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Home Doctor Who Happy Birthday to Who? – 17th June: Arthur Darvill
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Happy Birthday to Who? – 17th June: Arthur Darvill
Richard Swain
Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) – Doctor Who – The Eleventh Hour (c) BBC
Behind every great man, there has to be a great woman. And behind that great woman, there’s another great man – or at least there certainly was when Amy Pond joined the TARDIS! Join us as we celebrate Mr. Pond himself, Arthur Darvill, who turns 34 today!
The Last Centurion (Arthur Darvill) – Doctor Who (c) BBC
Darvill, playing the role of Amy’s then-boyfriend Rory Williams, made his first Doctor Who appearance in 2010’s The Eleventh Hour. As a rather weedy male nurse, The Doctor did not initially take to Rory, but his respect for him grew over time. Rory would reappear later in Series 5 from The Vampires of Venice through to Cold Blood, where he was not only killed but erased from existence by the crack in time. Amy forgot her fiancé and it would not be until The Pandorica Opens that she finally remembered him – as a deadly Auton duplicate that shot her dead. To help save her, Rory guarded the Pandorica throughout history for 2000 years, earning him the title of the legendary Lone Centurion who more than earned his place next to Amy’s side.
Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill), Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) – Doctor Who Wedding Day (c) BBC
Their wedding day would turn out to be one of the most important dates in all of creation, not only because it was when the Silence blew up the TARDIS and The Doctor had to reset the universe, but also because it led to the conception of the Pond’s daughter, River Song – a revelation that came during Series 6’s mid-series finale, A Good Man Goes To War. Now married, Rory would stay on board the TARDIS with Amy until Series 7’s The Angels Take Manhattan, where he was unexpectedly caught by a Weeping Angel and forced to live out the rest of his days stuck in the past – although fortunately for him, Amy made the ultimate sacrifice and they shared their remaining years together.
Rev Paul Coates (Arthur Darvill) Broadchurch Series One (c) ITV
Outside of Doctor Who, Darvill has also graced British television screens as Reverend Paul Coates in the hit ITV drama Broadchurch, starring David Tennant and written by incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall. He has also appeared in musicals, most notably Once (in 2013 and 2014), and currently he is starring as Rip Hunter in Marvel’s Legends of Tomorrow, a time-travelling spin-off of Arrow and The Flash.
Rory Williams may have had to wait an awfully long time for a reason to celebrate, but we can certainly all try to make Arthur Darvill’s day by wishing him many happy returns! Have a dead good birthday, Mr. Pond (geddit?) – although we can’t promise to surprise you by having Matt Smith pop up out of a cake!
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The following news release was originally issued by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The story describes how scientists at SLAC have shipped a miniature version of the digital camera they are building for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to LSST headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. After further integration and testing, it will be installed next year for “first light” on the 8-meter LSST telescope on a mountaintop in Chile. Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory designed and constructed the raft—an array of nine state-of-the-art imaging sensors—for the miniature camera. Justine Haupt, a design engineer at Brookhaven, also designed the cryostat that holds the raft in place, as well as its cooling system and additional internal mechanics. Brookhaven Lab is building all 21 rafts—a total of 189 sensors—for LSST’s full-sized camera. This 3,200 megapixel sensor array is nearly 200 times larger than a high-end consumer camera and, when it is combined with a massive supercomputer, it will enable scientists to create a time-lapse movie of the universe. For more information on Brookhaven’s role in LSST, visit www.bnl.gov/lsst.
A Miniature Camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Will Help Test the Observatory and Take First Images
SLAC completed its work on ComCam, a commissioning device to be installed in Chile later this year
By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
Members of the LSST Camera Integration and Testing team at SLAC have inserted a raft of nine imaging sensors into ComCam, a miniature version of the LSST camera that will soon be used for telescope commissioning. (Farrin Abbott/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are building the world’s largest digital camera for astronomy and astrophysics – a minivan-sized 3,200-megapixel ‘eye’ of the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) that will enable unprecedented views of the universe starting in the fall of 2022 and provide new insights into dark energy and other cosmic mysteries. In the meantime, the lab has completed its work on a miniature version that will soon be used for testing the telescope and taking LSST’s first images of the night sky.
These images will include glimpses of the motions of asteroids and objects in our solar system with orbits beyond that of Neptune, as well as alerts of sudden events such as supernovae, exploding stars that temporarily light up parts of the sky.
The device, called ComCam (short for Commissioning Camera), will use only four percent of the full LSST camera’s focal plane and produce much smaller images, but it will provide enough “imaging power” to test the observatory while its ultimate camera is still under construction. In fact, ComCam’s 144 megapixels outnumber the pixel count that was available to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a pioneering astrophysical survey project in the early 2000s.
ComCam, a commissioning camera for LSST. (Farrin Abbott/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
“ComCam will give us a great head start in checking all of the interfaces between the camera, telescope, site infrastructure and data management,” says Kevin Reil, LSST commissioning scientist and SLAC staff scientist.
After completing the integration of imaging sensors into ComCam and other tasks, the SLAC team today shipped the device to LSST headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. There, more components will be added before the finished ComCam is sent to its final destination in Chile later this year.
A miniature LSST camera
The extraordinarily high image quality of the full LSST camera will be largely due to its 189 state-of-the-art imaging sensors. Arranged into square arrays, called rafts, of nine sensors each, they’ll make up the camera’s focal plane. ComCam has only a single raft, which was provided by DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and recently inserted into the ComCam cryostat at SLAC.
The cryostat, specially designed and built for ComCam, holds the raft in place and cools its imaging sensors to very low temperatures to eliminate unwanted background signals and improve image quality. The ComCam cryostat uses a different refrigeration system from that of the final LSST camera, which requires a more complex system in order to handle 21 rafts.
The raft also contains electronics boards that will digitize data taken with ComCam. These data will be sent to data management systems at the National Science Foundation-supported National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and centers at France’s National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics and in Chile, where they will be analyzed by scientists around the world.
SLAC is also building and testing the camera control system, which will allow the observatory software to send commands to ComCam, for instance, to change filters and take images. The LSST camera will use the same control system.
Toward first images
Once ComCam arrives in Tucson, LSST scientists will add lenses, a filter changer and a shutter. They will integrate the complete instrument with the observatory software and computing infrastructure and perform crucial tests, including a dry run that will simulate a night of observations.
“In large projects like LSST, it’s exciting to watch the hardware and software come together into a working system over the years,” says Brian Stalder, LSST commissioning scientist in Tucson.
Finally, ComCam will be sent to Chile and installed on the actual telescope, paving the way for LSST commissioning.
In addition, it’ll produce LSST’s first images, albeit at a much smaller scale than the final camera. Although science studies won’t be ComCam’s primary purpose, the team expects the camera to produce images of very good quality, Reil says: “It’ll be exciting to see these early images taken with our brand new, world-class telescope.”
For questions or comments, contact the SLAC Office of Communications at communications@slac.stanford.edu.
SLAC is a vibrant multiprogram laboratory that explores how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales and invents powerful tools used by scientists around the globe. With research spanning particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, materials, chemistry, bio and energy sciences and scientific computing, we help solve real-world problems and advance the interests of the nation.
The effort to build the LSST is a partnership between public and private organizations. Financial support for LSST Design and Development comes from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy Office of Science, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation, a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation formed in 2003, with headquarters in Tucson, AZ. Contributions from private foundation gifts, grants to universities, and in-kind support from laboratories and other LSST Member Institutions were key to early construction and critical developments. The LSST Project Office for central management was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). The Department of Energy Office of Science funded effort is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). Learn more at lsst.org.
SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.
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Tatenda Taibu: Former Zimbabwe Test captain signs for Hightown St Mary's
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Tatenda Taibu scored 3393 runs in 150 one-day internationals for Zimbabwe
Former Zimbabwe captain Tatenda Taibu has signed for Liverpool and District team Hightown St Mary's.
Taibu, 32, played 28 Test matches and 150 one-day internationals for Zimbabwe prior to retiring in 2012.
"When he explained who he was I thought it was a hoax," Hightown publicity officer Nick Gordon said.
"The conversation developed, we got references from people in the game in Zimbabwe and we've talked ever since. It's a real coup for us."
The wicketkeeper-batsman could make his debut for the Second Division side when they play Alder on 24 April.
Speaking to BBC Radio Merseyside, Gordon said Taibu approached the club after they had advertised for an overseas player for the summer.
"It's not every day that a club like Hightown St Mary's signs a player like Tatenda," Gordon said.
"I had to do a double take, it was so unusual. We put out an advert for young players but he said 'I'm not a young player, I'm a retired Test cricketer.'
"This guy has played at an incredibly high standard of cricket and we are happy to take the risk. Even if he hasn't picked up a bat since 2012, he will be more than sufficient for our needs this summer."
Signing the former international, who scored 1546 runs in 28 Test matches, also came as a shock to Hightown's players as well as their rivals.
"It was utter disbelief at the beginning," Gordon explained.
"The players thought it was a wind-up but, over time, people are excited about him coming over. It's not every day we get this opportunity at club level.
"There's certainly some envious eyes - I've seen some comments on Twitter asking how on earth we pulled it off. But people are looking forward to playing against him.
"These are guys who work nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday, and they're going to turn up on a Saturday and play against an international Test captain.
"It's great for local cricket as well."
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Right now, Tesla is more than ever a carmaker
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1 August 2017 By Antony Currie Follow @AntonyMCurrie
A name change, buying SolarCity and a bet in Australia are all part of CEO Elon Musk rebranding his $50 bln creation as an energy company. But SolarCity bosses have left and virtually all income is from autos. Tesla’s future rests on making the new Model 3 a mass-market success.
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On July 28 Tesla officially launched its Model 3 mass-market sedan. Chief Executive Elon Musk said at the launch event that customers had placed more than 500,000 advance reservations. He said the company is "going to go through at least six months of manufacturing hell" as it attempts to increase production of all its vehicles to a rate of half a million a year by the end of 2018.
On July 31 a group of Tesla employees calling themselves the Tesla Workers’ Organizing Committee sent an open letter to the automaker’s board to raise concerns about “challenges that are holding us back from working as effectively and efficiently as we would like.” They referred to an above-average injury rate, a lack of guidance, high turnover and insecurity. They also asked for more of a voice in the company, about pay and health and safety as well as in identifying problems and solutions with Tesla’s manufacturing process.
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Timothy Gowers
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Timothy Gowers, in full Sir William Timothy Gowers, (born November 20, 1963, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England), British mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in the theory of Banach spaces.
Gowers studied undergraduate mathematics at the University of Cambridge and went on to finish his doctorate there in 1990. He held teaching and research positions at Cambridge and at University College, London.
Gowers received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998 for his solution of several outstanding problems of Banach spaces. His dichotomy theorem asserts that either every subspace of a given Banach space has many symmetries or the subspaces have only trivial symmetries. He also did profound work on combinatorial number theory and gave an improved proof of number theorist Endre Szeméredi’s theorem on arithmetic progressions.
Gowers became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1999. He was knighted in 2012.
Fields Medal, award granted to between two and four mathematicians for outstanding or seminal research. The Fields Medal is often referred to as the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, but it is granted only every four years and is…
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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+: Everything you need to know
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From the aperture camera to AR Emoji, here’s everything you need to know about the new Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+
It's that time of the year again when Samsung unveils its most competitive flagship smartphone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018. As usual, Samsung is among the biggest stars of the event but the newly announced Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ may not be too different from its predecessors. We list down the main highlights of the phones below, from biggest to smallest:
1. "The Camera. Reimagined."
Samsung wasn't kidding when they teased the new flagships with a tagline specific to the cameras. In fact, it's the most noteworthy feature on the S9 and S9+ (but for anyone hoping to stay ahead in the game, this is where brands need to place most of their attention on). Both 12-megapixel cameras are now equipped with a new Dual Aperture lens for better low-light photos. You can choose between F1.5 and F2.4 in pro mode or let it do it automatically. In addition, the Super Speed Dual Pixel sensor promises faster and more reliable focusing.
Also, the bigger S9+ now comes with an additional 12-megapixel rear camera that features a 2x telephoto lens and "Live Focus" (both similar to the Galaxy Note8's camera system) but without the adjustable aperture lens.
2. AR Emoji
It's Samsung's answer to the iPhone X's Animoji, except instead of animals, it's more like a 3D Bitmoji that can talk and act like you. The app analyses an image of your face and then maps out more than 100 facial features to create a 3D model. You can even customise the look of your character down to its hairstyles and outfits, and then use it as GIF-like stickers to use across most third-party messaging platforms.
3. Super Slow-mo
You'll be able to record slow-motion video at up to 960 frames per second (at 720p resolution). Both cameras are equipped with Motion Detection to allow automatic recording when movement is detected in the frame. You can then add a background music to it or share it as a GIF with three playful choices of looping style.
4. The fingerprint scanner
It's now in a better place—below the camera.
5. The speakers
Fitted with stereo speakers tuned by AKG, Samsung claims both phones are now able to produce crisp audio that's 40 percent louder. Also, you'll be glad to know that they've kept the headphone jack.
6. The size
Both screens sport the the same 2,960x1,440-pixel resolution but the S9+ is noticeably larger at 6.2 inches versus the S9 at 5.8 inches. Both are slightly larger than its predecessors in terms of its thickness and length but you won't be able to reuse your S8 or S8+ cases anyway since the fingerprint scanner has been moved. And yes, they're both waterproof with the same IP68 rating.
7. The colours
Midnight Black, Coral Blue and Lilac Purple.
8. The price and release date
Samsung Malaysia has revealed that the S9 will be priced at RM3,299, and the S9+ to start at RM3,799. Both will officially be available beginning 16 March 2018.
For more info, visit Samsung Malaysia's website or watch the live stream of the event here.
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2004-07-17T22:57:17-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2ee/181551-m.jpgIan Buruma talked about the book he co-authored with Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, published by Penguin Books. In the book the authors examined what they viewed as the “anti-Western virus” in Islam and argued that these feelings of anti-Americanism were shared throughout the world. After a discussion with Fouad Ajami, Professor Buruma answered questions from members of the audience.
Ian Buruma talked about the book he co-authored with Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, published by Penguin Books.… read more
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Former Catholic Charities employee sentenced for embezzlement
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By Christine Rousselle
Oklahoma City, Okla., Apr 17, 2018 / 03:23 pm ().- A former immigration services director of Catholic Charities of Oklahoma City has been sentenced to 10 years probation after she embezzled thousands of dollars that were intended to be used for immigration fees.
Margarita I. Solis, of Oklahoma City, stole money from immigration clients in 2015 and 2016. She was charged with embezzlement in April 2017. Solis worked as an attorney and assisted Catholic Charities’ clients with immigration issues, including acquiring green cards and U.S. citizenship.
According to the charges, Solis would convert money orders given to her for immigration fees to be payable to herself, and then cash them. Prosecutors claim she stole $2,830 in 2015 and 2016, and later was accused of converting about $24,000 of filing fees into money orders for her personal use.
She resigned as an attorney in November 2017 before pleading guilty to three felony counts of embezzlement last week. As part of the plea agreement, she received probation.
If she is able to complete probation, she will not be labeled as a felon.
She paid $2,500 in restitution to Catholic Charities.
Patrick Raglow, executive director of Catholic Charities of Oklahoma City, said in a statement published in The Oklahoman that his staff did not hold any ill will against Solis, and that they sought to deal with the matter as “compassionately” as possible.
“Many of our clients come from brokenness and we deal with human brokenness all the time,” said Raglow. “And occasionally, some of our staff have brokenness also.”
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Revenue for the quarter totaled $1.73 billion, an increase of 11% from $1.56 billion in the third quarter of 2012.
Excluding selected charges1, net income2 increased 19% to $99.7 million from $83.6 million in the third quarter of 2012, and earnings per diluted share increased to $0.30 from $0.26 in the prior-year period. For the third quarter, selected charges (net of income taxes) totaled $5.3 million versus $43.9 million for the same period in 2012.
On a U.S. GAAP basis, net income totaled $94.4 million, compared with $39.7 million for the third quarter of 2012. GAAP earnings per diluted share totaled $0.28, compared with $0.12 in last year’s third quarter.
Excluding selected charges, Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA)3 increased 15% to $225.2 million from $195.3 million in the third quarter of 2012. EBITDA3 (including selected charges) rose 37% to $224.4 million for the third quarter of 2013, from $163.6 million for the same period a year earlier.
“During the third quarter, CBRE benefited significantly from our well-balanced business and leading position across markets and service lines around the world,” said Bob Sulentic, president and chief executive officer of CBRE. “We once again delivered strong growth on the top- and bottom-lines, while continuing to make measured, but very important strategic investments in our people and technology that are strengthening our company and positioning us for continued success.
“While property sales continued to be our fastest-growing service line – reflecting CBRE’s leading position in key investment markets worldwide – we were also pleased to see a quicker pace of growth in our leasing business and continued double-digit increases in occupier outsourcing. Our performance was also bolstered by higher contributions from our investment management business, where we are capitalizing on the favorable sales environment to harvest gains in the property portfolio on behalf of our investor clients.”
Global revenue growth of 11% was paced by CBRE’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations. Revenue in this region surged 25% with all major service lines producing strong, double-digit growth. The Americas, CBRE’s largest business segment, posted double-digit revenue growth (11%) for the fourth consecutive quarter, with notable strength in property sales and occupier outsourcing as well as improved leasing performance. Revenue growth in Asia Pacific was strong in local currencies but this strength was diminished when translated into U.S. dollars. In local currency, Asia Pacific revenue rose by a healthy 13%, but only 1% in U.S. dollars.
Among global business lines, property sales again set the pace for growth with a revenue increase of 29%. Sales revenue was up strongly across all regions, led by a 50% increase in EMEA. At the country level, sales revenue was particularly strong in Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. During the third quarter, CBRE once again captured the highest market share for investment sales in both the U.S and the U.K.
Leasing revenue growth accelerated to 11% -- the strongest performance in that business line since the third quarter of 2011. Strong growth was evident in EMEA (up 20%) and the Americas (up 12%). In the largest lease transaction in the U.K. this year, CBRE advised QNB & Sellar Group in its 430,000 square foot lease with News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp, which will relocate its headquarters to The Place, a new office building under construction in central London.
CBRE’s occupier outsourcing business, Global Corporate Services (GCS), remained a stellar performer. This business, which comprises facilities management, project management, transaction management and strategic consulting, saw revenue grow briskly, rising 14% on a global basis and 18% in the Americas. Overall property, facilities and project management revenue rose 9%.
CBRE signed a total of 54 GCS contracts during the quarter, including 20 with new customers. Among these new customers are Heinz, Tesla Motors and EMG, a petroleum and petrochemical company based in Japan. In addition, earlier this month, CBRE signed one of its largest ever outsourcing engagements with JP Morgan Chase. CBRE will provide the bank with facilities management and brokerage services in the U.S., Canada and Latin America as well as project management services in the U.S. and Asia Pacific.
Revenue improved 11% in the Company’s Global Investment Management business, where CBRE manages real estate investment funds and other investment products for institutional investors. The higher revenue during the quarter resulted from outsized carried interest revenue, which reflects incremental revenue earned by CBRE when assets in the investment portfolio are sold at values that exceed return thresholds. The carried interest revenue also had an outsized bottom-line impact on this business, with normalized EBITDA rising 52% from a year ago.
Appraisal and valuation revenue rose 7%, led by EMEA. However, commercial mortgage brokerage revenue fell 10%. While CBRE’s overall loan origination remained highly active – with U.S. loan volume up 16% during the quarter – this business line was adversely affected by the U.S. Government-Sponsored Enterprises’ (GSEs) effort to scale back their lending activity, as mandated by their regulators. The mandated scale-back in these loans put significant pressure on revenue and profits for the commercial mortgage brokerage business.
During the third quarter, CBRE completed two acquisitions that complement its service offering: Fameco, a highly regarded retail specialist serving parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware; and an acquisition of a majority interest in Basale Sverige AB, a property management firm in Sweden.
Third-Quarter 2013 Segment Results
Americas Region (U.S., Canada and Latin America
Revenue rose 11% to $1.1 billion, compared with $996.4 million for the third quarter of 2012.
EBITDA totaled $132.2 million, up 3% from $128.7 million in last year’s third quarter.
Operating income totaled $96.4 million, compared with $105.4 million for the prior-year third quarter.
Both EBITDA and operating income were affected by the aforementioned reduction in mortgage servicing work for the GSEs as well as increased investments in people and technology designed to enhance the Company’s client-service offering and support future growth.
EMEA Region (primarily Europe)
Revenue rose 25% to $285.5 million, compared with $228.7 million for the third quarter of 2012. The increase was broad based, as every major business line posted double-digit revenue growth. Notable strength was evident in France, Germany, Spain and the U.K.
EBITDA, before selected charges, was $17.7 million, an increase of 146% from $7.2 million in the prior-year third quarter. Including selected charges, EBITDA in the prior-year period was a loss of $8.1 million. There were no adjustments for selected charges in the current quarter in this segment.
Operating income totaled $12.6 million compared with an operating loss of $31.7 million for the same period in 2012.
Prior-period results were impacted by an approximately $20.0 million non-cash write-off of a trade name in the U.K. and cost containment expenses of $15.3 million, for a total of $35.3 million in charges. The non-amortizable intangible asset impairment is included in the calculation of operating loss but not in EBITDA.
Asia Pacific Region (Asia, Australia and New Zealand)
Revenue was $202.7 million, an increase of 1% from $199.9 million for the third quarter of 2012. In local currency, revenue rose by a healthy 13%. Performance improved in several countries, particularly Australia, India and Japan, but was masked by the negative effect of foreign currency movement.
EBITDA totaled $13.1 million, compared with $16.4 million for last year’s third quarter.
Operating income totaled $10.3 million, compared with $13.9 million for the third quarter of 2012.
Headcount additions in certain markets to drive future growth, a concentration of property sales commissions among higher producing professionals and foreign currency movement contributed to lower operating income and EBITDA.
Global Investment Management (investment management operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia)
Revenue rose 11% to $127.3 million from $114.3 million in the third quarter of 2012. The increase was driven by the aforementioned carried-interest revenue, which totaled $29.9 million in the current quarter.
Excluding selected charges, EBITDA increased 52% to $56.2 million from $36.9 million in the prior-year third quarter. EBITDA (including selected charges) rose 144% to $55.4 million compared with $22.7 million in the third quarter of 2012.
Operating income totaled $42.5 million, up 251% from $12.1 million for the third quarter of 2012. The prior-period operating income was impacted by $14.2 million of expenses related to the acquisition of the ING REIM businesses.
Assets under management (AUM) totaled $87.6 billion at the end of the third quarter, a 5% decrease from year-end 2012. The decrease primarily reflects the harvesting of gains in the direct investment portfolio in order to capitalize on the favorable sales environment. Property dispositions reduced AUM by $7.4 billion, partly offset by $3.0 billion of acquisitions.
Development Services (real estate development and investment activities primarily in the U.S.)
Revenue totaled $12.6 million compared with $17.8 million for the third quarter of 2012. The revenue decline was attributable to lower rental revenue resulting from property dispositions.
Operating loss totaled $3.7 million compared with operating income of $3.9 million for the same period in 2012.
EBITDA improved to $6.0 million, compared with $3.8 million reported in the prior-year period. The increase was largely driven by higher overall gains on the sale of properties (reflected primarily in equity income from unconsolidated subsidiaries) partially offset by higher incentive compensation. Equity income from unconsolidated subsidiaries is included in the calculation of EBITDA, but not in operating income (loss).
Development projects in process totaled $5.2 billion, up 24% from year-end 2012, and the inventory of pipeline deals totaled $1.6 billion, down 22% from year-end 2012.
Nine-Month Results
Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 totaled $4.95 billion, an increase of 10% from $4.51 billion in the nine months ended September 30, 2012.
Excluding selected charges, net income increased 16% to $253.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 from $217.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2012, and earnings per diluted share increased to $0.76 from $0.67 for the prior-year period. For the nine months ended September 30, 2013, selected charges (net of income taxes) totaled $51.1 million. For the same period in 2012, selected charges (net of income taxes) totaled $74.9 million.
On a U.S. GAAP basis, net income was $201.9 million, or $0.61 per diluted share for the nine months ended September 30, 2013, up 42% and 39%, respectively, from $142.6 million, or $0.44 per diluted share for the same period of 2012. Costs associated with the Company’s corporate debt refinancing reduced GAAP earnings per diluted share by $0.10 for the first nine months of 2013.
Excluding selected charges, EBITDA increased 11% to $629.6 million in the current nine-month period from $566.8 million in the first nine months of 2012. EBITDA (including selected charges) rose 21% to $624.6 million for the first nine months of 2013, from $515.9 million for the same period a year earlier.
“All in all, we are very pleased with our performance through the first nine months of the year. Our strong growth reflects the ability of our people to collaborate effectively and leverage our brand, service offering and geographic footprint to create solutions for our clients,” Mr. Sulentic said. “We are firmly committed to driving continued margin expansion while making the investments in people and technology that are vital to sustaining our long-term growth and delivering the best service to our clients.”
CBRE continues to expect to achieve full-year earnings per share, as adjusted, of between $1.40 and $1.45.
The Company’s third-quarter earnings conference call will be held today (Tuesday, October 29, 2013) at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. A webcast will be accessible through the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.cbre.com/investorrelations.
The direct dial-in number for the conference call is 877-209-9920 for U.S. callers and 612-332-0720 for international callers. A replay of the call will be available starting at 10 p.m. Eastern Time on October 29, 2013, and ending at midnight Eastern Time on November 5, 2013. The dial-in number for the replay is 800-475-6701 for U.S. callers and 320-365-3844 for international callers. The access code for the replay is 303970. A transcript of the call will be available on the Company’s Investor Relations website at www.cbre.com/investorrelations.
About CBRE Group, Inc.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (in terms of 2012 revenue). The Company has approximately 37,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.
Note: This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the ''safe harbor'' provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our future growth momentum, operations, financial performance, and business outlook. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results and performance in future periods to be materially different from any future results or performance suggested in forward-looking statements in this release. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release and, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any of them to reflect actual results, any changes in expectations or any change in events. If the Company does update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: general conditions of financial liquidity for real estate transactions, including the impact of European sovereign debt issues and relatively flat economic growth in many European countries as well as U.S. fiscal uncertainty; our leverage and our ability to perform under our credit facilities; commercial real estate vacancy levels; employment conditions and their effect on vacancy rates; property values; rental rates; interest rates; our ability to leverage our platform to grow revenues and capture market share; fluctuations in currency; continued growth in trends toward use of outsourced commercial real estate services; our ability to control costs relative to revenue growth and expand EBITDA margins; our ability to retain and incentivize producers; our ability to identify, acquire and integrate synergistic and accretive businesses; expected levels of interest, depreciation and amortization expense; changes in our effective tax rate; realization of values in investment funds to offset related incentive compensation expense; our ability to maintain and grow assets under management in our Global Investment Management business; a decline in asset values in, or a reduction in earnings or cash flow from, our investment programs, as well as related litigation, liabilities and reputational harm; and our ability to comply with laws and regulations related to our international operations, including the anti-corruption laws of the U.S. and other countries.
Additional information concerning factors that may influence the Company's financial information is discussed under “Risk Factors”, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” and “Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, and under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” and “Forward-Looking Statements” in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2013, as well as in the Company’s press releases and other periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such filings are available publicly and may be obtained on the Company’s website at www.cbre.com or upon written request from the CBRE Investor Relations Department at investorrelations@cbre.com.
1 Selected charges included the write-off of financing costs, amortization expense related to incentive fees and customer relationships acquired in the ING REIM and Trammell Crow Company (TCC) acquisitions, certain carried interest incentive compensation expense, integration and other costs related to acquisitions, cost containment expenses and the write-down of a non-amortizable intangible asset. For the impact of selected charges on specific periods, see the “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section of this press release.
2 A reconciliation of net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc. to net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc., as adjusted for selected charges, is provided in the section of this press release entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”
3 EBITDA represents earnings before net interest expense, write-off of financing costs, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, while amounts shown for EBITDA, as adjusted (or normalized EBITDA), remove the impact of certain cash and non-cash charges related to acquisitions, cost containment and asset impairments, as well as certain carried interest incentive compensation expense. Our management believes that both of these measures are useful in evaluating our operating performance compared to that of other companies in our industry because the calculations of EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, generally eliminate the effects of financing and income taxes and the accounting effects of capital spending and acquisitions, which would include impairment charges of goodwill and intangibles created from acquisitions. Such items may vary for different companies for reasons unrelated to overall operating performance. As a result, our management uses these measures to evaluate operating performance and for other discretionary purposes, including as a significant component when measuring our operating performance under our employee incentive programs. Additionally, we believe EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, are useful to investors to assist them in getting a more complete picture of our results from operations.
However, EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, are not recognized measurements under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, and when analyzing our operating performance, readers should use EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, in addition to, and not as an alternative for, net income as determined in accordance with GAAP. Because not all companies use identical calculations, our presentation of EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Furthermore, EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, are not intended to be measures of free cash flow for our management’s discretionary use, as they do not consider certain cash requirements such as tax and debt service payments. The amounts shown for EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted, also differ from the amounts calculated under similarly titled definitions in our debt instruments, which are further adjusted to reflect certain other cash and non-cash charges and are used to determine compliance with financial covenants and our ability to engage in certain activities, such as incurring additional debt and making certain restricted payments.
For a reconciliation of EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted to net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc., the most comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, see the section of this press release titled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”
CBRE GROUP, INC.
FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 AND 2012
(Dollars in thousands, except share data)
Nine Months Ended
Costs and expenses:
Operating, administrative and other
Non-amortizable intangible asset impairment
Total costs and expenses
Gain on disposition of real estate
Equity income from unconsolidated subsidiaries
Write-off of financing costs
Income from continuing operations before provision for income taxes
Income from continuing operations
Income from discontinued operations, net of income taxes
Less: Net (loss) income attributable to non-controlling interests
Net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc.
Basic income per share attributable to CBRE Group, Inc. shareholders
Income from continuing operations attributable to CBRE Group, Inc.
Income from discontinued operations attributable to CBRE Group, Inc.
Weighted average shares outstanding for basic income per share
Diluted income per share attributable to CBRE Group, Inc. shareholders
Weighted average shares outstanding for diluted income per share
EBITDA (1)
(1) Includes EBITDA related to discontinued operations of $7.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013.
SEGMENT RESULTS
$ (31,661)
$ (8,141)
Global Investment Management
EBITDA(1)
Operating (loss) income
The following measures are considered “non-GAAP financial measures” under SEC guidelines:
(i) Net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc., as adjusted for selected charges
(ii) Diluted income per share attributable to CBRE Group, Inc., as adjusted for selected charges
(iii) EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted for selected charges
The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide a more complete understanding of ongoing operations and enhance comparability of current results to prior periods as well as presenting the effects of selected charges in all periods presented. The Company believes that investors may find it useful to see these non-GAAP financial measures to analyze financial performance without the impact of selected charges that may obscure trends in the underlying performance of its business.
Net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc., as adjusted for selected charges and diluted net income per share attributable to CBRE Group, Inc. shareholders, as adjusted for selected charges are calculated as follows (dollars in thousands, except per share data):
Amortization expense related to ING REIM and TCC incentive fees and customer relationships acquired, net of tax
Carried interest incentive compensation, net of tax
Write-off of financing costs, net of tax
Integration and other costs related to acquisitions, net of tax
Non-amortizable intangible asset impairment, net of tax
Cost containment expenses, net of tax
Net income attributable to CBRE Group, Inc., as adjusted
Diluted income per share attributable to CBRE Group, Inc. shareholders, as adjusted
Weighted average shares outstanding for
diluted income per share
EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted for selected charges are calculated as follow (dollars in thousands):
Depreciation and amortization(1)
Interest expense(2)
Provision for income taxes(3)
Carried interest incentive compensation
Integration and other costs related to acquisitions
Cost containment expenses
EBITDA, as adjusted (4)
(1) Includes depreciation and amortization expense related to discontinued operations of $0.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013.
(2) Includes interest expense related to discontinued operations of $3.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013.
(3) Includes provision for income taxes related to discontinued operations of $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2013.
EBITDA and EBITDA, as adjusted for selected charges for segments are calculated as follows (dollars in thousands):
Royalty and management service income
Net income (loss) attributable to CBRE Group, Inc.
Royalty and management service (income) expense
Provision for (benefit of) income taxes
EBITDA, as adjusted
Royalty and management service expense
Depreciation and amortization (1)
Interest expense (2)
$ (748)
Provision for (benefit of) income taxes (6)
Cash and cash equivalents (1)
Receivables, net
Warehouse receivables (2)
Real estate assets (3)
Goodwill and other intangibles, net
Investments in and advances to unconsolidated subsidiaries
Other assets, net
Liabilities:
Current liabilities, excluding debt
Warehouse lines of credit (2)
Revolving credit facility
5.00% senior notes
Senior secured term loans
6.625% senior notes
Senior subordinated notes, net
Other debt
Notes payable on real estate (4)
CBRE Group, Inc. stockholders’ equity
Non-controlling interests
(1) Includes $52.2 million and $94.6 million of cash in consolidated funds and other entities not available for Company use
as of September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.
(2) Represents loan receivables, the majority of which are offset by related warehouse lines of credit facilities.
(3) Includes real estate and other assets held for sale, real estate under development and real estate held for investment.
(4) Represents notes payable on real estate of which $14.1 million and $13.9 million are recourse to the Company as of
September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.
Neither CBRE nor its affiliated companies make any warranties or claims on the implied accuracy of the information contained herein.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2016 revenue). The company has more than 75,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate investors and occupiers through approximately 450 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.
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Marginal decline purchasing power in 2005
Following an upturn in 2004, purchasing power of the Dutch population on average declined 0.3 percent in 2005. Preliminary figures over 2005 indicate that the financial situation of pensioners and income support recipients in particular deteriorated. The percentage of people with an income below the low-income limit has remained fairly stable since 2003.
Greatest purchasing power among self-employed
The average purchasing power of the Dutch population was nearly 21 thousand euro in 2005. The purchasing power of household members of self-employed exceeded the nationwide average by over 20 percent, employees by a scant 4 percent.
The purchasing power on unemployed was significantly lower. People on income support had only half the average purchasing power.
Purchasing power of socio-economic groups, 2005*
Purchasing power of employed and unemployed
In 2005, the purchasing power of the entire Dutch population diminished on average 0.3 percent. Relative to 2004, there was a large gap between those who work and those who do not have a job. The purchasing power of household members of self-employed improved 1 percent; employees improved 0.2 percent.
Unemployed people faced a deterioration of their purchasing power. Pensioners and income support recipients lost about 1 percent.
Purchasing power by socio-economic group, 2004-2005*
Share low-income groups fairly stable
In 2005, the proportion in the population living below the low-income limit was 8.9 percent. The definitive figures for 2003 and 2004 were 8.8 and 8.6 percent respectively. The figure over 2004 was adjusted downward compared to the preliminary figure. The adjustment was mainly based upon new data about self-employed.
Persons on low incomes by socio-economic group, 2004-2005*
Increase among benefit recipients
In 2005, one in five benefit recipients were in the low-income brackets. The proportion of low-income pensioners increased from 5 percent in 2004 to 6 percent in 2005. The proportion of income support recipients in the low-income brackets rose from 78 to 79 percent.
The proportion of employed people below the low-income limit rose only marginally, but the decline among self-employed, which began in 2004, continued.
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Kirk Wessler: For Bears, too fine a line
Kirk Wessler
Dec 31, 2007 at 12:01 AM Dec 31, 2007 at 3:23 AM
Amid all the happy talk Sunday in the Chicago Bears locker room — fuzzy chatter about "getting over the hump" and "putting two good games back-to-back" — there stood stark reality.
No matter how well the Bears played in their 33-25 victory over New Orleans, no matter that they have won two games in a row, their season is over. And it’s over before New Year’s Eve, before the playoffs and long before the Super Bowl for one reason.
"We were bad," defensive end Alex Brown said. "The season was bad. Really bad."
Now, we can sit here and recount all the things that went wrong or need improvement. But you already know the Bears need newer parts in the offensive line and better judgment when it comes to deciding which running back to keep and less mule-headedness when putting together the depth chart at quarterback every week. You also know a team isn’t in the hunt when the defense yields almost 22 points per game.
Even so, though, the fact remains that the margin between being an also-ran and a Super Bowl contender — especially in the NFC — isn’t large.
Look, the Bears beat the Green Bay Packers twice. They lost by only five points to the New York Giants, who were in position Saturday night to end New England’s perfect season before getting conservative.
I know. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. But four of the Bears’ losses this season were by a touchdown or less. Make a defensive play here, sustain an offensive drive there, and those outcomes easily could have turned around. Instead of 7-9, the Bears would be 11-5 and still alive.
By contrast, last season’s Bears won four games by five or fewer points. Miss a defensive play here, drop a pass there and the outcomes easily could have turned around. Instead of 13-3, those Bears would have been 9-7 and likely watching Indianapolis stomp somebody else in Miami.
"Just because you’re good one year doesn’t mean you’re gonna be good the next," Brown said. "And just because we were bad this year doesn’t mean we’re that far off."
That might be the most important lesson the Bears learned from this season. How fine the line between winning and losing.
Two years ago, the Bears talked a big game but they couldn’t deliver enough points to back up the gab. A year ago, they shut up and built a chip the size of the Sears Tower on their shoulders, then went out and proved they were too tough for anyone in the NFC to handle.
This year, from the beginning, they rarely seemed to have an edge to the way they played.
"Our goal was to win the Super Bowl," Brown said, "but maybe somewhere along the way, we forgot how we got to the Super Bowl."
Brown talked about not making plays.
There were plenty of big plays, to be sure. But maybe not enough little plays. Too many times, for example, opponents sustained drives with third-down conversions in their own territory, then turned those opportunities into points. You don’t always notice such plays when they happen — they don’t glare like a cornerback burned on a sideline route. But they’re slow death.
Also, the Bears’ trademark defense endured some embarrassing moments. Like yielding 34 points in the fourth quarter at Detroit, for a 10-point loss. And getting run over by Minnesota rookie Adrian Peterson for 224 yards, a three-point loss.
"We can’t let those things happen," Brown said.
"Guys were doing their best, they were trying. But for some reason, we just weren’t making the plays. We missed a lot of plays, and now we see what happens. We see how big a difference that can have on our record."
It’s the difference between good and bad.
It’s the difference between playing next month for another shot at the Super Bowl or packing bags and going home early, as the Bears will do after team meetings today.
It’s the difference between simply being happy to end the season on a positive note, with hope of carrying over momentum to next year, and having a chance to end the season with a victory parade.
"We knew today," Brown said, "when the clock hit zero, it was over."
It didnt feel good.
Kirk Wessler is Journal Star executive sports editor/columnist. Write to him at 1 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61643, call (309) 686-3216 or e-mail to kwessler@pjstar.com.
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Hubble finds dwarf galaxy in our cosmic neighbourhood
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a dwarf galaxy in a globular cluster which is only 30 million light-years away.
The team used the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) telescope to study white dwarf stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752.
The aim of their observations was to use these stars to measure the age of the globular cluster, but in the process they made an unexpected discovery, according to the study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
In the outer fringes of the area observed with Hubble’s camera, a compact collection of stars was visible.
After a careful analysis of their brightnesses and temperatures, the astronomers concluded that these stars did not belong to the cluster — which is part of the Milky Way — but rather they are millions of light-years more distant.
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The newly discovered cosmic neighbour, nicknamed Bedin 1 by the astronomers, is a modestly sized, elongated galaxy, the study said.
It measures only around 3, 000 light-years at its greatest extent — a fraction of the size of the Milky Way. Not only is it tiny, but it is also incredibly faint.
These properties led astronomers to classify it as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy.
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are defined by their small size, low-luminosity, lack of dust and old stellar populations
The international team of astronomers that carried out this study consists of researchers from University of California Los Angeles, University of Bonn in Germany and Universite de Montreal in Canada, among others.
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How to Pitch a TV Show: Making Your First Reality TV Sizzle Reel
The film and television industry offers dozens of opportunities to tell stories in unique, impactful, and colorful ways, showcasing ideas that connect with audiences nationally and often, worldwide. One of the most prominent and successful forms of visual entertainment that has made its mark in the media landscape is Reality TV and one of the best ways, as an up-and-coming Producer, to develop and pitch a new concept is with the Reality TV Sizzle Reel.
In this article we’ll cover these 8 steps to pitch a tv show:
Create a sizzle reel
Find & secure the Talent
Sign option agreements
Keep the crew and gear simple
Edit your sizzle reel
Write a one-page treatment
Setup pitch meetings
Find the right production company or exec
Similar to documentary filmmaking, a reality TV sizzle reel is a 3 to 5-minute video produced and edited with the intent of showcasing three main elements of your half-hour or one-hour TV series.
First, it should be structured to highlight the idea, or “thesis.” Now, even though the term “thesis” is often not spoken in a pitch, it should be the central concept working in the back of your mind while developing your reality TV concept. It is often thought of as an “if / then” statement and it’s the seminal concept all reality TV shows are built upon.
For example, when thinking of a successful reality TV program like Discovery’s Naked and Afraid (a TV show this Writer has produced), the thesis may be: if 2 typical survivalists are literally stripped of their worldly possessions and needs including clothes, food, water, and tools – and placed in one of the planet’s harshest environments in which they must find essentials like food and water while fending off the worst mother nature has to offer (including extreme weather and wild animals) — all in 21 days (the longest a human can go without food), then how will they utilize ingenuity and survival smarts to last 3 weeks?
Second, the sizzle reel should be built around the Talent. Nearly all reality show pitches are sold based around strong, interesting, and dynamic Talent. This Talent, or “the cast” must be outspoken, strong-willed, and brave enough to be vulnerable; willing to reveal their wins as well as their losses. Talent who isn’t 100% on board with revealing their true selves will only hamper the final sizzle reel and production companies and TV network execs will have doubts about a cast’s willingness to be honest. Audiences can smell a fake a mile away and anyone pretending on a reality TV sizzle reel will simply not connect with audiences.
Third, the style should be clearly depicted in the sizzle reel. What are your camera angles? Is this a run-and-gun, fly on the wall reality concept shot handheld with more of a focus on the verity style of the show or is it a cleaner, more thoroughly planned production with pedestal cameras and jibs like a singing competition show in the vein of The Voice?
These are all decisions that should be made before anything is shot. Knowing the thesis, the Talent, and the style before you shoot is of the utmost importance if you want to produce a sizzle that catches the attention of production companies and TV execs.
Your idea doesn’t have to be so overwhelming when you’re starting out. Your idea can focus on smaller concepts found among the headlines in your neighborhood newspaper, Facebook, YouTube, or even from friends you know. It doesn’t have to include already recognizable celebrities like Adam Levine or Carson Daly.
It’s All About the Talent
All reality TV shows are built on the Talent. Take, for example, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, the very successful CNN travel show that focused on culture and food and stemmed from Bourdain’s successful book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. It’s important to note that Bourdain wasn’t an overnight success. He toiled in kitchens and struggled with personal demons before writing and publishing his book and his willingness to reveal himself in a vulnerable and honest way led to his first show, A Cook’s Tour on Food Network that eventually lead to No Reservations on the Travel Channel. His entire brand was built on his nomadic, poetic, and blue-collar approach to food, travel, and culture. Bourdain wanted to get embedded with people around the globe, discovering what made them tick on a day-to-day basis, discovering how all of our lives are built around food, family, and fun. When conceptualizing your reality TV show sizzle reel, it’s important to define the traits of your character or cast. How does their passion for a lifestyle become the heart of your sizzle and hopefully your show? That’s the essential question a strong sizzle reel answers. It’s what will sell your idea and potentially make you a paid Reality TV Producer.
Find and Lock-in in the Talent
Finding the Talent may be the biggest struggle in developing a reality TV sizzle reel. Without the Talent, it is nearly impossible to sell an idea. Hundreds of aspiring Reality TV Producers have very similar ideas. Having a singing competition idea in and of itself is not enough to compete with the myriad of singing competition ideas swirling around the ether of reality TV concepts. That’s why a show like Fox’s The Masked Singer now exists. Its predecessors (like The Voice and American Idol) paved the way for reality singing competition shows and there is a proven track record for this type of show. Television audiences love to see the fumbles and successes of everyday Singers competing for a chance at stardom. The concept had nowhere else to go until a show like The Masked Singer. It blends humor, bravado, and yep, costumes, for a fresh spin on an existing and successful concept.
But don’t stress. Your idea doesn’t have to be so overwhelming when you’re starting out. Your idea can focus on smaller concepts found among the headlines in your neighborhood newspaper, Facebook, YouTube, or even from friends you know. It doesn’t have to include already recognizable celebrities like Adam Levine or Carson Daly.
Take for example the long-running History Channel reality show Pawn Stars. That show’s origins started small when the producers of Leftfield Pictures were fascinated by the myriad and motley world of Las Vegas pawn shops, which eventually lead them to the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop near the Vegas Strip. It’s a shop that had been featured in a PBS documentary and on Insomniac with Dave Attell. The owner of the pawn shop was itching to get a reality TV show about his establishment produced. Now keep in mind, there are thousands of pawn shops that could have been produced into a show, but the characters at Gold and Silver Pawn — plus their willingness to participate in a reality show — led to the successful sale of the show, now in its 16th season.
That’s what it takes: a strong idea and an interesting and willing cast.
Optioning
Once a Reality TV Producer has negotiated the terms of shooting a sizzle reel, he or she must have all the Talent sign at least a 1-year option agreement that allows the Producer to shoot a sizzle reel and prevents the cast from working any side deals with other Producers or production companies. A huge mistake for a Reality TV Producer would be to shoot a sizzle reel without the option agreement. A Producer could put in a ton of valuable time interviewing, shooting, editing, and pitching only to discover the cast has signed another deal with another production company – and that is bad news. Do not risk losing your concept to someone else who may have more clout and connections in the television industry. Essentially, if you own the option to Talent, you own the idea and can freely pitch and potentially sell your concept. For an existing Talent option agreement that can be modified to suit the specific needs of your reality TV sizzle production, click here.
Interviewing Your Cast
Interviewing your cast in their natural habitat is essential to showcasing your cast. When I co-produced a reality TV show concept about a comic book store in Orlando, Florida, all of the interviews were done on the fly in the comic book store. The interviews are usually shot one of two ways: on the fly (OTF) or sit-and-lits, in which the subject being interviewed is sat down in a formal setting within the environment (in this case a comic shop), lit professionally, and interviewed. I personally appreciate OTFs more than sit-and-lists because it can give the interviews real dynamic energy while also getting important information about the subject and the subject’s world. Regardless of how you decide to shoot your interviews, the interviews are the glue that ties the entire story together. While a great reality show doesn’t rely on interviews alone to show a story, they can be essential to helping the audience understand the story and what’s going on inside the heads of the cast.
Verity Moments Keep the Action Interesting
While interviews help viewers get inside the heads of the cast, it’s the action of the cast that makes the sizzle interesting. What do your subjects do, how to they interact, how do conflicts arise, and how does the cast battle, deal with, and potentially resolve those conflicts? The only way to truly show (and showing is always more impactful than telling), the Reality TV Producer and his or her team must follow the cast trying to accomplish a goal. Let’s take a look at a show like Nailed It! With a Google User Like Rating of 95% and a 7.3/10 on IMDB, Nailed It! showcases home bakers who are typically terrible in the kitchen and challenges them to re-create an “edible masterpiece” in a competition for $10,000. Whichever baker does the best, wins. It is a simple, joyful, and “against-the-clock” style reality show that connects with viewers by pitting everyday folks against each other in what’s essentially a bake-off. That’s how clean and precise the focus of your sizzle should be. Get to the point and get it in 3 to 5 minutes (the length your sizzle reel should be).
Crew and Gear: Keep It Simple
Although the actual production team of a sold reality show will most likely be larger, depending on the scope of your sizzle reel, your production team should be almost ENG style. ENG stands for Electronic News Gathering and comes from the world of news. It typically consists of a Camera Operator, an Audio Operator, and a Producer/Interviewer. In some cases, lighting is required, but many sizzle reels are shot affordably and the less you spend on paying for crew and gear, then the better. Remember, as the Producer, it is your responsibility to fund your project and you should never ask crew to work for free (unless the crew also want to be Producers, who hopefully end up inking a deal to work on the show). On the low end, you may be able to typically hire a Camera Operator with gear for around $300 a day. Just note that full-time Camera Operators make more money working budgeted shows; sometimes $500 a day and sometimes $750 a day, depending on the production. Audio Operators with gear usually come in on the low end at $600 day on budgeted productions. You may be able to get one to come to the table for less, say $300, but in both cases – with Camera and Audio Operators – you run the risk of losing them if they get offered a higher paying gig.
In terms of gear, as long as you’re shooting in high definition at least 2K with a wide angle lens, you should be good. In the world of reality TV sizzle reels, it’s not about the cinematography or video quality as much as it’s about the quality of the story. Story is everything. Executives and production companies interested in new reality TV concepts are less concerned with how flashy your sizzle reel is and more interested in the cast and stories you’re bringing to the pitch. Some affordable camera options can be found here.
Find an Entertainment Lawyer to review the deal, make sure you are 100% clear on what you’re getting out of the contract and how involved you will be in the production, and create a deal in which you feel like your road to becoming a full-time Reality TV Producer is paved for your future. If you can’t afford an Entertainment Lawyer, then at the very least, read the contract and don’t be scared to negotiate. Executives and production companies expect negotiations, even from newbies.
Editing Your Sizzle Reel
Currently, there are two editing platforms used in editing Reality TV shows: AVID Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro. AVID runs about $1,300 and Premiere comes in at about $240. Personally, my use of Premiere has served me well and the lower price point makes it more affordable. There are also lower-priced monthly subscriptions options, with Premiere costing about $30 a month.
When structuring your edit, fall back on the basics of storytelling: setting, characters, and plot.
Your sizzle reel should introduce the setting clearly with exterior and interior visuals of the world in which your show takes place. Recently, I camera operated on Discovery’s Homestead Rescue, a reality TV show about the adventures of the Raney family – expert homesteaders from Alaska – who visit homesteads around the United States and help solve their toughest issues including getting clean water to the homestead, fending off wild animals like wolves, and building efficient and safe houses on their land.
The setting of your sizzle must set up that world with vast shots of homesteads, details of animal threats, and shots of things that need to be fixed up. Often, interviews or simple narration can help establish the setting so the viewer understands what he or she is looking at.
Next, introduce your cast. Have them talk about who they are and what they do and why they are the best — or at least very interesting — at what they do and how they think. Not only can the introduction of the characters be shown with interviews, but also with actions. Let’s see them at work. Remember, showing is always stronger than telling.
Finally, set up the conflict and the goals. In the case of the Raneys, the patriarch Marty Raney, a gruff and strong-willed Alaskan, will disagree with kids and partners Matt and Misty, and that’s great for story. In a sizzle reel, allow the natural personalities and disagreements to flourish. It is conflict that will compel the story and engage audiences. Conflict doesn’t equate cruelty, as some reality shows do. Great conflict is typically when passionate people have strong opinions and equally interesting methods to solving problems. In fact, cruel reality TV is not recommended. Viewers are drawn more to genuine conflict that arises from circumstances and not from manufactured conflict created in post-production.
So, while editing, you are essentially excavating and “mining” for the best moments and interview bites. You are boiling your edit down to the essentials of storytelling. Just get to the point by depicting the setting, characters, and plot. You may be in love with some things that are repetitive. It’s important to hit the high notes in a sizzle, so ask yourself: am I repeating themes too much in my edit? Do I need to show five conflicts, or simply boil it down to the one to three best conflicts in the edit? Executives and production companies get it and that is why less is often more.
It’s also important to note that the music for videos in your sizzle counts, but shouldn’t cost you money. In fact, it is OK and accepted to use music from anywhere that drives the visual story of your sizzle reel. Yes, you are trying to sell a show, but the sizzle can typically have existing music since the sizzle should never see the light of day on TV or on a subscription platform like Netflix. It’s only for the pitch and if you sell a show, then the production company will pay for published and licensed music before the show actually airs.
Writing a One-Page Treatment
Even though the sizzle reel is the flagship of your idea, you still need a one-page (sometimes you need one to five pages depending on the show concept) treatment that explains your concept. It should be structured by explaining the setting, characters, and plot and it should also be visually interesting with photos of your cast and locations.
THE LOG LINE
Open with a strong Log Line: 1 to 3 sentences that clearly state what your show is about. Be brief and be concise. Examples include:
“A group of women (or men) will court and compete to win the affections of one man who will narrow the selection until he must decide on his one true love.”
1 to 3 paragraphs that clearly illustrate an episode arc. This builds on the logline and more clearly shows the nuts and bolts of an episode’s story.
COACH SNOOP
“Coach Snoop follows Snoop Dogg as he coaches California youth football. The Snoop Youth Football League encourages at-risk kids to be involved in football as an extracurricular and focus on goals instead of getting into trouble. The show gets personal with kids in the league, with heartwarming and tear-jerking moments that will have you invested in the players not just winning the game, but winning against a system designed for them to fail.”
THE SEASON 1 SERIES ARC
Even though your sizzle will showcase the general premise of your reality TV idea, you should still be thinking ahead with a series arc based on what can actually be captured in the field with your case.
A simple list of six to ten episodes, each with its own logline, will show that you are coming to the pitch with a fully conceived season of episodes.
Setup pitch meetings with the right people
New Reality TV Producers pining to break into the industry will have a tough road to getting their sizzle reel in front of the right people. Who are the right people? Production companies and network executives who already produce reality TV with strong connections and successful shows on the air.
However, it is not impossible and it happens – hence why there are so many reality shows on broadcast and subscription TV.
Finding the Right Production Company or Exec
Step 1: Get on Their Radar
Ask yourself, what other reality shows are like mine? Make a list. After making that list, use Google and IMDBPro to discover which production companies are producing shows similar to yours. Then try to find out who is in charge of acquiring new ideas and productions. That is the individual you want to target. One way to find that person’s email address is by searching the company’s website or by searching LinkedIn. It’s OK to essentially cold email these folks because they are always searching for new and innovative ideas and if you have a sizzle reel that clearly and impact-fully shows your concept, you have just hurdled over the biggest obstacle: proving you have something worthwhile.
Step 2: Take the Meeting
Many production companies and execs will not get back to you. That is the harsh reality of trying to sell a reality TV show concept. However, some may and those are the ones you want to try to partner with. They see something in your work and are willing to carve out time to meet.
This is why you must know your idea inside and out by being able to casually and confidently pitch the setting, characters, and plot verbally while also sharing your one sheet and sizzle reel in a room with prospects. They want to know that not only do you have a solid idea but that you’re also a reliable and professional source. They want a partner they can count on because for at least a year, you are the connection to the optioned Talent.
Dress the part! The entertainment industry is often a casual one, but you want to put your best foot forward by showing up dressed business-casual, ready to present, and ready to impress. Think about all the time you put into packaging your pitch: the optioned Talent, the production, the editing, a treatment, and a sizzle – don’t blow it by showing up sloppy or too casual.
Step 3: Ink the Deal
If you get to the point of signing a contract, don’t be too trusting. Find an Entertainment Lawyer to review the deal, make sure you are 100% clear on what you’re getting out of the contract and how involved you will be in the production, and create a deal in which you feel like your road to becoming a full-time Reality TV Producer is paved for your future. If you can’t afford an Entertainment Lawyer, then at the very least, read the contract and don’t be scared to negotiate. Executives and production companies expect negotiations, even from newbies.
The Reality of Reality
There are easier things to do for a career and if selling a reality TV show was easy, then everyone would be doing it. However, if you follow these clearly outlined steps, and you do it with conviction and sincerity, you will at the very least, have an example of what you can accomplish by producing a sizzle real and sharing it with as many people as possible. If the pitch meeting never materializes, then put your sizzle reel on YouTube as a last resort and see what happens.
When I was pitching a show for Storefront Superheroes, my business partner and I actually worked in reverse and placed the sizzle reel on YouTube and that lead to a production company contacting us and inking a 1-year option agreement to pitch the show to networks. You can see that sizzle reel (which is about 3 minutes too long, by the way) here. Hopefully, it demonstrates a reel that can open doors for you in the world of becoming a Reality TV Show Producer.
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Where Are They Now: Andrew Nicholls
The Spring 2013 issue of the College Report magazine featured psychology major Andrew Nicholls’ military service and his veterans advocacy work at UCLA. We recently caught up with him to learn more about his post-graduate career path and current endeavors.
Having spent more than nine years in the U.S. Army, Andrew Nicholls ’13 draws on his personal experience and UCLA education to pursue mental health advocacy for veterans and help them with the transition to civilian life.
Nicholls works as a clinical care manager at Evergreen Health in Kirkland, WA, where he conducts assessments of mental health and assault risk as well as crisis prevention. He plans to return to the Veterans Affairs office in Seattle to continue his research on veterans’ mental health.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 prompted Nicholls to enlist in the military. While on active duty in Iraq he worked mainly on rebuilding community infrastructure and vocational programs. Unfortunately, his Army experience left him with lasting effects of PTSD, a struggle that led to his interest in veterans’ mental health advocacy.
Nicholls set his sights on UCLA and enrolled as a transfer student in 2011. He was named a UCLA Regents Scholar, honoring him as one of the top applicants of his class. He credits his mentor, psychology professor Christine Dunkel Schetter, with showing him how psychology research and social work could be a way to leverage his experience to help others.
“UCLA pushed me to challenge any notions I had of the status quo,” Nicholls said.
In 2012 while at UCLA, Nicholls founded the Killed in Action, Wounded in Action (KIA WIA) Foundation, which raises awareness of the sacrifices of men and women wounded or killed in the Global War on Terror. He also initiated an undergraduate seminar titled “Fast Cars and Battle Scars: Understanding the Modern Combat Veteran and PTSD,” which explored basic training, soldier perspectives and transition to civilian life. Nicholls said he was impressed by the depth with which the students engaged with the material, and he has stayed in touch with many of them.
“Leading that seminar was my top achievement while at UCLA,” he said. “Teaching reminded me of my time in the Army. What I loved about my experience in the military was leading a team and feeling a sense of comradery.”
After graduation, Nicholls continued to work for KIA WIA and obtained a master’s degree in social work from USC. He recently co-authored an article titled “Tattoos as a Window to the Psyche: How Talking about Skin Art Can Inform Psychiatric Practice” due for publication in the World Journal of Psychology.
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UCLA student wins national award for environmental justice work
October 29, 2018 /in Featured Stories Students /by Alyssa Bierce
Her mission for the environment and social justice is just getting started, but she’s already built an impressive resume.
UCLA students launch project that’s out of this world
September 28, 2018 /in College Newsletter /by administrator
UCLA aims to be one of the few universities to ever complete such a sophisticated space science mission — designed and built by students — from beginning to end.
Five years ago, a group of UCLA undergrads came together with a common goal — to build a small satellite and launch it into space. In the years since, more than 250 students — many of whom are now UCLA graduate students and alumni — have been the mechanical engineers, software developers, thermal and power testers, electronics technicians, mission planners and fabricators of the twin Electron Losses and Fields Investigation CubeSats, known as ELFIN.
Although UCLA has been building space instruments for NASA and other international space missions for more than 40 years, and members of its faculty have been critical contributors to space science, ELFIN is the first satellite mission built, managed and operated entirely at UCLA. And even more impressive, just about all of it has been done by the students.
This week, dozens of ELFINers (a nickname earned by those who’ve worked on the satellites), will drive about 150 miles up the California coast from Los Angeles to Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, to watch the product of their effort ascend into orbit.
“Just seeing all the hundreds of hours of work, that not just myself but others too, have put into this project, the many sleepless nights, the stressing out that you’re not going to make a deadline — just seeing it go up there … I’m probably going to cry,” said Jessica Artinger, an astrophysics major and geophysics and planetary science minor who will begin her fifth year this fall.
The two micro-satellites, each weighing about eight pounds and roughly the size of a loaf of bread, will help scientists better understand magnetic storms in near-Earth space. These storms are a typical form of “space weather” that is induced by solar activity, including flares and violent solar eruptions. Some solar outbursts can impact Earth, generating large amounts of invisible electromagnetic energy that transforms our local space environment.
“Magnetic storms are not just interesting space phenomena. They can energize electrons to high energies that can damage or even destroy orbiting satellites we depend on for GPS, communications and weather monitoring,” said Margaret Kivelson, UCLA professor emeritus of space physics. “They can also enhance space electrical currents which flow onto Earth, and could damage the power grid. Space weather research is also crucial for space tourism and space exploration.”
Currently, scientists’ ability to accurately model and predict space weather is in its infancy, just like meteorology was at the turn of the last century. ELFIN will make headway toward better understanding these phenomena.
ELFIN will go up as a secondary payload with the ICESat-2 mission at dawn on Saturday, Sept. 15, aboard the trusted Delta II, the final and hopefully 100th consecutive successful launch of this type of rocket. The launch will be streamed live on NASA TV’s YouTube channel, as well as on UCLA social media (follow #uclaELFIN).
Jessica Artinger
Following the launch, many ELFINers at Vandenberg will come back to the campus command center to eagerly await the first Bruin transmissions from space, which are expected about 10 hours after blast-off. UCLA students will be directly involved in day-to-day mission activities and will have privileged access to ELFIN’s data. They will track and command the satellite via a custom-built antenna atop Knudsen Hall and will download data directly to the mission operations center located in the Earth, planetary and space sciences department. The ELFIN website will have interactive tools so the public can track and listen to the spacecraft as it passes overhead twice a day. The CubeSats are expected to remain in space for two years, after which they will gradually fall out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere like shooting stars.
In fall 2017, as head of ELFIN’s fabrication team, Artinger led a small team that worked tirelessly in the EPSS prototyping lab using band saws, drill presses and a CNC machine (which is used to carve and smooth metal parts) to meticulously craft tightly toleranced components to meet their completion deadline.
“There was a lot of working things out in your head before machining it, especially for safety reasons,” said Artinger, who gave a final inspection by painstakingly sanding each part and then re-measuring each and every hole, comparing them to the technical drawings for accuracy before sending them upstairs to the mechanical team for assembly. The aerospace-grade tolerance requirement across the 13.5-inch long spacecraft, she said, was two thousandths of an inch — about half the thickness of a standard sheet of paper. The team also had to machine the sensitive energetic particle detector frames to an incredibly precise 1/10,000 of an inch, she said.
Artinger, a transfer student who graduated from Orange Coast College in 2016, plans to become a community college professor and can’t wait to use her ELFIN experience to inspire a new generation of students. She says ELFIN really opened her eyes to the power of mentoring through research and further solidified her commitment to teaching topics related to space science.
“Maybe we can discover something at the community college I’ll be working at using the actual data from the satellite that I helped build,” she said. “That would be really cool.”
Ethan Tsai
Ethan Tsai learned about ELFIN when he was a UCLA sophomore. Despite having no background in space science, the former physics major started to work on simple tasks and gained the necessary skills to become the project’s attitude determination and control subsystem lead. Now studying for his master’s in electrical engineering, Tsai is ELFIN’s project manager.
“I was pretty honored to be able to work on a mission like this,” he said, adding that he never imagined being involved in a NASA mission as an undergraduate. “It wasn’t until about two years into the project that I started to understand and appreciate the quality of the work we were doing and how it’s going to actually affect not just our mission and the students around us but the scientific community as a whole.”
Tsai said he’s excited about the infrastructure he has helped create to make UCLA a “space campus,” supporting students who will work on future satellite missions.
The project has been supported with funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA, with technical assistance from the Aerospace Corporation among other industry partners and universities.
CubeSats like ELFIN pack instruments into a loaf-of-bread sized satellite.
Those who have witnessed the aurora borealis and australis illuminate the skies, also known as the northern and southern lights, have experienced the beauty and power of space weather, likely without even knowing it.
“The aurora is sort of a TV screen that shows us what happens out in space.” said Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA space physicist who got his doctorate at UCLA and serves as ELFIN’s principal investigator. “Space physicists can tell if something interesting or important is going on in space by looking at the aurora.”
Vassilis Angelopoulos
ELFIN aims to observe the complex sequence whereby magnetic storms form waves near Earth, accelerating and forcing electrons to fall into the atmosphere, while a network of all-sky cameras across North America captures the resulting brightening of the auroral lights. The field of space science benefits from multi-satellite missions like ELFIN because of the ever-growing need to know about the dynamic conditions in space.
“Just like with atmospheric weather,” Angelopoulos said, “you need multiple space weather buoys to feed their data into our space weather models and be able to make predictions of conditions in the future.”
CubeSats fill this need because of their compact size, relative affordability ($300,000 compared to several hundred million dollars for a typical research satellite), and how quickly a team can go from prototyping to launch compared to standard-sized satellites. CubeSats uniquely allow students to witness end-to-end satellite mission development, testing and operations all within the span of their undergraduate studies.
For ELFINers, being part of an endeavor of this magnitude is reward enough, but working on this project also has professional and scientific benefits, Angelopoulos said. In addition to the leadership, interpersonal, problem-solving and technical skills they’ve developed, ELFINers are also contributing to the production of knowledge, something that is incredibly valuable to society and to their careers as scientists and engineers.
Ethan Tsai works on the flight model assembly for the CubeSat ELFIN.
“As a researcher it’s important to not just analyze data that others collect, but to be involved in designing your own unique experiments to explore new key science questions. This is how space science started, with experiments on small rockets where students were involved in the nuts and bolts of them, and similarly with CubeSats, this is where the future of space science education is headed now,” Angelopoulos said.
Building on the opportunities that exist here at UCLA, and knowing the impact that experiential learning can have on a student’s academic life, Angelopoulos wanted to find a way to bring CubeSat development into the undergraduate experience.
“CubeSats are ideal because they create an environment where students from all walks of life, from all disciplines, can come together and practice what they’ve learned during their formal education in the context of a realistic environment,” Angelopoulos said. “This is exactly what academia, industry and research organizations around the country need — and they tell us that. This is the kind of experience they want in people who are applying to graduate school or who are applying to work in industrial firms because these are people who think on their feet and innovate.”
UCLA Arts launches ‘10 Questions’ event series that invites the public into the classroom
Clockwise from top right: UCLA’s Kristy Edmunds, Darnell Hunt, Tracy Johnson, Brett Steele, Ananya Roy and Peter Sellars are among the 40 scholars who will participate.
Giving community members a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university, this fall the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture will present “10 Questions,” a hybrid academic course and public event series that brings together leading minds from across the university.
Beginning Oct. 2, every Tuesday for 10 weeks UCLA faculty members from disciplines as diverse as dance, medicine, photography, astrophysics, athletics, Chicana and Chicano studies, law, philosophy and religious studies will join UCLA Arts Dean Brett Steele to explore a fundamental question such as: What is space? What is failure? What is freedom?
A new platform for UCLA Arts, this initiative seeks to stimulate dialogue and exchange, and cultivate a greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge production in the 21st century.
Faculty participants include fine art photographer Catherine Opie; sociologist and co-author of the Hollywood Diversity Report Darnell Hunt, who serves as dean of the division of social sciences in the UCLA College; astronomer and MacArthur fellow Andrea Ghez; labor and immigration expert Abel Valenzuela; artist, curator and Executive and Artistic Director of CAP UCLA, Kristy Edmunds; neuroscientist and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dr. Kelsey Martin; theater director and MacArthur fellow Peter Sellars; artist Andrea Fraser; psychological anthropologist and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco; architect Greg Lynn; UCLA gymnastics head coach Valorie Kondos Field; director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Ananya Roy; and Shakespeare scholar and poet Robert Watson.
“L.A. is the creative capital of the world — and California its fifth largest economy: a vibrant, productive center for the arts, architecture and culture; scientific, technological and economic innovation; urban design; social and political action; environmental conservation; and more,” Steele said. “UCLA is the place where the leading minds in all of these areas come together to experiment, forge new ideas, push the boundaries and invent the future. I find that the most innovative ideas begin with truly fundamental questions. Too often, we get stuck in our own particular concerns or disciplines. ‘10 Questions’ is an opportunity for us, as a university, to re-engage and re-imagine big questions and possible answers through conversations across diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives. What better time than now to pose these questions? What better group than the brilliant minds from across UCLA to tackle them?”
“10 Questions” debuts an innovative program format for UCLA Arts. Both an upper-level undergraduate course and a public event series, it is the first course of its kind at the school that invites the public into the lecture hall to experience firsthand exciting, interdisciplinary conversation among some of UCLA’s most esteemed faculty. Each Tuesday evening from Oct. 2 through Dec. 4, the public will join UCLA students in class for an intimate panel discussion featuring two faculty from the School of the Arts and Architecture, and two from across the university.
To further the program’s goal of helping bring the creativity and research energy of UCLA to the public, all of the lectures will be recorded for public distribution and made available on YouTube.
The course, conceived and developed by Victoria Marks, associate dean of academic affairs, with Anne Marie Burke, executive director of communications and public relations for the school, places the arts at the center of interdisciplinary scholarly discourse.
“The arts have a unique and profound ability to communicate, bring people together, and, ultimately, to transform society,” Marks said. “Now more than ever, we are facing fundamental questions and challenges, and now more than ever we need an energetic exchange of ideas to seed innovation and progress. ‘10 Questions’ puts the arts at the center of this exchange — as they should be. We designed this program to build vital cross-university conversation as we work toward understanding the unique perspectives each discipline brings to the larger equation of knowledge. It is my hope that these dialogues will better prepare us as a learning community — and as a society — for a richer and more substantial appreciation of what our different fields bring to the question of human understanding.”
Tuesdays, Oct. 2 through Dec. 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
UCLA campus, Glorya Kaufman Hall theater (room 200)
Free and open to the public (RSVP Required)
Pay by space parking available on campus adjacent to Kaufman Hall (Structure 4)
Oct. 2: What is space?
Dana Cuff, urbanist and architectural theorist; Andrea Ghez, astronomer; Rodrigo Valenzuela, artist; Paul Weiss, nanoscientist
Oct. 9: What is time?
Rebeca Méndez, designer and media artist; James Newton, composer, flutist, conductor; Asma Sayeed, scholar of Islamic studies; Scott Waugh, UCLA executive vice chancellor and provost
Oct. 16: What is beauty?
J.Ed Araiza, writer, director, performer; Paul Barber, evolutionary and conservation geneticist; Marla Berns, scholar and curator of African Arts and Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA; Kathleen McHugh, feminist media theorist and critic
Oct. 23: What is freedom?
Andrea Fraser, artist; Lauren McCarthy, media artist; Ananya Roy, social justice scholar; Seana Shiffrin, moral and political philosophy expert
Oct. 30: What is memory?
Darnell Hunt, sociologist; Kelsey Martin, neuroscientist; Polly Nooter Roberts, scholar and curator of African arts; Peter Sellars, theater director
Nov. 6: What is a body?
Susan Foster, choreographer and scholar; Jennifer Jay, environmental engineer; Tracy Johnson, molecular, cellular and developmental biologist; Greg Lynn, architect
Nov. 13: What is failure?
David Gere, arts activist; Valorie Kondos Field, head coach, UCLA gymnastics; Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, scholar of racial and ethnic politics; Janet O’Shea, author and martial artist
Nov. 20: What is work?
Willem Henri Lucas, designer; Catherine Opie, artist; Alfred Osborne, global economy and entrepreneurship expert; Abel Valenzuela, labor and immigration expert
Nov. 27: What is knowledge?
Kristy Edmunds, artist, curator, and executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA; Victoria Marks, choreographer; Todd Presner, digital humanist and cultural critic; Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, psychological anthropologist
Dec. 4: What is a university?
Bryonn Bain, performing artist and scholar; Jerry Kang, legal scholar and UCLA vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion; David Schaberg, scholar of comparative literature; Robert Watson, Shakespeare scholar and poet
For more information, please visit https://arts.ucla.edu/10questions
We have liftoff of student-built satellites
The launch of the UCLA-student-built ELFIN satellites aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 6:02 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15.
For the dozens of UCLA students, faculty, staff and alumni braving the chilly temperatures near Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday morning, the brilliant ray of white that radiated across the predawn horizon was the best goodbye ever.
At 6:02 a.m. a Delta II rocket lifted off from the base in Lompoc, California, carrying ELFIN — twin micro-satellites, each weighing about eight pounds and roughly the size of a loaf of bread — into orbit aboard NASA’s ICESat-2 mission.
Saturday’s launch was the culmination of years of planning, dreaming, fabricating, designing, assembling, testing and programming, virtually all of it done by more than 250 UCLA students, most of whom were undergraduates.
“It’s really been a very emotional moment for a lot of students here,” said Ethan Tsai, UCLA graduate student in electrical engineering and ELFIN’s project manager. Tsai, more than two dozen other current students, alumni and faculty, including Vassilis Angelopoulos, professor of space physics and ELFIN’s principal investigator, watched from the VIP area.
“There’s half of my brain that’s trying to stick with the professional mode … and then part of me is just like I can’t believe this thing is launching and I can’t believe this thing is in space,” Tsai said. “I don’t know that it’s sunk in yet. But it’s really emotional for me.”
Luis Frausto, 34, a 2010 UCLA mechanical engineering graduate, who worked on early prototypes of ELFIN, said he was in “total awe” watching the launch from a public viewing site near Vandenberg Middle School.
Frausto, now a design engineer at TAE Technologies, Inc., was one of more than 200 (a record for the Vandenberg public viewing site, according to a base spokesman) who braved the chilly temperatures, including about 40 UCLA ELFINers and a few of their friends, who counted down to zero as the launch went off, sending the crowd into cheers and applause.
“You can’t compare it to watching it on TV. It was like a feeling inside my chest, like I was out of breath,” said Frausto, who left his home in Irvine at 12:30 a.m. to drive the 200 miles northwest to Lompoc. “I’m here and I’m honored to be around everyone who worked on ELFIN.”
ELFIN, which stands for Electron Losses and Fields Investigation CubeSats, is designed to help scientists better understand magnetic storms in near-Earth space. These storms are a typical form of “space weather” that is induced by solar activity, including flares and violent solar eruptions. Magnetic storms can result in damage or even destruction of orbiting satellites that humans depend on for GPS, communications and weather monitoring. Space weather research is also crucial for space tourism and space exploration.
Another former ELFINer who came out was Mike Lawson, who works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena on the Mars 2020 mission. Lawson slept only two hours on a couch at UCLA before he left Westwood at midnight for what he described as an “emotional” drive on U.S. 101 that included listening to David Bowie’s “Starman.”
“It’s weird. It’s surreal. It was 10 years gone in like 20 seconds,” said Lawson, who earned his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in geology from UCLA. The 37-year-old was one of the original ELFINers 10 years ago who worked on prototypes for what would become the satellites that launched this morning. Work began five years ago on the actual satellites that went into orbit, aboard NASA’s final Delta II rocket mission.
Jessica Artinger, an astrophysics major who will begin her fifth year at UCLA this fall, left at 1 a.m. from Fountain Valley in Orange County to make the trip. Since fall quarter 2017, Artinger has led the fabrication team.
“Watching this,” said Artinger, who prior to the launch had expected to cry but despite the dry eyes was nevertheless moved, “my time here means something.”
Louise Tamondong, who is part of ELFIN’s flight operations team, said she got chills watching the launch, which was easily visible for just a few seconds before the rocket was shrouded in thick clouds. About 10 seconds after the sky lit up, the crowd finally heard the roar of the rocket’s engines.
“It felt so unreal that everything that we worked for is going into space … it only felt real when we saw that bright light and everything going up,” said Tamondong. After liftoff, she headed back to Westwood to listen for the first signal from the orbiting ELFIN through an antenna on the roof of UCLA’s Knudsen Hall. They received a signal around 4:30 p.m., confirming that both probes survived the bumpy ride to orbit. The team will now begin commissioning the spacecraft systems and instruments to prepare for the science operations phase.
As a new Bruin, Sixue Xu wasn’t part of the team that designed, tested and built ELFIN. But the graduate student in space physics will be among those who stand to benefit from ELFIN’s work.
“Now it’s our turn,” Xu said, “to make that data into science.”
First-of-its kind crowdfunding campaign raises over $69,000 for undergraduate research
June 27, 2018 /in College Magazine Impact /by Alyssa Bierce
A first-of-its-kind crowdfunding campaign raised more than $69,000 for the UCLA Undergraduate Research Centers in the span of two weeks, providing critical funding for students to pursue mentorship and research opportunities throughout campus.
Tama Hasson, Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research, sees first-hand how these resources can transform a student’s career path.
“When you are in a certain major, and you’re exploring a career, undergraduate research is a way to explore your interests in that career,” she said. “Research is useful for any career. Every discipline is going to ask you to take information and synthesize it.”
Undergraduate Research Week is an opportunity for students across campus to share their research.
Hosted on the UCLA Spark crowdfunding site, the campaign launched just before Undergraduate Research Week, an annual event that brings student researchers from across campus to present their work. After just two weeks, more than 200 donors had contributed nationwide.
For the students who rely on the research centers to deepen their research portfolio, this funding will have a significant impact on their undergraduate experience.
“If it wouldn’t have been for undergraduate research I have no idea what my UCLA experience would have been like,” said Evelyn Hernandez ‘18, who will be pursuing her Ph.D. in the fall. “I’m just glad I got to focus on something – with the money that I got from C.A.R.E., and the fellowships – that I got to focus my extra time solely on research.”
Generations of students and faculty have relied on the Undergraduate Research Centers as catalysts for academic and professional growth. UCLA is the only university in the country to have two research centers, one focused on the sciences and another focused on the humanities, arts and social sciences. Together, the centers connect students with mentorships and opportunities to conduct research with top UCLA faculty, providing hands-on experiences that shape their careers.
The campaign also accomplished something invaluable – visibility. As a result of this dedicated effort, the Undergraduate Research Centers have built a community of supporters who are invested in the success of their students.
That community will prove vital as the centers continue their work providing crucial resources for undergraduate researchers. Whitney Arnold, Director of the Undergraduate Research Center–Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, is optimistic about the show of support.
“What I think is the coolest thing is how people at all levels and in all places in their careers contributed to the undergraduate research campaign,” Arnold said. “It just shows you the breadth and the impact of undergraduate research.”
For one grad and his dad a happy twist on like father, like son
June 15, 2018 /in Featured Stories Students /by Alyssa Bierce
Kevin thanks his mother’s persistence in pursuing her own education coupled with his father’s humble nature and drive to provide a safe and secure life for his family for molding him.
Native American siblings stop at nothing to graduate from UCLA and lift their community
Obstacles and adversity have never stopped these three first-generation college students. They’ve only served to make the siblings stronger and the family prouder.
February 16, 2018 /in College Newsletter Featured Stories Students /by Robin Migdol
In a roundtable discussion with UCLA students and Chicago entrepreneurs at Startup UCLA on Feb. 12, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was adamant that despite all his career accomplishments, it is his failures, not his successes, that continue to teach him his biggest lessons.
For the students in the room, it was exactly what they needed to hear.
“Being young it’s always great to hear advice from someone who’s achieved great success in his career about how we can do that for ourselves,” said fourth-year statistics major Parker Mansfield. “[And to hear about] the mindset we should have while trying to do that and what we should look for on our journey to success.”
Emanuel served in the White House during the Obama and Clinton administrations as chief of staff and senior a dvisor to the president for policy and strategy, respectively, and was a three-term U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 5th congressional district. He has served as mayor of the city of Chicago since 2011.
The roundtable was part of Emanuel’s daylong visit to UCLA, which included delivering the keynote address for the 2018 UCLA College Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership at UCLA Royce Hall.
Mayor Emanuel visited students in the Maker Space to hear more about their opportunities to experiment with new technologies.
In the afternoon before the lecture, Emanuel visited Startup UCLA with a delegation of Chicago-based technology leaders as part of the Think Chicago Roadshow, Emanuel’s and World Business Chicago’s initiative to visit universities across the country to attract the next generation of tech leaders to the city.
The group toured the Maker Space in Rieber Hall, where students can use 3D printers, laser cutters, software and other tools to create their own projects, and had a peek at the Design & Innovation Living Learning Community in Sproul Hall, which cultivates students’ passions and pursuits around technology, innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.
Emanuel and the entrepreneurs then sat down with seven undergraduate and two graduate students who had been invited because of their various interests in entrepreneurship. Emanuel discussed efforts to foster a culture of innovation and business leadership in Chicago, and he and the delegation shared their advice for finding success in the entrepreneurial world.
Emanuel shared his vision for Chicago as a city that welcomes and supports business leaders and innovators of all kinds, not just major corporations. He outlined the initiatives he has implemented in order to position Chicago as a hub of innovation, education and business, demonstrating that public policy and entrepreneurship can complement each other and allow both companies and communities to thrive together.
Second-year mechanical engineering major Nikhil Pawar noted that while he has met several technology leaders before, this was the first time he’d had the chance to hear directly from a leader in public service.
“Hearing about the social space, which is something I’m trying to marry into my work, was incredibly useful,” Pawar said.
Anshul Aggarwal, a third-year computer science major, asked Emanuel for his advice on risk management: How does he determine whether an investment of time, money, energy or resources is worthwhile?
Chicago business and innovation leaders joined the mayor to share key career insights with students.
“You have to evaluate what I call the pain/pleasure principle,” Emanuel said. “How much political pain is it going to take to get this and at the end of the day, is it worth it? You’ve got to decide what’s really important and worth taking a swing at and, sometimes you’re going to let other ones just go by.”
Aggarwal said Emanuel’s insights would stay with him for a long time since he sometimes struggles to decide whether a new project is worth taking on.
But Emanuel struck the biggest nerve when he encouraged the students not to be afraid to try something new and to embrace failures as necessary for success. He pointed to two low points in his life—when he nearly died as a teenager and when he was briefly fired from the Clinton administration—as the events that taught him more about his capabilities than any other achievement in his life.
“If you haven’t failed yet, you haven’t succeeded yet,” Emanuel said. “It is better to try and fail than to resent that you never tried.”
Frances Lai, a third-year cognitive sciences major, said Emanuel’s words reassured her that she’s still young and has a lot of time to do something with her life.
Having the opportunity to meet Emanuel and listen to his insights in such an intimate setting “means the world,” Aggarwal said.
“I’m the type of person who learns best finding out what other people have done, seeing what worked for them and applying it,” he said. “[Emanuel and the delegation’s] experiences are something we’re eventually going to go through as well and it’s exciting to be able to see the kinds of things they’ve done and see if we can take that into our lives as well.”
Startup UCLA Executive Director Deanna Evans hopes the students will be inspired by the once-in-a-lifetime experience of participating in a roundtable with Emanuel and the Chicago entrepreneurs.
“The advice he gave them may affirm their current career aspirations or set them on an entirely new course, possibly moving to Chicago to start their career,” Evans said. “I look forward to talking with these students in the future to see how this experience shaped their career journey.”
UCLA students get busy during Summer Sessions
February 9, 2018 /in Featured Stories Students /by Robin Migdol
Priority enrollment for summer 2018 opened on February 1, which means that students like Arpi Beshlikyan are already deciding whether to catch up, get ahead or explore future careers.
“I plan on taking two prerequisite courses this summer, Physics 4BL and Computer Science 180,” said Beshlikyan, a second-year computer science and engineering major. Her goal is to have more room in her schedule during the regular academic year to take interesting electives.
She’ll join more than 12,000 other UCLA students who choose to enroll each summer. With 1,000+ new and popular courses as well as intensive summer institutes, UCLA Summer Sessions provides opportunities for incoming, current and visiting students to fulfill graduation requirements, take courses outside their majors and prepare for life after graduation.
Beshlikyan pointed out that since there is no unit minimum during Summer Sessions, she can take only those two courses, allowing her to focus without splitting her time between other courses plus extracurricular activities.
With the campus population at less than half its normal size, Beshlikyan looks forward to enjoying the summer weather and less crowded campus.
“I like the campus when it’s quieter,” she said. “There’s less people and there’s a different feel to it. And it’s easier to find places to study.”
For students who may not be in Los Angeles over the summer, select academic courses are offered online.
Kya Williamson, a fourth-year art major and African American studies minor, took History 10A online during Summer Sessions after her second year. While her mom urged her to take a course so she’d have something to do over the summer, Williamson was excited for the opportunity to learn about the history of American slavery from renowned scholar Robin Kelley, Distinguished Professor and holder of the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History.
Online courses allow students to complete the readings and assignments in their own time and some discussion sections are conducted via webcam, encouraging all students to be accountable and engaged in the course.
“As long as you stay on top of your work, [online courses] are a great way to get credits,” Williamson said.
Non-resident supplemental tuition is not assessed over the summer, making summer the most affordable time of year for non-California residents to take courses at UCLA.
Students can also flex their creativity and explore future career options through UCLA Summer Institutes, which last from four to eight weeks and attract students from the top universities in the country as well as international students. Taught by UCLA faculty with topics ranging from architecture to management, these intensive programs allow students to immerse themselves in a field they’re interested in or try out an area of study they’re considering.
Carlie Heuple, a third-year communications and psychology double major, participated in the 2017 Managing Enterprise in Media, Entertainment and Sports (MEMES) Summer Institute offered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, which introduces students to entertainment and sports marketing and management.
“The [MEMES] Summer Institute helped with my career goals because it introduced me to so much knowledge as well as people that have helped connect me in so many ways,” said Heuple, who sought to expand her knowledge of the sports industry but ended up with much more than that. “I secured an amazing internship for six months solely due to my participation in this course and the help of Professor Mark Francis.”
Registration for summer academic courses is now open for UCLA students. Registration for visiting students opens February 15. Registration for Summer Institutes opens February 15. The Summer Opportunities Fair is on February 13. More information on summer 2018 courses and programs is available on the UCLA Summer Sessions website.
UCLA breaks applications record, sees steep surge in California applicants
December 19, 2017 /in College News Featured Stories /by Alyssa Bierce
This year’s increase in freshman applications from Californians exceeded last year’s total growth in overall applications from in-state, out-of-state and international students combined.
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story Of Joy Davidman And C. S. Lewis
byPatti Callahan
Hardcover | October 2, 2018
Now a USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
“Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan’s expert hands, revealing a connection so persuasive and affecting, we wonder if there’s another like it in history. Luminous and penetrating.” —Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife
In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.
From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, finding a love that even the threat of death couldn’t destroy.
In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women weren’t meant to have a voice—and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn’t know they had.
At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer’s life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story—a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.
“Patti Callahan Henry breathes wondrous fresh life into one of the greatest literary love stories of all time . . . The result is a deeply moving story about love and loss that is transformative and magical.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale
“I was swept along, filled with hope, and entirely beguiled, not only by the life lived behind the veil of C. S. Lewis’s books but also by the woman who won his heart. A literary treasure from first page to last.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
“Profoundly evocative, revealing an intimate view of a woman whose love and story had never been fully told . . . until now . . . Becoming Mrs. Lewis is a tour de force and the must-read of the season!” —Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Beach House Reunion
"Patti Callahan somehow inhabits Davidman, taking her readers inside the writer’s hungry mind and heart. We keenly feel Davidman’s struggle to become her own person at a time (the 1950s) when women had few options . . . An astonishing work of biographical fiction." —Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Poe
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This generation shall not pass away...
Discussion in 'Eschatology - Endtimes & Prophecy Forum' started by Achilles6129, Sep 28, 2013.
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B1inHim said in post 79:
I agree, the end times. The one that we are in right now
The tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, which Jesus will return immediately after (Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 19:7 to 20:6) hasn't started yet. It will begin with a horrible war, which, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, will end up killing 1/4 of the world (Revelation 6:4-8). The "great sword" of this war (Revelation 6:4) could be Israel's nuclear weapons. After this war, there will be a terrible series of natural disasters historically unprecedented in their magnitude, such as a gigantic volcanic eruption (Revelation 6:12-14), possibly of the Yellowstone Caldera, and then the collapse into the ocean of another erupting volcano (Revelation 8:8-9), possibly one of the Canary Islands, the collapse of which could set up a huge tsunami which could destroy the eastern seaboard of the U.S.
If such a tsunami occurs, it could cause a string of awful, Fukushima-type, nuclear-meltdown radiation disasters in the nuclear power plants and their nuclear-waste storage facilities all along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. Also, if the tsunami breaks open the germ-containment structures on Plum Island, just off the coast of Connecticut, especially deadly viruses and bacteria could be washed inland and spread across the U.S. and Canada as they infect animals and people.
After the volcanic activity and possible tsunami, a comet will strike the earth (Revelation 8:10-11), possibly in the U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes region. As the comet falls from the sky, it will look like a great star, or like a burning lamp in the sky (Revelation 8:10). It will strike a region of the earth which contains 1/3 of the world's fresh surface water (Revelation 8:10b), and it will contain some poisonous element which will poison that water so that many who drink from it will die (Revelation 8:11b). Sometime after that, weird locust-like beings will swarm up from the bottomless pit of the earth to torment mankind with excruciating stings for 5 months (Revelation 9:2-10). The world could see them as "aliens" who had been hibernating for thousands of years in a cavern deep underground. The locust-like beings won't kill anyone, but they will make those they sting want to die, the pain will be so bad (Revelation 9:5-6).
After that, an army of 200 million weird horse-like beings and their (possibly fallen-angel) riders will come upon the earth (Revelation 9:16-19). If they descend from the sky in spaceships, the world could see them as aliens. But they and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") could (falsely) say that they're YHWH God's main army. In fact, they could be loyal to Lucifer (Satan, the dragon, Revelation 12:9). The 4 fallen angels now bound at the Euphrates who will lead this army (Revelation 9:14-16) could employ it to make mankind completely desperate before its complete takeover by Lucifer and the Antichrist mid-tribulation (Revelation 12:9 to 13:18). For when the army starts killing 1/3 of mankind (Revelation 9:16-19), then could also begin one of the biggest deceptions ever wrought on mankind. For the Antichrist, who by that time could have managed to have been elected as the Prime Minister of a Mediterranean Union formed by the joining of the European Union with an Arab Union stretching from Oman to Morocco, could announce to the world that he has sent a mental distress call to (what he could call) "My Father, our Lord Lucifer, to come with his legions of angels, and rescue mankind from this murderous army of YHWH".
(And all of this will be part of only the first half of the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24.)
It's at this point that Lucifer and an army of his angels could come down out of heaven to the earth permanently after losing a mid-tribulation war in heaven (Revelation 12:7-9). But instead of coming down as a defeated force, they could descend for all the world to see in gigantic, magnificent golden spaceships onto the "Champ de Mars", Mars being the same as Marduk the dragon, the chief god of ancient Babylon. The "Champ de Mars" is the large open area in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. After landing there, Lucifer, a literal, 7-headed dragon (Revelation 12:3,9), could emerge in great splendor and command the army of fallen angels that descended with him to capture the army of 200 million weird horse-like beings and their (possibly fallen-angel) riders, who could then pretend to defect from serving YHWH to serving Lucifer. Lucifer could then confirm that he has come to rescue mankind because the Antichrist, who he could say is his only-begotten "Son", called upon him (like in an Antichrist counterfeit of Matthew 26:53). Lucifer and the Antichrist could then be received wholeheartedly by the unsaved world as the saviors of mankind. And the unsaved world could be left thinking (mistakenly) that Lucifer and his angels were more powerful than even YHWH God's main army.
Lucifer and the Antichrist, along with the Antichrist's miracle-working False Prophet, will then deceive the world into actually worshipping Lucifer and the Antichrist and a speaking (possibly android) image of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:4-16, Revelation 19:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36). And everyone will be made to receive a (possibly scarification) mark of the Antichrist, either on their right hand or forehead, consisting of either the Antichrist's name or some representation of the gematrial number of his name (666) (Revelation 13:16-18). After Lucifer and the Antichrist have ruled the world for 3.5 literal years (Revelation 13:4-18), YHWH will send 7 vials of wrath against the unsaved world (Revelation 16).
Near the end of the 7 vials, unclean spirits like frogs will come out of the mouths of Lucifer, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet (Revelation 16:13). And these unclean spirits like frogs will go forth and perform amazing miracles to convince the world's armies to gather together at Armageddon (Har Megiddo: Mount Megiddo in northern Israel) (Revelation 16:16) to battle against YHWH himself (Revelation 16:14, Revelation 19:19). After gathering together at Armageddon as a staging area, the armies will travel south and pillage Jerusalem, right before Jesus (who is YHWH: John 10:30) returns from heaven and defeats them completely (Revelation 19:11 to 20:6, Zechariah 14:2-21).
When Jesus returns, immediately after the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24 (Revelation 19:7-21, Matthew 24:29-31), he will descend bodily from heaven on a white horse (Revelation 19:7-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:16, Zechariah 14:3-4, Acts 1:11-12) with all the holy angels (Matthew 25:31; 2 Thessalonians 1:7) for all the world to see (Matthew 24:27,30, Revelation 1:7). Then the church will be bodily resurrected (if dead) or physically changed (if alive) into immortality (1 Corinthians 15:21-23,51-53; 1 Thessalonians 4:16, Revelation 20:4-6) and caught up together/gathered together (raptured) (Matthew 24:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:1) as high as the clouds of the sky to hold a meeting in the air with Jesus (1 Thessalonians 4:17).
At that meeting, Jesus will judge the church (Psalms 50:3-5, cf. Mark 13:27; 2 Corinthians 5:10, Luke 12:45-48) and marry its obedient part (Revelation 19:7-8, Matthew 25:1-12) in the clouds, before it mounts white horses and comes back down from sky (the first heaven) with Jesus (Revelation 19:14) as he defeats the world's armies (Revelation 19:19,21) and the Antichrist and False Prophet (Revelation 19:20), and has Lucifer (Satan) bound in the bottomless pit for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:1-3).
Jesus will then make the marriage supper of Revelation 19:9 for the obedient part of the church in the earthly Jerusalem (Isaiah 25:6-9; 1 Corinthians 15:54), while the birds will feast on the corpses of the world's defeated armies (Revelation 19:17-18). Then Jesus and the obedient part of the church will rule the surviving nations with a rod of iron for the full 1,000 years of the millennium (Revelation 20:4-6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 2:26-29, Psalms 2). After the 1,000 years are over, Lucifer will be released from the bottomless pit and bring about the Gog/Magog rebellion, only to be defeated for the last time (Revelation 20:7-10, Ezekiel chapters 38-39).
At least 7 years after that defeat (Ezekiel 39:9b), the great white throne judgment will occur, in which all those who hadn't been resurrected and judged at Jesus' return will be resurrected and judged (Revelation 20:11-15). Then God will create a new heaven (a new first heaven: a new sky/atmosphere for the earth) and a new earth (a new surface for the earth) (Revelation 21:1; 2 Peter 3:10b,13). Then God the Father will descend from the 3rd heaven in the literal city of New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2), the Father's house (John 14:2, Revelation 21:3), and he will dwell on the earth with Jesus and the church (Revelation 21:3).
In one area outside the walls of New Jerusalem on the new earth will be the lake of fire (Revelation 22:15, Revelation 21:8) in which all of unsaved humanity will be punished forever in fire and brimstone with Lucifer and his fallen angels (Revelation 20:10,15, Matthew 25:41,46).
SayaOtonashi said in post 80:
For example Damascus was destoryed in 70AD and was not in ruins for people still lived there
Damascus is said to be the oldest continually-inhabited city on the earth. But it could be nuked by Israel during a future all-out war (Isaiah 17:1). Yet this war will also break the power of Israel (Isaiah 17:4).
One way this war could happen is the U.S. could build up the Iraqi Army until it's huge enough and well-equipped enough to serve as a proxy army, for the U.S. and Israel, for an all-out ground invasion of Iran, in order to end Iran's nuclear weapons program and extremist regime. As part of the buildup of the Iraqi Army, the U.S. could reinstall some of the former Baathist military hierarchy to run the Iraqi Army more efficiently and ruthlessly. And if the current Shiite-dominated government of Iraq balks at any invasion of fellow-Shiite Iran, this could lead the CIA, the Mossad, and possibly also (Sunni Arab) Saudi Intelligence, to bring about a Baathist coup d'etat in Iraq. For all 3 of these intelligence agencies would love for Iraq to attack their common mortal foe Iran, and the Iraqi Baathists could agree to do this, for they see non-Arab Iran as a great enemy of Arab autonomy.
To help get the Iraqi masses and the world behind the idea of an all-out Iraqi invasion of Iran, false-flag operations could be managed by the CIA and the Mossad by which it will be made to seem that (non-Arab, Persian) Iran is attacking the Iraqi Sunni Arabs and their little children terroristically with "dirty bombs" made from Iranian-enriched uranium, so that the Iraqi Arab masses will become enraged and begin to call for all-out retaliation against (what they could call) "the vile Persians". And the world could see an Iraqi invasion of Iran as being completely justified by self-defense.
But then, right when Iraq is all ready to invade Iran, the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel (who by that time could be led by a great miracle-working false Messiah: cf. Matthew 24:24) could destroy the Muslim Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque (the 3rd-holiest sites in Islam) on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, to prepare the site for the building of a 3rd Jewish temple (Revelation 11:1-2, Matthew 24:15, Daniel 11:31,36; 2 Thessalonians 2:4). This could so enrage Muslims worldwide, including the (Muslim) Iraqi Army, that the Iraqi Baathist Generals could see it as a perfect excuse to abandon the plan to invade huge Iran, and instead (pretending that they're doing so in the name of Islam) turn and send their vast army against the little territory of Israel, completely defeating it (Daniel 11:15-17; in verse 17, the original Hebrew word translated as "daughter" is "bath").
But this wouldn't be the ultimate reason for the Baathist attack, which could continue on south to also defeat and occupy Egypt (Daniel 11:15). For Egypt is ruled by the U.S.-supported Egyptian Army, which the Baathists could see as being a puppet of the U.S., just as they could see Israel as being a colony of the U.S. Baathism's ultimate aim is to unite all Arab lands from Oman to Morocco into one massive, powerful United Arab States free of all foreign hegemony.
The all-out Iraqi attack on Israel could be joined by the entire (Baathist) Syrian Army (with all of its missiles, many tipped with nerve agents), as well as by all of Iran's long-range missiles and all of Hezbollah's and Hamas' missiles and guerrillas. Israel could find itself suddenly attacked from 3 directions at the same time, with tens of thousands of missiles raining down on its cities and military bases, and tens of thousands of Iraqi tanks (meant to defeat and occupy huge Iran) pouring across its borders. As Israel starts to see its little sliver of land completely overrun, and sees that its total defeat is imminent and assured, in retaliation it could drop nuclear bombs on Baghdad, Damascus (Isaiah 17:1), Tehran, and other major cities of Iraq, Syria, and Iran.
There could be so many nuclear explosions sending so much radioactive dust and ash so high into the atmosphere that it could be blown eastward and fall on hugely-populated South Asia, ruining so many crop fields and immune systems there with radiation that 1/4 of the world's population could end up dying from the war and its aftermath of famines and epidemics. This could fulfill the horrible war which will begin the future tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, which war will, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, end up killing 1/4 of the world (Revelation 6:4-8). The "great sword" of this war (Revelation 6:4) could be Israel's nuclear weapons. This war could be blamed not only on the religious fundamentalism of Islam and Judaism, but also on religious fundamentalism in general, and so could lead to a worldwide crusade against all forms of religious fundamentalism, including Christian fundamentalism, i.e. the (correct) idea that the Bible is wholly true (2 Timothy 3:16, Matthew 4:4) and that all other religions are cursed (Galatians 1:8-9, John 14:6, John 3:36, Acts 4:12).
SayaOtonashi Newbie
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Sorry Guys I meant to say 732 AD
coraline Active Member
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Interplanner said: ↑
Preterism and futurism are %s. Preterism that allows for the final judgement to be future is not heresy. That's how I see Mt24 after v29, explained in v36. It goes global, universal at v29. the 1st century Judea events before that have happened. Look for the keywords: temple, inner room of the temple, Judea, Sabbath, etc.
Matthew 24 cannot be divided to satisfy the delay factor perpetuated in the creeds bc Jesus didn't return in the physical sense they thought. So the nature of His coming was where the so called church fathers went wrong from the get go!
In fact, Matthew 24-25 is all one discourse. Jesus was speaking to the Jews. Folks, he had to speak in parables too bc it was not like King David's day where they weren't worried about speaking over any governments.
The Judgment of the sheep & goats in Mt.25- the parable- is about Israel alone.
Understand ye, there were 2 Jerusalems at the time. One was the harlot Babylon & one was the remnant Bride.
Get down & study what I'm saying to you. Don't let traditional thinking close you in an "your own mind box."
JLB777 Newbie Supporter
coraline said: ↑
Matthew 24 has to do with the end of the age, and nothing to do with 70 AD.
We are still living in "this age".
The age to come is after the resurrection of the dead.
In this age, we marry and are given in marriage, and we have bodies that can die.
In that age, we will no more marry, nor shall we die anymore.
34 And Jesus answered and said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; 36 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. Luke 20:34-36
Get down and study this scripture and don't let the perverted teachings of Preterism deceive your mind any longer.
The truth will set you free, if you know it!
JLB
Achilles6129 Veteran
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I also think there is a possibility that this "generation" means this "race" meaning that the Jewish race will not pass away. Or perhaps this generation means people who rebel against God. Those are two other possbilities, but I do not believe they are quite as likely as saying that this generation simply refers to the fig tree.
The fig tree is the beginning of all these signs and "all these things" are the signs of the end.
If Christ is a false prophet, he is a liar under the laws of the Torah (Deut. 13/18) and we are not to believe him and he would actually be worthy of death. Obviously, then, what Christ said must be true. Only our interpretation of it could be faulty.
B1inHim LOVE one another
Achilles6129 said: ↑
Only our interpretation of it could be faulty.
The notion of a war being the cause for 1/4th of the planet to die off is plausible but not as realistic as the fact that this planet dies off right now real time at a rate of 47% constant.
Meaning that 25% ratio was met years ago (10-20).
Another solution would be that the entire Western Hemisphere would be wiped out to cause 1.2 Billion deaths, but that would happen all at once and the two elements of hunger and disease would not be included.
47% of the population of this planet dies every second of every day.
1.8 deaths due to war, sword, hunger/disease and Death out of 4.3 births per second.
JLB777 said: ↑
We settled this last year!
Jesus was referring to "Levirate" marriage in the "this age" of scripture.
Get down & research "Levirate marriage" in the law in the O.T.
A year has gone by & you seem to still have nothing good to preach
parousia70 I'm livin' in yesterday's tomorrow Supporter
Matt 24:1-2
Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage
5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7 And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, I do not wish to take her, 9 then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. 10 And the name of his house[a] shall be called in Israel, The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.
Deuteronomy 25:10 Hebrew its name
Interplanner Newbie
JLB, knock off the inflammatory 'perverted' stuff. The two ends of the spectrum are %s. No one here is suggesting anything close to same-sex marriage, so save your sharp swords for other fights, OK?
There is every reason, says the church historian Latourrette, for the disciples to think that right after the rebellious conflagration of Judea, the end of the world would happen. To oversimplify discussion of that problem, which is really what we are doing here, and put either side in the category of same-sex marriage proponents should cause you to dismiss yourself from further participation.
riverrat Newbie
So you decide who can post here.
My, we think a lot of ourselves don't we!
shturt678s Regular Member
I also think there is a possibility that this "generation" means this "race" meaning that the Jewish race will not pass away.
Or perhaps this generation means people who rebel against God. Those are two other possbilities, but I do not believe they are quite as likely as saying that this generation simply refers to the fig tree.
Matt.24:34, ""this generation" Kind of men grammatically and contextually here, ie, the evil kind that reproduce and succeeds itself as many physical generations - Ps.12:7.
btw the destruction of the Jewish nation is included in the parable (70 A.D.).
Old Jack
Achilles,
a very good resource to read to know what things like this meant in the 1st century Judea, is posted right here at E&P: Holford's summary of Josephus on the DofJ. (Granted his sentences are long and compound!)
Rat,
no believer, including you, should be accused of perversion when the industry standard today for perversion is same-sex marriage. btw, you've asked me to shut up too, for far less "perverted" reasons.
Liar, Liar, pants on fire!
riverrat said: ↑
Originally Posted by Interplanner
[Interplanner]
I am impressed that you have read all my posts. They must be interesting to you.
Thanks for not responding to me in the future.
So you get to decide who can and can't respond to your posts?
My aren't we full of ourselves.
Rofl:d
n2thelight Guest
Throughout recorded history, nations have always been typified by "types and figures" to describe them. Russia is the "bear", America is the "eagle", England the "lion", and Israel the "fig tree".
So Jesus was saying that when you see ISRAEL re-blooming, whenever that would take place, that that generation would be the one that would be on the earth and living when the Last Days would occur. So if Israel was destroyed in 70 AD, and it was, when did it "bloom" again?
May 14, 1948 is the date that history records that fact occuring. The generation that witnessed that, the WWII generation, still have not, for all intents and purposes, passed off the scene. They are still alive and with us today, and we are the people that Jesus said would be alive on the earth when the Last Days would happen.
Jan 8, 2014 #100
n2thelight said: ↑
ISRAEL today is a bankster's made nation, however there will be a remnant saved out of the physical Israel. Israel does contain Christians of course, today. Israel was wiped out as a nation in 70 A.D. from God's view.
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Movie review: After a half century, ‘Easy Rider’ still gets its motor running
When "Easy Rider" was released to unsuspecting American audiences on July 14, 1969 - after winning director Dennis Hopper a Best First Work award at Cannes two months earlier - the film’s poster featured the tagline "A man went looking for America. And couldn’t find it anywhere."
"Easy Rider" went on to garner two Oscar nominations (screenplay and Jack Nicholson as Supporting Actor); a new sort of ragtag and very personalized filmmaking made its mark in Hollywood; college-age viewers got all riled up in celebration; and the film’s $360,000 budget eventually turned into $60 million at the box office.
Now, 50 years to the day after its initial release, "Easy Rider" is again appearing at theaters across the country through Fathom Events (it also plays on July 17). The story of a couple of hippie bikers who make a big score on a cocaine deal, then head out on a road trip from Los Angeles to Mardi Gras, is at once dated and fresh, and many of its messages remain uncomfortably, sadly, and frustratingly relevant.
But looking at the film again all these years later, that tagline never really worked. Nobody goes looking for America in "Easy Rider." Slightly long-in-the-tooth Wyatt and Billy (Peter Fonda, 29 at the time, and Dennis Hopper, 33) hop on their big, loud motorcycles and head east with plenty of drug money hidden in their gas tanks and a plan to escape from the America they know. But they can’t, and unluckily for them, they do find America, and it ain’t pretty.
Though the script is credited to Fonda, Hopper, and Terry Southern, much of the dialogue is improvised, most of it is very spare, and a great deal of the film gets by on the music of the day - Steppenwolf’s "Born to Be Wild," The Band’s "The Weight," The Byrds’ "Wasn’t Born to Follow," Hendrix’s "If 6 Was 9" - blaring from the soundtrack as our heroes (or are they anti-heroes?) go roaring down the road. There are glorious exceptions to the film’s less-dialogue-is-more approach, notably upon meeting the hitchhiking hippie Jesus (Antonio Mendoza) who brings Wyatt and Billy to his commune after giving an oratory about the concept of freedom. The ante is upped when, 45 minutes in, Wyatt and Billy first come in contact with George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) in a jail cell. They’ve been arrested for disturbing a small town July 4 parade, and George has awakened there after another night of excessive drinking, raises an early-morning toast to "good old D.H. Lawrence," dons a football helmet, hits the trail with them, smokes his first joint, and offers up his rambling theory on Venusians intermingling with humans.
The film goes on to make both innovative and excessive use of flash-frame editing, to compare and contrast the personalities of its two protagonists (Billy is restless, uptight, and short-tempered; Wyatt is laid back, tired, the voice of reason), to look at the changing times (a terrifically framed shot at a farm shows Wyatt and Billy putting a new tire on a motorcycle as well as a ranch hand shoeing a horse), and to seemingly include as many nighttime roadside campfires and as much smoking of grass as possible.
Controversial upon its release because of the loose, freewheeling approach to its subject matter and its brutality, "Easy Rider" still works as a hard-hitting piece of cinema. The script gets into dreams of freedom, a longing for a simpler time, a subtle argument both for and against capitalism, intolerance of nonconformists by conservative America, and plenty of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. The iconic ending, involving Wyatt and Billy and two rednecks in a blue pickup truck, remains powerful and unsettling. It’s a 50-year-old film that’s still startlingly significant today.
For information about July 14 and 17 screenings near you, visit www.fathomevents.com.
"Easy Rider"
Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern; directed by Dennis Hopper
With Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
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Mark Spofforth: Challenges for the regulator
11 Feb 2019 Expert insight
What are the challenges facing the Charity Commission’s new management team, ponders Mark Spofforth.
There is little doubt that whatever action the Charity Commission wants to take, there is a real constraint as a result of limited financial resource – some creativity needs to be brought to bear here if the charity sector is to play its part in building social cohesion and helping the unfortunate.
While resourcing is the major focus, our regulator must be at the forefront of regaining trust in the sector and improving accountability – recently we have not demonstrated that we are meeting public expectations, and without public support the sector become unsustainable.
At the same time, commentators are asking how we can increase the number, diversity and competence of trustees, and how these trustees can better explain the impact of their charity’s efforts.
Outputs are all important – activity itself is no measure of the success of the sector – but the Commission also needs to be looking internally at how it can benefit from the rapid advance of artificial intelligence and digital analysis tools to increase the efficiency of its regulatory processes at the same time as increasing support for those it regulates.
Regulatory bodies all struggle to deal with the variation in the structures of those they regulate. Smart regulation requires a proportionate and balanced approach, and one set of guidance may never be able to be appropriate for both large and small entities (particularly as big entities get increasingly complex). Nowhere is that more true than in the UK’s charity sector.
The Commission’s brief covers an extraordinarily heterogeneous group. There are enormous charities and tiny ones – 97 per cent of charities have an income of less than £1m, and 40 per cent have an income of under £10,000. There are charities that are volunteer driven and those that are staffed by paid employees; this engenders very different motives and cultures. There are those that effectively substitute for social services that could be supplied by government – and maybe were when the money supply was looser – and those that have been set up simply to respond to specific crises or weakness in the social fabric which no government could ever fix. There are international bodies and local neighbourhood bodies, those that look after heritage assets and those that look after people.
A difficult role, then. The consequence is that setting detailed rules or legislation to protect donors and beneficiaries is impossible and guidance is the only possible route, albeit firm guidance, which trustees must really sit down and think about in order to apply it successfully in their specific instance. This in turn requires good communication and competent trustees.
The 2017/18 income of the Commission was £22.4m. Ten years ago it was more like £30m. There is little left for project work, and so talk has started about a levy on charities in the same way that corporate Britain pays for Companies House. But is this right? Donors require a regulated sector but they also want their donation to go to beneficiaries, not civil servants’ wages. How could we devise a fair charging system, given the wide diversity of entities being regulated?
A sensible alternative has already presented itself. George Osborne in his 2012 Budget committed to giving some charities the regulatory fines on banks charged as a result of the LIBOR-fixing scandal. Why not avoid any levy by using such fines in the future? Building a fund from fines to help both support and regulate charities across the spectrum would avoid charges of favouritism and protect sustainable support for the smallest. This must be the prime concern.
Some of that potential finance could also be recovered in the medium term from efficiencies produced by adroit use of investment in digital tools. The Commission dealt with 94,000 customer contacts last year, and many corporate businesses are using artificial intelligencedriven enquiry systems to deal with such contacts more efficiently. They learn as they go along from previous questions being answered satisfactorily – but they do take substantial investment of time and money to get right. The Commission must be at the forefront of digital adoption.
The information that the Commission receives from those regulated currently comes in the form of financial accounts and the annual return. The Charity SORP-making body struggles with setting a standard appropriate to such a wide sector, not helped by itself being accountable to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), a body used to dealing with reporting by directors to shareholders about financial activity. The charity sector needs to report about a wide range of impacts and the use of voluntary resources, not something that the FRC readily understands or of which it has experience.
So what if we developed the current modular design of the SORP in such a way that charities input specific information to a Commission-designed website (such as whether they employ staff, have local authority contracts, deal with heritage assets, have international dealings, or receive donated goods and services, etc) and in return receive a template and a checklist tailored to their more targeted needs?
It is highly likely that the annual return could then be abolished, because all that information would be incorporated in the template, but more interestingly the data about individual charities thus collected could then be analysed to expose risk areas, to target guidance, to deal with specific public concerns. Trustees would love to be able to avoid having to report redundant or useless information, just because others in the sector might need to do so.
Trusteeship
Digital advance will, however never replace the need for trustee judgement and input. The recent House of Lords report focused on the need to increase the competence of trustees, asking for a review of training opportunities, better induction for new trustees, and trying to get more senior business leaders involved.
In some respects maybe we’re pushing at an open door. It is apparent that younger generations see volunteering as a great addition to their CVs, a clever way to build networks, and a sensible part of a career framework that is so much more fluid than that of previous generations. So the question becomes about how we make it easy for them to find charities for which they have a passion, and not discourage them by over-emphasising the duties and responsibilities that come with the role of trustee. An appreciation of the need for common sense and integrity is critical, of course, but harping on about potential personal liability may not be the best advertising.
The House of Lords report also wanted more diversity in the trustee group – but that can only come when there is sufficient quantity from which to choose and many small charities say that they will simply take anyone willing to volunteer at the moment.
Recruiting and training trustees is substantially assisted by the Charity Commission website, which is generally regarded as being one the best designed resources available on the web – or it was until it was subsumed into the gov.uk framework – but resource is needed to maintain that quality of content.
Trust and confidence
None of these structural challenges to the Commission will be relevant unless the sector can maintain trust with the public, and at no time in history have there been so many questions asked about the value to society of the charity sector. Those of us who are passionate about the place of philanthropy and volunteering in building a cohesive society watch with concern the difficulties that face the sector. Reputations are challenged by headlines and social media rants, with little expertise or opportunity to tell the real story of how much good is being achieved.
Luckily it seems that the volume of donation income has not yet declined, but we have seen a polarisation of the donor population which means that at the smaller end, the overall volume of money given has been reducing, replaced by larger donations to bigger charities.
The development of local Community Foundations with expertise to advertise to potential local donors and to carry out due diligence on how their money helps those in need, as well as being able to take the burden of regulation and administration away from significant philanthropists, needs to be encouraged in order to redress this balance.
Trust and accountability can be substantially increased by better impact reporting – and that is different to financial reporting, and an immature science at the moment. The Commission needs to better identify the prompts to donations and the expectations of donors, and to pass that knowledge to the smallest charities. Public expectations can be unreal, so there is a role to change and influence those expectations, and charities need to be able to tell a compelling story.
The public seem to equate size with effectiveness, so they are giving the majority of their £10bn donations to larger well-known names. Research shows that 54 per cent of potential donors can’t name a local charity.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) wants a more connected society, and engaging local charity and volunteer groups must lie at the heart of such a vision. More publicity needs to be given to show that small charities do a good job and that neighbourliness can be encouraged by the kind of culture that helps people to engage with local charity. One of the Charity Commission’s key performance indicators needs to be the percentage of its casework that has an impact on public trust in the sector.
The Commission does not have an easy job, but it is a critical one for society as a whole. It needs to be better funded, more focused and digitally driven. Good luck to the new team.
Mark Spofforth is a partner at Kreston Reeves
Charity Finance wishes to thank Kreston Reeves for its support with this article
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Title: Core Strengths of High-Strength Concrete
Author(s): George C. Hoff and Radoslav Elimov
Keywords: Drilling; fly ash; high-performance concretes; high-strength concretes; offshore structures; silica fume
The effects of varying L/D ratios and core size on the strength of cores from large elements of high-strength concrete (HSC) made both in the laboratory and the field were examined. One-hundred and fifty four cores (65 mm and 100 mm nominal diameters) representing 5 laboratory mixtures having moist-cured cylinder compressive strengths from 114 to 142 MPa at 5-years age and 101 cores (70 mm and 100 mm nominal diameters) representing an actual field placement of 28,150 m3 of concrete in an offshore concrete structure having continuously moist-cured compressive strengths at l-year from 88 to 92 MPa were evaluated. The results indicate that for 100 mm (nominal) diameter cores of HSC, there is no need to apply the ASTM C 39 correction factors to the observed strength of cores with L/D’s from 2.0 to 1.0. The use of cores with a smaller diameter (e.g., 70 mm) exhibit lower strengths (78% to 82%) than companion larger diameter cores and have a higher degree of variability and thus are not recommended for use with HSC. At early ages (e.g., 28-days), the observed strength of HSC cores may be very close to the strength of continuously moist-cured control cylinders. At substantially later ages (e.g. 5 years), the observed strength of the cores may be fairly close to the strength of air-cured control cylinders but be only 70% to 80% of the strength of continuously moist-cured cylinders.
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by Marian Theresa Horvat
Question: I have never heard of the prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success. Is this a new apparition? Has it been approved by the Church?
Answer: This is not a new apparition. It took place in the early 17th century. The revelations of Our Lady of Good Success and devotion to Her miraculous Statue have been approved by the Catholic Church since the beginning. It was the 9th Bishop of Quito, Salvador de Ribera, who attested in official documents to the miraculous completion of the Statue by St. Francis of Assisi and the three Archangels – St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael – and presided over the anointing of the solemn consecration of the Statue in the Church of the Royal Convent of the Immaculate Conception on February 2, 1611. The devotion and apparitions were also authorized and promoted by the next Bishop of Quito, Pedro de Oviedo, who governed the Diocese from 1630 to 1646. Thus this devotion has enjoyed the support and approval of the Church since its very beginning.
Question: What do these revelations talk about?
Answer: Many of the prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success have already been fulfilled. She predicted the proclamation of the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and Papal Infallibility, the consecration of that country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the martyrdom of a Catholic president of Ecuador by Masons (President Gabriel Garcia Moreno, assassinated in 1875), and many others things that have come to pass. (Msgr. Luis E. Cadena Y Almeida, postulator of the cause for beatification of the Servant of God, Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, has written a book in Spanish on the many prophetic messages that have already taken place. Mrs. Horvath translated his book into English, under the title “Our Lady of Good Success: Prophecies for Our Times.”)
The most important prophecies of Our Lady of Good Success, however, spoke of the worldwide crisis in the Church and society that would begin in the 19th century and extend throughout the 20th century. During that time, She warned, there would be an almost total corruption of customs and Satan would rule almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. In the Catholic Church the Sacraments would be profaned and abused, and the light of Faith would be almost completely extinguished in souls. Truly religious souls would be reduced to a small number and many vocations would perish. Great impurity would reign and people would be without any care for spiritual matters.
Question: Who was Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, the sister who received those revelations?
Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres
Answer: Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres (1563-1635) was a Spanish Conceptionist sister who traveled from her country to the New World to help to found the Royal Convent. The life of Mother Mariana was truly extraordinary. The number of visions and mystical favors granted to her as well as the miracles worked through her intercession are numerous. During her live, she was the superior of the Convent three times. During her first term as Abbess, she suffered persecutions from a group of rebellious nuns who wanted to relax the Rule. The rebellion grew, and the “inobservant” sisters put Mother Mariana and the other Spanish Founding Mothers in the Convent prison. Mother Mariana accepted all this and agreed to Our Lord's condition to suffer the torments of Hell for five years in order to obtain the conversion of the leader of those rebellious sisters.
One of the most extraordinary facts of her life was a mystical-physical phenomenon: her several deaths and resurrections. Documented records from the Convent and Diocesan archives show that this truly holy religious died three times. Her first death was in 1582. Standing before the Judgment Seat, she was judged blameless and given a choice: to remain in celestial glory in Heaven or to return to earth to suffer as an expiatory victim for the sins of the 20th century. She chose the latter. Her second death was on Good Friday of 1588 after an apparition where she was shown the horrible abuses and heresies that would exist in the Church in our times. She was resurrected two days later on Easter Sunday morning. She finally died on January 16, 1635. Miracles worked through her intercession immediately followed.
The body of Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, along with the incorrupt body of another Founding Mother, is preserved in the lower level of the cloistered Convent. In 1906 during the remodeling of the Convent, the sarcophagus in which she had been buried in 1635 was opened and her body was discovered, whole and incorrupt. Today it is preserved in the lower level of the cloistered Convent.
Question: Why haven't I heard of these apparitions until recently?
Answer: It can seem strange that such an important devotion has been almost unknown outside of Ecuador for so long a time. But there is a supernatural explanation for this. The Mother of God told Mother Mariana various times that only after three centuries of mysterious silence would the message of the apparitions become known. Our Lady linked the spread of this devotion to a miraculous and extraordinary intervention she would make for the restoration of the Catholic Church when the crisis would be so great that almost all would seem lost. Our Lady also promised to give her good success to those who had recourse to her under this invocation during these difficult times. Thus, in a very special way, this prophecy is for our days.
Question: What is the origin of the invocation?
Answer: In 1607 Pope Paul V gave the name Virgin of Good Success to a statue miraculously found by two Spanish Brothers of the Order of Minims for the Service of the Sick. After the death of Brother Bernandine de Obregón, its founder, Gabriel de Fontaned was elected his successor. Accompanied by Guillermo de Rigosa, the new Superior set off for Rome to plead the case for official approval of their Order before the Roman Pontiff. As they were passing through the town of Traigueras (in Catalonia), they were caught in a storm so severe it made them fear for their lives.
In their fear, they prayed to Our Lady for shelter and succor. Seeing a soft light in the distant mountains, they left the path and climbed toward it. They found a cave carved like a polished stone and fragrant with flowers that enshrined a very beautiful statue of Holy Mary carrying Her Divine Son in Her left arm, a scepter in Her right, and a precious crown on Her head. The dress was simple but elegant. They fell to their knees to venerate the beautiful statue, and wondered how She came to be in this distant place.
The next day they traveled to the closest hamlets to make inquiries. None of the inhabitants, not even the eldest who knew the history of everyone and everything in the area, had every heard of the cave or the statue. Thus, the Brothers became the owners of the holy statue, offering Her their warmest thanks and choosing Her as their special patroness. With this amiable and powerful companion, they continued on their journey to Rome.
Arriving there, they told the Sovereign Pontiff what had happened, and Pope Paul V not only acknowledged the supernatural nature of that discovery, but upon confirming the new Order, he placed it under the protection of the same Virgin, whom he gave the name of the Virgin of Good Success.
The statue was placed in the Royal Hospital of Madrid, and soon became famous for the numerous favors granted by Heaven through it. In 1641 King Philip III ordered the construction of the splendid sanctuary in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. With the passing of time as the devotion spread, the statue was copied and placed in various places, sometimes under a different invocation. Today there are a number of localities in Spain where this image is venerated: Orduña, La Puebla de Gordon, Tudela, Abla, among others.
The invocation was not long in making its way across the ocean to the New World. The Blessed Virgin deigned to favor the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Quito in a very special way by means of this particular avocation. In an apparition to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, the Blessed Virgin appeared and asked that a statue be made of Her under the title of Good Success. She should be made just as she appeared to Her there, with the Child Jesus in her right arm, and the Abbess' crozier and the keys of the Convent in her right hand. She should be placed above the Abbess chair in the upper choir because She desired to be Abbess of that Convent until the end of time. And so the Virgin of Good Success of Quito appears with the crosier in Her right hand, instead of the scepter that She carries in Madrid.
The Sisters of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception of Quito have always had a great love for their heavenly Abbess. The Statue of the Virgin of Good Success has been loved and venerated by the people of Quito for almost three centuries.
Question: How is the devotion spreading today?
Answer: Today the fame of this apparition is extending far beyond Quito. Our Lady of Good Success told Mother Mariana that She wanted to be known and loved throughout the world, and that the devotion would begin to spread only in the 20th century. This is, in fact, what has happened. She reserved this devotion for these times because the Church would be so embattled and suffering that only the divine power and love of the Blessed Virgin would sustain the faithful.
Question: What is meant by the words “good success”? In English, it can give the impression that one is asking for material success.
Answer: That is not the original Spanish connotation. The invocation of “good success” refers to the happy development of the gestation of Christ from the Conception to Birth. The invocation of “good success” was understood by the faithful in its first meaning as a simple plea for safe childbirth. This easily extended to the invocation of Mary's meditation and intercession in times of personal need (sickness, travel, marriage).
The expression later broadened further to be understood in the sense of good success in various undertakings. For example, its popularity in the seafaring regions of Catalonia, Isle of Gomera, and Granada indicates a connection with maritime travel. Sailors would ask Mary for a safe return to port. The extended meaning can also be that of a holy death. In short, sucesso, meaning success or luck, refers to well-being and safety where strictly human means find no issue.
Question: When can the public see the miraculous Statue of Our Lady of Good Success?
Answer: The miraculous Statue of Our Lady of Good Success is taken from the cloistered upper choir three times a year and placed above the main altar of the Convent Church, so that it can be venerated by the people of Quito. It can be seen by the public at the following times:
1. During a nine-day novena in commemoration of the Feast Day of the Purification of Our Lady (February 2) – from around January 24 to February 4;
2. During the month of May;
3. During the month of October.
Mother Mariana: victim for the 20th century
Mariana Francisca was born in Spain the province of Viscaya in 1563, the first-born child of Diego Cadiz and Maria Berriochoa Alvarez. On the day of her First Communion, at age 9, Our Lady appeared to her and told her she was destined to be a religious of Her Immaculate Conception in the New World. In 1577, when Marianna was only 13 years old, she left Spain in the company of her aunt, Mother Maria de Jesus Taboada, and four other sisters, to found a branch of the Order of the Immaculate Conception in San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
In 1582, when Mother Mariana was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, for the first time she was given to see the heresy, blasphemy and impurity that would inundate the world as punishment in the 20th century. Our Lady asked her: “My daughter, will you sacrifice yourself for the people of this time?” Mother Mariana replied, “I am willing.” From the violence of the shock of previewing the horrors of our day, Mother Mariana fell dead.
Historic and documented evidence record that this holy religious truly died in 1582 and resurrected. Before the divine tribunal, she was given the choice to remain in heaven or return to suffer in the world. Following the example of Our Lady, who left the glories of heaven to protect her children during those difficult first years of the fledgling Church, Mother Mariana chose to return to life to expiate for the great sins of our times. (A second death and resurrection happened on Easter Sunday of 1588.)
The Existence of Hell
The First Secret of Fatima breaks the myth, the lie of 20th century, that hell does not exist. On July 13, 1917, Our Lady told three children, ages 10, 8,7, to “pray, pray very much because many souls go to Hell. Then She opened Her hands and showed the three children a hole in the ground, a place. That hole, said Lucy, was like a sea of fire in which we saw the souls of human forms, men and women, burning, shouting, and crying in despair.” Mary said to the children: “You have seen Hell where sinners go when they do not repent.” A Roman Catholic dogma: The existence of Hell.
During her life, Mother Mariana begged Our Lord to save the soul of an insubordinate sister in the convent. He agreed that this rebellious sister would be saved, although she would be required to remain in purgatory until the end of the world. In recompense, Mother Mariana had to suffer five years on earth the pains of hell. For five years, she suffered all the tortures of the senses reserved for souls in that terrible place and the most intense suffering of the sense of the loss of God.
It seems very clear that Our Lady wanted 20th century man to realize that hell exists: it is a place, and it is not empty.
The breakdown of morals and customs
During Jacinta's stay at the orphanage of Our Lady of Miracles in Lisbon in 1920, Our Lady told her, “The sins that lead more souls to hell are the sins of the flesh.” There were other prophecies She revealed to the little girl: “Styles will come that will offend Our Lord very much. Persons who serve God should not follow the styles. The Church does not have styles. Our Lord is always the same.” She said that the sins of impurity would be so great there would be almost no virgin souls. She said that many marriages are not good, that they do not please Our Lord and are not of God. Finally, Jacinta repeated continually to Lucia and Mother Godinho: “Pray much for priests and religious. Priests should be pure, very pure!”
Three centuries before, in Quito, Ecuador, on Jan. 20, 1610, Our Lady appeared carrying a crozier in Her right hand and her Divine Son in her left arm so that “all will know that I am merciful and understanding. Let them come to me, for I will lead them to Him.” She told Mother Mariana that in the twentieth century “the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. They will focus particularly on the children in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times.” Obviously she is speaking of the secular humanist revolution about which so much has been written that has completely invaded the secular as well as religious institutions of our times.
Our Lady continued, describing the abuses that would attack each of the Sacraments: “Woe to the children of these times because it will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism and also that of Confirmation.” She warned that the devil would assiduously try to destroy the sacrament of Confession and Holy Communion. She lamented the many sacrileges and abuses of the Blessed Sacrament that would occur. The Sacrament of Extreme Unction would be little esteemed and many people would die without receiving it, thus denied assistance they would need for that “great leap from time to Eternity.”
The Sacred Sacrament of Holy Orders would be ridiculed, oppressed and despised. The demon would labor unceasingly to corrupt the clergy and would succeed with many of them. And these “depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will incite the hatred of the bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church to fall upon all priests. This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous sufferings upon the good pastors of the Church.”
About the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, she said this: “Masonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin. The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith until it reaches the point that there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs. In these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury that would conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.”
Our Lady told Mother Mariana, the religious Conceptionist who received the revelations, that the souls who would remain faithful in those difficult times would need great strength of will, constancy, valor and confidence in God. Moments would come when everything would seem to be lost and paralyzed, but that would be the moment, she promised, of the “happy beginning of the complete restoration.” “My hour will arrive” she foretold, “when I, in an amazing manner, will overthrow proud Satan, crushing him under my feet, chaining him in the infernal abyss, leaving the Church and the land free of this cruel tyranny.”
Thus, while the message of Our Lady of Good Success is quite sad and serious, it is also one of great hope. It is the promise echoed by Our Lady at Fatima in 1917: “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
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Egypt's Islamic Extremists Step Up Violent Attacks
Cramped by police in the cities, extremists move to the countryside
By Carol Berger Special to The Christian Science Monitor
ASSIUT PROVINCE, EGYPT
HAMDI MUHAMMAD SULEIMAN lives in the village of Dayrut, more than 180 miles south of Cairo. There, in the lush Nile Valley's small farms and dusty villages, recent sectarian strife has left at least two dozen people dead and as many wounded. "Everyone is living in terror," he says, "the police and the people."
Like most residents, Mr. Suleiman has his own theory about how the bout of violence last month began: an argument over the price of tomatoes, curses exchanged between Muslim and Christian shoppers, and gunfire.
Regardless of the spark, few deny that religion is the catalyst for the worsening conflict between Egypt's Muslims and the minority Coptic Christian population, particularly in the Nile Valley. But Egypt is witnessing a wave of extremist violence in various parts of the country:
* A senior police officer in charge of a prison holding Muslim fundamentalists just south of Cairo was wounded on Monday by gunmen suspected of being extremists.
* Late last month alleged extremists mounted an attack near one of Egypt's most renowned Pharaonic sites, the Karnak temple in Luxor. Two homemade bombs exploded as tourists attended the nightly "Sound and Light" show.
* Farag Fouda, a prominent secularist writer, was gunned down June 7, allegedly by Muslim extremists, outside his Cairo office. Mr. Fouda, a professor of agricultural economy, was one of Egypt's few outspoken critics of the Islamist trend.
Most extremists in the Nile Valley area belong to the underground Jamiat Islamiya (Islamic Groups) which advocate violence in their bid to impose Islamic law. Egpyt's largely secular government claims that 90 percent of the country's law already conforms to Islamic social, civil, and penal codes.
In the past year extremist Islamic groups have moved out of the urban centers, where security is tight, to the countryside where they quickly take control of village life. The impoverished rural areas have proved a fertile ground for religious zealots. In the mud-brick villages that line the banks of the Nile there are few jobs for a growing population.
Many communities were almost wholly reliant on remittances by relatives working in the Gulf and Iraq. But now even that has been lost in the wake of Iraq's 1990 occupation of Kuwait and the war which followed. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian men were forced to return home from Kuwait and Iraq, many of them losing not only their work but also their life savings.
As conditions continue to deteriorate, religious extremists are exploiting tensions between Muslims and the more affluent Christian community. The state's response has been to increase repressive measures against suspected Muslim extremists.
For decades the most organized and most intransigent opposition to successive Egyptian regimes has been the Muslim fundamentalist movement. The Muslim Brotherhood, although technically illegal, is tolerated by the regime of President Hosni Mubarak and in recent years its members have been brought into many levels of government - an effort to move them into the political mainstream.
During the same period, however, more radical Islamic parties have been calling for the imposition of Islamic law and supporting the use of violence to achieve it. The recent attacks suggest to many here that extremist movement has reached a new level of organization and effectiveness that poses a greater threat to domestic stability.
Both government officials and police have tried to play down the political implications of the killings in the Nile Valley. Instead they attribute the violence to vendettas between families which lead to revenge killings. But local residents interviewed in Dayrut and Sanabu, speaking on condition of anonymity, said police have worked hand in hand with Muslim extremists to demand protection money and "taxes" from the Christian community.
The first man to die in the outbreak of violence here, which began in May, was also the first who refused to pay, they assert. Days later extremists assassinated 13 others, one of whom was a Muslim who tried to defend his Christian neighbors. Residents compared the killings to "gangland slayings."
Recent police transfers out of the province may have been a belated attempt by Cairo authorities to end the reported corruption in this long-neglected backwater. But the apparent breakdown in law and order and the large number of arms held by the public has now forced a heavy-handed crackdown. At least 450 residents have been arrested since the violence began, officials say.
While the rural provinces have been tense for months, Cairo had remained relatively unaffected until earlier this month when columnist Fouda was killed. Leading writers and intellectuals have been put under extra police protection amid fears that still others may be assassination targets.
State officials have blamed Fouda's killing on Islamic Jihad (Holy War), the underground Muslim group which assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981. The last major attack blamed on the group was in 1990, when motorcyle-riding gunmen killed Egypt's Speaker of parliament and five others.
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A Wright-Designed Tokyo School Faces Difficult Crossroad
Rare building's future appears uncertain due to land values and increasing restoration costs
By Naomi R. Pollock Special to The Christian Science Monitor
TO preserve his building or to preserve a school's financial asset.... What would Frank Lloyd Wright think of today's brouhaha over his "Hall for Tomorrow" located here? The importance of this building, which was designed as the home for Jiyugakuen or "School of the Free Spirit," is now being weighed against the value of the property on which it sits, estimated at upwards of $100 million in Tokyo's still stratospheric real-estate market.
Today, luxury hotels and neon-capped office buildings loom in the distance, but in 1921 the site was surrounded by fields and farms. At that time, Wright, who was in Japan working on the design of the Imperial Hotel, was introduced by his assistant Arata Endo to Mr. and Mrs. Yoshikazu Hani, the publishers of a magazine called Fujin no Tomo or "Women's Friend," devoted to improving the housewife's lot in life.
Mrs. Hani, Japan's first female news reporter, was deeply troubled by her daughter's public-school education based on rote memorization. The Hanis were firm believers in the value of the "thinking mind" and dreamed of a school where students would have the freedom to develop as "self-reliant members of society." In the words of Raku Endo, Arata Endo's architect son, "Wright loved her idea. Mrs. Hani's approach was very similar to his aunts' idea for the Hillside Home School in Wisconsin."
On April 15, 1921, with one classroom barely complete, the school Wright designed opened its doors to 26 girls. "Madame Hani's large group of pupils - pretty sloe-eyed ebony-haired young girls - made a picture I shall never forget," wrote Wright of the opening festivities. Instead of being confined to textbooks, the students at this unusual school learned their lessons from the world around them. The miracle of life was taught by raising green beans and chickens. Math skills were honed balancing the scho ol's budget, and home economics by preparing hot lunches for fellow students and teachers.
The overnight success of Jiyugakuen surprised even the Hanis. And shortly after the completion of the "Hall for Tomorrow," or Myonichikan, plans were drawn up to move the school to a 25-acre campus in suburban Tokyo. Since Wright had left Japan in 1922, the design of the new facility was left in the hands of his disciple Endo. To this day the Minamisawa campus continues to be enlarged under the aegis of Endo's son Raku, a graduate of Jiyugakuen and a former student of Wright's at Taliesin.
The Myonichikan remains largely as Wright and Endo planned. In contrast to the stylistic constraints and the strict hierarchy imposed on school buildings in Japan at the time, the Myonichikan was created "in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit," wrote the architects. The U-shaped building, which is now used primarily for alumni activities, consists of three separate pieces: two single-story classroom wings flanking a double-height assembly hall and dining room. The spacious lawn in the center is one of the few patches of greenery left in this densely populated neighborhood.
To enter the school's tranquil precinct is to step back in time. Though the sounds of children singing and laughing are long gone, pint-sized tables and chairs designed by Endo are poised in the dining hall as if ready to accommodate hordes of hungry sixth graders, and the expansive fireplace in the assembly hall - even without logs and kindling - still fills the room with a warm glow.
But sadly, the Myonichikan is in a state of serious disrepair: its foundations are literally rotting out from underneath it, causing walls to splay and roofs to leak and rendering some rooms unsafe for occupancy.
Whether and how to preserve the Myonichikan is the subject of an emotional debate among the school, its alumni, architects, and others. Some are more concerned about Wright's legacy, others about the institution's welfare.
Because Jiyugakuen lacks an endowment the likes of many American private schools and must rely on tuition to cover its costs, the millions of dollars needed to restore the Myonichikan must be raised. Yet philanthropic sources may not be the answer.
"Since there are no tax incentives in Japan for building preservation, rich people are more interested in buying art," laments Gyo Hani, the founders' nephew and current principal of Jiyugakuen.
Another option is government assistance. If, like the Yamamura House (the only other Wright building left in Japan), the Myonichikan were designated an Important Cultural Property by the Japanese Government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, it could be restored with the national and local governments footing some 85 percent of the bill. And Satoshi Miyazawa, the government official in charge of evaluating Japan's historic buildings, has concluded that the Myonichikan may be worthy of preservation.
But there is a catch. In return for this status, the school must relinquish much of its control over the property. To ensure the integrity of Wright's design, the agency would need to approve all modifications to the property. And the school would lose the option of ever realizing the property's full value because any subsequent owner would also be obligated to preserve the building.
Some feel that the school can have its cake and eat it too. "If I had my druthers," says Bruce Pfeiffer, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, "I would like to see the school taken down and rebuilt at the Minamisawa campus where they have a lot of space."
But to alumna Nobuko Kajitani, a textile conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, "It's not simply a matter of moving the building. We the graduates feel that this is not about saving the building but about trying to save the legacy of Jiyugakuen."
Indeed, the school administration, whose primary concern is the running of Jiyugakuen, faces a dilemma. In response, the school has established a committee of 10 alumni to sort through the options. According to Tomohiko Ikari, the chairman of the committee, "There is no intention at Jiyugakuen to sell the building or the property." And yet there is also the desire to retain the option of selling the property at market value should a dire need arise.
While the Myonichikan may not be Wright's most impressive work, its uncertain future has drawn attention from both sides of the Pacific.
"I am sure that Japan still laments the destruction of the Imperial Hotel," says Mr. Pfeiffer in reference to Wright's masterpiece which met the wrecking ball in 1968. But, as Ms. Kajitani suggests, the meaning of the Myonichikan goes beyond its architectural value.
"The building is an important link between the US and Japan," says Yuko Hani, the founders' granddaughter, "in 20 to 30 years we will be gone, but buildings can stay forever."
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Macomb Innovation Fund Awards $225,000 to Five Detroit-area Technology Startups
Submitted by: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Categories: Socially Responsible Investing, Philanthropy & Corporate Contributions
Posted: Jan 19, 2017 – 04:05 PM EST
WARREN, Mich., Jan. 19 /CSRwire/ - Five early-stage companies from Macomb, Washtenaw and Wayne counties will receive $225,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Macomb Community College, Powered by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Since July 2015, the Macomb Innovation Fund has awarded $1.4 million to 24 companies, which have garnered $3.5 million in follow-on funding. These companies have also created internships or learning opportunities for nearly 340 Macomb Community College students which is a requirement to receive funding.
The Innovation Fund is a $2.7 million effort to stimulate economic development and job growth among promising Detroit-area entrepreneurs and next-stage companies with high-growth potential. Funding is provided by Macomb Community College’s Strategic Fund and JPMorgan Chase, as part of the company’s $100 million commitment to Detroit’s economic recovery. The unique initiative provides mentoring and capital to early-stage businesses, as well as learning opportunities for Macomb Community College’s students.
“JPMorgan Chase invests in this fund because small businesses are the backbone to Detroit’s economy,” said Chauncy Lennon, Head of Workforce Initiatives, JPMorgan Chase. “We are proud to support the innovative business ideas presented by Macomb Community College Innovation Fund winners because they create new jobs and opportunity as well as stimulate further investment in the local economy.”
Two companies will receive awards that are designed to advance the progress of emerging companies toward larger-scale funding. These companies must provide matching funding and commit to paying back the award:
Brio Device (Ann Arbor/ Washtenaw County) – $100,000 award. Brio Device has developed a new class of intubation devices, which are employed to insert airway breathing tubes. The company’s focus is to simplify and increase the success of the intubation process through devices that combine articulation, visualization and software guidance technology in a disposable intubation tool.
VizBe (Sterling Heights/ Macomb County) – $50,000 award. VizBe had developed an employee engagement software that provides guided goal-setting for personal and professional goals. Employees can also engage in group or peer-to-peer accountability related to these goals through VizBe’s communication platform.
Receiving awards of $25,000, which are designed to support early-stage businesses taking the initial steps in market introduction, are:
Life Magnetics (Detroit/ Wayne County) – $25,000 award. Life Magnetics has developed a material that in seconds can isolate the ribonucleic acids (RNA) from a blood sample with ten times better purity and yield than current methods. Applications for the company’s extraction kit include diagnosing viral diseases, drug development and university research.
Recovery Park (Detroit/ Wayne County) – $25,000 award. Recovery Park is an urban agriculture enterprise providing fresh, local specialty produce to local restaurants while employing advanced technology to support sustainable year-round growing and employing Detroiters with barriers. They are working with a team of Michigan-based companies to develop supplemental greenhouse lighting technology that can mimic natural lighting conditions.
Stridepost (Ann Arbor / Washtenaw) – $25,000 award. Stridepost has developed an online family organizer and motivational tool designed to help teach children responsibility and accountability. It provides an integrated family calendar, to-do tracker and allowance tracker, which can be tied to completed tasks.
“The Macomb Innovation Fund not only contributes to southeast Michigan’s entrepreneurial ecosphere, but also directly links metro Detroit’s rising entrepreneurs and educational opportunities to Macomb Community College students,” said Dr. James Jacobs, president, Macomb Community College. “This real-world education provided by our region’s economic drivers positions our students and business community with a distinctive advantage.”
The five companies awarded funding were selected from a field of 14 qualified applicants. Each went through a two-stage process, pitching first to a screening committee. The highest-rated companies moved on to a selection committee comprised of area professionals with experience in business management, finance, law, manufacturing and technology, who made final award recommendations.
To be eligible for the Innovation Fund, companies must locate within a nine-county region consisting of Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Washtenaw or Wayne counties. Information about the application process is available at www.macomb.edu/cie.
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Artists, Leading Theologians, Legal Scholars, and Community Leaders to Explore Migration and Border Crossings in Multidisciplinary Conference
Columbia Theological Seminary and Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion are excited to co-host a multidisciplinary conference on immigration—Migration and Border Crossings—February 7-9, 2019 at Columbia Seminary. [REGISTER HERE]
“This conference will bring together leading theologians, legal scholars, artists, and leaders of faith communities to explore global migration,” says Leanne Van Dyk, president of Columbia Theological Seminary. “The speakers at this conference are extraordinary: Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States from 2015-2017 and the winner of National Book Critics award, will give the opening keynote titled ‘The Journey of the Migrant.’ Emilie Townes, Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, will give the closing keynote focusing on displacement and trauma.”
Other notable presenters include: Kwok Pui Lan, Khaled Beydoun, Heval Mohamed Kelli, Daniel Carroll, Kristin Heyer, Peter C. Phan, Todd Green, Rose Cuison Villazor, Jehu Hanciles, Claudio Carvalhaes, Azadeh N. Shahshahani, and Michele R. Pistone.
In addition to the presenters, the conference has made space for a strong presence of the arts during the three-day event. Emory University’s Staibdance group will present an original dance performance called “Moat,” an evening length exploration of human migration from Iran to a small Pennsylvania town during the Iran hostage crisis.
“Columbia Seminary’s proximity to Clarkston, GA, which is home to immigrants and refugees from about 50 countries and is often called ‘the most diverse square mile in America’ makes us the ideal seminary to host this major conference on immigration,” says conference co-convener Raj Nadella, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Director of MATS Program at Columbia Theological Seminary.
“We have observed that the issue of immigration moved to the center of our national discourse in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election and has become much more significant in the last two years. Although the issue is widely discussed in legal, political, and ecclesial circles, such conversations occur mostly in a piece-meal fashion. There have been few attempts to address various aspects of immigration—historical, political, religious, racial/ethnic, and theological/ethical—in a coherent and substantial manner,” says Nadella. “Many scholars and faith communities across the United States have been attempting to address this issue that is affecting their communities, but they lack substantial resources to facilitate constructive conversations and take steps towards participatory action.”
The conference will feature three plenary sessions that explore the causes, the processes, and the effects of migration as well as multiple workshops that will offer insights and tools for addressing immigration related issues.
“Other entities are partnering with us to make this a truly international conference of global significance,” says Silas Allard, Managing Director of Emory University’s Center for Law and Religion, Harold J. Berman Fellow in Law and Religion and conference co-convener. “We are grateful to the World Council of Churches and the Council on American Islamic Relations for their partnership.”
More information on the event can be found on the Migration and Border Crossing webpage.
The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University produces and promotes path-breaking scholarship, teaching, and public programs on the interaction of law and religion around the world. CSLR is a thought leader dedicated to producing innovative scholarship, facilitating challenging conversations, convening the best minds, and training the next generation of academics, lawyers, and religious leaders to advance the global conversation on law and religion.
Columbia Theological Seminary is “cultivating faithful leaders for God’s changing world.” As an educational institution of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Columbia Seminary is a community of theological inquiry, leadership development, and formation for ministry in the service of the Church of Jesus Christ. Columbia Seminary offers six graduate degree programs and dozens of courses and events as a resource for church professionals and lay people through The Center for Lifelong Learning. For more information, please visit www.CTSnet.edu.
Michael Thompson
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For program information, please contact:
Dr. Raj Nadella
Assistant Professor of New Testament; Director of MATS Program,
Columbia Theological Seminary
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Silas W. Allard
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3 thoughts on “Artists, Leading Theologians, Legal Scholars, and Community Leaders to Explore Migration and Border Crossings in Multidisciplinary Conference”
Immigration has become a toxic issue. Many on the far right are demonizing immigrants. Even president Trump does this.
Most evangelicals stand with Trump. They do not complain about his abuses.
I read your conference statement above. You make no indication of where you stand. Are you waiting to see how the wind blows and adapt to the crowd, or do you have something strong and Christlike to tell us?
Michael Thompson says:
Pete, thank you for your interest in this conference. We are already on record with our President’s statement here: http://www.ctsnet.edu/love-stranger-gates. We trust that the line up of speakers also points to our intention to be supportive of those coming to the United States for refuge, just as Jesus’ own parents sought refuge soon after his birth. Grace and Peace. -Michael Thompson, Director of Communications
Raj Nadella says:
Thank you, Michael, for this really helpful response.
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A Special Shoot
Squad shot in the town centre.
Colchester United's players ventured into the town centre on Tuesday morning to launch the new season.
The U's begin the 2015/16 campaign on Saturday with a home match against Blackpool.
And, transported into town by our good friends at Roman Cars, the first team squad ventured to Castle Park ahead of that curtain raiser to have a special squad shot plus some additional promo photographs taken in front of Colchester Castle.
The U's also helped Colchester Council declare the new footbridge open, with Alex Gilbey cutting the ribbon.
With the sun beaming down, the squad were in good spirits and the photos look great - we'll have the first view of it in Saturday's matchday programme for the game against the Seasiders.
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Pregnant teenager goes missing after leaving home at midnight to tell the father of the child the sex of their baby
By James Nye
Published: 13:12 EDT, 4 August 2012 | Updated: 06:46 EDT, 5 August 2012
A pregnant Florida teenager has gone missing after informing the father of her unborn child that the baby was a girl.
Morgan Martin, 17, was last seen on July 25 in St. Petersburg, Florida after leaving to see the 26-year-old man from Kansas City, who was staying in the neighbourhood.
Last seen around 12.30 a.m., Morgan's mother Leah Martin noticed her daughter's room lights and air conditioning were still on at 5 a.m. and assumed she was inside.
Morgan Martin was last seen leaving her St. Petersburg home just after midnight on the evening of the 25th of July
'He said he was going to come over and talk to her and so she told me, ‘Mom, I’m just going to go talk to him,' Leah Martin said to KSDK.
'I told her, ‘Morgan, you don’t want anything to do with him … You’re a kid. If he gets caught with you, he’s going to jail.’
After not seeing her for the majority of the day and after she failed to respond to Facebook and telephone messages, Leah Martin and Morgan's sister Sierra Cahill raised the alarm.
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Police say they have no indication Morgan Martin left of her own accord.
The fact that she didn’t take anything with her and was dressed for bed 'has caused us to believe this is not a normal set of circumstances,' said St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz on Friday.
Morgan, 17, was traveling to tell the father of her child that the baby was a girl
The missing teenager left her house with only her cellphone and has not replied to Facebook or telephone messages
'There’s a difference between a runaway situation and something like this, where you have a set of circumstances suggesting that she has just stopped communicating with all her friends.'
Martin said that her daughter, who is four months pregnant had run away before, but had returned soon afterwards.
'She went outside. He was here, and we never seen her again. Never heard from her. No phone coming in or out of her phone, nothing,' said Martin.
Morgan did not take her purse or ID with her when she left her house just after midnight in St. Petersburg, Florida
Leah Martin is distraught that her daughter has been missing for almost ten days
The teen left with her cell phone, but her purse and ID were left behind.
Police have stated they have interviewed the man who Martin says is the father of her daughter's child.
On Friday, the police took DNA samples from Martin and other family members and they plan to return for more evidence later on in the week.
'I just assume the worst because there's been no contact and she is a family-oriented person,' added Martin.
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Morgan Martin missing: Pregnant teenager disappears after leaving home at midnight in St. Petersburg Florida
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OPINION: Trump-Russia ties all a coincidence? Impossible
If you don’t see the problematic connections, you’re in denial
OPINION: Trump-Russia ties all a coincidence? Impossible If you don’t see the problematic connections, you’re in denial Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: http://dailyre.co/2FAiJfY
Jason Sattler Published 1:28 p.m. ET Feb. 27, 2018
President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, but a new poll finds Americans aren’t buying his denials.(Photo: ~File photo)
There are two options: Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia worked together to help elect our current president of the United States, or we are witnessing the greatest coincidence since the Big Bang.
Call it collusion. Call it a collaboration. Or, even better, call it a “conspiracy against the United States” — since that’s probably what the indictments will keep calling it.
Just don’t call it a coincidence, especially if the FBI is interviewing you.
If you want to argue that Russia randomly to decided to endure unknown risks to do almost everything it could to put Trump in the White House, and that Trump was just too hapless to properly conspire, even after decades of schemes where he got richer while others got burned, here are just some of the fantastic events that you have to believe are only “coincidences.”
In 2013, after decades of struggling to do business in Russia and in the midst of plotting what many assumed would be another vanity run for president, Trump announced he planned to hold his Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. The 67-year-old reality TV star tweeted in June, “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow — if so, will he become my new best friend?”
The next month, the Internet Research Agency registered in Russia to begin what a recent indictment filed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office called “information warfare against the United States of America.”
Though the Trump/Putin meeting in Moscow never happened, the courtship continued.
In 2014, Trump opportunistically attacked Russia’s policies when it was convenient to criticize Barack Obama, but he refused to say a negative word in public about Vladimir Putin — a policy he pretty much only extends to his businesses, his relatives and his anatomy.
In April 2014, after the U.S. had levied sanctions on Russia for “violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” the Internet Research Agency allegedly began its U.S.-focused “translator project“ with a goal of spreading “distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.” Coincidentally, that became a major theme of Trump’s presidential campaign that he officially launched in June of 2015.
As Trump continued to praise Putin and question NATO, the backbone of Soviet and Russian containment for more than half a century, social media trolls backed by the Kremlin rained support on Trump.
In October 2015, two weeks after Trump’s Twitter account tweeted an article entitled “Putin Loves Trump,” Trump signed a letter of intent to build a Trump Tower in Moscow (something he never disclosed during the campaign).
In March 2016, Paul Manafort, a Trump Tower resident with a long history of lobbying for Trump interests and foreign despots, joined the Trump campaign. For some reason, Manafort was willing to work for free despite apparently owing as much as $17 million to pro-Russian interests. That same month, the Gmail account of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta was hacked.
After the Democratic National Convention, Trump famously said at a press conference: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 (Clinton) emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Trump could only be sure Russia would be “rewarded mightily” if he knew Russia was aiming to harm Clinton.
And on and on it goes. That’s just a sample.
If you don’t see the conspiracy by now, you just don’t want to.
Jason Sattler, a writer based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and host of The Sit and Spin Room podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @LOLGOP
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Defend Indian Constitution
The Toxic Agriculture Of Monsanto And Big Agribusiness
vs Agroecology Rooted In Communities And Locally Owned
By Colin Todhunter
"We are being far too kind to industrialised agriculture. The private sector has endorsed it, but it has failed to feed the world, it has contributed to major environmental contamination and misuse of natural resources. It's time we switched more attention, public funds and policy measures to agroecology, to replace the old model as soon as possible."
Dr David Fig, Biowatch, South Africa
Based on the results on his farm in Gujarat, Indian farmer and campaigner Bhaskar Save demonstrated that by using traditional methods, his yields were superior to any farm using chemicals in terms of quantity, nutritional quality, biological diversity, ecological sustainability, water conservation, energy efficiency and economic profitability.
Bhaskar Save died in October, but in 2006 he published a now quite famous open letter to the Indian Minister of Agriculture and other top officials to bring attention to the mounting suicide rate and debt among farmers. He wanted policy makers to abandon their policies of promoting the use of toxic chemicals that the ‘green revolution’ had encouraged.
According to Save, the green revolution had been a total disaster for India by flinging open the floodgates of toxic agro-chemicals which had ravaged the lands and lives of many millions of farmers (for example, read about the impact in Punjab). He firmly believed that organic farming in harmony with nature could sustainably provide India with abundant, wholesome food.
India had for generations sustained one of the highest densities of population on earth, without any chemical fertilisers, pesticides, exotic dwarf strains of grain or ‘bio-tech’ inputs - and without degrading its soil. For instance, see this analysis which highlights better productivity levels in India prior to the green revolution. (If further evidence is required as to the efficacy of organic farming, see this report, based on a 30-year study, which concludes that organic yields match conventional yields, outperform conventional in years of drought and actually build soil fertility rather than deplete it; and see this report that says that organic and sustainable small-scale farming could double food production in the parts of the world where hunger is the biggest issue.)
Save argued that numerous tall, indigenous varieties of grain provided more biomass, shaded the soil from the sun and protected against its erosion under heavy monsoon rains. But in the guise of increasing crop production, exotic dwarf varieties were introduced and promoted. This led to more vigorous growth of weeds, which were able to compete successfully with the new stunted crops for sunlight. The farmer had to spend more labour and money in weeding or spraying herbicides. In effect, farmers were placed on a chemical treadmill as traditional pest management systems were destroyed and soil degradation and erosion set in.
Moreover, this water-intensive, high external input model of agriculture led to the construction of big dams, indebtedness, population displacement and a massive, unsustainable strain on water tables. Save noted that more than 80% of India’s water consumption is for irrigation, with the largest share hogged by chemically cultivated cash crops. Maharashtra has the maximum number of big and medium dams in the country. But sugarcane alone, grown on barely 3-4% of its cultivable land, guzzles about 70% of its irrigation waters.
For Save, in a country of farmers, it was essential to restore the natural health of Indian agriculture to solve the inter-related problems of poverty, unemployment and rising population. See his arguments in more detail here.
Such views may be out of step with global agribusiness interests and the international bodies, national governments and regulatory bodies they have co-opted or hijacked (see this, this, this, this, this and this), but there is an increasing awareness across the globe that the type of viewpoint put forward by Save and many others is valid.
Of course, millions of farmers across the world already knew that what Save had stated was correct long before he said it and have for a long time been organising and resisting the industrialised model of petrochemical-intensive and GMO farming being imposed across the planet. They are in step with what the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology (IAASTD) report (among others) advocates: a shift towards organic farming and investment in and reaffirmation of indigenous models of agriculture.
Likewise, botanist Stuart Newton's notes that the answers to agricultural productivity do not entail embracing the international, monopolistic, corporate-conglomerate promotion of chemically-dependent GM crops. He argues that India must restore and nurture its heavily depleted, abused soils and not harm them any further with chemical overload, which is endangering human and animal health.
Newton provides good insight into the vital roll of healthy soils and their mineral compositions and links their depletion to the green revolution. In turn, these degraded and micro-nutrient lacking soils cannot help but lead to denutrified food and thus malnourishment: a very pertinent point given that the PR surrounding the green revolution claims it helped dramatically reduce malnutrition.
Over the past few years, there have been numerous high level reports from the UN and development agencies putting forward proposals to favour small farmers and indigenous agriculture, but this has not been translated into sufficient action by national governments on the ground where small farmers increasingly face marginalisation and oppression due to corporate seed monopolies, land speculation and takeovers, rigged trade that favours global agribusiness interests and commodity speculation (see this on food commodity speculation, this on the global food system, this by the Oakland Institute on land grabs and this on the impact of international trade rules).
In fact, these reports seem to have been largely ignored by offialdom in India, which seems to be intent on following World Bank advice on removing 400 million out of agriculture, thus capitulating to US agribusiness interests and in the process seeking to demonise those who criticise the prevailing trend. The erroneous reasons behind this forced displacement (largely by making agriculture financially unviable) and the impacts are discussed in the article 'Global Agribusiness Hammering Away at the Foundations of Indian Society'. The urban-centric model of 'development' being pursued is unsustainable and is wholly misguided at best and at worst little more than a con-trick.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Professor Hilal Elver:
"Empirical and scientific evidence shows that small farmers feed the world [see this]. According to the UN Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 70% of food we consume globally comes from small farmers… Currently, most subsidies go to large agribusiness. This must change. Governments must support small farmers.”
Despite the situation adopted at the top in India, it should be noted that a good deal of inspiring work is taking place.
In Tamil Nadu (South India), for example, women's collectives have been organising to restore traditional foods and farming methods, resulting in lower costs, higher yields and improved nutrition. Before the green revolution, there were 14,000 different varieties of paddy, but these traditional varieties were displaced by hybrid varieties which only grow if chemical fertilisers are used.
Sheelu Francis is General Coordinator of the Women's Collective of Tamil Nadu and is involved in a fightback against the deleterious social, economic and environmental impacts of the green revolution. She states that by practicing agroecology, an increasing number of women farmers are now free from chemical fertilisers and pesticides and grow many crops together - grains, lentils, beans, oilseeds - to create biodiversity, using maximum input from the land within the farm to produce food.
With the onset of the green revolution, farmers gave up traditional farming practices and agriculture systems. Francis says that farmers were encouraged to grow rice because of government subsidies which promoted growing rice, especially with hybrid seeds and chemicals. Rice paddies use lots of water, so when it is the dry season or when there is drought, there is no production at all.
The use of chemical fertilizers hurt the health of the people, according Francis, not just because of the chemicals but because people rely on polished rice for their nutrition, which is not very nutritious (she says 46% of children are malnourished in Tamil Nadu).
When you combine the effects of soils depleted of nutrients, monocrop diets and chemically-laden food, you have a recipe for catastrophe.
Little wonder then that people are now going back to traditional farming practices and growing traditional crops, which are more nutritious, provide a balanced diet and help maintain soil health
However, it is an uphill struggle, as Francis notes:
"People who try to hold onto their ways of life are marginalised from their land, their seeds, and their way of farming. Now the industries are trying to take over, and to some extent they have succeeded. That is why we are strongly opposing Monsanto and Syngenta and the whole project of GM (genetically modified) seeds."
Elsewhere, in Africa, while Monsanto and The Gates Foundation are trying to force through a corporate-controlled GMO/green revolution, the Oakland Institute recently published research that highlighted the “tremendous success” of agroecology across the continent. By combining sound ecological management, including minimising the use of toxic inputs by using on-farm renewable resources and privileging endogenous solutions to manage pests and disease, with an approach that upholds and secures farmers’ livelihoods, agroecology essentially embodies a social movement for positive change.
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, says that the research provides irrefutable facts and figures on how agricultural transformation can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits, while ensuring climate justice and restoring soils and the environment. Frederic Mousseau, Policy Director of the Oakland Institute, who coordinated the research, adds that the research debunk the myths about the inability of agroecology to deliver and highlights the multiple benefits of agroecology, including affordable and sustainable ways to boost agricultural yields while increasing farmers’ incomes, food security and resilience.
There are many stories about such local projects from across the world and it is encouraging. However, what is ultimately required is a national-level and international-level commitment to stop prioritising chemical-industrial agriculture at the expense or indigenous agriculture, to stop handing out massive subsidies to agribusiness and to get off the destructive and wholly unsustainable and poisonous chemical treadmill.
“Agroecology is more than just a science, it's also a social movement for justice that recognises and respects the right of communities of farmers to decide what they grow and how they grow it." Mindi Schneider, assistant professor of Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague.
As Mindi Schneider implies above, agroecology is essentially a system that prioritises local communities, smallholder farmers, local economies and markets. It is a system that the Rockefeller-backed green revolution has been dismantling across the globe for the last 60 years or so. The green revolution is in crisis and is causing massive damage to the environment and to farmers' livelihoods to the point where ecocide and genocide is occurring and the cynical destruction of agrarian economies has taken place. The solution ultimately lies in challenging the corporate takeover of agriculture, the system of 'capitalism' that makes such plunder possible and embracing and investing in sustainable agriculture that is locally owned and rooted in the needs of communities.
Colin Todhunter is an independent writer - his website is here
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When Russian literature is mentioned, the two giants Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky overshadow the majority of other writers. However, it is not the case for Anton Chekhov. Chekhov emerged into the scene during the 19th century, the same time as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. As a short-stories writer and dramatist, Chekhov made a mark for himself, as he is “the only other one to make much of an impression abroad.” (Brians) Chekhov wrote during the early 1900s, when Russia saw “the rise of the bourgeoisie…
The Underground By Fyodor Dostoyevsky And Other Stories Written By Franz Kafka
written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and other stories written by Franz Kafka. Both of these authors tell a story about an individual that acts and thinks different than a normal human. I am going to be discussing the style that the author was using, the reason the author might have chosen this unusual features, and what the author was trying to say to us. Therefore, I must first give information about the author which could support reasons that they chose to write this peculiar story. Dostoyevsky who was…
Essay Notes From The Underground By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
emotions. The constant imbalance between our emotional desires and social expectations is much like the idea of sex in a catholic school – it 's not supposed to exist, but once you present it to your mind 's eye, you realize it 's everywhere. Fyodor Dostoyevsky hence becomes an iconic literary master. His novel “Notes from the Underground” portrays an amoral and self-conflicting character who indeed lives in everyone at some point of their lives. In “Notes”, Dostoveysky deliberately, and quite playfully…
Christianity in Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Essay
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, It must have been a difficult task for Dostoevsky to come to this conclusion. He could be compared to that of the Prodigal son, who returned to God only after all other forms of belief were ventured. Being raised in a Russian Orthodox household, as a youth Dostoyevsky rebelled against religion and later began to believe in the anarchist and atheistic philosophy that was common among radical students and middle-class people that were against the status quo in 19th century…
Essay The Underground Man By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
that one will ever find is that which is in the human mind. Within Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, one is presented with the idea of a man made of contradictions. The Underground Man—as he has become known as—is full of flaws and contradictions within every aspect of his life. Dostoyevsky very skillfully paints a beautifully tainted picture of the human psyche: through the Underground Man. With this, Dostoyevsky uses the Underground Man in all of his tainted bliss and contradictions…
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5 minutes of:
•Burpees
Then, 5 minutes of:
•7 deadlifts, 155 lb.
•7 box jumps, 24-in. box
•Turkish get-ups, 40-lb. dumbbell
•7 snatches, 75 lb.
•7 push-ups
•Rowing (calories)
Complete as many reps as possible at each 5-minute station. Rest 1 minute between stations.
Log total reps from all 5 stations. Athletes can note reps for each station in their notes section.
If you've been tracking where we are on CrossFit.com programming you knew this doozy of a workout was on the way soon. It's a tribute workout to the Dallas 5, who can read more about below:
On July 7, 2016, a sniper coordinated an ambush on a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas. Dallas 5 commemorates the five officers who lost their lives in the attack.
Dallas Police Officer Patricio “Patrick” Zamarripa, 33, was a member of the force for six years and served active duty with the U.S. Navy for eight years and in the reserves for five. He is survived by his wife, Kristy, and daughter, Lyncoln Rae.
Dallas Police Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens, 48, was a longtime member of the force. He served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 10 years before moving to Texas and joining the Dallas Police Department in 2002. He is survived by his wife, Katrina, and children, Sorcha and Magnus.
Dallas Police Officer Michael Krol, 40, was an eight-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department and a dedicated member of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office in Detroit, Michigan, before that. He is survived by numerous friends and family members.
Dallas Police Sergeant Michael Smith, 55, served as a U.S. Army Ranger before joining the police force in 1989. The 27-year veteran of the force is survived by his wife, Heidi, and daughters, Victoria and Caroline.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Officer Brent Thompson, 43, served in the Marine Corps before joining the Corsicana Police Department and then the Dallas Police. He is survived by his wife, Emily, and many other friends and family members.
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store >> Bolt Action Germany
German Sd.Kfz 251/9 Ausf D (Stummel) Half-Track
The standard personnel carrier version of the SD Kfz 251 Halftrck Series was equipped with a 7.92 mm MG 34 or MG 42 machine gun mounted at the front of the open compartment, above and behind the driver. A second machine gun could be mounted at the rear on an anti-aircraft mount. The Stummel replaced the forward MG mount with a 75 mm L/24 low velocity gun, the same gun and mount employed on the early StuG III and Panzer IV tanks.
With the characteristic "slack track" design with no return rollers for the upper run of track, and the distinctly recognisable Schachtellaufwerk system of overlapping and interleaved main road wheels common to virtually all German halftracks of the period, the 251 series had a low ground pressure and better traction for cross country performance than most other nations' half-tracked vehicles.
Unlike the Allied halftrack armour the armour plates on the 251 series were designed to stop penetration by standard rifle/heavy machine gun bullets (like the Mauser 7.9x57mm bullet). They accomplished this through the combination of metal thickness (front-facing plates were 14.5mm thick) and sloped armour (V-shape, 8mm thick).
From 1942 each Panzergrenadier Battalion would be supported by a platoon of Stummels, deployed as needed in direct support of other halftracks.
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Central American migrants are on a word-of-mouth exodus to the U.S.
Advocates of splitting California into six states gathering signatures
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Hardcover
The Damascus Accident
They drop a wrench,
Or some such fluke,
And can set off
A well-armed nuke.
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser (Author)
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved–and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policymakers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.
Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with men who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view. Through the details of a single accident, Schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become unavoidable, how small risks can have terrible consequences, and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and Control is a tour de force of investigative journalism, an eye-opening look at the dangers of America’s nuclear age.
Interview of Author Eric Schlosser
BREAKING: Indiana Becomes First State to Withdraw From “Common Core” Read more at http://conservativetribune.com/common-core-indiana/#IHj4xSTRIHUziB3y.99
BREAKING: Indiana Becomes First State to Withdraw From “Common Core”
A smart move.
Central Park Five: Bill Kunstler’s Last Case
Defending Yousef Salaam
by BRUCE JACKSON
The justice system, as any lawyer knows, isn’t about guilt or innocence; it’s about winning and losing. The cops hold a kid all night, as in this case, refusing to let him see the family waiting downstairs and whom he is asking to see, or a lawyer, or anybody. They promise that if you just sign here you won’t do any time, you’ll go home with your grandmother. You’re fourteen, you’re scared, you’re exhausted, you trust them, so you sign. The cop who got you to do that suffers no penalty when years later it turns out, as in this case, the kid who had been psychologically tortured all night was, as he insisted until he was worn down, innocent.
That’s why Bill said he was engaged in this case. He told me that. I remember close friends saying, “Rape trumps politics. You shouldn’t be defending this guy.” And Bill saying, “You don’t know that he’s guilty. They didn’t let him talk to anybody. A fourteen-year old kid. Kids have rights too.”
Bill wasn’t simply defending an accused rapist; he was defending the rights of all of us to be treated fairly by a system with almost infinite power. The only thing that protects us from that infinite power are the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. When the police, the secret agents, feel free to ignore the protections of those Amendments, we are all at risk, not just poor kids of color. All of us. That’s what Bill Kunstler was really about.
The prosecutor, like the cop who has nabbed what he or she believes is a villain , who learns there is exculpatory evidence, who fights to hide or disregard such evidence and fights instead to preserve the honor of the office, suffers no penalty for that huge mistaken effort. The prosecutor has protected the office and is rewarded for that.
Michael R. Bloomberg, a billionaire, who took office in 2002, the same year the exculpatory evidence was known to the authorities, fought against justice for Central Park Five the entire time he was in office. He incurs no penalty for his disregard for justice either. To whom does he answer? Surely not the victims. Not to the woman savaged in Central Park, whose real violator was ignored by the system, or the five kids whose lives were damaged by the system’s disregard for them as human beings.
Everyone who is in prison says, “I’m doing time.” Talk to someone who has been in prison and ask, “Where were you?” and they say, “I’ve been doing time.” What should be a noun is answered with a verb. There is no way money can compensate for that linguistic shift. You can replace a Honda or a picnic table or a backpack; you cannot replace a year or a decade of someone’s life.
That’s what Bill Kunstler was fighting for, from the first time someone got him to go South and defend bus riders in a place whitefolks thought busses had two zones. He went there, and he never came back.
Bill believed in the justice system. That always amazed, astonished and inspired me. Once, when we were loafing in Oaxaca, I asked him how he felt going up against those juries in the deep South. He said that as long as he could get real evidence in front of a jury, he pretty much believed they’d do the right thing. If he ever stopped believing that, he said, he’d give up law and do something else. I guess he never stopped believing that, because he kept doing law right up to the end.
The hard part was getting the evidence out where people could see it. In the case of the Central Park Five, New York City fought for a long time to keep that from happening. Now, unless someone higher up in government kills this settlement, the people in city government who waged that fight have lost. There is a settlement; money will change hands. But those five kids who are men now lost years of their lives, and money will never buy that back. There are no winners in this sorry story.
And Bill, who died in 1995, turns out to have been right all along.
Bruce Jackson’s most recent books are Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prison (University of Texas Press, 2013) and In This Timeless Time Living and Dying on Death Row in America (with Diane Christian, University of North Carolina Press, 2012). He is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Cultur
Strongest Antiwar Statement Yet from a Congressional Candidate
Posted on June 21, 2014 by DavidSwanson
In this local TV news interview (video), we see Virginia Fifth District Democratic nominee for Congress Lawrence Gaughan say, “We need to get back to the Constitution on the issue of war, and I will never authorize the executive to use force when there is no direct or imminent threat to our national security here on our soil.”
Secret trade agreement covering 68 percent of world services published by WikiLeaks
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Pete Buttigieg scrambles to turn 2020 buzz into momentum
There is an increasing urgency, inside and outside of the campaign, that his moment may pass if he doesn’t take swift action to build a national organization
Pete Buttigieg scrambles to turn 2020 buzz into momentum There is an increasing urgency, inside and outside of the campaign, that his moment may pass if he doesn’t take swift action to build a national organization Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/22/election-pete-buttigieg/39378427/
Steve Peoples and Hunter Woodall, Associated Press Published 9:26 a.m. ET April 22, 2019 | Updated 12:02 p.m. ET April 22, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg smiles as he answers questions from employees during a campaign stop at a dairy company in Londonderry, N.H., Friday, April 19, 2019. (Photo: Charles Krupa, AP)
Manchester, N.H. – There are no policy positions on his website. He has virtually no paid presence in the states that matter most. And his campaign manager is a high school friend with no experience in presidential politics.
This is the upstart campaign of Pete Buttigieg , the 37-year-old Indiana mayor who has suddenly become one of the hottest names in the Democrats’ presidential primary season. Yet there is an increasing urgency, inside and outside of the campaign, that his moment may pass if he doesn’t take swift action to build a national organization capable of harnessing the energy he’ll need to sustain his surge in the nine months or so before the first votes are cast.
“I get more inquiries on how to reach him or his campaign than anyone else,” New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley said, adding that he’s aware of just one part-time Buttigieg staffer in the state to help coordinate the requests.
“This is what it’s like when you’re having your moment,” Buckley said. “Whether he can capitalize – that’s his challenge.”
Indeed, it’s far from certain that Buttigieg, a gay former military officer, will continue to stand out in a contest that features political heavyweights like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden, who is expected to launch his candidacy later this week. Aware of the daunting road ahead, Buttigieg’s team is plowing forward with an ambitious push to expand his operation, attract new campaign cash and pound the airwaves with virtually every media opportunity available.
In an interview, Buttigieg conceded that his supporters across the country have essentially had to “organize themselves” so far.
“We need to make sure we have the organizational strengths to sustain this wave of support that we’ve been getting for the last almost month and a half now,” he said. “It’s created some challenges to rise this far this fast, but I would put those in the category of a good problem to have.”
Federal filings suggest the campaign had little more than a dozen paid staffers at the end of last month. Buttigieg’s paid presence now exceeds 30, according to campaign manager Mike Schmuhl, who said it’ll be closer to 50 by the end of the month.
Most of the team is based in South Bend, Indiana, while a handful of staffers work from shared “We Work” office space in Chicago and a few others are based in Iowa and New Hampshire. Buttigieg plans to expand his presence in Iowa and New Hampshire and hire paid staff in South Carolina, Nevada and California in the coming weeks.
Still, don’t expect the Democratic mayor to create a giant campaign apparatus in line with Warren, Sanders or even New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Buttigieg has the money to build a large organization after raising more than $7 million last quarter, but the core of the near-term campaign strategy hinges on an aggressive fundraising schedule and a say-yes-to-almost-everything media strategy – whether media outlets focused on politics, entertainment or sports – backed by strong debate performances.
Schmuhl said the campaign doesn’t have national political consultants on the payroll and it’s unclear if it ever will.
“We want to build a campaign that’s a little disruptive, kind of entrepreneurial. Right now, it feels like a startup,” said Schmuhl, who first met Buttigieg in high school and later ran former Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly’s 2010 congressional campaign before reconnecting with Buttigieg.
There are clearly organizational challenges as the campaign ramps up, Schmuhl continued, but there is also “tremendous opportunity.”
“We’re in the game,” he said.
As was the case in former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s early campaign appearances, the lack of formal organization has allowed for a certain level of authenticity on the campaign trail as Buttigieg introduces himself to voters. It’s also created challenges.
He’s drawing big crowds in Iowa and New Hampshire, but there were few, if any, campaign staff on hand to take down information from enthusiastic supporters who want to be part of the campaign. While Buckley said he’s aware of only one part-time staffer in the state, a Buttigieg spokesman said the aide was full-time.
And voters eager to learn more about the mayor’s policy positions have been left wanting. Buttigieg has called for ending the Electoral College and expanding the Supreme Court. But in sharp contrast to some of his higher-profile competitors, he has yet to hire a policy director or release any written policies.
New Hampshire Democrat Lauren O’Sullivan, a 35-year-old who attended a house party for Buttigieg over the weekend, said she was initially unsure about the Midwestern mayor after going on his website. She felt she “didn’t know where he stood on any positions.”
She was somewhat reassured after he talked about specific policies at the Saturday house party.
“It was good to see that there is some platform,” O’Sullivan said.
For now, Buttigieg’s team wants to get him in front of as many people as possible.
That’ll include travel to meet voters in the early states on the presidential primary calendar, but after a week on the road in Iowa and New Hampshire, he’ll spend the coming days focused on raising as much money as possible.
This week he’ll launch a California fundraising swing featuring 11 stops across three days. Hollywood has taken an early liking to Buttigieg. Actors including Ryan Reynolds have already written small checks. Others in the entertainment industry are expected to attend events on the California tour, although the campaign declined to name them.
It’s critically important for Buttigieg to focus on fundraising while he’s surging, said Democratic strategist Symone Sanders, who predicted that Buttigieg’s moment is unlikely to last.
“Three weeks ago it was Beto. Now it’s Mayor Pete. Three weeks from now it’ll be somebody else,” she said. “It’s important to have a viable campaign to capitalize on this moment.”
Buttigieg acknowledged his organizational challenges on the campaign trail in recent days.
“Every time I fool myself into thinking I’m a household name, I get a humbling reminder somewhere that not everybody is following the blow by blow,” he said at the New Hampshire house party. He asked voters to join his effort, which he said is now “racing to build an organization to catch up with ourselves.”
Afterward, as some in the crowd eagerly lined up for pictures with the young mayor, 65-year-old retired doctor Wayne Goldner stood in the kitchen and praised Buttigieg’s performance.
The mayor’s getting “very popular,” he said, and rightfully so.
“He’s going to get too big for house parties,” Goldner said. “I think in New Hampshire he’s big enough for the bigger venues already.”
Associated Press writer Alexandra Jaffe in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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Jury sees Pennsylvania official block Detroit cops in video
Ex-Detroit employee files whistleblower lawsuit
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Mulvaney says he expects to stick around until 2020
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he expects to stay on in his current role through the 2020 election
Mulvaney says he expects to stick around until 2020 Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he expects to stay on in his current role through the 2020 election Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/30/mick-mulvaney-expects-remain-white-house-election/39426835/
Jill Colvin, Associated Press Published 7:39 p.m. ET April 30, 2019 | Updated 7:40 p.m. ET April 30, 2019
In this March 22, 2018 file photo, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)
Washington – Playing the role of happy warrior, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he expects to stay on in his current role through the 2020 election. And he said he isn’t expecting many major staff changes in the months ahead, despite the administration’s history of record turnover.
In an interview on stage at the Milken Institute’s annual conference in California, Mulvaney, who said he was suffering from kidney stones – a notoriously painful condition – nonetheless put on a happy face, insisting that he loves his job and has no plans of jumping ship.
“This is the last job I want in the administration,” he said. “I’m having a great time.”
That’s long been the message from Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman-turned budget director who is now serving as Trump’s third chief of staff. While Mulvaney’s predecessor, John Kelly, grated on Trump by trying to limit access to the Oval Office and managing up, Mulvaney sees the job differently, focusing instead on letting Trump do as he wishes and boosting staff morale.
Tuesday’s discussion came as Trump was holding a closed-door meeting with Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, to try to hash out the beginnings of an infrastructure deal that could serve as a rare bipartisan victory, even as Democrats continue to investigate Trump’s campaign and business dealings.
But Mulvaney was sour on the prospects, snipping that he’d had “a fun night” dealing with his medical issue, “but it’s better than going to the meeting with Chuck and Nancy at the White House.”
Asked by Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo whether he thought an infrastructure deal was realistic in 2019, Mulvaney expressed doubt, explaining that Trump is not interested in spending money without new regulatory rollbacks and sees little benefit in financing projects that won’t be completed until he’s out of office.
“He’s not interested in spending $1 trillion now for something that’s not going to get built until 2029,” Mulvaney said, throwing cold water on a meeting that was already underway and, by all accounts, went positively, with Trump and Democratic leaders agreeing to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package, but putting off the thorny question of how to pay for it.
It was a performance reminiscent of his boss, who during the government shutdown repeatedly undermined aides, including Vice President Mike Pence, insisting that meetings would produce no results even as they were taking place.
Instead, Mulvaney said he thought there was a better chance of Congress ratifying the new United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, even as he threw cold water on Democratic efforts to make changes to the deal.
“Once we send it to Congress, that’s it,” he said, adding that their only choice would be to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no.’
Yet Mulvaney also said it would be difficult for Trump to work with Democrats, given the flurry of investigations they’ve launched, including demands for tax returns and business records that Trump has sued to block.
“To have an impeachment hearing on Monday, say, and then to think you’re going to talk infrastructure on Tuesday, that’s not how the world works, let alone Washington, D.C.,” he said, adding that: “The mantra we use around the office is they either have to legislate or litigate. You can’t have it both ways.”
As for Trump, Mulvaney said that, after installing new leadership at the departments of state, defense and justice, Trump seems largely happy with his Cabinet. And at the White House, he said Trump had “the right team on the field,” but they “just need to be managed a different way.”
While he did not speak about his predecessor at length, he said the difference between him and John Kelly is that Kelly “openly let everybody know who worked for him that he hated his job,” which Mulvaney says badly hurt staff morale.
“That was a mistake,” he said. “And once you fix that, and I think we’ve been able to fix that, things have gotten dramatically better very, very quickly. I think people like working in the White House. They love working for this president. And we’re having some success. So it’s a fun place to work.”
He also brushed off the fact that he still retains the “acting” title, even though he’s now been on the job for months.
“The boss doesn’t care. I don’t care. And the people who work for us don’t care,” he said. “I am the chief of staff. I perform those functions … You’re only there at the pleasure of the president.”
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Detroit man charged in shooting of 2 gay men he met via app
Acosta exits; Trump’s big Cabinet turnover keeps growing
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Who is Duterte?
Rodrigo "Rody" Roa Duterte ( born March 28, 1945), also known as Digong,is a Filipino lawyer and politician who is the 16th and current President of the Philippines. He is the first Mindanaoan to hold the office. At 71 years old, Duterte is the oldest person to assume the Philippine presidency; the record was previously held by Sergio Osmeña at the age of 65.
Duterte studied political science at the Lyceum of the Philippines University, graduating in 1968, before obtaining a law degree from San Beda College of Law in 1972. He then worked as a lawyer and was a prosecutor for Davao City, a highly urbanized city on Mindanao island, before becoming vice mayor and, subsequently, mayor of the city in the wake of the Philippine Revolution of 1986. Duterte was among the longest-serving mayors in the Philippines, serving seven terms and totaling more than 22 years in office.
Duterte's political success has been aided by his vocal support for the extrajudicial killing of drug users and other criminals. Human rights groups have documented over 1,400 killings allegedly by death squads operating in Davao between 1998 and May 2016; the victims were mainly drug users, petty criminals and street children. A 2009 report by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights confirmed the "systematic practice of extrajudicial killings" by the Davao Death Squad. Duterte has alternately confirmed and denied his involvement.The Office of the Ombudsman closed an investigation in January 2016 stating that they found no evidence that the Davao Death Squad exists, and no evidence to connect the police or Duterte with the killings.The case has since been reopened.Duterte has repeatedly confirmed that he personally killed three kidnapping suspects at a police checkpoint while Mayor of Davao in 1988.
On May 9, 2016, Duterte won the Philippine presidential election with 39.01% of the votes, defeating four other candidates, namely Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party (23.4%), Sen. Grace Poe of the Nationalist People's Coalition (21.6%), former vice president Jejomar Binay of the United Nationalist Alliance (12.9%), and the late Sen. Miriam Defensor - Santiago of the People's Reform Party (3%)During his campaign, he promised to reduce crime by killing tens of thousands of criminals.His domestic policy has focused on combating the illegal drug trade by unleashing a deadly crackdown on the suspected sale and use of drugs. Since April 2017, reports have documented more than 7,000 deaths, both from legitimate police operations and vigilante-style killings.Following criticism from United Nations human rights experts that extrajudicial killings had increased since his election, he threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the UN and form a new organization with China and African nations. He has also declared his intention to pursue an "independent foreign policy",and sought to distance the Philippines from the United States and European nations and pursue closer ties with China and Russia.
CCTV Footage: Mga Pulis Pumasok sa Bahayng Walang Search Warrant at Nagnakaw Huli sa CCTV! Reviewed by pinoy patrol on 21:56 Rating: 5
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California's governor goes to El Salvador: Diplomatic mission or global grandstanding?
Governor's trip to Central America praised by Democrats, immigrant groups; panned by Republicans. California is home to 440,000 Salvadorans.
California's governor goes to El Salvador: Diplomatic mission or global grandstanding? Governor's trip to Central America praised by Democrats, immigrant groups; panned by Republicans. California is home to 440,000 Salvadorans. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2019/04/06/california-governor-gavin-newsom-el-salvador/3386757002/
Ben Christopher and Elizabeth Aguilera, CAL Matters Published 10:28 a.m. PT April 6, 2019
Gavin Newsom looks at areas around the Salton Sea from a hilltop in Calipatria on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Newsom, who was then lieutenant governor, heard about ecological, environmental, and public health challenges facing the region on his visit. (Photo: Richard Lui/The Desert Sun)
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s trip to El Salvador, which he embarks on this weekend, is full of firsts:
The first time Newsom has left the United States in his official capacity as governor. The first time any California leader has taken an official trip to the Central American republic, or justified travel abroad as a fact-finding mission to learn more about a refugee crisis.
And the expedition doubles as Rorschach test. Depending on whom you ask, it’s either a gubernatorial study-abroad trip, a humanitarian and diplomatic mission befitting the state’s status as the world’s fifth-biggest economy, or pure grandstanding on a global scale.
Democratic legislative leaders praise the new governor for his willingness to learn first hand about the root causes of a migration crisis that has driven Central Americans to seek U.S. asylum. Salvadoran Californians and immigration rights organizations are applauding him for recognizing an underrepresented constituency in such a high profile way.
The fact that Newsom chose to make El Salvador his first international destination “says a lot about his values, about the need for California to be an advocate within the United States for El Salvador,” said Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, a Democrat who represents northeast Los Angeles. Carrillo is the Legislature’s only Salvadoran immigrant and will be its only member to accompany Newsom on the trip.
A couple from El Salvador with Temporary Protected Status adopted three children in the U.S. but after the Trump administration has ended TPS the future is uncertain for the family. In this photo the children are picked up from school. (Photo: Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun)
But outside Newsom’s political tent, reaction has ranged from bemusement to outrage. Critics argue that international migration is the U.S. president’s responsibility, not the governor’s, and that Newsom, as an ambitious Democrat, is merely boosting his anti-Trump cred.
“I’ve got areas in my district that are flooding,” said Assemblyman Devon Mathis, a Republican from Visalia. “Not in Central America. Come see the central San Joaquin Valley….Come down to where we have Third World conditions.
Newsom has said he wants to establish “more formal relationships” between California and Salvadorian lawmakers—to “better understand” why so many people make the dangerous trip from Central America to the United States, and to “communicate to the broader public—not just here in California, but across the rest of the United States—so we can change the conversation on immigration and move away from responding to a president of the United States who simply doesn’t get it.”
His expedition is premised on the idea that current migration can be slowed by improving living conditions on the ground. That contrasts with President Donald Trump, who recently cut humanitarian aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to punish those countries for not doing more to curb outward migration. Trump has accused them of helping to “set up” the so-called caravans of migrants heading for the United States.
The lack of economic opportunity, climate change and gang violence are the top reasons people are fleeing El Salvador, experts said.
Only about 2.5% of the world’s population migrates; it’s not something people want to do, said Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, and an expert in migration from Central America.
“You have to push people hard to move in a massive way. You need war, famine, a shock to the system,” he said. “What you have in Central America is environmental malfeasance, a pattern of land tenure and climate change and people who are unable to feed their families.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the California State Capitol on March 13, 2019 in Sacramento. Newsom announced a moratorium on California's death penalty. California has 737 people on death row, the largest death row population in the United States. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Add violence and it’s unsustainable.
El Salvador has a complicated history with the United States, which has often run roughshod over the smallest of the Central American countries, according to many experts.
Because those countries are located on an isthmus that connects east and west, there has been interest in the region for centuries, said Jocelyn Viterna, sociology professor and Central American expert at Harvard University.
“From the very early days we see these interventions from the outside economic forces fomenting violence and unrest in Central America for reasons that don’t help Central Americans themselves,” she said.
A U.S.-backed civil war in the early 1980s triggered an exodus of thousands of migrants from El Salvador to the United States. Many settled in Los Angeles.
At that time, they had little chance of getting asylum. Seeking protection from local bullies and violent gangs, youth formed their own—the notorious MS-13 and 18th St gangs.
In El Salvador, the United States cut off aid after the war and the country tried to organize and rebuild but chaos continued.
A few years after a 1992 peace accord, the United States began deporting thousands of Salvadorans with criminal records and gang affiliations.
“They found a country with a lot of people who didn’t know what do with their lives because farms were destroyed, businesses were destroyed, so much was destroyed, and the gangs took hold in El Salvador,” Viterna said.
Those deportees are credited with importing the powerful criminal gangs that continue to flourish today. That has led to waves of new migrants, coming in caravans or however they can, who are now in the direct glare of the Trump administration.
California is home to the largest group of Salvadorans outside of El Salvador, roughly 440,000 immigrants, but the community is much larger if U.S.-born children are included in the count.
“Irrespective of immigration policy, [the Salvadoran population in California] is a very large community, so it is important for the governor to go visit and make connections—be they business, trade, or cultural exchange,” said Matt Barreto, a professor of political science and Chicano studies at UCLA.
Historically, gubernatorial trips overseas have been for the ostensible goal of advancing the economic interests of the state by nurturing trade relationships.
“For the most part when they travel abroad, it’s about trade, economic partnerships, and getting free vacations paid for with lobbyists’ dollars,” said Chris Thornberg of the consulting firm Beacon Economics. “They’re not staking out global positions.”
Gov. Jerry Brown may have broken that mold in traveling to Europe to tout California’s climate policy initiatives, standing in on the world stage after the Trump administration retreated. In going to El Salvador, seeking to frame California as a more humanitarian alternative to Washington, Newsom is following in his predecessor’s global-mission steps, said Thornberg: “This is Newsom channeling his inner Jerry.”
A couple from El Salvador with Temporary Protected Status adopted three children in the U.S. but after the Trump administration has ended TPS the future is uncertain for the family. In this photo the children share their drawings with their parents. (Photo: Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun)
Though there’s plenty of Newsom in this trip too.
The governor has a history of going on study-abroad trips while in office. As mayor, he would frequently go on missions to cities abroad—Manilla, Mexico City, Shanghai—to return with the latest idea in city management. Sometimes the ideas would gain traction. Others, like his proposal to bring Chicago-style public surveillance cameras to San Francisco’s Tenderloin, were dead on arrival.
As lieutenant governor, Newsom took a trip with GOP legislators to Texas to research his economic development plan for that state. That earned him a rebuke from Gov. Brown.
Here in California, advocates pointed to things the state could do, such as helping detained asylum seekers with bonds so they can be released, and providing legal aid for those who need it.
The governor’s office says the final cost of the trip will be released after the entourage returns. Flights, hotels and other on-the-ground expenses will be paid for by the California State Protocol Foundation, one of several nonprofits that have stepped in to relieve the taxpayer of travel costs for gubernatorial trips since the 1980s. Staff salaries will still be picked up by the state.
But some worry that the foundation serves as a vehicle for interest groups to curry favor with the governor.
Business, labor and other interests donated $1.7 million to the foundation at the behest of Gov. Jerry Brown over the course of his last two terms. The largest donors included political action committees representing real estate agents, building trade unions and the California Chamber of Commerce.
The governor’s office has not yet responded to questions about who’s donating to the foundation to cover his travel expenses. All contribution made to the foundation at the behest of the governor must be made public within 30 days.
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CHIPS Articles: Using Technology to Provide Better Support for the Federal Workforce
Using Technology to Provide Better Support for the Federal Workforce
By Sandra J. Smith - January-March 2003
The world of e-Government is full of exciting possibilities for how the U.S. Government can improve its interactions with its citizens. Concepts like one-stop shopping, online town hall meetings for direct contact with officials, or "OurTown.Gov" (which helps local leaders to coordinate community services) give new meaning to the phrase "of the people, by the people, and for the people." In the future, it seems almost inevitable that citizens and businesses will conduct more and more government interactions online. The transformations resulting from e-Government will continue to impact every facet of our lives, especially those of government employees. Training, recruitment, clearances, payroll, enterprise human resource system integration, and career planning are areas that are changing to provide better service and resources to government employees.
The nearly ubiquitous nature of the Internet affords a tremendous opportunity for agencies and communities alike to leverage and transform their operational procedures and processes. One such community benefiting from the Internet is the Federal Human Resources (HR) Community. As the Internet and Webbased services continue to marshal efficiencies and improve organizational processes, government employees will become the beneficiaries of the transformational power of e-Government.
The mandate of the President's Management Agenda to strategically manage human capital has helped to serve as a catalyst for the HR Community to examine how they conduct business and highlights them as a model for other agencies as they pave inroads into e-Government. A few key HR-related e-Government initiatives (shown in Figure 1) being led by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) currently underway are:
The Government Online Learning Center or, GoLearn is a Government-wide resource that supports developmental opportunities of the Federal workforce through simplified and one-stop access to high quality e-Training products and services. The creation of this center is the first phase of the President's Management Agenda e-Training Initiative and will continue to grow with the addition of products and services that meet the common needs of the workforce, including a competency-based individual career planning tool called the Information Technology (IT) Roadmap. The IT Roadmap will be a valuable tool for IT professionals and their managers to identify the right skills for optimal job performance and at the same time target professional development needed to obtain those skills. This site is designed as a virtual campus that houses free training courses and knowledge resources in each of its rooms. You can explore the center and all that GoLearn has to offer by going to www.golearn.gov.
e-Clearance
Security has taken on a greater significance since 9-11; now more than ever information security is crucial. The e-Clearance initiative will improve the processing of investigations for personnel who must have security clearances. The elimination of paper-based security applications will permit sharing of clearance information among other agencies, and accelerate the clearance process. The OPM e-Clearance project team expects the e-Government initiative to meet its next milestone early. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., recently sent a memo to agencies requiring them to automate their security clearance systems and transfer employee files to OPM's Security/Suitability Investigations Index (SII) by Jan. 3, 2003. The memo is the latest in a recent series of letters invoking OMB's authorities under the Clinger-Cohen Act to prompt agencies to work together on e-Government initiatives.
Recruitment One-Stop
A significant challenge for government agencies is the difficulty in attracting and retaining skilled IT professionals. Despite the recent economic downturn, the private sector demand for IT workers — fueled by the Internet "gold rush" — continues to grow at a rate faster than the supply of newly educated IT professionals. In an attempt to simplify the government recruiting process and provide a one-stop approach to federal employment applications and job postings, OPM conducted a virtual IT fair for individuals interested in working in the Federal Government. The job fair was intended for positions in the GS-2210 IT Management Specialist series at the GS-7 through 13 grade levels. Approximately 20 Federal agencies participated in this first of its kind event which was held in April 2002. The entire application and assessment process was administered via the Internet at www.usajobs.gov.
EHRI
The goals of the e-Government Enterprise Human Resources Initiative (EHRI) are to provide timely and accurate access to human resources data and deliver accurate, current data on all Federal employees — active and separated. EHRI will eliminate the need for a paper employee record through the creation of an electronic Official Personnel Folder that will eliminate more than 100 multiple forms that are currently maintained for a minimum of 65 years after employee separation. This initiative will enable the management of reporting benefits and electronic transfer of HR data throughout a Federal employee's career life cycle. These enhancements will fundamentally change the way in which employees, managers, and HR officers retrieve and use Official Personnel Folder data for transaction processing, workforce reporting and analysis. The Department of Defense has funded the Modern Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) to achieve the majority of the EHRI goals, and will eventually be funded to develop an interface with the EHRI.
The Modern DCPDS currently supports multiple HR applications and is designed to replace a number of information systems used today, throughout the Department, to manage civilian human resources. The Modern DCPDS will move the Department away from multiple systems to a single information system for civilian employees.
e-Payroll
OPM has established a Standardization Action Team, with officials from various Departments. The team's goal is to provide simple, easy-to-use, cost-effective, standardized, integrated HR/Payroll services to support the mission and employees of the Federal Government. The team developed a modernization plan using agency and industry best practices to identify data fields needed for payroll processing. The group also is identifying the methods for making changes, whether legislatively or through the regulatory process.
The Federal IT Roadmap
Recognizing the criticality of a skilled IT workforce, the Federal Chief Information Officer Council (CIOC) engaged OPM in the development of the Information Technology Group, GS-2200. Under this standard, the GS-2210, Information Technology Management Specialist series with 10 parenthetical titles was developed. As a follow-on thrust, the Federal CIOC, Workforce and Human Capital for IT Committee, sponsored the IT Roadmap initiative as a means to engage and provide a developmental resource for the Federal IT Workforce. The IT Roadmap Team spent several months exploring best practices within private and public sector products and recommended a way ahead in developing such a tool. After extensive review, the Roadmap Team recommended adopting the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) Career Planning Tool as a best practice.
The Committee adopted the recommendation and launched an effort to develop the IT Roadmap — a Federal career planning tool for current and prospective Federal IT employees. The tool is a Web-enabled, database-driven career planning tool that outlines general and technical competencies relevant to the various parenthetical titles (Policy & Planning; Information Security; Systems Analysis; Application Software; Operating Systems; Network Services; Data Management; Internet; Systems Administration; and Customer Support) associated with the GS-2210, IT Management Specialist Series.
The GS-2210 series is designed to cover all positions currently assigned to the Computer Specialist Series, GS-334, as well as positions classified in other series (e.g., the Telecommunications Series, GS-391, and the Miscellaneous Administrative and Program Series, GS-301), where IT knowledge is paramount. The tool will assist individuals in performing self-assessment of their proficiency in those competencies. Based on identified proficiency gaps, the IT Roadmap will assist users in developing career-long training and development plans to achieve their career goals. The career development plan will be derived from the user's self-assessment of competencies and the selection of professional development opportunities. Professional development opportunities will come from a compendium of federal training sources that are directly linked to one or more specific competencies. The IT Roadmap will provide an integrated approach toward training and career development, identify competencies required for successful job performance, and be flexible enough to support a variety of IT career development planning strategies and customization. The tool will include feedback from employees on courses and provide a source of aggregate statistics for agency planning. The prototype of the tool was released early December 2002 and initial operational capability is projected by spring 2003.
A Winning Proposition
An exciting future awaits the workforce of the future. Not only will systems and procedures be greatly enhanced by technology but the people who manage and implement those systems and procedures will be better equipped and more competent to do their jobs. President Bush has said that he will expand the use of the Internet to empower citizens by allowing them to request customized information from Washington when they need it, not just when Washington wants to give it to them. The President believes true reform involves not just giving people information, but giving citizens the freedom to act upon it. The DON CIO supports e-Government initiatives and believes they are winning propositions for using technology to gain efficiencies and provide better support for the DON and Federal Workforce of the future.
Sandra J. Smith is the DON CIO Competency Management Team Leader.
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Paul Tracy makes a splash in Cleveland Grand Prix
Joe Frollo Jr.
Expected winner Bourdais stalls on the 67th lap and finished 12th.
Paul Tracy has never been one to take the easy road.
The 17-year Champ Car World Series veteran overcame two early collisions and went the final 26 laps without a pit stop Sunday to win the Grand Prix of Cleveland.
Most of the 65,000 in attendance at Burke Lakefront Airport were expecting to crown a three-time winner.
Just not the guy who took the checkered flag.
“I guess this is why the series pays me to stay here — to create some excitement,” Tracy said.
Three-time series champion Sebastien Bourdais started from the pole and ran first or second throughout before stalling on lap 67 of the 89-lap race. He had looked in position to add to his 2003 and 2004 Cleveland titles but never got restarted and finished 12th.
“All of sudden, (the engine) just let go, and that was it,” Bourdais said.
Bourdais still leads the series with 117 points but saw his margin narrowed to 3 ahead of Robert Doornbos, who finished just over a half-second behind Tracy for second. Doornbos’ Red Bull teammate and fellow rookie Neel Jani was third.
Cleveland rocks for Tracy
Tracy ended a 23-race losing streak, winning for the first time since 2005 in Cleveland. The hard-charging Ontario native who now lives in Las Vegas is known for his aggressive passes and all-out racing. He also won here in 1993 to join Emerson Fitipaldi and Danny Sullivan as the event’s only three-time winners.
Tracy collided with Graham Rahal on lap 4 and Bruno Junqueira on lap 6, both times losing a front wing and forcing him to the pits. Last year, his car went airborne on lap 1. He was OK, but one of his tires struck Bourdais’ helmet, knocking Bourdais unconscious and out of the race.
This time, Tracy fell as far back as 15th, but the early troubles proved a blessing. He was able to ride out the end while others needed to stop for a final splash of gas.
“My spirits were down for six or seven laps. I kind of stayed in the back and didn’t do anything,” Tracy said. “The team really rallied and said, ‘Alright. Come on. Let’s go.’ ”
Betting on strategy
Tracy took over the lead for good when Will Power blew a tire on lap 75. Rahal then challenged Tracy through lap 86 before running low on fuel.
“I can honestly say our finishing position wasn’t for a lack of effort,” said the 18-year-old Rahal, who wound up eighth. “We weren’t in a position to make it on fuel at the end. It’s unfortunate but that’s just how it goes, so we had to push Tracy as hard as we could. Unfortunately, he had enough gas to keep going.”
Tracy said his tires were weak at the end and he had trouble coming out of the hairpin Turn 1, where Rahal seemed to have chances to pass. The youngster had a different opinion.
“The problem was that once I got behind Tracy, he’s wild and he’ll put you in the fence and doesn’t care about it,” Rahal said. “I had a good move on him, and then he came down on me, and I had to back off. Otherwise, I would have hit him.”
UNEVENTFUL BEGINNING
For just the second time in eight years, the field got off to a clean start with no lap 1 accidents. Going from a standing start for the first time in Cleveland, Tracy said the potential for disaster was still there.
“It was pretty close,” he said. “There were plenty of cars with interlocking wheels. A lot of cars were on the verge of running into each other, but they managed to avoid each other.”
Doornbos overcame an early penalty for blocking to earn his fourth top-three finish in five races. The 25-year-old from Monaco slowed in front of Rahal around turn 3, leading to the crash with Tracy.
“When he did that, I had to check up, and Tracy just punted me,” Rahal said. “All I know is that I got thrown up in the air, and it’s a good thing this car is strong, because otherwise we would have been done for the day.”
Still, Rahal battled back, as did Doornbos, who took over second position when Rahal dropped back.
Doornbos couldn’t get around Tracy, though, settling for second.
You can reach Canton Repository Assistant Sports Editor Joe Frollo Jr. at (330) 580-8564 or e-mail: joe.frollo@cantonrep.com
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A father was burnt to death in front of his teenage son, after being trapped in his car on Eid night, according to a top official.
The incident happened a few years ago and while revealing some of the worst accidents that he has come across in his career, Lt. Col. Ahmed Burqibah, Deputy Director of Dubai Police Search and Rescue Department told Emirates 24|7 that this remains one of the most terrible.
“It happened on Eid night and involved two cars.
Lt. Col. Ahmed Burqibah, Deputy Director of Dubai Police Search and Rescue Department. (Supplied)
“In one of the cars, there were two persons. In the other car, there was this teenage boy and his father. The boy looked like a teenager, aged between 17 and 18 years.”
Lt. Col. Burqibah added that the two cars collided on one of the highways.
“The father got trapped in his car, while the son managed to get out.
“The car started burning, and the boy couldn’t do anything to take his father out. He was scared, screaming and hysterical. The father burned to death.”
Lt. Col. Burqibah added that the officers who were on the accident site with the boy tried their best to help him.
“The boy was taken to the hospital for treatment to relieve him of the psychological effects of the accident and of seeing his father burning to death in front of him.”
“We didn’t tell the family that the man died. We always try to prepare them for the shock and reveal the information to them gradually. This is very important as many people cannot take the shock,” he said.
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Israel Ruiz, Chair
Israel Ruiz is the executive vice president and treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ruiz is the Institute’s chief financial officer and, as a trustee of the MIT Corporation and a member of its executive committee, is the chief steward of over $17 billion of MIT’s financial assets and $3.4 billion in operating revenues, and is responsible for administering the Institute’s $5 billion capital plan through 2030.
With a strong understanding of MIT’s innovation ecosystem and future technology trajectories, Ruiz was instrumental in leading the re-zoning effort of Kendall Square in 2013 with an eye toward creating place and providing density and mixed-use development to accelerate the process to move ideas from lab to market. Ruiz continues to actively co-lead the development of the process through its complex execution phase, expected to last beyond 2020.
At MIT, Ruiz is responsible for financial and debt strategy development, budget and capital planning, and the integrity of financial information. His other areas of responsibility include human resources, information systems, campus facilities, security and safety, compliance, government relations, international support, sustainability, and medical.
Prior to becoming executive vice president and treasurer in 2011, Ruiz held several roles of increasing responsibility at MIT, most recently serving as vice president of finance. Involved since the early 2000s with digital education, in 2009–2010 Ruiz was instrumental in launching a group to evaluate e-learning opportunities in response to the global financial crisis. The work of this group ultimately led MIT to launch its online efforts—MITx in 2011 and edX in 2012—in partnership with Harvard University. In 2014, Ruiz co-led the task force that published the “Future of MIT Education,” outlining the tremendous opportunities that digital learning technologies bring to residential education and to the global market for education. Ruiz previously held management and engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard and Nissan Automotive.
Ruiz holds a master’s degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a six-year degree in industrial and mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, in his native Barcelona.
Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Since September 1994, he has been with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In July of 2017, Chandrakasan was named the Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering.
Chandrakasan is the co-recipient of several awards, including the 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence and the ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper (2007, 2008, 2009). He received the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award and the 2013 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. In 2015, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
His research interests include ultra-low-power circuit and system design, energy harvesting, energy efficient RF circuits, and hardware security. He is a co-author of Low Power Digital CMOS Design (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), Digital Integrated Circuits (Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2003, 2nd edition), and Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems (Springer 2006).
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Linda Pizzuti Henry is the managing director of Boston Globe Media Partners, a 144-year-old print, digital, event, publishing, and marketing company with 26 Pulitzer Prizes. She is a co-founder of HUBweek, a collaboration among the Boston Globe, Harvard University, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital that explores the intersection of art, science, and technology. Pizzuti Henry is also an early-stage-impact investor, an Emmy-winning television producer with two shows currently airing, and a community activist.
Pizzuti Henry serves as a trustee of the Liverpool Football Club Foundation, a director of the Red Sox Foundation, chair of the Boston Globe Foundation, and chair of the John W. Henry Family Foundation. In addition, Pizzuti Henry is a founder of the Boston Public Market and serves on the advisory board of MassChallenge.
Pizzuti Henry received her BS from Babson College and a master’s degree in real estate development from MIT. She spends a lot of time questioning referee and umpire decisions, is surprisingly knowledgeable about team mascots, and passionately believes in the bright future of Boston.
Robert Kraft is the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Kraft Group, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The Kraft Group is the holding company of the Kraft family’s many businesses, including the New England Patriots, the New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, Patriot Place, International Forest Products, Rand-Whitney Group, Rand-Whitney Containerboard, and a portfolio of more than 200 private equity investments.
As chairman and CEO of the New England Patriots, combined with the New England Revolution, Kraft changed the culture of professional sports in New England by delivering 13 conference titles and five league championships in the past two decades. Since Kraft purchased the Patriots in 1994, the team has won more games, including playoff games (26), division titles (16), conference titles (8) and Super Bowls (5) than any other team in the NFL. Kraft also built the only privately financed, world-class sports and entertainment complex with the construction of Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place.
Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England’s most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities, civic affairs, and health care, including a $25 million pledge to Partners HealthCare to launch the Kraft Center for Community Health and a $20 million pledge to Harvard Business School to establish an endowment for the advancement of precision medicine.
Brad Powell
Brad Powell is the managing director of investments for Emerson Collective. In this position, he oversees Emerson’s financial and investment activity. This requires directing diligence work, coordinating research and advising the founders and entrepreneurs who operate the companies within Emerson’s portfolio. He is a member of and advisor to several boards of both private for-profit and non-profit organizations. In addition to this role, Powell has primary responsibility for driving the community impact work of the Collective.
Prior to joining Emerson, Powell’s career spanned many different sectors, including public accounting, management consulting, financial services and commercial real estate. He has launched and built several startups and worked in large corporate and multinational organizations. He has undergraduate degrees in accounting and computer science and was a certified public accountant. Powell has two graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–a master’s of science in real estate and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management.
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G 0003/92 (Unlawful applicant) of 13.6.1994
European Case Law Identifier:
ECLI:EP:BA:1994:G000392.19940613
Date of decision:
G 0003/92
J 0001/91
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A62B 35/04
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Title of application:
Bypassing double action rope grip
Latchways Limited
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When it has been adjudged by a final decision of a national court that a person other than the applicant is entitled to the grant of a European patent, and that person, in compliance with the specific requirements of Article 61(1) EPC, files a new European patent application in respect of the same invention under Article 61(1)(b) EPC, it is not a pre-condition for the application to be accepted that the earlier original usurping application is still pending before the EPO at the time the new application is filed.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 60
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 167
European Patent Convention 1973 R 13
Protocol on Recognition Art 001
Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 12a
Final decision by a national court
Party other than applicant entitled to patent
Third parties' interests
Withdrawal of original application by unlawful applicant
Filing of new application by lawful applicant
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T 2473/12
I. During proceedings in appeal case J 1/91 which is before it, and following a request from the Appellant, the Legal Board of Appeal has referred an important question of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal under Article 112(1)(a) EPC in its Decision dated 31 March 1992: the question is concerned with the extent of the remedies which are available to a true inventor (or his successors in title) under Article 61 EPC, in the circumstance that a person other than the true inventor has applied for a European patent.
II. A complete summary of the facts of the case which is before the Legal Board of Appeal is set out in the Decision of referral identified above. For the purpose of answering the referred question of law, the relevant facts as set out in that Decision may be more briefly summarised as follows:
In 1982 the Appellant company was interested in exploiting a device which it had developed, and for this purpose details of the device were disclosed in confidence to a third party. Unknown to the Appellant, this third party (the "unlawful applicant") in 1985 filed a European patent application (the "1985 application") in respect of such device, and this application was published later in 1985, but was deemed to be withdrawn in 1986 because no request for examination was filed in due time.
The Appellant was at this time unaware of the 1985 application, and filed a European patent application in respect of the same device in 1987. A European search report was drawn up and transmitted to the Appellant in 1988, which cited the earlier 1985 application, and thus made the Appellant aware of the 1985 application for the first time.
The Appellant accordingly referred a question to the Comptroller of the United Kingdom Patent Office under Section 12 of the United Kingdom Patents Act 1977, as to whether he was entitled to the grant of a European patent for the invention which is disclosed in the 1985 application. A Superintending Examiner acting for the Comptroller duly issued a Decision dated 6 March 1990, in favour of the Appellant.
Within three months, the Appellant filed a new European patent application (the "1990 application") in respect of subject-matter disclosed in the 1985 application, pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC. The Receiving Section of the European Patent Office issued a Decision dated 27. December 1990, however, in which it was held that the 1990 application could not be dealt with under Article 61(1)(b) EPC because the 1985 application was no longer pending at the date of filing of the 1990 application, this, according to the Receiving Section, being a prerequisite for the application of Article 61 EPC.
This Decision is based primarily upon a consideration of the wording of Article 61 EPC and its associated Rules 13 to 15 EPC: reference is also made to the "predominant concern for the public's legal certainty concerning patent matters", and to the possibility under the above provisions that a lawful applicant may assert his rights while an application by an unlawful applicant is still pending.
The Appellant's appeal against the Decision of the Receiving Section constitutes the case before the Legal Board of Appeal which is referred to above. The question which has been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal by the Legal Board of Appeal is as follows:
"Where it has been adjudged by a final decision of a national court that a person other than the applicant is entitled to the grant of a European patent, and that person, in compliance with the specific requirements of Article 61(1) EPC, files a new European patent application in respect of the same invention under Article 61(1)(b) EPC, is it a pre-condition for the application to be accepted that the original usurping application still be pending before the EPO at the time the new application is filed?"
III. Following the referral of the above question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal, the President of the European Patent Office requested to be given the opportunity to submit comments in writing on the referred question of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal, pursuant to Article 11a of the Rules of Procedure of the Enlarged Board. The reason given for this request was that the case's interest and importance lies in that it concerns the basic principle of safeguarding the true inventor's rights within the European patent system. In its reply, the Enlarged Board invited the President to comment on whether Article 61 EPC safeguards the true inventor's rights in the case where a wrongful applicant has previously filed a European application, and has withdrawn such European application after its publication.
IV. On 5 November 1992 the President of the EPO submitted comments to the Enlarged Board supporting the Receiving Section's interpretation of Article 61 EPC, including references to the "preparatory documents" which preceded the drafting of Article 61 EPC.
The main basis underlying the President's support for the Receiving Section's interpretation of Article 61 EPC is a concern that if Article 61 EPC is applicable even when an application by an unlawful applicant is no longer pending, this will lead to legal uncertainty in the sense that third parties may be misled by such withdrawal into commencing commercial activities which would subsequently be prejudiced if a lawful applicant is later allowed to file a new European application having the same subject-matter and the effective date of the earlier application by the unlawful applicant. According to the system envisaged by the President, a lawful applicant is therefore obliged to protect his interests by maintaining a watch on all relevant pending applications as soon as they are published pursuant to Article 93 EPC, so as to make himself aware of a pending application by an unlawful applicant in respect of subject-matter to which he is entitled, and in the event that he becomes aware of such an application by an unlawful applicant he should take immediate steps under Rules 13 and 14 EPC to prevent the application by the unlawful applicant from being withdrawn or otherwise disposed of. Nevertheless, the President recognised that such a system could inevitably lead to inequitable results: for example, if an invention was stolen from the lawful applicant without his knowledge, and a European application by an unlawful applicant was then withdrawn immediately after its publication.
Reasons for the Decision
1. The referred question specifically concerns the interpretation of Article 61(1) EPC, which governs the procedural rights of a person who has been adjudged to be entitled to the grant of a European patent, as against the actual applicant in respect of a European patent application. However, Article 61 EPC is part of a system of legal process which is provided under the EPC for determining the right to a European patent application when this is in dispute, and for implementing such a determination. The terms of Article 61 EPC have to be interpreted in this context and in the light of the object and purpose of this system. It is accordingly necessary to consider in the first place the nature of this system and the place of Article 61 EPC within it, before considering the detailed wording of Article 61 EPC and the Rules which are intended to implement it.
2. According to Article 60(1) EPC, the right to a European patent shall belong to the inventor or his successor in title. Consequently, as a matter of law, only the inventor (or his successor in title) is entitled to apply to the EPO for the grant of a European patent and, subject to examination of the application for conformity with the patentability and other requirements of the EPC, to be granted a European patent for his invention. However, Article 58 EPC provides that a European patent application may be filed by any legal or natural person and Article 60(3) EPC provides that "For the purposes of proceedings before the EPO, the applicant shall be deemed to be entitled to exercise the right to a European patent". Consequently, as a matter of fact, a European patent application may actually be filed in respect of potentially inventive subject-matter by a person other than the inventor of such subject-matter or his successor in title, contrary to the legal right of the latter, and before the latter has himself filed a European patent application in respect of such subject- matter.
3. Under the European patent system, the EPO has no power to determine a dispute as to whether or not a particular applicant is legally entitled to apply for and be granted a European patent in respect of the subject- matter of a particular application. Determination of questions of entitlement to the right to the grant of a European patent prior to grant is governed by the "Protocol on Jurisdiction and the Recognition of Decisions in respect of the Right to the grant of a European Patent" (the "Protocol on Recognition"), which is an integral part of the EPC. This Protocol gives the courts of the Contracting States jurisdiction to decide claims to entitlement to the right to the grant of a European patent, provides a system for determining which national court shall decide such claims in individual cases, and requires the mutual recognition of decisions in respect of such claims, within the Contracting States to the EPC.
3.1. Article 1(1) Protocol provides that "The courts of the Contracting States shall ... have jurisdiction to decide claims, against the applicant, to the right to the grant of a European patent in respect of one or more of the Contracting States designated in the European patent application". In relation to any particular claim by an alleged lawful applicant against an actual applicant for a European patent, the particular Contracting State whose courts have jurisdiction to decide the claim is determined by the system of jurisdiction set out in Articles 2 to 8 Protocol. For any such claim, this system of jurisdiction designates the courts of one (and only one) Contracting State as the proper forum in which the claim must be decided.
After a court in a Contracting State has given a final decision on "the right to the grant of a European patent in respect of one or more of the Contracting States designated in the European patent application", Article 9(1) Protocol provides that such a decision "shall be recognised without requiring a special procedure in the other Contracting States". Furthermore, Article 9(2) Protocol provides that "The jurisdiction of the court whose decision is to be recognised and the validity of such decision may not be reviewed".
3.2. Under Article 167(2) EPC, a Contracting State to the EPC may reserve the right to provide that it shall not be bound by the Protocol on Recognition. Under Article 167(3) EPC, such a reservation can only have effect for a limited period of time. Article 1(3) Protocol provides that for the purposes of the Protocol, the term "Contracting State" refers to a Contracting State which has not excluded application of the Protocol on Recognition under Article 167 EPC.
3.3. Thus, in accordance with the above provisions of the Protocol on Recognition, a claim to the right to the grant of a European patent can only be decided before a court of the appropriate Contracting State; this is the only forum in which a lawful applicant may commence proceedings to establish his right. Furthermore, when such a claim has been decided in a final decision of such a national court in favour of a lawful applicant (B) and against an unlawful applicant (A) for a European patent application, that decision has to be recognised in all the other Contracting States which are bound by the Protocol. Under the Protocol on Recognition, subject to Articles 10 and 11(2) thereof, recognition is automatic and as of right.
3.4. When a national court of the appropriate Contracting State decides an individual case concerning a claim to entitlement to the grant of a European patent under the Protocol on Recognition, it will apply the particular national law which governs determination of the case, which may or may not be its own national law, within the framework of its own legal system. Without the system of jurisdiction and recognition provided by the Protocol on Recognition, an individual case concerning a dispute as to who has the right to apply for a European patent could be the subject of proceedings in more than one national court, and could be decided differently in different national courts. It would then be impossible for the EPO to deal with one applicant (i.e. the lawful applicant) in respect of the European application which is the subject of such proceedings.
The above provisions of the Protocol on Recognition avoid such difficulties. A claim to the entitlement to the grant of a European patent is decided by a court of just one Contracting State, and whatever the result in that court, its decision is recognised in all the other Contracting States which are bound by the Protocol. This system of jurisdiction set out in the Protocol has its counterpart in Article 61 EPC, by which a dispute concerning the legal right provided by Article 60(1) EPC, having been decided by the appropriate national court, can be implemented and enforced for the purpose of the granting procedure before the EPO. Following the initiation by the lawful applicant (B) of a new procedure before the EPO in accordance with Article 61 EPC, the EPO is required to deal thereafter in such new procedure with the lawful applicant (B) in place of the unlawful applicant (A).
4. Turning now to the particular problem of interpretation which underlies the referred question of law, this concerns a situation where the earlier European patent application which was filed by an unlawful applicant is no longer pending before the EPO (because it has been withdrawn, deemed to be withdrawn, or refused) when the lawful applicant files a new application for a European patent pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC. The earlier application may have ceased to be pending either before or after the lawful applicant commenced proceedings before a national court claiming his right to the grant of a European patent.
The referred question of law assumes that "it has been adjudged by a final decision of a national court that a person other than the applicant is entitled to the grant of a European patent", and is concerned with the case where the earlier application was not pending before the EPO (because it had been deemed to be withdrawn) when the lawful applicant commenced the proceedings before a national court which led to the final decision.
In such a case, if Article 61 EPC is to be applicable, the question arises as to whether such final decision is a decision within the meaning of Article 61(1) EPC: in particular, is such final decision a decision which "has to be recognised on the basis of the Protocol on Recognition", having regard to the fact that the proceedings which led to the final decision were commenced at a time when there was no longer a pending application before the EPO?
4.1. Article 1(1) Protocol gives jurisdiction to such national courts to decide claims to the right to the grant of a European patent "against the applicant" in respect of a European patent application. In his comments in support of the Receiving Section's Decision, the President has suggested that the words "against the applicant" in Article 1(1) Protocol should be interpreted as referring to an existing applicant, and therefore require the existence of a pending application, and that the Protocol on Recognition does not apply to a case where the unlawful applicant's earlier application is no longer pending.
4.2. In the Enlarged Board's view, the wording of Article 1(1) Protocol when read as a whole, does not exclude the jurisdiction of national courts in a case where the unlawful applicant's earlier application is no longer pending, but is apt to cover any case where an earlier European patent application has been filed by an unlawful applicant, whether or not such application is still pending.
4.3. In fact, if the jurisdiction of national courts was excluded under the Protocol on Recognition in cases where an unlawful applicant's earlier application was no longer pending, this would lead to a situation where such an unlawful applicant could himself control the exclusion from such jurisdiction of the lawful applicant's claim against him. By withdrawing his own application after its publication, an unlawful applicant could prevent the lawful applicant from obtaining European patent protection for his invention, and could thus ensure his own freedom to use the invention which he misappropriated. If the Protocol on Recognition were so interpreted, the legal system under the Protocol would effectively invite such manipulation by an unlawful applicant. In the Enlarged Board's view, such a legal situation would be unreasonable and unacceptable, and the condoning of such manipulation cannot have been intended under the Protocol on Recognition.
4.4. In a case where the unlawful applicant's earlier application has been published, and is no longer pending at the time when a claim to the right to the grant of a European patent is made to a national court, the establishment of the lawful applicant's right to the grant may potentially prejudice third parties who have commenced commercial activities involving the subject- matter of the earlier application on the assumption that such subject-matter is in the public domain and cannot therefore be the subject of a European patent. In general, the longer the interval between the time when the earlier application ceases to be pending and the time when the lawful applicant's right is established by a national court, the greater the possibility of such third party prejudice.
The extent to which a national court, when deciding upon a claim under Article 1(1) Protocol in a case where the earlier application is no longer pending, should take into account any delay by the lawful applicant in commencing and prosecuting proceedings to establish his right and the possibility of consequent third party prejudice, is a matter to be considered by national courts.
5. As mentioned in paragraph 3.4 above, Article 61 EPC enables a lawful applicant who has established his right to the grant of a European patent in a final decision of a national court to initiate proceedings before the EPO in his own name.
The provisions of Article 61 EPC must clearly be interpreted so as to be consistent with and to fulfil the objectives of the system of jurisdiction described in paragraphs 3 to 3.4 above, which gives the national courts of the Contracting States competence to decide disputes as to the right to the grant of a European patent. This system of jurisdiction, in combination with the provisions of Article 61 EPC and the Rules which are intended to implement it, provides a co-ordinated legal process for granting the appropriate remedy, in a case where an unlawful applicant has applied for a European patent contrary to the legal rights of the inventor or his successors in title which are set out in Article 60(1) EPC. It would be contrary to such legal process if a lawful applicant who has established his right to the grant of a European patent in a final decision by the appropriate national court in accordance with the Protocol on Recognition, was thereafter excluded from using the centralised procedure of Article 61(1) EPC.
5.1. According to Article 61(1) EPC, the lawful applicant (being "a person referred to in Article 60(1) EPC other than the applicant") may, within the three-month time limit following such a final decision by the appropriate national court and "provided that the European patent has not yet been granted", with reference to the unlawful applicant's earlier application,
"(a) prosecute the application as his own application in place of the applicant, (b) file a new European patent application in respect of the same invention, or (c) request that the application be refused."
5.2. For the reasons which are set out below, the wording of Article 61 EPC does not on its proper interpretation exclude its application to cases where the unlawful applicant's earlier application is no longer pending when the lawful applicant files a new application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
5.3. For the same reason as set out in paragraph 4.2 above in connection with the Protocol on Recognition, the reference in Article 61(1) EPC to "the applicant" does not necessarily imply that, for Article 61 EPC to be applicable, there must be an existing applicant and therefore a pending application.
Furthermore, the phrase in Article 61(1) EPC "provided that the European patent has not yet been granted", which in fact constitutes a pre-condition for the applicability of Article 61 EPC, does not necessarily require that the application must still be pending. On the contrary, this phrase can fairly be interpreted as indicating that Article 61 EPC is only applicable in the case of a final decision which terminates a dispute concerning entitlement to a European patent application and is not applicable in the case of a dispute concerning entitlement to a granted European patent. This interpretation is confirmed by the contents of sub- paragraphs (a) to (c) of Article 61(1) EPC, which ensure that the EPO controls the stage before and including the making of a decision on the grant or refusal of the application, following appropriate action by the lawful applicant.
Thus there is nothing in the wording of Article 61(1) EPC, when read as a whole, which requires the existence of a pending application at the time when a lawful applicant takes action pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
5.4. As to Article 61(2) EPC, this provides that when a lawful applicant files a new European patent application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC, Article 76(1) EPC (which is concerned with European divisional applications) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the new application. That is, in particular, provided that the new application is filed "only in respect of subject- matter which does not extend beyond the content of the earlier application as filed", the new application "shall be deemed to have been filed on the date of filing of the earlier application and shall have the benefit of any right of priority" of the earlier application by the unlawful applicant. It follows from this provision that, provided that the new application does not contain added subject-matter with respect to the earlier application, the content of the earlier application does not form part of the state of the art under Article 54(1) EPC with respect to the new application.
There is therefore nothing in Article 76(1) EPC which requires the existence of a pending application at the time when a lawful applicant files a new application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
5.5. It is to be noted that Article 61(2) EPC only refers to paragraph (1) of Article 76 EPC, so that this reference is of very limited scope.
In particular, Article 61(2) EPC does not refer to Article 76(2) EPC, which requires that a European divisional application "shall not designate Contracting States which were not designated in the earlier application".
There appears to be a good reason for this lack of reference to Article 76(2) EPC, in that a lawful applicant who files a new application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC may designate in his new application only those Contracting States designated in the (earlier) European patent application "in which the decision has been taken or recognized, or has to be recognized on the basis of the Protocol on Recognition annexed to the Convention" (see Article 61(1) EPC). This is clearly a different consideration.
Furthermore, Article 61(2) EPC does not refer to Article 76(3) EPC, which concerns the procedure to be followed when filing a divisional application under Article 76(1) EPC, the special conditions applying to such a divisional application, and the time limit for paying the filing, search and designation fees on such a divisional application and which refers to the Implementing Regulations in this connection.
There appears to be a good reason for not finding a reference to Article 76(3) EPC in Article 61(2) EPC, in that Article 61(3) EPC itself contains equivalent provisions governing the procedure to be followed when a lawful applicant files a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC, and therefore makes it plain that the provisions of Article 76(3) EPC are not applicable to such a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
5.6. Article 61(3) EPC also refers to the Implementing Regulations as containing the procedure to be followed, the special conditions which are applicable, and the time limit for paying the relevant fees, in respect of a new application which is filed pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
The Implementing Regulations to Part II of the EPC, which contains Article 52 to 74 EPC, are found in Rules 13 to 23 EPC; and the Implementing Regulations to Part III of the EPC, which contains Articles 75 to 89 EPC, are set out in Rules 24 to 38 EPC. It follows that the Implementing Regulations for Articles 60 to 61 EPC are found in Rules 13 to 16 EPC (in particular the Implementing Regulations for Article 61 EPC are found in Rules 15 and 16 EPC), whereas the Implementing Regulations for Article 76 EPC are found only in Rule 25 EPC. In particular, Rule 25 EPC is not an Implementing Regulation for Article 61(3) EPC.
The current version of Rule 25 EPC states that "the applicant may file a divisional application on the pending earlier European patent application". This means that the existence of a pending application is a special condition to be complied with when an applicant files a European divisional application. It does not mean that the existence of a pending earlier application (by the unlawful applicant) is a pre-condition for the filing of a new application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
It is to be noted that Rule 15(1) EPC states that if the earlier application (by the unlawful applicant) is still pending at the time when a new application (by the lawful applicant) is filed pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC, such earlier application "shall be deemed to be withdrawn on the date of filing of the new application". This provision would of course be entirely inappropriate with respect to the parent application of a divisional application, and this reinforces the above conclusion that the Implementing Regulations for Article 61 EPC are in Rules 15 and 16 EPC (and not in Rule 25 EPC), whereas the Implementing Regulations for Article 76 EPC are found in Rule 25 EPC.
5.7. Rules 13 and 14 EPC are Implementing Regulations in respect of Article 60 EPC. They presuppose that the earlier application (by the unlawful applicant) is pending at the time when the person claiming to be the lawful applicant commences proceedings before a national court of a Contracting State, claiming his entitlement to grant, and they are intended to be applicable in that factual situation.
However, in the Enlarged Board's view, this does not mean that the existence of a pending earlier application is essential, either at the time when the lawful applicant commences proceedings before a national court, or at the time when the lawful applicant files a new application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC. Rules 13 and 14 EPC, like all Implementing Regulations, are subsidiary to the Articles of the EPC in the sense of Article 164(2) EPC. They are applicable in cases where the earlier application is pending when the lawful applicant commences proceedings before a national court, and they are not applicable or relevant to cases where the earlier application is no longer pending at the time when proceedings before a national court are commenced. That is the full effect of Rules 13 and 14 EPC.
Rule 15(1) EPC presupposes that the earlier European patent application is still pending at the time when the lawful applicant files a new application pursuant to Article 61(1)(b) EPC, and is therefore similarly inapplicable and irrelevant in a case where there is no pending application in existence at that point in time. Rules 15(2) and (3) EPC are clearly applicable, however, whether or not there is a pending application in existence at that point in time, as is Rule 16 EPC.
In the Enlarged Board's view, therefore, the wording of Rules 13 to 16 EPC does not lead to the conclusion that Article 61(1)(b) EPC is inapplicable unless the earlier application (by the unlawful applicant) is still pending at the time when the new application is filed.
5.8. In the Enlarged Board's judgment, having regard to what is set out in paragraphs 5.3 to 5.7 above and also to what is said in paragraph 5 above, the proper interpretation of Article 61 EPC is that, in cases where the earlier application (by the unlawful applicant) is no longer pending at the time when a final decision in favour of the entitlement of the person claiming to be the lawful applicant is issued by a national court, although clearly Articles 61(1)(a) and (c) are obviously not applicable, nevertheless Article 61(1)(b) EPC is applicable, and this allows the lawful applicant to file and prosecute a new application before the EPO in respect of his invention.
6. In a case where an unlawful applicant's earlier application has been published and thereafter ceases to be pending, as discussed in paragraph 4.4 above, it is possible that a third party may commence commercial activities involving the subject-matter of such earlier application, on the assumption that such subject-matter is in the public domain and cannot thereafter be protected by a European patent. The subsequent filing of a new application under Article 61(1)( b) EPC (with an effective filing date of the date of filing of the earlier application), could then potentially prejudice the activities of such third party. However, if following grant of a European patent the lawful applicant commenced infringement proceedings against such a third party, a national court concerned with such infringement proceedings would be able to take account of the special circumstances surrounding the alleged infringing activities when deciding on the case.
7. It should be added that the remedy provided by Article 61 EPC to a lawful applicant whose invention has been taken in breach of confidence and made the subject of a European patent application by an unlawful applicant is legally quite distinct from the protection provided under Article 55(1)(a) EPC to a lawful applicant whose invention has been disclosed in breach of confidence. Article 55(1)(a) EPC provides that a disclosure due to or in consequence of an evident abuse in relation to the applicant or his legal predecessor shall not be taken into consideration as part of the state of the art at the filing date of a European patent application by the lawful applicant for the application of Article 54 EPC, provided that such disclosure occurred no earlier than six months preceding the filing of the European patent application by the lawful applicant. Thus the protection provided to a lawful applicant under Article 55 EPC following a disclosure resulting from an evident abuse only extends for a period of six months following such a disclosure, whereas the protection provided to a lawful applicant under Article 61 EPC is not governed by any such specified time limit (whether or not the earlier European patent application by the unlawful applicant remains pending). Nevertheless, as discussed in paragraphs 4.4 and 6 above, the system provided by Article 61 EPC and the Protocol on Recognition enables the effect of the passage of time upon the lawful applicant's legal rights to be taken into account in an appropriate manner, in cases where the earlier European patent application filed by the unlawful applicant ceases to be pending before the EPO.
8.1. A minority of the members of the Enlarged Board have taken a different view, arguing as follows:
Article 1 EPC establishes a system of law common to the Contracting States, for regulating the grant of patents for invention. To this end it is the task of the EPO to examine patent applications to ascertain whether patents can be granted on them (see Articles 18 and 94 EPC). Examination presupposes a validly pending application. If a patent application has not, or not yet, been filed, a patent cannot be granted. Nor can a patent be granted on an application which, though filed, has since irrevocably lapsed.
The EPC makes no provision for claiming the filing date of a lapsed application, nor for claiming its priority date after expiry of the priority year. If the intention had been to make an exception to this principle, a corresponding provision would have been necessary in Article 61(1)(b) EPC to provide for such a new application. There is none, so the general principle that it is not possible to claim either the filing date of an earlier application which has lapsed before the date of filing of the new application or its priority date after the expiry of the priority year applies also to any new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC. It follows that under Article 61(1)(b) EPC, the earlier application must still be pending at the time of filing the new application if the applicant filing the new application whishes to claim for his own application the filing date or, after expiry of the priority year, the priority date of the earlier application.
8.2. If a person who has been adjudged entitled to the grant of a European patent under Article 61(1)(b) EPC files a European patent application and if the earlier appliction of the unlawful applicant is still pending, according to ARticle 61(2) in conjunction with Article 76(1) EPC the application of the injured party is deemed to have been filed on the date of filing of the earlier application and have the benefit of any right to priority.
If on the other hand the injured party files an application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC and the earlier application of the unlawful applicant is no longer pending at the time of filing the new application, the injured party can no longer claim the filing date and priority date of the earlier application, which has already irrevocably lapsed. This can be deduced from Article 61(2) EPC, which states that the provisions of Article 76(1) EPC shall apply mutatis mutandis to new applications filed under Article 61(1)(b) EPC. This means that the provisions of Article 76(1) EPC relating to divisional applications are thus applicable also to new applications under Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
Divisional applications may however only be filed if the parent application is still pending. While this is not expressly stated in Article 76(1) EPC, it follows necessarily from the term divisional application, because only something in existence (i.e. the parent application), can be divided. Conceptually, the filing of a divisional application requires that the parent application be pending. This is further a generally recognised principle for the division of patent applications, as can be seen from, for example, Article 4 G of the Paris Convention. This principle is reiterated in Rule 25(1) EPC, which allows the applicant the right within a certain time limit to "file a divisional application on the pending earlier European patent application". As a result of the reference in Article 61(2) to Article 76(1) EPC, it is a prerequisite for a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC that the earlier application should still be pending. As in the case of a divisional application, a new application can only validly be filed if the earlier application is still pending.
8.3. The requirement under Article 61(2) in conjunction with Article 76(1) EPC that the earlier applicaton must still be pending at the time of filing the new application is confirmed by Article 61(1) EPC.
According to Article 61(1)(b) EPC, a person adjudged by a final decision to be entitled to the grant of a European patent may file a new European patent application in respect of the same invention within a period of three months "provided that the European patent has not yet been granted".
This provision firstly makes it clear that Article 61(1) EPC cannot be applied if the European patent has already been granted. The emphasis on the fact that the European patent should "not yet" have been granted further makes it clear that the procedure should still be in the pending application stage. Consequently, it must still be possible as a matter of procedural law for a patent to be granted. If procedurally the grant of a patent is not possible, whether because no application was filed in the first place or because the application has since lapsed, the legal requirement laid down in Article 61(1) EPC, namely that the European patent should "not yet" have been granted, is not met. In the case of an application which, for whatever reason, has lapsed, it is not possible to say that the patent has "not yet" been granted. The word "yet" in Article 61(1) EPC logically presupposes that it should still be possible for the patent to be granted. This requirement is however only met if the European patent application in respect of which the European patent has not yet been granted is still pending.
It thus follows from both Article 61(2) in conjunction with Article 76(1) EPC and from Article 61(1) EPC that a new European patent application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC can only be filed if the earlier application is still pending.
8.4. The provision of Article 61 EPC, as drafted by the legislator, represents a well-balanced and fair resolution of conflicting interests. A reasonable compromise had to be found between on the one hand the interests of the true owner of an invention filed by an unlawful applicant and, on the other, the interests of the public, who should be able safely to assume that lapsed European applications cannot subsequently be resurrected by the EPO without limit of time. The resolution of this problem of conflicting interests as provided by Article 61(1) EPC gives the lawfully entitled applicant the right to prosecute someone else's existing application in his own name, be it by simple substitution of the applicant in accordance with Article 61(1)(a) EPC or be it by formulating in his own words a new European patent application in respect of the same invention in accordance with Article 61(1)(b) EPC. These legal provisions give the person lawfully entitled to file the application a limited right to prosecute someone else's application while at the same time safeguarding the interests of the public in that they prevent the public from being taken by surprise by the grant of a patent on an application which has long since lapsed irrevocably.
8.5. The provisions of Chapter I of Part II of the Implementing Regulations, which govern the procedure to be followed in the event of the applicant or proprietor lacking due title, all presuppose that the earlier application by the unlawful applicant is still pending at the date of filing the new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC.
This is of particular significance because the provisions in the Implementing Regulations originate from the same source - the Munich Diplomatic Conference - as Article 61 EPC, thus making them highly authoritative for the interpretation of Article 61 EPC.
Thus under Rule 13 EPC the EPO will stay proceedings for grant involving an applicant, if a third party provides proof to the EPO that he has opened proceedings against this applicant. If a decision which has become final has been given, the EPO communicates to the unlawful applicant that the proceedings for grant will be resumed from a specified date unless a new European patent application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC has been filed. In this case the earlier, still pending application filed by the unlawful applicant is deemed to be withdrawn pursuant to Rule 15(1) EPC.
Further the Munich Diplomatic Conference made provision to prevent an unlawful applicant prejudicing the rights of the true applicant by withdrawing the European patent application. Rule 14 EPC expressly provides that, under the preconditions stated therein, an applicant can withdraw neither the European patent application nor the designation of any Contracting State.
All the provisions of the Implementing Regulations contained in Rules 14 to 16 EPC for implementing Article 61 EPC thus confirm that for Article 61(1) and Article 61(2) EPC it is a prerequisite for the valid filing of a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC that the earlier application filed by the unlawful applicant should still be pending. The Munich Diplomatic Conference regulated the implementation of hardly any other article in the Implementing Regulations in the same detail as it did in Article 61 EPC. Taken in conjunction with Rules 13 to 16 EPC, Article 61 EPC provides a self-contained, logically consistent system which exhaustively covers all aspects of procedure in cases where the applicant lacks due title. The provisions taken as a whole clearly show that it is a precondition for the filing of a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC that the earlier application should still be pending.
8.6. The preparatory documents for the European Patent Convention also make sufficiently clear that for Article 61(1)(b) EPC to be applied, the earlier application must be pending.
At its 10th meeting in Luxembourg from 22 to 26 November 1971 (document BP/144/71 dated 16 December 1971), the Intergovernmental Conference for the setting up of a European system for the grant of patents discussed four models for regulating the right to the grant of a European patent. Following in-depth discussions, the solution now embodied in Article 61(1)(b) EPC was chosen. This solution is defined in the above document as follows: if there is a final decision in favour of a person, he can submit a new application and claim the date of filing and the priority date of the earlier application. As from the date of filing the new application the earlier application is deemed to be withdrawn for all the designated Contracting States in respect of which the decision was taken or by which it is recognised. For the remaining States the previous application could be maintained and continued to grant by the initial applicant.(cf. No. 41, BP/144/71). It is emphasised that the person truly entitled could file a new application in place of the original application. If no new subject-matter were included, the new application would then receive the same filing date and priority date as the original application. At the same time the original application would be deemed withdrawn for the designated States in respect of which the decision was taken or recognised (see No. 47 of BP/144/71).
8.7. If it were permissible for a new application to claim the filing date and priority date of an application which has long since lapsed, this would unacceptably prejudice third parties.
For instance, if it were permissible, the new application could be validly filed well beyond the date on which the earlier application had lapsed. Third parties using the subject-matter of the application in the period between the lapse of the earlier application and the filing of the new application would retrospectively become infringers. Such third parties would have no defence because, unlike Article 122(6) EPC, Article 61 EPC does not grant such third parties a continued right freely to use the invention. The lack of such provision is explained by the fact that it is not required, because in drawing up the Convention it was presupposed that there would be a transition from the earlier application to the new application without any gap in between. Indeed, the possibility of a new application being filed in respect of an earlier application which is no longer pending was not even envisaged.
If the legislator had considered this to be permissible, it would surely have safeguarded any third parties whose rights are affected by the subsequent revival of the lapsed application, because such third parties using an invention after the lapse of an earlier application had the right to rely on no patent being granted for the invention concerned. From the date of publication by registration in accordance with Rule 92(1)(n) EPC of the date on which the European patent application is refused, withdrawn or deemed to be withdrawn, any third party may use the invention of a previously pending patent application without having to fear being enjoined from use or sued for damages. The public is entitled to rely on the legally required entries made by the EPO in the Register of Patents.
The only case in which a lapsed application may later be revived is provided for in Article 122 EPC, which allows for re-establishment of rights where rights have been lost due to non-observance of a time limit. However, this is not only subject to stringent conditions, in particular the requirement that all due care required by the circumstances has been taken, but is also narrowly restricted by the time limits for filing the request. Furthermore, third parties commencing use of an invention in the period between the lapse of the application and the registration of the date of re- establishment of rights in the Register of European Patents pursuant to Rule 92(1)(u) EPC are protected by a legal right to continued use, which means that their reliance on the registration of the lapse of an application in the Register of Patents is not dishonoured.
A similar provision safeguarding third parties would be required in Article 61 EPC if it were permissible to file a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC regardless of whether the earlier application was still pending or not. In particular, a continued right of use would have to be provided to protect third parties and, provision be made to inform the public, for the entry in the Register of Patents of the date on which the lapsed earlier application was revived as a result of the filing of a new application.
However, the case law is not authorised to make such a serious change to the EPC and its Implementing Regulations which exceeds the scope of a judicial decision, as it is equivalent to a revision of the rules governing the filing of European patent applications by persons lacking due title, which revision is under Article 172 EPC the prerogative of the Conference of the Contracting States.
The assumption that it is permissible to file a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC when the earlier application has irrevocably lapsed would prejudice the legitimate interests of third parties, which in the interests of legal certainty is not acceptable.
The disadvantageous consequences to such third parties cannot be eliminated in the Contracting States in the case of possible infringement cases between the proprietor of a patent granted in respect of a new application and a third party which used the invention between the lapse of the earlier application and the filing of the new application. The national law in many of the Contracting States recognises a right to continued use, but it takes such different forms in the individual countries that attempts to standardise it in Europe have so far remained unsuccessful. This is the reason why, despite many years of endeavour, it has still not been possible to resolve the problem of a right to continued use derived from a prior use or prior possession of the knowledge of the invention for the Community Patent Convention.
Even disregarding the very different approaches found in the Contracting States, a right to continued use is still not capable of producing a solution of the problem of the protection of third parties. Under the national law of most of the Contracting States, use by the third party must have begun prior to the filing date or priority date. However, the filing date or priority date of a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC is, according to Article 62(2) in conjunction with Article 76(1) EPC, the filing date or priority date of the earlier application. If the use started after this date, that is after publication of the lapse of the earlier application in the European Patent Bulletin, third parties cannot invoke a national right of right to continued use with respect to the European patent precisely because this right relates to prior use and not use between the date of lapse and revival.
8.8. Moreover, it cannot be inferred from the Protocol on Jurisdiction and the Recognition of Decisions in respect of the Right to the grant of a European Patent that it is possible to file a new application under Article 61(1)(b) EPC if the earlier appication is no longer pending at the time of filing the new application. The Protocol merely regulates the jurisdiction of the courts for legal proceedings against applicants to determine the right to the grant of a European patent, and the recognition of a final decision issued in one Contracting State in the other Contracting States. The question referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal is not concerned with these matters. The Board which referred the question had already decided that the Comptroller had jurisdiction to issue a decision concerning the right to the grant of a European patent, and there is no doubt that this decision will be recognised in the other designated Contracting States, which is why these questions were not referred to the Enlarged Board for decision. The Protocol permits no conclusions to be drawn with respect to the question referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal as the Protocol contains no provisions regulating this.
8.9. For these reasons it is held that under Article 61(1)(b) EPC a new European patent application in respect of the same invention filed by an unlawful applicant in an earlier application and claiming its filing date and priority date could only be filed if the earlier application is still pending at the time of filing the new application.
9. The majority of the members of the Enlarged Board of Appeal having carefully considered the views presented by the minority, maintains its position in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 7 above.
For these reasons, it is decided that:
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Jon M. Chu
Jon M. Chu's iPhone XS Max Movie 'Somewhere' Will Make You Want To Buy The Device ASAP
By Tina Kolokathis
The iPhone XS and XS Max are finally in a store near you, and news is quickly spreading about how awesome the new devices are. Among the tons of new upgrades, the new iPhones boast an updated dual-camera system, better camera sensors, 4K video, and stereo recording. With all of these features, it's only right that customers take advantage — especially someone as talented as the Crazy Rich Asians director, Jon M. Chu. Jon M. Chu's iPhone XS Max movie Somewhere will have you running to your nearest Apple store to pick up the new phone.
The short film was shared on Sept. 19 exclusively with Wired, and shows dancer Luigi Rosado using his garage practice space in Los Angeles. Rosado is a well-known B-Boy who has competed in dance professionally, and he was even featured in the Step Up movies and Disney's Lemonade Mouth. In the video, Rosado breakdances all over a tiled black and white floor, sharpening and polishing some pretty intense dancing skills. Chu told Wired,
Luigi has this garage on 3rd street. It's on a pretty busy street, but it's set back. Some of the best B-Boys in the world come there to train. He turns his little garage into a hub. Every night, that garage is open and there are dancers in there working out.
Believe it or not, the video was entirely filmed on the iPhone XS Max. Little else went into the making of it — no equipment, extra lenses, or professional lights. "I didn't have any of that," Chu said. The video is crisp, and despite the harsh floor colors and tons of movement, nothing seems to be overexposed or out-of-focus. Chu told Wired,
I'm moving around a lot, and the focus was adjusting as I was moving, but it was finding the subject really well ... There's a shot at the end where I'm rushing toward the garage—that's using the built-in stabilizers. It's pretty smooth.
The phone does have some amazing features that bring the video to the next level. One in particular is the slow-motion camera, which runs 240 frames per second. The slow-motion shot in the video that I absolutely love is the one where Chu shoots Rosado from above, and Rosado spins in a circle doing a move that I can only describe as "somehow possible but also something I could never do." Chu says he got the shot by simply resting the phone on a piece of wood hanging from the ceiling. Yup.
So, are you wondering how you can get your own iPhone to shoot your own movies with? Well, you're in luck. The iPhone XS and XS Max are in stores as of today, Sept. 21, 2018. Oh, and just so you know, both phones have the same camera system, so you're getting this next-level quality with either one.
After watching this film, I know two things for sure. 1. I'm getting the iPhone XS Max and 2. I need to learn how to breakdance as soon as possible. Luigi, can you give me some lessons?
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Zurich remains the most costly city in Europe
The FINANCIAL -- Despite volatile global markets and growing security issues, organisations continue to leverage global expansion strategies to remain competitive and to grow.
Yet, few organisations are prepared for the challenges world events have on their business, including the impact on cost of expatriate packages. Mercer’s 22nd annual Cost of Living Survey finds that factors including currency fluctuations, cost inflation for goods and services, and instability of accommodation prices, contribute to the cost of expatriate packages for employees on international assignments.
“Despite technology advances and the rise of a globally connected workforce, deploying expatriate employees remains an increasingly important aspect of a competitive multinational company’s business strategy,” said Ilya Bonic, Senior Partner and President of Mercer’s Talent business. “However, with volatile markets and stunted economic growth in many parts of the world, a keen eye on cost efficiency is essential, including a focus on expatriate remuneration packages. As organisations’ appetite to rapidly grow and scale globally continues, it is necessary to have accurate and transparent data to compensate fairly for all types of assignments, including short-term and local plus status.”
According to Mercer’s 2016 Cost of Living Survey, Hong Kong tops the list of most expensive cities for expatriates, pushing Luanda, Angola to second position. Zurich and Singapore remain in third and fourth positions, respectively, whereas Tokyo is in fifth, up six places from last year. Kinshasa, ranked sixth, appears for the first time in the top 10, moving up from thirteenth place.
Other cities appearing in the top 10 of Mercer’s costliest cities for expatriates are Shanghai (7), Geneva (8), N’Djamena (9), and Beijing (10). The world’s least expensive cities for expatriates, according to Mercer’s survey, are Windhoek (209), Cape Town (208), and Bishkek (207).
Mercer's widely recognised survey is one of the world’s most comprehensive, and is designed to help multinational companies and governments determine compensation strategies for their expatriate employees. New York City is used as the base city for all comparisons and currency movements are measured against the US dollar. The survey includes over 375 cities throughout the world; this year’s ranking includes 209 cities across five continents and measures the comparative cost of more than 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods, and entertainment.
“Maximising return on investment with fewer resources and talent shortages worldwide makes growth initiatives more difficult for multinationals,” said Mr Bonic. “Organisations must ensure they can facilitate the moves they need to drive business results by offering fair and competitive compensation packages.”
Mr Bonic added that costs of goods and services shift with inflation and currency volatility making overseas assignment costs sometimes greater and sometimes smaller. Low levels of inflation have translated into fairly steady cost increases around the world.
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
Two European cities are among the top 10 list of most expensive cities. At number three in the global ranking, Zurich remains the most costly European city, followed by Geneva (8), down three spots from last year. The next European city in the ranking, Bern (13), is down four places from last year following the weakening of the Swiss franc against the US dollar.
Several cities across Europe remained relatively steady due to the stability of the euro against the US dollar. Paris (44), Milan (50), Vienna (54), and Rome (58) are relatively unchanged compared to last year, while Copenhagen (24) and St. Petersburg (152) stayed in the same place.
Other cities, including Oslo (59) and Moscow (67), plummeted twenty-one and seventeen places, respectively, as a result of local currencies losing significant value against the US dollar. London (17) and Birmingham, UK (96) dropped five and sixteen places, respectively, while the German cities of Munich (77), Frankfurt (88), and Dusseldorf (107) climbed in the ranking.
“Although the value of the Euro has remained steady against the US dollar, the Pound has fallen, largely due to Brexit fears,” explained Ellyn Karetnick, Head of International Mobility at Mercer. “But whilst currency fluctuations will always cause a major impact on costs, local conditions like high property prices can counter balance the impact of currency movements, as demonstrated with UK and Western European cities. It is important to understand local costs when deploying employees in countries across the world and we use the Mercer International basket of goods, based on typical spending patterns representative of expatriates, to help calculate rankings and packages.”
Nathalie Constantin-Métral, Principal at Mercer with responsibility for compiling the survey ranking, said, “Despite some marked price increases across the region, several local currencies in Europe have weakened against the US dollar which pushed a few cities down in the ranking. Additionally, other factors like recent security issues, social unrest, and concern about the economic outlook have impacted the region.”
A few cities in Eastern and Central Europe climbed in the ranking as well, including Kiev (176) and Tirana (186) rising eight and twelve spots, respectively.
Tel Aviv (19) continues to be the most expensive city in the Middle East for expatriates, followed by Dubai (21), Abu Dhabi (25), and Beirut (50). Jeddah (121) remains the least expensive city in the region despite rising thirty places. “Several cities in the Middle East experienced a jump in the ranking, as they are being pushed up by other locations’ decline, as well as the strong increase for expatriate rental accommodation costs, particularly in Abu Dhabi and Jeddah,” said Ms Constantin-Métral.
Despite dropping off the top spot on the global list, Luanda, Angola (2) remains the highest ranking city in Africa. Kinshasa (6) follows, rising seven places since 2015. Moving up one spot, N’Djamena (9) is the next African city on the list, followed by Lagos, Nigeria (13) which is up seven places. Dropping three spots, Windhoek (209) in Namibia ranks as the least expensive city in the region and globally.
Cities in the United States have climbed in the ranking due to the strength of the US dollar against other major currencies, in addition to the significant drop of cities in other regions which resulted in US cities being pushed up the list. New York is up five places to rank 11, the highest-ranked city in the region. San Francisco (26) and Los Angeles (27) climbed eleven and nine places, respectively, from last year while Seattle (83) jumped twenty-three places. Among other major US cities, Honolulu (37) is up fifteen places, Washington, DC (38) is up twelve places, and Boston (47) is up seventeen spots. Portland (117) and Winston Salem, North Carolina (147) remain the least expensive US cities surveyed for expatriates.
“Despite mild price increases overall, most cities in the US have climbed in the ranking, primarily due to a strong US dollar,” explained Ms Constantin-Métral.
In South America, Buenos Aires (41) ranked as the costliest city despite a twenty-two place drop from last year. San Juan, Puerto Rico (67) follows as the second most expensive location in the region, climbing twenty-two spots. The majority of other cities in South America fell as a result of weakening currencies against the US dollar despite price increases on goods and services in countries, such as Brazil, Argentina, or Uruguay. In particular, São Paolo (128) and Rio de Janeiro (156) plummeted eighty-eight and eighty-nine places, respectively, despite a strong increase for goods and services. Lima (141) dropped nineteen places while Bogota (190) fell forty-two places. Managua (192) is the least expensive city in South America. Caracas in Venezuela has been excluded from the ranking due to the complex currency situation; its ranking would have varied greatly depending on the official exchange rate selected.
Canadian cities continued to drop in this year’s ranking mainly due to the weak Canadian dollar. The country’s highest-ranked city, Vancouver (142), fell twenty-three places. Toronto (143) dropped seventeen spots, while Montreal (155) and Calgary (162) fell fifteen and sixteen spots, respectively.
This year, Hong Kong (1) emerged as the most expensive city for expatriates both in Asia and globally as a consequence of Luanda’s drop in the ranking due to the weakening of its local currency. Singapore (4) remained steady while Tokyo (5) climbed six places. Shanghai (7) and Beijing (10) follow. Shenzhen (12) is up two places while Seoul (15) and Guangzhou, China (18) dropped seven and three spots, respectively.
“The strengthening of the Japanese yen pushed Japanese cities up in the ranking,” said Ms Constantin-Métral. “However, Chinese cities fell in the ranking due to the weakening of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar.”
Mumbai (82) is India’s most expensive city, followed by New Delhi (130) and Chennai (158). Kolkata (194) and Bangalore (180) are the least expensive Indian cities ranked. Elsewhere in Asia, Bangkok (74), Kuala Lumpur (151) and Hanoi (106) plummeted twenty-nine, thirty-eight, and twenty places, respectively. Baku (172) had the most drastic fall in the ranking, plummeting more than one hundred places. The city of Ashkhabad in Turkmenistan climbed sixty-one spots to rank 66 globally.
Australian cities have witnessed some of the most dramatic falls in the ranking this year as the local currency has depreciated against the US dollar. Brisbane (96) and Canberra (98) dropped thirty and thirty-three spots, respectively, while Sydney (42), Australia’s most expensive ranked city for expatriates, experienced a relatively moderate drop of eleven places. Melbourne fell twenty-four spots to rank 71.
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Jeffrey M. Jones
Americans' Desire for Third Party Persists This Election Year
The FINANCIAL -- A majority of Americans, 57%, continue to say that a third major U.S. political party is needed, while 37% disagree, saying the two parties are doing an adequate job of representing the American people.
These views are similar to what Gallup has measured in each of the last three years. However, they represent a departure from public opinion in 2008 and 2012 -- the last two presidential election years -- when Americans were evenly divided on the need for a third party.
These results are based on Gallup's annual Governance poll. The poll was conducted Sept. 7-11, at a time when Americans' views of the Republican and Democratic parties are near historical lows, and when Americans hold highly negative opinions of both major-party presidential nominees. In 2008 and 2012, Americans' favorable ratings of the parties were slightly more positive than today, but their favorable ratings of the presidential candidates were far better.
In those years, third-party presidential candidates received less than 2% of the popular vote for president. This year, third-party candidates are getting about 10% of the vote combined in presidential preference polls. Should that level of support hold between now and Election Day, it would be the strongest performance for third-party candidates since the 1992 and 1996 campaigns, when Ross Perot ran for president, according to Gallup.
When Gallup first asked Americans about the need for a third party in 2003, a majority said the parties were doing an adequate job, leaving 40% advocating for a third party. By 2006, Americans were evenly divided, but they have shown a clearer preference for a third party since then, apart from 2008 and 2012.
Half of Republicans Say Third Party Needed
As might be expected, independents have consistently been most likely among the major political groups to believe a third party is needed. Currently, 73% of independents, 51% of Republicans and 43% of Democrats favor the formation of a third party. Republicans' preference for a third party today ranks among the highest Gallup has found for a partisan group, along with a 52% reading among Republicans in 2013 and 50% for Democrats in 2006.
In the 2008 and 2012 presidential election years, the decline in support for a third party was the result of a sharp drop from the prior year among independents, coupled with a similar, double-digit drop among the major-party group looking to win control of the White House -- Democrats in 2008 and Republicans in 2012.
This year, independents' desire for a third party declined only modestly, from 78% in 2015 to 73%, while Democrats' desire also declined slightly and that of Republicans increased. The increase could reflect some Republicans' frustration with the party's internal divisions, both between conservatives and party leaders in government, and between party establishment figures and Donald Trump.
Americans' usual preference for a third major political party had subsided in the last two presidential election years, but that pattern did not repeat itself this year. In 2008 and 2012, Americans' general contentment with the major-party nominees may have led them to believe the parties were doing an adequate job of representing their views, and thus there was little appetite for a third party. This was the case in 2012, even as the well-funded "Americans Elect" movement aimed at providing the infrastructure for a credible third-party candidate could not field a viable candidate.
The political environment is different this year, with Hillary Clinton's favorable ratings struggling to break 40%, while Trump's have been stuck even lower at around 33%. Four years ago, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein combined for just over 1% of the national popular vote as the Libertarian and Green Party presidential nominees, respectively. This year, with those two third-party candidates nominated again, their support in pre-election polls among likely voters is nearly 10%.
Those polls portend a significant increase in the third-party vote this year, but well short of what it would take any third-party candidate to win the election. Their main impact on the outcome would likely be to play "spoiler" by taking away enough votes from one major-party candidate to allow the other to prevail.
With 57% of Americans favoring a third major political party, but only about one in 10 voters currently saying they will vote for a third-party candidate, Americans' appetite for a third party may not be as great as they say it is. The gap between preference for a third party and support for third-party candidates in this year's election may also reflect the structural challenges third parties face, Americans' unfamiliarity with the third-party candidates and possibly Americans' reluctance to cast their vote for a candidate with little chance of winning.
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Fortnite Hands-On Preview - Holding Down the Fort
Mitchell Saltzman | 8 Jun 2015 15:00
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Part Minecraft, part Orcs Must Die, and guided by the hands that crafted Gears of War, Fortnite is a hodgepodge of various game genres and mechanics, which is appropriate considering that this is a game about collecting whatever you can find in the world, and throwing it all together to create your very own fortress.
Our own Editor-In-Chief, Joshua Vanderwall, already wrote up a lengthy preview for Fortnite back in July of last year, so I'd highly recommend reading that first for a primer of what Fortnite is all about. In a nutshell, Fortnite is a tower defense game with a heavy emphasis on creative base building and survival mechanics.
Each map in Fortnite begins with players setting out to forage for supplies. In typical Minecraft fashion, this is done by smacking trees, fences, walls, cars, garbage cans, or anything else in the environment until it breaks down and gives you its materials. There's even a minigame involved with collecting supplies that places a weakpoint on whatever item you're hitting. Hitting the weak point does extra damage and randomly spawns another weakpoint in the same vicinity on the object. It's actually a pretty ingenious mechanic that not only makes it more engaging to do an otherwise boring and menial task, but it adds on some extra pressure when you're trying to quickly collect materials when in the middle of a defense.
It's almost staggering just how many different types of resources there are to collect in any procedurally generated level of Fortnite. Every house can be broken into and literally torn apart in search of valuable tools and metals. Some levels might have caves that not only hide precious minerals, which are invaluable in crafting high level items, but are also likely to contain treasure chests with blueprints that allow you to craft newer and better weapons and traps.
Ultimately though, the main goal of this first phase of Fortnite is to find all of the gates in a level and start building forts around them in order to protect against the incoming horde of husks. This was the part that I was most worried about coming into Fortnite, because if there's one thing I'm awful at in video games, it's building things using creative tools.
Fortunately, the building UI in Fortnite is surprisingly intuitive and within a few minutes I was making multi-storied forts with choke points, sniper perches, trap laden hallways, and easy entry and exit points for the team to use in case things turned south. One touch that I really like is the ability to edit walls and easily add windows or doors without having to dig through menus and sub-menus. By simply walking up to a wall and pressing the edit button, a 3x3 grid will overlay the wall and give you the option to select and punch out a specific square. Punch out a single square and it will turn it into a window, but if you punch out two squares in the shape of a door, it will start making a door that only you and your allies can open.
Similarly, if you want to make a balcony or a narrow walkway, all you have to do is place a 2x2 floor, and then go into edit mode and take out the blocks that you don't need. It's all very simple, very intuitive, and most importantly, it can be done quickly without interrupting the flow of the game.
Once you think your fort is ready, you can then activate the Atlas device surrounding the gate to unleash the husks. You can't just leave everything up to your base defenses though. You'll also have to get into the action yourself using a variety of melee and ranged weapons that you can craft for yourself. It's a delicate balancing act that you must play, since you often will use the same resources for crafting weapons and ammo that you use for your defenses.
In my hands-on time with the game, I played two levels. The first level was mostly a tutorial and I honestly felt more compelled to explore for more chests than defend my base since my traps were killing everything. It was in the second level, though, that my eyes were opened as to how much fun Fortnite could be. This time we had to defend three gates, all at the same time, against waves of much more intelligent and varied enemies. Some were gigantic boss enemies that required us all to focus fire in order to bring them down, others would throw enemies over our walls to either break down our ceilings, or land right inside our fort if we happened to neglect making a ceiling. It was a grueling defense; one that we would eventually fail due to enemies breaking down the weak wooden walls surrounding one of our gates. But it was in that failure that I realized how much fun this would be with a well coordinated group of friends, each in charge of their own gate, calling out to each other when we needed help, requesting supplies when one runs low, and so on.
Fortnite is set to release on the PC and Mac as a free-to-play title later this year. In the meantime, you can sign up for the alpha over at https://www.fortnite.com/
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N.C. schools get $10M for reform
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
Acknowledging North Carolina's efforts to overhaul its education system to meet the demands of the 21st century, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has again given the state's high schools more than $10 million, Gov. Mike Easley announced May 23.
The latest grant of $10.4 million grant comes after an $11 million contribution from the foundation in 2003 to jump-start high school improvements, develop teacher curriculum, and offer students more relevant courses.
"This is a totally different economy today than it was five years ago," Easley said. "We have
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Splendor, Pacific Islands ex Sydney Return
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8 Night Cruise sailing from Sydney roundtrip aboard Carnival Splendor.
We're excited to announce that Carnival's free-spirited, family-friendly and fun cruises, will be welcoming a new ship to the Australian family in 2019 with Carnival Splendor repositioning Down Under. She will be the newest and largest ship home-ported year-round in Australia. With a capacity of 3,900 guests, Carnival Splendor will sail through the heads for the first time in December 2019, and sail year-round from then on.
Before her arrival, Carnival Splendor will receive a significant top to tail upgrade before she sails into her new home, including a range of new dining experiences tailored to local Australian tastes and a brand-new waterpark. The upgrade will see her receive some of the features Australian passengers have come to love the most on our Carnival ships.
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Sydney is located on the south-east coast of Australia. It is the largest and most populated city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. The city is built on hills surrounding Sydney Harbour where the Sydney Harbour bridge and the Sydney Opera House are located. The region features many bays, rivers, inlets and beaches including the famous Bondi Beach. Within the city are many picturesque parks including Hyde Park and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
The most well-known attractions include the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Other attractions include Royal Botanical Gardens, Luna Park, some 40 beaches and Sydney Tower. The Rocks precinct includes the first colonial village of Sydney and some great shops, cafes and galleries are located here. Sydney also has several popular museums, such as the Australian Museum (natural history and anthropology), the Powerhouse Museum (science, technology and design), the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Nouméa is the capital city of the French territory of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre. It is one of the most westernized cities in the Pacific islands, and while the city itself is not attractive, there are some beautiful beaches on its outskirts.
Attractions in Nouméa include a stroll along the Place des Cocotiers, the local produce market and the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, located 20mins from the city. The focal point of the city is Coconut Park with its attractive colonial houses and beautiful hibiscus and bougainvilleas. The marina is worth a visit and there are attractive beaches at Anse Vata, Baie des Citrons and at Pointe Magnin.
Lifou is a commune in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Lifou is made up of Lifou Island, the largest and most heavily populated of the Loyalty Islands, its smaller neighbour Tiga Island, and several uninhabited islets in between these two. All these islands lie among the Loyalty Islands, 190 km to the northeast of New Caledonia's mainland. The town of Wé
on Lifou Island, is the administrative centre of the commune of Lifou as well as the provincial seat of the Islands Province.
Lifou is known for its limestone caves, white sands and rich coral reefs. Inland, it is covered in dense tropical forest, while the east and west coast are banked by steep cliffs, with limestone caves and fine sandy beaches.
Attractions on Lifou include the caves on the south coast of Lifou, as well as a marine turtle park at the Bay of Wanda. In the north, the cliffs of Joking are a popular attraction. Good swimming beaches include Chateaubriand, Santal and Sandalwood, and there is excellent diving and game fishing in the waters around Lifou.
Isle of Pines
The Isle of Pines is part of New Caledonia and is situated 50km south east of the mainland and 80 km’s south-east of the capital Noumea. The island is characterized by tall narrow pine trees, perfect white sandy beaches and turquoise lagoons. This island was once a convict settlement for political prisoners from Paris and later became an ordinary prison.
The islands landscape consists of spectacular natural colours of white sand, green, blue water and lush green vegetation. The island is also beautiful under water as there are spectacular colourful corals and fish.
Vao on the islands southern most tip is the only real village. The islands sole church dominates the village centre.
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Critics Are Outraged Over the Gratuitous Nudity in Natalie Dormer and Emily Ratajkowski's New Movie
The Game of Thrones actress says there has to be sexuality in a thriller.
The plot to Natalie Dormer's new movie, which she also co-wrote, involves a blind pianist named Sofia (Dormer), who gets wrapped up in a murder mystery after the death of her neighbor, Veronique (Emily Ratajkowski). And while that description sounds like a normal-enough premise for a Hollywood thriller, In Darkness—directed by Anthony Byrne—has become controversial among critics for what they're calling "gratuitous nudity."
"The film infuses its fairly generic storyline with some audacious stylistic devices, such as a sequence intercutting the ritual religious washing of Veronique’s corpse with images of Sofia showering, the latter complete with gratuitous nudity," The Hollywood Reporter wrote in its review. Another review from Rogerebert.com called the film "sadistic." Meanwhile, The Guardian called it a "trashy crime caper" that "finds fetish items everywhere."
But Dormer defend the movie, responding to the criticisms in an interview with The Guardian:
There has to be sexuality in the power play of a thriller. We have all got bodies, after all. In this film the sex scene, which for me was a love-making scene, is a metaphor for the way my character connects with the part played by [fellow Game of Thrones actor] Ed Skrein... Nakedness is a good equalizer and the shower scene also shows the tattoos on my character’s body and makes it clear she is not quite who you think.
If the lead characters do not have a clear connection, then it doesn’t work... And on screen it has to be a physical connection between two broken people. That was my intention. In a thriller the protagonists always have to join together somehow and sex represents that connection. If you are being true to the genre, you have to show this
The movie is currently available on Amazon and iTunes.
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ABOUT ETERNAL CRANE WELLNESS
Andrew Crapo is a nationally certified and state registered acupuncturist as well as a member of the Michigan Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and Valedictorian from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine with a Masters of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MSTOM). He also holds a BS in Biomedical Science from West Michigan University where he graduated with honors.
Andrew’s passion for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) stems from his father, Dr. Mark Crapo, one of the first certified acupuncturists in the state of Michigan. From a young age Andrew experienced first-hand the amazing healing properties of Acupuncture and wanted to continue the tradition with his own practice. He is passionate most about bringing health and wellness to his clients and teaching people about TCM. (*Fun fact: Andrew still receives treatments from his father to this day!)
In addition to traditional acupuncture, Andrew has extensive training in herbal medicine and other traditional Chinese medicine.
Andrew currently offers treatments at two locations in Michigan: In Holland at the offices of Harbor Health and Massage and in Grandville at the offices of Dynamic Family Chiropractic.
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INDIA : Over 16,000 Indians Sign Petition Against ‘Irrational’ RBI Crackdown.
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Cryptocurrency users in India are using the internet to voice their protest over a recent crackdown by the country’s central bank. Instead of allowing it to be stifled, petitioners call on the government to help cultivate the new ecosystem which can benefit India in various ways.
Digital Asset Exchanges of India Petition
The Indian cryptocurrency community has reacted swiftly to the recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) action against it, which directed all regulated entities including banks not to provide services to businesses dealing in instruments such as bitcoin. Both entrepreneurs and everyday users came out on various online forums and social media to explain the follies in the central bank’s approach.
Over 16,000 Indians have even already signed a change.org petition that was launched on the same day as the RBI directive. Addressed to the central bank, as well as to the Prime Minister of India, the petition calls on the country to adopt a framework which will allow cryptocurrency innovation to flourish instead of trying to stifle it. It points to failed attempts by cities around the world to block Uber as an example of why it wouldn’t work. The writers of the petition also point out the hypocrisy of the central bank for considering issuing its own digital currency.
The Next Digital Revolution
The petition appeals to the Indian government’s desire to improve the economic situation and asks the country not to drive away innovators with overbearing regulations. It points to the fact that the current CEOs of both Microsoft and Google are of Indian decent and could have built up local internet companies if given the chance, subtly warning that the next generation of tech talent might leave the country.
The writers also explain that cryptocurrency exchanges in India are very forthcoming with regulations and most already follow stringent KYC standards. They call on the government and the central bank to open a dialog with the companies to address any issues regarding this matter.
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INDIA : Coindcx Launches Crypto-To-Crypto Exchange Amid Regulations.
BitCoin's Richest Could Own A Significant Part Of Global Wealth.
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Public Release: 6-Feb-2014
Critical factor (BRG1) identified for maintaining stem cell pluripotency
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New Rochelle, NY, February 6, 2014--The ability to reprogram adult cells so they return to an undifferentiated, pluripotent state--much like an embryonic stem cell--is enabling the development of promising new cell therapies. Accelerating progress in this field will depend on identifying factors that promote pluripotency, such as the Brg1 protein described in a new study published in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the BioResearch Open Access website.
In "BRG1 Is Required to Maintain Pluripotency of Murine Embryonic Stem Cells," Nishant Singhal and coauthors, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, and University of Münster, Germany, demonstrate the critical role the Brg1 protein plays in regulating genes that are part of a network involved in maintaining the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. This same network is the target for methods developed to reprogram adult somatic cells.
"This work further clarifies the role of the Brg1 containing BAF complex in regulating pluripotency and has important implications for all cellular reprogramming technologies," says BioResearch Open Access Editor Jane Taylor, PhD, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
BioResearch Open Access is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal led by Editor-in-Chief Robert Lanza, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. and Editor Jane Taylor, PhD. The Journal provides a new rapid-publication forum for a broad range of scientific topics including molecular and cellular biology, tissue engineering and biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy, systems biology, genetics, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and neuroscience. All articles are published within 4 weeks of acceptance and are fully open access and posted on PubMedCentral. All journal content is available on the BioResearch Open Access website.
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Public Release: 17-Nov-2014
Investigational oral drug combo shows promise for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The investigational drug ixazomib taken orally in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone shows promise in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, according to the results of a phase 1/2 study published in the journal Lancet Oncology.
"Ixazomib is an investigational, oral proteasome inhibitor with promising anti-myeloma effects and low rates of peripheral neuropathy," says Shaji Kumar, M.D., a hematologist at Mayo Clinic and lead author of the study. "While it is well known that a combination of bortezomib, lenalidomide and dexamethasone is highly effective in treating newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, we wanted to study the safety, tolerability and activity of ixazomib in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma."
Dr. Kumar and colleagues enrolled 65 patients (15 to phase 1 and 50 to phase 2) between November 2010 and February 2012. Researchers established 2.97 mg/m2 as the maximum tolerated dose of ixazomib and recommended the phase 2 dose should be 2.23 mg/m2, which was converted to a 4.0 mg fixed dose based on population pharmacokinetic results. Population pharmacokinetics is the study of the sources of variability in drug concentrations among patients receiving the drug based on demographics, body weight, metabolism and other medications.
There were 41 grade 3 or higher adverse events reported, including skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders neutropenia and thrombocytopenia and drug-related peripheral neuropathy. Five patients discontinued therapy because of adverse events. In 64 response-evaluable patients, 59 (92 percent) had a partial response, including 37 who had a very good partial response or better.
Atoms are represented as spheres with conventional color coding: hydrogen (white), carbon (grey), oxygen (red), nitrogen (blue)."The all-oral combination of weekly ixazomib plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone was generally well tolerated and appeared active in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma," Dr. Kumar says. "Our results support the development of a phase 3 trial studying this combination for multiple myeloma."
Co-authors include Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., and Vivek Roy, M.D., of Mayo Clinic; Jesus Berdeja, M.D., Sarah Cannon Research Institute; Ruben Niesvizky, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College; Paul Richardson, M.D., and Jacob Laubach, M.D., of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Mehdi Hamadani, M.D., Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center; Parameswaran Hari, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin; Robert Vescio, M.D., Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute; Sagar Lonial, M.D., and Jonathan Kaufman, M.D., of Winship Cancer Institute; Deborah Berg, M.S.N., Eileen Liao, Ph.D., Alessandra Di Bacco, Ph.D., Jose Estevam, B.Sc., Neeraj Gupta, Ph.D., and Ai-Min Hui, M.D., of Takeda Pharmaceutical International.
Funding for the study was provided by Millennium Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical International.
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Founding Fathers - Wheeler
Baron de Crawhez
Achillie Varzi
Ralph De Palma
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The point that has really stuck with me in all the things I have read about Frank Wheeler came from his obituary. It said that he spent a good deal of time in California but even his family wasn't sure what the heck he was doing out there. Wheeler is kind of a mystery man. Growing up in Iowa, Wheeler spent time in California as a traveling salesman and came to Indianapolis around 1900. He apparently shared Carl Fisher's bluster and penchant for thrusting himself into risky situations.
Just as he didn't share his doings in California with his family, he didn't tell his fellow founders at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Carl Fisher, Arthur C. Newby and James Allison) when he teamed with another set of investors to set up concrete oval race track in Minneapolis in 1914. You can imagine the damage that could have done to the trust the other Speedway founders had in the man. The Minneapolis venture proved a huge mistake and Wheeler lost a bundle. I'm only speculating, but I don't think the relationship was the same afterward. Wheeler sold his interest in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1917.
Wheeler had his successes, most notably the Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor Company and here his aptitude for sales proved an excellent fit with the engineering mind of George Schebler. Schebler stuggled to tell the story of his great ideas, but Wheeler helped deliver marketable products and attract customers. They made millions of dollars and established a quality repuation for world-class products. Together they commissioned one of the most iconic trophies ever offered by the Speedway, the Wheeler-Schebler Trophy.
Despite his great success, any comparisons to Fisher dim his star. While Wheeler could to point to his big business with carburetors, Fisher was multi-tasking in numerous huge stakes games all the time. Wheeler was hounded by lousy health for a good portion of his life as diabetes took its toll. His illness is cited as the primary reason for his decision to commit suicide May 27, 1921.
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Domestic Airfares – Expect a Rollercoaster Ride
NEW entrants in the domestic market, a plummeting rand and rising operating costs will create an unstable environment for airfares in the coming few months, industry experts predict.
Increased competition in the market has already led to all-time low fares in the South African market, according to a recent study conducted by Travelstart. Hopping on a plane to Cape Town, Johannesburg, George and Port Elizabeth is cheaper now than it was in 2012.
However, these low fares could be detrimental to growth of the commercial aviation industry, analysts at Travelstart warn. “When you consider that most airlines need to be selling a seat for at least R900 to R1 000 one way and have a load factor of 70% to 80% on each flight that takes off just to make a marginal return, it stands to reason that the low ticket prices available at the moment will soon be a thing of the past,” says Russel Jarvis, Travelstart’s head of communications.
The first victim of the cutthroat competition in the market is Comair. The airline recently forecast an earnings decline of between 12% and 26% for the year ended June 2015. This is in sharp contrast to the previous two years, when the airline reported significant increases in revenue.
This forecast is not surprising,” says Chris Zweigenthal, Aasa ceo, explaining that most airlines’ costs are dollar-based. As the rand continues to decline against the US dollar, airlines face tough operating conditions.
South Africa has also seen three new entrants into the domestic market – Skywise, FlySafair and Fly Blue Crane – during a time that the market is relatively flat and showing little growth, Chris says. These new carriers have all come with launch fares that are not sustainable in the long-run. However, the competition will soon start to stabilise, he says. Whether airfares will drop as a result of increased competition or go up in an attempt to stabilise the market is hard to predict, Chris says. “It will be a rollercoaster time. All airlines will likely keep a very close eye on what the market is doing.”
Skywise co-chairperson, J Malik, admits that the current airfares in the market are unsustainably low and predicts they will rise soon. “Airline operators have the right to peg air ticket prices at the lowest levels they deem fit in a bid to attract a large pool of customers, however these prices are not viable,” he says, urging the industry to be bold enough to work with sustainable pricing structures that promote real growth development of domestic air travel.
FlySafair offers some of the lowest fares in the market, starting at around R499 for flights between Cape Town and Johannesburg. Kirby Gordon, vp of sales and distribution at FlySafair, believes these prices are sustainable if airlines can keep their aircraft full. “With increased competition, there is more capacity in the market than ever before. If the demand doesn’t rise, there will probably be some airlines falling short.”
Falling prices have stimulated demand, Kirby says. “With the 39% decrease in fares we brought about, we’ve seen a 132% increase in demand on some routes. What remains to be seen is just how much that demand will increase and if it will rise enough to make the supply sustainable.” Airline analyst, Joachim Vermooten, argues that the additional capacity created by the new entrants in the market is relatively small compared with the increase in seat capacity by the combination of SAA and Mango, with the addition of at least 10 narrowbody aircraft since the exit of 1time. “This increase is substantially in excess of market demand and restricts the opportunities for new entrants and existing private sector airlines,” he says.
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The Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas
Electric utilities often tout natural gas as a clean fuel – an essential weapon in the fight against global warming. Even if they admit the need to replace fossil fuels with solar and wind power eventually, they insist that natural gas is a bridge to the renewable energy future.
This notion is literally full of hot air. The production, transportation and burning of natural gas are not only major contributors to climate change, they are also a profound threat to human health.
According to the federal Energy Information Administration, or EIA, carbon emissions from natural gas plants surpassed those from coal plants several years ago. Even though a near-record number of U.S. coal plants shut down last year, an analysis by the Rhodium Group found carbon dioxide pollution increased by more than 3 percent in 2018, after going down for three years in a row.
Rhodium said that although a growing economy, cold winter and hot summer drove increased energy use, the increase in electricity generated by natural gas was also a factor in rising carbon emissions. One reason is that in 2017 the U.S. added twice as much natural gas capacity as new solar and wind power, despite the fact that renewables are now as cheap or cheaper than natural gas. The EIA says added wind and solar capacity will exceed new natural gas facilities this year, but those newly built gas plants will keep pumping out carbon pollution for decades.
And carbon’s not the only way natural gas makes global warming worse. The Rhodium Group only counted pollution from power plants and energy use in buildings and transportation. What’s missing is natural gas infrastructure: wells, pipelines and production facilities. All are big emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Over a 20-year period, methane emissions are estimated to be more than 80 times more powerful than carbon in driving climate change.
The U.S. has three million miles of natural gas pipelines and 1.3 million natural gas facilities, including wells, compressor stations and processing plants.
A 2018 study led by the Environmental Defense Fund found that methane leaks from natural gas and oil infrastructure are probably 60 times greater than the Environmental Protection Agency estimates. The study attributed the difference to the EPA’s failure to account for equipment malfunctions in wells, pipelines and processing and facilities.
In addition to natural gas being a climate change disaster, natural gas production depends heavily on hydraulic fracturing, which uses and releases large quantities of hazardous chemicals, often in close proximity to homes and schools. In a recent study, health professionals concluded that not only do existing fracking regulations fail to protect Americans from an increased risk of cancer, asthma and birth defects, but there is also no evidence that fracking can ever be done without threatening public health.
Most Americans – at least those who don't buy into the Trump administration's doomed efforts to revive the coal industry – have seen through the myth of so-called clean coal. Now the energy industry, including electric utilities, must stop pushing the myth of clean natural gas. The sooner the nation moves from energy generated by fossil fuels to power from the sun and wind, the better for the planet and for Americans’ health.
By Grant Smith, Senior Energy Policy Advisor
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Home State Laws Georgia Argues That Public Access To Its Laws Constitutes ‘Terrorism’
Georgia Argues That Public Access To Its Laws Constitutes ‘Terrorism’
Georgia, a state run by the guy who oversaw his own election riddled with irregularities, is taking a hard stance against “telling the public about the law,” calling the act of providing public access to the state’s laws part of a “strategy of terrorism.”
That’s an actual quote from Georgia’s lawyers who made the argument — potentially heading to the Supreme Court — as part of a “strategy of tasteless hyperbole.”
If you think you vaguely remember learning in law school that the statutes and case law of the country belongs in the public domain, you’re not wrong. That’s well-established dating back to the 19th century. So how does Georgia find itself continuing to fight battles that everyone else thought were already lost in the 1800s and wow, even before I finished this sentence I realize how disturbingly on the nose it is.
While statutes and cases may not be amenable to copyright, Georgia provides official annotations to some legal materials — commentary that the state approves to accompany the law. As Adam Liptak explains in the New York Times, Georgia farms out the job of writing these annotations to LexisNexis and then gives them the imprimatur of official sanction before allowing them to be published by LexisNexis.
Georgia claims to hold the copyright to the annotations — though the Eleventh Circuit has already held that they cannot be copyrighted — while LexisNexis enjoys a license on the materials and pays the state a royalty.
This arrangement, of course, misaligns everyone’s priorities. If the annotations — a component of the law that would certainly be reviewed by any adversary or tribunal rendering it central to understanding the law even if it’s not drafted by a judge or ALEC lobbyists the legislature — were drafted by LexisNexis as part of a deal where Georgia paid for a service rendered, then there would be no problem. But the state appears to have wanted something free (or with a slim royalty profit) and bundled it with a giveaway. But by stiffing LexisNexis upfront, the only hope the company has of recouping its costs is in selling access to its work and now Georgia has to fight to close off access to the law to protect its deal.
The state says this is a sensible cost-saving measure, “minimizing burdens on taxpayers” by sparing them from paying for the preparation of annotations.
This is, by and large, the model of governance in strongly Republican states. In an effort to artificially drive down taxes on the front end, the state aggressively hands profit potential to companies. Quite often, as we’ve seen repeatedly with private prisons, the deal ends up costing the state more on the back end, but then they can blame everyone but themselves for the thing going south. Just as Georgia will inevitably blame the cost of appellate litigation and the ultimate backpay owed to LexisNexis on “the courts” despite the problem being entirely of Georgia’s own making.
But let’s get back to the claim that this is all part of a terroristic plot brought by… non-profits, I guess… to give citizens access to laws that the state makes… maybe? It’s a stark vision of where Georgia’s priorities are when “letting people know how we expect the laws to work” reaches moral equilibrium with “killing children with pipe bombs.”
Then again, it’s not particularly surprising.
Accused of ‘Terrorism’ for Putting Legal Materials Online [New York Times]
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Our Gourmet Wild Boar Smoked Andouille Sausage is made exclusively from 100% WILD BOAR BELLIES. Each package weighs approximately one(1) Lb. Four (4) Links. Four (4) Oz. Each. This order includes two(2) packages. Total of two (2) Lbs. In France, particularly Brittany, the traditional ingredients of andouille are primarily pig chitterlings, tripe, onions, wine, and seasoning. It is generally grey in color and has a distinctive odor. Also, a similar sausage is available called andouillette, literally "little andouille."
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Several wild boars from Leon Springs and the San Antonio, Saint Louis and San Diego Zoos were released in the Powder Horn Ranch in Calhoun County, Texas, in 1939. These specimens escaped and established themselves in surrounding ranchlands and coastal areas, with some crossing the Espiritu Santo Bay and colonising Matagorda Island. Descendants of the Powder Horn Ranch boars were later released onto San José Island and the coast of Chalmette, Louisiana. Wild boar of unknown origin were stocked in a ranch in the Edwards Plateau in the 1940s, only to escape during a storm and hybridise with local feral pig populations, later spreading into neighbouring counties. Starting in the mid-80s, several boars purchased from the San Diego Zoo and Tierpark Berlin were released into the United States. A decade later, more specimens from farms in Canada and Białowieża Forest were let loose. In recent years, wild pig populations have been reported in 44 states within the US, most of which are likely wild boar-feral hog hybrids. Pure wild boar populations may still be present, but are extremely localised.
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Wild Boar Belly Sausage - Bratwurst - 2 Lbs.
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Wild Boar Sausage with Cranberries and Red Wine - 2 Lbs.
Our Gourmet Wild Boar Smoked Sausage with Cranberries and Red Wine is exclusively made from 100% WILD BOAR BELLIES. Each package weighs approximately one(1) Lb. Four (4) Links. Four (4) Oz. Each. This order includes two(2) packages. Total of two (2) Lbs.
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What Accenture Calls "The New" Drives Solid Sales Growth
For the first time, high-growth operations such as cloud computing and data security accounted for more than half of the consulting company's total revenue.
Anders Bylund
Technology consulting and outsourcing giant Accenture (NYSE:ACN) reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday night. Here's what you need to know about the company's latest business update.
Accenture's third-quarter results: The raw numbers
Year-Over-Year Change
Net income attributable to Accenture
GAAP earnings per share (diluted)
Data source: Accenture.
What happened with Accenture this quarter?
Four of Accenture's five reportable segments saw sales rising by low-single-digit percentages compared to the year-ago quarter. The outlier was the products division, where revenue rose by 13% to land at $2.4 billion.
Slicing the results up by geographic regions, both Europe and North America delivered 3% year-over-year revenue growth while the rest of the world saw a 16% sales jump.
These business trends are consistent with what Accenture saw in the first two quarters.
Bottom-line profits were hamstrung by a $510 million one-time charge as Accenture pulled the plug on its U.S. pension plan. Backing that line item and its tax effects out of Accenture's results leaves adjusted earnings of $1.02 billion or $1.52 per diluted share.
Free cash flows stopped at $1.7 billion in the first quarter, a 10.5% year-over-year increase.
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Accenture Posted Solid Sales Growth in Q3
What management had to say
Accenture CEO Pierre Nanterme was particularly pleased with the growth in a group of operations termed "The New." That cohort, which includes businesses related to cloud computing, data security, and digital services, saw double-digit percentage growth and accounted for more than 50% of the quarter's total sales for the first time ever. A year ago, The New amounted to 40% of quarterly sales.
"I think we have an extremely clear strategy at Accenture, which is all about rotating to The New," Nanterme said on a conference call with analysts. "The New is driving growth in each of our five businesses in a very meaningful way, and we love that."
Accenture's management provided the following guidance targets:
Fourth-quarter sales should land near $8.9 billion, reflecting approximately 7% year-over-year growth.
Accenture tightened its target for full-year GAAP earnings per share around the $5.40 midpoint. Non-GAAP earnings are now seen adding up to roughly $5.86 per share, at the top of the guidance range provided with the second-quarter report.
The company is latching on to higher-growth operations in a big way under the unified banner of The New. Keep a close eye on that effort as it becomes more and more synonymous with Accenture as a whole.
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BitTorrent Goes Live with Online Video Service
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BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based company that developed an eponymous file-sharing protocol, on Tuesday announced the launch of an online video sharing platform targeted at streaming live events such as concerts, sports matches and breaking news.
The announcement, made at the Internet & Television Expo in Boston, comes amid a flurry of initiatives by traditional media companies and online startups alike to capture a portion of the increasingly fragmented attention of audiences.
With a multitude of online video programming options, it's difficult to imagine a viable niche that isn't already crowded with would-be cable disruptors. BitTorrent's Vice President of Media, Erik Schwartz, believes his company has found a place with a back-to-the-future angle — traditional linear broadcasting of live programs such as election coverage. Schwartz unveiled BitTorrent Live, a multi-channel, live video streaming platform that uses a proprietary method for quickly disseminating video data in real-time.
While many marquee events such as the Superbowl and the Oscars already stream live online, they're often plagued with latency or quality issues, especially if more viewers tune in than anticipated. For some major events, latency can range from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes.
"This is bad for people who are consuming events across multiple platforms, say following a Twitter stream while watching a sports game stream online," Schwartz said. "If you find out the outcome of a play on Twitter before it begins on-screen, it destroys the drama of athletic competition."
BitTorrent Live launches as a free, multichannel application on Apple TV.
Much of online video is streamed using HTML Live Streaming, or HLS, protocols. BitTorrent's video protocol is similar to its peer-to-peer file-sharing method in that it relies on viewers' latent compute power to help pass on video data to computers of other nearby viewers.
"With BitTorrent Live, every viewer is also a broadcaster," Schwartz said in an interview. "This allows us to drop the latency down to five or six seconds, similar to over-the-air broadcast television. For every three orders of magnitude increase in viewers, you may see an additional second of latency, but never more than 10 seconds."
BitTorrent Live is expected to launch this week on desktops and as an Apple TV application. The company said it plans to launch as an iOS and Android app within several weeks. For now, the app will feature free, linear programming channels, including Fightbox, One America News Network, NUsicTV and Filmbox Arthouse.
Many of the partner channels aren't household names. Schwartz said the company's objective was to get BitTorrent Live's technology out as a free application and demonstrate it as a potential platform for additional content. "We want to collect more live or event-based content at the [INTX] cable show," he said. He'll likely have many programs and channels to choose from, as event producers increasingly look to online streaming as additional sources of revenue. The company said its platform can also support pay-per-view content, as well as subscription models.
Schwartz believes that BitTorrent Live can peacefully co-exist with other streaming platforms, such as Facebook Live. "We're entirely additive to other distribution platforms," he said.
Alex Pham
I've been a business and financial journalist for nearly two decades, much of it covering the upheavals and opportunities brought on by technology. In recent years, I've...
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Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy
The City of Veils
A Princess Vigilante Novel
S. Usher Evans
Sun's Golden Ray Publishing (Apr 16, 2019)
S. Usher Evans’s tight-woven fantasy The City of Veils focuses on a strong young woman who is determined to take care of her home and its people.
When she was young, Brynna ran away from an arranged marriage. For years she has lived on her own, working to protect the streets of Forcadel as a vigilante known as the Veil. She is determined to take down Lord Beswick, a powerful businessman and ruthless criminal.
But now her father and brother have been murdered, and the captain of the king’s guard has found her, forcing her back into a world where she will be queen.
In this intriguing world, the religious system is based around a female deity, men and women are equal, and birth order is the only determining factor in who leads the kingdom. Women are represented in business, in government, and in the royal guard. This is refreshing and changes the meaning of being a princess.
Brynna’s life is one of specific obligations and responsibility; she finds no pleasure in the luxurious trappings of royalty. She is confident, tough, and easy to like, and her story is just as appealing. It involves political maneuvering, close allies, a love story, and a possible plot against the crown. Brynna has plenty of help as she learns to be the queen the kingdom needs.
Forcadel and its inhabitants are captivating, and The City of Veils is entertaining from the first page to the last. The wait for the next book will feel interminable.
Reviewed by Catherine Thureson
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Two local players honored by North Georgia Touchdown Club
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Updated: Oct. 6, 2015, 4:35 p.m.
Jacob Grinstead of Horizon Christian Academy was named to the North Georgia Touchdown Club’s list of Player of the Week honors during their first Player of the Week dinner on Monday, Oct. 5.
Grinstead won the offensive honor for his Aug. 22 performance against the Augusta Eagles at home. In that game Grinstead completed 10 of 14 passes for 301 yards, including touchdown passes of 75, 35, 33, 24 and 2 yards.
He also rushed for a 23-yard score as the Warriors beat Augusta 42-14.
Horizon Christian is 5-2 and 1-0 in Region 1 of the Georgia Independent Christian Athletic Association (GICAA). They beat Skipstone Academy 24-13 in Griffin on Friday and play at Cornerstone Prep Academy in Acworth this Friday.
South Forsyth defensive end and tight end Cameron Kline was honored as the club’s Defensive Player of the Week from his five-sack performance in the second week of the season in a 21-6 win against Centennial. South is undefeated at 5-0 and plays at Northview on Friday.
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Winklevoss twins on Gemini, why Bitcoin may replace gold
By Thomas Barrabi Published March 15, 2019 SXSWFOXBusiness
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Massive swings in bitcoin’s value and a series of cybersecurity and regulatory setbacks haven’t shaken the Winklevoss twins’ faith that cryptocurrency has the potential to replace gold as a preferred store of value.
The internet entrepreneurs, who once accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea and ultimately received a $65 million settlement, told a packed crowd at the South by Southwest conference that younger generations are gravitating toward cryptocurrency as a means of transferring and storing money. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss argued that bitcoin has the potential to “kill” gold as the public familiarizes itself with blockchain technology and develops trust in cryptocurrencies.
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“The only thing that’s truly precious, in my mind, is bitcoin. If you tell that to someone who’s my parents' age, they’ll probably look at me and tell me I’m crazy, and I’m willing to accept that,” Cameron Winklevoss said. “But you talk to someone who’s playing Fortnite and say, okay, two options, bar of gold or the equivalent in bitcoin, they are 10 times out of 10, 100 times out of 100, going to take the bitcoin. They want software, they don’t want hardware.”
The Winklevoss twins founded Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange that is licensed and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services. They are also longtime investors in bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency that rose in value to nearly $20,000 per coin in late 2017, only for prices to crater in 2018. At present, bitcoin prices are hovering just below $4,000.
Crypto proponents have seen efforts at mainstream acceptance hampered by cybersecurity concerns and a persistent belief among critics that the largely unregulated, decentralized exchanges are havens for criminal activity. After being personally victimized by the collapse of Mt. Gox, a Japanese bitcoin exchange that imploded after a series of hacks and scandals, the Winklevoss twins are attempting to establish Gemini as a trustworthy platform.
“In order to build the future of money, we need to build trust,” Cameron Winklevoss said. “You wouldn’t store your money in an unregulated financial institution. It just wouldn’t cross your mind."
Gemini has taken various steps to build trust, including the introduction of insurance coverage for digital assets on its platform, but obstacles remain. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has repeatedly rejected efforts by the Winklevoss twins to gain approval for a bitcoin ETF, citing concerns about investor protections.
Tyler Winklevoss asserted that formal regulation of exchanges will help to stabilize leading cryptocurrencies.
“The healthiest markets in the world today, outside of crypto, are the ones that are thoughtfully regulated,” he said.
While the twins repeatedly noted their awareness of cybersecurity and data privacy issues that leading tech companies have experienced, they were evasive when asked to comment on specific incidents. For example, Facebook has faced unprecedented scrutiny, and the threat of regulation, since a data breach exposed up to 87 million users last year.
When asked for what advice they had for Zuckerberg, their old Harvard classmate, the twins turned evasive.
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“I think he’s got a lot of good advisers around him,” Tyler Winklevoss said. “I don’t think he needs to hear from us.”
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NASCAR for sale? Ex-McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi wants in
By Megan Henney Published May 08, 2018 FeaturesFOXBusiness
Ed Rensi on NASCAR: Love to join the group that buys it
FAT Brands Chairman Ed Rensi on reports the majority owner of NASCAR is considering selling the company, the growth outlook for FAT brands and McDonald's 50th anniversary.
The founding family of NASCAR is reportedly considering selling their majority stake of the company, and if they do, Fat Brands chairman Ed Rensi might be the next bidder.
“I’d love to have the opportunity to join the group that buys NASCAR,” Rensi told FOX Business’ Charles Payne during an interview on Tuesday. “I think it’s a great sport. I think it’s got a great future ahead of it.”
The France family, which owns America’s premiere racing series and other motorsports events under the NASCAR umbrella, is working with Goldman Sachs to explore potential deals, Reuters reported. One of the options being considered is a sale of a majority stake in NASCAR.
NASCAR’s valuation could be several billions of dollars, according to Reuters, which cited inside sources.
Rensi is no neophyte to the sport: He previously owned the NASCAR team Rensi Motorsports – along with Ronnie Russell, Gary Weisbaum and Sam Renis – and served on the board of the International Speedway Corporation, which owns and manages NASCAR and IndyCar race tracks.
“I think the France family has done a wonderful job,” he said. “It’s time to change.”
Bill France co-founded the Daytona Beach, Florida-based company in 1948.
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Kennedy as Japan ambassador raises concerns amid N. Korea tensions
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Caroline Kennedy was U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. (Reuters)
The possibility of Caroline Kennedy becoming a U.S. ambassador to Japan has sparked debate about whether the political scion -- who made a shaky and short-lived run for Senate in 2009 -- has the expertise to handle the increased turmoil in the region, where North Korea is antagonizing U.S. allies.
Kennedy indeed has the political pedigree to make foreign leaders feel important to the United States.
The 55-year-old New Yorker is the daughter of President Kennedy, niece of former Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, and granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy -- U.S. ambassador to the U.K. from 1938 to 1940.
However, she has no experience in public office and has largely been portrayed as yet another political fundraiser being rewarded with an ambassadorship.
“It thought it was an April Fool’s joke when I first heard about it,” California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told FoxNews.com.
“Our economic and national security are based on good will toward Japan. I have nothing against Caroline Kennedy becoming ambassador to, say, Barbados. But Japan is too important for somebody with no experience.”
Kennedy was an early and ardent supporter of President Obama’s successful 2008 campaign and remained a prominent fundraiser and cheerleader through his re-election effort last year. But her subsequent stab at entering politics did not end well.
With Obama and the rest of the Democratic establishment seemingly behind her, Kennedy made a bid in 2009 to take New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s seat after she became secretary of State. But Kennedy abruptly withdrew her candidacy, following an inexperienced campaign dinged by public and private attacks by veteran politicians also eyeing the appointment.
She returned to private life. But her possible return to the spotlight comes at a sensitive time. North Korea's Kim Jong Un has been hurling an escalating series of threats toward South Korea and the U.S. on an almost-daily basis. Japan is a key U.S. ally, and would be an essential partner in the event of any military escalation in the region. Further, diplomacy in the region could be key to heading off such a conflict.
Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declined to answer questions about a possible Kennedy pick or whether she is qualified to deal with some of the tough issues in the region.
Michael Mazza, a foreign policy analyst at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, said political appointments are now a way of life yet the region is indeed becoming less stable by the day.
He said the escalating ownership dispute between China and Japan over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is perhaps a bigger concern than getting Japan to help ease the situation with North Korea.
“The U.S. is struggling in how to handle this,” he said. “It would make sense to have someone with intimate knowledge of the situation and who knows the countries well.”
Still, Mazza agrees Kennedy would carry weight in diplomatic circles.
“Foreign leaders could be quite confident she’ll speak for the president,” he said.
Democrats on the House Foreign Relations Committee and several liberal-leaning think tanks did not return calls for this report.
But Mireya Solis, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told The Wall Street Journal, “It seems to me that when you want an ambassador, two very important assets are proximity to the president—which she clearly has—and visibility."
The American Foreign Service Association, while not directly criticizing Kennedy or Obama, does not support such appointments.
The union points out that roughly one-third of the president’s first-term appointments have come from such non-diplomatic ranks as politics, fundraising and academia – a rate slightly higher than the historical average for presidents. And the rate is as high as 85 percent for major European countries and Japan, which are seen as plum diplomatic assignments.
“The sale of ambassadorships and rewards for political support basically suggests we really don’t value diplomacy,” union President Susan Johnson told FoxNews.com.
Johnson and Rohrabacher, among others, also point out a decline in the long tradition of appointing elder statesmen to the Japan post, citing Japanese-speaking Harvard scholar Edwin Reischauer, who was appointed by Kennedy and was followed by such people as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Vice President Walter Mondale, House Speaker Tom Foley and Under Secretary of State Mike Armacost.
“But this appointment is an ornamental one,” Clyde Prestowitz, a former Reagan staffer, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine. “It tries to evoke the good feeling of the Kennedy years but without the substance of those years. Do you think Caroline might have the good sense to turn it down and urge Obama to imitate her dad with a Reischauer-like appointment?”
Caroline Kennedy, if appointed and confirmed, would succeed John Roos, who was also an Obama campaign fundraiser.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kennedy-as-japan-ambassador-raises-concerns-amid-n-korea-tensions
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Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer who is best known for creating Ethereum, which has been called “the world’s hottest new cryptocurrency.” There is much interest in the 23-year-old founder, prompting many to ask questions about Buterin, such as “Who is he?” Wired gives an account in a recent article. The reporter says:
I’ve been told by various people that Buterin learned to speak fluent Mandarin in just a few months, that he’s an autistic wunderkind, that all of his worldly possessions fit into one suitcase, that he once ate an entire lemon without removing the rind, that he’s an android powered by the Ethereum network.
Yet even this detailed report barely scratches the surface. Here is a quick overview of Buterin and the blockchain network that is changing the way people think about contracts and business funding.
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Most little boys sit on the carpet, playing with matchbox cars, or run around playing tag. Buterin admits that one of his favorite childhood toys was Microsoft Excel.
Born in Moscow, he moved to Canada when he was only five years old and entering third grade. Teachers discovered something interesting about the boy. He could add three-digit numbers in his head at twice the speed of his peers. This got the boy a direct ticket into the gifted program, and his gifts flourished.
As Buterin grew, his dad introduced him to a concept that would serve as a small seed that would grow in the coming years — Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency founder doesn’t divulge why the concept was interesting, but admits that he had recently quit playing World of Warcraft and may have been looking for the next obsession.
He set out to learn more about the idea, attending conferences and talking with thought leaders. And from this point on, he stayed laser-focused, and that focus would transform from an idea to the hottest new blockchain technology in just a matter of months.
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The budding curiosity about cryptocurrency was growing, and Buterin was spending more time learning, growing and conceptualizing. Finally, he did what many great minds do (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg — just to name a few). He dropped out of college. Then Buterin traveled the world to talk to people and learn more about Bitcoin.
He wrote about his findings and published a white paper in 2013. That piece of work captured attention and landed him a $100,000 Peter Thiel Fellowship.
Shortly after, he started the Ethereum Foundation to further his research on cryptocurrency. The same year, Buterin announced the sale of Ethereum and introduction of Ethereum mining in a blog post. This new currency wouldn’t be just a rehash of the popular digital currency Bitcoin — it would be much different.
Creating a New Generation of Blockchain Technology
The blockchain technology that Buterin created isn’t just a digital currency, but a blockchain platform that performs many different tasks. For example, the cryptocurrency features contracts and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The currency can be used for peer-to-peer contracts using “smart contracts” to negotiate and facilitate the agreements.
The benefit is that the blockchain provides a decentralized method for verifying and enforcing these contracts. These smart contracts also provide greater security than traditional contracts, at lower costs. Corporate support has grown rapidly, with 86 firms, including Toyota, Merck, ING and many others, recently joining a collective that seeks to use blockchain technology to run smart contracts at Fortune 500 companies.
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Buterin took a fresh look at blockchain technology and cryptocurrency and said, “Okay, what else can be done?” He recently told Backchannel, “When I came up with Ethereum, my first thought was, okay this thing is too good to be true. As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good, fundamentally, completely, sound."
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The Color Of An Orange Fruit
Flaming June by Frederic Lord Leighton, ca. 1895. Location: Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Orange - a combination of red and yellow, the color shares some aspects of the symbolism of these colors. It can represent the point of balance between the passion of red and the spirituality of yellow. [3.] Orange might symbolize luxury and splendor but it can also mean the renunciation of worldly pleasures. For example, Buddhist monks wear orange to affirm their adoption of a simple life. [3.] In antiquity Roman brides wore orange as a symbol of the permanence of marriage.[3.]
What the energy of the color orange means in the 21st century? From time to time, it has been widely used and has been popular among fashion designers. Orange is the color of joy and creativity. Orange promotes a sense of general wellness and emotional energy that should be shared, such as compassion, passion, and warmth. [7.]
In the broader sense orange is often associated with autumn leaves, pumpkins...With the change in color of the autumn leaves, orange often represents the changing seasons. Because of it’s association with change, orange is often used as a transitional color or to represent a transition or change of some kind.[ 7.]
What has historically been the role of orange color? That's the story about that.
The Origins Of Orange Color
Portrait of a Young Man by Masaccio Date: 1423 - 1425 Image: Public Domain Source: https://www.wikiart.org/en/masaccio/portrait-of-a-young-man-1425
This color was already known in Ancient Egypt. The orange color appeared alongside the yellow and was often used in wall paintings, as artists used an orange mineral pigment (realgar). Orange pigments were also prepared from a mineral known as orpiment. It was an important item of trade in the Roman Empire. Orpiment was also used as a medicine in China... Although it contains arsenic and is highly toxic. Because of its yellow-orange color, orpiment was also a favorite among alchemists, because they were searching for a way to make gold. [ 12.]
The next era when orange is appearing in the arena of history is Renaissance. Although the color orange existed in Western culture even before the late 15th century, but without the name. It was simply called yellow-red. And indeed, in the Renaissance, the orange color (yellow-red) was used, but it was an alternative of red.
The peasants and middle ranked persons imitated upper class reds by dyeing their clothing with cheaper orange-red and russet dyes. [1.] However, this orange and vivid effect arose, as seen in many artworks of the Renaissance era.
And then this fruit appeared in Europe called orange. Portuguese merchants brought the first orange trees to Europe from Asia in the late 15th and early 16th century, along with the Sanskrit word naranga, which gradually became part of several European languages: "naranja" in Spanish, "laranja" in Portuguese, and "orange" in English. [12.]
The Color Of Inspiration
Francesco Bacchiacca.Portrait of a Woman and Child / Allegory of Liberality Date between 1525 and 1535 Location: Getty Center Image: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
The 17th century pointed to golden yellow as a magnificent color of barocco, but in the 18th century we often see orange. It was sometimes used to depict clothing of Pomona, the ancient goddess of fruitful abundance. coincidence or not, but her name came from the Latin word the pomon, meaning fruit. Oranges themselves became more common in northern Europe, thanks to the 17th century invention of the heated greenhouse, a building type which became known as an orangerie. [12] During that time orange color was associated with inspiration. Maybe that's why French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicted "inspiration" wearing orange clothing in one of his paintings dated with 1769.
By the end of the 18th century the orange hues were close to each other. That was a time when a class of natural pigments made from lead chromate, first developed in the late 1790's by the French chemist Louis Vauquelin, superceded both Turner's Patent yellow and Orpiment, due to their improved opacity, their bright hues and low price. However, they in turn were replaced during the 19th century by the Cadmium family of colors. [6.]
It is quite possible that color orange also affects sound. The ingredients of Antonio Stradivari’s orange varnish remain a mystery to this day. Stradivari was a renowned maker of stringed instruments in 18th century Italy, and 300 years later his violins became priceless. It is now believed that the orange varnish is what gives Stradivarius violins their exquisite sound. [5.]
Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Inspiration, 1769. Location: Louvre Museum, Paris Image: Wikimedia Commons
Visiting dress Date:1865–75 Culture:American Medium:silk Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Image: Public Domain
The Color Of Impression
Orange became an important color for the impressionist painters. They all had studied the recent books on color theory, and they knew that orange placed next to azure blue made both colors much brighter. Auguste Renoir painted boats with stripes of chrome orange paint straight from the tube. It is worth mentioning that the invention of the metal paint tube in 1841, made it possible for artists to paint outdoors and to capture the colors of natural light. [12.] Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec used a palette of yellow, black and orange in his posters of Paris cafes and theaters. He often used oranges in the skirts of dancers and gowns of Parisians in the cafes and clubs he portrayed. For him it was the color of festivity and amusement. [ 12.]
In Britain orange became highly popular among the Pre-Raphaelites and history painters. The flowing red-orange hair of Elizabeth Siddal, a model and a muse of Pre-Raphaelite artists, became a symbol of the movement. Lord Frederic Leighton, the president of the Royal Academy, created a painting called "Flaming June", in which a young woman in an apricot orange gown is asleep under an oleander plant. The painting, one of Leighton’s last, became an emblem of Victorian art, reproduced around the world today.[4.]
In the second part of the 20th Century and in 21st Century orange is considered as strong and extra powerful color. Its strength is intensified by the fact that many women consider it a difficult color to wear. When it appears as a fashion trend, orange tends to act as the exception, rather than the rule. During his time at Jil Sander, Raf Simons developed a new palette of minimalism for women where joyful orange would often be the only bright color in a sea of black and white and grey. Memorably the Autumn/Winter 2009 collection brought forward flashes of sculptural orange, deep and vivid, in among a powerful, and mostly monochrome, collection. [4.]
Nevertheless, many examples prove that orange, when used skillfully, may become a powerful tool of fashion, something luxurious to celebrate the body and the woman who wears it. Orange, a color sometimes previously read as loud or tacky, now becomes subtly decadent. [4.]
Pomona by Nicolas Fouché Date circa 1700 Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Image: Wikimedia Commons
1. Greenfield A.B. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. - New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005
2. Heller E. Psychologie de la couleur: Effets et symboliques. - Editions Pyramyd, 2009.
3. Signs & Symbols. An Illustrated Guide To Their Origins And Meanings. /Project Editor: Kathryn Wilkinson. - London, New York, Munich, Melbourne, Delhi: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2008.
4.www.anothermag.com/design-living/10303/the-significance-of-the-colour-orange-in-art-fashion-film
5. www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/oranges.html
6. www.visual-arts-cork.com/artist-paints/colour-palette-eighteenth-century.htm
7. www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-orange/
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9. www.romaexperience.com/rome-blog/2016-the-colours-of-ancient-rome/
10.www.sensationalcolor.com/color-meaning/color-meaning-symbolism-psychology/all-about-the-color-orange-4354#.W7deEWgzbIU
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International Registry Launched to Compare Non-surgical Pediatric Bone Tumor Treatments
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto has launched a multicenter, multi-treatment clinical registry to track and evaluate a range of less invasive treatments for pediatric osteoid osteoma.
Osteoid osteomas are extremely painful, but benign, bone tumors that occur most commonly in children and young adults. Treatment options for these patients fall into three categories: surgical, minimally invasive or percutaneous, and noninvasive. While traditional surgical resection is still used to remove these tumors, less invasive, image-guided approaches – such as thermal ablation that kills cells by heating or freezing them – are more commonly utilized today. Percutaneous options include ablation via radiofrequency, laser, microwave, or cryotherapy as well as removal with CT-guided excision, sclerosis with ethanol injection, and dissolution with plasma-based coblation. The only noninvasive method used to treat osteoid osteomas is thermal ablation via focused ultrasound.
Over the next five years, more than 30 international sites will collect outcomes data from 900 children treated for osteoid osteomas with nonsurgical methods; at least 200 of whom have undergone focused ultrasound therapy. However, if there is a potential benefit, the registry could stay open indefinitely–especially if other types of focused ultrasound treatment are added in the future. The data infrastructure was designed to capture clinical information for any type of focused ultrasound treatment.
“Registries are powerful research tools,” said initiator of the study and principal investigator, Michael J. Temple, MD, SickKids Pediatric Interventional Radiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. “This registry will allow us to directly compare the outcomes of focused ultrasound therapy with all other types of treatment using real-world observational evidence.”
Dr. Temple continued: “Although randomized, controlled trials are considered the gold standard in clinical research, the inherent rigidity of their protocols and their implementation make them difficult to run and does not allow for adaptation. If new technologies arise, or if new information needs to be collected, a registry protocol can be modified with relative ease. Pooling data from multiple sites and performing interim analyses will allow us to fine tune our approach as we gain more experience with this new technology at a pace that would simply not be possible without multi-institutional collaboration.”
Along with SickKids in Canada, eight leading focused ultrasound treatment sites will participate, including the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); Stanford University; Children’s National Medical Center; and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the United States; Sapienza University, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, and San Salvatore Hospital in Italy; and PGI Chandigarh in India. The percutaneous portion of the registry will be conducted at 28 sites on five continents.
The registry’s overarching goals are to:
Optimize patient selection and focused ultrasound treatment protocols to allow for more effective treatment of osteoid osteoma.
Show that focused ultrasound is viable and effective as the only noninvasive and radiation-free treatment option.
Provide a platform that will be the first step in a larger collaborative effort to show that focused ultrasound is an effective therapeutic tool that can be used to treat multiple types of diseases.
The registry database should provide large-scale evidence on short- and long-term outcomes of each treatment method. Any patient who undergoes non-surgical osteoid osteoma treatment of at an enrolled institution can take part in the registry, but because the percutaneous portion was developed in affiliation with the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology, only pediatric patients will be enrolled in the percutaneous arm at this time. The registry will expand to include adults in the near future and can be easily modified to collect data on surgical options as more sites are added.
The registry was designed with the primary goal of comparing osteoid osteoma treatments. However, it is quite possible that the large pool of data could be used for other research projects. A process has been created to allow any researcher who could potentially benefit from using the data to apply for access. When the database closes, the data will likely be published as an open source document. The hope is that the registry could eventually provide evidence to allow for reimbursement and regulatory approval of focused ultrasound treatment for this indication.
The pediatric osteoid osteoma registry was created following discussions at the IGNITE consortium meeting held in Cincinnati in 2015.
See Dr. Temple explain how focused ultrasound technology works >
Watch and read as young patients explain their dianosis and how focused ultrasound changed their lives.
Watch Jack's story >
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Sunnybrook Research Institute Receives $6.91M to Lead Project Involving 19 Industry Partners
Accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative image-guided therapies for cancer and heart disease is the goal of a major initiative announced last month. Sunnybrook Research Institute (University of Toronto) will lead the project with $6.91 million in funding from the Canadian government. Project partners will include Western University (Ontario, Canada) and 19 industry partners, who were not identified. The goal of the project is to develop, test and license four new image-guided therapies: ultrasound surgery, magnetic resonance imaging intervention; an early feedback system for chemotherapy patients; and a hybrid optical/ultrasound catheter for imaging of coronary atherosclerosis. READ PRESS RELEASE
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November 2011: Foundation Convenes 3rd Brain Workshop and more...
Newsletter of the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
NEWSLETTER VOL. 37
Foundation convenes 3rd Brain Workshop >
FUS for epilepsy and psychological disorders? >
Donor generosity fuels Brain Program progress >
Foundation bids farewell to Joy Polefrone, PhD >
Mayo Clinic's Bijan Borah, PhD is newest Research Awardee >
Profound Medical names Steven Plymale CEO >
Gail ter Haar, PhD to chair Symposium Scientific Program Committee >
Medtech Insight article provides overview of image-guided therapy >
Research Awards Program unveils dual-track process >
Sponsorship levels announced for 2012 FUS Symposium >
RSNA will feature
FUS exhibits and presentations >
UCSF seeking two post-docs in MR-guided FUS >
Correction to TEDMED News Bulletin >
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TIME Magazine features focused ultrasound as one of this year's 50 best inventions
The visibility of focused ultrasound is skyrocketing. TIME Magazine has named it one of the 50 most inspired ideas, innovations and revolutions of 2011. In its coverage, TIME heralds MR-imaging and focused ultrasound "remarkable in their own right" and observes that "something life-changing" emerges when the two are combined.
The report, which appears in the magazine's November 28, 2011 "Invention Issue," is now available on newsstands throughout the US and can be accessed online by subscribers.
According to FUS Foundation Chairman Neal Kassell, MD, "The recognition in TIME marks a critical inflection point for focused ultrasound therapy. We can finally stop calling it ‘medicine's best kept secret' because the word is getting out."
Kassell believes that when the potential and capabilities of noninvasive focused ultrasound become widely known, a revolution in patient treatment will be inevitable. "Once the medical community understands that focused ultrasound can destroy tumors, dissolve clots, relieve pain and deliver medicines to precise targets without the use of damaging incisions, this remarkable technology will become a standard of care for many of today's most deadly and debilitating conditions."
Surging media interest
Coverage in TIME caps off a month of surging media interest. In its October 2011 issue, Medtech Insight ran a 10-page report on the current state and future of image-guided focused ultrasound. That publication, which is targeted to medical technology executives and investment professionals, became interested in focused ultrasound following the presentation by W. Jeffrey Elias, MD at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons on October 3. Elias described the preliminary and highly promising results of the essential tremor clinical trial being funded by the FUS Foundation at the University of Virginia.
More media coverage surrounded the TEDMED 2011 talk given on October 27 by Yoav Medan, PhD of InSightec. Entitled "Is It Still Surgery If You Don't Cut Anything?" the presentation literally wowed the audience, which consisted of nearly 800 leaders and innovators in the fields of medicine, science, business and technology.
The foundation was integrally involved in creating these media opportunities. For us, this excellent, high-profile coverage is a welcomed development. We're committed to transforming focused ultrasound from 'medicine's best kept secret' to one of its most valued and widely applied solutions. The power, reach and influence of the media are a mighty ally in our cause.
Brain Workshop participants map out action plan for 2012-2013
Nearly 80 leading scientists, researchers, public health officials and industry executives from 12 countries and 30 different institutions participated in the FUS Foundation's third invitational Brain Workshop from October 23 to 26.
With 46 presentations on the agenda, this year's workshop provided an in-depth progress report on the status of the Brain Program and the work ahead. As FUS Foundation Chairman Neal Kassell, MD told attendees, "Our primary interest is to rapidly advance the development and adoption of reimbursable applications that either fulfill an unmet clinical need or are significantly better than existing therapies in terms of outcomes, cost and convenience."
In the spotlight at this year's meeting was the essential tremor clinical trial at the University of Virginia. Spawned during the first Brain Workshop in 2009 and funded by the FUS Foundation, the 15-patient pilot study is nearing successful completion. It is considered a shining example of the fast-track progress that can be achieved by multi-disciplinary, collaborative working groups, which are a hallmark of the foundation's Brain Program.
Can epilepsy and psychological disorders be treated with focused ultrasound?
Researcher interview: Seung-Schik Yoo, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Interview with Dr. Seung-Shik Yoo >
Focused ultrasound researcher, Seung-Schik Yoo, PhD, is driven by a desire to help people with brain disorders. As leader of the Neuromodulation Working Group formed by the FUS Foundation's Brain Program, he is collaborating with a multinational, multi-disciplinary team consisting of specialists in neuroscience, physics, biomedical engineering and imaging. Their goal is to determine how pulsed, low-intensity focused ultrasound can be used to assess region-specific brain functions and to modify and control aberrant brain activities.
The Working Group is now concentrating on advancing this approach as a tool for functional brain mapping and ideal target localization. Looking toward the future, Yoo foresees an even bigger use of FUS-mediated neuromodulation – the treatment of neurological conditions that range from epilepsy to psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression and substance abuse.
Donor generosity has fueled Brain Program's progress in developing new patient treatments
The significant progress made by the FUS Foundation's Brain Program since its launch in 2009 serves as testament to the power of private philanthropy and to the ability of nonprofit organizations to speed the development of new and needed patient treatments. Like all of the foundation's initiatives, the Brain Program also reflects the generosity and passionate commitment of our supporters.
The Brain Program came into being after an anonymous donor provided a $1 million gift earmarked for brain research. With this funding, the foundation hired staff, established a program infrastructure, hosted the 1st invitational brain workshop to develop research and development roadmaps for specific indications and began funding crucial research.
This year, a new $2 million challenge gift from FUS Foundation board member David Heller and his wife, Diane, has further fueled the Brain Program's momentum. The Hellers are matching all gifts to brain research on a one-to-one basis. The world's first focused ultrasound treatments for patients with essential tremor were made possible by their generosity and leadership, as well as by other supporters whose gifts were matched by the Hellers.
This month, the foundation received another $1 million anonymous gift to the Brain Program, ensuring that important research planned for 2012 will proceed as scheduled.
"We are extremely grateful for the support of these remarkable and caring individuals,"says FUS Foundation Chairman Neal Kassell, MD. "Their generosity has already offered new hope to patients with essential tremor. In the years ahead, the advancements made possible by their donations will touch and improve the lives of people with brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological conditions."
Foundation bids farewell to Joy Polefrone, PhD
Joy Polefrone, PhD
Many in the focused ultrasound community have met and interacted with Joy Polefrone, PhD, during her three and a half years with the FUS Foundation. She was responsible for organizing, launching and leading our patient support initiative, Fibroid Relief.
More recently, Polefrone provided the entrepreneurial energy and leadership needed to launch the foundation's Focal Drug Delivery Program. In that role, she enrolled an international group of core stakeholders and worked with them via conference calls to map out an agenda for moving forward. She also led the planning and organization of an on-site Core Stakeholders Group meeting and of this year's highly successful Focal Drug Delivery Workshop.
In between these major accomplishments, Polefrone served as Secretary of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2nd International Symposium on MR-guided Focused Ultrasound, an event held in October 2010.
On December 1, Polefrone will join Philips Healthcare in Helsinki, Finland as Clinical Marketing Manager MR-HIFU. In her new role, she will be responsible for strengthening Philips' clinical expertise in MR-HIFU and disseminating the aggregated clinical experience to customers and within the company. She will also develop and execute marketing tactics for the Sonalleve MR-HIFU system and provide key clinical expertise in the development of marketing plans, reference sites, a clinical user community, and the product roadmap and requirement specifications for new products.
We are delighted about Polefone's new opportunity with Philips and are glad that she will remain a vital part of the international focused ultrasound community. We appreciate her many contributions to the foundation's work and wish her continued success in all that she does.
Bijan Borah, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic, is newest Research Award recipient
Project will compare costs of FUS, UAE and myomectomy in treating uterine fibroids
Bijan Borah, PhD
Bijan Borah, PhD of the Mayo Clinic has become the FUS Foundation's newest Research Award recipient. Borah, who is an Assistant Professor in the Mayo Clinic's College of Medicine and an Associate Consultant in the Division of Healthcare Policy & Research, has received $100K for a research project entitled, "Costs of Uterine Fibroid Treatments Including Focused Ultrasound Surgery."
During the yearlong project, which is expected to start this month, Borah and his colleagues will collaborate with Thomson Reuters. Their goal is to provide much-needed evidence on healthcare cost comparisons of MR-guided focused ultrasound therapy, uterine artery embolization (UAE) and myomectomy for the treatment of uterine fibroids. Study data will be drawn from Thomson Reuters' proprietary database of healthcare claims from approximately 130 large, self-insured American employers, a database that provides a good representation of the insured women in the U.S.
This study will be the first to compare the costs of MR-guided focused ultrasound with other minimally-invasive treatment options using U.S. practice data. If findings indicate that the long-term healthcare costs associated with MR-guided focused ultrasound treatment of uterine fibroids are comparable to or lower than those associated with comparative procedures, Borah believes it could be a game-changer in terms of reimbursement. "Payers/insurers will be incentivized to begin covering MR-guided focused ultrasound for the treatment of uterine fibroids," he says. "Since uterine fibroids are the first FDA-approved indication for MR-guided focused ultrasound treatment, this study may also have implications for other indications which are now investigational."
Profound Medical names Steven Plymale CEO
Profound Medical Inc. (PMI) has selected Steven Plymale as its new Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Paul Chipperton, who has become Chief Business Officer (CBO).
Plymale will assume overall leadership and oversight of day-to-day operations of the Toronto-based PMI, and Chipperton will be responsible for business development and engagement of key strategic partnerships.
Plymale has more than two decades of operational and executive management experience focused in the development and commercialization of medical devices. Prior to joining PMI, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Xltek (a division of Natus Medical Incorporated), a neurology solutions provider to hospitals, clinics and other healthcare environments. He also played pivotal roles in several other healthcare companies, such as Cryocath Technologies and Cedara Software.
As previously reported in this newsletter, PMI is commercializing an MRI-guided, transurethral thermal ultrasound treatment for localized prostate cancer. The company expects to launch clinical trials in the USA and Canada in the near future.
Interview with Paul Chipperton, PMI CEO (February 2011)
Profound Medical and Siemens to conduct clinical trials (April 18, 2011)
Profound Medical secures $9.4 million in venture capital (June 20, 2011)
Profound Medical's treatment system animation
Gail ter Haar, PhD to chair Scientific Program Committee for 2012 FUS Symposium
Gail ter Haar, PhD
The Scientific Program Committee for the 3rd International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound Therapy has been formed and will be chaired by Gail ter Haar, PhD of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, UK.
The FUS Foundation's Scientific and Medical Director Arik Hananel, MD will serve as committee secretary.
Committee members will participate in planning the scientific program by engaging in abstract review and session structure and by acting as symposium moderators and presenters. The membership roster includes representatives from the world's top focused ultrasound institutions, based on research and clinical activity. Members are:
Jean-François Aubry, PhD, Institut Langevin, Paris, France
Kim Butts Pauly, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Matt Dreher, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Kullervo Hynynen, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
Young-sun Kim, MD, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
Nathan McDannold, PhD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Chrit Moonen, PhD, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Dennis Parker, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Rich Price, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image-guided focused ultrasound is spotlighted in October issue of Medtech Insight
Medtech Insight, a publication targeted to medical technology executives and investment professionals, has published a must-read article, "Image-guided Focused Ultrasound Gains Ground as Noninvasive Therapeutic Tool." The five-page report provides a comprehensive overview of the field and contains exhibits that list the companies involved in image-guided focused ultrasound, compare the advantages of Philips MRgHIFU technology versus open surgery and radiotherapy, illustrate the evolution of treatment strategies for uterine fibroids and summarize the potential future applications of the technology.
Supplementing the report is an in-depth, five-page interview with FUS Foundation Chairman Neal Kassell, MD about the future of image-guided focused ultrasound.
Read Medtech Insight's full coverage >
Research Awards Program unveils new,
dual-track application process
Next quarterly submission deadline is January 3, 2012
The Research Awards Program has announced the creation of a dual-track application process.
Before applying for funding, researchers must determine which program track they wish to pursue:
The Clinical Indication Track, which provides funding for preclinical and pilot clinical research projects that promise to lead to the development of a reimbursable clinical indication for focused ultrasound within the next five to seven years;
The High Risk Track, which provides funding for high-risk, early-stage, proof-of-concept research projects that are unlikely to receive funding from other sources and, if successful, could have a profound impact on the advancement of the field of focused ultrasound.
After selecting a track, researchers should complete the corresponding abstract form and submit it via the foundation's online application submission system. Applicants are advised to pay close attention to the instructions provided on the form, as abstract submissions that fail to adhere to the guidelines may be returned for revision.
"Our hope is that by further refining the application process, we will provide better guidance to prospective applicants regarding the goals of the program and the types of projects we are interested in funding," explains Hannah Edelen, Director of the Research Awards Program. "Defining our expectations more clearly should enable applicants to better design their projects and tailor their proposals to address the foundation's research priorities."
Research Award abstracts are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Applicants will be notified within ten business days following submission of an abstract if they have been invited to submit a full proposal.
Full proposals — both original and revised — must be submitted on or before the quarterly submission deadline to be included in the review cycle for that quarter. Proposals received after the submission deadline will be included in the next review cycle.
The next quarterly submission deadline is January 3, 2012, and funding decisions will be announced by April 1, 2012.
Complete information about the foundation's Research Awards Program >
2012 FUS Symposium sponsorship opportunities now available
An expanded range of sponsorship opportunities is now available for the 3rd International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound Therapy. Scheduled for October 14-17, 2012 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, the symposium will be a premiere event for the worldwide focused ultrasound community.
Important changes are being made to the symposium program for 2012. The agenda features both MR-guided and ultrasound-guided applications and has been extended to three full days of plenary sessions, panel discussions, poster presentations and technical exhibits.
"We're expecting this symposium to be the most comprehensive, informative and inspiring event we've ever organized,"says Heather Huff Simonin, MBA, the FUS Foundation's Director of Global Business Development. "It promises to be the go-to meeting for everyone with an interest in focused ultrasound therapies, including researchers, clinicians, public health officials, device makers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists."
Sponsorship levels include:
Platinum ($20,000 or more)
Gold ($15,000)
Silver ($10,000)
Bronze ($5,000)
Friends ($1,000 - $4,999)
Read full details of each sponsorship opportunity >
Inquiries can be emailed to Heather Huff Simonin at
RSNA to feature FUS exhibits, presentations
Organizers of the annual meeting of the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) report that the number of advance professional and guest registrations has risen by seven percent this year, compared to 2010's total attendance of 36,197.
The meeting, which is scheduled for November 27 to December 2 in Chicago, will feature technical exhibits by focused ultrasound device makers, including:
FUS Instruments
GE Healthcare/InSightec
Supersonic Imagine (North Building-Hall B, Booth 9336B)
(South Building-Hall A, Booth 3335)
(North Building-Hall B, Booth 7159 and 7721)
(North Building-Hall B, Booth 7141)
Access a press release from InSightec summarizing the schedule of RSNA talks and educational exhibits related to MR-guided focused ultrasound.
UCSF seeking two post-doctoral fellows
in MR-guided focused ultrasound
The MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Group in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California San Francisco is seeking two post-doctoral fellows to develop and implement MR imaging and processing techniques for MR-guided focused ultrasound.
Special projects of interest will include the development of MR imaging techniques for FUS applications, such as prostate and bone ablation, and real-time techniques for cardiac temperature monitoring. The successful candidates will participate in multidisciplinary and translational research programs in one of the many areas of collaborative interest at UCSF.
Read full job description and obtain contact information >
Correction to FUS Foundation October 28, 2011 news bulletin
The foundation sincerely apologizes to Yoav Medan, PhD for misspelling his last name in the third paragraph of the news bulletin sent out last month. There was also a punctuation error in his title, which is Vice President and Chief Systems Architect for InSightec. Our goal is to provide accurate information to our readers, and yet our diligent quality control efforts sometimes fail to catch typographical errors. We extend our apologies to Dr. Medan and applaud his extraordinary contributions to the field of focused ultrasound, including his exceptional presentation at TEDMED 2011.
Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation | 1230 Cedars Court, Suite F | Charlottesville VA | 22902
Questions and comments about this newsletter should be sent to the Foundation's Director of Communications, Ellen C. McKenna ()
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Fusion Risk Management Adds New Chief Financial Officer to Support Organization’s Strategic Growth Initiatives
Fusion Risk Management, Inc. (“Fusion”), a leading provider of business continuity management software and services, announced today that it has named Jim Stewart as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The hire is the next step in Fusion’s continued growth strategy, which has generated five additions to the executive team thus far in 2018.
Stewart joins the Fusion team with an extensive background working as CFO for a variety of companies in the technology industry, including video software, voice and data technology services, and data storage and imaging, among others. He most recently spent three years as CFO at Edmentum, a Software as a Service provider of online learning programs.
“Fusion is changing the way enterprises think about business continuity, and has grown at an incredible rate during the past year,” Stewart said. “My experience as CFO for a variety of technology companies during the past 20 years will help me make a quick impact on Fusion’s already strong financial performance and scale operations to support our rapid growth. It’s an exciting time to be a part of this company as it continues to increase its presence in markets around the world.”
At Fusion, Stewart will lend his expertise to managing the company’s accounting, financial planning, and analysis efforts, while also overseeing business operations. His team will identify key performance metrics to ensure continued growth and make informed decisions on strategic investments.
“Jim is an incredibly important addition to our team and has already proven to be a perfect fit in our dynamic and innovative culture,” said Fusion CEO and Founder David Nolan. “It is exciting to see our leadership team expand and our capabilities increase. I am confident that he will help us realize the ambitious vision we have for our company’s future.”
About Fusion Risk Management, Inc.
Founded in 2006 by an experienced team of industry leaders, Fusion Risk Management is now the most innovative and fastest growing provider of business continuity and risk management solutions. With its introduction in 2010, the Fusion Framework® System™ signaled a paradigm shift in the marketplace for enterprise software addressing Business Continuity, Crisis/Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, and Integrated Risk Management agendas. Built by experts and delivered via Software as a Service, the Fusion Framework adapts and evolves with your business. For more information, visit www.fusionrm.com.
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Double Dash!! bonus disc details
The Mario Kart: Double Dash!! preorder bonus disc will feature a number of playable demos and movies of upcoming GameCube titles.
By Justin Calvert | @justicecovert on April 12, 2005 at 2:21PM PDT
GameStop.com has recently updated its Web site with information on the bonus disc that will be given to customers preordering a copy of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. The disc will feature a number of playable demos and movies as well as bonus content for the Game Boy Advance role-playing game Fire Emblem. Playable demos on the bonus disc will include the following:
Mario Party 5 - Five minigames.
F-Zero GX - Playable demo featuring Captain Falcon.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Playable demo featuring Leonardo.
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike - Playable Hoth level.
Sonic Heroes - Two playable levels, three characters, seven all-new movies.
For more information on Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, which is currently scheduled for release on November 17, check out our previous coverage of the game.
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
F-Zero GX
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
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Affidavit: STEM security guard wounded student; suspects used cocaine before attack
Law enforcement personnel respond to STEM School Highlands Ranch on May 7. One student was killed and eight were wounded. Two students were arrested on suspicion of carrying out the attack.
Posted Thursday, June 20, 2019 8:02 pm
Jessica Gibbs
jgibbs@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Court documents in the case against one STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting suspect released June 20 show a private security guard at the school fired gunshots at other responding officers and injured a female student.
The affidavit in the case of Devon Erickson, 18, also shows he told investigators that his co-defendant in the murder case, Alec McKinney, 16, repeatedly threatened his life and forced him to assist in the shooting. The document can be read here.
The May 7 shooting left one student, Kendrick Castillo, dead and eight others wounded. Court records made available online before hearings held last month showed each suspect faced 48 charges, including first-degree murder. Formal charges against Erickson released June 20 include conspiracy to commit murder, arson, providing a juvenile a handgun, burglary and theft, among others.
MORE: STEM School shooting coverage
McKinney told investigators he wanted to transition from female to male. In court, his attorneys say he prefers male pronouns and goes by the name Alec, although court documents refer to him by his legal name of Maya.
The affidavit highlights interviews with both suspects from the day of the shooting. Their accounts are similar, but vary on certain points. It says they used cocaine before the attack, targeted specific students, stole their guns from Erickson's parents and smuggled them into the school with a guitar case and backpacks.
Here's what Erickson said happened, according to the document:
He said he received a message on Snapchat the night before the shooting telling him not to go to school tomorrow. The Snapchat contact said they were “super suicidal” and wanted revenge on a lot of people. The individual was considering killing their mother and siblings as well.
The name is redacted but it appears to be describing McKinney.
Erickson told investigators he tried talking the friend out of their plans, but the friend threated to kill him if he told anyone. He spoke with his father after this conversation but did not raise concerns about the friend.
The next day, the morning of the shooting, he went to school but left twice. The first time he went home with a friend to let his dog out. He said his parents were not home. He returned to school to receive class attendance credit and left again, this time he says to call the police.
As he got home, he received a message from a person, whose name is again redacted but appears to be McKinney, asking him to pick them up from school.
He picked the individual up, took them to his house where they spent time in the basement. The friend was angry and used cocaine. Erickson denied using the drug at that time.
Later, he says the two went upstairs and the friend asked where his parents' safe was. Both knew it contained firearms. He showed the friend and attempted to leave the room but was again threated with his life, he told authorities. The friend then used an ax to break into the safe and allegedly forced him to help them.
The friend, according to Erickson, loaded ammunition into magazines obtained from the safe. They both loaded bags with firearms and ammunition and went back to the basement where they each consumed cocaine.
He helped the friend carry and load weapons into the car. The two drove back to school in a Honda Civic.
Erickson took his guitar case holding firearms to classroom 107. He told his teacher he was sick and was sent to the office. He said he intended to report the incident but had a panic attack and went to the bathroom until he composed himself.
When he returned to the office, the other suspect was waiting for him and again allegedly threatened to kill him and others if he said anything.
The two went to classroom 107 and split up, entering through two different doors. Erickson claims he walked straight toward someone, whose name is redacted, to warn them, but the individual wasn't paying attention and his friend was watching him.
He went back to the doorway, when he saw McKinney reach for a gun. He then grabbed a handgun from his guitar case, pointed it straight and yelled at everyone to get down.
Erickson said two students rushed him and hit him, and the gun went off in the skirmish. As they brought him down, he released his gun and began trying to warn others that his friend was also armed and planned to kill people. He heard more gunshots and described being in shock.
“Devon repeatedly claimed he was going to stop (redacted) but couldn't articulate how or why he never told an adult,” the affidavit says.
Erickson allowed detectives to search his phone, provided them security credentials and signed a waiver. Toward the end of his interview, “Devon was having difficulty describing how he tried stopping (redacted),” and he requested an attorney.
He was taken to Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, where he received medical clearance. There, he approached the detective who interviewed him and again and offered his cooperation.
McKinney was interviewed at the substation by a separate investigator.
Here's his account of the shooting, according to the affidavit:
McKinney was planning a school shooting for weeks and got Erickson involved in the plan. He “wanted kids at the school to experience bad things, have to suffer from trauma like he has had to in his life. He wanted everyone in that school to suffer and realize that the world is a bad place,” the affidavit says.
He said he targeted fellow students who made fun of him and called him disgusting for wanting to transition from female to male. He wanted to specifically kill kids who'd called him names and broken his laptop.
He confirmed speaking with Erickson by Snapchat the night before to discuss his plan and says he “trashed” the house looking for a key to the safe but instead found an ax and crowbar. He said he threatened Erickson with the ax, acting as if he was going to hit him with it.
He wrote in the closet where the safe was held “the voices win” and spray-painted Erickson's mother's car in the garage and then set it on fire. The fire burned out and they left.
He stated they knew they could get through the middle school entrance without being checked. He knew students he didn't like would be in in the classroom they targeted.
They entered the classroom from different doors. He said Erickson “pulled the magnetic strip” and shut the door to prevent from being opened from the outside. They each pulled out their guns and said, “Nobody move.”
McKinney believed Erickson fired the first shot and then he began firing.
McKinney emptied two guns, was confronted by students and a teacher but escaped and left the room. He planned to kill himself outside the school but didn't know how to work the third gun he obtained.
He was then confronted by the armed security guard at gunpoint and complied with the guard's orders to get on the ground.
He reported having suicidal and homicidal thoughts since he was 12 and more recently in the weeks leading up to the shooting.
The document sheds more light on what authorities came upon as they responded to the school that day.
Other students were holding Erickson down when police reached him in room 107 of the school. He was not armed at the time, but authorities found two handguns and a rifle in the room. The rifle was found in a guitar case.
One of the students detaining Erickson had a gunshot wound in his leg and another, who appeared to have a gunshot wounds to the torso, layed nearby unconscious.
There was not a school resource officer assigned to the school at the time of the shooting, A private security guard from BOSS High Level Protection covered the school. He is not identified by name in the affidavit, which alleges other officers reported he fired two rounds at Douglas County Sheriff's Office "Lt. Laurie Bronner," injuring a student. The guard told investigators he saw "a muzzle come around the corner."
Following the shooting, reports that the guard fired his weapon at other first responders and injured a student surfaced, leading 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler to forward an investigation into the allegations to the 4th Judicial District Attorney Dan May.
A spokesperson for the 4th Judicial District Attorney's Office in Colorado Springs said the office had no updates when asked if the investigation was on-going and if charges had been brought against the guard. The spokesperson did not know when a decision would be made.
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star song by thomas maCY
In Star Song, author Thomas Macy takes us on a journey across the galaxies to a new home, forty-one light years from earth. A group of committed Christians have discovered and utilised the power of Dark Energy and use it to travel, at almost the speed of light, to Gillead, a moon, with qualities similar to earth. Determined to begin a new society, without the demons form earth, this clandestine group travel the massive distance in just over a month, whilst forty one years have passed, on earth. Simon’s girlfriend, Nora is part of the “chosen” group, but Simon believes she is entangled with a Christian cult and while trying to rescue her, unwittingly stows away on the spaceship, as it blasts off from earth. With little hope of ever returning, Simon, Nora, their friends and the ubiquitous Elders, who run this community, must not only face the challenges of living on a new planet, but also some of the same forces that caused so much strife for them on Earth. Transplantation, it seems, has not conquered the human frailties of ego, the thirst for power, and the desire to be an individual, in a collective society. The dangers of space travel and colonisation of a new world will bring the inherent risks of loss, home to this hardy band of explorers.
Thomas Macy has brought us a thrilling sci-fi adventure, in Star Song that does a wonderful job of explaining and analysing some of the base behaviours that make us inherently human but also make us inherently unique, as individuals. With a nod to “Lord of the Flies”, I thoroughly enjoyed the factions and differences of the many individuals that went on this trip. Although couched as a Christian book, it is important to note that, at its core this is a science fiction, action/adventure and can be read as such. The author has chosen to put a Christian slant to it and that is just fine. It, in no way, overpowers or diminishes the story of a group of space travellers/colonisers seeking a new beginning away from the prejudices and destructive natures of their previous societies. I particularly enjoyed the discussions centred around the type of society the colonisers were seeking to develop for themselves. The old adage of “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, kept coming to mind when addressing the Elder David and the differences between his visions for the community and other settler’s views. The love stories were beautifully handled and the tragedies, incurred by the settlers, were both sad and poignant. This is a wonderful sci-fi adventure and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to all.
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GN12260 Caricature shows Hugh Hefner, founder of the Playboy Empire.
Hugh Hefner - Founder of Playboy magazine
April 9, 2001 -- Caricature shows Hugh Hefner, founder of the Playboy Empire. Reissued following his death on September 27, 2017, aged 91
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED March 9, 2001 -- It is difficult to find a photograph of Hugh Hefner that doesn’t portray him with a satisfied smirk on his face. And it’s hardly surprising really.
Here’s a man who has devoted his life to pleasure -- his own and other people’s -- and in the process turned himself into the world’s most envied multi-millionaire.
Hef, as he has long been known, launched Playboy almost 50 years ago, when he produced the first issue of the magazine on the kitchen table of his apartment in New York. It immediately sold 50,000 copies nationwide, and an entire lifestyle was born.
As he approaches his 75th birthday on April 9, Hef is not only the oldest swinger in town, but the figurehead of a multi-faceted Playboy empire that embraces magazines, clubs, and casinos, together with global television and movie production.
He enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in a huge Beverly Hills mansion, surrounded by peacocks, lavish gardens and beautiful models. He has been variously described as the man who revolutionised sex in the 20th century and America’s favourite bachelor.
But to most people he’s just lucky old Hef -- the man who lived the dream.
Hef has a species of rabbit, the Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, named after him (Story: Mark Samms)
Bob Hoare - Caricaturist & Illustrator (Graphic News)
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How Big of an Age Gap Is Too Big in Relationships?
Ashley Ross
Is This the Most Empowering Way to Try Oral Sex?
Suzannah Weiss
Hey Google, Tell Me a Joke
Failure Week
I Came Out of a Broken Engagement Knowing How to Be Whole on My Own
Pooja Singh
Failure is universal. It’s never fun, but we’ll all confront it at some point, be it through bad luck, bad behavior, or just sucking at something. Why are we so bad at talking about it, and why are we so afraid of it? The stories of Failure Week are here to help remind us that the world doesn't end when something goes horribly wrong, and that we can learn as much from life's disasters as its successes.
Though it happened four years ago, I can force myself to remember the details: I was dressed in a custom orange and royal blue Indian ensemble, embroidered with beads and sequins. I was so nervous when I entered the hotel lobby that I barely looked up through the fake lashes I’d put on for the first time. The big-occasion jitters hadn’t gotten to him, though: He pulled off a magic trick on the stage, making the ring appear from behind my ear. Then he got down on one knee, and I remember hearing a gasp from the crowd—more than hundred of our friends and family who'd gathered for Rahul* and my engagement ceremony.
My friends gushed about the way he put the ring on my finger, and pictures of the moment went up on Facebook within minutes. “She found her magic,” one of my best friends captioned it. My dad opened four bottles of champagne, and my fiancé and I crossed our arms with the glasses and sipped, looking into each other's eyes.
Eight months after that very public display, our engagement was over. I lived in New York at that time, and he lived in Seattle. The official decision happened in a rather nasty meeting where he sat down with both his parents and mine—while I was not there. Even though I’d felt suffocated and unhappy, a huge part of me desperately wanted to cling to that relationship. I just didn't know how to go from engaged to not-engaged anymore.
But I wasn't going to get my last shot. My dad called me up and confirmed that it was over. Apparently, Rahul’s mom had written me off as dominant and demanding. She nudged Rahul to spill the details on some deeply personal moments between us as proof. To have my privacy betrayed like that, and to imagine the embarrassment my parents must have felt sitting through it, tore me apart.
It relieved me that my parents were supportive of the decision, but in the months that followed, I couldn’t help feeling like a failure. No one I knew among my close friends or family had gone through a broken engagement. I was 23; I didn’t know how to deal with it or how to talk about it. People didn’t know how to talk about it to me either. Every time someone said, “Oh no, I’m so sorry,” it drove home that I was supposed to feel bad. I told myself that a horrible thing has happened to me, and that it’s my fault I couldn’t make it work. When the friends who’d attended my engagement ceremony just ignored that the relationship had imploded, I took it to mean that it was something to hide, even from those that love you.
It was my first winter in New York City, but nothing about it was as magical as I’d seen in Serendipity or Home Alone 2. I felt miserable all the time, and I wouldn’t step out of my room. I’d decided that I wasn’t brave enough to visit my family over Christmas break, either. I was afraid of the questions I thought my aunts and uncles would ask, and I was afraid I’d be judged for returning home unengaged.
I would've felt more confident to face people if I'd had answers for why things turned out this way. But I hadn't found a way to rationalize it to myself. I was internally screaming with thoughts of "Why me?" every day. It definitely had to do with the way I was raised and conditioned to succeed at everything—I was the good kid who excelled in class, was the school captain, got into the best college, led the debating society, had page-one bylines in one of the biggest national newspapers when I was barely 18, got through Columbia Journalism School on my first try, and now this relationship had dragged me down with a stamp of failure I'd never experienced before.
One month after our engagement blew up, I found out he was sexting with a high school friend. His new relationship didn't help me move on. It made it worse. I was already bitter, and now I felt more of a failure because this was no longer just the end of a relationship, it seemed like he chose someone better.
It took me more than a year to realize that getting out of that relationship was actually what I needed. There were a lot of red flags I'd ignored: He’d lied to me about his smoking habit, and when I visited him, I found his desk littered with weed. I didn’t judge him, but I was angry because I felt I didn't truly know the person I was engaged to. And I felt cheated because he admitted he was smoking with his roommate when he cut our Skype conversations short to “have dinner.” In those moments, I had wondered why he didn’t have time for his girlfriend, and later fiancée. I'd felt I wasn't exciting enough to hold on to him.
I couldn’t go back to dating seriously for a long time because I feared that when I opened up, men would assume "broken engagement = crazy girl." The best thing that happened from having this me-time was that I embraced the art of mindfulness and self-awareness. I learned about self-care because I couldn’t think of a single answer when my therapist first asked me: “What do you do for relaxation?”
Relaxation? No one ever told me to go relax, I thought. I’d gone my entire life chasing one goal after another. I’d depended entirely on my relationships for my happiness and self-worth. I'd never connected with myself to understand the root of my anxieties and insecurities. I figured I’d said yes to Rahul because that relationship was like checking a box for me. I’d naively believed that getting married should be the logical next step. I realized I wasn’t mature enough or even mentally ready for such a commitment. Hell, I’d even agreed to give up my ambitions in New York to move to Seattle, where there wasn’t a single journalism job I was crazy about, after grad school.
It took me almost 18 months to get there, but I learned to put my feelings first. Now when I went on dates, I knew exactly what I was looking for and what behavior could hurt me. I knew when to walk away, and I knew not to indulge someone just because my self-esteem was low that day. I gave up on even getting occasional drinks because I realized that alcohol always ended up taking me to a sad place. Thankfully, I had friends who loved me enough to plan game nights and movie nights and drink home-made chai instead.
I taught a dance class one semester, I wrote postcards and thank-you notes to the people I loved. I was trying to replace the negativity inside me with gratitude. I went to a couple of Buddhist teaching sessions, biked the entirety of Central Park almost every weekend that summer, and planned a real picnic with my friend Erica. Just unpacking our lavish spread—sandwiches, a cheese plate, veggies and dips, fresh fruits—filled me with a sense of achievement I hadn't felt in the longest time. I can do it, I thought. I can find happiness again.
There were obviously days when it still hurt—when Facebook's Memory feature sent me notifications and photos of "This happened two years ago today" or when I bawled at the realization that I'd left hundreds of my original newspaper bylines from three years of reporting at Rahul's parents' place before moving to New York. But I learned to ask for help on those bad days. This entire phase taught me that there's more to life than constantly seeking someone who'd love me passionately, or regretting someone who didn't. I'd always known that I was intensely emotional, but now I'd learned that if I needed a lot of love to feel alive, I'd have to give it to myself. I needed to be whole on my own. I wasn't waiting for someone to complete me anymore.
*Names have been withheld or changed to protect the privacy of those involved.
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North-East Trades event nominated for National Award
The Trades Awards 2016 finalists, taken during this years ceremony which took place at Ardoe House Hotel, on Friday, June 10, in front of over 400 people.
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The Trades Awards, launched in 2013 to recognise the achievements of North-east Scotland’s trades people, has today (Wednesday 13thJuly) been shortlisted within the category of ‘Best Awards Scheme’ at The Drum’s prestigious Scottish Event Awards, which takes place in Glasgow on October 5.
The Scottish Event Awards is the only event dedicated to celebrating the highly successful and creative events sector north of the border, and is open to all event organisers, promoters, in-house teams, venues or industry suppliers.
The Trades Awards ceremony, which is now the largest construction dinner and networking event in the north-east, and which continues to be the only event of its kind in Scotland, is up against strong competition from The Forth Awards, which are organised by Radio Forth in Edinburgh.
Darren Ross, Director of Xcite Ltd, comments: “We are absolutely thrilled to have been shortlisted within the category of ‘Best Awards Scheme’ at this year’s Scottish Event Awards. We really feel that this nomination is for every single person and business who has supported The Trades Awards across the past three years, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank each of them again.
The Trades Awards has doubled in size since its launch in 2013, despite the North-east going through some of its most difficult times to date, and this growth is entirely due to the vital support that we receive from local and national businesses, and of course to the hard work and dedication of our small team.
If our event has helped in some small way to highlight the skills and talent within the North-east construction industry, along with the incredible opportunities that are right here on our door stop, then we are hopefully now doing what we set out to achieve.”
Neil Thomson, Construction Director of Stewart Milne Homes says: “It’s really encouraging to see a fantastic celebration of North East Talent be shortlisted for Best Awards Scheme at the 2016 Scottish Event Awards. The team at Xcite Media pour themselves into all aspects of Trades Awards; from creating the awards categories, attracting new and repeat nominations, encouraging new and existing businesses celebrate the lifeblood of their organisations – the people.
All of these efforts culminate in the tireless organising of the Trades Awards, which we’ve seen grow year on year, to become a regular fixture in the Aberdeen awards calendar. This shortlist only helps to highlight and celebrate the growth and popularity of the Trades Awards and we, at Stewart Milne, are delighted to fully support this event and all it stands for, for the construction industry.”
For more information on Trades Awards, visitwww.tradesawards.com. For more information about the Scottish Event Awards, visit www.scottisheventawards.com
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The Role of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Mucosal Immunity
Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC) represent a relatively recently described group of lymphocytes that differ from conventional T cells due to their lack of genetically rearranged antigen receptors. ILCs share many phenotypic and functional properties of adaptive immune cells, and can be divided into three distinct ...
Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC) represent a relatively recently described group of lymphocytes that differ from conventional T cells due to their lack of genetically rearranged antigen receptors. ILCs share many phenotypic and functional properties of adaptive immune cells, and can be divided into three distinct lineages on the basis of their specific transcription factor expression: Group 1 (ILC-1) are dependent on T-bet and produce IFN-γ, Group 2 (ILC-2) express GATA-3 and produce IL-5, IL-4 and IL-13 and Group 3 (ILC-3) express RORγt and produce IL-17 and IL-22. These groups parallel the transcriptional and functional characteristics of T helper 1 (Th1), Th2 and Th17 conventional T cells, respectively. In contrast with their adaptive counterparts, ILC function is independent of antigen priming. Instead, ILCs are equipped to sense and respond to changes in their microenvironment. Due to their position at barrier surfaces, ILCs are poised to rapidly respond pathogens and tissue injury. ILCs are developmentally programmed to migrate, differentiate and populate mucosal tissues including the gut, lung and reproductive tract and associated lymphoid tissues.
Although ILCs are critical for tissue homeostasis and inflammatory processes, they are present only in very low numbers. Their scarcity belies their potency as ILCs are critical in regulating responses to pathogens, such as helminthic parasites, to maintain tissue integrity and promote immunological tolerance of T cells to commensal bacteria. Their dysregulation can lead to chronic inflammatory diseases including allergy and asthma and to autoimmune diseases such as colitis and Crohn’s disease. All ILC subsets have been shown to influence tumorigenesis, although their role to date appears highly ambiguous and are still requiring critical evaluation.
In this Research Topic, we aim to gather original cutting edge research covering aspects of the emerging field of ILCs in mucosal immunity and of the newly discovered role for ILCs in adipose tissue and metabolism. We welcome the submission of Original Research, Review and Perspective articles that address the following sub-topics:
1. ILC distribution and function at mucosal sites: gastrointestinal, respiratory and genitourinary.
2. ILCs and host:parasite interactions in gastrointestinal and respiratory sites.
3. ILCs and cancers at mucosal sites or in adipose tissue.
4. ILCs in human mucosal diseases.
5. ILCs in adipose tissue and metabolism.
6. ILCs and T cell crosstalk during mucosal immune responses.
We acknowledge the initiation and support of this Research Topic by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). We hereby state publicly that the IUIS has had no editorial input in articles included in this Research Topic, thus ensuring that all aspects of this Research Topic are evaluated objectively, unbiased by any specific policy or opinion of the IUIS.
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Home> Publications & Directories> Perspectives on History> Issues> April 2014> AHA Today> AHA Member Spotlight: William M. Ferraro
AHA Member Spotlight: William M. Ferraro
Dana Schaffer | Apr 2, 2014
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize our talented and eclectic membership, AHA Today features a regular AHA Member Spotlight series.
William M. Ferraro is a historian and documentary editor. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has been an AHA member since 1986.
Current school or alma mater/s: AB in American studies from Georgetown University and an AM and PhD in American civilization from Brown University.
Fields of interest: I concentrate on 18th-century and 19th-century United States history with particular interests in the Revolutionary War and Civil War eras. I have worked on several notable figures and their family relationships, including John and William Tecumseh Sherman, Salmon P. Chase, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, and James Monroe.
When did you first develop an interest in history?
Growing up long before the Internet, I satisfied my curiosity while in later elementary school by reading encyclopedias, taking a particular interest in biographies. My initial interest in narrative histories (while in junior high and high school) focused on World War II. I especially liked books on the naval war in the Pacific. One of my father’s cousins served on the aircraft carrier Hornet as an airplane mechanic during the Doolittle Raid and Midway. He jumped off the flight deck when the ship sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign and was recovered from the water by a destroyer.
What projects are you working on currently?
Editing the Revolutionary War Series for the Papers of George Washington occupies the bulk of my time. I recently published two book chapters centered on James Monroe and have one pending on Ulysses S. Grant’s world tour. Within the last month, I completed a conference paper reevaluating the relationship between Benjamin Rush and George Washington. If I had more time for personal research and writing, I would love to give attention to longer projects on the Sherman family and Ulysses S. Grant.
Have your interests changed since graduate school? If so, how?
In graduate school, I concentrated on community studies, writing a dissertation on town meeting government in Rhode Island from the 1630s until the 1980s. From writing on communities and using largely voiceless sources, I shifted to individuals, families, and loudly voiced sources like letters, diaries, and published writings.
Is there an article, book, movie, blog etc. that you could recommend to fellow AHA members?
The single most valuable publication over my career as a historian has been AHA’s Perspectives magazine. Nothing so compact contains so much useful information. If nothing else, the memoriam essays offer vivid insights into the profession.
What do you value most about the history profession?
The history profession allows daily engagement with people in the past facing and often overcoming challenges. It is exciting and informative. Countless people have told me how much they wish they could have a job like mine. Countless more have told the same thing to my parents when finding out that their son is a historian.
Why did you join the AHA?
I joined the AHA to find out more about the history profession when it became clear that my American civilization PhD was doing nowhere in literary studies or political science.
Do you have a favorite AHA annual meeting anecdote you would like to share?
My wife and I were married on November 29, 1997. Remarkably, the AHA in January 1998 was in Seattle, and the conference hotel options included a Four Seasons. That hotel was $15 or $20 more per night than the other hotels. I spent the extra money for the fancier hotel, and we had a fabulous time while I remember friends grumbling about the overcrowding and accommodations at the other hotels. I do not recall the AHA annual meeting ever before or since offering a Four Seasons franchise as a lodging option.
Other than history, what are you passionate about?
I grew up in New Jersey and began rooting for the New York Yankees in 1966. My fixation with the Yankees has persisted through graduate school in New England and professional positions in California, Illinois, and Virginia. The Yankees have been so successful since 1995 that people do not realize or forget how terrible they were in the later 1960s, early 1970s, and early 1990s. In answering this question, I cannot overlook my family, especially my wife and our adopted son.
Any final thoughts?
Read and use the great modern printed and online documentary editions such as the Papers of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Stanton-Anthony Papers, Booker T. Washington Papers, and Woodrow Wilson Papers. A much longer list can be found at the Association for Documentary Editing website. Virtually all historians can find items of value in these modern documentary editions for teaching, research, and presentations. They will save you time, money, and errors all too prevalent in earlier editions.
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Home> Publications & Directories> Perspectives on History> Issues> January 2015> AHA Today> Grant of the Week: Cuban Heritage Collection Fellowships
Grant of the Week: Cuban Heritage Collection Fellowships
AHA Staff | Jan 30, 2015
Every week, AHA Today showcases a new grant, fellowship, or scholarship of interest to historians which has been posted to our free Calendar. We look for grants of potential interest to a wide range of scholars, but we also seek out grants for more specific fields. This week, we are featuring an exciting opportunity for scholars of Cuban history and culture.
The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) at the University of Miami Libraries invites applications for the 2015-2016 CHC Fellowships in support of individual research by graduate students and scholars who wish to use the research resources available in the collection. Awards are made in two categories:
CHC Graduate Fellowships: These awards are available for pre-prospectus and research fellowships for U.S.-based doctoral students. For more information and to apply, please visit apply.interfolio.com/27641.
CHC Arts in the Cuban Republic Fellowships: Awards support U.S.-based students and scholars with projects focused on topics related to the arts in Cuba between 1933 and 1958, including but not limited to visual arts, music, theater, dance, and architecture. For more information and to apply, please visit apply.interfolio.com/27642.
The CHC Fellowships require residency in the CHC for the duration of the award period. All applications are due on Sunday, February 1, 2015 and must be submitted electronically through the links provided above. Questions? Please write to chc@miami.edu.
Launched with a grant from the Goizueta Foundation, the CHC Fellowships program has made 55 awards since 2010. To learn more about the program and past CHC Fellows, visit library.miami.edu/chc/fellows.
The AHA offers a free calendar advertising awards, meetings, and exhibits. Submit your own announcements to our Calendar.
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'Sex Education' On Netflix: 8 Reasons You Need To Get Into This New Show Immediately
There's a lot more to it than the title might suggest.
By Daniel Welsh, HuffPost UK
Netflix has done it again with its new hit show, ‘Sex Education’.
‘Sex Education’ introduces us to Otis, a socially-awkward and sexually-repressed 16-year-old who lives with his mum, Jean, a sex and relationships therapist.
Despite his own lack of experience, Otis winds up inadvertently following in his mum’s footsteps for his schoolmates, after helping someone through a rather mortifying sexual problem with a bit of advice he picked up from his mum.
Already a hit with viewers and critics alike, the show has sparked a lot of conversation online, and if you’re yet to tune in, this is why it’s already proved so popular...
Emma Mackey, Asa Butterfield and Connor Swindells in 'Sex Education'
1. The aesthetic
The first thing we have to say about ‘Sex Education’ is that it looks great. The entire show has a total’ 80s vibe to it (it took us a full 20 minutes into the first episode to realise that it isn’t actually set in the ‘80s), from the fashion to the technology and reference points. This means that compared to other contemporary shows that centre around young people, the episodes not going to feel dated when you watch them back in a year or so. Even the characters’ names – including Otis, Eric, Maeve and Ruby – don’t feel specific to a time period.
Most of the action takes place at lead character Otis’ house, or the high school which, despite being obviously set in the UK, has a distinctly American feel to it, with its pastel-coloured lockers, expansive ‘Breakfast Club’-esque corridors and lack of school uniform. Already not placed in a set time period, this means ‘Sex Education’ is also not stuck in one already-existing location, so when you watch it, you don’t end up getting too hung up on local geography.
“It’s very much a bold stylistic choice,” actor Alistair Petrie told ‘BUILD’. “And it works, it is its own world, which people are invited to step into.”
2. The impressive young cast
Another way ‘Sex Education’ manages not to distract us is by casting mostly unknown actors as the show’s younger characters. You might recognise leading man Asa Butterfield from his childhood turns in ‘Hugo’ or ‘The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas’, but almost everyone else from the main cast can boast ‘Sex Education’ is among their first on-screen appearances.
Both Emma Mackey and Ncuti Gatwa, who play Maeve and Eric, only had a handful of small TV roles before landing their parts in ‘Sex Education’, and the same applies to Connor Swindells (Adam), while for Aimee Lou Wood (Aimee), this is her first time acting on screen.
Ncuti Gatwa stars as Otis' best friend, Eric
3. The show is encouragingly diverse
The great thing about a show that’s forward-thinking in its attitude to sex is that it’s also ahead of the curve in terms of its on-screen representation. The show features an array of young stars from different ethnic backgrounds, while also showcasing a number of different narratives around LGBT+ themes, including experimentation with gender, same-sex attraction and the subversion of stereotypes.
4. And, of course, we have to give a shout out to Gillian Anderson
Yes, she’s already proved to be a big draw for many early ‘Sex Education’ fans, so you probably don’t need us to tell you how good she is.
But honestly, she really is exceptional.
“She’s very giving as an actor,” co-star Connor Swindells told ‘BUILD’ of working with the legendary actress. “It’s nice when people take the time to be like that when they really don’t have to. I’m no one, so she could have blanked me the whole time, but she didn’t.”
Gillian Anderson in 'Sex Education'
5. The soundtrack
Despite its strong ’80s aesthetic, ‘Sex Education’ does give away a few subtle nods to the fact its set nearer the present, with Snapchat, Pornhub and modern currency.
Its soundtrack does feature a number of throwback to decades gone by, including A-ha’s ‘Take On Me’, The Smiths’ ‘Asleep’ and Billy Idol’s ‘Dancing With Myself’ (you can work out for yourself when that one makes it in).
There are also a few more modern offerings, from artists including Beth Ditto, Grizzly Bear and Ezra Furman, a US singer/songwriter whose music crops up at poignant moments throughout the series.
6. Sex talk
Yeah, you could probably work this out from the title, but ‘Sex Education’ really should be commended for its frank conversations around sex, particularly for a show that revolves around teenagers and young people.
It’s often played for laughs, yes, but as Connor Swindells points out, there’s quite often a little bit more going on than you might initially think.
“A lot of the time, all these sexual problems, they’re actually mirroring other problems,” he explained. “So I think, you’re actually talking about those other things, rather than an erect penis or viagra or scampi. It’s just a chance to talk about the deeper stuff, but in a crude way.”
Emma Mackey as Maeve
7. Embarrassing teenage moments
Not since ‘The Inbetweeners’ has a British show about teenagers been so cringe-inducing in its relatability.
True, we don’t recall ever having an urn containing someone’s cremated grandmother smashed over our heads, or having a fellow student expose themselves in the cafeteria so everyone would stop comparing their genitals to a Coke can. But in Sex Education’s less extreme scenes, we’ve had a fair few “yep, been there” moments while we watched, and we doubt we’re the only ones.
8. The heart
But for every slapstick gross-out moment, or over-the-top sexual reference, there’ll be a genuinely heart-warming scene. Yes, ‘Sex Education’ is about so much more than what the name would suggest, with each episode seeing Otis and the people that surround him navigating unlikely friendships, difficult family relationships and finding out who they really are at a difficult time in everyone’s lives.
“When I first read it, it took me straight back to being 17,” Alistair has said. “And it made me laugh and wince and all the rest of it… and as adults, we’re still trying to figure out who the hell we are, we’re just a little better at hiding it.”
‘Sex Education’ is now streaming on Netflix.
Daniel Welsh Entertainment Reporter, The Huffington Post UK
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Will The Graphic Novel Adaption Of Richard Wagner's 'The Ring Of The Nibelung' Live Up To Expectations?
It takes a brave artist to attempt a graphic version of Wagner's Ring Cycle, and Philip Craig Russell is just that.
By Lindsay Pereira
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Siegfried's Death, from the cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, by Wilhelm Ernst Ferdinand Franz Hauschild (1827-1887). Neuschwanstein Castle, Fussen, Germany.
I visited the German town of Bayreuth a couple of years ago, for the same reason that thousands of others have done for over a century—the music of Richard Wagner. This is a difficult thing to admit because the composer (1813–1883) has always attracted admirers and detractors in equal measure, his life-affirming music jostling for attention alongside his racism and antisemitism. What everyone can agree upon, presumably, is that Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), his cycle of four epic music dramas, is the biggest challenge for any opera company or listener.
Wagner’s Ring, which is what the four-headed beast is most commonly referred to, took him over a quarter of a century to create. Its four parts — Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) — were inspired by the epic poem Der Nibelunge Liet written by an anonymous poet around 1200, and continue to amaze, inspire and infuriate those who choose to grapple with it.
As with anything so monumental, there have been all kinds of treatments, adaptations and readings, inspired or influenced by the original. There have been condensed orchestral versions, as well as satirical takes for stage and film. It takes a brave artist to attempt a graphic version of The Ring Cycle and Philip Craig Russell has always displayed that particular virtue. This month saw the publication of his 448-page The Ring Of The Nibelung series for the first time in a collected trade paperback edition. It made me very happy because the 2002 hardcover edition of his Eisner Award-winning series had long been out of print, with only second-hand copies available at ridiculous prices.
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There are a number of reasons why this graphic novel deserves to be called an epic, starting with the story of the ‘Ring’ itself. It is a complicated, convoluted tale that draws from myth, folk tales and Wagner’s personal belief systems to become a potent mix that, like all great art, will always be open to interpretation.
It opens with maidens in the river Rhine who have been tasked with protecting gold of great power. That precious hoard is stolen by a dwarf named Alberich and forged into a magic ring that enables the wearer to rule everything. All comparisons with Tolkien end at this point because the ring is stolen by Wotan, chief of the Gods (also called Voton, the All-Father). He, in turn, is forced to hand it over to two giants as payment for the building of Valhalla, a suitable home for the gods. One of the giants is eventually killed by Voton’s grandson Siegfried, who is mortal and will inadvertently destroy the world. This is when Brünnhilde, a Valkyrie or female Norse warrior, who also happens to be Voton’s daughter, comes into the picture. She falls in love with Siegfried but is condemned for saving his father’s life. She then gets the ring and returns it to the Rhine maidens, before killing herself on her lover’s pyre. Valhalla is destroyed, along with the gods, and the opera closes with the Rhine flowing calmly again. With sub-plots, unexpected twists, and a host of major and minor characters, it really is the sort of tale begging for a CGI-enhanced four-film blockbuster helmed by Peter Jackson (who directed The Lord of The Rings series).
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Siegmund and Sieglinde, scene from The Valkyrie, from The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, illustration from the weekly Rivista Illustrata (Illustrated Magazine), No 227, May 6, 1883.
As an opera — or ‘music drama’ as Wagner preferred to call it — this is not for the fainthearted. It traditionally occurs over four nights and has been known to stretch for almost 16 hours depending upon who the conductor is. I approached it with trepidation only in my late twenties, starting with a translation of the epic poem, graduating to Wagner’s libretto, immersing myself in reams of academic criticism before feeling confident enough to listen to the Ring Cycle itself. The standard waiting list for tickets to the Bayreuth Festival is around 10 years, so I had to be satisfied with a walk around the famous Festspielhaus and recordings on DVD.
I mention this because it is only by understanding how overwhelming the work is that one can appreciate Craig Russell’s interpretation. He has long been more qualified to do this than most other artists working in the medium, given the history of opera adaptations in his portfolio. The list includes Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Richard Strauss’s Salome, and Wagner’s Parsifal, all of which must have engendered their own challenges before spurring Russell towards the Ring Cycle. The art is his, but the book employs a translation of Wagner’s libretto by Patrick Mason, and colour by the legendary Lovern Kindzierski.
In all honesty, it shouldn’t work. The Ring Cycle is such a masterful blend of music, drama and visual spectacle that a comic book adaptation cannot help but be underwhelming. Wagner himself was routinely disappointed by any attempt at staging it, even though his Festspielhaus was built specifically for that reason. Advances in technology now make every Ring Cycle on stage more compelling than the last one, and yet, Russell succeeds by tapping into a crucial aspect — the story itself. Valkyrie on horses silhouetted against blood-red skies, swords that clash and shatter within wide expanses of white, the retro hues of Valhalla — they all appear in ways impossible to emulate on stage. It’s almost as if Wagner knew how well his libretto would work when placed alongside comics about superheroes and supervillains.
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It must be said that this is not the first graphic interpretation. The writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Gil Kane published their own four-issue version in the late 1980s, which edited the libretto down to its bare bones and focused more on bosoms than the powerful myth about death and resurrection. In 2007, the French cartoonist Alex Alice published a trilogy called Siegfried, which referenced the opera only tangentially, emphasizing awe-inspiring art at the expense of the story.
Russell’s expertise reveals itself in his understanding of a key Wagnerian element: the leitmotif. The word refers to Wagner’s usage of clues in the form of melodic fragments associated with specific characters or events. These gradually accumulate meaning with every recurrence. He cleverly replicates the essence of these individual themes, sometimes using sparse panels to emphasise the appearance of the ring, or relying on repetitive visual clues to create a visual map for readers unfamiliar with the music. Where Wagner created threads that run parallel to each other by combining and contrasting these motifs, Russell’s art sometimes carries on independently of the dialogue.
In all honesty, it shouldn’t work. The Ring Cycle is such a masterful blend of music, drama and visual spectacle that a comic book adaptation cannot help but be underwhelming.
It is impossible to review any work by Wagner without acknowledging his antisemitism. This becomes more imperative while considering the Ring Cycle because the composer published his most virulent attack on Judaism just a few months before embarking upon a prose sketch for Siegfried. To separate the man from his art is a cop-out because it condones so much that ought to be dragged into the light and shamed. It must be said, however, that the Ring Cycle in particular has always been a vessel for all kinds of contradictory views. While George Bernard Shaw saw it as a critique of capitalism, Thomas Mann assumed it was a socialist work, and Hitler famously had his own ideas of what it was meant to convey.
Russell’s work avoids the most common criticism about The Ring Cycle, specifically its depiction of the dwarf blacksmith Mime, brother of Alberich. The composer Gustav Mahler saw Mime as a stereotype and a figure of intentional ridicule, an assessment the critic TW Adorno concurred with. Russell, wisely or inadvertently, eschews extraneous comments or political statements and sticks to the work’s more blatantly cinematic elements of romance, tragedy, lust, and betrayal.
According to official reports, Bayreuth is home to a little over 70,000 residents today. It continues to attract tourists for Wagner alone, and one can safely assume this will be the norm a century from now as well. I like to believe our collective relationship with the composer and his music will evolve, the way it did for Friedrich Nietzsche, who started out as an admirer but came to see the Bayreuth Festival as a symptom of societal decay.
An epic, like any work of art, must initiate questions. The act of questioning becomes easier through adaptations and reinterpretations. If the answers call for a dismantling of heroes and a reevaluation of our cultural icons, Russell’s graphic novel is already part of a worthy tradition. I’m just glad it’s finally affordable.
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Low-Tax Delaware Now Home To More Corporations Than People
Apple, Bank of America, Google and JPMorgan Chase all have the same legal address -- and it’s not a flashy building on Wall Street or a slick one in Silicon Valley.
Instead those companies are among the 285,000 that are technically based in a small building in Wilmington, Delaware, The New York Times reports. The firms all only have a dropbox at the Delaware address, but they use it as a means to reduce their tax bills. Delaware’s friendly corporate tax laws mean that more than half of the public companies in the U.S. are incorporated in the state. Indeed, as Adam Clark Estes noted in a tweet, the state is home to more corporations than people.
Delaware isn’t the only place on U.S. shores where companies can locate to reduce their tax bills. In Cheyenne, Wyoming, more than 2,000 companies are registered at just one address, which houses a firm that specializes in creating shell companies that corporations can use to hide their assets, according to Reuters. The firms are common in states where regulations are light.
Though legal, shell companies -- or companies that exist but don't have any major assets or significant business activities -- can in some cases be used as fronts for illegal businesses in corporate-friendly states. They're also just one of the many ways that major firms try to reduce their tax bills. Thirty of America’s most profitable companies paid no income taxes over the past three years, according to a report released last year by the Citizens for Tax Justice. In addition, nearly 300 companies paid an average tax rate of 18.5 percent between 2008 and 2010 -- way less than the official corporate tax rate of 35 percent.
One common way big companies avoid paying taxes on much of their profits is by parking their earnings overseas. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said in a call with analysts in March that the company has no plans to repatriate its overseas earnings because it would result in “significant tax consequences.” At the time, Apple paid an international tax rate of less than 3 percent on its overseas money, which accounts for about two-thirds of its profits, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.
Apple, along with Google and other companies, was also part of a coalition that lobbied Congress for a tax holiday on repatriated overseas profits that would result in a $1 trillion boon for the firms, according to Bloomberg.
In another example of sidestepping corporate taxes, Facebook structured its initial public offering in such a way that it could avoid paying federal and state income taxes on its 2011 earnings, according to a February report from the CTJ.
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How Merrick Garland Made It Harder For Obama To Be So Secretive
The Supreme Court nominee has an expansive view of who should be able to get government documents for free.
By Christopher Mathias
On his first day in office in 2009, President Barack Obama called the Freedom of Information Act “the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ensuring an open Government.” He also promised that his would be the "most transparent administration in history."
It’s a promise he has repeatedly broken. An Associated Press report on Friday found that the Obama administration has again set a record for failing to fulfill FOIA requests. Earlier this month, documents — unearthed, ironically enough, by a FOIA lawsuit — revealed the Obama administration has actively lobbied against reforms to make the FOIA process stronger. And in January, Congress released a report titled simply: "FOIA Is Broken."
But if there is to be one potential bright spot for FOIA in the eight years of the Obama administration, it may come from Merrick Garland, the president's nominee to the Supreme Court.
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President Barack Obama introduces Merrick Garland as his nominee for the Supreme Court.
Obama tapped Garland, the 63-year-old chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, on Wednesday to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Garland has been a judge on the highly influential D.C. Circuit since 1997. The court hears an inordinate amount of cases regarding FOIA.
In an August 2015 ruling hailed as a victory for government transparency in the digital age, Garland took a broad view of who's eligible for fee waivers and fee reductions when making FOIA requests.
"There is nothing in the [FOIA] statute that specifies the number of outlets a requester must have, and surely a newspaper is not disqualified if it forsakes newsprint for (or never had anything but) a website," Garland wrote in his opinion, joined by Judges Janice Rogers Brown and David Sentelle.
"There is no indication that Congress meant to distinguish between those who reach their ultimate audiences directly and those who partner with others to do so, as some recognized journalistic enterprises do," the decision continues.
The government charges money to fulfill FOIA requests. These fees can be ridiculously, prohibitively expensive -- sometimes costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. By law, "representatives of the news media" are supposed to get fee reductions or fee waivers for FOIA requests.
But before last year, some government agencies, particularly under the Obama administration, had taken to defining "representatives of the news media" in a highly restrictive manner, denying fee waiver and fee reduction requests to advocacy organizations, government watchdog groups and nontraditional news outlets.
In one instance, the Department of Homeland Security tried (and later failed) to deny news media status to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an esteemed organization with an established history of examining government documents in a way that routinely precipitates media coverage.
Garland's 2015 decision arose from another dispute -- a lawsuit brought against the Federal Trade Commission by Cause of Action, an up-and-coming conservative government accountability group. The FTC, which argued that Cause of Action did not count as a "representative of the news media," had denied a FOIA request submitted by the group.
Garland's decision rejected FTC's strict interpretation, instead laying out simple but expansive guidelines for who is eligible for fee waivers and reductions. The FOIA requester, he wrote, must "(1) gather information of potential interest (2) to a segment of the public; (3) use its editorial skills to turn the raw materials into a distinct work; and (4) distribute that work (5) to an audience."
And that "audience" doesn't even have to be large. Garland stipulated that “beyond requiring that a person or entity have readers (or listeners or viewers), the statute does not specify what size the audience must be.”
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1913
According to Adam Marshall, a legal fellow at Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Garland's decision "gets FOIA right."
"If you have a website, that counts as disseminating news to the public," Marshall explained. "You don't have to place papers on people's doorsteps -- which we think is absolutely correct and consistent with FOIA."
Open government advocates often invoke Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’ 1913 maxim that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Saturday marks the end of Sunshine Week -- an annual celebration of FOIA, a law that will mark its 50th anniversary this summer.
As ProPublica's Justin Elliot recently wrote, FOIA has been "essential in disclosing the torture of detainees after 9/11, decades of misdeeds by the CIA, FBI informants who were allowed to break the law and hundreds of other stories."
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An autopsy report for Manadel Al Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner at the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq where detainees were tortured by the American military. The autopsy report was released after a FOIA request filed by the ACLU.
Marshall told HuffPost that Garland's 2015 decision will hopefully ensure that journalists, advocates and whomever else can continue to shed sunlight on government actions.
"The news media is performing a public good -- that's why they have to pay less fees than commercial requesters," Marshall said. "Budgets in newsrooms are pretty tight these days and if news media had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in FOIA requests, they wouldn't file FOIA requests, and they wouldn't get the info the public needs, and the the public would be deprived of that info."
Garland faces an uphill battle to actually becoming a Supreme Court justice. Senate Republicans have said they won't even consider a nominee, let alone hold a confirmation hearing, until after the presidential election in November. The next president, not Obama, should pick the next member of the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said.
Read Garland's full 2015 decision below.
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09/10/2013 10:00 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
Our Fossil-Fueled Future
By Michael Klare
World Energy in 2040
Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com
What sort of fabulous new energy systems will the world possess in 2040? Which fuels will supply the bulk of our energy needs? And how will that change the global energy equation, international politics, and the planet’s health? If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas -- and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.
It’s true, of course, that any predictions about the fuel situation almost three decades from now aren’t likely to be reliable. All sorts of unexpected upheavals and disasters in the years ahead make long-range predictions inherently difficult. This has not, however, deterred the Department of Energy from producing a comprehensive portrait of the world’s future energy system. Known as the International Energy Outlook (IEO), the assessment incorporates detailed projections of future energy production and consumption. Although dense with statistical data and filled with technical jargon, the 2013 report provides a unique and disturbing picture of our planetary future.
Many of us would like to believe that, by 2040, the world will be far along the path toward a green industrial future with wind, solar, and renewable fuels providing the bulk of our energy supplies. The IEO assumes otherwise. It anticipates a world in which coal -- the most carbon-intense of all major fuels -- still supplies more of our energy than renewables, nuclear, and hydropower combined.
The world it foresees is also one in which oil remains a preeminent source of energy, while hydro-fracking and other drilling techniques for extracting unconventional fossil fuels are far more widely employed than today. Wind and solar energy will also play a bigger role in 2040, but -- as the IEO sees it -- will still represent only a small fraction of the global energy mix.
Admittedly, International Energy Outlook is a government product of this moment with all the limitations that implies. It envisions the future by extrapolating from current developments. It is not visionary. Its authors can’t imagine energy breakthroughs that have yet to happen, or changes in world attitudes that may affect how energy is dealt with, or events like wars, environmental disasters, and global economic recessions or depressions that could alter the world’s energy situation. Nonetheless, because it assesses current endeavors that are sure to have long-lasting repercussions, like the present massive worldwide investments in shale oil and shale gas extraction, it provides an extraordinary resource for imagining the energy crisis in our future.
Among its major findings are three fundamental developments:
* Global energy use will continue to rise rapidly, with total world consumption jumping from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs) in 2010 to an estimated 820 quadrillion in 2040, a net increase of 56 percent. (A BTU is the amount of energy needed to heat one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.)
* An increasing share of world energy demand will be generated by developing countries, especially those in Asia. Of the nearly 300 quadrillion BTUs in added energy needed to meet global requirements between now and 2040, some 250 quadrillion, or 85 percent, will be used to satisfy rising demand in the developing world.
* China, which only recently overtook the United States as the world’s leading energy consumer, will account for the largest share -- 40 percent -- of the growth in global consumption over the next 30 years.
These projections may not in themselves be surprising, but if accurate, the consequences for the global economy, world politics, and the health and well-being of the planetary environment will be staggering. To meet constantly expanding world requirements, energy producers will be compelled to ramp up production of every kind of fossil fuel at a time of growing concern about the paramount role those fuels play in fostering runaway climate change. Meanwhile, the shift in the center of gravity of energy consumption from the older industrial powers to the developing world will lead to intense competition for access to available supplies.
To fully appreciate the significance of the IEO’s findings, it is necessary to consider four critical trends: the surprising resilience of fossil fuels, the degree to which the world’s energy will be being provided by unconventional fossil fuels, the seemingly relentless global increase in emissions of carbon dioxide, and significant shifts in the geopolitics of energy.
The Continuing Predominance of Fossil Fuels
Anyone searching for evidence that we are transitioning to a system based on renewable sources of energy will be sorely disappointed by the projections in the 2013 International Energy Outlook. Although the share of world energy provided by fossil fuels is expected to decline from 84 percent in 2010 to 78 percent in 2040, it will still tower over all other forms of energy. In fact, in 2040 the projected share of global energy consumption provided by each of the fossil fuels (28 percent for oil, 27 percent for coal, and 23 percent for gas) will exceed that of renewables, nuclear, and hydropower combined (21 percent).
Oil and coal continue to dominate the fossil-fuel category despite all the talk of a massive increase in natural gas supplies -- the so-called shale gas revolution -- made possible by hydro-fracking. Oil’s continued supremacy can be attributed, in part, to the endless growth in demand for cars, vans, and trucks in China, India, and other rising states in Asia. The prominence of coal, however, is on the face of it less expectable. Given the degree to which utilities in the United States and Western Europe are shunning coal in favor of natural gas, the prominence the IEO gives it in 2040 is startling. But for each reduction in coal use in older industrialized nations, we are seeing a huge increase in the developing world, where the demand for affordable electricity trumps concern about greenhouse gas emissions.
The continuing dominance of fossil fuels in the world’s energy mix will not only ensure the continued dominance of the great fossil-fuel companies -- both private and state-owned -- in the energy economy, but also bolster their political clout when it comes to decisions about new energy investment and climate policy. Above all, however, soaring fossil-fuel consumption will result in a substantial boost in greenhouse gas emissions, and all the disastrous effects that come with it.
The Rise of the “Unconventionals”
At present, most of our oil, coal, and natural gas still comes from “conventional” sources -- deposits close to the surface, close to shore, and within easy reach of transportation and processing facilities. But these reservoirs are being depleted at a rapid pace and by 2040 -- or so the Department of Energy’s report tells us -- will be unable to supply more than a fraction of our needs. Increasingly, fossil fuel supplies will be of an “unconventional” character -- materials hard to refine and/or acquired from deposits deep underground, far from shore, or in relatively inaccessible locations. These include Canadian tar sands, Venezuelan extra-heavy crude, shale gas, deep-offshore oil, and Arctic energy.
Until recently, unconventional oil and gas constituted only a tiny share of the world’s energy supply, but that is changing fast. Shale gas, for example, provided a negligible share of the U.S. natural gas supply in 2000; by 2010, it had risen to 23 percent; in 2040, it is expected to exceed 50 percent. Comparable increases are expected in Canadian tar sands, Venezuelan extra-heavy crude, and U.S. shale oil (also called “tight oil”).
By definition, unconventional fuels are harder to produce, refine, and transport than conventional ones. In most cases, this means that more energy is consumed in their extraction than in the exploitation of conventional fuels, with more carbon dioxide being emitted per unit of energy produced. As is especially the case with fracking, the extraction of unconventional fuels normally requires significant infusions of water, raising the possibility of competition and conflict among major water consumers over access to supplies that, by 2040, will be severely threatened by climate change.
Relentless Growth in Carbon Emissions
By 2040, humanity will be burning far more fossil fuels than today: 673 quadrillion BTUs, compared to 440 quadrillion in 2010. The continued dominance of fossil fuels, rising coal demand, and a growing reliance on unconventional sources of supply can only have one outcome, as the IEO makes clear: a huge jump in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon dioxide is the most prominent of the anthropogenic greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere, and the combustion of fossil fuels is the primary source of that CO2; hence, the IEO’s projections on energy-related carbon emissions constitute an important measure of humankind’s ongoing role in heating the planet.
And here’s the bad news: as a result of the continued reliance on fossil fuels, global carbon emissions from energy are projected to increase by a stunning 46 percent between 2010 and 2040, jumping from 31.2 billion to 45.5 billion metric tons. No more ominous sign could be found of the kind of runaway global warming likely to be experienced in the decades to come than this grim figure.
In the IEO projections, all fossil fuels and all of the major consuming regions contribute to this nightmarish future, but coal is the greatest culprit. Of the extra 14.3 billion metric tons of CO2 to be added to global emissions over the next 30 years, 6.8 billion, or 48 percent, will be generated by the combustion of coal. Because most of the increase in coal consumption is occurring in China and India, these two countries will have a major responsibility for accelerating the pace of global warming. China alone is expected to contribute half of the added CO2 in these decades; India, 11 percent.
New Geopolitical Tensions
Finally, the 2013 edition of International Energy Outlook is rife with hints of possible new geopolitical tensions generated by these developments. Of particular interest to its authors are the international implications of humanity’s growing reliance on unconventional sources of energy. While the know-how to extract conventional energy resources is by now widely available, the specialized technology needed to exploit shale gas, tar sands, and other such materials is far less so, giving a clear economic advantage in the IEO’s projected energy future to countries which possess these capabilities.
One consequence, already evident, is the dramatic turnaround in America’s energy status. Just a few years ago, many analysts were bemoaning the growing reliance of the United States on energy imports from Africa and the Middle East, with an attendant vulnerability to overseas chaos and conflict. Now, thanks to American leadership in the development of shale and other unconventional resources, the U.S. is becoming less dependent on imported energy and so finds itself in a stronger position to dominate the global energy marketplace.
In one of many celebratory passages on these developments, the IEO affirms that a key to “increasing natural gas production has been advances in the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies, which made it possible to develop the country’s vast shale gas resources and contributed to a near doubling of total U.S. technically recoverable natural gas resource estimates over the past decade.”
At the same time, the report asserts that energy-producing countries that fail to gain mastery over these new technologies will be at a significant disadvantage in the energy marketplace of 2040. Russia is particularly vulnerable in this regard: heavily dependent on oil and gas revenues to finance government operations, it faces a significant decline in output from its conventional reserves and so must turn to unconventional supplies; its ability to acquire the needed technologies will, however, be hindered by its historically poor treatment of foreign companies.
China is also said to face significant challenges in the new energy environment. Simply to meet the country’s growing need for energy is likely to prove an immense challenge for its leaders, given the magnitude of its requirements and the limits to China’s domestic supplies. As the world’s fastest growing consumer of oil and gas, an increasing share of its energy supplies must be imported, posing the same sort of dependency problems that until recently plagued American leaders. The country does possess substantial reserves of shale gas, but lacking the skills needed to exploit them, is unlikely to become a significant producer for years to come.
The IEO does not discuss the political implications of all this. However, top U.S. leaders, from the president on down, have been asserting that America’s mastery of new energy technologies is contributing to the nation’s economic vitality, and so enhancing its overseas influence. “America’s new energy posture allows us to engage from a position of greater strength,” said National Security Advisor Tom Donilon in an April speech at Columbia University. “Increasing U.S. energy supplies act as a cushion that helps reduce our vulnerability to global supply disruptions and price shocks. It also affords us a stronger hand in pursuing and implementing our international security goals.”
The Department of Energy’s report avoids such explicit language, but no one reading it could doubt that its authors are thinking along similar lines. Indeed, the whole report can be viewed as providing ammunition for the pundits and politicians who argue that the emerging global energy equation is unusually propitious for the United States (so long, of course, as everyone ignores the effects of climate change) -- an assessment that can only energize advocates of a more assertive U.S. stance abroad.
The World of 2040
The 2013 International Energy Outlook offers us a revealing peek into the thinking of U.S. government experts -- and their assessment of the world of 2040 should depress us all. But make no mistake, none of this can be said to constitute a reliable picture of what the world will actually look like at that time.
Many of the projected trends are likely to be altered, possibly unrecognizably, thanks to unforeseen developments of every sort, especially in the climate realm. Nonetheless, the massive investments now being made in conventional and unconventional oil and gas operations will ensure that these fuels play a significant role in the energy mix for a long time to come -- and this, in turn, means that international efforts to slow the pace of planetary warming are likely to be frustrated. Similarly, Washington’s determination to maintain U.S. dominance in the exploitation of unconventional fuel resources, combined with the desires of Chinese and Russian leaders to cut into the American lead in this field, is guaranteed to provoke friction and distrust in the decades to come.
If the trends identified in the Department of Energy report prove enduring, then the world of 2040 will be one of ever-rising temperatures and sea levels, ever more catastrophic storms, ever fiercer wildfires, ever more devastating droughts. Can there, in fact, be a sadder conclusion when it comes to our future than the IEO’s insistence that, among all the resource shortages humanity may face in the decades to come, fossil fuels will be spared? Thanks to the exploitation of advanced technologies to extract “tough energy” globally, they will remain relatively abundant for decades to come.
So just how reliable is the IEO assessment? Personally, I suspect that its scenarios will prove a good deal less than accurate for an obvious enough reason. As the severity and destructiveness of climate change becomes increasingly evident in our lives, ever more people will be pressing governments around the world to undertake radical changes in global energy behavior and rein in the power of the giant energy companies. This, in turn, will lead to a substantially greater emphasis on investment in the development of alternative energy systems plus significantly less reliance on fossil fuels than the IEO anticipates.
Make no mistake about it, though: The major fossil fuel producers -- the world’s giant oil, gas, and coal corporations -- are hardly going to acquiesce to this shift without a fight. Given their staggering profits and their determination to perpetuate the fossil-fuel era for as a long as possible, they will employ every means at their command to postpone the age of renewables. Eventually, however, the destructive effects of climate change will prove so severe and inescapable that the pressure to embrace changes in energy behavior will undoubtedly overpower the energy industry’s resistance.
Unfortunately, none of us can actually see into the future and so no one can know when such a shift will take place. But here’s a simple reality: It had better happen before 2040 or, as the saying goes, our goose is cooked.
Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, a TomDispatch regular, and the author, most recently, of The Race for What’s Left, just published in paperback by Picador. A documentary movie based on his book Blood and Oil can be previewed and ordered at www.bloodandoilmovie.com. You can follow Klare on Facebook by clicking here.
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Inside Indian Music
By Prajwal A N
Prajwal A N, a recent graduate from IIT Bombay who has been working in Samsung for a close to year now, is a trained musician. In this post he shares his personal story and gives insights in to what makes music, music.
I started learning Carnatic music when I was 12 years old. I trained for a while as a vocalist before I turned instrumentalist with the violin. What started as a small hobby soon turned into a mainstream activity. For a couple of years, I was training very seriously as a musician until I had to stop most of the extra-curricular activities to concentrate on preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination to the IITs.
I did not pursue music seriously in those two years of junior college, but the training I went through by then helped me to still keep in touch with music and improve myself with minimal practice. I did take up music again after I joined IIT Bombay for my undergraduate studies, but could not give it enough time and train with the dedication I had during high school. I did try exploring different other forms of music and learnt to appreciate the differences between them and Carnatic music, which I learnt. Today I would like to share with you the basics of music and hopefully by the end of this post you would get an idea of what music is and how different styles differ.
History of Indian music
Indian classical music is the music form that originated in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Indian music originated from the vedas where hymns were sung in musical notes during the yagnas. Historic details of Indian music can be found in the Natya Sastra, an ancient work by Bharata. Indian music had the concept of musical notes, rhythms, and the grammar involving the notes (later evolved into ragas) as early as 200 BC. By the 12th century, there appeared two divergent forms of Indian music, Hindustani and Carnatic classical music.
Hindustani music was created by the influence of Persian music on the Indian music of that time and this form is prevalent in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. Carnatic music developed in the southern part of India, not affected much by these influences. Owing to the common origin in ancient Indian music, both these forms share the concepts of ragas, and talas. But they differ significantly in the way the ragas and talas are structured, and the compositional styles.
The compositions in Carnatic music are more lyrical than in Hindustani music. In Hindustani music, the melody is based more on pure notes while in Carnatic music melody is based on ornamentations (gamakas) added to the notes. Listen to this performance to get a feel of how melody differs in both the styles. This song shows how music is inherent to each culture and how it evolves according to the different aspects of that culture. Note that the raga throughout the song is the same (this reinforces the common origin of all the different forms of Indian music), but the way the song is sung is different for different cultures.
“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.” - Lord Yehudi Menuhin.
Melody and rhythm are two cornerstones of music. At the basic level, there are different sounds called notes. In simple terms, ‘Melody’ is the tune obtained by playing different notes/pitches (i.e. frequencies) and ‘Rhythm’ is playing those notes for different durations. Different forms of music use different basis for building melody and rhythm and Indian music uses ragas (for melody) and talas (for rhythm).
Swaras (or) Notes:
The basic pitched sound in music is called a note (also called swara in Carnatic music). There are 8 swaras (notes) in Indian music are our popular Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da Ni Sa which increase in frequency in that order. This is similar to the names Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do given to the notes in Western music. The frequency which is the sound of the notes, are not absolute. While performing, the frequency of the note Sa is fixed according to the wish of the performer, and this becomes the scale. The frequencies of the other notes are defined based on this scale. In any scale, the frequencies of the notes have the same separation between each other.
Ragas:
Ragas are defined by restrictions on the 8 swaras that can be used (say 4 out of 8). The order and approach of these chosen swaras gives the melody that we call Ragas. These restrictions help create a unique mood for each raga. The ragas are associated with weather, time of the day and this association comes from the mood of the raga.
The ragas get their unique mood and character due to the ornamentations added to the notes in the raga. The ornamentations are generally in form of slides - from one note to another, gentle turn or touch to a note. These ornamentations are not just decorative but also necessary to give the mood of the raga. There are about 1000 ragas organized in a system called the Melakarta system and many more ragas which are not organized. These ragas provide an opportunity to showcase a wide range of moods, and emotions.
As an example, the raga Kalyani is associated with auspicious occasions and the raga Harikhamboji is associated with the emotion of Shringara. You can see the difference in the emotions conveyed by these ragas here. Midway through the performance (starting from 7:06), the second violinist shifts the Sa to another note, thus changing the swaras used. Thus even though the absolute frequencies used are the same, due to the change in the scale, and the different ornamentations used the raga changes and so does the feel.
Talas:
Talas are the basis of rhythm in Indian music. Talas consist of repeating beats in a rhythm and they set the pace of the compositions and improvisations. A cycle in a tala is defined by the number of beats before coming back to the start of the next cycle and gap between these beats. The compositions are set to these cycles. They either start right at the beginning of the cycle, or with a gap after the start of the cycle, and then the whole composition is paced to the cycle.
Talas play a very important role in playing percussion instruments in Indian music. Percussion instrumentalist not only accompany vocalists and other instrumentalists in their performances, but also create their own compositions that consist of complex grouping of beats to accentuate the rhythm of the tala. A pretty famous form of rythmic composition is called Mukthaya, which is basically verses (in rhythmic language) repeated thrice in such a way that the cycle of tala is adhered to.
Listen to a typical rhythmic composition played by percussionists here. The composition is paced to a simple 8 beat cycle (you can see the artists signal the 8 beat cycle using their hand). Listen to this performance, to appreciate the interplay between melody and rhythm to create music.
My Inspiration - Dr. L Subramaniam.
One of the pioneers who changed violin from an accompaniment instrument to a main instrument in Carnatic music.
“I find nothing more inspiring than the music making of my very great colleague Subramaniam. Each time I listen to him, I am carried away in wonderment.” - Lord Yehudi Menuhin.
Although portions of this post might feel tricky or confusing, on careful reading and relating to music that you hum every day it becomes easy and gives you basic technical knowledge about music.
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
This sums up our feelings when we listen to good song, may your souls string with beats of music.
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Thomas Zehetmair
THOMAS ZEHETMAIR, born in Salzburg in 1961, comes from a musical family. He studied violin with his father at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and went on to complete his studies with Franz Samohyl, Max Rostal, and Nathan Milstein. In 1978 he won first prize in the International Mozart Competition. In 1977 he made his debut at the age of sixteen at the Salzburg Festival. Two years later his first recording, of works by Mozart, was released.
Zehetmair is a soloist of international standing, and is a regular guest artist with such orchestras as the Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the Dresden Staatskapelle , Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin, Vienna, and Munich Philharmonics, as well as the Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestras.
He has worked with Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Heinz Holliger, Roger Norrington, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and many other leading conductors.
His interest in contemporary music motivates a significant part of his artistic activities. He has given the first performance of several works, most recently the violin concerto by Heinz Holliger. Besides his career as a soloist, Zehetmair also devotes himself to chamber music. In 1997 he founded the Zehetmair Quartet, which tours annually throughout the world.
Zehetmair has recorded all the standard repertoire for violin. His recording of the two Szymanowski violin concertos (EMI), with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, was awarded the Gramophone Award. He has most recently recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto and various romances with the Orchestra of the 18th Century under Frans Brüggen.
In addition to his instrumental work, Thomas Zehetmair is launching a second career as a conductor. As guest conductor be has appeared with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Northern Sinfonia, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Beethoven Akademie, O.R.T, Orchestra della Toscana, and the Ensemble Orchestrale Paris, among others. In May 1999 he conducted the Orchestra of the 18th Century on a tour throughout South America.
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String Quartet, Op. 64, No. 5, “Lark”
At the beginning of 1790 Haydn was visiting Vienna, where, among other delights, he heard a performance of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and was arranging string quartet parties for his wealthy friend Maria Anna von Genzinger. In February, however, his leave was over and he had to return to isolated Eszterháza Castle, where he was Kapellmeister to the Esterházy court, well-treated by his employers, and as productive – and famous – a composer as the world had ever seen.
But despite the freedom to leave the castle almost at will and with as gifted a contingent of musicians, with close friends among them, as he could want at his disposal, he was still an employee. Thus his letter to Frau von Genzinger after his return to Eszterháza: “Here I sit in my wilderness – almost without human society, full of the memories of the glorious past. When will those days return? [This “past” amounted to a matter of weeks.] He was, quite simply, feeling sorry for himself: he had tasted the greater world and was “back on the job,” 30 years in the same magnificent place. A year later, however, his enlightened employer, Prince Nicolaus, died, whereupon Nicolaus’ troglodytic son, Anton, disbanded the court musical establishment. Haydn was to all intents and purposes a free man. He received a reasonably generous pension, some commissions for masses to be celebrated on the princess’ name day and, most importantly, he didn’t have to wait to display his genius on the widest stage possible. In short order London impresario Johann Peter Salomon commissioned from the 58-year-old composer what would be his crowning orchestral achievement, the 12 so-called “London” Symphonies.
During roughly the same period – beginning at Eszterháza and continuing in Vienna, where he had long kept a pied à terre – Haydn was working on his six Opus 64 Quartets, dedicated, as were his sets of three quartets each, Opp. 54 and 55, to Johann Tost, who had been a violinist in Haydn’s court orchestra. Tost was also a dealer in musical manuscripts, including some that were not his to sell but had slipped into the Esterházy library without being catalogued. In 1789 Haydn gave the Opp. 54 and 55 as well the Symphonies Nos. 88 and 89 to Tost to sell to a publisher in Paris, in which task he succeeded. Tost, who was also not averse to selling works by minor composers as “true Haydn,” would in his spare time pursue rich widows, one of whom he married and with whom he ran a successful Vienna textile business after giving up being a practicing musician.
The most celebrated component of the Op. 64 quartets is the Fifth, in D, the so-called “Lark” of which Richard Wigmore in his valuable Pocket Guide to Haydn writes: “The first movement’s unforgettable, winged melody [ergo the “Lark” sobriquet] high on the first violin’s E-string, is played as a soaring descant to the pawky, staccato march for the three lower instruments that had opened the proceedings.” The theme returns in several guises throughout the movement. The slow movement is a poignant meditation, while the wittily danceable minuet is interrupted by one of Haydn’s earthy trios. The finale is a splendidly light-fingered, hectic hubbub that has been likened to the British sailors' dance, the hornpipe.
- Herbert Glass
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'Girl, 7, who died in Border Patrol custody was healthy before arrival'
World / 16 December 2018, 11:47am / Michael Brice-Saddler
The 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in US Border Patrol custody was healthy before she arrived and her family calls for a probe into her death. Picture: US Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP
Washington - The 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in US Border Patrol custody was healthy before she arrived, and her family is now calling for an "objective and thorough" investigation into her death, a representative for the family said Saturday.
In a statement, the family's attorneys disputed reports that the girl, Jakelin Caal, went several days without food and water before crossing the border, which contradicts statements by the Department of Homeland Security. Ruben Garcia, founder and executive director of Annunciation House - an El Paso-based nonprofit that aids migrants - said that the girl's father, 29-year-old Nery Caal, said she was healthy and had no preexisting conditions.
"He's been very clear, very consistent that his daughter was healthy, and his daughter very much wanted to come with him," Garcia said during the news conference.
Garcia said he could not comment on specifics related to the girl's death, and discouraged the media from speculating about the cause, which is now the subject of an internal investigation at the Department of Homeland Security. Congressional Democrats have also called for meetings with US Customs and Border Patrol officials and a full accounting of the incident.
Annunciation House said in a Facebook post that the girl's father was in their care and being hosted in one of their houses. Nery Caal, who was granted provisional release from CBP custody according to consular officials, was not present at the briefing and has not spoken publicly about his daughter's death December 8 from dehydration, shock and liver failure.
"The death of any person while that person is in the custody of Border Patrol needs to be thoroughly and transparently investigated," the post read. "This is doubly so when the person is a 7-year-old."
Jakelin's death was announced Thursday by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after inquiries by The Washington Post, raising questions about the conditions of their facilities. CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that its stations were not properly suited to handle the record number of asylum seekers crossing the border, which include families and children.
CBP and Department of Homeland Security officials deny that the agency is responsible for what happened to the girl. The Trump Administration has also denied responsibility for her death.
More than a day before she died, Jakelin, her father and 161 other Central American migrants crossed the US border outside of Antelope Wells, N.M., seeking to turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents.
A sobering account of Jakelin's death posted on Facebook by the Department of Homeland Security called the incident "incredibly tragic." The agency said the girl did not show any signs of health issues during a routine check that took place when she and her father were taken into custody.
"The initial screening revealed no evidence of health issues. During the screening, the father denied that either he or his daughter were ill. This denial was recorded on Form I-779 signed by the father," the DHS account said, adding that they were offered food and water, and had access to restrooms. The form was supplied in English, but CBP officials said agents provided a verbal translation.
The family's attorneys said in the statement that it was "unacceptable" to have Caal sign a document in a language that he didn't understand. They also said that false speculation about her death could "undermine" the investigation.
In a letter to Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., late Friday, McAleenan said the child's father said she "drank water and ate the food offered" while in custody and "was not demonstrating any signs of distress" before her father later notified agents that Jakelin was ill. Yoder is the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee for Homeland Security.
The two were picked up by a bus nearly eight hours after they crossed the border. It was here, DHS said, that Jakelin's father complained that the 7-year-old was sick and vomiting. Her condition apparently worsened over the course of the 90-minute bus ride toward Lordsburg, N.M., which CBP officials said Friday was the fastest way for her to get medical attention.
Her father said his child was no longer breathing as the bus arrived to the station on the morning of December 7. The girl's fever had reached 105.9 degrees and agents providing medical care revived her twice, DHS said.
She died 15 hours later at the Providence Children's Hospital, according to DHS and consular officials. Her father was present during her death.
"We urge investigating authorities to conduct a transparent and neutral investigation into Jakelin's death while in custody," her attorneys said in the statement.
In a letter to DHS Inspector General John Kelly on Friday, senior Democratic lawmakers, including members who will soon chair the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, demanded an immediate investigation into the girl's death.
"The investigation should focus on policies and practices designed to protect health and safety, as well as policies and practices that may result in increased migration through particularly harsh terrain," the letter said.
In a Friday morning tweet, Hillary Clinton suggested that the incident was symbolic of the "humanitarian crisis" taking place at the border.
7-year-old migrant dies of dehydration in custody of Border Control
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Dr. Mansur Muhtar
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Mr. Muhtar previously served as Executive Director on the Board of the World Bank Group (2011-2014) as well as Co-Chair of the UN Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Finance (2013-2014). He has served as Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria and as Chairman of the National Economic Management team (2008-2010), as Executive Director, African Development Bank (2007-2008) and as Director-General of Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (2003-2007).
Earlier in his career, he was Senior Lecturer and Head of the Economics department at Bayero University in Nigeria and served for a decade in various positions at the World Bank headquarters, including as the Senior Economist and Administrator on the Young Professionals Program. He has also served as Deputy General Manager, Strategic Management and Economics division, United Bank for Africa Plc. And as a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Economies of Africa in Abuja.
Mr. Muhtar holds a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Sussex in the UK and a masters degree in the Economics and Politics of Development from the University of Cambridge. He is also an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, and King’s College, Lagos.
He has attended numerous leadership and professional development courses at the Kennedy School, Harvard University; the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and the Singapore Civil Service Administrative College. Mr. Muhtar is a recipient of the Nigeria National Honors Award – Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) – for his contribution to national development.
Dr. Mohamed Nouri Jouini
Vice President, Partnership Development
Prior to joining the IDB, Mr. Jouini was Managing Director of the consulting firm MNJ Consulting. His experience spans strategy, development, economics, finance and international relations and he has held key positions in the Tunisian government, including as Minister of Planning, Investment and International Cooperation.
Between 2002 and 2011 Mr. Jouini sat on the Board of Governors of the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the IDB, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development, and the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation.
Mr. Jouini received his PhD in Decision Sciences from the University of Oregon and is a former director of the Sousse (Tunisia) Higher Institute of Management. He has also served on the faculty at the University of Tunis. He is a recipient of the Tunisian National Order of Merit for Education and Sciences.
Dr. Walid Alwohaib
Director General of the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD)
Dr. Waleed Abdulmohsen Al-Wohaib is the Director General, Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD).
Dr. Al-Wohaib, was the Chief Executive Officer of the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation. He has also occupied a number of positions in the Kuwaiti public sector, including Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Affairs from 1993 to 1994.
Prior to this he was Vice Assistant for Administrational Development Affairs in the Civil Service Department and also worked as Assistant Director for Research and Developmental Affairs in the Kuwait Municipality.
In 1994 Dr. Al-Wohaib represented Kuwait at the World Trade Organization membership signing ceremony in Marrakesh.
Strengths and achievements
Dr. Al-Wohaib’s strengths are leadership, strategic administration skills and the ability to solve complex issues. In addition, he has consultancy expertise in the field of administration and organizational psychology. He is known for his ability to motivate and support successful achievement, both internally and externally, and for his objectivity in accomplishing the higher purpose.
While in the Kuwaiti Civil Service Department, Dr. Al-Wohaib made an outstanding contribution to the establishment of the Human Resources Development Center. Other achievements in the social, academic and political areas include preparation of the Independent Municipalities Law and the organizational structure development project.
He has taught Public Policy at the University of Kuwait and has conducted many training courses and workshops in Kuwait and the USA on educational topics including success skills, self development, performance measurement and strategic planning.
Dr. Al-Wohaib obtained his Doctorate and Masters degrees, specializing in Public Administration, from the University of California in 1985 and 1989, and his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kuwait.
Dr. Zamir Iqbal
Vice President, Finance (Chief Financial Officer)
Prior to joining the IDB, Mr. Iqbal served at the World Bank for 25 years, latterly as head of the World Bank’s Global Islamic Finance Development Center in Istanbul. His experience spans the capital markets, asset management and risk management. Islamic finance has been his research focus and he has co-authored several articles and books on Islamic finance on the topics of banking risk, financial inclusion, economic development, financial stability and risk-sharing. He played an instrumental role in the publication of the World Bank’s and the IDB’s first global report on Islamic finance. He earned his Ph.D. in international finance from the George Washington University and served as Professional faculty at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Sayed Aqa
Vice President, Administration
Sayed Aqa, Afghan national, is currently Vice President - Administration at Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).
An Engineer by education with a Master's degree in Business Administration, he has been engaged in humanitarian and development work at senior levels for the past three decades. He worked with a number of non-government organizations (NGOs) including The United Nations (UN) prior to joining IsDB. Aqa is also the founder of two NGOs in Afghanistan.
He joined the Bank as Vice President for Cooperation & Capacity Development in May 2015. In that role, he was responsible for managing the Departments of Cooperation & Integration; Capacity Development; Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD); Special Assistance; and Trust Funds.
Later, he served IsDB as VP – Cooperation and Country Programming before becoming VP – Administration. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing relationships with member countries. He passionately focused on expanding the partnerships beyond the traditional multilateral development banks to other regional and international development partners such as United Nations agencies, European Union, African Union, etc.
He emphasizes on aligning the bank operations with the needs of IsDB’s member countries and ensuring the application of these goals and operations are accomplished under the Islamic principles of inclusivity, sustainability and equality. He aims to integrate IsDB’s goals with the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Among his major priorities as a VP – Administration is to develop human capacity at the institutional level. He aims to develop policies that do not only focus on hardware aspects of the development but also on the soft elements of human development at the Bank. His other priority is to strengthen the performance of result-oriented culture.
He has many feathers in his cap. Among his major achievements throughout his career, his leading role in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is worth mentioning. As a member of the Steering Committee of the ICBL, Sayed Aqa represented ICBL in the award ceremony of the 1997 Nobel Peace prize to ICBL.
He has worked with heads of the states and at ministerial level offices in many countries dealing with complex sustainable human development, conflict and post-conflict developmental challenges. His extensive travel in several countries equipped him with practical field, cultural and diplomatic skills. During his tenure at the UN, both at the Headquarters and in the field, Sayed Aqa had managed projects in 32 conflict and post-conflict countries in five continents.
Sayed Aqa has also served as Advisor to many international and inter-governmental organizations, including the European Union, Peace Research Institute of Oslo, and various UN Agencies in the field of humanitarian and development cooperation.
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Data Services Librarian, Ohio State
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The Data Services Librarian will provide leadership in developing a programmatic approach to research data services for The Ohio State University Libraries. The Data Services Librarian will provide a vision to guide and expand the Library’s efforts in data management planning, discovery and access of research data, data sharing and publication, and data visualization. This will encompass analysis of the strategic environment for developing, refining, assessing, and sustaining an evolving program of research data services for faculty, researchers, and students throughout the university.
Reporting to the Head of Research Services, the Data Services Librarian will work with stakeholders and researchers within the Libraries, Ohio State, and external partners to address issues related to the discovery, use, and stewardship of research data. The successful candidate will work with colleagues within the Libraries to maintain/improve systems for description, storage, discovery, and access to tabular, spatial, and text-corpus data. The Data Services Librarian will lead in-reach efforts in the Libraries in order to provide a holistic, collaborative and distributed data services program that will spread awareness of library resources and services among researchers, including faculty, staff and students. The Data Services Librarian will participate in library-wide committees, activities, and special projects, especially those involving newly implemented technologies and data.
Build on successful data services education and outreach to establish a scalable data services program–including access to and visualization of datasets– to support researchers and scholars, as well as departmental or cross-institutional research teams.
Supervise the Data Services Specialist for Outreach and Education and the Data Visualization Specialist.
Partner with the Office of Research and appropriate personnel within the Colleges to increase faculty awareness of data mandates and funder requirements.
Lead and provide consultation services for OSU faculty, staff, and students on data-related issues and challenges arising from their research.
Lead in-reach efforts for subject liaisons, Area Studies librarians, archivists, curators and other Libraries’ personnel around the data services program.
Lead efforts to improve systems for the discovery, use, and delivery of library leased or owned data sets.
Represent the Libraries at campus, consortial and other meetings concerning research data issues.
Demonstrate a commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce and work environment.
An ALA-accredited master’s degree or a comparable graduate degree from a non-U.S. university, reviewed on a case-by case basis.
Demonstrated success in providing leadership with developing, refining, and assessing an evolving research data services program in an academic community.
Demonstrated experience building and maintaining effective partnerships and collaborations in creative ways in a complex environment.
Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Commitment to librarianship, scholarship, and service, which are required criteria to meet University and University Libraries requirements for promotion and tenure https://library.osu.edu/document-registry/docs/1017/stream.
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Demonstrated knowledge of current trends and technical, legal, and information policy on data repositories, public data sets, and funder data management requirements.
Supervisory experience in an academic or research library.
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The Libraries strives to provide welcoming, supportive environments for all to pursue and share knowledge. The Libraries is guided by our strategic priorities that facilitate, celebrate and honor diversity, inclusion, access and social justice. All positions are expected to contribute to building and advancing this environment, and we encourage candidates to apply who share these values.
This is a full-time, regular, 12-month appointment as a tenure-track faculty member. The candidate will be required to meet university and Libraries requirements for promotion and tenure. Salary, position type, and faculty rank are dependent on qualifications and experience.
The university offers competitive benefits in the form of 22 days’ vacation, 15 days’ sick leave, 10 holidays, hospitalization, major medical, surgical-medical, dental, vision, long-term disability insurance, and life insurance at 2.5 times one’s annual salary. State and alternative retirement choices are also available. For a summary of benefits, see: https://hr.osu.edu/new-employees/benefits-overview.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Preference will be given to applications received by August 4, 2019. Please send cover letter, CV, references, and salary requirements to Brittany Steingass at steingass.14@osu.edu. Please include “Data Services Librarian” in the subject field.
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Keolis publishes the Keoscopie International global mobility study
Keolis, in partnership with Ipsos, has published the results of Keoscopie International, a new global mobility study investigating the habits of a sample made up of 6,600 people based in 37 cities across 15 countries. The study looks at mobility habits of people living in different cities, how those people use new technologies, and the impact that digital technologies have on their mobility. The study also highlights specific national or local features. Keoscopie International is available here in summary with the full results here) Keoscopie International originated in the Keoscopie study which was first launched in 2007 in France. The study looks at socio-demographic changes including work patterns, use of digital technologies, life expectancy and regional development and the impact of these changes on mobility. The study, which reflects Keolis’ commitment to responding to passengers' needs as effectively as possible, has been used to develop bespoke mobility policies that are compatible with public transport authorities’ objectives and passenger aspirations. Operating in 16 countries in partnership with 300 Public Transport Authorities, 2018 saw Keolis decide to expand the study’s scope to become a worldwide study taking in 37 cities in 15 countries.
Keolis nominates Didier Cazelles and Fabrice Lepoutre to expand and fortify its Management Committee
Didier Cazelles joins Keolis as Deputy CEO, head of the Territories branch in France. As of 1 July, he takes over from Jacky Pacreau, who has chosen to retire. This appointment gives him a seat on the Group’s Management Committee. Fabrice Lepoutre, Managing Director of EFFIA Stationnement, Keolis’ parking subsidiary, joins the Management Committee as a new member. His nomination symbolises the increasing importance of parking in our territorial mobility policies. They both report to Frédéric Baverez, Keolis Group Executive Director France. The Keolis Management Committee, which now has 15 members, is one of the group’s two steering and coordination bodies, along with the Executive Committee. These two committees help to define the Group’s strategic directions.
Keolis chosen again to operate the contract for the Aix-en-Provence transport network
The Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis has once again chosen Keolis to operate the Métropole Mobilité Aix-en-Provence – its transport network, for a period of nine years. With projected average annual revenue of €47 million, the new contract will take effect on 4 November 2019. Keolis’ task will be to improve the transport services across the four communes making up the Pays d’Aix area and to transition the network over to a more global, more sustainable and more connected form of mobility. Over the period of the contract, Keolis has committed to increasing passenger numbers by 31% and boosting revenue by 40% across the whole network. Having recently taken over management of Antibes-Sophia Antipolis and Menton, this is the third consecutive contract that the group has landed in the Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur region, thus shoring up its position as a leading urban and suburban transport provider.
Keolis wins the public transport network of the Sophia Antipolis agglomeration community, in the south of France
From 1 July 2019, Keolis will run Envibus, the transport network of the Sophia Antipolis agglomeration community* (24 cities in the south of France), for a period of 4 years (renewable 3 times, for a period of one year each time). Network use is expected to increase by 17% between now and 2023. An offer that stands in firm support of the energy transition, with the construction of a sustainable depot and the entry into service of a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) powered by natural gas.
UTP's new executive board of directors elects Jean-Pierre Farandou as Chairman President
On Thursday, June 20th , the new UTP Executive Board unanimously elected Jean-Pierre Farandou as chairman President for the next two years. Keolis' President and CEO succeeds to Thierry Mallet in the role. The UTP is the French Public Transport Association, a professional union bringing together major public transport companies.
Mum, where’s the driver?
CES 2018, Autonomous vehicle
We gave Las Vegas residents the chance to live a childhood dream: driving without hands! A fully autonomous vehicle operating in the heart of traffic on Freemont Street, that’s a more connected type of mobility.
Partnering with Public Transport Authorities
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When Rey met Luke: The saga continues in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'
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Japanese-Canadians are moved to internment camps in British Columbia in 1942. | LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA
National / History
Japanese-Canadians weigh a harsh WWII experience — one that surpassed their U.S. cousins
by Takaki Tominaga
Online: Sep 30, 2018
Last Modified: Sep 30, 2018
Thirty years after the Canadian government formally apologized over the internment and expulsion of citizens of Japanese ancestry following the outbreak of World War II, those affected still carry painful memories of discrimination and hardship.
Over the years, many have questioned their identity and tried their best to blend in wherever they have finally called home.
Born in Vancouver, Rena Nobuko Nakayama, 86, relocated to New Denver, British Columbia, after the war started but was exiled to Japan with her family in 1946. She has been living here ever since, but had a difficult time adjusting to Japanese society and establishing her own identity.
“I have tried to raise my children to be 100 percent Japanese so they wouldn’t have to live with the trauma of not knowing what country they belonged to and what their mother tongue is, like myself,” she wrote in the book “Honouring Our People: Breaking the Silence,” a collection of testimonies published by the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association in 2016.
“Many JCs (Japanese-Canadians) here are torn between Japan and Canada. … A friend calls me a ‘displaced person,'” Nakayama explained further.
Gordon Kadota, 85, a former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), expressed sympathy for those who were exiled to Japan after the war.
“Many of those who were sent to Japan after the war struggled there, where there was a severe shortage of food and other basic needs,” Kadota said during a recent phone interview from his home in Vancouver.
Someone who knows these stories well is Masako Iino, former president of Tsuda University and professor emeritus, who has interviewed many Japanese-Canadians for her research projects.
“Their experiences, as well as how they coped with them, are very diverse, depending on their age, social status, education level and language skills,” she said.
One of her projects, conducted for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, saw Iino and her colleagues collect oral accounts from Japanese-Canadians, among them Nakayama and Kadota.
Interview subjects include Japanese-Canadians who were sent to Japan in 1946 and remained there, those who were sent to Japan in 1946 but returned to Canada during the 1950s to 1970s, and those who went to Japan before World War II, were stranded there due to the war, and returned to Canada afterward.
Kadota was among the latter group.
“I have been questioning my identity and trying to find out the significance of existence throughout my life,” he said.
It was Kadota who laid the groundwork to form the NAJC, which successfully achieved redress from the Canadian government. The process followed a similar movement in the United States, where 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were removed from the American West Coast during the war.
On Sept. 22, 1988, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered a formal apology in the House of Commons for the country’s World War II internment of Canadians of Japanese ancestry, including first-generation immigrants.
He also announced financial compensation. Ottawa awarded 21,000 Canadian dollars each to affected individuals and established a community fund as well as the Race Relations Foundation to combat racism, according to the NAJC.
The redress agreement signed between the Canadian government and the NAJC stated “the forced removal and internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II and their deportation and expulsion following the war was unjust.”
It states that government policies of disenfranchisement, detention, confiscation and sale of private and community property, and restriction of movement and expulsion, which continued after the war, were influenced by discriminatory attitudes.
Among many Japanese-Canadians, the action was regarded as exile rather than “repatriation” and “deportation.”
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Britain’s Pacific territories in December 1941, prompting the U.S., Britain and Canada to declare war on Japan.
Around 21,000 people of Japanese descent were removed from Canada’s Pacific coast and sent to rudimentary settlements and work camps, among other places, after the war broke out, according to Iino’s research.
In 1945, Japanese-Canadians were told to choose between going to Japan or heading east of the Rockies. Around 4,000 people were sent to Japan in 1946, according to the study.
Although citizens of Japanese ancestry in both Canada and the U.S. suffered civil rights abuses during the war, their situations differed, with those in Canada apparently facing harsher treatment.
Japanese-Canadians notably had their property seized by the government, were forced to move to Japan after the war, and also saw their full rights — including their freedom to move anywhere in the country — restricted for much longer than their counterparts in the U.S.
“Many Japanese-Americans were able to return to where they used to live. But Japanese-Canadians were not able to return to the British Columbian coast until 1949, and many of them started their new lives elsewhere. That was a big difference,” said Iino, adding that Japanese-Canadians had to pay for their own internment as well.
They were not given the opportunity to prove their loyalty to Canada on World War II battlefields either, unlike their American counterparts, whose sacrifice and service in action — including the feats of the famed 100th Infantry Battalion from Hawaii and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team — helped Japanese-Americans gain status as steadfast citizens of the U.S.
Iino and others pointed out that the difference in the fate of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians appeared to come from the difference in their Constitutions: the Bill of Rights was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, whereas the Canadian Constitution did not have an equivalent charter until 1982.
Kadota, joined by colleagues, made relentless efforts to enshrine the Charter of Rights and Freedoms into Canada’s Constitution during his tenure at the NAJC. In November 1980, they delivered passionate presentations before the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada.
“Our history in Canada is a legacy of racism made legitimate by our political institutions, and we must somehow ensure that no groups of Canadians will be subjected to the whims of political process, as we were,” Kadota told the joint committee.
“We feel that this can only be done by entrenching a charter of rights in our Constitution: Unconditionally entrenching, beyond the reach of Parliament and beyond the reach of provincial legislatures,” he said.
While Kadota did not experience forced removal and exile himself, it was natural for him to take part in the redress movement as a community leader because he believed it was the right thing to do for the entire Japanese-Canadian community.
His older brothers who remained in Canada during the war received compensation for their removal from British Columbia. But Kadota, then age 8, had made a trip to Japan in the summer of 1941 to visit his grandparents. He was still there when war broke out, and had to remain, only returning to Canada in 1952.
When he saw Prime Minister Mulroney and Art Miki, then president of the NAJC, signing the redress agreement 30 years ago, he thought it was “excellent,” but at the same time felt it was only a start.
“I felt we still had a lot of things to work on. Redress was just the beginning, not the end,” Kadota said. “As Canadians who underwent such hardships, we must make sure those things will never happen again,” he said, noting the persistence of prejudice toward certain groups, such as Asian immigrants, indigenous peoples and Muslims, in society.
Asked how he views his Japanese-Canadian identity today, Kadota replied, “I can be as Japanese as I have to be, and I can be as Canadian as I have to be, or wish to be.”
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Racine exhibit recalls when America put artists to work
There was a time when the U.S. government decided that one way to tackle the nation’s problems was to put more artists to work. That this sounds so startling today is a good reason to visit the Racine Art Museum.
Racine exhibit recalls when America put artists to work There was a time when the U.S. government decided that one way to tackle the nation’s problems was to put more artists to work. That this sounds so startling today is a good reason to visit the Racine Art Museum. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2mI9oaV
Diane M. Bacha, Special to the Journal Sentinel Published 10:11 a.m. CT March 20, 2017 | Updated 9:40 a.m. CT March 24, 2017
Elisabeth Olds' lithograph "Miner Joe" (circa 1935) is part of "WPA Art from RAM's Collection" at the Racine Art Museum.(Photo: Jon Bolton)
“WPA Art from RAM's Collection,” on view through June 4, is a reminder that art as an essential element of community prosperity was once a less debatable idea. The watercolors, photographs, textiles, handcrafts and prints in this exhibition were produced during the Great Depression in a deliberate effort to lift the economy and lift public spirits. Artists were paid with government funds to teach art, research art and make art.
In a curious byproduct of history, the exhibit also tells the story of how RAM got its start.
Between 1935 and 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) put millions of unemployed people to work as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Some WPA workers built roads, bridges, parks and schools. Others wrote music, painted watercolors and designed murals under a program called the Federal Art Project (FAP). Holding hammers or brushes, they were all part of Roosevelt’s vision for relief, recovery and reform.
As it happens, the first director of the Wustum Museum of Art — RAM’s predecessor museum — had administered one of the WPA arts programs in Michigan. He came into possession of many works produced for the FAP and these became, in 1943, the Wustum’s first permanent collection. It was a prescient move. The museum would go on to focus on contemporary crafts and works on paper and, 60 years later, spin off RAM, which today has the largest contemporary craft collection in the country.
The 70 works now on view represent only a portion of that collection, and they have been brought out of storage in part to mark Wustum/RAM’s upcoming 75th anniversary. They invite us to reflect on what has and has not changed in those 75 years.
This color wood block on cotton (circa 1940) from the Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project is part of a Racine Art Museum exhibit. (Photo: Courtesy of Jon Bolton)
There is a good deal of everyday life in these images, and much of it involves the working life: scrub ladies and circus workers, miners and shoe-shiners, typists and air-hammer operators. A cynical eye might think the artists were encouraged to glorify American values, but these artists were actually given a great deal of leeway in choosing and interpreting their subject matter. Social commentary often seeps through.
We see optimism in a city street scene titled “Working Girls Going Home” (Raphael Soyer, 1937) and confidence in a rooftop view of brawny workers shouldering an I-beam in “Roof and Street” (Louis Lozowick, 1938). But we also see bleakness. Jacob Kainen’s “Aftermath” (1937) is a colorless jumble of shabby buildings and leafless trees. In the foreground, almost overwhelmed by an indistinct heap of rubbish, are two small figures, an adult and a child holding hands. They look at the ruins just as we do, but without the benefit of distance. It’s one of several reminders that the country was still reeling from poverty, joblessness and displacement.
An even grimmer truth is depicted in “Lynch Law” (1934), a woodcut gifted to the museum directly by Wisconsin artist Santos Zingale. In it, a lynching victim, noose still around his neck, is circled by mourners expressing grief in ways ranging from sorrow to outrage.
Berenice Abbott's "Henry Street Looking West From Market Street" (1935) is included in Racine Art Museum's exhibit of Works Progress Administration artwork. (Photo: Courtesy of Jon Bolton)
The estimated 10,000 artists and craftspeople employed by the FAP were a varied lot, and that’s true for RAM’s exhibit. A number of the artists shown here were foreign born — Russian, Belgian, German and Ukrainian, among others. A handful are women. Levels of training and experience also vary: The delightful watercolor “Old Schlitz Beer Delivery Depot” (1939) was painted by Paul Lauterbach, a self-taught artist working in Milwaukee.
Lena Vigna, who curated the show, made a point to highlight one of the WPA’s more groundbreaking programs, the Milwaukee Handicraft Project (MHP). Launched as an initiative to train the “unemployable,” the MHP became known for breaking color and gender barriers. Its integrated workforce produced household items for families in need as well as books, wall hangings, and other crafts sold at reasonable prices to schools and libraries.
Among the MHP products here are prints created for children’s books and block-printed textile designs intended for draperies, table runners, or other household items. Most are anonymous. They are decorative but not fussy. Entrepreneurial mission aside, the MHP crafts say much about the home design aesthetic of the times.
Three Berenice Abbott photographs depicting New York scenes are breathtakingly evocative. Stuart Davis — a famous painter by this time, but impoverished enough to earn a WPA spot — introduces the single abstract note in a chorus of realism with his lithograph “Seine Cart” (1939). Wisconsin’s Schomer Lichtner is here, pre-cows-and-ballerinas, along with other Wisconsin artists who would go on to influence the regional scene.
This color wood block on cotton (circa 1940) from the Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project is part of an exhibit at the Racine Art Museum that runs through June 4. (Photo: Courtesy of Jon Bolton)
The legacy of Roosevelt’s New Deal principles is not without its controversies, especially as America grapples with tectonic shifts in economic and social dynamics. That doesn’t interfere with the pleasure of viewing this melting pot of images. Each, in its own way, reflects back to us an America under duress, and carrying on.
The Racine Art Museum is at 441 Main St., Racine. It’s open daily. Admission is $5 for adults. For more information visit www.ramart.org.
Diane M. Bacha is editorial director at Kalmbach Publishing Co. and a former arts editor.
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Johnson said that, for now, he’s focused on local issues, such as making sure District 1 gets its fair share of city services.
“As you look around, you take a trip across the city, you see great parts of town that are developed and roads get fixed every two years,” he said. “Businesses are flocking to those areas. And then you see others that are not like that.
“And in football, they taught us we’re only as strong as our weakest link, and it’s time that we focus on those weak links and build them to be stronger as well.”
Johnson studied business administration at Friends University, where he played football for four years and then became running backs coach for three years.
He also called for improvement of community policing efforts in Wichita, with more “transparency and accountability.”
“We need to get officers out of vehicles and into the community to know folks on a first-name basis, so we know who our officers are (so) when something’s going on, we know who to call,” he said.
Johnson has been involved with police/community relations through Community Operations Recovery Empowerment, an advocacy group he founded in 2011. CORE works in economic development, youth mentoring and establishing community gardens.
He is a member of the District 1 District Advisory Board and served on the Kansas Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 2005 to 2015. He received appointments to the board from Govs. Kathleen Sebelius, Mark Parkinson and Sam Brownback.
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Middendorp outlines Akpeyi qualities
Feb 4, 2019 - 07:37 am By Chad Klate (@CKlatey)
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The Nigerian shotstopper has effectively replaced the injured Itumeleng Khune, who is set to return at the end of the season and penned a deal until the end of the 2019/20 season.
The 32-year-old himself has conceded that the move came “out of the blue”, but Middendorp has since provided some insight into their decision.
“Akpeyi is calm and has a physical presence. He communicates well with his defensive line and is good in dictating tactics at the back,” the German told his club’s official website.
The Super Eagles shot-stopper has managed 36 clean sheets in 104 appearances across all competitions since his arrival in the PSL back in July 2015.
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He was also the only PSL representative to have been part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, though he played no part in Nigeria’s matches prior to their exit at the group stage.
Akpeyi, however, still has ambitions to compete in CAF club competitions and believes Amakhosi are capable of providing such a platform for him.
“That’s one thing I was looking forward to doing in South Africa – playing in the Champions League,” he was quoted as having said on Chiefs’ website.
“Chiefs have the will and the quality to do well in Africa and I would like to contribute to do that.”
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The stocky gloveman is set to compete with Namibian international Virgil Vries as well as Chiefs youth graduates Bruce Bvuma and Brylon Petersen for a spot in Middendorp’s team, beginning with this weekend’s all-important Soweto Derby.
“It’s one of the most famous derbies in the world. Just to be part of that experience will be something fantastic, independent of if I play or not,” he remarked.
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