scholarly: Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination by Michael Cherlin. I’ll have more on this in an upcoming Theory Thursday.
Nonfiction: Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 by Harold Holzer. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big antebellum history and Civil War buff. (I joke that I should be a Whig, as I’m in favor of the tariff and internal improvements.) This book examines in more detail the Cabinet-building that Doris Kearns Goodwin explored in Team of Rivals, and also explores how he had to balance what people were expecting him to do versus the fact that he had no real power until March 4. It’s a solid tome, and if you enjoy this period in history I’d say it’s indispensable.
Fiction: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. It’s frightening how relevant this book still is. At least it ends with a quiet rebellion against the forces of conformity and small-mindedness.
So…whatcha reading?
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Lisa Stebic Found ***Update***
***Update*** 01.27.14: The month and day dates listed in this post are correct; the years are not, however, as I misinterpreted the information. I will update accordingly soon.
Nancy Grace apparently ran an episode on Lisa Stebic, missing mother of two from Plainfield, Illinois, on Friday evening, December 28, 2012. On Saturday, I had the most visits EVER to my MISSING blog and all the visits were from search engine searches on “Lisa Stebic”. That is how I learned that Nancy Grace aired a show about Lisa, and, obviously, that generated interest that led to all the search engine traffic. I’d been planning to update this post on Lisa Stebic regarding the remains found in May 2009, since I initially made the post; and since the search for Lisa Stebic is now in full-force, now is the time to do that.
Skeletal Remains Found – Channahon, IL, Des Plaines River, 05.20.09
A Note to the reader:
All the information herewith, the visions posted below, were provided to the Plainfield Police Department on November 16, 2008, when I brought my Journal 1 to the then Chief of Police, Don Bennett. I stood right next to Chief Bennett while he photocopied a complete record of my Journal 1, up to that date of 11.16.08. For the period from 11.17.08 through 09.04.09, every vision during that period was posted on this blog, along with the prior visions that were provided to Chief Bennett, and all of this was posted online prior to September 15, 2009. There can be NO DENYING that this precise information was presented in advance not only to the police department who headed up the investigation of Lisa Stebic; but also to the world via this blog, and I did so prior to these specific events actually taking place in real life, as described in explicit detail below.
https://whereabouts67.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/lisa-stebic-visions-sample-collection/
Man in blue uniform w/ diamond patch
The above link is to a post I made back in June 2008, about DOW Chemical and a few of the various times I received information as it related to that specific location. The first time I received information relating to DOW Chemical was on March 31, 2008 (see image above). DOW Chemical is located along the banks of the Des Plaines River in Channahon, 2 nautical miles south of what we, in this neck of the woods, call “The Boat”, which is the River Boat Gambling Casino, Hollywood Casino in Joliet, Illinois.
https://whereabouts67.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/lisa-stebic-11-06-08-11-08-08-6-pages/
Lisa Stebic: Drew’s “going down”
On November 7, 2008, Lisa Stebic was all giddy with excitement and told me that Drew Peterson is “going down“. Notice the date of this session, November “7“, 2008. “7” is a symbolic reference and is a reoccurring theme throughout these sessions the past 5.5 years.
https://whereabouts67.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/lisa-stebic-11-02-08-6-pages/
On November 2, 2008, Lisa Stebic indicated to me that there was someone, a “7”, that means a person with a 7 point Star Badge, a cop, associated with Drew Peterson and with Lisa Stebic who is associated with the handwriting of “Joyce” who is really “Joan” and this “7 man seven” (officer) is associated with a female; a very sexy, glamorous, beauty pageant contestant type of woman, a “glamor beauty”. As you can see by what they showed me in the clip above, there is “writing” of “Joyce” having to do with “Joan”and a “7”, 7 man Seven. What this tells me is that this woman “Joyce” is a bogus identity. Whenever I see one person’s name while simultaneously hearing another person’s name, they are telling me that this person is “pretending” to be this other person. In this case, they are “writing” under a false identity and it is directly associated with Drew Peterson and a sexy female. It must be known, that I see most things in the future, BEFORE they actually happen, and as real life events unfold, the information provided to me will allow me to see the truth; and not what the master manipulator intends for everyone to believe, which is a ginormous web of lies designed to protect his criminal activities. This “7 man” utilizes hundreds of bogus online identities to manipulate many things, including many ongoing cases. He is “7 man Seven“. That is, he is a “7 man” (a cop who holds a 7 point star badge) and something with a “seven“ that is associated with Drew Peterson.
As so often the case, I am provided with information that is to take place in the future, and they give me clues so that when the future event happens, I’ll understand the message at the appropriate time. In this particular case, November 2, 2008, they were telling me of an event to happen associated with “seven“, Drew Peterson, and this “7 man“.
May 7, 2009: Drew Peterson arrested
Drew Peterson was arrested on May 7, 2009 for the murder of Kathleen Savio. There were human skeletal remains that were discovered on the banks of the Des Plaines River in Channahon, Illinois, next to DOW Chemical and across from Moose Island; and those remains were found on May 20, 2009, the day before Drew Peterson was to be arraigned on charges of first degree murder for his 3rd wife, Kathleen Savio. Drew was scheduled to appear before Judge Stephen White on those charges on May 21, 2009; and this period of time was precisely the time when Drew Peterson was “going down“.
They further tell me in the 11.02.08 session, that there is this “one man boat” associated with this “Take me down to the boat on the river“, something that Lisa Stebic had been telling me a lot at the time associated with where her remains were. One must understand, in the spirit world, everything is symbolic, so a boat that symbolizes a person indicates their psychological frame of mind; this is their own being, their state of mind. When a person is on the water, they are not on land therefore they are not grounded; but, rather, they are out to sea in their manner of thought, they are “out there“. In this session, they provide me more information about this “one man boat” and give me a description of a peace dove. This description is symbolic and in the future they would provide me with more details so I would understand the message when the time was right. I did not receive those further details until 2010, and I will explain all that in another post at a later date. This peace dove was clinging to a “barge” that was multistory and had many people on it, and with that I get the “Take me down to the boat on the river“. Lisa was telling me “The Boat” the Argosy Hollywood Casino, formerly The Empress Casino.
Did Lisa spend time with this man going to the River Boat Casino when she was alive? Or, did this man place her body in this location after taking her to his own boat on the river, and then killing her? Or, as is so often the case with spirit, is it a multifaceted meaning and it means both? Did she spent time with him gambling at the boat, and then at some point he killed her, took her out on his boat, and placed her remains where they were found, and did so strategically, for a specific reason? Time is the key to answering these questions; and spirit always provides me with additional information as time goes on giving me what I need to see the truth and then answer those questions. As I will show you, through the information presented to me through my visions, he planted those remains there along the banks of the Des Plaines River in Channahon by DOW Chemical. This 7 man is a narcissist and a psychopath, and he thinks he is smarter than everyone and that no other has the ability to comprehend his level of intelligence. He is perceived by his fellow officers and others in law enforcement as “Jesus” but he’s really the devil. He lied to Judge Rozak about me, and he lied to a Grand Jury as well.
Additionally, and as a clear note to the reader, previously, I had deliberately left misleading information on this blog and my other blog on Blogster, also via Email and through phone conversations and text messages, in order to trap the killer; because I know that he steals my communications and uses it to plant a dirty internet trail of bogus information while simultaneously sending tips to law enforcement agencies under false identities, most that he has created online, many of them as “psychics” (and I will provide proof of this), all of which points the finger at me. This is how he works. He makes former Illinois Governor, Rob Blogojevich, look like a Saint. He’s also been holding my poor financial decisions of the past over my head, many made while suffering from severe duress, that which he deliberately thrust upon me in all his dirty dealings, attempting to pin dirty financial things on me. This is all a part of his effort to prevent me from solving the mysteries behind the disappearances of Lisa Stebic, Stacy Peterson, and John Spira. He has gone to great lengths to sabotage all my hard work and my efforts, to tarnish my reputation, to prevent anyone from considering what I have to say by painting me out to be some psychotic nut who is looney tunes in the mind. NONE OF THIS IS TRUE. This is how he manipulates the thinking of others. This is how he controls individual perception collectively, or on a mass scale thereby controlling the outcome and the direction of any given investigation. He is a MASTER MANIPULATOR. He knows that I see the truth and he must prevent my ability to express that truth to law enforcement because the truth will expose him for the criminal that he is. In the end, his efforts are futile; and he will fail. I am one step ahead of his dirty dealings, and because of that and my efforts, the truth will prevail and he will be put where he belongs, behind bars. On March 15th, 2013, he will appear before a judge; and the gavel goes down on him.
Know now, this article states everything exactly as it has been shown to me. There is nothing written here that is meant to mislead the killer. I’ve already left the bait that I know he used; and it is now too late for him to backtrack and take back what he did to point the finger at me in an effort to frame me for acts I did not commit. Now is the time to expose the truth and use the information contained in that bait, that which he took and ran with, to prove this is precisely what he has been doing to me for YEARS.
Left handed Detective, backward one on the water
On October 20, 2008, after my realization about a dream I had previously, on March 31, 2008, that they were telling me something about DOW Chemical, I asked spirit what they were trying to tell me about DOW Chemical? As an answer to my question, they provided me with the symbol for “1” and showed me what this guy looked like (see image to the right), though I only saw his body and not his face, at that time. Through the clues provided in this vision, they indicated what police department he was associated with at that particular time, October 20, 2008. They showed that he is “aajejll” which means “1“, he is also the “7 man” who is the backward one on the water, meaning he has a boat on the river. He is teamed up with a woman, who is a “4” that is associated with an “oath of office” (she is not fully sworn in; but only partially sworn in). She is on his “staff“. At this time, in October 2008, this left handed detective who was a little heavier set, was with the WILL COUNTY SHERIFF’S POLICE; but then moved, in 2008, and became a cop “on the side” with a department that holds a 7 point star badge. This would be one of the suburban village police departments. However, as I will show, he is undercover where he holds a 6 point star badge (see page 5 in the link where on 08.04.08 I ask: “who should I focus on?”). A 6 point star badge is held by an officer of the Illinois State Police.
Tony, Captain – John Oglesby
His real name is Tony and as one can clearly see in the vision above, he was a “captain” at that time. I don’t know if he was a police captain, a fire department captain (this guy is also a fireman); or if he was a Captain at that time in a criminal organization. On 02.14.09, Lisa Stebic indicated she had an affair with the “Cappo” and that he was nick named “Elvis“. This guy is the one who has been pointing the finger at me all these years, planting bogus information about me trying to frame me while using said planted evidence to get the real investigators, who are trying to find the truth, to run around in circles looking for everything that isn’t real, all that Tony had planted to fit Tony’s bogus theory. This is how Tony creates a mess in order to keep everything off of him while simultaneously framing others in the process. This is old school Cook County mob type of illegal judicial maneuvering. More will be detailed about this man and woman later in this article; until then, I will let you know this: He utilized the name and identity of “John Oglesby” and further created an elaborate cover up and washed that identity through a dirty prison shower. He is a corrupt law enforcement officer; and as dirty a cop as they come. She is the key to solving the mystery and locating the remains of the others and, again, I will detail all of this later in this article. He is a “7” on the side and under cover as “John Jr.” Lisa Stebic knew him as JOHN MORGAN. He has multiple undercover identities, holding more than one law enforcement badge at more than one police department; and I will detail all of that below.
Cover up, Judicial Bribery, Drew Peterson
This is another clip from my session on 10.20.08 where I specifically asked spirit “what are you trying to tell me about DOW Chemical and the detective?“ Look at the name in the image to the left. This is what they showed me about this detective who is symbolically represented as “aajejll” (the backward one on the water). They told me of “Judicial Bribery” regarding a cover up associated with Drew Peterson. Remember, this is all about DOW Chemical. They showed me this MORE THAN SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO DREW PETERSON BEING ARRESTED. Look at the “hand” making a deal with this detective who is the backward one on the water, as is shown in the image above (a copy of which was provided to Plainfield PD on 11.16.08). The hand making the deal was “White“. Judge Stephen White set Drew’s unprecedented $20,000,000 bond the day after the body was found by DOW Chemical. The above image shows the answer to my question about this dirty detective and what he had to do with DOW Chemical, the place where the human remains were found the day before Drew Peterson appeared before Judge White, who ultimately ordered a $20,000,000 bail for Peterson and kept him in jail until his trial that ended late last year.
Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that Judge White took part in a cover up. As time goes on, more details will emerge that will paint a very clear image of the truth and precisely what was done to manipulate that situation. As you will see in the images later in this article, they showed me that Lisa Stebic‘s body, the remains found by DOW Chemical, were strategically placed there to keep Drew Peterson in jail, so he would not get out on bail. Again, Drew Peterson’s bond was set an an unprecedented $20,000,000.
Remember, this “7 man” and the death associated with DOW Chemical is also associated with Drew Peterson and a “7“ and LISA STEBIC; and they informed me of this manipulation taking place six months prior to the discovery of the body that was found exactly where they indicated it would be found, and six months before Drew Peterson was arrested. Another very important thing to point out regarding the vision above and what they told me: they said WHEN YOU HEAR THAT DREW PETERSON WHISTLED KNOW IT IS A BLUE (COP) COVER UP TO PROTECT THE LIGHTHOUSE (the Lighthouse is “7“, the “7 man“).
They later told me that this 7 man would manipulate information on the computer, through a chat room, or a board, or some sort of online environment like that, using a false identity to get the Illinois State Police to go search for Stacy Peterson based on Drew Peterson whistling. He is a master at computer forensics and he utilizes his skills to significantly manipulate the cases as I will provide specific details about later in this article.
Death at DOW w/ 7-man
On November 8, 2008, the first thing Lisa Stebic tells me is that there will be a death (cross) associated with the “7 man” and DOW Chemical. Lisa Stebic, on several different occasions through these psychic sessions, provided specific details about the body located by DOW Chemical along the banks of the Des Plaines River; she told me how that body got there; who the killer was; and whose body it was. Most importantly, one must remember that I provided a copy of all of this information to the Plainfield Police Department on November 16, 2008; and that was six months prior to the body that was found in the PRECISE location as indicated within the copy of my Journal 1 that was provided to Plainfield PD.
Woman in a Watery Grave
Lisa Stebic further goes on to elaborate that there will be a “watery grave” associated with this specific death. Not only did Lisa Stebic detail that in the future there would be a a body discovered along the banks of the Des Plaines River by DOW Chemical company at the time Drew Peterson “goes down“, something that came to pass and did, indeed, happen (remember, I had these visions 6 MONTHS before the event happened); but Lisa further provided specific details as to who the murderer was and how those remains got to that location. Lisa Stebic said this “7 man” took her down to the the boat on the river.
DOW Chemical Des Plaines River
Lisa Stebic reinforces that there will be remains found by DOW Chemical, and she shows the association to the Argosy Empress Casino on November 10, 2008 , where she provided me with additional information on this “7-man” individual, and directed me to the Des Plaines River by showing me another facility that is 1 site south of the Empress Casino on the West Bank of the River, and letting me know it was by DOW Chemical. Do I sound like I am repeating myself over and over again? Yes, that is exactly what I am doing; and I will continue to repeat myself over and over again until someone in authority makes the decision to look at the TRUTH, and will stop allowing their thoughts to be directed to a predetermined place by the criminal himself, the extreme narcissist who is a serial killer, who is also for hire.
Yes, Tony is a hit man. He will make a hit as paid to; but if the case becomes too prominent and well known, or there is fear of his actions being exposed, he will then plant evidence, including and especially an internet trail, that points directly to the person who ordered the hit as the actual killer. This is his backup plan; one he strategically puts in place prior to making the hit. It’s the perfect cover up. Who would admit they ordered a hit on someone, and that the hit man was framing them for the actual murder they paid the hit man to commit? This is precisely what Tony does, among other extremely corrupt and criminal actions.
Body found by DOW Chemical across from Moose Island
There is no denying that this body was found PRECISELY where I was told it would be found, 6 months PRIOR to it being found. That CANNOT be denied. What also cannot be denied was that spirit also told me me that this body belonged to a WOMAN, not a man, and this woman is LISA STEBIC. Below I will will provide more images as they were shown to me, prior to them happening, that there was a cover up of the identity of this woman found along the Des Plaines River by DOW Chemical and that someone “lied” about her identity.
I will continue to update this Lisa Stebic Found post, and I will continue to show how the body found along the banks of the Des Plaines River in May 2009 is that of Lisa Stebic . There was a COVER-UP, a manipulation of DNA, identifying the remains as a male, Scott Dudko, when those remains are that of Lisa Stebic.
When those remains were found, a female forensic anthropologist indicated that those were the remains of a FEMALE – there was a PELVIS . If you go back and read the list of bones associated with the remains that were shipped to their resting place in Indiana (on a shelf) until identification was made, not only was the “Humerus” bone not listed, a bone my friend Janet Alexander-Goldblatt, part of a Stacy Peterson search team, found in the water and held in her hand only a few feet from where the remains were found; but the pelvis also was NOT listed as one of the individual bones of the skeleton that were sent. There was a pelvis attached to those remains. The “Femur” bones could not have made it there WITHOUT a PELVIS to attach them to the upper torso. There was still petrified skin on those bones holding what was left the skeleton together. My friend, Janet Alexander-Goldblatt, former Chief Deputy Coroner of Will County during the Riley Fox autopsy and the Kathleen Savio autopsy, was the individual who found one of the Humerus bones belonging to the skeleton AFTER the Illinois State Police conducted their evidence search at the site for two days, and she found this bone only a few feet from where the original skeletal remains were found. Janet informed me at the time those remains were found, that the forensic anthropologist stated that those remains were that of a FEMALE based on the PELVIS.
LIE – Smoking Gun
I will detail how my prior posted visions CLEARLY showed me this FEMALE body would be found and that someone would LIE about the identity as a cover-up to protect the real killer. Do not be fooled. Do not be misled. Do not blindly believe the information presented for doing so will only steer your thoughts away from looking at the truth. One must always remain objective in order for the truth to be heard. News media are notorious for taking misinformation and running with it without being thorough enough in their own investigations to make certain that what they are indeed presenting is actually the TRUTH. This is ILLINOIS, the most CORRUPT State in the Nation. Four Illinois Governors in four decades have been imprisoned for corruption. “Pay-to-play” is the status quo in Illinois and it is not just in politics; that “pay-to-play” corruption trickles down to law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and the judiciary.
Dyke and Karen Rhoads
A perfect example of the type of law enforcement, prosecutor, and judiciary corruption that takes places in Illinois is the case of Dyke and Karen Rhoads of Paris, Illinois, who were murdered in their home and then the home set on fire to cover up the crime. Two men, Randy Steidl and Herb Whitlock were wrongfully convicted based on FALSE witness testimony wherein prosecutors PAID these witnesses to testify. These two innocent men received the DEATH PENALTY as a sentence and both sat on death row for nearly 20 years before they were finally exonerated. This case was handled by the Illinois State Police, and remarkably, one of the ISP officers associated with that case, was also associated with the Kathleen Savio investigation and the Stacy Peterson investigation. That particular individual has since retired from the Illinois State Police, and now has a new, completely different role, with another law enforcement agency in the same area. The murder case of Dyke and Karen Rhoads is a perfect example of how corrupt this state is, law enforcement included.
Lieutenant Mike Callahan
Lieutenant Michael Callahan was an ISP investigator who was demoted for pursuing the case and attempting to work on proving that Randy Steidl and Herb Whitlock were innocent. According to Karen Rhoads’ sister and brother-in-law who she shared this information with, Karen, by accident, witnessed her boss engaged in highly illegal activity that took place in the parking lot of the owner’s place of business (Karen’s boss) just before her murder. Her boss was a major financial campaign contributor to then Governor of Illinois, George Ryan, who now sits in a federal penitentiary convicted of corruption. Lieutenant Mike Callahan, as he writes in his book “Too Politically Sensitive” was ordered by his superiors to drop the case because, according to Top Brass at the Illinois State police, the case was “too politically sensitive”. Callahan refused under the premise, since when is murder too politically sensitive? Callahan was demoted for not dropping it. He sued the Illinois State Police, won a settlement, and now works to raise awareness about how politically and legally corrupt we are here in Illinois.
Gordon “Randy” Steidl
Randy Steidl sued and won a settlement, and Herb Whitlock is currently battling his case in court where he will win a substantial settlement. To date, not a single official associated with this legal disaster has had to answer for what they did. Randy Steidl started the “Witness to Innocence Project” and currently travels across the country working to have the death penalty abolished.
At the same time Michael Callahan was attempting to gather enough information to have the case reopened in the efforts to free two innocent men from Death Row, a Northern Illinois University Professor assigned the Rhoads murder case to his students and told them, re-investigate this, things don’t add up.
Paris “on the side”
The only reason that I am even aware of the Dyke and Karen Rhoads murder is because I was presented with information through my psychic sessions that told me the cases are connected. In searching for a link to “Paris, IL” as it was first presented to me on January 4, 2010 (image above), I learned about all that took place regarding the false testimony in the Rhoads’ murders;
but not until this past summer did I learn of the deeper connection to the individual at ISP who was associated with that case who also was associated with the Kathleen Savio and the Stacy Peterson investigations prior to that person retiring from ISP. That was a major WOW upon the discovery of that specific fact.
One must always remain objective for if not, you will blind yourself and be incapable of seeing the truth for what it is. LISA STEBIC’S remains WERE FOUND and there was a COVER UP. I will continue to detail precise information provided to me that reinforces what I am saying here and that Lisa Stebic was found. This article, until further notice, will be in a constant state of update with new additions. Please refer back to it daily for new updates.
Stacy Peterson location of remains
The remains found along the banks of the Des Plaines River on May 20, 2009 is THE SMOKING GUN that will lead to finding the remains of Stacy Peterson, John Spira, and one other missing person. I have been provided with very specific details on where the remains of Stacy Peterson and John Spira are, and those details are based on the location of Lisa Stebic. Upon the true identity of Lisa Stebic being confirmed, not only will we find Stacy Peterson, John Spira, and one other missing person; but other prominent, high profile, cases will be reopened and reexamined. Innocent people have been framed for murders and acts they did not commit; and that is a grave injustice, and it must be corrected and made right. All of this happening will lead to finding the remains of, and the truth in, the identities of many more of the missing. 2013 is when the TRUTH will be REVEALED.
Scowlface – McDonald’s Bandit, Thief – Johnny Boy
This “7 man” is “Scowlface“ and he is an Al Capone-like individual but he’s a COP! He is “John”, “John Jr.” and he is “Johnny Boy“. However, he is UNDERCOVER and that is one of his undercover identities and not his REAL identity. I’ve already detailed all of this information, the specifics regarding this person, the killer, in prior posts here on the MISSING blog; and as I continue to update this specific article, I will link all those previous articles, describing this person, to the appropriate words in this “Lisa Stebic Found Update” article to help the reader fully understand the information that has been presented to me.
As an FYI, if you are truly interested in learning the truth, and want to know what I have been shown the past 5.5 years, you’ll have to spend time reading each and every link I provide, for that is the only way to understand the information.
Anyone who believes what they hear, thinks with their ears, and that is a very scary thing.
“When one thinks with their ears, it’s impossible to see straight or to know what is for in the process of using your ears to think, one loses contact with the mind and independent thought, resulting in the inability to think wisely thereby discarding the ability to recognize fact from fiction. Rather, “ear thinkers,” like religious faith believers, blindly believe what they are told, then pass it along becoming simple minded information repeaters based solely on what flows through their ears. Unfortunately for me, they are BAD information repeaters; and they have contributed significantly to the obstacles I’ve had to scale as these negative false impressions have made their way to authority figures investigating these cases.”
Laura Burke, March 26, 2010
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The Unlikely Jihadi
The FBI Pressured a Lonely Young Man Into a Bomb Plot. He Tried to Back Out. Now He’s Serving Life in Prison.
Screenshot: FBI surveillance footageScreenshot: FBI surveillance footage
Trevor Aaronson
September 3 2017, 1:05 p.m.
Trial and Terror
The alleged terrorist said he went along with the plot because he was afraid that FBI agents, posing as ISIS members, would kill his family.
Harlem Suarez was an unlikely jihadi.
When he was born in Cuba, Suarez had blue skin. His fragile brain had been deprived of oxygen, a tragedy his family points to in explaining his lifelong social and intellectual challenges. As a child, Suarez also suffered several significant head injuries, including being struck by a brick and falling off motorcycles without a helmet on. His parents brought him to Key West, Florida, in 2004, when he was 12 years old. He struggled in the public education system and dropped out of high school. He then took odd jobs in Key West — stocking store shelves, cleaning up restaurants, working in kitchens. Even after more than a decade in the United States, he spoke English without confidence.
In 2015, seeing reports about the Islamic State on cable news, Suarez became intrigued by the terrorist group, he explained to an FBI informant. He was 23 years old at the time and still living in Key West. He was slender and fit, with tattoos covering his chest, stomach, and arms. He wore his brown hair cropped close to his scalp, and a goatee covered the bottom of his chin.
Suarez began to identify as Muslim and gave himself an Arabic name: Almlak Alaswd, which translates to “dark angel.” He said he wanted to be part of ISIS, but he knew little about the group or its rival organizations. He thought Osama bin Laden had founded ISIS, and he admitted to an FBI informant that he didn’t know what Hamas was or how the group was different from ISIS.
Harlem Suarez’s Facebook page.
Screenshot: Facebook
Suarez created a Facebook profile and began posting ISIS propaganda and videos. He seemed to be searching for ISIS members in his ignorant attempt to become one. Facebook had already taken down four of Suarez’s previous profiles for improper content; each time, Suarez just created a new one and continued to post ISIS material. His online activity attracted the FBI’s attention, and an agent in Miami asked a rookie informant named Mohammed Skaik to help determine if Suarez might be a threat.
A U.S. military officer in the inactive reserves, Skaik was born in the Middle East and moved to the U.S. at age 16. He was fluent in Arabic, his first language, and he spoke English with a flawless American accent. When the FBI recruited Skaik in late 2014, he was a research assistant at a Florida medical school, and he had ambitions to study to be a doctor. The FBI offered what was essentially a part-time gig posing online as a man sympathetic to and interested in ISIS.
Following FBI instructions, Skaik sent Suarez a Facebook friend request. “Hey, brother, can you add me, please?” Skaik wrote. “I have something extremely important to communicate to you.”
Suarez accepted the friend request. On his profile, Suarez said he lived in Miami. Skaik was just north in West Palm Beach, so not knowing that Suarez was actually in Key West, the informant assumed he and Suarez were practically neighbors.
“It’s good to see someone around here that lives nearby me,” Skaik wrote on Facebook. “A word of advice: I’ve been down your alley and got my accounts taken down numerous times. I would be very careful not to post things onto my account relating to my location. Just an advice from a brother to another. I hope to get to know you.”
Suarez replied by sending Skaik his cellphone number, and they began to exchange text messages. Suarez explained that he wasn’t in Miami but was instead “more down,” referring to the Florida Keys to the south.
“I have a car,” Skaik texted. “We can go to the mosque and train together.”
“I was trying to make timers bomb,” Suarez told him.
The message startled Skaik, he later told a jury. He didn’t anticipate that Suarez would so readily disclose his attempts to a build a bomb. Skaik sent a message to his FBI handler, and Suarez quickly became a priority. Within days, Skaik was making the four-hour drive to Key West. He and Suarez first met in the parking lot of Japanese steakhouse chain Benihana. Suarez drove up on a black and white Yamaha moped. He was wearing black sunglasses and a black, long-sleeve, button-down shirt. “How you doing?” Suarez said, greeting Skaik. Still seated on his moped, Suarez gave the informant a hug. “You really are driving a moped,” Skaik said with surprise.
He and Skaik walked to a wooded area near the Key West airport. Once they were in a secluded spot, Suarez opened his bag and showed off his equipment. He had two body armor vests. He had a handgun. “I show you one of these, brother,” he told Skaik, who secretly videotaped the encounter. “I’ve been getting ready, boy. This shit cost a lot of money.” He then pulled out an AR-15 assault rifle.
Suarez’s small arsenal seemed to confirm the FBI’s initial concerns. But there were also early indications that Suarez might have been more of an aimless big talker than a violent jihadi. He was not familiar with Dabiq, the ISIS magazine that had become essential reading for wannabe ISIS members, and he wasn’t watching ISIS propaganda videos on the dark web but instead on CNN. When the informant asked him how he communicated with people overseas, suggesting that encrypted methods would be most appropriate, Suarez was stumped and seemed to know nothing about encryption.
“Do you use, like, WhatsApp?” the FBI informant asked.
“Well, I use Facebook,” Suarez replied. “I was trying to use, um, how you call this thing — Tweeter?”
“Twitter,” Skaik corrected.
Suarez admitted that he didn’t have a plan of attack, and he also was under the impression that ISIS members had been flowing into the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border by the hundreds with the help of drug cartels. “We ain’t alone, you know?” he told Skaik with authority. “But it’s, it’s hard to find another of us, like — I don’t know why.”
Suarez’s research skills left a lot to be desired. He told the informant there wasn’t a mosque in Key West. (There was one, about 5 miles from his apartment.) And he seemed to know little about Islam. (“I heard that you cannot, you cannot, um, eat pork, right?” he asked Skaik.)
In this photo taken on Monday, July 27, 2015, federal agents and Key West Police gather in a restaurant parking lot in Key West, Fla.
Photo: Rob O’Neal/The Key West Citizen/AP
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI’s top priority has been to stop attacks in the U.S. before they occur. The bureau’s primary tool has been a policy of preemption, with undercover agents and informants looking for would-be terrorists before they have the opportunity to strike. Sting operations, in which agents or informants lead targets right up to the brink of a supposed attack and then arrest them, are the hallmarks of the FBI’s preemption policy. Since September 2001, nearly 300 people have been arrested and indicted following terrorism stings in which the FBI provided the means and opportunity necessary for the terrorist plot. A 2014 Human Rights Watch report found that many of these cases resulted in prosecutions against “individuals who perhaps would never have participated in a terrorist act on their own initiative.”
Following that report, as ISIS gained territory in the Middle East and began to distribute its propaganda widely over the internet and with a greater level of sophistication than Al Qaeda had exhibited, the FBI in 2015 refocused much of its counterterrorism resources inside the U.S. on ISIS — on so-called lone wolves who, inspired by ISIS propaganda, move forward with attacks on their own. FBI officials point to Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub in June 2016, as an example of a successful ISIS lone wolf. To date, 66 ISIS sympathizers have been arrested following FBI stings, some for plotting attacks like Mateen’s and others for conspiring to travel to Syria to join the ranks of ISIS proper.
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Suarez presented a conundrum for the FBI. He said he wanted to join ISIS, even though his understanding of the group and its religion was rudimentary. He was actively looking for likeminded people, even though he admitted he wasn’t finding any. He had body armor vests, even though he didn’t have the armored plates that slip inside. He had weapons, including an assault rifle, even though he admitted he didn’t have much ammunition.
“What would you do in a situation like that?” said Peter Ahearn, a retired FBI special agent who headed the field office in Buffalo, New York. “Would you want to be the agent who let this guy go, and then you find out later that he killed people in some attack?”
It’s a valid question. But as the FBI aggressively investigated Suarez, the government’s case turned on its head, with Suarez quickly transforming from the potential hunter into the very real hunted.
Skaik introduced the young man to two undercover agents who played the parts of hardened ISIS members. One claimed to be military-trained; the other said he was a professional bomb maker. Suarez, who realized too late that he was playing with fire in exploring his naive curiosity about ISIS, tried to back out in passive ways, the FBI’s evidence showed. He didn’t return calls and was consistently hard to reach. When the FBI agents asked for money to build a bomb, Suarez claimed to be broke, though he would later say he had $4,000 in the bank. Instead of participating in a bomb plot on the Fourth of July holiday, as he’d discussed with undercover agents, Suarez dodged their calls and instead went out drinking in Key West.
But Suarez was worried about consequences. Skaik knew where Suarez and his parents lived, and Suarez had no reason to doubt these men were from the murderous group he’d been hearing about on cable news. He didn’t know how to get out of the situation he’d created. “I was worried about my parents’ life,” Suarez later told a jury. Suarez said he had concocted a plan to protect himself and his family. If these ISIS guys wanted him to plant a bomb, he’d take that bomb to an isolated beach and detonate it. No one would die; no one would get hurt. He’d fulfill his obligation and protect his family. But it didn’t work out that way.
Over a period of about two weeks, Suarez and Skaik spoke by phone a half-dozen times after meeting in person in Key West. Their rough plan was to film a video for ISIS, post it online, and then launch some sort of bomb attack on the Fourth of July. Skaik said he had an ISIS contact who could provide the bomb.
But while Suarez never outright rebuffed Skaik’s prodding to make a video and move forward with an attack, he was much more concerned about grinding out his day-to-day existence. “I’m kind of like getting stressed out because no job, and bills, bills, they’re still coming and coming,” Suarez told Skaik. Suarez was so hard up that he’d fenced his assault rifle, which he owned legally, to a pawnshop. Suarez was apologetic, because he and Skaik had discussed how he’d hold the AR assault rifle in the ISIS video they were to make. But the hiccup didn’t concern the FBI informant.
Audio: FBI surveillance tape
“Well, that’s OK,” Skaik said. “Then you can, I mean, you can … hold my rifle then. It’s not a big deal.”
In FBI stings, informants often develop close relationships with their targets, either as father figures or close friends. Suarez’s conversations with Skaik suggested the Key West man was lonely, heartbroken, and had few friends. He confided in Skaik that he and his girlfriend had recently broken up after he’d suggested that they have a threesome with her female friend. “She told me that she’s not like that kinda type of (sic) girl,” Suarez told him. He later heard that his ex-girlfriend was in another relationship. “I should not care, ’cause, you know, we wasn’t together, but like, you know, I really, like, love her, you know what I’m saying?”
Skaik responded by lavishing Suarez with praise. He told Suarez that he wanted to join ISIS and always figured he’d have to travel to Syria to do it. Until he’d met Suarez, he said, he’d never imagined he could be an ISIS member here in the United States.
“When I met you, I knew there was something about you,” Skaik told Suarez by phone. “You know, like, I knew that I don’t have to go overseas; I knew you were the real deal, you know, like, I was like, ‘This guy, he’s a leader, he’s a fantastic leader.’ I think you are, man.”
Suarez was similarly effusive about their bromance. “It’s not just me; it’s me and you, you know. We are the brain, and we’re gonna be the bosses, you know; it’s me and you together, you know. You know what I’m saying, like, I cannot do this without you either, you know?”
Knights Inn in Homestead, Fla., where Harlem Suarez met the FBI’s informant to make an ISIS propaganda video.
Photo: Google Street View
On May 23, 2015, Suarez and Skaik met at a Knights Inn hotel in Homestead, just south of Miami. Skaik brought the video camera. As they were setting up, Skaik asked Suarez what his latest thoughts were about their Fourth of July bombing plans. As usual, Suarez’s ideas were half-baked.
“So are we gonna do anything in Key West? Like on the Fourth of July? Is there a lot stuff that goes on over there?” Skaik asked.
“We cannot do — we must do it, like, around here. Homestead.”
“Homestead?” Skaik asked, surprised.
“Yeah, close in the, you know, middle, middle,” Suarez answered.
“Gotcha. What’s in Homestead?”
“I don’t know,” Suarez admitted.
For the video, Suarez dressed in all black and wore a ski mask that covered everything but his eyes. He also wore one of his body armor vests (he still didn’t have the armored plates) and a black and yellow scarf around his neck. Sitting on the floor of the hotel room, a white wall behind him, Suarez read from a rough script that he and Skaik had come up with over lunch at Burger King. Skaik aimed the video camera.
“All right, let’s, let’s try to do one without the paper,” Suarez said, referring to the script.
“OK,” Skaik said.
“Let’s see how, how it goes.”
Suarez then cleared his throat and Skaik began the countdown: “Three, two, one —”
The FBI assisted Harlem Suarez in making a jihadi video. Video: FBI surveillance footage
“I call to all my brothers worldwide to come to USA soil,” Suarez said, beginning his monologue. “Brought your weapons, AK, grenades, bring all your tanks. Shit, hold on. Fuck.”
“OK, you wanna redo it?” Skaik asked.
“Yeah,” Suarez said.
Skaik started the countdown again: “Three, two, one —”
“I call to all my brothers in the worldwide,” Suarez said. “Stand up for our right, our Muslims’ right. Brought your AK and shoot everyone against us. This is the time to fight for the caliphate and create the entire worldwide caliphate.” Suarez paused. “Well?” he asked.
“Good. All right, we recorded this one,” Skaik said. “That’s perfect.”
The FBI had their jihadi video. Now agents needed a bomb plot.
On June 3, 2015, Skaik traveled again to Key West, this time with his supposed ISIS associate, an FBI agent who went by the name Sharif. A decorated soldier who had received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his service in Iraq, Sharif had been working undercover for the FBI for about three years. His real name has not been disclosed.
Skaik and Sharif picked up Suarez, and together they went to Denny’s for lunch. Suarez seemed perplexed by Sharif. A black man with an American accent who was not only Muslim, but a member of ISIS? It didn’t make sense to him.
“But wait, wait, wait, you’re American?” Suarez asked him.
“Yeah,” Sharif answered.
“Oh, for real?”
Sharif provided his cover story: He was born in the United States, but his father taught him Arabic. He then moved overseas with his family and spent nearly two years in the Middle East before joining the U.S. Army, where he specialized in supplies and logistics.
Suarez and Sharif exchanged small talk. Suarez admitted that he didn’t speak “the Muslim language,” but that he understood what ISIS was standing for and he wanted to be part of the movement.
“I like you, brother,” Sharif told Suarez.
“Thank you,” Suarez replied.
“I told you he’s, uh, very, very smart guy, and, you know, and a great leader too,” Skaik said.
“Very smart, very smart,” Sharif followed.
Suarez insisted to Skaik and Sharif that he wanted to learn how to make bombs; he needed someone to teach him. But the FBI consistently steered him toward a plan in which they’d provide the bomb. “It’s like someone cooking, you know?” Skaik told him over lunch. “Like, I can tell you how to make that pasta, but when you make it, it tastes like shit!”
Even as they were directing Suarez, Skaik and Sharif spoke to him as if he were the leader. “Sheikh, I’m not trying to question your leadership,” Sharif said. Sharif told him that he had a contact who could build a bomb; Suarez just needed to kick in a little bit of money for the materials. “I mean realistically, how much money do you think you have to put toward this, to get them started on this?” Sharif asked him.
“Right now, I don’t have enough,” Suarez said.
“You don’t have, uh — I’m sorry, what’d you say?”
“I don’t have, like — I’m kinda short.”
Suarez explained that not only did he not have money, but he also didn’t have any of his guns. He’d pawned them for cash. Nevertheless, he seemed to be living in a wandering fantasy, constantly talking of different targets, from bombing a police cruiser to taking the bomb to a pool, despite having no clear means to launch any such attack. It appeared to frustrate the undercover FBI agent.
“Bro, brother, you, you said, like, cop car, you said open places, you said —” Sharif said, his voice terse.
“No, I know, I know, but uh —” Suarez replied, stumbling over his words.
“When I leave here, you tell me exactly what you want, what you want to do, when you want to do it, how many, how big, how little. I go talk to the brothers.”
Harlem Suarez’s bedroom.
Photo: FBI
Two days later, Skaik called Suarez. He said he saw Sharif at the mosque and his ISIS contact had agreed to make a bomb for Suarez. He also agreed to teach Suarez how to make a bomb after he’d planted the first one, Skaik explained, but he didn’t have many details. “I’m just a middleman,” Skaik said.
“What do you mean?” Suarez asked him. “You’re my partner.”
Skaik laughed uncomfortably.
“You’re my right hand,” Suarez added.
The FBI sting was moving along. But then, out of nowhere, Suarez dropped out of contact for 21 days. He didn’t return calls or respond to text messages.
On June 30, 2015, Suarez finally called Skaik. “I’ve been trying to get a hold of you, man,” Skaik told him. “Like, have you been getting my text messages at all?”
Suarez’s explanation for losing contact was convoluted. His phone’s screen had cracked. He was working a lot. But Skaik moved quickly to endear himself to the target again. “I just miss you,” the informant told Suarez. He explained that he’d stalled Sharif; everything was still fine to move forward. But if Suarez indeed wanted to move forward with the attack, he was showing little initiative. The Fourth of July holiday, when he had talked of planting a bomb, had come and gone. A week later, on July 11, 2015, Suarez called Skaik again and gave him a new phone number on which he could be reached. Sharif called him a couple of days after that and scolded him for being unresponsive.
“I went back to the brothers, and I spoke on your behalf, and then I don’t hear from you guys for over a month,” Sharif said. “Listen to me, brother, these guys that I speak to for you are serious guys.”
Suarez was in his bedroom, where a large, wooden four-poster bed was at the center. A Sony flat-screen television was on one wall, next to the door. Behind the door, visible when it was closed, hung an American flag. A toy helicopter rested on a tall dresser. Suarez’s collection of hats, their bills unbent, was on one of the walls. When Sharif called, Suarez’s mother was in the other room. He didn’t want her to hear, so he turned up the volume on the television, which also made it difficult for the undercover FBI agent to hear.
“Hey, turn the TV down some; it’s too loud,” Sharif told him.
“Hold on, hold on, hold on,” Suarez said, complying. “Go ahead.”
“These guys I spoke to for you are serious guys, all right?” Sharif explained. “If you and Mohammed, if you guys are not serious Islamic State brothers, then I don’t know why you guys are bothering me and playing games with me.”
Sharif gave Suarez an assignment. If he wanted to move forward, he needed to purchase a prepaid phone and be reachable at all times on that phone. Suarez did as he was told, but he only paid for a few minutes — barely enough time to hold conversations with Sharif and Skaik. But no matter. The FBI sent Skaik down to Key West again on July 19, 2015, and he delivered a new phone with more than enough minutes to remedy the FBI’s communication problems. In return, Suarez gave Skaik a backpack, nails, his old prepaid phone, and $100 — the items he was instructed to provide for the bomb.
“The video’s almost ready,” Skaik told Suarez. “Like, I put the music, I put the subtitles. It’s pretty fucking cool.”
Suarez would not see Skaik again for more than a year, when the informant arrived in U.S. District Court in Key West to testify against him. Skaik was paid $90,000 for his work with the FBI during this period.
Suarez received a phone call from his supposed bomb maker on July 24, 2015, but only after he’d failed to answer a number of calls from him. The bomb maker said his name was Omar, and he wasn’t happy about having to call so many times. “When I call you from this point on, I expect you to … pick up my phone call,” he said.
Unbeknownst to Suarez, Omar was an inspector with the U.S. Department of Justice. He was born in India, but he spoke perfect American English. His real name has not been revealed. Omar kept the conversation brief and maintained his authority throughout, at times barking orders at Suarez.
“I will be in Key West with your package ready to go for you in Key West on Monday between 10:30 and 11:00. I will call you when I’m —”
“But I’m, uh —” Suarez said, starting to interrupt but seeming to have no argument to make.
“Do not be late,” Omar said. “I’m gonna tell you again: do not be late. When I call you, make sure you are there on time. Do you understand?”
“Yes, yes,” Suarez replied.
Video: FBI surveillance footage
Three days later, Omar drove to Key West. A hefty man who wore a blue and black patterned button-down shirt, Omar parked in the lot of an Italian restaurant next to Benihana, where Suarez had first met the FBI’s informant. Suarez hopped in the passenger seat of Omar’s car. Suarez was dressed in a gray hoodie and gray and purple hat. He had a red beach towel wrapped around his neck.
Omar handed Suarez the fake bomb. It was in the backpack Suarez had provided. The nails he’d given Skaik were attached to the side of the bomb. The cellphone he’d provided was wired to the bomb as the trigger mechanism. Omar showed him how to power on the bomb and then how to trigger it by calling the number.
“That’s it, brother,” Omar told him. “And then you just wanna turn it off right over here. Turn off that switch. There you go. Pretty simple, right? And power it all the way down. There you go. Do you have any questions?”
“No,” Suarez answered.
“How do you feel?” Omar asked.
“I’m feelin’ good.”
“Kinda exciting,” Suarez added.
As Suarez exited Omar’s car with the fake bomb wrapped inside his red beach towel, FBI agents arrested him. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami charged Suarez with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. “There is no room for failure when it comes to investigating the potential use of a weapon of mass destruction,” FBI Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro said in a prepared statement announcing Suarez’s arrest.
The parking lot where FBI agents arrested Harlem Suarez. The fake bomb he was given rests on the ground.
The odds were stacked against Suarez from the start. The Justice Department has a perfect record of conviction in ISIS cases. Prosecutors offered Suarez a plea deal that would have resulted in a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Both Suarez and his lawyer, Richard F. Della Fera, were open to the plea deal, fearing that he might be sentenced to life in prison if convicted at trial.
A neuropsychologist who examined Suarez after his arrest found him to be naive, with a tendency to acquiesce to others. In Della Fera’s view, Suarez’s acquiescence made him easy prey for the forceful undercover FBI agents. But it also factored into his decision to plead out. In May 2016, Suarez’s mother called him in jail. He told his mother he believed it was impossible to win the case, but she steamrolled over his instinct to plead guilty, telling him not to think that way and instead to have faith in God. “Although he is in his mid-20s, defendant’s mother treats him like a child,” Della Fera wrote in a court filing.
At his trial, Suarez attempted to explain away his interactions with the FBI by describing how he wanted to learn more about ISIS, which he discovered by watching CNN, but did not know what to do when he found himself in too deep with Sharif and Omar. “I wanted to have a conversation so that I could learn how these people are, what these people think, and how these people act,” Suarez said.
He testified that, after not returning Skaik’s calls, he felt threatened by Sharif’s demands that he get a phone and be responsive. “In a very strong manner, and to me it was a very threatening manner because in my mind they were people from the — they were people from the Islamic group,” Suarez said.
“Could you describe for us why you agreed to meet with Omar on July 27?” Della Fera asked Suarez, referring to do the day he collected the fake bomb.
“I saw that I had no other choice but to keep on doing what they were telling me to do, since I had been trying for many times to get out of that circle, giving them excuses, but they would make me go back, and I had no other choice but to go to that place.”
The jury didn’t accept Suarez’s excuses and convicted him on February 1. U.S. District Court Judge Jose E. Martinez, a former prosecutor who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush, gave Suarez the maximum punishment: life in prison.
Suarez’s sentence is indicative of the increasingly harsh punishment ISIS defendants caught up in FBI stings are now facing in federal courts. While federal judges rarely gave life sentences to sting targets allegedly affiliated with Al Qaeda and other groups — the Fort Dix Five being a notable exception — Suarez is one of two ISIS defendants to receive a life sentence in the last year.
In each of these ISIS cases, the other being Justin Nojan Sullivan, the FBI provided the weapons in the supposed plots. Since Suarez was arrested after taking custody of the fake bomb, there’s no way of knowing with certainty what he would have done with it.
During Suarez’s testimony, Della Fera asked him what he planned to do with the bomb the FBI provided.
“The only thing that I thought was to take it to a place where there were no people and detonate it there,” Suarez answered.
“Did you have a place in mind where you might be able to accomplish that?”
“Big Coppitt,” Suarez said, referring to an island next to Key West.
“And is that a crowded area, or is that an isolated area?” Della Fera asked.
“Isolated.”
Correction: September 3, 2017
A previous version of this article stated that a third ISIS defendant, Munir Abdulkader, had been sentenced to life in prison. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison plus life supervision.
Top photo: The FBI assisted Harlem Suarez in making a jihadi video.
The U.S. government has prosecuted more than 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never committed an act of violence.
Trevor Aaronson[email protected]trevoraaronson.com@trevoraaronson
so we have to pay for his prison for life for this bumbling entrapped fool? with a stupid mother
I have been following some of the Intercept’s reporting on various “extremists” who were then lead into plots by the FBI. I did not make it all the way through this one, but it seems pretty obvious that Suarez was actively looking for a way to harm Americans. During his first meeting with the FBI informant, he brought body armor, a handgun and a rifle. He talked about how much he had invested in that gear. The meet was setup in the first place because he wanted to figure out how to build timed bombs.
This case is almost a night and day difference from the Mohamed Osman Mohamud case in Portland. In that case. Mohamed was seemingly half heartedly interested in “jihad” and had even stopped trying to make contact with extremists. The FBI reached out to him and more less recruited him for a bomb plot that they came up with. He went along with it in the end, but it is questionable whether or not he would have gotten there on his own.
Suarez on the other hand was already there. He had weapons, body armor and was looking for knowledge on how to make bombs.
As much as I am critical of the FBI’s questionable tactics and track record of pushing marginal people to the point where they convict themselves, in this case, I think they did a good job of identifying and neutralizing an individual who posed a real threat to the community he lived in.
Carl David
How can you think the FBI “did a good job” without reading the full article? Did you even get through half of it before coming to your conclusion?
Andrea Dworkins Daughter
The rally sad part of the image you used for the story is how his vest is deliberately devoid of any of the attachments that usually accompany such vests.
The velcro shoulld have: flash bags, a body camera; clips and caribiners, etc.
These cases are classic fascist propaganda-“hey look at this loser-he is not “invested” with any actual capacity, power, or capability, which is why the good guys’ have wired him up.”
Se how that works in a ‘feminist society?” Good men all wear real tax dollar funded, state sanctioned explosive devices; bad men have nothing.
Charles Andrea Dworkins Daughter
September 6 2017, 5:09 a.m.
Since the CIA/NSA/FBI can’t find the REAL criminals, thet will settle for anything/anybody that will make them look like they are doing their job.
Watch:http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/63954/Taxi_To_The_Dark_Side_BBC_Full_Length_Documentary/
cp dukes greg
September 9 2017, 11:02 p.m.
It certainky seems to be the FBI’s MO.
This guy probably has an intellectual disability and the FBI spent their time entrapping him instead of referring him to someone that could help him turn his life around. That’s America for you.
September 5 2017, 12:55 a.m.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
So let me get this straight, instead of getting this kid the mental help and counseling he clearly needed, we spent countless man hours forcing him into a bomb plot so we could spent countless more hours prosecuting him for a crime he probably would have never committed? Amazing
Elaine Sonu
Precisely. These young men that are routinely targeted are psychologically vulnerable to manipulation. What the FBI are doing is nothing short of abuse. These kids need mental help, not life sentences!
Andrea Dworkins Daughter Elaine
Elaine-
So you are saying that some individuals are “targeted” meaning that they are “targeted individuals?”
If only his girlfriend had a 3some these could have all been avoided..
Shawn Rech
This is a double-edged sword. He was somewhat lead, and later somewhat entrapped, but he placed himself in a position to be easily manipulated by real terrorist organizations. It’s not hard to imagine him being used to hurt innocent people. So while this is a tragedy for this young man, this sort of law enforcement work surely protects the public. He’d be a very good candidate for a long-term supervision rather than incarceration. Life in prison is stupid and wasteful.
HippoDave Shawn Rech
I guess it might be “double-edged”, but the problem is the FBI choosing legal remedies over referrals to health services.
That is: If instead of Muslims the orders were to entrap schizophrenics into bomb plots, that would also have led to a lot of convictions after they were properly led by their mentally damaged nose. I don’t blame schizos for “being in a position” to be influenced so do harm, if they wouldn’t on their own. And I’ve met a lot of them; and some are killers. But most won’t cause harm unless triggered.
That is: Instead of the FBI doing this huge program, maybe instead NIH should, so as to help some people in danger of turning violent due to wild thoughts (which they likely would never do on their own).
Law enforcement in this case doesn’t work to protect the public, it works to get convictions.
Finally: If the FBI’s goal was protecting the public, then they’d have 100,000 or more informants in every bar in the US to prevent and arrest anyone drunk who got in their car. Or even taking months to suggest a particular person should drink then drive. Drunk drivers kill over 10,000 Americans a year. Islamic terrorists kill less then a dozen a year on average. The priority OBVIOUSLY isn’t protecting the public from criminal behavior.
This focus is either cravenly political or naively paranoid.
willow Shawn Rech
By the same token, anyone below an IQ of 80 could be easily manipulated/groomed into posing a danger to themselves or others. That would be the next generation of kids who have permanent brain damage from drinking lead tainted drinking water in Michigan.
I find it interesting that left wing web sites support kids like this who are actively trying to kill us as victims of abuse by federal law enforcement but who alternatively absolutely support the feds when they over reach against homesteaders and farmers.
Sonu Bob
Never seen left-wing sites support “feds” when they over reach against homesteaders and farmers. Have literally no idea what you’re talking about
OS Sonu
Does waving your ignorance around usually work out for you?
Cliven Bundy is the highest profile instance Bob is referring to – Bundy is an asshole – but lower profiles cases haven’t had such distasteful actors.
Bob isn’t wrong – Anyone paying attention wouldn’t ever celebrate the FBI – they’re creating terrorism to claim they’re stopping terrorism – they’re running child porn sites to stop child porn sites – I’m sure they’re creating meth to stop meth – etc etc.
They’re pretty much not good guys. So it is funny to see people on the left and right celebrate certain actions – despite the overwhelming evidence these aren’t people you want in power.
Roch Bob
Birds cannot fly without a left wing. Your Hearst IS on your left side ;-)
Coley Bob
Did you read the whole article, actively read it? I’m curious if your opinion about this kid would be any different if it was shared that he’s been diagnosed developmentally disabled. I don’t read left wing websites and admittedly don’t know much, if anything, about governmental overreach in the farming areas. Though I do think there’s a love/hate relationship with government entities in that we all love some things they do while disliking others. But I am genuinely curious about your furthering opinion.
CFRwill Fall
FBI is good at setting people up for their benefit. Oklahoma City Murrah Building? That building was blown from the inside, outward. FBI knew that information. Yet, two persons were to blame, for three outside bombs and the blasts from the inside! FBI has done too many criminal activities to be trusted.
Uncle Bob CFRwill Fall
..and then there’s a couple side stories, one story about the student journalist at SMU, Michelle Rauch who interviewed Timothy McVeigh for 20 minutes during the Standoff at Waco. He was selling bumper stickers …” Fear the Government that Fears Your Gun, …Politicians Love Gun Control.”..her court testimony is on the internet..
Now the other story (one of the lesser of many far fetched versions), about Chandra Levy; shortly before her disappearance, she was working for the Bureau of Prisions during the time Timothy McVeigh was awaiting execution. She was the liaison between the media and the Bureau, arranging press conferences and possible seats at the execution. She also compiled press briefings and summaries for the Bureau staff.
No telling what type of security clearance Chandra had, but She had access to and was searching bureau records, presumably in conjunction with information found on the Internet.
Whether she had access to DOJ files, or mistakenly saw something, overheard something, or read something about McVeigh’s history, it is uncertain; but one thing is for sure, what ever it was, as she did a web search on McVeigh’s name..she most likely came across some very interesting unexplained coincidences..or Not!
Elizabeth Blakley
I wonder how many people they’ve convicted are similar to him.
I think it’s good that guy is getting his food and accommodation in jail. As such he was having a hard time outside, and was a sitting duck for all the generally crooked jihadi “brothers” who would have eventually used him as a suicide bomber. At least he is safe now.
Uncle Bob General Hercules
Sure, and in prison he’ll meet lots of interesting Cornell West types of characters and Noam Chomskys nobody has ever heard of..so much wisdom locked up..like the old ad , a mind is a terrible thing to waste
This sh!t is straight out of the Mossad playbook.
And certainly, the Anti Defamation League sending all those American police chiefs and SWAT teams and FBI agents to special training in Tel Aviv whorehouses certainly can’t be helping.
Mr. Omidyar?- Pierre-PIERRE?!! Are you listening?
Where were you when your nefarious Pal’s in the ADL were spying on America as if they were the LEIU? (now there’s a story, Brutus. Get on that)
[sounds of dagger in the back. Gurgling noises. Maybe a fang pi]
Et Tu, LEIU???
In China they stomp on rats-in America they promote them, and give them medals. Gold plated ones of course, cuz….oh never mind….
America’s Secret Police: http://projectcensored.org/6-americas-secret-police-network/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html?mcubz=0
Roch Andrea Dworkins Daughter
How were you privileged to get Mossad book?
OT. Walter Becker, steely dan…
taking a moment here in remembrance
wonderful tribute here, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/postscript-walter-becker-of-steely-dan
with the hope that America will someday be capable of having the freedom that produces people bands and music like that contrary to my serious doubts.
O/T – The commenting system at TI is broken. It’s never been that good (that’s not what I mean) but currently it doesn’t work as intended.
john K. Jose
No longer is information shared on these blogs, just becoming a trollers paradise. It only takes a jackass to kick down the barn.
The guy has a pic of the Virgin Mary above his bed.. wow.
Wnt Phil Ferro
That is definitely a Mommy designed bedroom and he might not want her to know he’s a jihadist. However, the bit about going drinking when he’s supposed to be planning Islamic terrorism makes a person wonder if he took the whole “taqiya” thing extra seriously. :) One of the many weird aspects of the jihadist idea though is that they say you are forgiven for all sins, including more or less not being a Muslim…
Uncle Bob Wnt
So you wanna be the pot or the kettle this time?..
The recipe for seduction in the US is quite simple.
Impoverish people.
Deny them dignity and purpose.
Do depraved things to other populations to stir resentment.
Engage in propaganda and lies to cultivate a corral.
Offer them a rewarding opportunity of fulfillment.
Close the gates.
oops – that’s also how the US turns american youth into military soldiers.
And they still cant find the murderer of Seth Rich – how lame.
Typingperson
So the FBI goes after this clueless kid at great effort and expense–pays $90K to informant plus personnel time to try and manufacture an ISIS terrorist–while USA’s CIA under Obama, and Clinton as SoS, armed and funded thousands of real ISIS terrorists in Syria.
CIA went to great effort and expense to run arms from Benghazi to ISIS jihadists in Syria.
I don’t get it.
photosymbiosis Typingperson
Well, could it be that the one (FBI program) provides a justification for a repressive domestic surveillance / police state; while the other (CIA program) provides a justification for regime change and foreign military intervention? This implies a degree of coordinated planning, however, that is difficult to believe – these jackasses only create chaos, as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria demonstrate.
Thus, more likely, it seems that the imperial project, rather like the old Soviet Union, has multiple internal bureaucracies that often are in conflict with one another – as when the CIA-backed jihadists out of southern and northern Syria (trained in Jordan and Turkey, respectively) were fighting with the Pentagon-backed Kurds in eastern Syria? (The FBI being an entirely separate bureacratic power center). If you read histories of the internal conflicts and power struggles in the massive Soviet Union bureaucracy, the similarities are remarkable. . . For example, who is being referred to in this quote?
Internal decay was accompanied by an increasing proportion of resources devoted to the military–industrial complex, with little benefit for the rest of the economy.
Sufi Muslim
ARLEM SUAREZ WAS an unlikely jihadi.
A true Jihadi is one who carries out Jihad.
The word, Jihad, means striving or exerting.
The true Jihad is against one’s own lower self — striving to groom one’s self so that it reflects the higher qualities of generosity, love, peace, compassion, forgiveness, not doing unto others what one doesn’t want done unto one, humility, lack of desire for power and control, etc.
I love to rag on the FBI, I really do. But this ain’t CISPES! I mean, you tell me this guy had body armor, an AR-15 (a fancy toy from the mass media that even the gun nuts I know don’t spend their money on), he says he’s trying to build a bomb, he’s running ISIS propaganda on Facebook … what the hell were they *supposed* to do?
Now I’m not saying I wouldn’t sign on for some kind of libertarian crusade here. We all ought by any sane legal interpretation to have the right to build and carry around bombs and other homemade firearms – Second Amendment! But if I were going to start on that, I’d start on that poor crazy nerd who got caught trying to blow up a statue ( http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/HPD-HFD-FBI-on-scene-overnight-at-Rice-11946918.php ). I like nerds, and they’re not exceptionally dangerous. Hit him with a vandalism charge, leave him to go design a better rocket engine the way people like him usually did in his grandfather’s generation.
But people who get guns and talk terror and run around doing whatever people tell them to *ARE* dangerous. I see no reason why this guy should get some kind of special free pass for being both stupid and reckless, if he does something that everyone else would get sent to jail over. Either legalize the underlying conduct (see above) or don’t ask for special favors.
Underlying fundamental issue: there’s no real difference between evil, stupidity, mental illness. It’s all just error. We have prisons that are cruel and unnecessarily destructive, that don’t try to rehabilitate, because we don’t even dare to rehabilitate the *poor*, or look after their well being. If the poor were guaranteed a basic income then prisons would be like being poor with extra restrictions, and fear wouldn’t be needed to make them seem worse than being poor and “free”. The disease of making capitalism a religion has left this world too eager to hurt everything at the bottom. Markets have a place, but that place should be inferior to the life, health, and education of all the broken people, however they are broken.
Jose Wnt
But people who get guns and talk terror and run around doing whatever people tell them to *ARE* dangerous.
Sure. Not everyone who is dangerous belongs in prison, however. There are other recourses. I’m pretty sure what the FBI is doing is not the right way to go about it.
Wnt Jose
I’m definitely for alternatives to prison all around. For example, I think that despite claims to the contrary, there has been almost no effort to cure pedophiles (seriously, look up publications about pedophiles on PubMed – practically nothing, and not one paper where they actually used legal Nevada hookers to do even the most obvious sort of experiments if they were serious about it). Even if you can’t cure pedophilia, you could do internal exile and put child molesters someplace far from children but otherwise free to live their lives. And that’s a relatively hard case – war on drugs, women screwing German shepherds, golfers whacking ducks with clubs, teenagers who blow up mailboxes with fireworks, there’s a whole lot of stuff there was never any conceivable reason to involve prisons with from the beginning. But if there’s a time for prison, it might be when the jihadist tries to blow people up!
That said, I don’t like that the FBI arrested him the minute he got the bomb. As I said above, I don’t even agree that explosives should be illegal, and even if I did, how do we know he wouldn’t have done the thing he claims he would have done? But — that’s the law they had on the books they were going by, so I can’t truly blame the *FBI* per se for that, especially not when their intent was to put a jihadist behind bars.
Gladio Wnt
i agree with you mostly.
But i will take issue with no differences between evil, stupidity and mental illness.
These three conditions may look the same because they can produce similar results, by class, negative results, but evil has will, mental illness lacks will, and stupid is is befuddled between them. The US – aka bunch of stupids in charge – address only the action of the person as if it were the same for all three and thus easily skirt the responsibility of dealing with the type.
And one descriptive attribute –
If the poor were guaranteed a basic income then prisons would be like being poor with extra restrictions, and fear wouldn’t be needed to make them seem worse than being poor and “free”. The disease of making capitalism a religion has left this world too eager to hurt everything at the bottom.
What we have here AIN’T CAPITALISM.
Indeed! Markets have a place, but that place should be inferior to the life, health, and education of all the broken people, however they are broken. The criminals running the gov have been named – there are others out there – even as to naming the roles they played in WMD, the wallstreet robs mainstreet caper, 911, and Seth Rich. THE SOLUTION to making the changes you allude to require US to identify them by name and role as much as possible, name the charges, and call for their arrests and trial. Since this cannot be done by asking the very thieves, murderers, accomplices and supporters themselves, it must be done virtually on the net.
Marga Wnt
Which is why all those KKK, neo-Nazi guys should be in prison, too. They’re all actually running around armed to the teeth and shouting anti-American (Jews will not replace us!) slogans, planning hits online, but does the FBI take any of them down? Why don’t we hear about it? Instead they set up this poor dumb kid because you just got to catch those Muslims!
Wnt Marga
The FBI has caught a fair number of them in conspiracies also. Sometimes their charges there are even lamer – like talking Randy Weaver (later starring in the Ruby Ridge standoff) into sawing off two shotguns half an inch shorter than the legal limit. There is even less intent proved in making what you think is a legally permissible firearm and falling into a big gaping hole (not) in the Second Amendment than there is in taking what you think is an improvised terrorist bomb out into public with (perhaps) the intent eventually to go blow it up somewhere it won’t hurt anyone. After all, ISIS isn’t above duping a future “martyr” into carrying a bomb then setting it off remotely when they least expect it.
The main exculpatory thing I can imagine coming out in this case is if someone gets ahold of their archives and finds out *why* they didn’t decide to have this guy stage an attack. In other words, if they had him under surveillance telling someone that he didn’t think he could go through with it, and then they decided to arrest him just carrying the bomb because they knew he wouldn’t, I suspect that might cause trouble with the case.
But on the other hand, I have no idea if bozo really blew off an ISIS terror meeting in order to go out drinking. What if he managed to evade surveillance, meet with some *real* terrorists, who promptly told him not to trust those other FBI terrorists he hangs out with, and tell everyone he was out drinking? I mean, if I postulate hypotheticals I can do it all day in any direction here.
Let him die and let others what do this crime do the same too
Randall Rose
Ouch, your article has a caption that says “Click this image to experience Trial and Terror data visualization mini site.” When someone directs me to click so that I can “experience” a site, no way am I going to do it. And I don’t know why someone on the Intercept’s staff would see their role as getting readers to “experience” a site. I read news sources to check out facts and arguments and to analyze them using my own mind, not to be put into some kind of “experience” that someone has set up for me. You’ve adopted the language of the faceless marketers who manipulate people by proffering an emotionally engaging “experience”. If you stopped using their language, you’d respect the agency of the Intercept’s paid members and readers better.
Mudbone111 Randall Rose
Have you experienced Eric Prince’s Blackwater site ?
Hellava businessman !!!
Steve Big Randall Rose
They use the word ‘experience’ because the page is somewhat interactive, and words like ‘view’, or ‘read’ don’t apply. If you’d clicked you might have realised, but instead you chose to rant about something you had no experience of.
Randall Rose Steve Big
I’ve certainly viewed interactive pages before, so you’re wrong about what “view” means. Words’ meanings aren’t totally rigid. Still, asking people to “experience” something tends to put relatively more emphasis on passive intake, and invites less critical thinking, than other words like “view”, “check out”, etc. I trust a news source less when they tell me that they see themselves as designing an “experience” for me using highly emotional words like “terror”. Fortunately most of the Intercept isn’t like that.
Jeff D
Our cowardly, fascist, and/or dishonest judges and justices have eviscerated the protections that we should have against entrapment. It should be entrapment for any law enforcement to first raise the idea of committing violent acts, but that’s not how the courts have defined it. So, we get crap like this. Actually, this guy isn’t a very good example of entrapment, because he said that he wanted to make bombs. There are much worse cases where law enforcement raised the idea of violent acts first and got the entrapped people to go along, then prosecuted them.
This shit happens all the time in the drug war. Cops shouldn’t be allowed to sell drugs to entrap people, but they are. And cops also harass or pressure small time drug dealers to get them much larger amounts than what the dealers normally sell (for example, people who normally just sell to friends and friends of friends are pressured to get wholesale amounts for narcs) so they can get much bigger convictions.
Careful what you say or do, the U.S. is very far from being a free country.
stalked562
These pricks are using every technology available on civilians in an effort to groom terrorists. COINTELPRO, GangStalking and MKultra, V2K.
Agencies are using military grade RF weapons on innocent civilians.
DEW’s maim, torture and slow kill covertly.
Deep State agencies with no oversight should be dissolved.
BrightJ stalked562
Yes, thank you, dissolved immediately
Jeff D stalked562
I agree with dissolving agencies with no oversight. In fact, the oversight must be real, not just rubber-stamp BS. “Black” budgets for these jerks should also be eliminated. These are OUR tax dollars, and at the very least our elected representatives should have a right to see how the money is being spent.
I’d like to understand how informants are paid. Do they have monetary incentives to get an arrest to happen? Or are they paid for their time the same, even if it doesn’t lead to an arrest?
Arsad
This guy doenst belong in jail. he belongs in a clinic.
Levi Tate
These dry runs are important for justifying budgets and maintaining a crop of ready-to-go false flags.
If a false flag is ordered up for next month, for example, but it takes six months to nurture a patsy then it is clear why we need the FBI to populate a continuous conveyor belt of “terrorists”, even those of dubious quality.
How many more similar cases are being nurtured out there at this very moment?
Suarez was apologetic, because he and Skaik had discussed how he’d hold the AR assault rifle in the ISIS video they were to make.
I can’t help but wonder if the FBI (or CIA) has actually made one of these fake videos.
Be proud FBI. Assholes.
The FBI does important work, as quality control for ISIS, of weeding out new recruits who are too stupid to recognize an obvious trap. The FBI doesn’t get enough credit for this important service, but hopefully articles like this one will begin to redress the balance.
Everything about the war on terror has been fake since day 1. 9/11 was an inside job. It was executed to provide massive military funding and power. It ushered in the surveillance state, created DHS, put local police and first responders under the power of the federal government, etc. The increase in money and power could not have happened without 9/11 (as the study conducted by Jeb Bush& friends said).
3000 architects and engineers have put their lives and reputations on the line saying there’s a 0% chance that planes brought down those buildings (Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth). We know jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel, yet molten steel was found all over. Nanothermite was found all over the wreckage. The evidence is staggering.
These smaller problems are just the result of the bigger one. That’s where journalists should focus their efforts.
GilG Bryan
How have these people put there lives on the line? Please show a thread of evidence that any of these people lives have been in danger. On the other hand there are stories about truthers harassing the crap out of regular citizens who were first hand witnesses for telling what they saw when it didn’t conform to what the truthers claim.
The evidence is far from staggering. 3000 architects and engineers believe it was an inside job 3,000,000 do not. The police and first responders are not under the control of the federal government. The proposed military budget went up this year while everything else was cut with out any terrorist attacks being committed.
Want to know who got Rich from 9/11? Alex Jones.
BrightJ GilG
Get a clue dude. Learn about the facts. Like the fact that NIST avoided explaining the collapse of WTC 1 and 2, ending analysis at collapse initiation. Do you know why? Because they defied fundamental laws of physics. You can not find one example of an expierment where a smaller section destroys a much larger undamaged section of same building and doing so WHILE CONSTANTLY ACCELERATING. If you can not get that through your head, you are an idiot. Furthermore, WTC 7, which fell at free fall for over 100 stories was address by NIST. Unfortunately, when they released their conclusions they omitted key structural components that would have otherwise prevented exactly what they claim to have happened. A couple years later through an FOIA, the original architectural drawlings were obtained, that is how we know they omitted them. There is a peer-reviewed jounrnal finding nano-thermite in dust. Yes, nano- thermite is a smaller, dirtier, and quiter bomb says the military. Coming out this month, U of Alaska findings that WTC 7 was not brought down by fire. And I could go on and on, But let me guess, you know none of the shit I discussed? Because you just assume there is no evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. Guess what, you are wrong as shit.
As far as your 3,000,000, where are they? Are they defending the physics behind 9/11? Nope. Find me a group of architects and engineers willing to defend against the architects and engineers for 9/11 truth.
GilG BrightJ
I am not a physicist. If you can cite a peer reviewed analysis that proves the buildings coming down due to the crash defy the laws of physics cite it. As for the 3,000,000 they work in their field. They dont make their living promoting ct like Gage does, who has no credentials in physics. I have read pieces by actual Phd physicists disputing some of the science claimed by the truthers. What are your credentials?
Uncle Bud GilG
Yer Uncle Larry must be so proud of you for sticking up for him ..After all that he’s been through..spending $14,000,000 of his hard earned money to lease the WTC, only to see it totally destroyed 274 days later..oh my goodness..it’s a good thing the lease agreement gave him the rights to rebuild on the property if the WTC was destroyed..hunh?!..
I’m sure you’re just as upset as he is at those mean, greedy insurance companies, hunh? After all, they only wanted to pay him a maximum of $4,550,000,000 for his loss..
Even though 2 airliners hit two different buildings at two different times..making them two separate occurrences , your poor Uncle Larry asked for $3,550,000,000 for each occurance for a total of $7,100,000,000..
Uh, he lost his law suit against the airlines whose airliners hit his building also..He wanted them to pay him $3,500,000,000 each..
Ahh, but it all worked out in the end..didn’t it though?..the United States Congress approved $8 billion in tax-exempt Liberty Bonds to fund development in the private sector at lower-than-market interest rates.
But, uh..$3.4 billion remained unallocated in March 2006 designated for Lower Manhattan, with about half of the funds under the control of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the other half under the control of former Governor George Pataki.
So yeah, Alex Jones made out like a bandit alright..good analysis
GilG Uncle Bud
So according to you there was a complecated plot put in place by the highest levels of the govt and IC and these guys after all this planning left it up to Larry Silverstein to decide the fate of #7. Not only that but the insurance companies just said fuck it we will take the hit. Not only that , but all of this was done so we could go to war on Iraq and they forgot to pin it on Iraqis and instead pinned it on Saudis who Bush was tight with. Too funny.
Not funny at all..nor did I say anyone left anything up to Mr. Silverstein ..
Nor did I imply the insurance companies decided to take a hit..
No..not all of this was done, so the USA could invade Iraq.
No..Mr. Silverstein was just one of many characters ..
It’s not funny at all..Ever since the AUMF was passed on 9/14/2001 ,
The AUMF has been cited by a wide variety of US officials as justification for continuing US military actions all over the world. Often the phrases “Al-Qaeda and associated forces” or “affiliated forces” have been used by these officials. However, that phrase does not appear in the AUMF.
The AUMF has also been cited by the Department of Justice as authority for engaging in electronic surveillance in ACLU v. NSA without obtaining a warrant of the special court as required by the Constitution.
Besides the AUMF, one month later, The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.
With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001″.
Do you remember what was happened 4 days after the AUMF was signed? The Anthrax Attack took place ..The Anthrax Scare was happening during and after the PATRIOT ACT debates and signing.
5 more people died and 17 were injured.
Do you know what the Patriot Act does?
Remember COINTELPRO in the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s ?
The Patriot Act legalized everything the FBI did during COINTELPRO .
The Patriot Act is responsible for the current Terror Factory the FBI is running..
May I suggest, instead of mentioning Alex Jones, you read US History beginning with the 1960’s..
So in other words you have nothing that shows this was an inside job but your own speculation. Please state the details of the plot and give evidense for it. AUMF was the result of a terrorist attack not Larry Silverstein.
Uncle Bob GilG
Yes..What I did was read the narrative, read and watch the 9/11 report ..watched the towers fall, then watched a controlled demolition building fall, then read some more,read my history, talked about all the different aspects of what happened and how it happened..and the evidence you claim to have is not enough proof for me to agree with you..nothing against you personally..
It’s just a tragic, complicated event with many little tragedies interspersed
This is like people who believe in God getting upset with those who don’t believe , demanding proof of their evidence for no God.. ..the burden of proof lies with the believer..like innocent until proven guilty..not guilty until proven innocent
GilG Uncle Bob
You are the one claiming there was guilt by the govt, you are the one who believes in something other than the official story, the burden of proof is on you. How can i disprove your story of what happened if you arent even going to say what that story is?
Ok..please, like I said, nothing against you personally..never mind..it doesn’t matter..
Uncle Bud Uncle Bud
The Patriot Act was 342 pages long.
It was passed 45 days after 9/11 and 42 days after AUMF.
The Patriot Act changed 15 existing laws.
Although it’s possible for 342 pages to be published in less than 45 days with team effort , its highly implausible
More likely, it took months/years to write and had been sitting in someone’s desk drawer for years..
Likewise, it’s possible that a team of congressional associates could’ve read different sections of the 342 page bill over a months time and briefed their congressmen, but it’s highly implausible..
rick GilG
I really don’t think the 3000 architects and engineers really had an opinion on WHO was responsible. Getting to the truth didn’t necessarily mean it was an “inside job”.
GilG rick
Tell that to the poster Bryan who claimed it was a plot by the feds to take over the police.
I think that’s his opinion. The architects and engineers back his opinion by saying the planes didn’t bring them down. That doesn’t mean the architects and the engineers necessarily think it was an inside job like poster Bryan does. Just sayin.
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Charlie McDermott was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on April 6, 1990. An actor since 2004, McDermott is a rising star who has work spans both the large and small screen. At the age of 16 he moved to Los Angeles.
McDermott's television credits outside of The Middle include guest appearances in The Office, Private Practice, Parks and Recreation, Medium and Windy Acres.
McDermott began his acting career in the M. Night Shyamalan feature film The Village, in which he starred opposite Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix and Signourney Weaver. McDermott's other film roles include Hot Tub Time Machine, The Ten, The Sex Drive, All Along and Morning.
For his role in the critically acclaimed movie Frozen River, McDermott was nominated for Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film received a wide range of awards from the Hamburg Film Festival to the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
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North Korean defector: Trump absolutely right to walk away from Kim summit, says he’ll never give up nukes (Video)
TOPICS:defectordenuclearizationHanoiKim Jong-unNorth KoreasummitThae Yong HoVietnam
Posted By: usafeaturesmedia March 2, 2019
A former ranking North Korean official who defected to the West praised President Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from his second summit with Chairman Kim Jong-un during talks in Hanoi, Vietnam, last week, saying it would have been wrong to lift billions of dollars’ worth of sanctions in exchange for Pyongyang shutting down just one nuclear facility.
Thae Yong Ho said in an interview with Fox News that the president “was absolutely right that he cannot give up these sanctions unless Kim Jong-un promises even further denuclearization offers.”
Thae, from his new home in South Korea, added that POTUS was also correct in singling out additional nuclear sites he wanted Kim to dismantle as well as part of any long-term denuclearization effort that would eventually lead to major sanctions relief and, in the end, a safer peninsula and prosperity for North Koreans.
He also said that as long as the “clever” Kim remains in power, the best POTUS Trump can do is to contain “the nuclear evil.”
“Nuclear weapons are the last resort Kim Jong-un can rely on to continue his control of North Korea,” said Thae.
When asked if he believed Kim would ever be convinced to surrender his nuclear capability, Thae replied emphatically, “No. No. Not at all.”
That said, the former North Korean diplomat — who lives under armed guard over a threat of assassination by Pyongyang — nevertheless expressed hope for his former country. He said with additional information being fed to the North Korean people, the brutal Kim regime can’t last. Such a dramatic change, however, is likely to take years, so in the meantime, the U.S. and its allies must keep up the pressure on Kim and keep the lid on his nuclear ambitions.
Meanwhile, South Korean President Moon Jae-in offered to mediate negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang. “My administration will closely communicate and cooperate with the United States and North Korea so as to help their talks reach a meaningful settlement by any means,” he said Friday.
Following the summit, POTUS Trump said that Kim had pressed for a full repeal of all existing sanctions in exchange for dismantling a single nuclear site. After the talks broke down, however, North Korea’s foreign ministry said that the “dear leader” had only sought partial sanctions relief.
Trump on Friday repeated earlier claims that his relationship the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is still “very good” despite not making a deal with his government. In tweeted comments, the president appeared to dismiss North Korean media reports that Kim had “lost his will” to negotiate with the United States, insisting that the negotiations were “very substantive” but also acknowledging that both sides know what’s being sought.
“We know what they want and they know what we must have,” he wrote.
2 Comments on "North Korean defector: Trump absolutely right to walk away from Kim summit, says he’ll never give up nukes (Video)"
James Carpenter | March 2, 2019 at 9:47 am | Reply
Well, President Trump did his best to let Kim do it the easy way.
But Kim chose a long train-ride home to think about how it was going to get done… the hard way.
He did not choose wisely.
Ramal Nodrac | March 2, 2019 at 2:32 pm | Reply
As an American with extensive experience in negotiations in Asia – to get any respect from Asian negotiators you must walk away from a deal at least three times. Trump is doing the right thing in order to be taken seriously by Asian nations.
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It's all about the grassroots, y'all.
Politics by roqchams Jan 9, 201811:06 am
Your #Resistance Is Bullshit
Michael Wolff’s alleged exploration of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, is now a best-seller. The most explosive claims documented by Wolff center around the dysfunctional personality of Donald Trump and a band of political characters that seem to treat him with kid gloves. They tell him what he wants to hear to his face to hold onto their paychecks while jeering behind closed doors, making him out to be a deadheaded emperor with no clothes.
Donald Trump, who is often found tweeting at the break of dawn after clearly having watched a stream of Fox News clips, is currently being assessed by the public, or—more specifically—his mental health is being assessed and has been called into question on numerous occasions. This accusation has incensed him to such a degree that it has driven him into describing himself as “a very stable genius”. So not only is Trump a national embarrassment, but he’s become senile and incapable of doing his job.
But that isn’t the story here.
This is all absurd theater, a frivolity that serves no purpose and creates no substantive answer to what must be done not only about Donald Trump. Moreover, it creates no substantive answer about what must be done to stop the whole ideological and political process that has created and fostered him, his class, and those who hang on his every word.
Continue reading Your #Resistance Is Bullshit
Southern politics by Bryan Nov 13, 20178:00 am November 12, 2017
The Readjustment
(This is co-written by Douglas and Bryan.)
Roy Moore is terrible. He has been terrible for years, and the scope of terrible that he brings to American society just greatly expanded this week.
It is easy to run a campaign as “not Roy Moore”; all that takes is a measure of compassion, humility, empathy for those who are less fortunate, and not ‘dating’ fourteen year olds as a man in your thirties. Judging from his statewide television ads, Alabama’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate — Doug Jones — seems content to meet that bare minimum standard.
There is lots of talk of “bipartisanship” and “working across the aisle”, which must sound great to people who have been living in some crag-based domicile for the last decade or so. The ads also play on his background as the federal attorney that put the surviving co-conspirators of Dynamite Bob Chambliss in jail for the rest of their natural lives, and urge “unity”. But unity with who? Republicans? The same conservatives who agitated racial animus to their political benefit until it blew up in their faces? The people in the Evangelical Church who are more than willing to blame the women who have come forward against Roy Moore? What iteration of that unity would benefit Alabama’s most vulnerable?
There is a resolution to this horrible situation out there, and its seeds can be found in Virginia.
Continue reading The Readjustment
Southern politics by Douglas Nov 6, 20176:09 pm
Virginia Deserves Better.
Virginia is in the final hours of a gubernatorial contest that none of its residents deserve. But it did not have to be this way.
Tomorrow’s election had the markings of a bonanza for the Democratic Party. The Republican gubernatorial primary was a knock-em-down-and-drag-em-out affair, with a cheap Sons of Confederate Veterans knockoff — from Minnesota! — coming with 5,000 votes of the party’s nomination.
The eventual nominee, former Republican National Committee chair Ed Gillespie, is probably the worst candidate to have running in a year where his party is about as popular as head lice, syphilis, and root canals. He is a Washington insider, a Virginia outsider (from New Jersey!), and is emblematic of the worst elements of the current rendition of his party.
The Democrats even have history on their side: With the exception of 2013, the opposition party has won every gubernatorial election in the Commonwealth since 1977. Boosting the opposition party’s chances this year is a historically unpopular president who could not even garner the votes of his party’s only living presidents in last year’s presidential election. And people are not passively disapproving of Trump, either: they’re getting active, building movements, and running for office, giving the Democrats the kind of energy that has not been seen since 2008. The national media has helped in a way, framing this as the first statewide electoral test of Donald Trump’s presidency, and it is one that is happening in the administration’s backyard.
And, yet, here we are: in the final hours of this election, the Republican candidate is now even-money to become the Commonwealth’s 73rd governor.
Continue reading Virginia Deserves Better.
Southern politics by Douglas Oct 6, 20177:56 am October 6, 2017
Really, Ralph, You Don’t Have To Do This
Democrats never learn, do they?
Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is running for governor of Virginia. The same Virginia that white supremacists descended on for their mini-version of the Nuremberg rallies, and the same Virginia that Heather Heyer gave her life defending from the same. Donald Trump’s response to the rally and Heyer’s death was to state that there was violence “on many sides” and to condemn the efforts to remove Confederate monuments.
After all of that, though, Ralph Northam still believes that Trump is someone that can be “worked with”.
Continue reading Really, Ralph, You Don’t Have To Do This
When Democrats don’t compete, Roy Moore is the result
It was difficult to fend off a fit of laughter reading Ben Jacobs’s wrap-up of the Alabama Republican primary for the U.S. Senate special election coming up this December:
Moore is as sui generis a product of the Yellowhammer State as white barbecue sauce and Bear Bryant.
Let’s start off with a couple of glaring mistakes here.
The Yellowhammer State might be Alabama’s official state nickname — as five seconds on Wikipedia will tell you — but no one really calls it that. The state’s license plates have had “Heart of Dixie” emblazoned across them since 1954. The signs welcoming you to the state’s borders used to say “Welcome to Alabama, The Beautiful,” but now read a simpler, more widely known message. Furthermore, the famed white barbecue sauce is mainly served at ‘que joints in the far north central part of the state, centered around Decatur and Huntsville. As it is, you would be hard-pressed to find white sauce at Dreamland or Archibald’s in Tuscaloosa, or Lannie’s in Selma.
(White sauce is also terrible, but I am digressing.)
Continue reading When Democrats don’t compete, Roy Moore is the result
Politics by Douglas Aug 26, 20177:52 pm August 27, 2017
The Revolution Will Not Be Voted On
This piece is going to break a rule that I set out for this blog about two years ago, which is that none of the pieces here will be based on things that happen on social media.
That rule is there for numerous reasons, with the biggest one being that producing content that is Terminally Online can distort the real-world reach of certain people, events, and statements. Because the world of social media can be all-encompassing, it is easy to forget that the person with the terrible opinions that you hate is probably unknown to well over 90 percent of your neighbors.
But for Markos Moulitsas and Joy-Ann Reid, I am willing to make an exception.
Continue reading The Revolution Will Not Be Voted On
Politics by Bryan Sep 19, 201610:00 am September 19, 2016
American Liberalism is Dead.
(This is a joint post by Douglas and Cato)
American liberalism died at 8:41pm EST on November 8, 2006.
It was at that time that the Associated Press called the U.S. Senate race in Virginia for Democratic nominee Jim Webb, giving the Democrats their 51st seat in Congress’s upper chamber and unified legislative control for the first time since 1992. This might seem a confusing time for liberalism to be dying, but it comes into focus a bit once you get below the partisan numbers. We will discuss this a little more later, but it makes sense to first discuss the long illness to which independent liberal politics in the United States eventually succumbed.
It was a slow death, one that began not long after the 1984 presidential election. Despite the electoral humiliation at the national level dealt to party nominee Walter Mondale, all was not lost for the Democratic Party. After all, they scored some victories in gubernatorial races, they still controlled the House of Representatives, and a 36-year old Congressman from Tennessee named Al Gore ascended to United States Senate. But for liberals within the party, the gig was up.
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PSYCHIATRIC INJURY
Can depression and PTSD be prevented by increasing stress resiliance?
24 Jun 2019 24 Jun 2019 The Stress Lawyer
Current treatments for depression and PTSD only suppress symptoms, if they work at all. What if we could prevent these diseases from developing altogether? Neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares the story of her team’s accidental discovery of a new class of drug that, for the first time ever, could prevent the negative effects of stress — and boost a person’s ability to recover and grow. Learn how these resilience-enhancing drugs could change the way we treat mental illness.
PSYCHIATRIC INJURY, TREATMENTSPsychiatry, SSRIs, therapy
Can you be compensated for ‘injury to feelings’?
18 Feb 2019 5 Apr 2019 The Stress Lawyer
We last examined how we define an injury of the mind, and in particular the point that to have a valid claim for occupational stress or nervous shock it is necessary to prove the existence of a psychiatric disorder, as distinct from mere grief and upset. There are, however, cases in which this rule is not observed.
Bullying and harassment in the workplace that causes a person to suffer ordinary emotional reactions, such as anger and bitterness, can be recompensed without the individual needing to have suffered a diagnosed condition. Just as damages are available for ‘injury to feelings’ arising from a breach of the Equality Act 2010, since the landmark House of Lords decision in Majrowski v Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust [2006] UKHL 34 it has been possible for employees to seek compensation in the civil courts for the misconduct of co-workers that amounts to a breach of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. Section 3(2) of the 1997 Act empowers the courts to award compensation for “any anxiety caused”. As was said by Mr Justice Nichol in S&D Property Investments Ltd v Nisbet [2009] EWHC Civ 1726 “…Parliament was here intending to make plain that compensation could be given for the concern that harassment can generate even if it does not give rise to any psychiatric or medical condition.” He added that it could be proved by the claimant’s own explanation of the effects of the harassment, without the need for expert psychological evidence.
Before Majrowski the Court of Appeal gave guidance in Vento v The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [2002] EWCA Civ 1871 on the correct scale of awards for injury to feelings falling short of a psychiatric disorder. The subsequent ‘Vento guidelines’ are periodically updated, and were last revised on 25th March 2019.
Whether the employee establishes harassment in breach of the Equality Act 2010, or the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, the considerations involved in valuing awards for injury to feelings are similar, but not identical. The distinction was explained by Mr Justice Nichol in S&D Property Investments Limited in which he stated “Compensation for discrimination necessarily involves an award for the humiliation of being treated differently on an impermissible ground such as race or sex. That is not a necessary feature of a claim under the 1997 Act. On the other hand, it is an essential characteristic of a claim under that Act that there has been a course of conduct. There will not be a case where damages for harassment have to be assessed for an isolated or one off occurrence.”
So to conclude, claims for harassment in the workplace are the exception to the rule that compensation for occupational stress is reserved only for those who have suffered a psychiatric injury. The amount of any award will be affected by factors such as the gravity and duration of the acts complained of, as well as the motivation of the harasser and the effect on the employee. In this sense injury to feelings awards are distinct from ordinary personal injury damages, which focus entirely on the harm caused to the individual.
In our next post we will consider the guidance offered by the Court of Appeal on how to approach the task of valuing awards for injury to feelings in the cases of Vento (2002) and Choudhary v Martins (2008).
CASE ANALYSIS, PSYCHIATRIC INJURYanxiety, Equality Act 2010, HARASSMENT, Injury to feelings, Majrowski S&D Property Investment, mental injury, Occupational stress claims, Protection from Harassment Act 1997, S&D Property Investment, Vento
How do we define an injury of the mind?
14 Feb 2019 15 Feb 2019 The Stress Lawyer
English law suffers from a Latin hangover, as illustrated by the antiquated maxim de minimis non curat lex, literally meaning “The law does not concern itself with trifles”. As we shall see, psychiatric injury claims are not exempt from the de minimis principle. Injuries to a person’s mental health caused by the circumstances of his or her employment are frequently referred to by lawyers as ‘stress’ claims, which is an oxymoron as stress is not a psychiatric condition and therefore cannot give rise to a claim. Indeed, stress is an essential aspect of the human condition, and may just as equally be beneficial.
In truth, anxiety and depression are ordinary human emotions, so said Lord Bridge in McLoughlin v O’Brian [1983] 1 AC 410. He continued – “So, the first hurdle which a plaintiff claiming damages… must surmount is to establish that he is suffering, not merely grief, distress or any other normal emotion, but a positive psychiatric illness.” A decade later, in Hicks v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police [1992] All ER 65, he repeated “it is perfectly clear that fear by itself, of whatever degree, is a normal human emotion for which no damages can be awarded”. This was applied most recently by Mr Justice Stewart, who in the Kenyan Mau Mau litigation held that fear alone does not amount to personal injury: see Kimathi v FCO [2018] EWHC 1305 (QB).
The term ‘nervous shock’ is one used by lawyers to describe a category of cases concerning those who have been traumatised by terrible events, whether as a primary victim or as a witness. Speaking in Alcock v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police [1991] 4 All ER 907, Lord Ackner explained “‘Shock’, in the context of this cause of action, involves the sudden appreciation by sight or sound of a horrifying event, which violently agitates the mind. It has yet to include psychiatric illness caused by the accumulation over a period in time of more than gradual assaults on the nervous system.” Again, in Page v Smith [1996] AC 155, Lord Keith defined it as “a reaction to an immediate and horrifying impact, resulting in some recognisable psychiatric illness. There must be some serious mental disturbance outside the range of normal human experience, not merely the ordinary emotions of anxiety, grief or fear.” A simple application of the principle was seen in Reilly v Merseyside RHA [1995] 6 Med LR 246, in which the unsuccessful claimant sought damages for claustrophobia and fear suffered when trapped in a lift. Ordinary emotional responses to unpleasant experiences of even the most serious type cannot found a claim for damages.
Likewise, distress brought about by the apprehension of a physical injury that has not materialised, and may never do so, is not actionable. This was the conclusion of the House of Lords in Rothwell v Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd [2007] UKHL 39, in which it was held that the inhalation of asbestos dust and fibres leading to innocuous pleural plaques could not give rise to a claim for anxiety arising from concern over the possibility of suffering a future disease.
In the workplace context employers are under no obligation to protect their staff from normal reactions. An employee who suffers no more than distress at work, falling short of a psychiatric injury, cannot recover damages for negligence. As was explained in Fraser v State Hospitals Board for Scotland [2000] ScotCS 191 (11 July 2000) “…the duty is only to take reasonable care to prevent psychiatric harm. It is not to protect an employee from unpleasant emotions such as grief, anger and resentment or normal human conditions such as anxiety or stress. These do not involve and form of ‘injury’ at all.”
In Hussain v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary [2008] EWCA Civ 1205 the claimant sought damages from the police for misfeasance in public office by failing to respond to his numerous calls for assistance. As it is tort that is non-actionable without proof of damage, the Court of Appeal was concerned with the question of whether the superimposition of transient “somatised physical symptoms of anxiety such as numbness and discomfort in the left arm and left leg” was sufficient. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was unanimous in its conclusion that this did not amount to material damage.
The practical application of this principle is straightforward. To advance a claim it is necessary first to obtain expert psychiatric evidence diagnosing an illness recognised by a consensus of professional opinion, such as those contained within The World Health Organisation’s Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorder (ICD-10), or the American Psychiatric Association’s statistical diagnostic criteria (DSM 5). Any psychiatric injury will suffice, however peculiar: Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40. In reality the psychiatrist’s first port of call is the patient’s medical history. Absent any past GP attendances presenting with symptoms of psychological illness it is likely that the individual’s condition will be seen as ‘sub clinical’, for which read non-actionable.
If there’s one thing that lawyers enjoy more than Latin then it’s laws that they can disregard. Having illustrated the rule, therefore, in the next post we shall examine its exceptions.
CASE ANALYSIS, PSYCHIATRIC INJURYanxiety, mental injury, Occupational Stress, Occupational stress claims, Stress at Work
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Israeli Spacecraft Crashes In Attempt To Land On Moon
People watch the live broadcast of the SpaceIL spacecraft as it lost contact with Earth in Netanya, Israel, Thursday, April 11, 2019. An Israeli spacecraft has failed in its attempt to make history as the first privately funded lunar mission.The SpaceIL spacecraft lost contact with Earth late Thursday, just moments before it was to land on the moon, and scientists declared the mission a failure. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
By Isabel Debre, Associated Press
YEHUD, Israel (AP) — An Israeli spacecraft crashed into the moon just moments before touchdown, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history Thursday as the first privately funded lunar landing.
The spacecraft lost communication with ground control during its final descent. Moments later, the mission was declared a failure.
“We definitely crashed on the surface of the moon,” said Opher Doron of Israel Aerospace Industries.
He said the spacecraft’s engine turned off shortly before landing, and scientists were still trying to figure out the cause. The spacecraft, called Beresheet, was in pieces scattered at the landing site, he said.
Doron nonetheless called the mission an “amazing success,” for reaching the moon and coming so close to landing successfully.
“It is by far the smallest, cheapest spacecraft ever to get to the moon,” he said. Beresheet was about the size of a washing machine.
The mishap occurred in front of a packed audience that included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was broadcast live on national television.
“We will try again,” Netanyahu said. “We reached the moon, but we want to land more comfortably, and that is for the next time.”
It had been hoped that the small robotic spacecraft, built by the nonprofit SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, would match a feat that has been achieved only by U.S., Russia and China.
The failure was a disappointing ending to a lunar voyage of 6.5 million kilometers (4 million miles), almost unprecedented in length and designed to conserve fuel and reduce price. The spacecraft hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket launched from Florida in February.
For the past two months, Beresheet, which means “Genesis” or “In the Beginning,” traveled around the Earth several times before entering lunar orbit.
Around 20 minutes before the scheduled landing, engine firings slowed Beresheet’s descent. Engineers watched in silence as the craft, its movements streamed live on dozens of screens, glided toward a free-fall.
But then the screens showed the engine misfiring, and the velocity surging as it headed toward the lunar surface. Radio signals from the spacecraft, abruptly cut off.
Standing before darkened computer screens, controllers declared the mission a failure. The craft crashed near the historic Apollo landing sites.
President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of youngsters at his official residence, one of several celebrations scheduled across the country. The children, some wearing white and blue spacesuits, appeared confused as the crash unfolded.
“We are full of admiration for the wonderful people who brought the spacecraft to the moon,” Rivlin said. “True, not as we had hoped, but we will succeed in the end.”
Beresheet carried a small laser retroreflector from NASA intended to measure magnetic fields and provide insight on the moon’s iron core. It also had a time capsule that included a Bible, Israeli cultural symbols and a picture of famed Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the crash of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia in 2003.
The head of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, said he regretted the mission didn’t succeed, but “I have no doubt that Israel and SpaceIL will continue to explore and I look forward to celebrating their future achievements.”
Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin expressed his regrets “for what almost was” and tweeted: “Never lose hope–Your hard work, team work, and innovation is inspiring to all!”
The Google Lunar X Prize Competition, which offered $20 million for the first privately funded venture to make it to the moon, is what first drove SpaceIL to get Beresheet off the ground.
Beresheet made the final cut, but after several deadline extensions, the competition ended last year without a winner.
SpaceIL pressed on with its dream, convinced the mission would help inspire Israel’s next generation to study science and engineering. The $100 million mission was financed largely by Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn and a handful of other investors.
“The second I heard their dream, I wanted to support it,” said Kahn. “I knew it would give us in Israel a sense of pride.”
The XPrize Foundation congratulated the SpaceIL team despite the failed landing.
“We’re extraordinarily proud they made it this far,” said Peter Diamandis, XPrize founder.
The XPrize Foundation announced last month it would shell out $1 million as a “moonshot award” if Beresheet stuck its landing. After the crash, Diamandis said it would give SpaceIL the bonus nonetheless.
Spacecrafts crash more on other planets than they do on the moon, but the moon has had seen failed missions previously, said American University professor Howard McCurdy, who has written several books about space.
In the 1960s, before the Apollo lunar landings, NASA sent seven unmanned Surveyor flights to the moon and two failed, he said.
“What makes it hard is the conditions — the geological and atmospheric conditions are different on the moon and the planets than they are on Earth,” McCurdy said. “It makes it really hard to test” the spacecraft’s landing back on Earth.
Phil Larson of the University of Colorado, who was a space adviser in the Obama White House, said the Israeli effort underlines that “space is still extremely hard, and landing human made objects on other worlds is an utmost challenge.”
But, he added, “While it failed to land successfully, overall it was a path-breaking and innovative project.”
Associated Press writers Marcia Dunn at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Seth Borenstein in Washington contributed to this report.
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Williams County Grand Jury Indicts Seventeen
The Williams County Grand Jury convened on April 10, 2019 and returned indictments against seventeen individuals facing a total of thirty-four charges. Those indicted include:
Anna M. Barnes, 27, of Fayette was indicted on a total of four counts including one count of possession of heroin, two counts of aggravated possession of drugs, and one count of possession of cocaine, each count being a fifth-degree felony. Authorities allege that Barnes possessed or used heroin, Fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine on or about June 26, 2018.
Paul D. Bongiorno III, 33, of the North Central Correctional Complex of Marion, was indicted on one count of having weapons while under disability, a third-degree felony, and one count of aggravated possession of drugs, also a third-degree felony. Bongiorno is accused of possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony charge as well as possessing or using methamphetamine on or about January 14, 2019.
Jerome R. Clark, 40, of Bryan was indicted on one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. Authorities allege that Clark possessed or used methamphetamine on or about January 14, 2019.
Jordan L. Hug, 24, of Edon was indicted on a total of four counts including one count of having weapons while under disability, a third-degree felony; two counts of aggravated menacing, each a first-degree misdemeanor; and one count of criminal damaging or endangering, also a first-degree misdemeanor. It is alleged that, on or about March 23, 2019, Hug was in possession of a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony charge. It is further alleged that, on the same date, Hug pointed the firearm at two individuals as well as caused harm to several vehicles belonging to another person.
Jessica M. Impton-Clark, 36, of Bryan was indicted on one count of fifth-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs. Impton-Clark is accused of possessing or using methamphetamine on or about January 14, 2019.
Katelynn A. Kerby, 21, of Montpelier was indicted on one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. Kerby is accused of possessing or using methamphetamine on or about February 6, 2018.
Zachary A. Kolbe, 36, of the North Central Correctional Complex of Marion, was indicted on one count of having weapons while under disability, a third-degree felony; one count of unlawful possession of dangerous ordinance, a fifth-degree felony; and one count of aggravated possession of drugs, also a fifth-degree felony. Authorities allege that Kolbe was in possession of a homemade .25 caliber zip gun after having previously been convicted of a felony charge as well as that Kolbe possessed or used methamphetamine on or about July 12, 2018.
Levi G. Leggett, 30, of Bryan was indicted on fifth-degree felony count of aggravated possession of drugs. It is alleged that Leggett possessed or used methamphetamine on or about February 15, 2019.
Brittany J. Long, 26, of Napoleon was indicted on one count of illegal conveyance of prohibited items onto the grounds of a detention facility, a third-degree felony, and one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. Long is accused of possessing or using, as well as carrying onto the grounds of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, methamphetamine on or about February 19, 2019.
Samantha B. Martinez, 20, of Defiance was indicted on one fifth-degree felony count of unauthorized use of a vehicle. Martinez is accused of operating a motor vehicle and keeping it in her possession for more than forty-eight hours on or about April 2, 2019.
Zachary S. McCague, 26, of Montpelier was indicted on one count of fifth-degree felony unauthorized use of a vehicle. Authorities allege that, on or about April 2, 2019, McCague operated a motor vehicle, keeping it in his possession for more than forty-eight hours, without the consent of the vehicle’s owner.
James E. Miller, 37, of Bryan was indicted on one count of illegal cultivation of marijuana, a fifth-degree felony. Miller is accused of cultivating marijuana in an amount equal or greater than two hundred grams but less than one thousand grams.
Jacob M. Pannell, 21, of Pioneer was indicted on a total of three counts including one count of domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor; one count or aggravated menacing, also a first-degree misdemeanor; and one count of assault, a fourth-degree felony. Pannell is accused of causing harm or attempting to cause harm to a family or household member, of threatening to injure an officer of the law with a knife, and of causing or attempting to cause harm to a second police officer who at the time was performing his official duties. The charges stem from an incident occurring on or about April 7, 2019.
Dennis A. Poling, 36, of Bryan was indicted on a total of five counts including four counts of receiving stolen property, each a fifth-degree felony, and one count of identity fraud, also a fifth-degree felony. It is alleged that Poling received several credit cards that he had sufficient cause to believe as stolen on or about February 28, March 23, March 25, and March 31, 2019 as well as that Poling used the personal identification of another without consent.
Jose F. Romero III, 51, of Manchester, Indiana was indicted for failure to appear, a fourth-degree felony. Romero is accused of failing to appear as required by the court in connection to a previous felony charge.
Robert D. Sovine, 27, of Stryker was indicted on one count of receiving stolen property, a fourth-degree felony. Sovine is accused of, on or about April 8, 2019, receiving, retaining or disposing a 20114 Pontiac Bonneville that he had cause to believe had been obtained through the commission of a theft.
Danielle R. Stipe, 29, of Bryan was indicted on one count of possession of heroin and one count of aggravated possession of drugs, each a fifth-degree felony. Stipe is accused of possessing or using heroin and Fentanyl on or about March 7, 2019.
It should be noted that an indictment is merely an accusation and that all criminal defendants are presumed innocent until or unless proven guilty in a court of law.
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The grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, sometimes misspelled amblyrhynchus or amblyrhinchos)[2] is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. One of the most common reef sharks in the Indo-Pacific, it is found as far east as Easter Island and as far west as South Africa. This species is most often seen in shallow water near the drop-offs of coral reefs. The grey reef shark has the typical "reef shark" shape, with a broad, round snout and large eyes. This species can be distinguished from similar species by the plain or white-tipped first dorsal fin, the dark tips on the other fins, the broad, black rear margin on the tail fin, and the lack of a ridge between the dorsal fins. Most individuals are less than 1.9 m (6.2 ft) long.
Grey reef sharks feed mainly on bony fishes, with cephalopods such as squid and octopus being the second-most important food group, and crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters making up the remainder. The larger sharks take a greater proportion of cephalopods.[20] These sharks hunt individually or in groups, and have been known to pin schools of fish against the outer walls of coral reefs for feeding.[14] Hunting groups of up to 700 grey reef sharks have been observed at Fakarava atoll in French Polynesia.[21][22] They excel at capturing fish swimming in the open, and they complement hunting whitetip reef sharks, which are more adept at capturing fish inside caves and crevices.[4] Their sense of smell is extremely acute, being capable of detecting one part tuna extract in 10 billion parts of sea water.[13] In the presence of a large quantity of food, grey reef sharks may be roused into a feeding frenzy; in one documented frenzy caused by an underwater explosion that killed several snappers, one of the sharks involved was attacked and consumed by the others.[23]
In older literature, the scientific name of this species was often given as C. menisorrah.[5] The blacktail reef shark (C. wheeleri), native to the western Indian Ocean, is now regarded as the same species as the grey reef shark by most authors. It was originally distinguished from the grey reef shark by a white tip on the first dorsal fin, a shorter snout, and one fewer upper tooth row on each side.[6] Based on morphological characters, vertebral counts, and tooth shapes, Garrick (1982) concluded the grey reef shark is most closely related to the silvertip shark (C. albimarginatus).[7] This interpretation was supported by a 1992 allozyme phylogenetic analysis by Lavery.[8]
Grey reef sharks are active at all times of the day, with activity levels peaking at night.[4] At Rangiroa, groups of around 30 sharks spend the day together in a small part of their collective home range, dispersing at night into shallower water to forage for food. Their home range is about 0.8 km2 (0.31 sq mi).[25] At Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, grey reef sharks from different parts of the reef exhibit different social and ranging behaviors. Sharks on the outer ocean reefs tend to be nomadic, swimming long distances along the reef, while those around lagoon reefs and underwater pinnacles stay within defined daytime and night-time home ranges.[26] Where there are strong tidal currents, grey reef sharks move against the water: towards the shore with the ebbing tide and back out to sea with the rising tide. This may allow them to better detect the scent of their prey, or afford them the cover of turbid water in which to hunt.[25]
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Inaugural Family Medicine Cares International Trip Changes Lives of Haitians, Delegation Members
March 19, 2013 04:40 pm Matt Brown –
For a program that is barely six months old, Family Medicine Cares International(www.aafpfoundation.org) already is making a difference in the lives of both the people it helps and the volunteers who offer their time and expertise to a country in need.
David Smith, M.D., M.P.H., of Elkhart Lake, Wis., sees a young patient during the AAFP Foundation's inaugural Family Medicine Cares International delegation trip to Haiti.
Family Medicine Cares International -- the AAFP Foundation's newest humanitarian program -- already has its first delegation trip to Haiti in the books, sending a 21-member group of physicians and nonphysicians to communities throughout the island country during the first nine days of February.
According to Brenda Cherpitel, AAFP Foundation director of development and one of the delegates on the inaugural trip, the program, which launched officially during the 2012 Scientific Assembly last October, focuses on helping people in need around the world. Its sister initiative, Family Medicine Cares USA(www.aafpfoundation.org), devotes its attentions to those in need right here at home.
Divided into three teams -- patient care, medical education, and training and humanitarian service -- the Haiti delegation worked to fulfill its mission by improving the health and quality of life of people in this small Caribbean nation still reeling from the devastating effects of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010.
AAFP Foundation President Mary Jo Welker, M.D., of New Albany, Ohio, head of the delegation and a member of the medical education team, said the group accomplished all of the objectives it had set out achieve.
The AAFP Foundation's newest humanitarian program, Family Medicine Cares International, recently completed its first delegation trip to Haiti.
From Feb. 1-9, the 21-member group of physicians and nonphysicians brought patient care, medical education, and training and humanitarian services to communities throughout the island country.
AAFP Foundation President Mary Jo Welker, M.D., of New Albany, Ohio, said the group accomplished all of the objectives that it had set out achieve.
"We provided good patient care to a large number of people, we presented our medical education symposium to a large number of people, and we met with (Haitian) leaders in family medicine, as well as the deans of the colleges of medicine and the leadership of the (Ministry of Public Health and Population)," she said. "So I think we made some good contacts to help encourage family medicine within Haiti."
Former AAFP Board Director Laura Knobel, M.D., of Walpole, Mass., who had never been on a medical mission trip before, said she was excited to bring her experience as a practicing family physician to the medical education team.
"First and foremost, the team I was with was spectacular," she said. "I think that the mission of the program -- to improve the health care system in Haiti based on a foundation of family medicine -- resonated with the people we were involved with and served as the most rewarding part of the trip. To spend time with the family medicine residents and program directors, and to have them ask us not for equipment, but for faculty development resources that will help them teach their students, is one good example."
Welker said the medical education team met with the deans of Haiti's four medical schools to begin the process of helping them develop a nationwide family medicine curriculum and add a third family medicine residency program in the southern part of the country.
Knobel said she was encouraged by what she heard from everyone she met.
Family physician Julie Anderson, M.D., of St. Cloud, Minn., examines a young Haitian boy during the delegation's visit to Port-au-Prince.
"I believe the AAFP Foundation is on the right track with this ongoing program, and, having seen the enthusiasm of the Haitian family medicine residents, they are ready to start their own family medicine revolution," Knobel said. "I truly think we can help them on this journey.
"I also think it was helpful having a solo family doc in private practice on the team, as the remaining team members were all in academia," she added. "Going forward, I think having physicians in different practice models will help Haiti develop its health care system in a more appropriate fashion."
Family physician David Smith, M.D., M.P.H., of Elkhart Lake, Wis., worked on the patient care team, while his wife, Karen, was a member of the nonphysician humanitarian service team. Smith said he has every intention of regularly serving on future Family Medicine Cares International trips.
"The benefits and blessing came far more to us than from us," Smith said. "We felt that we were able to make a difference for the people we came to serve, who certainly showed us a resiliency, character and resolve that helps us be mindful of all that we have. I met the other physicians of our patient care team and, a week later, knew that I will count them as friends for the long haul."
Smith said he also found the experience to be professionally reinvigorating.
"I've done this work over 30 years, so to see a new case of diabetes or high blood pressure can be somewhat commonplace," he told AAFP News Now. "But there was an element with that small group of people … to see my first case of malaria or typhoid fever, to talk about what would happen if we encountered cholera. You know, these are tropical diseases that we just almost never see.
"So, I had some of the energy and excitement that I hadn't felt since I was in med school and residency. I'm approaching 60, so I don't get that kind of professional excitement every day."
FP Jacobo Rivero, M.D., of Zillah, Wash., examines a young woman during the delegation's trip to Haiti.
For physicians interested in joining the program, Family Medicine Cares International offers plenty of volunteer opportunities; as many as three physicians at a time are needed year-round to provide ongoing patient care in community clinics. Volunteers will serve an average of one week alongside Haitian medical personnel.
Licensed family physicians are encouraged to apply as volunteers. Residents may be admitted to the program under physician supervision if space permits. All volunteers are required to fund their own transportation and expenses.
Financial support also is needed to fund the work, including ongoing support of children in orphanages, facility improvements and medical symposia.
Smith said it is easy to see what a program like Family Medicine Cares International can do to change the status quo.
"There are so many things that could be done with a sustainable program like the one that the foundation has in mind," he said. "An example of that would be childhood immunizations. It is hard to just swoop in once and do that, but with a meaningful long-term partnership, it is really possible."
According to Welker, the nonphysician humanitarian service team focused much of its attention on the Rose Mina Orphanage in Port-au-Prince, helping to repair and improve orphanage facilities, delivering essential supplies and personal items to the children, and offering activities to the children, including parties and group reading sessions. Team members also met with the youth of Bel Air, a poor neighborhood in the capital city, where an ongoing vocational training program is trying to improve the quality of life for at-risk teens and young adults.
Apparently, the program is succeeding: According to AAFP Foundation staff members, one of the participants in the training program has expressed a desire to become a physician.
Knobel said the Haiti trip is an event that will be with her for the rest of her life.
"I decided I wanted to write down all of my impressions from the trip so I wouldn't forget all that I had experienced," she said. "Thinking it would take an hour or so, I was surprised that it took the entire day. What a great experience, and now knowing more than I did when I started, I hope to go back again."
For more information about the program, contact Cherpitel via e-mail or by phone at (800) 274-2237, Ext. 4452.
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NewsYour Health MattersConquering Addiction
Naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose gets approval, may be used by non-medical professionals
By: Scripps National
The FDA has approved a generic naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray that may be used in the event of an opioid overdose, and it is working to expedite approval of an over-the-counter naloxone product.
The FDA says it is committed to combat an ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in the United States.
There are "a number of efforts are underway to make this emergency overdose reversal treatment more readily available and more accessible," states a news release. "In addition to this approval of the first generic naloxone nasal spray, moving forward we will prioritize our review of generic drug applications for naloxone. The FDA has also taken the unprecedented step of helping to assist manufacturers to pursue approval of an over-the-counter naloxone product and is exploring other ways to increase the availability of naloxone products intended for use in the community, including whether naloxone should be co-prescribed with all or some opioid prescriptions to reduce the risk of overdose death,” said Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., deputy center director for regulatory programs in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
This approval is the first generic naloxone nasal spray for use in a community setting by individuals without medical training; however, generic injectable naloxone products have been available for years for use in a health care setting, the FDA states in its release.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says "more than 130 Americans die every day from overdoses involving opioids, a class of drugs that include prescription medications such as fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine, as well as illegal drugs such as heroin or drugs sold as heroin."
From the FDA announcement:
Naloxone nasal spray does not require assembly and delivers a consistent, measured dose when used as directed. This product can be used for adults or children and is easily administered by anyone, even those without medical training. The drug is sprayed into one nostril while the patient is lying on his or her back and can be repeated if necessary.
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He was aggressive, had OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and his anxiety caused him to have lots of tantrums. His parents didn’t know what to do. They blamed themselves for his behaviour and didn’t like to go out because they were embarrassed when he had a meltdown.
His mum, Alison, says, “When he started at school things got worse. He wasn’t naughty, but he was different from the other children. He found it hard to concentrate and would sometime be baby-ish. He would hit out and push. He was quite physical and would throw himself on the floor, or would hit us. I think he was frustrated.”
The family was at rock bottom. Lewis’ dad had a nervous breakdown and his mum was suffering with depression and other health issues.
Lewis’ school referred the family to Action for Children and they were given one to one help through home visits by a support worker.
Lewis was enrolled on an SAS programme (Specialised Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders) to help improve his communication, social and self-help skills, so he could know how to handle his emotions.
His parents were enrolled on a Norfolk Steps/Positive Handling Training and a Non-Violent Resistance Programme so they could learn about challenging behaviours, de-escalations skills and how to use physical intervention techniques for when Lewis has a tantrum. Their support worker also liaised with Lewis’ school to ensure he was being supported and signposted his parents to support for their health issues, which have since improved.
Alison says her son – who was finally diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum in November last year – has used techniques learnt on the SAS course, has gained confidence and even apologises for when he’s misbehaved.
"My support worker has been amazing – she’s an angel. Before we felt on our own, but she’s always there at the end of the phone to listen if there’s a problem. It’s brought us closer together as a family. Without Action for Children I don’t think we’d be where we are now."
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Posted on April 10, 2012 by AdrianC
San Marco in Lamis, a small town in the hills of Puglia’s Gargano peninsula, is the home of one of Italy’s longstanding Easter traditions.
There are three parades through the town on Good Friday – one in the early morning (5.30am – I’m ashamed to admit, we couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed for it…), one in the afternoon, and one in the evening.
For San Marco, there’s no penitents, anonymous beneath pointy hoods. The afternoon procession leaves the church of San Antonio Abate, in the busy but narrow thoroughfare of the Corso Giacomo Matteotti. A crowd has gathered expectantly for the parade, amongst them the dozens of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides who are to take part. Eventually, the doors of the church open, and a group of men, immaculate in dark suits and sunglasses, carrying crisply folded white cloths, head in. They soon emerge again, considerably later than the advertised 5pm start – with the cloths padding the shoulders of four of the men as they carry a bier bearing a statue of the body of the dead Jesus, the other four similarly bearing a wooden statue of the Madonna Addolorata – Our Lady of Sorrows.
At a slow pace, the procession heads up the road, taking an hour or so to perform a loop around the old part of the town. The ladies of the town lead, dressed all in black. Behind them, a group of nuns preceed the statues, then the scouts and guides. Finally, the men head a larger congregation. All the while, the Miserere is sung, with the women taking one part, the men the other.
Meanwhile, the main streets through the town are being closed to traffic. Dayglo is being worn everywhere, with the volunteer Protezione Civile forces of most surrounding towns busying themselves checking hydrants and moving fire tenders into position. Along the Viale della Repubblica, climbing an incline from the church of the Vergine Addolorata, “fracchie” – large, wooden torches made of a single split tree-trunk – are parked in ever increasing numbers, as a JCB drags them out of the back streets and garages where they’ve been being built.
Eventually, once the light has started to fail and the evening passeggiata has become a thronging crowd lining the roadsides, smoke starts to rise as the first, smallest fracchie are lit. The first one to come through is barely larger than some of the models outside shops in the town, and is towed by a single tiny girl (with a bit of help and encouragement from her father).
Haltingly, they file past. From our vantage point, standing on the lower steps of the roundabout, the gentle glow of the first few is quickly replaced by flame, then clearer views, as the larger fracchie start to appear.
Within the hour, a gap in the flame gives the reason for the torches – lighting the route for the Madonna Addolorata, preceded and followed again by the strains of the Miserere.
Behind her, a throng of local dignitaries in their tricolour sashes and a major celebrity – Albano, famous as a singer from the late ’60s through to today, just about visible under a Panama hat in the middle. We’ll gloss over his apparent preoccupation with his mobile phone call.
It’s not over yet, though. There are still more fracchie to come. LOTS more. For the next three hours, the big torches are lit, pulled and steered by heaving, panting and sweating teams of up to twenty men.
Waiting for the procession to start, we’d got into conversation with an older local couple, who explained some of the history to us. The fracchie used to go down the same narrow Corso Matteotti as the afternoon procession. Originally hand-held torches, they’d grown to the stage they needed to be dragged on wheels. Then they’d continued to grow as rivalries and competitiveness crept in. Eventually, after a set of wheels collapsed under the weight one year, and as damage to the road surface and overhead wires grew ever worse, regulation crept in.
Now, there’s a maximum to the size to be pulled along the less-enclosed route. The largest torches must be about ten metres long, and at least a couple of metres in diameter. Made from a single solid tree-trunk, split at one end, with wedges of Oak and Chestnut driven in to flare them out, bound with iron rings and firmly attached to iron undercarriage, they apparently weigh up to ten tons.
Lighting them is accomplished with the help of generous helpings of accelerant – two litre water bottles full of red diesel, larger bottles of used engine oil, and seemingly endless amounts of enthusiasm. One team seemed to be having difficulty getting theirs to catch properly, despite the generous amounts of diesel being slooshed at it. Eventually, the inevitable happened – the flame caught the bottle’s neck. Quickly dropped, it rolled around on the road surface in the middle of a small pool of fire, being kicked out of people’s way. When the torch was dragged up hill again, it got caught and squished underneath the trunk’s tail-skid, leaving a long line of flame behind.
The next team were determined that they would have no such problems, with one lad standing on top of the torch as the fuel-soaked rags stuffed between the stakes were lit, pouring engine oil down the face of it all.
As the earlier, more restrained, torches had been taken down the road, teams from the local council had used metal rakes to clear the ashes and embers away from the road surface, leaving it clear for the next to come. Once the Madonna had passed, though, that was deemed unnecessary. As the torches paused, and were thumped, shaken and prodded to keep them properly ablaze, the amount of burning wood built up.
As the teams stumbled over and through precarious levels of debris, the volunteer firemen stepped in with high pressure hoses to disperse it and spray the road down. Periodically, an over-lively torch was damped down a bit, amidst friendly jeers, in a vain attempt to try to keep it under control.
By the end of the town, a distance of no more than a few hundred metres, there was precious little of the torches left. The first couple of iron hoops hung forlornly, with the remains of a handful of stakes reminiscent of the skeleton of a crashed aeroplane.
Another team of firefighters were ready with hoses to extinguish them, a huge pall of smoke rising as they succumbed, then were dragged off to join the stubs of those which had gone before.
We left at midnight, with the last torch just lit and starting the journey. The impeccably behaved crowd were all but gone, the last few milling around cheerfully, but the enthusiasm of the teams was undimmed. Perhaps it was the knowledge that, this year, their efforts were immortalised in a commemorative postage stamp. Perhaps it was the knowledge that the tradition has been nominated for UNESCO world heritage status. Perhaps it was just – well, just because.
Click here for a short fracchie video.(YouTube)
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3 Responses to The Long Good Friday
N.Martino says:
Very well documented of Good Friday in San Marco in Lamis-Italy. This year I came back to experience the event after some many years, being born in this town la nostalgia is always there. Thank You.
AdrianC says:
I’m glad you enjoyed it – we certainly enjoyed the Fracchie procession. It was a night that we’ll remember for many years to come.
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Egypt: More Evidence Islam Liberates Women
Posted on 19th November 2011 | Comments Off on Egypt: More Evidence Islam Liberates Women
The Face of Islamic Women’s Rights in Post-Mubarak, Arab Spring “Liberated” Egypt
My colleague Al-Mutarjim has translated comments made this week to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat (via the Gazan publication Donia al-Watan) by a female candidate for the Egyptian Parliament, Muna Salah. The Islamically-enlightened Ms. Salah maintains,
…that women are deficient in intelligence and religion, and it is not permissible for them to be in authority or to occupy the office of the presidency.
Defending her candidacy for the People’s Council, Ms. Salah claims,
…acting as a representative in the Council [confers] only partial authority and not complete authority, such as the presidency of the republic. She added that she seeks to apply the Islamic sharia, including cutting off the hands of thieves, preventing the mingling of men and women, and specifying black clothes for women and white clothes for men. [emphasis added]
Not only do Islam’s foundational texts (i.e., Koran and hadith) and resultant Sharia-based “jurisprudence” affirm such debasing attitudes, “liberated” Iraq provided evidence of how these misogynistic Islamic “ideals” have perverted the Parliamentary process in that Muslim nation. Specifically, The Times of London reported this harrowing story during March, 2005 about the exploits of Sharia and Iraqi “moderate” Ayatollah Sistani-supporting women in the Iraqi Parliament ( “Iraq’s women of power who tolerate wife-beating and promote polygamy,” The Times of London Online, March 31, 2005):
As a devout Shia Muslim and one of eighty-nine women sitting in the new parliament, she knows what her first priority there is: to implement Islamic law. When Dr Ubaedey took her seat at last week’s assembly opening, she found herself among an increasingly powerful group of religious women politicians who are seeking to repeal old laws giving women some of the same rights as men and replace them with Sharia, Islam’s divine law.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist (received for her 1920 The Age of Innocence, in 1921), short story writer, and designer. Nearly a century ago, immediately after World War I, Wharton travelled to Morocco as the guest of the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925, Gen. Hubert Lyautey, and wrote In Morocco, (published in 1920), chronicling her experiences. Wharton’s poignant observations about a female black child slave of what she herself considered to be a rather enlightened, Westernized Moroccan leader capture the enduring tragedy of Islam’s continued rejection of Western notions of basic freedom and human dignity, in particular for women.
While tea was being served I noticed a tiny negress, not more than six or seven years old, who stood motionless in the embrasure of an archway. Like most of the Moroccan slaves, even in the greatest households, she was shabbily, almost raggedly dressed. A dirty gandourah [a long loose gown with or without sleeves that is worn chiefly in northern Africa] of striped muslin covered her faded caftan [a usually cotton or silk ankle-length garment with long sleeves that is common throughout the Levant], and a cheap kerchief was wound above her grave and precocious little face. With preternatural vigilance she watched the movement of the Caid [a chief esp. of the Berber tribal communities of the North African Atlas region, and/or a Muslim local administrator, judge, and tax collector in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia], who never spoke to her, looked at her, or made her the slightest perceptible sign, but whose last wish she instantly divined, re-filling his tea-cup, passing the plates of sweets, or removing our empty glasses, in obedience to some secret telegraphy on which her whole being hung…[W]hen I looked at the tiny creature watching him [the Caid] with those anxious joyless eyes I felt once more the abyss that slavery and the seraglio put between the most Europeanized Mahometan and the western conception of life. The Caid’s little black slaves are well-known in Morocco, and behind the sad child leaning in the archway stood all the shadowy evils of the social system that hangs like a millstone about the neck of Islam. [emphasis added]
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Verizon Drops Motorola DROID Turbo In Price To $499.99
By John Anon May 11, 2015, 12:52pm
In 2014, there were quite a few smartphones which landed in the market. Not to mention, a few real big hitters. Of late, most of the news and attention has focused on the twin S6 devices, the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. However, they are just the newest in the line of what has been a consistent releasing of smartphones. One of the big attention grabbing smartphones which landed in the latter part of last year was the Motorola DROID Turbo. This one caused quite a stir prior to the release and even came with a couple of interesting videos starring James Franco
If for whatever reason you missed the DROID Turb when it first landed, this was one which comes boasting some very decent specs. To recap, the DROID Turbo comes with a 5.2-inch QHD AMOLED display with a 2560 x 1440 resolution. Inside, the DROID Turbo is equipped with 3GB RAM and powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 quad-core processor (clocking at 2.7GHz), along with an Adreno 420 graphics processor. Camera wise, the DROID Turbo is loaded with a 21MP rear camera (with dual-led flash) while the front facing option on offer is a more modest 2MP camera. Additional features on offer include support for 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE networks, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, GPS and a whopping 3,900mAh battery. Not to mention, the device comes with the now-famous Turbo Charging and supports Qi wireless charging. In terms of Android, the DROID Turbo is one of the few who have yet to see the update to Android 5.0 (Lollipop) coming through, however, it was recently reported the device will be pushed straight up to Android 5.1.
Well, when the device did launch in the U.S., back in October, the price for the DROID Turbo came in at $599.99 for the off-contract 32GB model. Well, it seems that Verizon have now dropped the price of the off-contract 32GB version, down to only $499.99. This is still a hefty amount but a $100 saving is still a $100 saving. Not to mention, when you consider the price of the twin S6 devices, this does not seem so much anymore. If you are interested you can pick one up by hitting the source link below.
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Introducing Thailand
by Ansova Travel
Sawaddee! Hello!
Welcome to Thailand! Sawaddee is an all-purpose greeting that can mean good morning, good afternoon, good evening, or good night. By putting your palms gently together under your chin with your head tilted slightly forward, you have greeted your hosts with the wai (form of greeting) that is used in Thailand. If you want to be even more appropriate, use the wai and say “Sawaddee krup” (if you are a man) or “Sawaddee ka” (if you are a woman). With this greeting, you have not only shown respect to your host, but you also have started your amazing adventure into the exploration of Thailand.
Thailand was formerly known as the Kingdom of Siam until the country’s name was changed to Thailand in 1939. This fascinating country is an ancient place with hospitable people and a complex culture that dates back more than 800 years.
The list of cultural what to do’s and what not to do’s is extensive, but the Thai are very accepting of foreigners who try to participate. For example, one should not touch the head of a Thai person. Most Thais are Buddhists, and the head, being the highest part of the body, is considered sacred. At the other end, the feet—being the body’s lowest point—are viewed as being dirty. Thus, a person should never expose the bottom of his or her feet or shoes to others; neither should feet be used to point at someone. These customs also apply to statues of Buddha and even photos of the king. Another cultural practice is to not wai a child, because it is considered bad luck. These are just a few of the interesting cultural practices of the Thai people.
Exploring Thailand is truly a unique experience. For example, in the north, there are several hill tribes, such as those of the Karen people, who live in both Thailand and Myanmar (formerly Burma). Each tribe possesses its own culture and cultural practices, including some that are quite unique. The Karen Padaung tribe, near the city of Chiang Mai, is quite small, but is well known because of their long-neck women. Brass rings are added each year to lengthen the neck of women, which is regarded as being a sign of beauty. A long-neck woman in Plam Piang Din Village wears an incredible 37 brass rings! In another Karen tribe, women wear carved elephant tusks in their ears as a sign of beauty and are often called Long-ears. Not all Thai people are like the Karen tribes, today, most Thai people live in cities or agricultural areas in this tropical country.
Bangkok is the capital and the largest urban center. It is an amazing city with world-class transportation, banking, industry, and services. At the same time, it is a city choked with traffic and pollution. Modern vehicles crawl along the roads fighting for space with three-wheeled taxis called tuk-tuks. These vehicles can provide a visitor with an unforgettable, yet sometimes frightening experience.
Thailand is a treasure trove of culture, history, and amazing physical geography. This Southeast Asian country stretches from the mountains of the north to the gorgeous white sand beaches in the south. It extends from the vast Khorat Plateau region and the Mekong River in the northeast to the mountainous and often contested border region with Myanmar to the west. Four countries border Thailand: Myanmar to the west and northwest, Laos to the northeast, Cambodia to the east, and Malaysia to the south. The Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand are respectively on the west and east of peninsular Thailand.
Thailand has a total area of 198,115 square miles (513,120 square kilometers). This is an area about twice the size of the state of Wyoming. The coastline totals about 2,000 miles (3,219 kilometers), while the land boundaries with neighboring countries totals 3,022 miles (4,863 kilometers). The population of Thailand was estimated in July of 2006 to be about 65 million, or nearly 326 people per square mile (126 per square kilometer).
Thailand’s history has proven to be like a walk on a tightrope. It is the only Southeast Asian country that was not colonized by Europeans. To avoid colonial occupation, the country’s kings often danced a fine line between the European powers and played them off against each other. This high-wire tradition of maintaining political independence was evident during both twentieth century World Wars. In World War I, Siam joined the Allies in 1917. In World War II, Thailand first became an ally of Japan and intended to declare war on the United States and the United Kingdom. However, the Thai ambassador to the United States refused to deliver the declaration, so the United States never reciprocated by declaring war on Thailand. This strange turn of events was one of the most interesting diplomatic feats accomplished by a country during the twentieth century.
Revolving civilian and military governments have typified Thai politics in the twentieth century. The government has recently been a constitutional monarchy ruling under a constitution that was adopted in 1997. However, a military coup in 2006 suspended that constitution. The primary source for stability during Thailand’s turbulent times has been the king. At times, he has taken the side of either the military or the civilian government. The king’s power is tremendous, although not necessarily drawn from the constitution.
Thais have a level of respect and reverence for their king that is virtually unmatched in the world today. Some view him almost as a god. Fortunately, most of the kings have been very benevolent to the people and have acted in their best interests. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was the longest-reigning monarch in the world today. He was born in 1927 and he assumed the throne in 1946, making him also the longest reigning monarch that assumed the throne as an adult. A major celebration took place in 2006 to celebrate his sixtieth anniversary as king. King Bhumibol Adulyadej reigned for 70 years and 126 days, until he passed away on October 13th, 2016. He remains extremely popular with the people of Thailand, and they consider him to be the reason that their democratic government was installed in 1992. His son, the present King of Thailand, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, accepted the throne on December 1, 2016, as the oldest Thai monarch to assume the throne. King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s coronation ceremony will take place, this year, from May 4th to 6th, 2019.
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Minister announces review of mental health legislation
Mar 19th 2019 12:40PM
Legislation governing the treatment of people with mental health issues will be reviewed, Scotland’s Mental Health Minister has announced.
Clare Haughey said Scotland’s Mental Health Act was “groundbreaking” when it came into force in 2005 but that it was time to re-examine it.
It will now be reviewed along with legislation covering adults with incapacity and those requiring support and protection.
In a statement to Holyrood, Ms Haughey said the review will put those with experience of mental health problems and their carers at the centre.
She said: “This overarching review will examine the full legislative framework which supports and protects those with a mental disorder.
“People affected by profound mental health issues must have the same rights as everyone else.
“This includes respecting the right to have a private and family life, protection from discrimination as well as participating in those decisions which involve them.”
She added: “We need to hear the voices of those who have been through mental health difficulties and accessed mental health services and their carers, as well as partners and stakeholders.”
The review will cover the use of seclusion and restraint, which she said should only be used as a “last resort”.
We welcome the announcement by the @ScotGov of a full review of #mentalhealth and capacity law in Scotland. We look forward to contributing to the review to ensure mental health law is fit for the future, and supports the rights of people receiving treatment and support. pic.twitter.com/OzXBynysno
— SAMH (@SAMHtweets) March 19, 2019
There was cross-party support for the announcement, with all parties stressing that everyone, including people with mental health problems, should be empowered to make decisions about their own lives.
Labour’s David Stewart welcomed the review saying both the Mental Health Scotland Act and the Adults With Incapacity Act, currently under review, were pioneering at the time but “in light of current international human rights laws, they now look increasingly dated”.
Conservative MSP Annie Wells asked when the review would conclude and for a timetable for its recommendations to be implemented.
Ms Haughey said it is expected to take around a year but would not commit to a timetable, saying doing so would not do “justice” to the issue.
Backbench SNP MSP Angela Constance said that despite an increase in the number of mental health officers, 22 of Scotland’s 32 local authorities still have a shortage of these staff.
Ms Haughey said it is up to local authorities to ensure they have sufficient mental health officers but the government has contacted interested parties regarding possible ways to increase their numbers.
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Home Parliamentary Business Bills and Legislation Browse Bills Digests Bills Digests alphabetical index 2008–09 Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009
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Date introduced: 14 May 2009
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Home Affairs
Commencement: The main operative sections (Schedule 1) commence on 1 July 2011 provided that section 3 of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Act 2009 commences before 1 July 2011; aAll other sections commence on the day of Royal Assent.
Links: The relevant links to the Bill, Explanatory Memorandum and second reading speech can be accessed via BillsNet, which is at http://www.aph.gov.au/bills/. When Bills have been passed they can be found at ComLaw, which is at http://www.comlaw.gov.au/.
The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that reductions in fuel excise, resulting from the government s commitment to cut fuel taxes to offset the initial effect on fuel prices of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), also apply to the customs tariffs (duty) on imported fuels.
The Rudd Government made the commitment to cut fuel taxes in its CPRS White Paper.[1]The government expects that the CPRS will result in higher fuel prices, and proposes to cut fuel taxes to offset the initial effects of the CPRS on prices. In essence, the proposal is a form of adjustment assistance to fuel users. The proposals to reduce fuel excise are contained in the Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009. For further background and information on the excise proposals, see the Bills Digest for that Bill.[2]
Tariffs (customs duties) on imports are set at the same levels as excises on comparable domestically-produced goods. A lower rate of excise than customs duty on a good would amount to protection for local producers of that good. The Bill seeks to ensure that any excise reductions are also incorporated into reduced customs tariffs. As with the excise proposals, the Bill provides for:
a reduction, on 1 July 2011, of 2.455 cents per litre in the general rate of customs duty on fuels (38.143 cents per litre) to 35.688 cents per litre for one year
if warranted, further customs duty reductions on five rate-reducing days with the first additional reduction beginning on 1 July 2012 and last on 1 July 2014, and
the amount of the reductions will depend on how much emissions permit auction prices have increased.
This Bills Digest should be read in conjunction with the related Bills Digest for the Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009.
Details of the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme are set out in the Bills Digest for Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009.
Committee consideration
The Bill has been referred to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 15 June 2009.[3]
The reductions in customs tariffs will reduce revenue. How much revenue will fall is not clear because the revenue effects are being recalculated following the Rudd Government s decision to delay the implementation of the CPRS for a year and set the unit price of emissions at $10 for one year.
Schedule 1 of the Bill amends the Customs Tariff Act 1995 (the Customs Tariff Act).
Item 1 inserts a new section 19A. Proposed subsection 19A(1) provides for the substitution of a new customs tariff rate by allowing for, on a rate-reducing day ,[4] the lowering of an existing rate of customs duty (the designated amount ) by the amount of a rate reduction .[5]
Proposed subsection 19A(2) defines designated amount to mean $0.35688 (that is, the amount from 1 July 2011):paragraph 19A(2)(a) or, if another amount has been previously substituted, that substituted amount: paragraph 19A(2)(b). This means that, under proposed paragraph 19A(2)(b), the designated amount can be an amount that was inserted on a rate-reducing day.
Proposed subsection 19A(3) provides for the alteration of the customs tariff rates applying to different fuels, as set out in various schedules of the Customs Tariff Act, in accordance with proposed subsection 19A(2).
Item 2 contains bulk amendments which substitute the first revised rate (that is, the $0.35688 per litre applying from 1 July 2011) into the customs tariff schedule which lists all the goods subject to duty and the respective rates of duty.
Item 3 is an applications provision which provides, for the absence of doubt, that the rate amendments in item 2 apply only to goods imported into Australia on or after 1 July 2011 and goods imported into Australia before that date where the time for working out the import duty on the goods had not occurred before that date.
Members, Senators and Parliamentary staff can obtain further information from the Parliamentary Library on (02) 6277 2464.
[1]. Department of Climate Change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: Australia s Low Pollution Future, December 2008. pp. 17 16 and 17–17, viewed 28 May 2009, http://www.climatechange.gov.au/whitepaper/report/index.html
[2]. Richard Webb, Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009, Bills Digest, no. 146, 2008 09, Parliamentary Library, Canberra, 2009,
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bd/2008-09/09bd146.pdf.
[3]. Details of the inquiry are available at: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/Committee/economics_ctte/cprs_2_09/index.htm
[4]. This term has the same meaning as in proposed section 6AA of the Excise Tariff Act 1921.
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Mine victim photographer ‘continued shooting pics’
Photographer Joao Silva u2013 a member of the famous Bang-Bang Club which documented township violence in South Africa during the 1990s u2013 has been badly injured by a mine in Afghanistan.
Photographer Joao Silva ? a member of the famous Bang-Bang Club which documented township violence in South Africa during the 1990s ? has been badly injured by a mine in Afghanistan.
Silva suffered serious injuries to both legs along with other wounds after stepping on a mine, reported the New York Times for which the photographer was working at the time.
?Those of you who know Joao will not be surprised to learn that throughout this ordeal he continued to shoot pictures,? said NYT executive editor Bill Keller.
The award-winning photographer was treated at a military hospital in Kandahar Province.
He is reported to have lost part of his lower legs.
Joao Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1966 and started taking pictures in 1989.
His first job as a photographer was with the Alberton Record, a local newspaper in South Africa.
He then moved to Johannesburg-based newspaper, The Star, before joining Associated Press in 1994.
Silva has worked as a contract photographer for the New York Times for the past ten years.
The Bang-Bang Club book – which he produced with fellow photographer Greg Marinovich – covered the atrocities in South Africa during the last days of apartheid.
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EPA’s Absurd Defense of Its Greenhouse Gas Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a court brief in 2011 in its ongoing litigation over the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Amazingly, they are saying it would be absurd to follow the law. I’m not joking, as I will demonstrate below. The Institute for Energy Research (IER) has consistently opposed granting the federal government even further intervention into the operation of the economy and specifically of energy markets. Ironically, EPA’s own court documents are evidence of just how burdensome and unrealistic their stated objectives are, and why our opposition is sound.
In 2009, EPA had to decide whether or not greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide endanger public health and welfare and therefore needed to be regulated using the Clean Air Act. At the time, IER and other groups warned EPA that Congress never intended EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. We warned EPA that if they went forward, the Clean Air Act would require EPA to not only regulate large sources of carbon dioxide emissions, but also 260,000 office buildings, 150,000 warehouses, 100,000 schools, 92,000 health care facilities, 58,000 food service buildings, 37,000 churches, 26,000 places of public assembly, and 17,000 farms. IER argued that these regulations would be incredibly expensive, that the regulations would be required by law, and that Congress never intended to regulate greenhouse gases from these, or any other sources, with the Clean Air Act.
EPA, however, announced steps to regulate greenhouse gases. To sidestep the clear letter of the law, EPA came up with two rules explaining why it was avoiding what the law required. The first is commonly referred to as the “timing decision,” with the official title of “Reconsideration of Interpretation of Regulations that Determine Pollutants Covered by Clean Air Act Permitting Programs,” 75 Fed. Reg. 17,004 (April 2, 2010). The regulation is known as the “tailoring rule,” or more officially, “Prevention of Significant Deterioration [PSD] and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule,” 75 Fed. Reg. 31,514 (June 3, 2010).
The tailoring rule in particular is an obvious attempt by EPA to avoid regulating smaller sources of carbon dioxide emissions, despite what the law states. In the tailoring rule, EPA states that it couldn’t follow the plain text of the law because that would lead to “absurd results.” At the time, we argued that EPA was getting it backwards. The only reason that following the law would lead to “absurd results” is because Congress never intended EPA to regulate greenhouse gases in the first place. In truth, it was EPA’s absurd decision to regulate carbon dioxide that now produced the predictably absurd results.
EPA is now in court because they deliberately violating the Clean Air Act.
They are asking the Court to allow them to implement the parts of the Act they want, and avoid the parts they know will cause political upheaval from sea to shining sea, proof that their decision to grant themselves more governmental powers was a political one. In the present post, we’ll concentrate on the sheer size and absurdity of the regulatory burdens of the EPA’s announced position, using the EPA’s own brief as our source.
On pages 48–49 of the EPA’s brief, EPA admits what we told them two years ago—that the Clean Air Act forces EPA to regulate over a million carbon dioxide sources and doing so will be incredibly expensive. Here’s what EPA’s brief says:
EPA studied and considered the breadth and depth of the projected administrative burdens in the Tailoring Rule. There, EPA explained that immediately applying the literal PSD statutory threshold of 100/250 tpy (tons per year) to greenhouse gas emissions, when coupled with the “any increase” trigger for modifications…would result in annual PSD permit applications submitted to State and local permitting agencies to increase nationwide from 280 to over 81,000 per year, a 300-fold increase…Following a comprehensive analysis, EPA estimated that these additional PSD permit applications would require State permitting authorities to add 10,000 full-time employees and incur additional costs of $1.5 billion per year just to process these applications, a 130-fold increase in the costs to States of administering the PSD program….Sources needing operating permits would jump from 14,700 to 6.1 million as a result of application of Title V to greenhouse gases, a 400-fold increase.…Hiring the 230,000 full-time employees necessary to produce the 1.4 billion work hours required to address the actual increase in permitting functions would result in an increase in Title V administration costs of $21 billion per year. [Bold added.]
These are astounding figures. And remember—these are the government’s costs in handling the new paperwork. The above estimates do NOT take into account the economic burden on the people who would be affected by the rules—building owners, hospitals, large nursing homes, large churches, as well as industry and regular consumers. But EPA’s argument here is that it’s really, really expensive and difficult to follow the law, therefore, EPA should not be forced to follow the law. We would like to remind EPA that we told them that this was the foreseeable outcome two years ago when they decided to regulate greenhouse gases.
EPA Is Reasonable?
The defender of the EPA might object, arguing that the purpose of the timing and tailoring rules is to mitigate the immediate impact of the new burden. So why are people still complaining? EPA recognized the absurdity of a brute-force application of the law, and so will exempt itself for a while.
But wait just a moment. Here’s where EPA states that it will move ahead with its plans to regulate millions of emitters of carbon dioxide (e.g. buildings, hospitals, churches, etc.), even though the administrative costs might still be prohibitively high in 2016. From page 83 of the brief:
While EPA acknowledges that come 2016, the administrative burdens may still be so great that compliance at the 100/250 tpy level may still be absurd or impossible to administer at that time, that does not mean that the Agency is not moving toward the statutory thresholds. To the contrary, through this regulatory process “EPA intends to require full compliance with the CAA applicability provisions of the PSD and Title V programs….”…(explaining that EPA will implement the tailored approach “by applying PSD and Title V at threshold levels that are as close to the statutory levels as possible, and do so as quickly as possible….”).
EPA admits that it is “absurd or impossible” to follow the law. That should give EPA and the courts pause. It if is “absurd or impossible” to follow the law, that’s because Congress never intended EPA to regulate greenhouse gases in the first place. That’s the most obvious conclusion. The US public is now seeing the corruption implicit in legislation which invites an agency like the EPA to make a determination whether it should be given more powers over our economy or not. Should we be surprised that they cunningly declare a serious national problem exists that requires their immediate exercise of power, but that they also choose a political answer, regardless of the law, since Congress has avoided the hard choices by giving them these powers?
The EPA’s brief is yet another example of the Kafka-esque world in which Americans now find themselves. When the Clean Air Act was passed, nobody would have possibly thought it would one day be used to regulate the emission of carbon dioxide—what plants breathe!—as a pollutant harmful to human health. The very notion would have struck most Americans as absurd—and indeed the EPA’s analysis confirms that intuition.
It seems that the only thing preventing the enforcement of absolute absurdity right now is the government recognizing that it itself wouldn’t be able to keep up with its own paperwork. That is small reassurance indeed. With private investment stalled and unemployment unacceptably high, the American economy needs regulatory certainty and lower energy prices, not ever more constraints and hurdles placed on job creators.
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Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking an order to restrain security agencies in the country from arresting him.
Okorocha told the court that some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, led by its Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, are instigating the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to move against him.
Consequently, he prayed the court to enforce his fundamental human rights which he said was under threat.
Cited as respondents in the suit are the Attorney General of the Federation, the Inspector General of Police, the Department of State Service, the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices, and other related offenses Commission, and the Code of Conduct Tribunal.\
Okorocha told the court that his travail started after he opposed the emergence of some persons as leaders of the ruling APC.
He said his adversaries in the party had since instigated the EFCC to hound him and his family members, saying they were equally behind the reason the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, refused to issue him with a certificate of return after being declared the winner of the last election in lmo West Senatorial District.
The two fundamental right suits he filed before the court were marked as FHC/ABJ/CS/474/19 and FHC/ABJ/CS/475/19.
Okorocha told the court that he has, “found himself in a politically adversarial position to some powerful members of the APC over the choice of the national officers of the party before and since the convention of the party was conducted to elect new national officers of the APC”.
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He said: “The applicant had supported a candidate for the position of National Chairman of the APC other than the current incumbent, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole and by reason of various events that occurred at the time including the detention of Mr. Adams Oshiomhole by the EFCC on allegations of corruption it was assumed that the applicant was a party to that incident.
“Some of the supporters of Adams Oshiomhole at the time are currently very influential in the Federal Government of Nigeria, which is controlled by the APC.
“These individuals including the said current National Chairman have decided to carry out a vendetta and revenge against the applicant including instigating the
“Respondents against the applicant upon their spurious conclusion without evidence that the applicant is guilty of corrupt practices as Governor of Imo State.
“The respondents, proceeding from this position that the applicant is guilty unless proved innocent, between 2017 and now, have expended not less than 25 invitations to the applicant In purported investigation of projects executed by the into state government In a bid to find some material to justify their conclusion that he is guilty of corrupt practices.
“This witch hunt, is clearly politically motivated, baseless, and has been designed only to discredit and humiliate the applicant in a bid to decimate him politically.
“Sometime in May 2017 the 4th respondent, acting in furtherance of the plan of the applicant’s political enemies, invaded the applicant’s house in Jos, Plateau State and while holding his staff and family members hostage ransacked the entire house in the hope to find something incriminating against the applicant.
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“The matter became a subject of litigation in the Jos division of this honourable court over the validity of the search warrant the 4th respondent relied on for that invasion and although the court found that the search warrant was valid, it also confirmed at page 22 of the judgment, based on the admission of the 4th respondent, that nothing incriminating was found against the applicant.
“Rather than give up their pursuit of the applicant, the respondents acting on the instigation of the applicant’s enemies, have continued the vendetta against the applicant.
“Upon the conclusion of the senatorial election held on the February 23rd 2019 into the national assembly, the applicant was duly elected as senator to represent Imo West Senatorial District by the majority of lawful votes cast in the election.
“The applicant’s political adversaries within the APC were embittered by the applicant’s victory at the polls and have sworn to ensure that the applicant is either not sworn in as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or is removed for not fulfilling the constitutional minimum attendance requirements.
“In this regard, they instigated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withhold the applicant’s certificate of return on the unfounded allegation that the Returning Officer was coerced to declare the applicant the winner of the election.
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“Not satisfied with the withholding of the applicant’s certificate of return, those powerful forces with the APC have commenced fresh spate of attacks against the applicant on the baseless allegation that he embezzled the funds belonging to Imo state government in order to ensure that the applicant is politically decimated.
“The plan has now reached a crescendo and desperation in view of the failure of the respondents to find anything incriminating against the applicant and the decision now taken is to arrest and detain the applicant as soon as he hands over power to the newly elected governor of Imo state on the 29tln of May 2019 and using the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, detain him indefinitely in order that cause may be found to have him removed from his seat as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to which he was recently elected.
“The plan has also been expanded to include a reign of terror against the applicant’s political, business associates and family members including his wife and children Uioma Rochas, Uju Rochas, Uchechi Rochas, Ahamefula Rochas, Amen Rochas, Amamchi Rochas, Uzoma Anwukah and Uche Nwosu.
“The applicant has not committed any offence to warrant the incessant threats of arrest, detention, the harassment and terror being unleashed upon him and his family.
“It is therefore important that this honorable court as the “Fundamental Rights Court” intervene to ensure that this abuse of power and misfeasance in public office by the respondents against the applicant is abated and the fundamental rights of the applicant to be presumed innocent until proved guilty, to liberty and freedom of movement are enforced.
“Unless this honorable court intervenes to enforce and/or secure the enforcement of the applicant’s fundamental rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and to freedom of movement and liberty by making the orders sought in this application, the 1st to 6th respondents will be used by the applicant’s political adversaries for the purpose of their infringement as stated above.
“The applicant apprehends from the above that his fundamental rights and those of his staff, associates and family members are about to be infringed by the respondents in Abuja as soon as he commences his next assignment as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“This honorable court has the power to grant the reliefs sought in this application to enforce the applicant’s fundamental human rights.
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Azizul Haque (scholar)
Azizul Haque (1919 – 8 August 2012) was an imam and scholar from Bangladesh.
Azizul Hoque was born to a distinguished family in 1919, Louhajang, Munshiganj District, British India. After completing his initial formal studies, Azizul Hoque joined Jamia Islamia Yunusia, Brahmanbaria at the age of 7, where he spent four years under the care of Shamsul Haq Faridpuri. Later he joined Bara Katara Madrasa in 1931 and completed Master of Arts spending 12 years there. Then, in 1943, he went to India for acquiring higher studies and joined Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin, Dabhel in Surat. In Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin, Dabhel he received education from Shabbir Ahmad Usmani. Finally he went to Darul Uloom Deoband to study Tafsir, pursuing a degree from Idris Kandhalvi.
Hoque began his career as a teacher in Boro Katara Madrasah situated in Dhaka. He served there from 1946 to 1952. Then, he began teaching at Jamia Qurania Arabia, Lalbagh since its establishment in 1952 and served there teaching the students Sahih al-Bukhari including other important books till 1985. In 1978, he played an important role in the formation of Bangladesh Qawmi Madrasah Education Board. He served as its general secretary. In 1979, he taught Sahih al-Bukhari in the Department of Islamic Studies of University of Dhaka as a visiting professor and served there for three years. In 1986, Allama Azizul Hoque established a Madrasah called Jamiah Muhammadia Arabia in "Muhammadi Housing" near Mohammadpur, Dhaka. In 1988, he purchased a piece of land near Saat Masjid in Muhammadpur and transferred the Jamiah Muhammadia Arabia there renaming it to Jamia Rahmania Arabia Dhaka. For a long tenure, he was the chief Sheikul Hadith of this institution. He served as the principal of Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh for a certain period of time.
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Assam: Despite being in draft NRC, paralysed man declared ‘foreigner’
The Siasat Daily 08 Jul 2019
The petitioner – Azizul Hoque, a resident of Nagaon district’s Singi Pathar village – who has been languishing in a detention centre since March 24, 2017, was declared a foreigner by a tribunal in Assam through ex-parte proceedings after he failed to appear before it because of lower-limb paralysis after he met with an accident....
National Register of Citizens: Assam man suffers double blow
The Hindu 07 Jul 2019
Paralysis robbed Azizul Hoque of his ability to work, before the system, members of his family said, snatched his identity as an Indian more than two years ago ... Hoque’s elder brother, told The Hindu from their village Singiapathar in central Assam’s Nagaon district ... But Azizul and many others in my family are always at home....
Supreme Court our only hope says family of paralysed Assam man declared a forei...
The Supreme Court remains only ray of hope for the family of Azizul Hoque, a partially paralysed man from Assam’s Nagaon district languishing in a detention camp for declared foreigners since 2017....
SC notice to governments on paralysed ‘alien’
Azizul Hoque, who is lodged in a detention centre since 2017, was declared a foreigner by an Assam tribunal as he failed to appear due to lower-limb paralysis, the ......
SC issues notice to Centre and Assam govt on a plea filed by person declared foreigner by Foreigners Tribunal
A Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Aniruddha Bose asked the Centre and Assam government to file their reply on the petition of Azizul Hoque. Hoque has been languishing in detention since March 24, 2017, on the basis of an ex-parte order passed by the Foreign Tribunal declaring him a foreigner....
Paralysed man declared foreigner: SC issues notice to Centre, Assam
Azizul Hoque, represented by senior advocate Sanjay Hegde and advocate Anas Tanwir, was declared to be a foreigner by the foreigners tribunal in Assam and he had been in detention since March 24, 2017 ... Hoque had failed to appear before the tribunal to present his defence due to lower limb paralysis....
Two move SC against Assam Foreigners' Tribunal order on citizenship
Suryaa 03 Jul 2019
In the first case, Azizul Hoque, through advocate Anas Tanwir, moved the apex court against the tribunal order, which declared him a foreigner. Hoque, who is paralysed below the waist, contended that he has been languishing in detention since March 2017, on the basis of an ex-parte order declaring him to be a foreigner. ....
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Azizul Hoque was declared a foreigner by a tribunal in Assam in ex-parte proceedings as he failed to appear due to lower-limb paralysis, and has been lodged in a detention centre since March 24, 2017, according to the petition. Despite Hoque’s name appearing in the draft NRC of ......
Paralysed Assam Man Declared Foreigner as He Fails to Appear Before Tribunal, SC Seeks Reply ...
Azizul Hoque, who is lodged in a detention centre since March 24, 2017, was declared a ......
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The Buffalo News 10 Feb 2019
Following are real estate transactions over $5,000 as listed in records of the Erie County clerk’s office for the week ending Dec. 28. AKRON. • 8 Flint Ave., Ronald C. Barone to Heather M. Mandell; Joseph H. Mandell, $223,000. ALDEN. • 11138 Fairview Drive, Shari L. Kersch; Margaret A ... • 448 Minnesota, Kevin Clark to Azizul Hoque; Mintoo Hoque, $60,000 ... EDEN....
'If we go they will kill us': Rohingya refugees fear repatriation to Myanmar
CNN 15 Nov 2018
"I am scared, I was told that if we don't go back our house here will be broken," 60-year-old Rohingya refugee Rahima Khatun told CNN from Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh ... Read More ... JUST WATCHED ... Rohingya refugee Rashida Begum stands next to her 15-year-old son, Azizul Hoque, as he is treated on September 13, at a hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ... ....
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"Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defense of human rights," Naidoo wrote ... Read More ... JUST WATCHED ... Replay. More Videos ... Rohingya refugee Rashida Begum stands next to her 15-year-old son, Azizul Hoque, as he is treated on September 13, at a hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh ... ....
Myanmar military leaders accused of genocide in country's north
CNN 27 Aug 2018
"Military necessity would never justify killing indiscriminately, gang raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire villages ... Read More ... Tiny reminders of rape ... Photos ... Hide Caption ... Photos ... Rohingya refugee Rashida Begum stands next to her 15-year-old son, Azizul Hoque, as he is treated on September 13, at a hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh....
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Farnham Park
Farnham (disambiguation)
Farnham, Quebec
Farnham Park may refer to:
Farnham Park, a hamlet near Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire
Farnham Park, a park in Farnham, Surrey
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Coordinates: 51°13′N 0°48′W / 51.21°N 0.80°W / 51.21; -0.80
Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley. The town is 34.5 miles (55.5 km) WSW of London in the extreme west of Surrey, adjacent to the border with Hampshire. By road Guildford is 11 miles (17 km) to the east and Winchester a further 28 miles (45 km) along the same axis as London. Farnham is the largest town in Waverley, and one of the five largest conurbations in Surrey. It is of historic interest, with many old buildings, including a number of Georgian houses. Farnham Castle overlooks the town. A short distance southeast of the town centre are the ruins of Waverley Abbey, Moor Park House and Mother Ludlam's Cave. Farnham is twinned with Andernach in Germany. It is drained by the River Wey (North Branch) which is navigable only to canoes at this point.
Farnham's history and present status are mainly the result of its geography; a combination of river, streams, fresh water springs and varied soils, together with a temperate climate, was attractive in prehistoric times. The geology of the area continues to influence the town, both in terms of communications, scenic and botanic variety and the main local industries of agriculture and minerals extraction. Farnham Geological Society is an active organisation in the town, and the Museum of Farnham has a collection of geological samples and fossils.
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Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley.
Farnham may also refer to:
Farnham, Dorset
Farnham, Essex
Farnham, North Yorkshire
Farnham, Suffolk
Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire
Farnham, New York
Farnham, Virginia
Farnham Creek, a stream in Minnesota
Farnham Lake, a lake in Minnesota
Farnham (surname)
Farnham the Drunk, a character in the popular role playing game Diablo
Hubert Farnham, the title character in the Robert A. Heinlein novel Farnham's Freehold
Farnham's Legend, a science fiction novel, based on the X computer game series
The Farnhams, a family in the British TV soap Brookside
Baron Farnham, a title in the peerage of Ireland
Farnam (disambiguation)
Farnum (disambiguation)
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Farnham is a city in Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 8,330, making it the second most populated community in the RCM.
The city of Farnham takes its name from the historic Township of Farnham. The latter is one of the few townships established before 1800, and was named in remembrance of Farnham, UK. The first "Farnhamiens", mostly Loyalists from the United States, arrived in 1800.
On December 28, 1876, Farnham got the status of "town". On March 8, 2000, the town of Farnham and the municipality of Rainville merged to form the new "City of Farnham". The total population is now numbered at 8,000 inhabitants.
Farnham is also the site of an important military training camp, used primarily by the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School and local militia.
Built on the shores of the Yamaska River, at the border of the Saint-Lawrence lowlands, the city of Farnham is located in the center of important cities such as Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (West) and Granby (North-East).
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From the Museum Archives: The brutal, first written account of Yampa Valley
Craig Daily Press 10 Jul 2019
In 1839, Thomas Jefferson Farnham left Peoria, Illinois leading 19 men on one of the first overland journeys to Oregon ... Farnham described Egeria Park as, “…a beautiful savannah stretching northwesterly from our camp in an irregular manner ... They were now headed for Fort Davy Crockett in Browns Park ... Farnham’s relief was palpable....
He was abducted and forced into a deadly scheme to extort marijuana from his father
More. CAMDEN, N.J. – One of the city's most shocking crimes in recent memory began with an order of takeout ... Sunday, June 30. ... Jenkins parks and leaves the vehicle to make a delivery ... He is pronounced dead at 10.10 p.m, about three hours after some 100 people had gathered at a Farnham Park vigil to pray for Jenkins' safe return....
Kidnapper of NJ councilman's grandson allegedly demanded drug ransom before body was found
Finger Lakes Times 04 Jul 2019
CAMDEN, N.J ... He operated a business selling platter meals on Facebook. Police discovered Jenkins' body late Tuesday night at an abandoned garage in the city's Liberty Park neighborhood, about a block from where Jenkins lived with his father on Mechanic Street ... Jenkins Jr ... New Jersey Gov ... A vigil was held in Farnham Park, across from Camden High ... said ... ....
Kidnapper of Camden City Councilman’s grandson sent photo to his father before body was found, ...
Philadelphia Daily News 03 Jul 2019
In a telephone interview, Jenkins Sr ... Someone also sent him a photograph of his son tied up, Jenkins said. “They never called back,” the council president said ... A vigil was held in Farnham Park across from Camden High ... at an abandoned garage in the Liberty Park neighborhood, about a block from where Jenkins lived with his father on Mechanic St ... ....
Kidnapper of NJ councilman’s grandson allegedly demanded drug ransom before body was found
CAMDEN, N.J ... He operated a business selling platter meals on Facebook. Police discovered Jenkins’ body late Tuesday night at an abandoned garage in the city’s Liberty Park neighborhood, about a block from where Jenkins lived with his father on Mechanic Street ... Jenkins Jr ... New Jersey Gov ... A vigil was held in Farnham Park, across from Camden High ... said....
Baseball returns to its origins in London Series
MLB 24 Jun 2019
In the days prior to the MLB London Series, MLB will host its Elite European Development Tournament in the London area; the top 90 teenage players from 13 European countries -- and the Ramstein Air Base in Germany -- will compete in a showcase for MLB scouts at the Farnham Park Baseball & Softball Complex....
The City of Camden celebrates Juneteenth and the rich legacy of our African-American community at Farnham Park in Camden’s Parkside neighborhood.
Public Technologies 16 Jun 2019
The City of Camden celebrates Juneteenth and the rich legacy of our African-American community at Farnham Park in Camden's Parkside neighborhood ... The City of Camden celebrates Juneteenth and the rich legacy of our African-American community at Farnham Park in Camden's Parkside neighborhood....
In Camden, there will be two Juneteenth festivals this year. There’s a rift between the ...
Philadelphia Daily News 14 Jun 2019
Now, because of political tension and miscommunication, there will be two events. One Saturday at Farnham Park hosted by the city. And a second — also at Farnham but on June 30 — organized by Mangaliso Davis, who claims the city excluded him from planning sessions because of his criticism’s of Camden’s Democratic party machine ... Related stories ... ....
Stretching it out before we walk Camden with Mayor Moran this morning in Parkside’s Farnham Park! @CtLcamden @PBCIP
Public Technologies 24 Apr 2019
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Delta Controls Acquires the Mobrey Range of Instruments from Emerson
Process and Control Today 24 Apr 2019
Delta Controls, based in Farnham, UK, has announced it has signed an agreement to purchase the Mobrey line of measurement products manufactured in Slough, UK from Emerson, the U.S.-headquartered global technology and engineering company ... Chris Webborn, Director for Nuclear Applications at Delta Controls, said ... Riverside Business Park ... Farnham. Surrey....
Disneyland will open Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge nearly a month earlier than expected
The Mercury News 07 Mar 2019
The date of the opening of the first new Disneyland land in decades — and the one devoted to the ever-popular Star Wars franchise — has been one of the most eagerly awaited pieces of information to come out of the parks ... “I think it’ll be a relief and a step closer to reality, ” Farnham said....
Shock for neighbours as suspect arrested over fatal stabbing of father on train
Belfast Telegraph 05 Jan 2019
Police outside the address in Farnham, where the murder suspect and a 27-year-old woman were arrested (Lizzie Roberts/PA) ... The 59-year-old, who has lived in the area for 11 years, said she believes she saw a man matching the description of the suspect on Thursday morning standing in the nearby Farnham Hospital car park using a mobile phone....
A Mountain Biker Is OMAC Honoree
The East Hampton Star 31 Dec 2018
For years, Farnham, a native of Newfoundland who came out from Massapequa Park to fish in Montauk at the age of 18, would alternately longline for tilefish 100 miles or so offshore for 10 days and stay onshore for 10, a routine that worked out quite well, he and his wife agreed, when it came to parenting their three children....
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Walton G. Robert Funeral Home Records
Walton G. Roberts (1867-1959) owned and operated a funeral home/parlor/mortuary beginning in 1887 in Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE. During his time in the business Mr. Roberts became the President of the National Association of Embalmers and was the President of the Nebraska Funeral Directors’ Association in 1900.
The funeral home began operations with its first service taking place on January 5, 1888 and continued through to end of 1948. The records created at the mortuary were offered for sale on eBay back in 2010 and were purchased by us with the intent of preserving the records while making them available for research by family historians. When we purchased the records we didn’t realize nor understand the extent of the collection until we actually received them. We did not received just a few records or even a part of the collection, we received ALL of the W.G. Roberts Mortuary records. The collection consisted of five large books with both hand written and typed funeral record information for every person entrusted with and cared for at the mortuary. The first record in the first book is actually record #1 and is for an unnamed infant, child of H. Goldwater with a death date of Jan 5, 1888, and burial in the Jewish Cemetery on Jan 6, 1888. The last record of the last bookwas for a Dr. Frederick W. Webster and is dated Dec 30, 1948, presumably the last funeral handle by the W.G. Roberts Mortuary.
The records from 1888 through to 1929 were written in large ledger style books and contained the following information for each person and spanned across the two open pages when laid flat:
Record No. | Date of Death | Size | Style | Price | Deceased Name | Relative | Ordered by | Age | Robe | Zinc Box | Total | When Buried | Where Buried | Residence
Book 1 contains record #1 (Jan 5, 1888) thru record #6316 (Dec 31, 1911)
Book 2 contains record #6317 (Jan 2, 1912) thru record #12676 (Jul 2, 19__)
Book 3 contains record #9454 (Jan 1, 1930) thru record #10460 (Jun 5, 1939)
Book 4 contains record #10461 (Jun 10, 1939) thru record #11457 (Dec 30, 1948)
The records beginning from Jan 1, 1930 through to the final record on Dec 30, 1948 were recorded on individual record sheets that were stacked one on top of the other in a book until the book became nearly too big to handle. There are two books of this type, the first contains records from Jan 1, 1930 to Jun 5, 1939, the second book contains records from Jun 10, 1939 to the final record of Dec 30, 1948.
Both of the sample records above are for the only two people we are aware of that the W.G. Roberts Mortuary handled that were legally executed by the State of Nebraska at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. They are Alson B. Cole on Dec 20, 1920, and Timothy Iron Bear on Dec 1, 1948.
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Overview of Matthew
E. Jesus Performs Various Miracles in Galilee (8:1–9:34)
A leper healed (8:1-4)
Faith of an army officer (8:5-13)
Jesus heals many in Capernaum (8:14-17)
Requirements for following Jesus (8:18-22)
Jesus calms storm on the Sea of Galilee (8:23-27)
Demons sent into swine (8:28-34)
Jesus heals paralytic (9:1-8)
Jesus calls Matthew (9:9-13)
Question about fasting (9:14-17)
Ruler’s daughter resurrected; woman touches Jesus’ outer garment (9:18-26)
Jesus heals the blind and the speechless (9:27-34)
look!: See study note on Mt 1:20.
a leper: A person suffering from a serious skin disease. The leprosy referred to in the Bible is not restricted to the disease known by that name today. Anyone diagnosed with leprosy became an outcast from society until he was cured.—Le 13:2, ftn., 45, 46; see Glossary, “Leprosy; Leper.”
did obeisance to him: Or “bowed down to him; honored him.” People mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures also bowed down when meeting prophets, kings, or other representatives of God. (1Sa 25:23, 24; 2Sa 14:4-7; 1Ki 1:16; 2Ki 4:36, 37) This man evidently recognized that he was talking to a representative of God who had power to heal people. It was appropriate to bow down to show respect for Jehovah’s King-Designate.—Mt 9:18; for more information on the Greek word used here, see study note on Mt 2:2.
+Mr 1:40-44; Lu 5:12-14
it-1 478; it-2 266
w72 581; ad 1075, 1242; w68 351
he touched him: The Mosaic Law required that lepers be quarantined to protect others from contamination. (Le 13:45, 46; Nu 5:1-4) However, Jewish religious leaders imposed additional rules. For example, no one was to come within four cubits, that is, about 1.8 m (6 ft) of a leper, but on windy days, the distance was 100 cubits, that is, about 45 m (150 ft). Such rules led to heartless treatment of lepers. Tradition speaks favorably of a rabbi who hid from lepers and of another who threw stones at them to keep them at a distance. By contrast, Jesus was so deeply moved by the leper’s plight that he did what other Jews would consider unthinkable—he touched the man. He did so even though he could have cured the leper with just a word.—Mt 8:5-13.
I want to: Jesus not only acknowledged the request but expressed a strong desire to respond to it, showing that he was motivated by more than just a sense of duty.
+Mt 10:7, 8
+Isa 53:4
Jesus—The Way, p. 65
12/1/2008, p. 5
jy 65; w08 12/1 5; gt 25; w86 4/15 8-9
tell no one: See study note on Mr 1:44.
show yourself to the priest: In accord with the Mosaic Law, a priest had to verify that a leper had been healed. The cured leper had to travel to the temple and bring as an offering, or gift, two live clean birds, cedarwood, scarlet material, and hyssop.—Le 14:2-32.
+Mt 9:30; 12:15, 16; Mr 7:35, 36
+Le 14:2
+Le 14:3, 4, 19, 20
+Lu 17:11-15
it-1 478-479; jy 65; gt 25; w86 4/15 9
ad 10, 1342
Capernaum: See study note on Mt 4:13.
army officer: Or “centurion,” that is, one in command of about 100 soldiers in the Roman army.
A Roman Centurion, or Army Officer, Dressed for Battle
+Lu 7:1-9
it-1 176; it-2 540; gm 88-89
sm 34-35; w81 10/1 4; g79 2/22 27; ad 293, 304; is 83; g65 3/22 28
my servant: The Greek term here rendered “servant” literally means “child; youth” and could be used of a slave who was regarded with some degree of affection, possibly a personal servant.
Or “is terribly afflicted.”
ad 1019, 1515
ad 132, 1515; w62 683
+Mt 15:28; Mr 5:34; Ac 14:9, 10
ad 851; w66 390; w51 125
many from east and west: An indication that non-Jews would have a part in the Kingdom.
recline at the table: Or “dine.” In Bible times, couches were often placed around a table at banquets or large meals. Those partaking of the meal reclined on a couch with their head toward the table, often resting their left elbow on a cushion. Food was usually taken with the right hand. To recline at a table with someone indicated close fellowship with that person. Jews at that time would normally never have done so with non-Jews.
+Lu 13:29
it-2 1179; jy 93; gt 36; w86 12/1 9
w78 9/1 28; ad 842, 864, 1652; w67 208; w62 191; w51 125; w47 88, 169; w43 6, 219; w42 103; w41 265; w39 29, 379; w38 52; w35 28; v-3 295; w31 375
gnashing of their teeth: Or “grinding (clenching) their teeth.” The expression can include the idea of anguish, despair, and anger, possibly accompanied by bitter words and violent action.
jy 93; gt 36; w86 12/1 9
ad 1580; w67 208; w43 6, 219; w39 379; w38 52; w31 375
+Lu 7:10
+Mt 9:29; 15:28; Mr 9:23
his mother-in-law: See study note on Lu 4:38.
sick with fever: See study note on Lu 4:38.
+1Co 9:5
ad 535, 570; w51 173
+Mr 5:41; Ac 3:7
after it became evening: That is, after the Sabbath day ended, as the parallel accounts at Mr 1:21-32 and Lu 4:31-40 show.
sl 66; ad 442, 1021, 1165; w62 60
in order to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: See study note on Mt 1:22.
carried: Or “carried away; removed.” Under inspiration, Matthew here applies Isa 53:4 to the miraculous cures performed by Jesus. The greater fulfillment of Isa 53:4 will occur when Jesus carries away sin completely, just as the goat “for Azazel” carried the sins of Israel into the wilderness on Atonement Day. (Le 16:10, 20-22) By carrying away sin, Jesus would eliminate the root cause of sickness for all who exercise faith in the value of his sacrifice.
it-1 226, 633; w11 8/15 11
sl 66; w62 60
the other side: That is, the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus—The Way, p. 113
jy 113; gt 44; w87 5/1 9
Son of man: Or “Son of a human.” This expression occurs about 80 times in the Gospels. Jesus used it to refer to himself, evidently emphasizing that he was truly human, born from a woman, and that he was a fitting human counterpart to Adam, having the power to redeem humankind from sin and death. (Ro 5:12, 14-15) The same expression also identified Jesus as the Messiah, or the Christ.—Da 7:13, 14; see Glossary.
nowhere to lay down his head: That is, no residence that he could call his own.
Foxes’ Dens and Birds’ Nests
Jesus—The Way, pp. 154-155
Close to Jehovah, p. 291
it-1 869, 1050; it-2 494; rr 76; jy 154-155; cl 291; w11 11/15 24; gt 65; w88 3/15 24
w72 581; ad 723, 927, 1221, 1531; kj 55; w65 409; im 220; g62 8/8 3; g61 6/22 5; w48 52
bury my father: See study note on Lu 9:59.
jy 155; gt 65; w88 3/15 25
ad 682, 1398; w62 735; w50 192
let the dead bury their dead: See study note on Lu 9:60.
it-2 790; jy 155; gt 65; w88 3/15 25
w74 95-96; w73 208-209; ad 1397-1398; w64 716; w62 219, 735; w61 109, 403; w52 639; w51 423; w50 192; w43 138
+Mr 4:36
great storm: Such storms are common on the Sea of Galilee. Its surface is about 210 m (700 ft) below sea level, and the air temperature is warmer on the sea than in the surrounding plateaus and mountains. Those conditions result in atmospheric disturbances and strong winds that can quickly whip up waves.
6/15/2015, p. 6
8/1/2012, pp. 18-19
it-1 885; w15 6/15 6; jy 113; w12 8/1 18-19; gt 44; w87 5/1 8-9
jy 113
you with little faith: Jesus did not imply an absence of faith but rather a deficiency of faith.—Mt 14:31; 16:8; Lu 12:28; see study note on Mt 6:30.
Or “fainthearted.”
+Ps 89:9; 107:29
ad 932; w63 313, 659
jy 113; gt 44; g90 10/8 12; w87 5/1 9
w62 62
region of the Gadarenes: A region on the other (the eastern) shore of the Sea of Galilee. It may have been the region extending from the sea to Gadara, which was 10 km (6 mi) from the sea. Supporting this idea, coins from Gadara often depict a ship. Mark and Luke call the area “the region of the Gerasenes.” (See study note on Mr 5:1.) The different regions may have been overlapping.—See App. A7, Map 3B, “Activity at the Sea of Galilee,” and App. B10.
two: The accounts of Mark (5:2) and Luke (8:27) mention only one demon-possessed man.—See study note on Mr 5:2.
tombs: Or “memorial tombs.” (See Glossary, “Memorial tomb.”) These tombs were evidently caves or chambers cut into the natural rock and usually located outside the cities. These burial places were avoided by the Jews because of the ceremonial uncleanness connected with them, making them an ideal haunt for crazed or demonized people.
Cliffs on the Eastern Side of the Sea of Galilee
Or “coming out of.”
+Mr 5:1-3; Lu 8:26, 27
it-1 878; it-2 540, 740; jy 114; w97 12/1 5; w92 7/15 6; gt 45; w87 5/15 8
w77 718-719; ad 613, 1123, 1134; g65 3/22 28; g63 5/8 28; w53 190
What have we to do with you, . . . ?: Or “What is there in common between us and you?” Literally translated, this rhetorical question reads: “What to us and to you?” This Semitic idiom is found in the Hebrew Scriptures (Jos 22:24; Jg 11:12; 2Sa 16:10; 19:22; 1Ki 17:18; 2Ki 3:13; 2Ch 35:21; Ho 14:8), and a corresponding Greek phrase is used in the Christian Greek Scriptures (Mt 8:29; Mr 1:24; 5:7; Lu 4:34; 8:28; Joh 2:4). The exact meaning may vary, depending on context. In this verse, it expresses hostility and repulsion, and some have suggested a rendering such as: “Do not bother us!” or “Leave us alone!” In other contexts, it is used to express a difference in viewpoint or opinion or to refuse involvement in a suggested action, without indicating disdain, arrogance, or hostility.—See study note on Joh 2:4.
torment us: A related Greek term is used of “the jailers” at Mt 18:34, so in this context, the “torment” would seem to refer to a restraining or a confining to “the abyss” mentioned in the parallel account at Lu 8:31.
+Mr 5:7-10; Lu 8:28
+Lu 4:34, 41
+Mr 1:24; Jas 2:19
it-2 869; w97 12/1 5; gt 45; w87 5/15 8
int 1156; Rbi8 1583; us 39; w74 383; ad 94, 1019, 1119, 1608; bi8-71 1360; int69 1154; bi8-63 3583; w53 190; bi7-50 767; en 53
swine: Pigs were unclean according to the Law but were raised in this area. Whether “the herders” (Mt 8:33) were Jews violating the Law is not stated. However, there was a market for pork among the many non-Jews living in the Decapolis region, since both Greeks and Romans considered pork a delicacy.
+Mr 5:11-17
w57 351; w53 190
+De 14:8
it-2 1049; gt 45; w87 5/15 8-9
w76 452; ad 1563; w57 351; w53 190
Or “steep bank.”
it-2 1049
ad 1003, 1549, 1563; w57 351; w53 190; w40 59
+Lu 8:35-37
Parallel Account
Matt. 8:2Mr 1:40-44; Lu 5:12-14
Matt. 8:3Mr 1:41; Lu 5:13
Matt. 8:5Lu 7:1-9
Matt. 8:10Lu 7:9
Matt. 8:13Lu 7:10
Matt. 8:14Mr 1:29-34; Lu 4:38-41
Matt. 8:18Mr 4:35
Matt. 8:28Mr 5:1-3; Lu 8:26, 27
Matt. 8:29Mr 5:7-10; Lu 8:28
Matt. 8:30Mr 5:11-17
Matt. 8:31Lu 8:31-34
Matt. 8:17Isa 53:4
Matt. 8:3Mt 10:7, 8
Matt. 8:3Isa 53:4
Matt. 8:4Mt 9:30; 12:15, 16; Mr 7:35, 36
Matt. 8:4Le 14:2
Matt. 8:4Le 14:3, 4, 19, 20
Matt. 8:4Lu 17:11-15
Matt. 8:10Mt 15:28; Mr 5:34; Ac 14:9, 10
Matt. 8:11Lu 13:29
Matt. 8:13Mt 9:29; 15:28; Mr 9:23
Matt. 8:141Co 9:5
Matt. 8:15Mr 5:41; Ac 3:7
Matt. 8:17Joh 1:29
Matt. 8:26Mt 14:31
Matt. 8:26Ps 89:9; 107:29
Matt. 8:29Lu 4:34, 41
Matt. 8:29Mr 1:24; Jas 2:19
Matt. 8:31De 14:8
According to Matthew
8 After he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. 2 And look! a leper came up and did obeisance to him, saying: “Lord, if you just want to, you can make me clean.”+ 3 So stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying: “I want to! Be made clean.”+ Immediately his leprosy was cleansed away.+ 4 Then Jesus said to him: “See that you tell no one,+ but go, show yourself to the priest,+ and offer the gift that Moses appointed,+ for a witness to them.”+
5 When he entered Ca·perʹna·um, an army officer came to him, pleading with him+ 6 and saying: “Sir, my servant is laid up in the house with paralysis, and he is suffering terribly.”* 7 He said to him: “When I get there, I will cure him.” 8 The army officer replied: “Sir, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but just say the word and my servant will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard that, he was amazed and said to those following him: “I tell you the truth, with no one in Israel have I found so great a faith.+ 11 But I tell you that many from east and west will come and recline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of the heavens;+ 12 whereas the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown into the darkness outside. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be.”+ 13 Then Jesus said to the army officer: “Go. Just as you have shown faith, so let it come to pass for you.”+ And the servant was healed in that hour.+
14 And Jesus, on coming into Peter’s house, saw his mother-in-law+ lying down and sick with fever.+ 15 So he touched her hand,+ and the fever left her, and she got up and began ministering to him. 16 But after it became evening, people brought him many demon-possessed ones; and he expelled the spirits with a word, and he cured all who were suffering, 17 in order to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: “He himself took our sicknesses and carried our diseases.”+
18 When Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave the command to depart for the other side.+ 19 And a scribe came up and said to him: “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”+ 20 But Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head.”+ 21 Then another of the disciples said to him: “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”+ 22 Jesus said to him: “Keep following me, and let the dead bury their dead.”+
23 And when he went aboard a boat, his disciples followed him.+ 24 Now look! a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but he was sleeping.+ 25 And they came and woke him up, saying: “Lord, save us, we are about to perish!” 26 But he said to them: “Why are you so afraid,* you with little faith?”+ Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm set in.+ 27 So the men were amazed and said: “What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him.”
28 When he came to the other side into the region of the Gad·a·renesʹ, two demon-possessed men coming out from among* the tombs met him.+ They were unusually fierce, so nobody had the courage to pass by on that road. 29 And look! they screamed, saying: “What have we to do with you, Son of God?+ Did you come here to torment us+ before the appointed time?”+ 30 A long way off from them, a herd of many swine was feeding.+ 31 So the demons began to plead with him, saying: “If you expel us, send us into the herd of swine.”+ 32 And he said to them: “Go!” With that they came out and went off into the swine, and look! the entire herd rushed over the precipice* into the sea and died in the waters. 33 But the herders fled, and going into the city, they reported everything, including the account of the demon-possessed men. 34 And look! all the city turned out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they urged him to depart from their region.+
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No safety net
Bollywood stuntwoman’s greatest feat was escaping an abusive marriage
Getta Tandon, one of Bollywood’s leading stuntwomen, says the scariest and most important stunt of her life was when she ran away from her violent husband with her two children — and no safety net.
Things started out rough for Tandon. Her mother died at nine, and her father struggled raising four daughters alone in a poor area of Mumbai. Tandon was tomboy, and with no money for school she said she spent her childhood sneaking out of the house to play cricket and other games with the neighborhood boys. Her father, concerned about her boyish tendencies and concerned that a local boy would take advantage of her, arranged a match for Tandon, then 15, with a man from a wealthier family. Within two days of making the arrangement, Tandon was married.
While initially excited at the prospect of wealth and a stable family, things quickly went south for Tandon. “I was young,” she said. “I wasn’t ready for him to touch me.” But he consummated the marriage, anyway. “He beat me every day,” said Tandon. “He beat me so hard I suffered from vertigo.” When she threatened to leave him, he told her that without him, she’d “just end up doing sex work and dancing in strip clubs.”
The suffering was such that Tandon attempted suicide by poison twice. When she took her concerns to the police, they refused to help, she said. When she fled to stay with her sister, her husband retaliated by burning her brother-in-law’s rickshaw. Finally, Tandon managed to escape with her children to a temple — thereafter she began a nomadic existence in Mumbai, desperately moving from district to district in search of work.
After a series of ventures, including one disastrous incident where she was hired as a masseuse only to discover that the establishment was, in fact, a brothel, Tandon found work with a group of Bhangra dancers on a Bollywood set. There she got her first break as a stuntwoman, although she had no experience doing anything of the kind. Six years later, Tandon is now one of the best stuntwomen in Bollywood, and one of only a few willing and able to do high-speed car chase scenes. And if people don’t like it, she says she no longer cares. “When I was married at 15, then society didn’t help or support me,” she said. “So why should I care what society thinks of me?”
Watch video of Geeta telling her story and performing stunts below:
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Baptism of Archie : A godfather revealed, much to the chagrin of Harry and Meghan ?
A lot of opportunities for the chosen few : the paris would – and will always – good train on the identity of the godparents of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, the prince Harry and Meghan Markle are desperate to keep their costs secret. In the aftermath of the ceremony ultraprivée, which was held at Windsor castle, The Times throws a stone into the pond.
By posting on the same day two official photographs of the event and the family gathering that took place in very small groups (25 people), the duke and duchess of Sussex have added still a little oil on the fire : “the duke and duchess of Sussex, at the height of the joy, share the happiness of this day and would like to thank all those who, in the world, showed their support. They revel in the chance they have of taking advantage of this special moment with their family and the godparents of Archie, “said the press release accompanying the communication on the social networks of images made by photographer Chris Allerton, insisting knowingly, by omission claimed, on the anonymity is preserved of the godfathers and godmothers, absent of the shots in question.
But, while prince Harry seems to be ready to steer public opinion by not revealing this information, which would be a first in the history of the royal family, The Times claims to know the identity of one of the sponsors of his son : Charlie van Straubenzee, a close friend of long standing who was a witness at her wedding on may 19, 2018 (and who had, moreover, delivered a speech apparently high in color, the jeering, for example, on her red hair), a few weeks before Harry takes his turn in this role, in the month of August, for the wedding of Charlie and his girlfriend Daisy. Harry and his brother William are very much linked to the family van Straubenzee and have known Charlie from the beginning of their adolescence, the school Ludgrove.
Other names circulating in addition to that : if those of Markus Anderson, Jessica Mulroney or even Serena Williams, BFF notorious duchess Meghan, and Lindsay Roth and Genevieve Hills, girlfriends, the fcc views its sides at the Wimbledon tournament in the beginning of the week, or the one of Izzy May, former employee of the group, SoHo House, held the rope, another, totally unexpected, came the same day as the baptism… Invited unexpectedly to the ceremony intimate, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who was the wet nurse, beloved of prince Harry (and Diana, without a doubt, by jealousy, took little in her heart, accusing him of having had an abortion of a child of prince Charles), has inevitably raised the questions : she who played a crucial role with William and Harry while the marriage of their parents fell in ruins she been chosen for godmother of Archie ?
The suspense continues…
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Why and How to Bring Environmental and Peace Movements Together
If war were moral, legal, defensive, beneficial to the spread of freedom, and inexpensive, we would be obliged to make abolishing it our top priority solely because of the destruction that war and preparations for war do as the leading polluters of our natural environment.
I happened to read a report this week from a U.S. environmental think tank that advocates for the U.S. military to blow up trucks full of oil and gas. The trucks belong to ISIS, and the argument is that bombing trucks does less damage than bombing oil wells, and that — if you add in vague social and economic factors rather ludicrously quantified with numerical pseudo-precision — bombing trucks does less damage than doing nothing. The option of working nonviolently for peace, disarmament, aid, and environmental protection is not considered.
If we don’t start considering new options, we’re going to run out of options entirely. The roughly $1 trillion that the United States puts into militarism each year is the number one way in which war kills and the source of an infinity of not-yet-considered options. Tiny fractions of U.S. military spending could end hunger, the lack of clean water, and various diseases globally. While converting to clean energy could pay for itself in healthcare savings, the funds with which to do it are there, many times over, in the U.S. military budget. One airplane program, the F-35, could be canceled and the funds used to convert every home in the United States to clean energy.
We’re not going to save our earth’s climate only as individuals. We need organized global efforts. The only place where the resources can be found is in the military. The wealth of the billionaires does not even begin to rival it. And taking it away from the military, even without doing anything else with it, is the single best thing that we could do for the earth. The U.S. military is the leading consumer of petroleum around, the third-greatest polluter of U.S. waterways, the top creator of superfund environmental disaster sites.
Pre-presidential campaign Donald Trump signed a letter published on December 6, 2009, on page 8 of the New York Times, a letter to President Obama that called climate change an immediate challenge. “Please don’t postpone the earth,” it said. “If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.”
Among societies that accept or promote war making, those consequences of environmental destruction will likely include yet more war making. It is of course false and self-defeating to suggest that climate change simply causes war in the absence of any human agency. There is no correlation between resource scarcity and war or environmental destruction and war. There is, however, a correlation between cultural acceptance of war and war. But this world — and especially certain parts of it, including the United States — is very accepting of war, as reflected in the belief in war’s inevitability.
Wars generating environmental destruction and mass-migration, generating more wars, generating further destruction is a vicious cycle we have to break out of by protecting the environment and abolishing war.
Toward that end, many of us are planning an event in Washington, D.C., in late September that will bring together leading environmental and peace activists. You are encouraged to sign up and participate in #NoWar2017: War and the Environment.
We’re also taking a flotilla for peace and the environment to the edge of the Pentagon in the lagoon off the Potomac River. If you don’t have a kayak we’ll get you one. Sign up here.
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Northern District of Florida
Pamela C. Marsh
Contact: Antony Joseph
www.justice.gov/usao/fln/
Crawfordville Man Sentenced on Silencer Charges
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced that Albert Hendrik “Henk” Van Der Merwe, 46, of Crawfordville, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert Hinkle to serve 12 months in prison for importing merchandise under false invoice and for receiving unregistered silencers. Van Der Merwe will serve a three-year term of supervised release after his incarceration, during which he will be subject to search by his probation officer. As a consequence of this conviction, he cannot own or possess firearms. The court also entered an order forfeiting Van Der Merwe’s interest in three silencers and in an Uzi 9 millimeter carbine.
Van Der Merwe was arrested on April 10, 2013, after agents intercepted three silencers that he had ordered from South Africa under an invoice declaring them to be motorcycle parts. Messages retrieved from Van Der Merwe’s e-mail accounts reflected that he had ordered another silencer from the same supplier in the past, that he wanted these shipped “discretely,” and that he was interested in obtaining additional silencers for friends. He requested that the silencer for the Uzi be “full-auto rated.” Examination of the weapon determined that the Uzi had been converted to a machine gun.
U.S. Attorney Marsh credited the success of this prosecution to the joint efforts of the U.S. Customs Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael T. Simpson.
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01.23.2017 Criminal Justice
Arnold Foundation to Continue Data-Driven Criminal Justice Effort Launched Under Obama Administration
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Washington, D.C. — The Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) announced today that it is dramatically expanding its efforts to use data and analytics in order to address challenges in the criminal justice system. Former White House advisors Lynn Overmann and Kelly Jin have joined the Foundation to continue the work they began under the Obama Administration’s Data-Driven Justice initiative.
Ms. Overmann, LJAF’s new vice president of data-driven justice, has a distinguished career in the federal government and most recently served as the senior advisor to the U.S. chief technology officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Ms. Jin, LJAF’s new director of data-driven justice, was an advisor to the U.S. chief technology officer and chief data scientist in the OSTP.
Ms. Overmann and Ms. Jin helped launch the White House Data-Driven Justice initiative focused on using data to identify individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders, and chronic health problems who are frequently involved with local criminal justice and health care systems. In order to better serve this population and save tax dollars, the initiative is collaborating with Amazon Web Services and other technology companies to build a secure, cloud-based platform designed to make it easier for jurisdictions to combine, anonymize, and share data. The technology provides insights into risk factors and helps to pinpoint opportunities to deliver proactive, preventive services aimed at reducing costly jail stays and hospital visits, while providing stability and opportunities for people to improve their lives.
The initiative, started in June 2016, has developed a growing bipartisan coalition of 140 city, county, and state governments. These jurisdictions cover a population of more than 94 million Americans and range from rural counties such as Potter County, Pennsylvania, to some of the largest metro areas in the country such as Los Angeles County, California.
As members of the LJAF team, Ms. Overmann and Ms. Jin will continue to help communities link their privacy-protected criminal justice and health care datasets, allowing them to look across records like 911 calls, arrests, jail bookings, hospital emergency room admissions, and behavioral health service files to find more effective, less costly interventions. The initial results are positive: communities participating in the initiative report better outcomes for their residents and cost savings.
LJAF supported the Data-Driven Justice initiative and funded Ms. Overmann’s White House fellowship as part of the Foundation’s strategy to leverage data and technology that can drive innovation in the criminal justice system and accelerate the adoption of proven reforms.
“There has been tremendous bipartisan momentum to reform the criminal justice system, and we are pleased to continue backing state and local leaders who are pursuing data-driven approaches to improve their systems,” LJAF Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Kelli Rhee explained. “Lynn and Kelly will work closely with our Vice President of Criminal Justice Matt Alsdorf and other members of the team to build on our support for communities that are making their systems more effective, cost efficient, and fair.”
Across the nation, more than 11 million people are incarcerated in local jails each year, many on low-level, nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. The annual cost to local governments is at least $22 billion for incarceration alone. Statistics show that 64 percent of people in jail suffer from mental illness, 68 percent have a substance use disorder, and 44 percent have chronic health conditions.
“Kelly and I have spent our careers trying to find ways to better serve vulnerable populations in the criminal justice system,” Ms. Overmann said. “Thanks to strong bipartisan support, data-driven strategies promise to have a huge impact on communities across the nation — strengthening health care, improving individual lives, and saving taxpayers millions of dollars in the process. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue this important work at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.”
“People with untreated, serious mental illness can be quite vulnerable, especially when they are homeless,” said Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch. “We saw people being victimized when they were on the streets and knew jail wasn’t the solution. By partnering with mental health and housing service providers, arrests have dropped and my officers know they have a place to take people where they will get the help they need. We are excited to be a part of the Data-Driven Justice initiative and to know that this critical work will continue.”
“People look at what it costs for us to run our jail — $30 million in our county for about 1,000 inmates,” said Leon County Commissioner Bryan Desloge, a Republican from Florida and the president of the National Association of Counties. “We all need to be working toward lowering the number of people in our jails and looking at our laws to identify options other than jail for low-level offenders. It’s a huge, huge crisis for our country today.”
Jurisdictions that are interested in learning more about LJAF’s data-driven justice efforts can contact the Foundation at info@arnoldventures.org.
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John Mellencamp’s Life, Death, Love and Freedom is a mature, melancholy and mesmerizing work about all of the aforementioned, especially death. With emotionally appropriate production from T Bone Burnett LDL&F isn’t exactly “whistling past the graveyard” but it’s about as close as you’ll ever get.
After one listen I have resolved never to listen to it: by myself; in the dark; after a really bad day. That it was in a Super HD stereo format that is as pristine and as close to source as you’ll get outside of the studio helped jack up the spooky factor about a gazillion percent.
And the Death in the title isn’t merely our returning to dust. While it seems that Mellencamp is looking in a mirror and singing to himself, as on “Longest Days” when he accepts that “sometimes you get sick, and you don’t get better,” I believe he’s also holding up that mirror for us all to take a peek into. He’s telling us that we need to seriously evaluate where we are as people and a nation. What he seems to be saying is that after the last seven years of heartbreaking lunacy our country may no longer be a youthful 234. We may have gotten old before our time. With our ideals, spirit and moral compass way out of kilter perhaps we need to reflect and consider “Life is short, even in its longest days.”
From that acoustic opening Mellencamp slowly peels away some very deep and emotional layers to reveal his state of mind, and in turn the state of our nation. Whether Singing about “Jena” (Louisiana) or wondering “what the hell happened to this place?” (on “Without a Shot”), he paints an honest portrait, both impressionistic and detailed. He sounds sad, and near surrender, but still has hope that somebody will pick up the ball and sing “A Brand New Song.” As I sat listening to this beautiful and somewhat stark recording my thoughts drifted to the Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, and how this release feels like a modern version of those slices of Americana. From the heart of America, without affectation and uncomplicated.
Mellencamp has done himself a great service by enlisting T Bone Burnett to produce. His somewhat angular look at music gives these songs gravitas, allows Mellencamp to reach deeper into himself than he’s ever attempted before and come out with his, if not best, most meaningful and important release.
The music still sounds like Mellencamp but through an extra-strength Burnett filter. From the vocals over skittering drums of “My Sweet Love” to the Dylanesque organ fills on “Troubled Land,” you’ll find Burnett’s fingerprints on the production but, as usual, it’s not so intrusive as to make you forget who you’re listening to.
And for pure listening pleasure, this Super High Def download is psychotically and intensely awesome. The instruments all sound like they’re supposed to, the room tones are authentic, and the vocals are so immediate and well recorded you feel as if you’re having a conversation with Mellencamp. On rockers like “Jena” the snare snaps, the kick booms and the overtones from the amps are audible. I’ve never heard this much detail in a recording, ever.
I don’t want to make Life, Death, Love and Freedom out to be too gloomy because it would be a shame for you to walk away from a recording where an artist has gotten it exactly right. He’s written the perfect songs for his oeuvre, he’s chosen the perfect producer, and he’s allowed it to be released in a format that could potentially reveal any number of flaws. But it is a dark record and it elicits serious reflection from any listener who is so inclined. When he sings of people who are “Handing out verses of scripture like we wrote it down ourselves” he’s definitely not trying to placate his fan base, and when he asks Jesus to give him “A Ride Back Home” because he’s too cowardly to kill himself he’s not catering to a music business geared towards 15-year-olds. He’s opening up something raw that is inside us all. The 15-year-olds just haven’t gotten around to investigating it yet. (But they will.)
After repeated listens it’s hard for me to even imagine that this is the same man who recorded “Jack and Diane.” Not that his voice has changed all that much or his songwriting style drastically altered, but that he’s matured to the place where he can truly be the voice of the common man. Maybe that’s just me growing older, but all I know is that at this moment in time John Mellencamp’s midwestern sensibilities and love for America have lined up completely with my west coast version.
And that’s something else I never would have imagined.
I downloaded Life, Death, Love and Freedom from the MusicGiants HD website www.musicgiants.com. The download took awhile but was worth every minute and the website itself was easy to navigate and the transactions smooth.
MusicGiants says their HD files deliver sound quality up to seven times better than other digital download providers, and they encode their files in the WMA lossless audio codec, which at a sample rate of 44.1/16, is a bit-for-bit mathematical match to a CD.
Elliot Mazer (famous for his work with Neil Young, among others) creates their Super HD files using a proprietary hardware and software system that does bit-for-bit transfers of DVD-A recordings and turns them into WMAL files. LDL&F is the first album ever released in the CODE format, a proprietary audio technology developed by T Bone and his team of engineers that creates high-definition audio files they say are virtually indistinguishable from the original master tapes.
The hard copy CODE version of LDL&F is a DVD that comes packaged with a standard CD version of the album, attempting to cover all compatibility issues. The CODE disc is supposed to be playable on virtually all DVD machines, including stand-alone players and computer drives. Word is the DVD's content can be copied into most computer music software (including iTunes) and can then be downloaded onto personal music players such as the iPod. A vinyl version has also been released.
For SACD Mazer uses proprietary gear (built by a division of Sony) in concert with DCS format converters to transfer the music to the PCM format. MusicGiants states that “even though there is a big difference between PCM and DSD, various engineers from the record companies have done comparisons of our files to their masters and all are pleased.”
Elliot wrote to say there’s “No degradation on download from MusicGiants
Super HD files. I just a/b'd them against the source and they are indistinguishable.”
When asked about burning to DVD and/or CD (LDL&F is DRM-free), he responded, “You can put it on a DVD as a data file and that would work fine. Putting it on a CD is a waste of time and great sound. Technically, there is no good way to do this. 96 does not divide evenly into 44.1.”
And for all you Vinyl vs. Digital warriors Mazer says, “Vinyl sounds good if you wear gloves, have a $4,000 turntable in a clean-room, a $10,000 pre-amp, and you only listen to it once. BD has the potential of better sound if the producers create it that way.”
Which is my way to let you know he’s currently transferring Neil’s catalog (and Led Zeppelin’s!) into the Blu-Ray format and says that Time Fades Away will be included. That makes me extremely happy.
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