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NF's “Let You Down” Eclipses Top 40 Chart
Written by Jessie Clarks
Nathan Feuerstein (NF),
Topping both the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 and Billboard Hot Christian Songs Charts, NF’s “Let You Down” co-written and produced by longtime friend Tommee Profitt is earning Capitol CMG their first pop No. 1. The global, multi-genre track has sold 5.8 million tracks worldwide and is platinum in 16 countries alongside landing in the top 10 at radio in over 10 countries. “Let You Down” and Profitt were recognized with a No. 1 party at Music Row’s ASCAP building on Thurs., Apr. 12.
“Humbled beyond words,” explains Profitt. “A top 40 No. 1 is never something that was even on my radar. I feel so grateful for the opportunity to make music with one of my best friends. NF is one of the most talented artists I know, and it's been a honor to be a part of his journey since the beginning. So thankful for my entire team at Capitol CMG Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group, this entire experience has been a dream.”
Profitt is a long-time collaborator with NF whose friendship dates back to their Michigan roots. NF’s latest No. 1 album, Perception, was produced by Profitt is currently at 1.25 billion streams and 1 million albums globally. Additionally, Profitt’s work has been showcased through many TV and film venues including The Good Doctor, 24, Concussion, NFL and more.
“We could not be more thrilled to have our first ever pop No. 1 song as a publisher with Tommee,” shares Capitol CMG Chief Creative Officer Brad O’Donnell. “Tommee is an incredibly gifted writer and producer and we love our partnership with him. He cares deeply about artists and songs and has a unique ability to connect with artists to create their best work. We believe this is only the first of many No. 1’s for him!”
"ASCAP is thrilled to congratulate Tommee and the entire Capitol CMG Team on the enormous, multi-genre impact of this song, and the incredible global reach that it continues to have," adds Michael Martin, VP of Membership.
[Capitol CMG Team with Tommee Profitt. From L to R: Peter York, Jimi Williams, Josh Kotras, Tommee Profitt, Karrie Dawley, Brad O’Donnell, Lindsey O’Halloran Photo Credit Jordan Merrigan]
[ASCAP with Tommee Profitt. From L to R: ASCAP's Michael Martin, Tommee Profitt, Kele Currier. Photo Credit Jordan Merrig]
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Universities with campuses in the Middle East need ‘wake-up’ call: op-ed
The story of Matthew Hedges in one of the more disturbing ones in higher education. He was arrested in Dubai after completing a two-week research trip for his thesis, and then was sentenced to life in prison for espionage. He eventually received a pardon from the president of the United Arab Emirates.
In an op-ed for The Hill, Varsha Koduvayur, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, relays Hedges current status and why his situation should serve a “wake-up call” for universities.
Koduvayur explains the expansion of several universities to the Middle East:
Over the past few years, major Western universities have established branch campuses in the Gulf. Paris’ Sorbonne has a campus in Abu Dhabi, while Rochester Institute of Technology and Britain’s Cambridge and Manchester have branches in Dubai. Georgetown, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Texas A&M, and Virginia Commonwealth have Qatar-based campuses.
Gulf governments have been incredibly generous to many of these institutions, doling out hefty chunks of their hydrocarbons-based wealth. In 2014, for example, among other grants, Qatar gave $59.5 million Georgetown University and $45.3 million to Northwestern University. In 2008, New York University opened its Abu Dhabi campus with the help of $50 million from the emirate. According to data from The Gazelle, an NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) student newspaper, more than 99 percent of NYUAD’s revenue comes from UAE grants. Abu Dhabi even committed to financing a chunk of NYU’s New York campus when the NYUAD deal was inked.
The issue, he argues, is the limited academic freedom these institutions receive from the governments. Countries that host these branches of American universities practice both soft censorship, where certain topics are off-limits, and hard censorship, such as the confiscation of books.
“Universities must realize that they are not passive, value-neutral actors,” he argues. “Their campuses confer geopolitical benefits to Gulf states by giving them robust soft power, enabling the regimes to boost their global profiles by touting the Western institutions they host.”
Koduvayur asks whether or not the gains made by establishing branches and receiving funding in the Middle East is worth the damages to universities’ reputations and attacks on academic freedom. Otherwise, cases like Matthew Hedges will become the norm rather than the exception.
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HomeNewsDCU NewsEleven teams complete the ‘Relay for Life’
Eleven teams complete the ‘Relay for Life’
March 11, 2015 DCU News
The opening lap of DCU Relay for life was completed by four survivors, followed by 11 teams as DCU Cancer Society set out to raise a target of €2,000 for the Irish Cancer Society.
Relay for Life is a 24 hour team event, where one member of each team is on the track at all times. The slogan is to ‘celebrate, remember and fight back’ as one in three people fight cancer.
Sinéad Reilly of DCU Cancer Society said “Relay celebrates survivors, remembers those we’ve lost and encourages us to fight on to find a cure. This was our yearly goal in one event which involves both students and staff in a unique 24 hour event”.
Despite the cold, 11 teams including societies such as Young Fine Gael, Enactus, MPS and Rag, walked the track all day and night in high spirits. “The teams were committed in raising as much money as they could and remembering those who have survived, those still fighting and those we’ve lost,” said Sinéad.
Entertainment was provided for the 24 hours with bands such as Touchwood and the Dublin Gospel Choir, Zumba and a colour run.
A highlight of the 24 hours was the candle of hope ceremony, which was the remembrance element of the event. “It was an emotional time for those remembering lost friends and family members, as well as for the survivors reflecting on their own experiences. The Dublin Gospel Choir gave an amazing performance making the ceremony so special and significant,” said Sinéad.
“The fact that there were always people walking throughout the 24hrs highlights how many of us have been affected by the disease and the strength that lies within us to find a cure and finally beat cancer,” said Sinéad.
“1 in 3 people are diagnosed with cancer in Ireland. A patient lives with cancer and the pain that comes with it 24/7, so to test ourselves physically, emotionally and mentally for 24 hours is minimal compared to what others go through.”
The event received much attention with Enda Kenny tweeting his support to the society. Support was also given by the CEO of the Irish Cancer society, John Mc Cormack, Ardal O’Hanlan, Chris O’Dowd and Neil Delamare, which helped raise awareness about the cause.
DCU Cancer Society which is in its first year, have already raised over €3500 for Irish Cancer Society.
Catherine Devine
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‘WORSE THAN MURDER’
Could Secret Cables Have Saved Ethel Rosenberg From the Electric Chair?
Even as Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the electric chair for spying for Moscow in 1953, decrypted cables might have spared her. But they were released only decades later.
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
Updated 07.07.19 6:41AM ET / Published 07.06.19 11:29PM ET
BEAST INSIDE
Bettmann/Getty
At 8:11 on the evening of June 19, 1953, Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the electric chair at the New York State prison known as Sing Sing. She was 37 years old and the mother of two young sons. The chair, made of oak and iron, had killed hundreds of convicted criminals over the years, including her husband, Julius Rosenberg, a few minutes before. But the chair was not always reliable, which was one reason inmates gave it the cynical name “Old Sparky.”
Two years earlier, when both Rosenbergs were convicted of spying for Moscow, Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman had handed down their death sentences. The Rosenbergs’ crime, he said, was “worse than murder.” But in fact the penalty was not about justice. It was about vengeance for a loss the American public felt was so enormous that someone must be made to pay a horrible price.
It was “as if a society turned its magnifying lens on these people until they caught fire and were burned alive,” said novelist E. L. Doctorow, whose The Book of Daniel was a fictional account of the case.
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You are at:Home»From the Editor»Black History: Just a Month?
Black History: Just a Month?
By Staff Contributors on February 16, 2016 From the Editor
It is that time of year again. Valentine’s Day? President’s Day? No. Well, yes. Those days are observed this month, but I am speaking about the month itself. Black History Month. There are many views on the celebration of Black history during this time. Inevitably, I hear a lot of criticism over this designated timeframe. Statements such as, “There isn’t a White History Month” or “Why is the history regulated to one month” are commonplace during this time. Some people view the month’s theme itself as racist while others see the objection as racist.
The topic is an uneasy one to approach. Celebrities, such as Morgan Freeman, have garnered a lot of criticism for speaking out against the event. He said, “I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.” It’s hard to say he is wrong. It is his opinion after all. Well, his feelings are his opinion. Black history being a part of history is fact.
I remember the concept of Black History Month as a child being one of fascination. I enjoyed the history. Personally, I think Black history should be presented chronologically with any other history, but I don’t create the classes. Considering the introduction of the month’s theme was created before my time, maybe I do not understand.
Originally known as Negro History Week, the theme was celebrated to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas, the 12th and 14th respectively. It was conceived to teach celebrated Black history in the classrooms. The only history up to that point (1926) surrounded the introduction of slavery in America and the role it played in the Civil War.
During America’s Bicentennial (1976), President Ford urged people to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” Black History Month was established this year in February because Negro History Week was already created in that month.
While on campus, I have received a well-rounded education I believe. I have studied works of literature written by Black Americans and women. I think LCU breaks traditional molds in this regard. Currently, I am enrolled in an African-American Literature course, taught by Professor Shenai Alonge. I think what helps this course is the centralized material presented. While I have read poems, plays, and novels by Black American authors on campus before, the course is designed to examine issues facing the writers when the works were written.
Again, I have to agree with Mr. Freeman. Black history is American history. It should be important year round. I do however enjoy the elevated status of Black history and literature during the month. To me, it is a placeholder of sorts. Recognized by the U.S. Government, many school policies across the country mandate this topic SHALL be taught. If educators feel they can avoid the issue, an official event is in place to stop them. For many children, it is the only time they will read about Black history, and that is unfortunate, but for now, the themed month meets its intentioned purpose, celebration.
For those who wonder about White History Month, I can only inform you of your ignorance. Perhaps you take the history and literature which surrounds you for granted because, in a lot of cases, White History Month(s) take place every other month of the year, March-January, which is why Black History Month and designated months for the history of many other cultures exist. If this fact is lost on you, I offer the following themed months for your future celebrations:
Irish-American Heritage Month – March
Jewish American Heritage Month – May
National Hispanic Heritage Month – September 15th to October 15th
Native American Indian Heritage Month – November
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up 10 nods for New York’s Outer Critics Circle Awards
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has received 10 nominations for this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards in New York. The play, produced by Sonia...
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Olivier Awards 2017: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child wins record nine prizes
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The Fountainhead review at the Lowry, Salford – ‘hard to stomach’
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Condo buyers call for better protections as second major Vaughan condo project killed
By Tess KalinowskiReal Estate Reporter
Wed., Sept. 19, 2018timer3 min. read
There are growing calls for stronger homebuyer protections in the wake of a second major condo cancellation at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, this time affecting buyers of 1,633 units in the sold-out Icona buildings that were launched between January and March last year.
The project by the Gupta Group at Highway 7 and Edgeley Blvd. was supposed to include the tallest condo in Vaughan at 55 storeys. But this week, the developer sent cancellation letters dated Sept. 14, citing “circumstances beyond our control that make the project unfinanceable.”
Gupta Group did not respond immediately to a call and email to its offices Wednesday afternoon from the Toronto Star. A communications representative for the company emailed a statement saying the purchasers’ deposits had been returned “after years of hard work (and) considerable financial investment.”
“We have refunded purchaser deposits in full and without delay,” the statement said.
But that did little to appease angry, disappointed buyers in the project, who told the Star they had only recently paid the last instalments on their deposits.
“It’s not fair,” said Patricia DeBartolo, who invested in a $530,000, three-bedroom condo for her daughters to live in while attending school and starting their careers in Toronto.
“If (the Gupta Group) can’t get the financing or they want to turn around and sell it for more money we can’t stop them. But it’s not correct that they’ve had our money for a year, an interest-free loan to use it as they want,” she said.
The Bradford woman, who works in Vaughan, said she bought a condo in February 2017, in part because it made financial sense to own it given high Toronto rents and the Icona’s proximity to a new TTC station.
“At that time it was perfect. Now you’d never get that and I certainly wouldn’t go and spend $700,000 for a condo, which is what they’re going for at those sizes,” said DeBartolo.
The cancellation comes about six months after Liberty Developments cancelled the Cosmos condos along the same stretch of Highway 7. About half the buyers in that three-tower project of about 1,000 units are asking a court to cancel their purchase agreements so they can sue the developer for the lost appreciation on their purchases during the two years in which Liberty held their deposits.
Lawyer Ted Charney, who is representing the Cosmos buyers, said he was swamped with emails from Icona purchasers on Wednesday. He said the province and building industry regulator Tarion need to do more for buyers when developers kill projects for vague or undisclosed reasons.
“Tarion is supposed to protect consumers. So far as we know it has done nothing about the last cancelled project (Cosmos). Nor has the provincial government or Premier (Doug) Ford. Therefore it should come as no surprise that in today’s condominium market projects will continue to be cancelled for lack of “satisfactory financing,” he said.
“Icona Developments Inc. has not disclosed to purchasers how it went about meeting its contractual obligations to make all reasonably commercial efforts to secure satisfactory financing,” added Charney.
Buyer Drita Jakupovski borrowed against her home to invest in the Icona condo. By the time her son, who is still in high school, is ready to own a home it won’t be affordable, she said.
There have been 11 residential project cancellations representing about 4,000 units since early 2017, according to Shaun Hildebrand, president of Urbanation, a market research company. He thinks the Toronto area could potentially see more, but nothing on the scale of Icona and Cosmos.
“Many of the projects that appeared to be candidates for cancellation a few months ago have now started work on their sites, so the list has been pared down quite a lot,” he said.
The City of Vaughan had not been formally notified about the Icona cancellation, said a statement attributed to Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua.
“To have heard about it through the media is extremely unfortunate, and we are now looking into the matter,” it said. “This is disappointing and a poor way to do business in our city.”
In another statement, the City of Vaughan said it shares the buyers’ frustration and disappointment, but that consumer protection is the province’s jurisdiction.
“City council sent a formal written request to the ministry of government and consumer services in May 2018, asking for a review of the legislation governing the marketing, presale and cancellation of pre-construction condominium projects. We hope the new provincial administration will take action on our request shortly,” it said.
Meantime, DeBartolo said it’s small investors like her who are feeding the economy.
“We just get victimized,” she said. “It’s not like I’m a high roller and I’ve got thousands of dollars in the bank.”
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https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/O-Fallon-goes-back-to-back-12642785.php
O’Fallon goes back-to-back
Published 12:00 am CDT, Thursday, May 8, 2014
O’FALLON – The O’Fallon Panthers reduced the Southwestern Conference girls track meet to a race for second place on Wednesday night.
The Panthers piled up 186 points to claim back-to-back SWC championships. O’Fallon also captured the SWC in 2010 before East St. Louis took the title in 2011 and Belleville West won it in 2012.
Edwardsville scored 139.5 points to edge East Side at 137.5 points for a runner-up finish at O’Fallon High. Belleville East (74), West (66), Granite City (33), Collinsville (33) and Alton (21) completed the field.
Alton was without its top point producer in sophomore Lajarvia Brown. The SWC title contender in the triple jump and long jump did not compete.
Three Edwardsville seniors combined to win five events. Nebraska recruit Kristen Dowell swept the hurdles, winning the 100-meter hurdles in 15.13 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 45.85. Dowell also took second in the long jump at 16 feet, 7.5 inches and fifth in the triple jump.
Aaliyah Covington, bound for Saint Louis on a basketball scholarship, swept the throws. Covington went 41-11.5 to win the shot put and 126-7 in the discus.
Allie Sweatt, bound for Southern Illinois University Carbondale, won the 3,200 in 11:39.08. She was third in the 1,600. Edwardsville also got a runner-up finish from senior Deborrah Blackburn with a 5-4 leap in the high jump.
Chayvon Buckingham produced Alton’s lone top-five finish. She had a throw of 37-9.75 to place third in the shot.
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China and US greenhouse gas levels to new highs
Ben Webster, Environment Editor
December 6 2018, 12:01am, The Times
China extended its lead as the highest emitting country according to the journal NatureJASON LEE/REUTERS
Global greenhouse gas emissions are on course to reach a record high after rising at the fastest rate for seven years fuelled by increases in the US and China.
The chances of avoiding dangerous climate change are diminishing after a 2.7 per cent projected increase in carbon dioxide emissions to 37.1 billion tonnes, scientists said.
A separate study found that Greenland’s ice sheet was melting at its fastest rate for at least 350 years, which could lead to a rapid increase in sea levels.
The increase in emissions was calculated by the Global Carbon Project, a team of researchers from 50 universities and institutes who study energy statistics and economic forecasts. They found the rate of increase had accelerated from the 1.6 per cent recorded…
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TIME WARNER CABLE BRINGS HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION LIVE, OUTDOORS TO THOUSANDS IN NEW YORK CITY
New Yorkers can watch NY1’s coverage outdoors on grand scale televisions at three landmark Manhattan locations
Time Warner Cable is uniting New Yorkers to view history in the making by hosting live telecasts of NY1’s coverage of the Presidential Inauguration at three outdoor landmark locations in Manhattan – Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building Square in Harlem, Father Duffy Square in Times Square and Foley Square in lower Manhattan. Additionally, over 1,000 customers are being invited to gather at the world famous Apollo Theater for an exclusive live viewing. Grand-scale televisions will be positioned at each location where New Yorkers can watch NY1 for wall-to-wall coverage of Inauguration Day starting at 10 AM.
“On Election Day in New York City, the sense of community was omnipresent. By partnering with NY1 for this historic ceremony, thousands in New York City can similarly pause and together, watch it at key viewing locations throughout Manhattan,” stated Howard Szarfarc, Executive Vice President, Time Warner Cable’s NYC Region. “This is a unique opportunity to gather New Yorkers for this turning point in history. It’s especially meaningful to host an event for our customers at the legendary Apollo Theater,” added Szarfarc.
“New Yorkers can stand with one another and watch history being made,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “I hope that New Yorkers and visitors watch the Inauguration from these viewing sites and create special memories that will last a lifetime. Our first president was inaugurated in lower Manhattan 220 years ago, and now another special inauguration day can be celebrated in New York City. Thanks to Time Warner Cable, the Parks Department, and the City’s Street Activity Permit Office for making these special viewing opportunities happen.”
“Parks are places of shared experience, where communities come together, and where New Yorkers have long gathered in times of shared happiness or grief,” said Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe. “Tuesday’s inauguration of Barack Obama will be a historic day for our nation, a day that will be watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Parks is proud to partner with Time Warner Cable to telecast this monumental event to the public in our parks at Foley Square and Duffy Square.”
Along with three outdoor live telecasts for the public, Time Warner Cable is inviting over 1,000 customers to view the live inauguration telecast on NY1 at the Apollo Theater. Customers can sign up for complimentary tickets on the company’s website on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last — www.twcnyc.com. Time Warner Cable officials will welcome the 1,000+ crowd as together they view the live telecast of the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States on NY1.
“We are very proud to partner with Time Warner Cable to bring this event to the Apollo. The Apollo Theater has long been considered a town hall for the people of this community, and we are honored to be able to take part in this monumental time in our nation’s history,” said Jonelle Procope, President & CEO, Apollo Theater Foundation.
The outdoor telecasts are made possible through the support of the Office of Mayor Bloomberg, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the NYS Office of General Services.
“NY1 is synonymous with New York City, and that’s why we’re bringing NY1’s live, in-depth coverage of this day through outdoor and indoor platforms throughout the City,” said Szarfarc.
NY1 special coverage includes:
6 AM — Inauguration Day live reports from the five boroughs and Washington D.C.
10 AM — Wall-to-wall coverage of the Inauguration ceremony, historical analysis and the Inaugural parade.
Live reports from the Apollo Theater, Times Square and The State Office Building in Harlem.
Reactions from students at PS 11 in Brooklyn.
Anchors Pat Kiernan and Roma Torre at the newsdesk.
“This is a great opportunity for New Yorkers to share in the sentiment with others, and NY1 will be there every step of the way,” said Steve Paulus, Regional VP and General Manager, Time Warner Cable, local news division.
About Time Warner Cable’s New York City Region
Time Warner Cable’s New York City Region serves over 1.4 million customers in four NYC boroughs (Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and western Brooklyn), Mt. Vernon, Hudson Valley (Orange, Sullivan, Ulster Counties and parts of Dutchess, Greene and Delaware Counties) and Bergen and Hudson Counties, New Jersey. Visit www.TWCnyc.com
Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located mainly in five geographic areas — New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. As of September 30, 2008, Time Warner Cable served approximately 14.7 million customers who subscribed to one or more of its video, high speed data and voice services, representing approximately 34.2 million revenue generating units.
About New York 1 News
NY1 News, a division of Time Warner Cable is available to more than two and half million subscribers on channel 1 on the following cable systems: Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey (serving Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and portions of Brooklyn), Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey, parts of Westchester and the Hudson Valley and Cablevision Systems of New York City (serving the rest of Brooklyn and the Bronx). It can also be seen on channel 122 on Time Warner Cable Rochester, channel 111 on Time Warner Cable Syracuse, channel 1011 on Time Warner Cable
Binghamton and channel 515 on Time Warner Cable Albany as well as being shown on closed-circuit television in the state capitol. NY1 News is available on the World Wide Web at http://ny1.com.
About the Apollo Theater
Celebrating its 75th Anniversary Season in 2009-10, the Apollo Theater is one of Harlem’s, New York City’s, and America’s most iconic and enduring cultural institutions. Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has played a major role in the emergence of innovative musical genres including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul and hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., James Brown, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D’Angelo, and countless others began their road to stardom on the Apollo’s stage. Based on its cultural significance and architecture, the Apollo Theater received state and city landmark designation in 1983 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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TIME WARNER CABLE ‘CRACKS THE CODE’ AT THE 2012 WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL ULTIMATE SCIENCE STREET FAIR
Over 700 Kids Play the Company’s Word and Numbers Game at its Connect A Million Minds® Booth
New York City, June 4, 2012 - For the third consecutive year, Time Warner Cable sponsored the annual World Science Festival and participated in The Ultimate Science Street Fair held at Washington Square Park in Manhattan on June 3. Over 700 kids visited the company’s Connect A Million Minds booth to ‘Crack the Code,’ a fun word and numbers game that illustrates the function of binary codes in the digital world. Kids who cracked the code earned prizes ranging from maze pens to floppy calculators.
Time Warner Cable employee volunteers took part in the action-packed day to talk to families about the importance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills. Visitors also learned about the company’s Connect a Million Minds website and unique resources such as “The Connectory” for those who want to participate in helping young people gain access to STEM opportunities. The Connectory makes it simple and easy for parents and students to find science and technology learning opportunities and activities in their communities.
“The World Science Festival is a great event for Time Warner Cable to be a part of and is strongly aligned with our Connect A Million Minds program,” said John Quigley, Time Warner Cable’s Regional Vice President of Operations for New York City. “Studies show that more than half of the fastest growing jobs in the future will be in the science or technology field. We’re passionate about inspiring kids through unique activities so they understand the value of STEM skills, and showcase that STEM can be fun and cool at the same time.”
The Ultimate Science Street Fair featured interactive exhibits, experiments, games and shows, all designed to entertain and inspire. Families had the opportunity to explore a telepathy lab, learn the science tricks to shooting perfect free-throws with NBA stars, create a fragrance at the Smell Lab, ride a square-wheeled tricycle, and much more.
Connect a Million Minds is an initiative created by Time Warner Cable in 2009, designed to inspire the next generation of problem solvers by connecting young people to the wonders of science, technology, engineering and math. For more information about Connect a Million Minds, visit http://www.connectamillionminds.com.
Time Warner Cable’s New York City footprint serves over 1.3 million customers in four New York City boroughs (Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and western Brooklyn), Mt. Vernon, Hudson Valley (Orange, Sullivan, Ulster Counties and parts of Dutchess, Greene and Delaware Counties), and Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey.
Over 700 kids visited Time Warner Cable’s Connect A Million Minds booth to ‘Crack the Code’ at the World Science Festival Ultimate Science Street Fair held at Washington Square Park in Manhattan on June 3. Photo credit: Shahar Azran Photography
Time Warner Cable employee volunteers informed attendees about the importance of science, technology, engineering and math skills, and the company’s Connect A Million Minds program at the World Science Festival Ultimate Science Street Fair. Photo credit: Shahar Azran Photography
Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is among the largest providers of video, high-speed data and voice services in the United States, connecting more than 15 million customers to entertainment, information and each other. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers data, video and voice services to businesses of all sizes, cell tower backhaul services to wireless carriers and, through its NaviSite subsidiary, managed and outsourced information technology solutions and cloud services. Time Warner Cable Media, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions. More information about the services of Time Warner Cable is available at www.timewarnercable.com, www.twcbc.com, www.navisite.com, and www.twcmedia.com.
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Great Dane renews Gold Level support for Women in Trucking
TBB Staff | Jun 14, 2019
Trailer manufacturer Great Dane recently renewed its Gold Level Partnership with the Women in Trucking Association (WIT), which seeks to encourage women around the world to view transportation as a viable career opportunity.
Since its inception in 2007, WIT has helped advance gender diversity in transportation and logistics. The annual Accelerate! Conference and Expo, the WIT Index, which monitors the representation of women in the industry, and a new community app that empowers members with knowledge and mentorship are a few examples of recent initiatives helping the organization achieve its mission.
“We’re grateful for Great Dane’s involvement and their passion for our mission of encouraging more women to pursue careers in trucking, celebrating their successes and minimizing the challenges they face,” said Ellen Voie, WIT president and CEO. “It’s with partnerships like these that we can truly make a difference in the industry.”
This is the sixth consecutive year Great Dane has supported WIT at the Gold Level. In addition to providing financial support, the company actively participates in the association. Laura Roan-Hays, branch manager at Great Dane, serves as Chair on the WIT Board of Directors.
“From the beginning of my career, I have strived to bridge the gender gap in our industry,” Roan-Hays said. “Let’s face it, 30 years ago there weren’t many females in sales management roles for commercial truck-trailer manufacturers. It takes a lot of determination and courage to commit to a non-traditional career.
“At Great Dane, we are honored to be a part of an organization like Women In Trucking, whose mission is to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in transportation.”
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Why police departments are concerned about your iPhone's software updates
Posted: 6:52 AM, Dec 05, 2018
By: Paris Lewbel
INDIANAPOLIS — In a constant battle to keep your private data secure, Apple is hitting back, keeping people out of your phone. But it’s bringing up a major issue for law enforcement in Indiana.
When it comes to solving crimes, often a key piece of evidence is stored on a cellphone or a computer, and police are constantly trying to stay ahead of criminals. But as more people and tech giants are concerned about security, some of those new security features and encryption are stopping police from solving crimes.
In 2015, Apple was in the spotlight after they refused to unlock an iPhone for the FBI after a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. At the time, investigators said potential key clues of other possible terrorist attacks could be on the phone. Apple refused to help unlock the device.
In the years since, a new device called GrayKey that law enforcement could use to crack iPhones was developed, and they've been using it ever since.
"[GrayKey] can plug into iPhones that historically, in general, have what we call 'brute force' on them,” said Steve Beaty, a digital security expert.
The September release of Apple's latest operating system, iOS 12, shut down the ability for that special device to work. The result left investigators scrambling.
“Apple's fighting these guys pretty hard, has been a bit of a chess game," Beaty said.
The Indiana State Police and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department have the $15,000 GrayKey device.
Both agencies say they only use the device as part of ongoing criminal investigations after a search warrant has been issued by a judge. But even with a warrant, Apple’s latest operating system for iPhones has shut down the ability for the GrayKey to work.
Investigators are concerned that they won't be able to solve some crimes because they can't get key pieces of evidence off a new iPhone.
"So for the time being, I don't see it being more than a chess game where there are going to be advances made on either side,” Beaty said. “And I don't think there's going to be a definitive ... ‘checkmate’ in the foreseeable future."
WRTV asked both ISP and IMPD if they have had any cases where the device hasn’t worked. Neither would discuss specifics of the GrayKey device.
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A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is uncompromising in style and subject matter
Baileys prize will widen appeal of 'instant classic' which almost didn't make it into print at all
• Eimear McBride wins Baileys women's prize for fiction with first novel
Justine Jordan
Wed 4 Jun 2014 14.15 EDT First published on Wed 4 Jun 2014 14.15 EDT
Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
When Baileys announced its sponsorship of the women's prize for fiction last year, there were mischievous musings about what sort of novel one might wash down with such a sweet tipple. The inaugural winner, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, is certainly not a cream liqueur kind of book.
Jaggedly uncompromising in both style and subject matter, it languished unpublished for a decade before being picked up by a fledgling independent house. Since its publication last summer, when Anne Enright hailed it in the Guardian as an "instant classic", it's been feted by the sort of prize juries that set out to reward stylistic innovation, winning the Goldsmiths prize and being shortlisted for the first Folio prize. That it should now bag an award that traditionally keeps accessibility in mind is a surprise, but a wonderful one.
Eimear McBride's small, incredibly dense novel is the inner narrative of an Irish girl from before birth to the verge of death, written to capture what McBride calls "the moment before language becomes formatted thought": "For you. You'll soon. You'll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she'll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes you."
There's a rural childhood, an absent father, a viciously controlling mother, rape by an uncle and bitter promiscuity; through it all runs the narrator's tender relationship with her brother, doomed by a brain tumour. "God, sex, death, religion, shame, here it all is," McBride has said of her eminently Irish themes. She's firmly in the Irish modernist tradition of Beckett and Joyce, with a nod to Edna O'Brien's Country Girls, but what's so fresh and impressive are the female perspective and emotional charge she brings to a style some might have considered historical. This is a novel so emotionally overwhelming that it can be hard to finish a sentence, but also one in which each line repays thought and second reading. It almost didn't make it into print at all, but it will stay with every reader – and the Baileys prize can only widen its appeal. Justine Jordan
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Spending review: 'Greenest government ever' reserves worst cuts for Defra
Environment department has budget cut by 30% compared to government average of 19%
Juliette Jowit
Wed 20 Oct 2010 15.45 EDT First published on Wed 20 Oct 2010 15.45 EDT
The RSPB welcomed the government's decision to maintain spending on schemes for wildlife-friendly farming, which has seen the shrill carder bee, England's rarest bumblebee, make a comeback in recent years. Photograph: RSPB/PA
The self-proclaimed "greenest government ever" today delivered some of its most vicious spending cuts to the environment. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had its total budget cut by 30%, including the effect of inflation, considerably higher than the government average of 19%.
It means that Defra's budget will shrink from about £3bn this year by about £700m by the end of the four-year spending period, in 2015. As a result, the department and its delivery agencies, including the Environment Agency, which monitors pollution and protects against flooding, and Natural England, which helps look after the natural world, will shed 5,000-8,000 out of a total of 30,000 jobs.
Some £170m will be cut from in flood spending, and savings from cutting jobs, IT spending and other administration will grow to £174m by the final year of the spending review period. Other savings under consideration include selling off or giving away National Nature Reserves.
But Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary, rejected claims that the severity of the cuts made a mockery of the pledge by prime minister David Cameron. "That commitment to become the greenest government ever goes across all government departments," she said. "If you bring into the equation the green investment bank, the announcement by [the climate change department which] greens our households for the future, if you look at announcements on public transport... these are all ways together we're able to reduce our carbon footprint and give clear expression to our desire to be the greenest government ever."
Defra's biggest cuts in money terms are in resource spending for administration and front-line services, which will be reduced by 29%, from £2.3bn this year to £1.8bn in 2014-15 – the third highest reduction in percentage terms of any government department. Capital spending, mostly on flood defences, will drop from £600m this year to £400m each year. Added up over the four years of the spending review, the department and its agencies will spend £2bn less than it would have, not accounting for the effect of inflation.
While flooding spending appears to have been decided in advance (a total of £2bn over four years), and farm subsidies are mostly protected because they come from the European Union, conservation experts said there was concern that most of the remaining cuts would fall on policies and projects to protect the natural world.
The RSPB welcomed the decision to maintain or increase spending on environmental stewardship schemes for wildlife-friendly farming, and to boost the more-effective "higher level" version.
However, the department has already announced restructuring and reduction in staff at Natural England, its main biodiversity agency. Concern will also be heightened by ministers' response today when challenged as to where other budget cuts would fall. Spelman highlighted a current review of regulation of food and farming, which environment groups fear will lead to far less enforcement of rules against a sector responsible for widespread damage to biodiversity and water pollution.
"I don't think we'll know the full ramifications of this until after Christmas," said Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director. "It can't be good news that Defra seems pretty close to the bottom of the list when it comes to handing out money, but Spelman has done a good job in defending and increasing wildlife-friendly farming."
Although flood spending will be cut by 20-30%, to a total £2bn over the four years, Spelman said that was significantly less than the 50% proposed by the last Labour government. She also defended the Chancellor George Osborne's declaration, in his main speech, that this would lead to a "major improvement" in flood defences: "efficiency savings" in the last year by the Environment Agency meant that the lower amount of money would still lead to an additional 145,000 homes being protected by 2015, she said.
Despite repeated questioning, Spelman was not able to say how much the cull of quangos would save in spending.
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Friend of Isis terrorist who planned to kill PM found guilty of terror offences
Mohammed Imran convicted of preparing to join terrorists abroad
Thu 27 Dec 2018 08.47 EST Last modified on Thu 27 Dec 2018 09.44 EST
A court artist’s sketch of Mohammed Aqib Imran at Westminster magistrates court in London. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA
A friend of an Islamic State terrorist who plotted to assassinate Theresa May has been found guilty of preparing to join terrorists abroad.
Mohammed Aqib Imran, 22, made arrangements to travel for jihad around the time Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, was set on a suicide attack against the prime minister.
Rahman, from Finchley, north London, recorded an Isis sponsorship video for Imran, the Old Bailey in central London heard.
The pair were caught by a network of online role players from the Metropolitan police, MI5 and the FBI. Rahman’s plan to kill May was scuppered when undercover officers handed him a jacket and a rucksack packed with fake explosives.
Following a trial in July, Rahman was convicted of preparing acts of terrorism and Imran was found guilty of possessing a terrorist handbook. Rahman also pleaded guilty during his trial to assisting Imran in the preparation of terrorist acts by recording a sponsorship video.
Following a retrial, Imran, a former student, was also found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism abroad on or before 28 November 2017.
Mark Heywood QC, prosecuting, told jurors: “At the heart of this case is a developing radicalisation in the minds of two men who came to know each other online, and afterwards met and began to collaborate.
“Both thought about travelling abroad to further their cause, going to a conflict zone such as Syria to lend support to violence. Each also contemplated carrying out terrorist acts of violence here in the UK.
“Mohammed Imran elected to travel and set about assembling money, acquiring a fake passport, engaging in research and otherwise equipping himself with the information and means to travel abroad for violence for terrorist purposes.”
The court heard how Imran’s preferred destination was Libya or possibly Jordan, with a view to onward travel to Syria. He had saved money to pay for a fake passport and researched travel options, the court heard.
He downloaded the manual How to Survive in the West – a Mujahid’s Guide 2015, with a view to joining Isis, the jury was told.
Imran, from Sparkhill in Birmingham, denied the charge against him, claiming he only wanted to get married to a woman in Denmark he had met online. The jury deliberated for just under 18 hours before finding him guilty of preparing to engage in acts of terrorism.
In August, Rahman, who is originally from Birmingham, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years.
The judge, Nicholas Hilliard QC, the recorder of London, requested a report from the probation service before sentencing on any potential future risk from Imran, as it was “a really important question, the safety of the public”.
Jenny Hopkins from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Mohammad Imran was desperate to join Daesh [Isis] rather than remain in the UK. He was ready to give up everything to kill in the name of a warped worldview.”
Imran is due to be sentenced on 25 January.
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Men’s Lacrosse: No. 10 Ohio State ends regular season with 13-10 loss to Michigan
By John Pearson April 26, 2019
The No. 10 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team’s (8-4, 1-4 Big Ten) dreams of a Big Ten tournament and NCAA tournament bid were likely killed by arch-rivals Michigan (4-9, 1-4 Big Ten), when the Buckeyes lost to the Wolverines 13-10 on Friday. Ohio State junior ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 9 Ohio State drops comeback effort in overtime 10-9 to No. 2 Maryland
The No. 9 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team fell to No. 2 Maryland in overtime in the Buckeyes final home game of the regular season with a goal from Maryland junior attacker and leading goal scorer Jared Bernhardt. Ohio State (8-3, 1-3 Big Ten) suffered ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 12 Ohio State defeats No. 16 Johns Hopkins 14-13 in comeback fashion
The No. 12 Ohio State’s men’s lacrosse team scored four of the final five goals, including one by sophomore attacker Jackson Reid, his fifth of the game, with 49 seconds left to come back and defeat No. 16 Johns Hopkins 14-13, earning its first Big ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 12 Ohio State attempts to break losing streak against No. 16 Johns Hopkins
The No. 12 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team heads to Baltimore on Sunday to play No. 16 Johns Hopkins. The Buckeyes will be attempting to break a two-game losing streak and get their first Big Ten victory of the season. Ohio State (7-2, 0-2 Big ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 9 Ohio State drops second straight Big Ten game with 13-8 loss to No. 1 Penn State
By John Pearson April 7, 2019
No. 1 Penn State’s offense was too much for No. 9 Ohio State to handle, with the Buckeyes losing their second straight game with a 13-8 defeat to the Nittany Lions, leaving Ohio State without a win in Big Ten play so far. On a ...
Men’s Lacrosse: Ohio State battles No. 1 Penn State in hopes of bounce-back opportunity
The No. 7 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team heads to Pennsylvania in a huge Big Ten matchup against No. 1 Penn State at noon Sunday. The Buckeyes are looking to bounce back from their first loss of the season. Ohio State (7-1, 0-1 Big Ten) ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 4 Ohio State falls 14-6 to Rutgers in first loss of the season
The No. 4 Ohio State men’s lacrosse team started Big Ten play on the wrong foot Sunday at home, falling to Rutgers for its first loss of the season 14-6. The Buckeyes (7-1, 0-1 Big Ten) came into Sunday as the only team in Division ...
Men’s Lacrosse: Jack Jasinski finds path to becoming crucial player for Ohio State
By John Pearson March 26, 2019
Ohio State lacrosse senior midfielder Jack Jasinski is currently the top point scorer for the Buckeyes, but the Alabama native is focused on helping his teammates and changing the way people see lacrosse in his home state. Jasinski grew up in Birmingham, an area not ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 8 Ohio State earns first ranked win with 11-10 overtime victory against Notre Dame
The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team came back from a five-goal deficit on Saturday to defeat its first ranked opponent, No. 11 Notre Dame, in overtime with an 11-10 win. A hat trick from sophomore midfielder Jackson Reid helped bring the Buckeyes back to victory. ...
Men’s Lacrosse: No. 5 Ohio State faces No. 11 Notre Dame in first ranked matchup
The Ohio State men’s lacrosse team will face its biggest test of the season to this point when it travels to take on No. 11 Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday. Despite being the only undefeated team left in Division I, the Buckeyes ...
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When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
A mother (in her Minivan) stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Ratsasan
A serial killer is murdering school girls, and a newbie cop has to track him down before the victim count increases.
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
24 Hours to Live
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
The Imposter
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
A Perfect World
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
The Devil's Candy
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Pay the Ghost
One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son—and, in doing so, he unearths a legend that refuses to remain buried in the past.
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw
The Emerald Forest
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
Twin Sitters
An evil business executive (played by George Lazenby), is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
Polar-opposite brothers Randy and Kirk never saw eye-to-eye, but their rivalry is taken to a new level when Randy hijacks Kirk's son's sleepover, taking the boys on a Scout Trip to remember.
Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
Taken in Broad Daylight
Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her captor, engineering her own rescue and negotiating her safe release after 6 days of hell.
Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Lucy Pierce grew up believing she had a normal childhood. Until, one day, she discovers old articles about the "Baby Victoria" disappearance - a high-profile abduction case. She is shocked to see that her baby picture is front and center. Determined to find answers, Lucy tracks down her biological mother, Elizabeth Marshall, a criminal prosecutor running for Governor of Pennsylvania. While Lucy's reunion with Elizabeth is heartfelt, the same can't be said for her relationship with her newfound sister, Terri. The family reunion spirals out of control as Lucy finds herself in the middle of a police investigation. As Lucy questions who is really trying to defame her, is something more sinister happening to tear this family apart, yet again?
Difret
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia’s oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the ongoing work of her women’s legal aid practice to save Hirut’s life.
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The long read: Accrington Stanley - 'who are dey?' - a club at the heart of the community. 'Exactly'
'Football at this level is honest,' says long-serving manager John Coleman, 'and we’re not a club that is going to bankrupt ourselves in the chase for glory'
Accrington Stanley, in red, finished 14th in League One, the third tier of English football despite having the second-lowest budget in the division. Getty Images
Only an hour to go before relegation-threatened Accrington Stanley take on League One leaders Luton Town on a bright East Lancashire afternoon 32 kilometres north of Manchester.
Framed by the east Lancashire moors above the town of 35,000, Accrington’s thoroughly modernised ground sits amid a quiet residential area. No manager in England’s 92-team football league has an office quite as modest as John Coleman, the man who has been Stanley’s manager for 18 years. No current manager in English professional football has managed their current club for longer.
“Come inside,” says the Liverpudlian, 56, inside being a portable steel container where his friends and family are relaxing before a hugely important match. Fleetwood Town manager Joey Barton stayed there for two hours after a game weeks previously.
There are photos of legendary Liverpool managers Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley on the wall, plus a local newspaper report from 1985 of a match which ended Accrington Stanley 1 Burscough 2. Dated February 26, it reads "Accrington Stanley still find themselves looking for their first point of 1985". Burscough’s goalscorer is one John Coleman "who scored a hat-trick in the match between the sides on January 1st". Jimmy Bell got Burscough’s second. Bell has long been Coleman’s assistant. They were born and raised in Kirkby, a Liverpool overspill. Coleman gets away from the all-encompassing job by watching Liverpool as a fan.
Accrington Stanley under his leadership continue to punch well above their weight.
“We won League Two last year when nobody expected us to, but we did,” he says, in explanation of how this tiny club arrived in England’s third tier.
“We had a good set of players and added to them in the summer. I sat them down and said: ‘The realistic aim is automatic promotion. If you don’t think you can do it then go elsewhere.’ The players bought into that. At one point we won 17 out of 18 and had the best record in Europe. We did that on the second lowest budget in League Two. We didn’t even have our own training ground.”
There are other factors which make life more difficult for Accrington. It’s sandwiched between Burnley and Blackburn – two historic English clubs who draw fans from Accrington. The Manchester giants - City and United - are less than an hour to the south.
“Our attendances have a direct correlation with what we can pay players,” explains Coleman. “And we’re not a club that is going to bankrupt ourselves in the chase for glory.”
Helped by larger away followings and more home fans, Stanley’s crowds shot up by an average of 1,000 per game to 2,827 – impressive but still comfortably the smallest in a league where the average is nearly four times that figure.
So how do they do it when far better resourced teams don’t?
“Players must enjoy playing and have the love I had when I played non-league football,” Coleman says. “We do a lot of scouting ourselves and have a network of connections that we rely on. We don't have a single scout.”
Accrington Stanley manager John Coleman and his modest office. Andy Mitten for The National
The prevalent accent in the temporary office is Liverpudlian. Several of Accrington’s players are Liverpudlian, their support staff too. Liverpool is a city that has long produced footballers. Kirkby, where Coleman grew up, boasts four European Cup winners alone. Merseyside has no football league clubs below Liverpool and Everton; Greater Manchester has six below United and City.
Liverpool is therefore a happy hunting ground for Accrington. “I’ll know someone who knows a player in Liverpool and my first words to that person will be ‘is he our type of player, does he have the character to fit in our dressing room?’ If there are good players from Liverpool and I miss them then I’m doing something wrong. Arsene Wenger didn’t miss French players. He wouldn’t and he shouldn’t have.”
Coleman watches a lot of under 23 matches and it helps that Everton’s U23s play in Southport close to his home.
“Leicester have got a great U23s side,” he says. “But you don’t know if a good U23s players can became a good League One player. The U23s players from the big clubs are different. Their centre-halves don't head the ball, the keepers don’t catch the ball. It’s a huge learning curve for them and it works for some and they’ll benefit hugely playing here. Rob Elliot came here, did well and has played Premier League football.”
Coleman is proud of Stanley’s entertaining football.
“We try to play an expansive game, though our pitch hinders us. We play through the lines and we're probably the first team in League One to play 4-2-3-1. That came from when I watched Holland in the 2010 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa and saw how they interchanged. We don’t have the players Holland have to do it like they did, but we took their ethos and we had energetic players of our own. Teams found it hard to play against us, then they copied us.”
Coleman left Accrington in 2012 after more than 12 years.
“We don’t speak about him leaving,” explains one club staffer. “That’s the forgotten period.”
“I thought the club was in danger of not surviving,” Coleman says of his departure. “I wasn’t jumping from a sinking ship. I had an opportunity to manage a team in League One with a bigger budget. I took it but the bigger budget didn’t materialise.”
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Coleman went to Rochdale for a year, Southport a year later and Irish side Sligo Rovers, with whom he beat Norwegian champions Rosenborg away in the qualifying rounds for the Europa League in 2014. “Like Chesterfield beating Barcelona,” he smiles. Then he came back.
A strong relationship with Stanley owner, Andy Holt, is key to his longevity.
“He’s fantastic to work for. He leaves the football to me and he does the business side of it. He knows I won’t ask him for money he doesn’t have. We will always be a selling club and my job is to keep us as high as we can, hopefully in this division. I want to threaten for the play-offs, want to develop players, want to see the facilities continue to develop and get a training ground.”
A year ago, Accrington sold players for £1.75 million and £750,000 (Dh8 million and Dh3.5 million) to Ipswich Town.
“Two and a half million – clubs pay properly for our players now,” Coleman says, satisfied. “That would have been £250,000 two years ago.”
Once mocked with "Who are dey?" in a 1980s TV advert, the relative success of its current team keeps the town on the map.
“Accrington is famous for three things,” says Coleman. “Nori brick, Stanley and the Pals. It’s a proud, historic town.”
There’s a poem dedicated to the Accrington Pals, on the wall behind the manager. Otherwise known as the 11th Service battalion of the East Lancashire regiment, the Pals were an infantry division of men from the town who served in the First World War. Seven hundred of them went into battle on the Somme on July 1, 1916. 585 became casualties, 235 of them killed, in the first half-hour of the battle. It was, and is, a close-knit community.
“I’m on first name terms with 200-300 of the fans here because they’ve been on the journey with us. I said to some of the main ones last week that we needed some of their flag shows [from the Stanley Ultras] for the run-of-the-mill games, not just the big games. I asked; they delivered. Then I can meet them after the game for a drink where fans can tell me where I’m going wrong and how I should be picking the team!”
Accrington – "Accy" to locals – is hard-bitten and working class. Over 66 per cent voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum, far higher than the national average. The high street, like most British high streets, is struggling. Fast food shops, charity shops and bookmakers prevail and the relatively prestigious M&S store closed two years ago.
That a football team without a benefactor should rise out of this is surprising as the foundations of New York’s Empire State building being made of Accrington "Nori" brick.
Stanley have the lowest wage bill in the league, with the lower paid first-team players on £400 a week (Dh1,870).
“Sunderland’s wage bill is 20 times ours. Away from Sunderland, who are admittedly an anomaly, you have players on £6,000 a week in this league. We can’t come close to that and nor do we intend to because it’s not fair on the players we have who don’t earn that and who run through a brick wall for me. I treat players the way I wanted to be treated when I played [Coleman was a prolific non-league striker] and I say to them ‘if I can play you or pay you, what would you choose?’ They all want to play. Football at this level is honest.”
Stanley started the season very well and were pushing towards the play-offs, then it started to go wrong.
“We lost a couple of loan players and we struggled to score,” says Coleman. “We’re the third highest chance-makers in the league but the second-lowest scorers. We lost too many games 1-0 where we peppered teams but then the other team nicked a goal. As a former striker that hurts, but I also believe that strikers make the best managers because they need the drug of scoring. I still need that as a manager.”
The goals have not been coming and Stanley are fighting relegation. There is now 35 minutes to kick off against a Luton team which Stanley pipped to the League Two title last season.
“They’re a big club but we blindsided them last season to win the title,” says Coleman.
Coleman, 56, signed a new four-year contract in 2018 with no break clauses.
He became a father to the first of his three daughters at 19.
“I had my family young. They grew up with me playing football. I’d be ringing them when they were kids and they’d be sat by the Teletext giving me the different football results, from Droylsden, Whitby or Radcliffe. My immediate family are here today. They like football and were there when we drew 2-2 at Sunderland. If someone had said that Stanley would play Sunderland in a league game 20 years ago when we were playing in the seventh tier of English football they wouldn’t have believed it.”
Stanley’s rise started in 2000 when they won the Northern Premier League Division One in front of average crowds of 500, followed by the Premier League in 2003 to reach non-league football’s highest level. Against expectations they were promoted to the Football League in 2006 and despite being the smallest supported club, survived for 12 seasons in the fourth tier. Then came promotion to the third in 2018.
“We’d better be going, the game is going to start,” says Coleman hurriedly as he leaves his container. Away fans don’t spot him as he walks into the stadium and onto the pitch where flag waving Stanley ultras comprised of young, local, lads in the Clayton End sing: “John Coleman, football genius.” He applauds them and urges support. There are families and children in attendance all around the redeveloped stadium, helped by grants, which now holds 5,450, of which 3,100 are seated. It feels like a football club at the heart of the community and the owner is one of the most respected in football. He tweets facts and figures which show the reality of life for a minnow club among the bigger fish. He doesn’t ask for sympathy, just that other clubs simply abide by financial rules.
Luton are top of the league and closing in on automatic promotion. Stanley goalkeeper Dimitar Evtimov saves a penalty after four minutes, then the Bulgarian receives a red card after 22. Down to 10 men, they can’t compete and lose 3-0.
“Stanley till I die,” sing the ultras over and over again as the 3,271 crowd disperses. It’s a sunny day but Coleman’s disposition is anything but when he returns to his container after speaking to his players and the media.
The players are leaving in their tight three-quarter length tracksuits. Urban music pumps from the victorious Luton dressing room and hardcore Hatters fans ask for photos with players on their way to the Championship.
No music plays in the container and a space is quickly made for the boss to sit down and talk among friends about the game.
He is joined by rival manager Mick Harford, himself a former, hard, effective striker in England’s top tier. Harford, like Coleman, is a football man. The conversation flows, the respect clear, but Stanley are sliding and Coleman knows it.
Accrington sit 16th out of 24 teams, but the position isn’t as secure as it seems. They are only three points clear of the relegation zone with three games to play, but they have won only two of the last 13 and tough away games at promotion chasing Doncaster Rovers and Portsmouth await.
“You’re coming on the team bus with us to Doncaster on Tuesday aren’t you?” asks Coleman by way of an invite. “Come in the dressing room and see how things really work.”
It’s a huge game. How could I refuse?
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For the record: a squad was requested at Fremont Speedway for an injured driver
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• 12:46 a.m., a 24 year old Fremont woman was cited for driving under suspension.
• 2:20 a.m., a bicycle was stolen from the Ross Park Apartments on North Street.
• 3:08 a.m., a 28-year-old Fremont woman was arrested on a warrant issued by the Tiffin Police Department.
• 10:25 a.m., a 25-year-old Fremont man was arrested on a warrant out of the Fremont Municipal Court.
• 10:07 p.m., a 26-year-old Fremont woman was arrested on a warrant out of the Fremont Municipal Court.
• 8:58 a.m., Mary A. Reiter, 71, Sandusky was cited for changing lanes without caution after a crash at West State Street and Oak Harbor Road.
• 9:51 p.m., a 20-year-old Fremont man was cited for driving under an OVI suspension and not having the right number of required headlights.
• 10:13 a.m., a 15-year-old Fremont juvenile was charged with domestic violence after an incident in the 700 block of Howland Street.
• 2:08 p.m., a 16 year old Fremont juvenile was charged with domestic violence and taken to the Juvenile Detention Center.
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• 11:38 a.m., a noninjury crash was reported in the 4900 block of Sandusky County Road 183.
• 1:56 p.m., a field fire was reported in the 200 block of Sandusky County Road 60.
• 6:50 a.m., a squad car was sent to the 200 block of Water Tower Drive for a female with a laceration to the head.
• 11:45 a.m., a caller advised that there was a kayak taking on water in front of Tackle Box. No injuries or transport reported.
• 5:39 p.m., a crash was reported on the entrance ramp to Ohio 53 South, with transport to Fremont Memorial Hospital’s emergency room.
• 7:55 p.m., a squad was requested at Fremont Speedway for an injured driver at the racetrack, with transport to FMHER.
• 8:09 p.m., a squad was requested at Don Paul Stadium for an injured person, with transport to FMHER.
• 11:14 p.m., a sheriff’s K-9 unit assisted Ohio Highway Patrol with a vehicle search on East State Street. A metal tin of marijuana was found in the vehicle.
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'Juice': Where Are They Now?
Erin E. Evans
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Omar Epps, Then
Other than aiding his friends in a record-store heist — schmoozing the light-skinned, gold-tooth-wearing front-desk cashier while his friends used their five-finger discount for a few albums — Q (best line: "Man, you know what your problem is? You got no juice") was the most levelheaded of the group. He was an aspiring DJ and narrowly walked out of a robbery at Trip's (Samuel L. Jackson) store. This was Epps' first role in a feature film.
Omar Epps, Now
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Shortly after Juice, Epps starred as Malik Williams in another cult classic, Higher Learning. But after memorable performances in The Wood (1999) and Love & Basketball (2000), Epps distanced himself from roles with all-black casts. He has said, "The whole black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore." So since 2004, Epps has co-starred in House as Dr. Eric Foreman, a neurologist on Dr. Gregory House's team of specialists.
Tupac Shakur, Then
Bishop was, admittedly, a bit crazy. He killed several people in the film and didn't give a damn. With a black turtleneck; a gold-plated chain, à la Nino Brown in New Jack City; and a high-top fade with a deep, curved part, the rapper — in his first major acting role — created a character that would become iconic.
Tupac Shakur, Now
This September marks 16 years since the death of Shakur. Last year Soulja Boy was heavily promoting a Juice remake, in which he'd reprise Pac's role as Bishop. Could the Atlanta rapper do Pac justice? We hope we never have to find out.
Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Then
Steel was often the butt of the crew's jokes. He was overweight, wore red lumberjack overalls over a Freddy Krueger-looking turtleneck and was always the last one running away from trouble when the cops came knocking. He'd probably be considered the "soft one" of the bunch because he boo-hooed after Bishop killed Raheem. If you don't remember Hopkins as Steel, we're sure you remember this.
Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Now
Well, the end of 2011 wasn't too kind to Hopkins. He was caught buying 200 pounds of marijuana in Arizona, with $100,000 in his SUV. Before his mug shot was plastered all over TMZ, he appeared as a friend to the Wayans brothers on their sitcom from 1996 to 1998 and co-starred opposite Bill Bellamy as Kilo in How to Be a Player (1997). His most recent role was in a straight-to-DVD film, Cash Rules, in 2008.
Khalil Kain, Then
Raheem was clearly the leader of the group, jumping in to protect Bishop before he's jumped by Radames and his crew and offering words of support for Q before his DJ-competition tryout. He's also a ladies' man. Watch as he has a brief argument with his baby's mother, Keisha. (Remember her from Dangerous Minds?) As with Kain's fellow young cast members, this was one of his first roles.
Khalil Kain, Now
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Does Kain ever age? In 2010 he played Bill, a charmer-turned-rapist, in For Colored Girls. Like most of his Juice cast mates, he has also fared pretty well in Hollywood since 1992. He had recurring roles in the 1990s on Living Single and Lush Life. He played Marvin, Nia Long's jerky ex-fiancé, in Love Jones. And he played Tiger Woods in 1998. But of course, his longest on-screen role was in Mara Brock Akil's Girlfriends as Darnell, Maya's (Golden Brooks) on-again, off-again husband, from 2001 to 2007.
Ernest R. Dickerson, Then
Juice was Dickerson's directorial debut. After studying film at New York University (alongside classmate Spike Lee), he assisted on several Spike Lee joints, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), Do the Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X (1992). In an Entertainment Weekly review, Owen Gleiberman had this to say about Dickerson's project without Lee: "It's clear, though, that he's a born filmmaker. He captures the jittery, combative rhythm of a way of life."
Ernest R. Dickerson, Now
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Dickerson is still an active director in Hollywood. He has directed several episodes of popular TV shows, including Treme, The Wire, Weeds and Lincoln Heights.
Cindy Herron, Then
In Juice, Herron played Q's girlfriend, Yolanda, a nurse at the hospital where Steel is taken after he's shot. Steel tells Yolanda that Bishop is trying to frame Q. In the 1990s Herron was, of course, more famous for being one-fourth of the R&B group En Vogue. But she was also constantly scoring small roles in TV series, including Amen and Full House in the late '80s.
Cindy Herron, Now
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En Vogue performed at the 2009 Essence Festival in New Orleans. In 2007 Herron played Deena Jones in the stage version of Dreamgirls in Atlanta. Her last on-screen role was in 2004 in a straight-to-DVD film, If You Hadn't Left Me Lonely.
Vincent Laresca, Then
In an early scene in the film, Bishop is cornered by Laresca's character, Radames, and his crew — Treach of Naughty by Nature included. "You think your sh— is that bad, man? You got that much juice?" Radames taunts Bishop. You can see the fear in Bishop's eyes, until Raheem and Q come over the hill to rescue him. As Radames, Laresca — making his feature-film debut — would become Bishop's first victim.
Vincent Laresca, Now
Laresca has maintained a rather steady career in Hollywood and has appeared in several TV series, including NYPD Blue, New York Undercover, 24 and Weeds. Last year he was particularly busy, appearing in The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Hawthorne, Suits and Person of Interest.
Samuel L. Jackson, Then
Jackson played Trip, the owner of a local store where the crew played video games.
Samuel L. Jackson, Now
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Jackson is starring alongside Angela Bassett in the Broadway production of The Mountaintop, a play based on the final days of Martin Luther King Jr. He is rumored to have a role in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Django Unchained, about a slave who takes revenge on his former owner. Jackson is always hard at work in Hollywood. According to IMDB, he has several films on tap for 2012, including The Avengers and The Samaritan.
George Gore II, Then
He didn't have many lines in the film, but Gore played Brian, Q's younger brother. In 1994, shortly after he appeared in Juice, he scored a recurring role on New York Undercover as Gregory "G" Williams, Malik Yoba's young son. Watch his short scene in Juice here.
George Gore II, Now
In 2001 Gore landed on network television again as Junior, the dim-witted son on Damon Wayans' My Wife and Kids. After that show's five-season run, he had roles in two TV movies and a small role in Wayans' Dance Flick in 2009.
Queen Latifah, Then
In the early 1990s, Queen Latifah was more known for her rapping abilities than for her acting skills. In a brief cameo, she plays Ruffhouse M.C., a judge for a local deejaying competition. Watch this scene as she tells Flex Alexander that he needs more experience and that he's completely wack.
Queen Latifah, Now
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Reaching back to her musical roots, Queen Latifah stars in the gospel-themed Joyful Noise opposite Dolly Parton and Keke Palmer, in theaters now.
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Ministries.
The Single MOM KC offers churches, small groups and individuals the opportunity to build a working relationship with our ministry where we offer you our expertise, counsel, prayers, and resources.
We offer you resources such as biblical teaching on God's mandate for the widow and the fatherless. We make recommendations of books and articles you can read as you seek to understand the unique challenges of the Single Mother Families.
For help with this, please Contact Us, and write "Ministry Resources" in the subject line.
The Single MOM will offer on-site support as they come to your area and assist you in evaluating the needs of Single Mothers in your area. They will offer training to the team or leadership and help develop a strategy to implement a single mother outreach in your area.
The Single MOM will offer on-going support and prayer as you step into ministry for these families (see Isaiah 2). Currently, the ministry is working with women and churches in the Dominican Republic to help them establish a nationwide ministry to Single Mothers.
The development of this ministry also involves training and equipping of the leaders in the area and throughout the nations who seek to reach out to single mothers.
For help with this, please Contact Us, and write "Ministry On-Site Training" in the subject line.
A leader from The Single MOM KC will partner with you via Skype or other means to prayerfully discuss the vision for reaching single mothers, offering ongoing support.
This leader will offer consistent discipleship to you as you step into what can be an overwhelming arena.
For help with this, please Contact Us, and write "Ministry Virtual Assistance" in the subject line.
Misty Honnold is available to bring her passion and unique speaking gifts to seminars or conferences where issues of injustice, evangelism, outreach to the poor and oppressed, women's issues, etc. are being addressed to help educate and empower single mothers or those working with single mothers.
She and her leadership team are also available to speak an encouraging message to single mothers at events that are hosted.
To book Misty for a speaking engagement, please Contact Us, and write "Speaker" in the subject line.
Learn More About Misty
Why we do it.
Historically, the only individual more vulnerable than the widow or single mother is her children. We long to partner with individuals, small groups, and churches to empower them to minister effectively to single mothers and their children, relieving them from the cycle of dysfunction and poverty.
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson initiated the welfare program making sure that the government, not the church, was to be responsible for the poor and distressed. The church gladly said "yes" and abdicated her biblical mandate. Therefore, the blessings that go with ministering to the widow, orphan, and alien were abdicated also.
We have a vision to see the church receive the blessings outlined in Isaiah 58. We hope to see the church take back her God-given position of reaching out to these families. By equipping individuals, churches and communities to begin their own Single Mother Program, we can see this trend change.
In Theresa McKenna's book, "The Hidden Mission Field", she argues that possibly the reason for the huge success of the 1st Century church was their outreach to the widows and orphans. She writes that "the church in Antioch cared for three thousand widows. Josephus reportedly wrote to Rome that the citizens were astounded that these people calling themselves Christians cared not only for their own widows, but for others as well." There is another report that the church in Rome was caring for over fifteen hundred widows. She goes on to state that "the church will explode if we intentionally minister to these families".
Current statistics show that 67% of single parents in the United States do not actively attend a local church. Yet, less than 1% of all Christian evangelical churches have any sort of long-term, sustainable single parent ministry and/or outreach program.
While evidence points to the reality that these women and children need to be embraced by the local church body, it is also true that the local body is in desperate need of the talents, skills, and gifts that these women have.
In recent history the church has not been found to be the warm welcoming environment for Single Mothers to find safety and security while they rebuild their lives. The Single MOM KC is passionate about seeing this trend change.
To develop a partnership with The Single MOM, contact us at: info@thesinglemomkc.org.
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Watch Out, Kroger Co, Amazon.com, Inc. And Whole Foods Are Coming
September 20, 2017 at 3:34 pm by Michelle Jones
The clamor about the Amazon and Whole Foods tie-up has quieted down now that the transaction has closed, but the story continues as analysts look at how the two will complement each other. It may seem strange that an e-commerce giant that operates on razor-thin margins would acquire a high-end grocery store operator that specializes in organic food.
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However, the Amazon and Whole Foods merger looks like an early signal of what’s becoming a trend among brick-and-mortar chains. In fact, investors are so convinced that the combination have short-sellers scrambling to borrow shares of Kroger, and the market looks poised for a face-off between Amazon and Walmart.
Amazon and Whole Foods to boost Prime subs
Amazon kicked off its first day as the high-end grocery store chain’s new owner by slashing its prices earlier this month. Data from Foursquare indicated that foot traffic at Whole Foods stores increased by as much as 25% after the price cuts. It remains to be seen whether this uptick will be sustained, but analysts generally expect both Amazon and Whole Foods to benefit from the merger.
For example, Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak said in a note late last week that he projects a compound annual growth rate of 12% for Whole Foods alone between this year and 2022, assuming a 3% share of the U.S. grocery market. He believes the grocery store chain’s growth will come from growth in new shoppers due to more competitive pricing and greater convenience. He cited his firm’s AlphaWise data, which revealed that only 13 million households shopped at Whole Foods before the merger, and those that didn’t said price was the biggest barrier.
Nowak expects the Amazon and Whole Foods combination to also result in growth for Amazon Prime as more members shop at Whole Foods and new Prime-only promotions at Whole Foods convince more shoppers to sign up.
Brick-and-mortar chains join Amazon since they can’t beat it
The Amazon and Whole Foods tie-up could be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the online retailer’s plans for physical locations. Citing an unnamed source, CNBC reports that Amazon is keen to grow its physical presence because it has observed an uptick in online sales in areas where it has a physical location. Thus, it seems that its brick-and-mortar locations are fueling its online sales in addition to adding their own sales.
And brick-and-mortar stores are more than willing to strike a deal with the e-commerce giant. Many see Amazon as a threat, which is apparent in the deal Kohl’s has struck with the e-commerce giant. On Tuesday, the two companies announced that Amazon shoppers can return items to some Kohl’s stores in the U.S. rather than sending them back to the online retailer.
Amazon is also being blamed by many for Toys R Us’ bankruptcy filing, which was announced on Monday, the same day short interest in Kroger reached a new record high. The Amazon and Whole Foods merger is already threatening other grocery store chains, as JPMorgan found that the merged company’s price cuts brought Whole Foods’ prices down to the same level as those at other store chains.
Amazon and Whole Foods inflate Kroger shorts
For example, after comparing prices on a number of natural and organic products after the price cut, JPMorgan analysts found that Kroger’s Ralphs in Los Angeles was only 4% cheaper than Whole Foods for their basket of items. However, on foods that were advertised as being on sale, Ralphs’ prices were 4% higher than Whole Foods’, while before the price cut, Ralphs was 20% less expensive than Whole Foods.
Short-sellers quickly started looking for ways to capitalize on this early sign of pricing threats from Whole Foods by shorting Kroger. Financial analytics firm S3 Partners reported on Monday that short interest in the grocery store operator was at an all-time high and still rising. Research head Ihor Dusaniwsky said that total short interest in Kroger was up 151% year to date, at $1.43 billion with 66.4 million shares sold short, a 301% increase since the beginning of the year.
There was still room for short-sellers to take positions in Kroger, as only 7.5% of the float was being borrowed, leaving a massive pool of available shares to borrow.
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“He Lost His Mind”: Trump Hits Back After Bannon Accuses His Son of Treason
Emily Jane Fox
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“Jerk,” “Egomaniac,” “Expendable,” “Wart”: Trump Excommunicates Bannon and the Base Follows Suit
The angry tide against the Breitbart chairman reached a fever pitch in the midst of Michael Wolff-gate. But it was actually a long time coming.
Left, by Joe Raedle; Right, by Jim Watson/AFP, both from Getty Images.
For a few hours on Wednesday, the conservative Internet—or at least the part that loved Donald Trump, specifically—spun in confused circles over a section of Michael Wolff’s bombshell new book regarding the first days of his administration. In Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, an early copy of which was obtained by The Guardian, Wolff reported that Steve Bannon, the brazen chairman of Breitbart News and former Trump campaign C.E.O., had bashed Trump’s son, Don Jr., saying that he was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” for taking a meeting with a Russian lawyer, and—horror of horrors—speculating that Trump himself knew of the collusion.
This, of course, had to be fake news coming from left-wing M.S.M. “shills,” wrote Shadowman3001, the moderator of the pro-Trump reddit r/The_Donald. “[Bannon] helped Trump get elected possibly more than anyone. Have some faith,” he initially posted. When journalists began circulating a nuclear press release from Trump himself, which declared that Bannon had “lost his mind” and was “in it for himself,” Shadowman3001 remained skeptical. “It hasn’t been posted to the official [White House] page,” he protested. But as soon as Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared at the podium to confirm the statement, erasing all doubt as to Trump’s sentiments, Shadowman3001 immediately crossed out all his previous statements and declared: “Looks like we have a new enemy.” (He later deleted his comments altogether.)
Trump, it seemed, had given his marching orders, and his base followed. Subsequent anti-Bannon sentiment began bubbling in the Internet cesspools where Trumpism began, like the comments section of right-wing sites such r/The_Donald and Breitbart.com itself, to the glee of the Internet. “I voted for Trump[,] I didn’t vote for Bannon,” said the highest-rated comment on the site, pegged to a straightforward news article writing up Trump’s statement. “I’ll stick with Trump, thanks.” Others vented that Bannon had been responsible for pushing Roy Moore, an anti-gay candidate and therefore the least Breitbartian candidate possible. (“That right there should show you how big a fool Bannon turned out to be.”) Even their Twitter account’s attempt at meta-humor—retweeting a Mother Jones reporter covering the backlash—resulted in readers calling Bannon a “traitor” and promising a boycott.
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The response to the Wolff book in the provinces of the right amounted to a referendum on Bannon’s hubristic campaign for domination. In the squabbling world of the populist-nationalist movement—Bannon’s associates (many of whom hate him), Bannon’s industry peers (who loathe him), and even those who were merely Trump supporters and watched Bannon from afar—there was a surprising sense of unity. “The idea that Steve Bannon is the great manipulator behind the scenes who really has the plan and the worldview is completely bullshit. Trump said exactly what I’ve been saying for months,” Ben Shapiro, Breitbart’s former editor-at-large and harsh Trump critic, vented to me. “It’ll change people’s views because Trump said it. It’s equally right when anyone says it, but Trump saying it just makes it more powerful and more clear to any of his supporters.”
As for whether the base would stand by Bannon, who had appointed himself Trump’s “wingman” outside the White House and vowed to keep him informed about the populist mood, an editor at a competing conservative news site predicted otherwise. “Bannon was just hit by a MOAB,” said the editor. “The base will stick with the guy who gave the order.” (Bannon’s representative did not return repeated requests for comment.)
Some saw something almost biblical in Bannon’s perfidy. “This is a movement that’s very sensitive to the idea of betrayal,” said former Breitbart writer and pro-Trump commentator Kurt Schlichter. “He looked like he went to the media and betrayed us.”
No one I spoke to expected that Bannon would get even the smallest bit of help from his fellow right-wing media colleagues. “Who likes Steve Bannon?!” laughed Schlichter, who has a long-running feud with the man and, during our conversation, called Bannon a “jerk,” an “egomaniac,” “expendable,” and a “wart” on the populist-nationalist movement. Indeed, many of his right-wing enemies celebrated his excommunication, from his Internet media-mogul foe Matt Drudge (who dedicated the top half of the Drudge Report to stories bashing Bannon for nearly half a day), to a slew of writers he’d been in conflict with over the years. “I told you all years ago,” tweeted Dana Loesch, a former Breitbart contributor, who'd once sued Breitbart (since settled), with Bannon at its head, after a business relationship soured. Even people tangentially related to the world of Breitbart, like Newt Gingrich, dismissed Bannon as having an “exaggerated sense of self-importance”—and Fox News, the media outlet most symbiotic with the Trump administration, eagerly piled on. “That is a two-by-four to the head of Steve Bannon,” a flabbergasted Ari Fleischer told Fox News host Dana Perino, agreeing with her suggestion that Bannon was done for. (Only two notable right-wing figures publicly supported Bannon: Raheem Kassam, the site’s London editor, and Breitbart’s disgraced and de-funded ex-superstar, Milo Yiannopoulos, who issued a statement praising his former boss.)
With any other politician who attacked him, Bannon would have likely revved up the #WAR machine and directed his army of angry Internet honey-badger trolls against his enemies. But he had been losing allies for weeks already: The Washington Post reported the next day that his longtime patron, Rebekah Mercer, had withdrawn all her funding from his personal projects, angry at his claims that she would back his possible 2020 run for president, while another source close to both Bannon and the Mercers suggested that there had also been talk of shutting down Bannon’s film production company, Glittering Steel. By Thursday morning, there was a full-blown campaign to get Larry Solov and Susie Breitbart, who both own majority stakes in Breitbart News along with Mercer, to fire Bannon, who serves as executive chairman at their discretion. Drudge had tweeted his support for the pair, calling them the team that would “take Breitbart into the fresh future”—presumably one where Bannon did not repel their readership of deplorables.
Whether that would happen, the source said, remained in the hands of Solov, who co-founded the site with Andrew Breitbart 10 years ago. He speculated that the site’s profitability could be a major issue factored into Bannon’s survival. “Solov would only alpha up if there was a money issue,” he said. “Susie would only step up if it was destroy[ing] Andrew. I think both happened.” Mercer, meanwhile, made her thoughts clear in an extremely rare statement to the Washington Post. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements,” she said. (A representative for Breitbart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
The Bannon saga did not unfold without mainstream media bashing, of course; several Trump supporters went after Wolff himself and accused him of making up the story altogether, and MAGA Twitter personality Jack Posobiec insisted to me that Wolff was a chronic “exaggerator,” citing an article from The New Republic. That said, Posobiec, who does not often intersect with the Bannon-Breitbart orbit professionally, saw Trump’s statement as a “loyalty test” of whether his supporters would stand with him against Bannon. “The base will side with Trump,” he predicted, Wolff’s M.S.M. ties be damned. “We’ve been with him since 2015.”
For former Breitbart correspondent Lee Stranahan, however, Trump excommunicating Bannon wasn’t even a test. “This helps his standing with the base massively,” he told me, saying that his own Twitter timeline was exploding with anti-Bannon sentiment. He added that he was ecstatic when Don Jr. weighed in with a highly specific attack against Bannon, one that had only circulated among the right-wing populist crowd for years: that Bannon’s hubris betrayed the mission of the deceased Breitbart himself. “That tweet was music to my ears,” he said.
“What people don’t understand about this movement [is that] it is not individuals. It’s not even Donald Trump, and I think Donald Trump is smart enough to understand that,” Schlichter suggested. “Bannon never did. Bannon thought the movement was him personally. No. If he’s useful, he can be part of the movement. If not, if he’s causing problems, he’s going to get abandoned.”
As the Internet and Fox News turned against Bannon, he secluded himself in the self-contained world of talk radio. Later that night, Bannon entered the alternate world of his Sirius XM show, and proceeded to act as if everything was normal, mentioning absolutely nothing about Trump’s attacks and focusing solely on immigration, the red meatiest of Breitbart issues. When a caller finally asked Bannon about the comments, two hours into the show, Bannon demurred: “The president of the United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out.” The front page of Breitbart, too, had quietly been scrubbed of the Bannon story, reverting to their regular content diet of voter fraud and immigration posts. On Twitter, Breitbart writers and editors gamely batted away suggestions that Trump’s attacks had fazed them, or that they would turn against Trump.
Trump, however, had decisively turned against them. As Bannon pontificated on the radio, Trump’s lawyers sent him a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he stop making defamatory comments about Trump and his family, and accusing him of breaking a non-disclosure agreement he signed when he joined the campaign. “Legal action is imminent,” Trump’s personal attorney, Charles Harder, told ABC News. Harder, it must be pointed out, was the lawyer who represented Hulk Hogan in the lawsuit that effectively destroyed Gawker Media, suddenly adding an ominous pall to an earlier tweet Don Jr. had sent: “When Bannon has lost Breitbart, he’s left with . . . um, nothing.”
“He reaped what he sowed,” the conservative media editor added. “If Bannon hadn't used so many people on his climb to the top, he might have had a few hands to catch him during his fall to the bottom.”
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Steamboat Leaving Boulogne by Édouard Manet
Interested in a copy for yourself? Poster or canvas.
Where? Gallery 225 of the Art Institute of Chicago
When? 1864
What do you see? The sea as seen from Boulogne-sur-Mer, a French beach town on the English Channel, about 60 miles (100 km) South of the border between Belgium and France. Compared to seascapes by earlier artists, Manet used a high horizon line in his paintings, such that the biggest part of this painting is made up by the sea and the ships. Among the numerous sailboats is a steamboat which pollutes the view and the sky with its dark smoke. The steamboat is leaving from France to England through the English Channel. It leaves a visible trace in the water showing that it has to navigate its way through the asymmetrically scattered sailboats. Manet uses broad, horizontal brush strokes to paint the sea. Moreover, he uses blue and green pigments for the sea, and in some places, traces of the white canvas are still visible. These relatively bright colors make the sea the focus of the painting. The sea appears flat and calm, and this painting is the most abstract of the seascapes that Manet painted.
Backstory: In July 1864, Édouard Manet went with his extended family on a vacation to a seaside resort in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. It was not just a vacation for Manet because he brought his brushes and easel and created several paintings of the sea and the ships. It was one of the first times that he worked on paintings outside, though he finished the painting in his studio in Paris. In this painting, he depicts an ugly steamboat among the more graceful sailboats. The first steamboats were developed by the end of the 18th century, and they were an important development as they could carry passengers and freight over large distances. In addition, they were an important innovation for the Navy, and they played an important role in the American Civil War.
Seascapes: Sometimes referred to as Marine Art, the primary theme of the seascape is the sea. Its popularity has come in waves. For example, during the 17th century, seascapes were popular among Dutch artists. During the Dutch Golden Century, artists from The Netherlands painted scenes of sea battles. These paintings were very detailed and showed all the ongoing action of these battles. The seascapes became popular again among painters in the 19th century, especially after train connections between Paris and the French beaches were established around 1850. Besides Manet, painters like Courbet, Monet, Renoir, and Whistler created beautiful seascapes. However, J. M. W. Turner had already popularized the theme in the early 19th century. An example of a seascape painting by Turner is The Fighting Temeraire in the National Gallery in London, which he painted in 1838. Almost three decades later, Manet also started to paint several seascapes. One of his more popular seascapes is his 1864 painting of the Battle of Kearsarge and the Alabama in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The big difference between the 19th-century and 17th-century seascapes is that during the 19th century many details were left out of the paintings and the focus became the composition instead.
The Fighting Temeraire by Turner
Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama by Manet
Who is Manet? Édouard Manet (1833 – 1883) was a French painter from Paris, France. He painted Steamboat Leaving Boulogne relatively early in his career. Manet’s paintings during that period were unconventional and were not well-received by art critics and the public. The Paris Salon, the biggest art exhibition in the world during the 19th century, rejected most of his works. He also did not sell almost any works and did not receive commissions. However, he persisted in his new style of painting during his career, relying on the financial support of his mother. Nowadays, his works are very popular. A good example is The Rue Mosnier with Flags from 1878 which was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1989 for $26.4 million.
The Rue Mosnier with Flags by Manet
Fun fact: Manet had always been fascinated by the sea. Following the suggestion of his father, he joined a training vessel for a three-month trip to Rio de Janeiro when he was 16 years old. He liked this experience and when he returned in 1849, he attempted the entrance exam to the Navy. However, he failed the entrance exam twice and decided that he wanted to become a painter instead – which was his first love – much to the dislike of his father. Art lovers nowadays are happy that he became a painter instead. Not only are his works highly admired today, he also has had a major influence on the development of Impressionism, which has become one of the most popular painting styles ever developed.
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Clean Energy For America Act Proposes Overhaul Of Energy Tax Code
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with 25 other Senate colleagues, has introduced the Clean Energy for America Act, which would consolidate the current 44 energy incentives into three technology-neutral provisions that encourage clean electricity, clean transportation and energy efficiency.
According to Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, the bill would overhaul the federal tax code, which is currently “woefully inadequate to address today’s energy challenges,” he says.
“It’s a hodgepodge of temporary credits, anchored by advantages for Big Oil, that don’t effectively move us toward the goals of reducing carbon emissions or lowering electricity bills for American families,” Wyden continues. “It’s time to kick America’s carbon habit – and that means a complete transformation of the tax code to reward clean electricity, transportation and conservation.”
To incentivize clean electricity, the bill would provide a production tax credit (PTC) or investment tax credit (ITC) to facilities that are at least 35% cleaner than average. It would be available as either a PTC with a maximum of 2.4 cents per kilowatt-hour or an ITC of up to 30%.
In addition, it would repeal tax incentives for fossil fuel production and, instead, ensure the tax code rewards clean energy. The new incentives – which are long-term but not permanent – would be phased out once greenhouse-gas emissions have been reduced by 50%.
Tom Kiernan, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), voices his support for the bill’s clean electricity provision:
“Senator Wyden’s Clean Energy for America Act includes an innovative, technology-neutral tax credit that would move national tax policy in the right direction to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and create long-term stability for businesses to make new investments in American energy production,” says Kiernan.
“Congress should seize this opportunity to have a thoughtful conversation about specific policies, like Senator Wyden’s bill, that can meaningfully address climate change through market-based, technology-neutral solutions while keeping costs low for consumers and growing the U.S. economy.”
Likewise, Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, applauds Wyden’s proposal:
“Senator Wyden’s legislation would provide a stable and long-term set of incentives and parameters to foster greater deployment of solar energy and technology. The bill is a significant step forward, and we commend Senator Wyden for this effort,” she says, adding that the bill, as it advances, should also consider improvements for incentives for solar heating and cooling technologies.
Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), says the bill “would, at long last, modernize the federal tax code for 21st-century power generation.”
“The proposal would drive economic growth by creating a level playing field in electricity markets, improving affordability and reliability for consumers, creating plenty of good-paying American jobs, and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions,” Wetstone continues. “ACORE welcomes the opportunity to work with Senator Wyden and others in Congress to advance the Clean Energy for America Act through the legislative process this year.“
To encourage clean transportation fuel, the bill would provide a tax credit for fuels that are at least 25% cleaner than average, with the maximum credit of $1 per gallon available for fuels with zero-carbon emissions. The bill would also eliminate the per-manufacturer cap on the tax credit for electric vehicles and extend the credit for fuel cell electric vehicles.
Further, to incentivize energy conservation, the bill would provide a performance-based tax credit for energy-efficient homes and a tax deduction for energy-efficient commercial buildings. The value of the tax credit would increase as more energy is conserved.
The bill is co-sponsored by U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; Tom Carper, D-Del.; Ben Cardin, D-Md.; Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.; Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii; Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.; Angus King, I-Maine; Tim Kaine, D-Va.; Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Gary Peters, D-Mich.; Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; and Tina Smith, D-Minn.
“Our tax code should be encouraging the deployment of all clean energy technologies that are good for public health and our climate,” says Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “Instead, however, the tax code we have today incentivizes the very sources that fuel climate change and make our air harder to breathe. Too often, the incentives that actually push us in the right direction expire too quickly or erratically, making it difficult for business leaders to plan long-term investments.
“The Clean Energy for America Act will eliminate outdated incentives for fossil fuels and, instead, provide long-term, technology-neutral incentives for the investment and production of electricity and vehicles that help drive down our country’s greenhouse-gas emissions.”
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Hawk Homecoming-something for everyone
Events for alumni, students, campus and community
Harold Melvin's Blue Notes
Dizzying line-up of events marks Hawk Homecoming
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore presents “School Daze” February 12-19-a plenitude of homecoming events for students, alumni and the community.
A mini-concert and rally, “School is in Session,” serves as the official kick-off event for students (only) Saturday, Feb. 11, from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Ella Fitzgerald Center. The action continues with a pep rally Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Student Services Center Theatre, and a bonfire on Wednesday (15th) at 7 p.m. in the Athletic Pavilion parking lot followed by a skate party at 9 p.m. at Crown Sports Center in Fruitland.
Free and open to all, the Homecoming worship brunch gets the week started for campus and community Sunday, Feb. 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Services Center ballroom. A homecoming tradition, the Bazaar Models Entertainment fashion show, takes place Friday (17th) at 8 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center. UMES student tickets are $10; $15 for the public and at the door.
Headlining recording artist, Migos, along with opener, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, arrive Thursday, Feb. 16 for the Homecoming Concert. Doors open at 8 p.m. in the William P. Hytche Athletic Center with the performance starting at 9 p.m. Doors close at 11 p.m. The cost is $40 for UMES students with ID in advance, $50 for the general public and at the door.
Hawk alumni swoop in for the weekend events. Visit Alumni Central Friday, Feb. 17, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Students Services Center (Allen J. Singleton multi-purpose room), where you can find out about that evening's National Alumni Association's “Hall of Excellence” dinner at 6 p.m. and, new this year, a Homecoming concert at 8 p.m. featuring Harold Melvin's Blue Notes. Tickets for the concert are $35 with an advance ticket purchase to the “Hall of Excellence;” $40 general admission and $50 table seating with a complimentary beverage.
Join Dr. Juliette B. Bell Saturday (Feb. 18th) for the President's Prayer Breakfast at 8 a.m. in the new Engineering and Aviation Science Complex. Alumni, parents, friends and community partners are cordially invited to the free event. Donations to UMES' 2017 Takeoff fundraising campaign will be graciously accepted.
Later that day, the home teams take on North Carolina Central University in Homecoming basketball action. The women's game begins at 2 p.m. followed by the men's game at 4 p.m. Tickets are $25, which includes both games, and free for UMES students with ID. A pep rally at noon in the Tawes Gymnasium and tailgate beginning at 11 a.m. gets everyone fired-up for the tip-off.
Always a favorite, the National Pan-Hellenic Council Step Show, entertains Saturday in the Ella Fitzgerald Center with doors opening at 7 p.m. and the action starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12; $10 for UMES students with ID.
Visit umes.edu/alumni for a complete listing of Homecoming events. Visit UMEStickets.com for all ticketed events on campus. UMES students can get tickets online by visiting Auxiliary Services' Hawk Campus Center.
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Topic: John Landis
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Top News // 11 months ago
On August 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as president of the United States following the unexpected death of President Warren G. Harding.
Movies // 1 year ago
'Coming to America' sequel in development with director Jonathan Levine
Paramount is moving forward with a sequel to hit 1988 comedy "Coming to America" with director Jonathan Levine and "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris.
Entertainment News // 2 years ago
Don Rickles, legendary comic, dead at 90
Don Rickles, an actor and insult comic sarcastically known as "Mr. Warmth," died April 6 at his home in Los Angeles of kidney failure.
Movies // 2 years ago
'American Werewolf in London' remake to be helmed by original director's son Max Landis
Director John Landis' son, Max Landis, has signed on to write and direct a remake of a film he originally helmed, "An American Werewolf in London."
Top News // 2 years ago
On Aug. 3, 1981, U.S. air traffic controllers went on strike. The strikers were fired within one week.
Music // 4 years ago
Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video to be rereleased in 3D
Michael Jackson's 14-minute music video for "Thriller" will be re-released in 3D by director John Landis.
Odd News // 4 years ago
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Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dead at 92
Visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator Ray Harryhausen has died in London, his family announced on Facebook. He was 92.
'Animal House: The Musical' in the works
Canada's Barenaked Ladies are writing the score for a stage musical based on the 1978 big-screen comedy "National Lampoon's Animal House," producers said.
Hundreds attend Ronni Chasen's funeral
Nearly 1,000 people turned out for the funeral of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, who was gunned down in her car last week, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Entertainment News // 1 decade ago
Landis suing Jackson over 'Thriller' show
The U.S. director of the 1983 "Thriller" video filed legal papers claiming Michael Jackson has no right to plan a stage musical version without his consent.
John Landis tackling comedy online
Veteran Hollywood director John Landis has used his talents for a series of six short films focused on aspiring comedians and appearing on JibJab.com.
Odd News // 1 decade ago
Today is Monday, May 29, the 147th day of 2006 with 216 to follow.
Film soundman 'Buzz' Knudson dead at 80
Three time Oscar-winning sound re-recording mixer Robert "Buzz" Knudson has died in Columbia, S.C., at age 80.
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John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson.
Landis was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirley Levine (née Magaziner) and Marshall David Landis, an interior decorator. His family relocated to Los Angeles when he was four months old.
He began working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox. His first noteworthy job in Hollywood was working as an assistant director during filming MGM's Kelly's Heroes in Yugoslavia in 1969; he replaced the film's original assistant director, who suffered from a nervous breakdown and was sent home by the producers. While filming, he met actors Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland, both of whom he would later cast in his own films. Following this, Landis worked on many films made in Europe (especially in Italy and England), most notably, Once Upon a Time in the West, El Condor and A Town Called Bastard. Landis also worked as a stunt double.
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How mobile game developers can tap into emerging markets
Mobile-first is here and happening, where are you?
In our analysis of the emerging markets last year, we had observed how companies, especially E-commerce brands had started adopting a mobile-first strategy. The change was driven by consumers whose choice today when it comes to access to internet or content consumption is always mobile.
The trend has since continued and the emerging connected billion consumers' preference for smartphones to access internet and content has led to marketers increasing their focus on mobile.
For instance, one of India's leading online fashion retailer, Myntra recently announced its plans to be available as a mobile-only app from May 1, 2015. 80% of the brand's traffic and 70% of sales come from mobile. The decision to go from mobile-also to mobile-only was therefore only the next logical progression. Indian E-commerce major Flipkart, also plans to go mobile-only in a year.Many companies across India and other emerging markets are going mobile-first owing to the fact that today, most of their traffic in these markets comes from mobile.
According to StatCounter estimates, 71% of all internet traffic in India today comes from mobile, while 29% comes from desktops. In Indonesia, the share of mobile internet traffic is 54% and trends suggest that it will continue to grow.
On the other hand, internet traffic in the US via mobile was just 30% while that in UK, was close to 29%. As opposed to developed markets where desktop and broadband penetration is quite high, growing smartphone adoption coupled with improving mobile internet connectivity made mobile the first device for all Internet access in emerging markets.
Smartphones have also made internet much more accessible, especially for the next wave of consumers, which are coming from semi-urban and rural areas. This has opened up more opportunities for brands to go beyond metros and reach out to a consumer base which could not be easily tapped into earlier.
This trend has completely redefined how brands engage their connected consumers in emerging markets today. Brands such as Myntra and Flipkart which started with an online desktop presence that was later extended to mobile are today completely moving away from desktop web and adopting a mobile-only strategy. Others such as Zomato, BookMyShow, Ola Cabs are promoting their mobile apps over their desktop web presence.
Television broadcasters such Star TV and Direct-to-Home cable TV providers such as Tata Sky and Airtel have also realized that much of their audience is on mobile today, and extended their services on smartphones via mobile apps. Today, mobile apps such Hotstar (from Star TV) are seeing a very high demand from consumers.
Then there is the next wave of brands such as Tiny Owl who have started out as a mobile-only app. Taking cues from the fact that the quickest and best way to reach their audience today is on mobile, such brands have completely avoided building a desktop website.
It is clear that in emerging markets, marketers looking to engage their consumers online cannot go with just a mobile-also strategy. They must take the mobile-first route because when it comes to emerging markets it is mobile where their audience is today.
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How one month reshaped the US immigration landscape
It only took 31 days.When people look back at the US immigration debate, they might point to May 2018 as a tur...
Posted: Jun 3, 2018 6:39 PM
Updated: Jun 3, 2018 6:39 PM
It only took 31 days.
When people look back at the US immigration debate, they might point to May 2018 as a turning point -- a month when policies became reality, when words once whispered in private became words shouted in public, when life for immigrant families crossing the border became visibly worse.
There were major events that made national news. And smaller rumblings that could pave the way for seismic shifts.
A caravan crossing the US-Mexico border sparked a push to overhaul asylum policies and stop future groups from getting in.
The President of the United States called immigrant gang members "animals."
A lawyer vowed to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement after hearing people speak Spanish at a restaurant. And a Border Patrol agent questioned a US citizen after she spoke Spanish in a store.
Authorities separated immigrant children from their parents as part of a new "zero tolerance" plan to prosecute everyone caught illegally crossing the border.
Here's a look at these and other immigration developments that played out in the past month -- and where things could go from here:
The caravan crossed the border. Future migrants could face more obstacles.
It took weeks for a caravan of migrants from Central America to make it to the US-Mexico border. And days for them to cross and officially ask for asylum.
Meanwhile, north of the border, the administration swiftly used the caravan to make a fresh push to overhaul immigration laws, decrying what it called "loopholes" that it said allow people to flood the system with frivolous claims.
Advocates counter that international law guarantees the rights of people fleeing persecution to seek asylum, and there's nothing frivolous about it.
Hundreds of people from the caravan are in the United States and making their asylum cases. But that can take months -- or even years -- so it will be a while before we learn how they fared.
In a recent congressional hearing, US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Lee Francis Cissna said 205 of 216 caravan members screened so far had passed the "credible fear" threshold -- the first step in proving an asylum case. But in the end, for most people in the caravan the odds of winning asylum are slim.
Activists in Mexico have warned that other migrants trying to make it to the United States will likely face more obstacles now, given the political attention the caravan drew.
Trump called MS-13 members animals. Then the administration doubled down.
At a White House event, President Trump responded to a California sheriff's comments about criminal immigrants, and specifically MS-13, by saying: "We have people coming into this country, or trying to come in. ... You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals."
Like many things Trump says about illegal immigration, it played well with his base but sparked a wave of criticism from Democrats and immigrant rights groups.
Some reports took the comments out of context. Some advocates warned it was a sign that Trump was dehumanizing all immigrants as his administration continued its crackdown.
The next day, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders came to her daily press briefing armed with examples of terrible acts committed by members of the notorious street gang. And the White House released a statement decrying the group, using the word "animal" 10 times.
Trump's comments about MS-13 weren't the only words on immigration from his administration that drew attention in May. His chief of staff also said undocumented immigrants are too uneducated and unskilled to fit into American society -- an echo of the past for many immigration historians.
And his education secretary said she thought it was up to local schools and communities to decide whether to report kids and their families to ICE -- prompting a backlash from civil rights groups.
MS-13 remains Public Enemy No. 1 for the Trump administration. The President and other officials routinely point to the group as they call for more border security and more deportations, warning that public safety is at risk.
Critics have said this overstates the gang's significance and unfairly stigmatizes millions of undocumented immigrants who have nothing to do with MS-13 or other organized crime. MS-13's roughly 10,000 members in the United States are a fraction of the estimated 1.4 million members of US gangs nationally, according to the FBI. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Lawmakers almost forced a DACA debate. There's still a chance they could.
Moderate Republicans made a push to force a floor debate over the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. But a petition needs 218 signatures to circumvent House Republican leadership, and so far, it's five short.
The debate over DACA is far from over, and there's still a chance that lawmakers could succeed in reviving the issue and bringing other immigration measures up for debate. But with midterm elections looming, the question remains whether enough members of Congress are willing to navigate the political minefield of immigration reform.
Hearing Spanish fueled a lawyer's racist tirade. And a Border Patrol agent's immigration check.
A lawyer railed against employees and customers he heard speaking Spanish at a New York restaurant, and a video of the outburst went viral. "My guess is they're not documented. So my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country," attorney Aaron Schlossberg said.
Less than a week later, video emerged of a Border Patrol agent in Montana telling a woman he'd asked for her ID after hearing her and a friend "speaking Spanish in the store in a state where it's predominately English-speaking." Footage of that exchange, first reported by a local TV news station, drew national attention to the case.
Days after unleashing the racist tirade, the New York lawyer apologized and said in a written statement that he isn't racist. US Customs and Border Protection said it was looking into what happened in the Montana case to make sure the agency's policies were followed.
But beyond the viral videos and their aftermath, these cases raise bigger questions: Given that two-thirds of Americans live in areas where the Border Patrol has extended search authority, are we going to see an uptick in agents stopping people and questioning their immigration status? As our national immigration debate grows increasingly polarized, are tensions boiling over more in stores and restaurants, or is the prevalence of cellphone cameras making it easier to document long-simmering racism?
The US ended deportation protections for nearly 90,000 more people. Even though diplomats advised against it.
The Trump administration announced it was ending temporary protected status for about 86,000 Hondurans who have lived legally in the United States since the 1990s. They have 18 months to leave the country or face possible deportation.
On the heels of this announcement, a congressional investigation found that the administration's decisions to end these protections for Hondurans and more than 300,000 other immigrants went against recommendations from career State Department employees.
In addition to Honduras, the administration has already ended temporary protected status, or TPS, for people here from five other countries, including El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Nepal and Sudan. In July, officials are slated to decide whether to extend TPS for about 1,600 immigrants from Yemen and Somalia.
A Border Patrol agent shot and killed an undocumented immigrant. Then the official account of what happened changed.
Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, a 20-year-old undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent in Texas. Initially, officials said the agent was trying to apprehend a group of undocumented immigrants and fired at least one round after coming under attack by people using blunt objects.
Days later, the agency changed its account of what occurred, removing mentions of blunt objects and saying instead that the group had "rushed" the officer after ignoring orders to get on the ground.
Speaking to reporters in Guatemala, Gomez's family said they want answers -- and justice.
"It's not fair that they treat them like animals, just because they come from countries less developed," Gomez's aunt said.
The FBI and Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting. Officials have declined to comment further, citing the pending investigation.
Trump called immigration courts corrupt. Even though his administration has been trying to hire more immigration judges.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump suggested it was time to make sweeping changes to what he described as a "corrupt" immigration legal system and questioned why immigrants should have a chance to go through the court system at all.
"Whoever heard of a system where you put people through trials?" he said. "Where do these judges come from?"
The President's comments came as his Justice Department continued efforts to hire more judges to help deal with a crushing immigration court backlog of nearly 700,000 cases.
It's unclear whether Trump's comments will translate into new policy proposals down the line. Trump didn't explain what he meant by calling the system "corrupt" or specify how his administration planned to change the system. And the Justice Department declined to comment on his remarks.
Eliminating courts and judges would go against policies being carried out by his own administration, and would likely violate the Constitution, international law and federal law.
Children are being separated from their parents as a matter of policy. And officials lost track of 1,500 immigrant kids.
The administration announced that every person caught illegally crossing the border would be referred for prosecution, effectively making it an official policy to separate parents from their children.
"If you're smuggling a child, we're going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. "If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally."
As outrage mounted over this in some corners, another group of immigrant kids drew attention: unaccompanied minors.
Using the hashtag #WhereAreTheChildren, activists pointed to congressional testimony from an administration official who said the government couldn't account for nearly 1,500 immigrant children who'd crossed the border alone and been placed in the homes of sponsors.
These are separate issues, but advocates have tied them together, alleging the government can't be trusted to keep track of and protect immigrant children.
An ACLU lawsuit over family separation is already making its way through federal courts. And a group of civil rights lawyers has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to step in. If these efforts are successful, officials may have to change course. But the administration is sticking to its guns, defending the policy and arguing that it's no different than what happens when anyone is accused of a crime and arrested.
In the meantime, officials are evaluating whether children caught crossing the border could be held on military bases.
The administration has pushed back against claims that 1,500 children are missing. Steve Wagner, a top official with the Department of Health and Human Services, said check-in phone calls in those cases simply weren't answered -- probably because adults caring for the kids were also undocumented.
"You can imagine that many of those would not choose to speak to a federal official calling them on the phone," he said. "But there's no reason to believe that anything has happened to the kids."
Activists remain unconvinced.
This didn't all start with Trump.
We've had a few important reminders over the past month that some of the most controversial issues in the immigration debate didn't start with President Trump.
An ACLU report documented what the organization says were hundreds of allegations that US Customs and Border Protection agents abused minors in custody from 2009 to 2014 -- during President Barack Obama's presidency. The ACLU accuses CBP of not taking complaints seriously, not doing enough to investigate them and not holding officials accountable.
In a statement, the agency said the allegations were false and baseless.
"CBP strongly disagrees with the assertions and conclusions made by the ACLU report, which equates allegations with fact and flatly ignores reforms made by CBP as well as oversight conducted by outside independent agencies over the last decade," the statement said.
And then there was this photo of children in immigration custody:
It spread like wildfire on social media, with many advocates and journalists tying it to the Trump administration's recent policy shifts. But the photo actually shows two unaccompanied minors in detention in 2014 -- also during Obama's presidency.
Immigrant rights groups say the history of these practices is all the more reason to push for officials to change course. And advocates are likely to continue efforts to highlight -- and protest -- how immigrant kids are treated while they're in custody.
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Giant Tech Companies Microsoft, Amazon, IBM & Others: Board & Leadership Moves Featured
Microsoft's Applications and Services Group EVP Dr. Qi Lu Steps Down; New MD for India Lab Appointed
Dr. Qi Lu, the EVP in charge of Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, is leaving the company due to health reasons. Dr. Lu was previously the president of the Online Services Division, where he led the company’s search, portal and online advertising efforts. He spent 10 years at Yahoo before joining Microsoft in 2008. Many of Lu’s duties will be taken over by Rajesh Jha, a corporate VP who has been leading Microsoft’s Outlook and Office 365 efforts.
Before joining Yahoo!, Dr. Lu worked as a research staff member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University, and was a faculty member at Fudan University in China.
Microsoft appointed Sriram Rajamani as the new managing director of its India lab, effective August 1, 2016. Based in Bangalore, Sriram will spearhead Microsoft India's continued focus on research, innovation and collaboration with the scientific community. He replaces Chandu Thekkath, who previously was managing director of the lab for 02 years. Prior to joining the India lab, he headed the Software Productivity Tools group within Microsoft's Redmond research lab.
Facebook Taps Snapdeal’s Chief Product Officer
Facebook has appointed former Chief Product Officer at Snapdeal and Bharti Airtel, Anand Chandrasekaran for its Messenger platform. In a global role, Chandrasekaran will be working out of the Silicon Valley headquarters of the company and will help develop strategies and partnerships for the platform that already boasts of a billion users globally. Chandrasekaran, who served as the senior director of mobile and search products at Yahoo between 2011 and 2014, worked with Airtel and Snapdeal in India in the past two and a half years.
Amazon.com Appoints Founding Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech as Director
Amazon.com elected Daniel P. Huttenlocher as a director of the company. Huttenlocher has been founding Dean and Vice Provost, Cornell Tech at Cornell University since 2012, and has worked for Cornell University since 1988 in various positions. Huttenlocher has served as a director of Corning since February 2015.
Alibaba Appoints Former McKinsey Exec as its SVP, Strategy & Investments
Alibaba appointed Madhur Deep as its SVP, Strategy & Investments. In his new role, Deep will take care of strategy and investment team in India at Alibaba. Prior to this appointment, Deep worked for McKinsey & Company as its Senior Engagement Manager.
Samsung Electronics Nominates Jay Y. Lee to Board
Samsung Electronics has nominated Jay Y. Lee, the son of its longtime chairman, to its board of directors. More than two years after the hospitalization of Chairman Kun-Hee Lee, the Board of Samsung Electronics believes that the time is now right to nominate Jay Y. Lee as a member of the Board to allow him to take a more active role in the Company's strategic decision-making. Following Lee's appointment, Sang-Hoon Lee, who will continue as CFO, plans to stand down from his position on the Board in order to maintain the Board's current structure of four members of the management and five independent outside directors.
Intel Announces Multiple Executive Changes
Intel Corporation appointed Robert “Bob” H. Swan as EVP and CFO. He replaces Stacy Smith, who, as previously announced, is taking a broader role within Intel leading manufacturing, sales and operations. Smith served nine years as Intel’s CFO.
Swan joins Intel from growth equity firm General Atlantic where he served as an operating partner working closely with the firm's global portfolio companies on growth objectives. Prior to General Atlantic, he served nine years as the CFO of eBay. Before that, he was CFO at Electronic Data Systems and at TRW. He also served as CFO, COO and CEO of Webvan Group. Prior to that, Bob served in senior finance roles at GE.
Intel and TPG announced a definitive agreement under which the two parties will establish a newly formed, jointly-owned, independent cybersecurity company. The new company will be called McAfee following transaction close. Chris Young will be appointed CEO of the new company upon closing of the transaction. Young is senior vice president and general manager of the Intel Security Group.
IBM to Reorganize Internal Blockchain Team; Couple of IBM Cloud Marketing Execs Depart
IBM announced that it is planning to reorganize its internal blockchain team into a business unit that is to include its artificial intelligence and cloud computing initiatives. The new unit, in addition to working on blockchain technology, will also lead IBM's efforts to bridge its financial services work with its Watson artificial intelligence initiative. The firm said that the unit, Industry Platforms, will be led by Bridget van Kralingen, a former SVP of Global Business Services. The firm's entire blockchain leadership will move to the new unit.
Jean English, Global VP for IBM Cloud Marketing, has left. She has joined NetApp as CMO. She has expertise in developing and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies and led the go-to-market transformation for IBM's cloud business.
Carrie Palin, VP of Marketing for IBM’s Cloud Data Services and Analytics Software, has joined Box as its first CMO.
Qualcomm Named Ann M. Livermore to its Board
Qualcomm appointed Ann M. Livermore to its board of directors. With her nearly 30 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Livermore brings extensive experience in senior leadership positions, and broad knowledge and experience in the areas of technology, business management, marketing, sales, and research and development. Livermore was formerly an EVP at Hewlett-Packard, where from 2004 until June 14, 2011 she led the HP Enterprise Business business unit of HP.
Adobe Chief Accounting Officer Retires
Adobe announced that retirement of Richard Rowley as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Adobe following 10 years of service. Rowley currently expects to remain in his role until January 31, 2017.
Salesforce Appoints Former Microsoft Exec as First Chief Equality Officer
Salesforce announced Tony Prophet will join the company as Chief Equality Officer. Prophet will be responsible for leading the company's equality initiatives, focusing on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality. Prophet is a respected leader who has held senior executive roles at Microsoft and HP. He most recently served as Microsoft's Corporate VP of Education Marketing. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Gannett.
PayPal Appoints COO and Europe Regional Leader
William J. Ready has been appointed as EVP, COO at PayPal. Prior to this appointment, Ready previously served as the company's SVP, Global Head of Product and Engineering from January 2016 to September 2016, as SVP, Merchant and Next Generation Commerce from April 2015 to January 2016, and as CEO and GM of Braintree from December 2013 through April 2015.
Paypal has appointed Frank Keller as the new General Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, succeeding Arnulf Keese who leaves the company after ten years. Until recently, Keller managed the corporate customer business. Keese moves on to become general partner of a venture capital fund. He joined Paypal as Head of Strategy & Business Operations.
Netflix Hires Ex-Universal Television Exec as VP-Content
Netflix announced that it hires Bela Bajaria, ex-Universal Television, as VP-content, leading team focused on TV and film licensing from major U.S. studios, and co-production relationships with major U.S. networks.
ADP’s President, Global Enterprise Solutions Resigns to Join NCR
Mark Benjamin resigned as President, Global Enterprise Solutions of Automatic Data Processing. He joined ADP as an account representative and moved up in a number of leadership positions, including ADP’s small business and employer services divisions.
Benjamin is joining NCR as President and COO.
JD.Com Announces Executive Changes
Shen Haoyu, CEO of China based JD Mall, JD.com's B2C business group, is to transfer to the US for family reasons and will act as president of JD.com's international operation. Shen Haoyu joined JD as COO in 2011.
Infosys Announces Appointments and Resignations
Sangita Singh, Wipro's former chief executive for healthcare and life sciences, is to join Infosys as EVP and head its nearly $800-million healthcare and life sciences portfolio.
Sanjay Purohit, an EVP at Infosys, has resigned. Purohit was in-charge of the strategic initiatives with Pravin Rao, the COO of Infosys.
ARM Holdings Announces Executive Appointments
ARM Holdings, the semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group, appointed Masayoshi Son as Chairman and Executive Director; Ronald Fisher as Executive Director and Alok Sama as Executive Director. Masayoshi Son currently acts as Chairman and CEO for SoftBank and Chairman for Sprint Corporation, and holds executive directorships in Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
Ronald Fisher currently holds executive positions in SoftBank and Sprint Corporation, and has held previous executive directorships in E*TRADE Financial Corporation and GSI Commerce Inc.
Nokia Announces Change in the Nokia Technologies’ Leadership; Appoints CEO of its Russian Branch
Nokia announced that Ramzi Haidamus, President of Nokia Technologies and a member of the company's Group Leadership Team, will step down from the Nokia Group Leadership Team.
Brad Rodrigues, currently head of strategy and business development in Nokia Technologies, will assume the role of acting president of Nokia Technologies, and the company has started the search for a permanent successor with the requisite technology, product and commercial skills.
Nokia has appointed Mikhail Rayskin the CEO of its Russian branch. Simultaneously, Rayskin will continue working as head of the customer business team to deal with key accounts. Rayskin has previously held management positions at numerous telecommunications companies.
VMware Announces Board Changes
VMware reported that Michael S. Dell has been elected to the VMware board of directors as chairman. In addition, Egon Durban was elected to the VMware board. Both of these appointments were triggered by Dell Technologies' completion of the acquisition of EMC, creating a family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information.
With this change, Joseph M. Tucci, the company's chairman of the board of directors since 2007, as well as John R. Egan who served as a director on the company board of directors since 2007, are resigning from the company board.
Dell currently serves as chairman of the board and CEO of Dell Technologies.
Applied Materials Announces Resignation of Robert H. Swan as Director
Applied Materials announced that Robert H. Swan notified the company that he was resigning as a member of the Board of Directors of Applied Materials. Swan is Operating Partner, General Atlantic.
Intuit Appoints Nikhil Rungta as its Managing Director of its India Business
Intuit has appointed Nikhil Rungta as its managing director of its India business. Previously, he was appointed chief marketing officer at Housing.com. Prior to that, Rungta was the SVP of marketing at Reliance Jio and the CMO for Google India, where he led the position for four years. Overall, Rungta has over 20 years of experience in the marketing field and has worked in leadership roles at Yatra and Yebhi, where he headed the marketing for the companies.
HP Promotes Chief Academic Officer to Distinguished Technologist; Appoints MD for South African Business
Elliott Levine, chief academic officer at HP (formerly Hewlett-Packard), has been promoted to distinguished technologist.
HP has appointed David Rozzio as the new managing director of its South African business. Rozzio replaces Thibault Dousson.
Ericsson Announces CHRO and Tech Leader Changes
Ericsson announced it will move the position as CHRO to Sweden and that Bina Chaurasia, will resign from her role as SVP and CHRO. Joining Ericsson from Hewlett Packard in 2010, Chaurasia has built a world class global HR function for Ericsson.
Maj-Britt Arfert has been appointed acting CHRO while the search for a successor is underway.
Ulf Ewaldsson appointed Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Strategy and Technology for the Ericsson Group. Ulf Ewaldsson currently holds the position as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Technology.
Dassault Systemes Makes Geographic Leadership Changes
Dassault Systemes has appointed Samson Khaou as the Managing Director of its India Geo. Dr. Chandan Chowdhury, who has been the India MD over the last five years will be taking over a new role as VP (Global Affairs & Business Development).
Samson Khaou will develop Dassault Systemes' India business strategy in line with the country's opportunities across sectors like aerospace and defense, transportation and mobility, consumer goods, life sciences, natural resources, industrial equipment, financial and business services, energy process and utilities. Samson Khaou is with Dassault Systemes since 1989. He launched Dassault Systemes' business in Korea and then he took the responsibility of Industry Services for Europe before leading the Asia Pacific South geo in 2011. Under his leadership, the revenue doubled, with several innovative projects such as Virtual Singapore being initiated.
Dr. Chandan will be in charge of defining new engagement and business models, focusing on the government's initiatives in areas like 'Make in India', urban transformation, digital India, smart cities and developing centers-of-excellence for creating industry-ready professionals to increase employability and interactions with senior scientists.
Analog Devices Announces Business Group Leadership Changes
Analog Devices announced that Richard Meaney, SVP, Industrial, Healthcare and Consumer Business Group, will leave the company. Rick D. Hess, who currently leads the Communications and Automotive business groups will assume leadership of the Industrial, Healthcare and Consumer business groups, previously run by Meaney.
Micron Technology Announces Retirement of Mark Heil as VP and Corporate Controller
Mark Heil, VP and Corporate Controller of Micron Technology announced his intention to retire from the Company. Heil served as the Company's interim Principal Financial Officer and interim Principal Accounting Officer from March 2015 to June 2015.
Workday Elects Member of its CEO Advisory Board as Director
Workday elected Lee J. Styslinger, III as a director of Workday. Styslinger has served as a member of Workday's CEO Advisory Board since 2015. Additionally, he has served as the CEO of Altec, a leading equipment and service provider for the electric utility, telecommunications, contractor, lights and signs, and tree care markets, since 1997 and as its Chairman since 2011.
Abhijit Bhaduri Leaves Wipro as Chief Learning Officer
Wipro confirms that Abhijit Bhaduri, currently the chief learning officer, has decided to pursue his entrepreneurial ambition after a rewarding career with the organization. Given this, Abhijit will continue with Wipro in an advisory role. The company did not confirm if the post of chief learning officer will see an executive from outside or within company folds brought in to replace Bhaduri. He will start his own executive coaching firm in the next few months.
Capgemini Names Chief Digital Officer of its North American Application Services and Consulting Services
Capgemini has named Kim Smith Chief Digital Officer of its North American Application Services and Consulting Services. In her prior role, Smith was Adobe's first global head of digital services innovation where she led the development of its digital services portfolio strategy, and launched Adobe's Smart Bag for retailers and Immersive Retail Experience offering in collaboration with Capgemini. She was previously a VP at Capgemini, and led product and service lines for cloud and digital innovation. Prior to that, Smith spent 12 years as an executive at Microsoft leading online, digital, cloud products and services innovation.
Enphase Energy CFO Joins Skyworks Solutions as SVP and CFO
Skyworks Solutions announced that Kris Sennesael has joined Skyworks as SVP and CFO. Sennesael, most recently served as CFO for Enphase Energy, a semiconductor-based energy solutions provider. Prior to Enphase, Sennesael was CFO at Standard Microsystems, and, previously, he held increasingly responsible financial positions at ON, AMI Semiconductor and Alcatel Microelectronics.
Citrix Systems Appoints APJ Region Sales Leader
Citrix has announced that Stanimira Koleva has been appointed group VP (GVP) of sales and services for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Most recently, Koleva was the SVP and chief operations officer, for APJ at Software AG, a leading large enterprise software company where she was responsible for the business in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.
Palo Alto Networks Announces Sales Leadership Changes
Mark Anderson has been promoted to president with responsibility for the company's sales, go-to-market strategy, customer support, and business development. Over the last four years, Anderson's leadership as SVP of Worldwide Field Operations, for its sales organization has been instrumental to its growth. rior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he was EVP of Worldwide Sales at F5 Networks, where he oversaw all sales activities for the company beginning in 2007.
First Data Appoints Co-CEO at Lebenthal as Board Member; Appoints Leader for APAC Region
First Data Corporation appointed Barbara A. Yastine as Board of Directors. Yastine most recently served as a director and Co-CEO at Lebenthal Holdings. Prior to Yastine’s most recent role at Lebenthal Holdings, she served as Chair, President, and CEO of Ally Bank from 2012 to 2015. She also previously held the role of Chief Administrative Officer of Ally Financial. In addition Yastine is also a member of the Board of Primerica.
Ivo Distelbrink will join the company to lead its business in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Reporting to Chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, Distelbrink will be based in Singapore and will also serve on First Data’s Management Committee. Distelbrink joins First Data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), where he most recently held the role of Managing Director and Regional Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) for APAC.
Maxim Integrated Products Announces Board Appointments
Maxim Integrated Products, engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits, elected MaryAnn Wright and Tracy Accardi to its Board of Directors.
Wright serves as Group VP, Technology and Industry Relations at Johnson Controls. Before joining Johnson Controls, Wright was EVP of Engineering, Product Development, Commercial and Program Management at Collins & Aikman Corporation from 2006-2007. Prior to that, she served in several executive management positions at Ford Motor.
Accardi has served as VP of Global Research and Development, Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic since 2014. Previously, Accardi was CTO at Omniguide Surgical from 2012 to 2014, and Executive Consultant at Mednest Consulting from 2011 to 2012, after having held senior research and development positions at Covidien, Johnson & Johnson Company, and Philips Medical Systems.
Harris Corporation Appoints New Board Members
Harris Corporation has announced the appointment of James Albaugh to its board of directors. Harris also announced that Roger B. Fradin has been nominated for election to its Board. Albaugh, is a senior adviser to Perella Weinberg Partners. He served as senior advisor to The Blackstone Group from December 2012 to July 2016. Prior to that, he had a 37-year career at Boeing, where he held various leadership positions, including president and CEO of the Commercial Airplane business, president and CEO of the Integrated Defense Systems business and president and CEO of the Space and Communications business.
Fradin is vice chairman of Honeywell International Inc. During his 16-year career with Honeywell, he has held leadership positions, including president and CEO of the company's Automation and Controls business. He joined Honeywell in 2000 when the company acquired Pittway Corporation.
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How One Industry Gives Healthcare to Its Hard-to-Reach Migrant Workers
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by Emily Gillespie; photos by Toni Greaves
Aug 14 2018, 4:32pm
Salud provides routine healthcare for vineyard workers that they might not receive anywhere else. All photos by Toni Greaves
The summer sun had yet to burn off the overcast morning chill when two ATVs climbed the rolling vineyard hill. Wearing dirty jeans, work boots, and hip holsters of shears and pruning knives, a group of mostly men and a few women hopped off and approached the van parked between the rows of grapes and the tasting room.
Two women in blue polo shirts warmly greeted the group in rapid Spanish and then got to work. One by one, they measured each patient's height and weight, documented their blood pressure, and calculated their body fat percentage with a handheld monitor. Patients discussed their health concerns with a registered nurse. Some had the fingers of their leathery, calloused hands pricked to test their glucose levels. Others got a tetanus shot, an important vaccination given their work with grapevine wires.
This kind of care may seem routine, but the van is part of a unique healthcare service launched by the Oregon wine industry in the early 90s. Field laborers at these wineries are often immigrants and the workforce includes those who are undocumented. To provide care, wineries created the organization called Salud, which serves between 2,500 and 4,000 vineyard workers and their families annually.
“For a lot of these patients, this is it. This is their only visit of the year,” Leda Garside, nurse and services manager for Salud, told me.
Patients outside the mobile health clinic.
Mobile health services like these are becoming more widely used in the country as a whole, but what makes Salud unique is the way it’s funded. Each year, wineries across Oregon craft exclusive cuvees that are then sold off at an annual auction. Deep-pocketed wine collectors flock to the black-tie event, the proceeds of which raise nearly all of the costs to fund the healthcare program. Quietly, this industry has avoided political discord on two hot-button topics: healthcare and undocumented workers.
About half of all farm workers have work authorization and 35 percent of farm workers have health insurance, according to the 2016 National Agricultural Worker’s Survey, which relied on surveys taken from 2013–2014. Though there are migrant health clinics scattered around the country to treat migrant agricultural workers, those facilities were only reaching an estimated 17 percent of them as of 2016, according to the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health.
Taking a stance on immigration is not something they were thinking about when winery owners met with hospital representatives nearly three decades ago.
“Immigration and the seeming fear of and war on immigrants were not hot political issues 28 years ago,” said Nancy Ponzi, founder of Ponzi Vineyards. “I view it more as a responsibility we have as owners of these businesses to take care of our workers. They don’t have a safety net of any kind.”
At the time, employees at Tuality Healthcare, a nearby community hospital, had become friends with a few of the region’s winemakers. They invited Ponzi and another winemaker to a meeting to discuss putting on a collaborative event such as a tasting or festival.
“When we left the meeting, we thought, ‘Oh man, we can’t have another event,’” Ponzi said. “We have the opportunity to do much more than a marketing thing… The most meaningful thing we could do in healthcare and wineries is with the field workers. They have so little protection and resources.”
She and her husband Dick Ponzi, who started their winery in 1970, and were among a group of family-owned wineries that laid the groundwork for what is now a multibillion-dollar industry that includes more than 700 wineries. Around 40 of those wineries participate in Salud—donating their time, resources, and product to create the exclusive vintages that attract high bidders. Though not all wineries participate, Salud’s services are extended to any vineyard worker.
“In my very biased opinion, I think the (winemakers) who came to Oregon came here because they wanted to make wine, they didn’t want to get rich,” Ponzi said. “It’s a group of people who are idealistic and for the most part passionate, generous and philanthropic.”
Garside, the nurse, agrees. She’s presented Salud’s model at various conferences, but has not yet seen the model replicated. She said she’s proud to work for an organization that adds a level of security to unprotected workers on an industry-wide scale.
“This is a workforce that is seasonal, that is temporary, but they offer a great service,” Garside said. “They are masters at what they do… Without them, the industry would not exist.”
With racial hostility running high and immigration raids grabbing headlines, Garside said she is thankful now more than ever for Salud.
Leda Garside
Originally from Costa Rica, Garside was 18 years old when she married an American man and subsequently moved to the United States with him. Improving her English on the fly, Garside went to school and became a registered nurse, working in several specialties and with a variety of populations. But throughout her career, she searched for a way to use her skills, language, and culture in a meaningful way. When she was approached about joining Salud, she jumped at the opportunity.
“It’s very unique and it’s a great privilege to be working with this program… to make a difference in a lot of people’s lives,” she said.
She gives checkups and makes home visits but also spends time connecting patients with community resources and helping them navigate the country’s complex healthcare system. On top of the struggles all US residents face when dealing with the country’s baroque healthcare system—learning the meaning behind terms like co-pay, deductible, and in-network—Garside said there are added barriers for migrant workers such as language and cultural norms.
“It depends which country you’re coming from. A lot of people are used to going to an emergency room for everything… that’s what happened in their home country,” Garside said. “In many countries, you don’t receive a bill back for the services rendered, but here we do and it’s not just one bill you’re receiving, you’re receiving professional fees from everybody that saw you.”
For many of the patients she serves, legal status is also a barrier, Garside said. She and the rest of the Salud staff don’t ask patients about their immigration status, a fact that has helped them build trust with the workers.
“We don’t ask, we don’t care,” Garside said. “That’s not our business, our business is to provide healthcare services and outreach regardless of your status… We serve as a vehicle of trust. We work really, really, really hard to maintain that trust.”
Along with the mobile health clinic, Salud also partners with other organizations to bring other services to the vineyards, such as dental and vision clinics, mammography units, and mental health wellness information.
A worker getting an exam.
Ruth Zúñiga is the director of Sabidiría, a Latinx psychology emphasis at Pacific University. She and some of her students frequently tag along with the mobile health clinic to discuss tools for dealing with stress. The uncertain political landscape surrounding immigration, Zúñiga said, is a topic of concern that has increasingly come up in conversations with patients.
“We’re seeing it significantly… the people that are coming in seeking help, (immigration) becomes one big issue that that they want to talk about. They’re feeling overwhelmed and feeling a hopelessness,” Zúñiga said. “Even if it doesn’t effect them, they know somebody that is being effected so this is a ripple effect.”
That stress also manifests physically. Garside said that over the past two years she has treated an increasing amount of stress symptoms including increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, and acid reflux. The changing political landscape has threatened programs such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, creating a new normal for the people Garside serves.
“That stress of living in this uncertainty, it adds a lot,” she said. “You were promised one thing and went from one area of hope and now we are in an area of, we don’t know. That creates a lot of stress, and that stress is reflected physically.”
Alejandro García, an undocumented vineyard worker, said that he’s constantly worried about being deported. He added, however, that he felt the physical effects more so when he stressed for his children. (I am not using his real name.)
“You get headaches, nerves,” he said through an interpreter. “Every night before my son was married and became legal, I would think about it day and night.”
His children are now living in the United States legally, but he is not. He doesn’t drink alcohol and doesn’t go many places other than work and home.
García had worked at another winery for 12 years, and six months ago took a job at a meatpacking plant. Racial hostility, however, made him return to vineyard work. He was approached about becoming a manager, he said, and a white coworker became enraged.
“He was throwing things, he became hostile,” García said through an interpreter. “He said, ‘Go back to Mexico.’”
Working with knives made García extra nervous, so he spoke with a friend at Montinore Estates who connected him with the job.
García’s story isn’t unique. Miguel Loeza, a foreman at Willamette Valley Vineyard at Tualatin Estate, said he sees a lot of his coworkers reacting to the current political climate.
“Some of these guys have been here for 15 or more years, they have kids here but they’re not legal… They’re worrying about what’s happening,” he said. “They drive their car to work but don’t drive to take the family out. They’re scared to be stopped and questioned by police.”
Loeza added that he doesn’t think many seek medical treatment. “They’re scared to ask for help because they’ll start asking about their legal situation.”
He has insurance through Tualatin Estate Vineyard, but Salud helped Loeza years ago when his son had to have appendix surgery. At the time, his insurance plan didn’t include his family, so he was charged around $8,000.
“Leda helped out and I paid only $1,000,” he said. “They helped me a lot.”
Garside said that she finds her work with Salud rewarding and a big part of that is getting to know the hard-working families and seeing them grow.
“They are part of the fabric of our community,” Garside said. “We are all here contributing to the economy and to this incredible tapestry that is the United States.”
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France plans to change jobless benefits, unions to protest
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron's government has unveiled plans to make it more difficult for the unemployed to claim benefits, as part of an overhaul of France's labor market that aims to boost the nation's economy.
Labor Minister Muriel Penicaud said Tuesday that the changes were "tough, yet important."
Unions have denounced the plans as unfair and damaging to the country's social security system.
The planned changes extend the period that people have to work to be entitled to unemployment benefits and reduces the amount that wealthier workers can receive after six months out of work.
France's unemployed now get, on average, over 1,000 euros ($1,118) per month -an amount that can reach a maximum of 6,200 euros ($6,936) for two consecutive years.
Another measure plans to penalized companies that use a lot of short-term contracts.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the first goal of the labor changes is "to encourage businesses to hire with long-term contracts" and the second goal is "to change the rules regarding benefits, so that working always pays more than not working."
The French government expects the changes to save 3.4 billion euros ($3.8 billion) over three years and hopes they will reduce unemployment. Unemployment in France fell to 8.7% in the first quarter of the year, its lowest in a decade - yet it still remains among the highest rates in Europe.
The head of the CFDT center-left union, Laurent Berger, denounced the plan as "deeply unfair" and said it "will affect 100% of jobless people."
A leader at the far-left CGT union, Catherine Perret, called for protests against the labor changes.
A demonstration is scheduled next week in front of the unemployment benefits agency in Paris.
Macron's government plans to pass the controversial labor law changes by decree this summer, a procedure that avoids a lengthy debate in parliament.
Key changes to France's labor market -a previous reform in 2017 made it easier to hire and fire French workers - are among the pro-business policies championed by Macron but rejected by anti-government protesters in the yellow vest movement that started last November.
Macron has vowed to keep making such changes to the economy to boost its competitiveness. Another major reform of France's pension system is scheduled to be presented in July.
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IAAF claims Olympic champion Semenya is 'biologically male'
By: GERALD IMRAY, AP Sports Writer
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The governing body of track argued in court that Olympic champion Caster Semenya is "biologically male" and that is the reason she should reduce her natural testosterone to be allowed to compete in female competitions, according to documents released publicly for the first time on Tuesday and which provide new insight into a bitter legal battle.
The documents released by sport's highest court show that Semenya responded by telling the judges that being described as biologically male "hurts more than I can put in words." The 28-year-old South African runner said she was unable to express how insulted she felt at the IAAF "telling me that I am not a woman."
The IAAF's stance on Semenya and other female athletes affected by its new testosterone regulations - and Semenya's outrage at the biological male claim - was revealed in a 163-page decision published by the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport. It details parts of the courtroom exchanges that were held behind closed doors when Semenya challenged the IAAF over the highly contentious hormone rules in a five-day hearing in February. CAS had previously released only short excerpts of the final verdict when it was announced last month.
Tuesday's fuller court records, which were still redacted, show the IAAF referred to the two-time Olympic and three-time world champion as one of a number of "biologically male athletes with female gender identities."
Arguing that Semenya and others like her should be subject to its hormone limits to ensure fairness in female competitions, the IAAF stated: "There are some contexts where biology has to trump identity."
Semenya vs. the IAAF is one of the most difficult issues sport has faced.
Semenya was legally identified as female at birth and has identified as female her whole life. But the IAAF says she is one of a number of female runners in elite athletics who have medical conditions known as "differences of sex development" and who were born with the typical male XY chromosome pattern. That gives them some male biological characteristics, male levels of the hormone testosterone after puberty, and an unfair athletic advantage over other female athletes, the IAAF says.
Semenya, who has been fighting the IAAF ever since she was embroiled in a gender verification test at the world championships 10 years ago, says the rules should be discarded and she should be allowed to run in her natural form. She disputes that she has a significant performance advantage.
The IAAF won the recent case at CAS by a 2-1 majority of the panel of judges, allowing it to implement the testosterone limits.
But in the latest legal twist, Semenya appealed the CAS verdict to Switzerland's supreme court on human rights grounds. She won an interim ruling to temporarily suspend the hormone regulations and the Swiss supreme court will hear her full appeal.
The rules only apply to certain races, from 400 meters to one mile, but they include Semenya's specialist two-lap event.
To be allowed to compete under the rules, Semenya and other affected athletes must medically reduce their testosterone to below a specific threshold set by the IAAF. The IAAF gives three options to do that: A daily contraceptive pill, a monthly hormone-blocking injection, or surgery.
The medical process has been criticized as unethical by experts and Semenya has refused to take medication to alter what she calls her genetic gifts. At least two other runners, Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and Margaret Wambui of Kenya, who are both Olympic medalists, say they are also affected by the rules. They have also railed against the regulations and criticized the IAAF.
Tuesday's CAS documents shone a light on some of the details of the battle between Semenya and the IAAF over the last decade, much of which Semenya hadn't publicly spoken about despite her story making headline news across the world.
Semenya said in witness statements to the CAS that she had been subjected to gender verification tests that included an intrusive physical examination ordered by South African track authorities in the buildup to the 2009 world championships without being told or understanding the nature of the tests. She was 18 at the time.
Then, after her breakthrough victory at those championships in Berlin, Germany, Semenya said she was taken to a hospital where the IAAF conducted another test on her. Semenya said the IAAF did not ask her if she wanted to undergo the test.
"It was an order by the IAAF which I had no choice but to comply with," Semenya said.
She described the world championships and the public speculation that erupted over her gender as "the most profound and humiliating experience of my life."
Semenya also described a five-year period from 2010-15 where she reluctantly agreed to take testosterone-suppressing oral contraceptives recommended by the IAAF so she could continue running.
They caused significant weight gain, made her constantly feel sick, led to regular fevers and internal abdominal pain, she said.
She said the IAAF had used her as a "lab rat" as it experimented with a medical process it would later introduce as part of its testosterone rules.
In a statement released later Tuesday, Semenya said: "I will not allow the IAAF to use me and my body again."
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Obama creates what could be the last large national park site on the East Coast, in Maine
Lucas St. Clair stands at Orin Falls in Maine’s North Woods this spring. More than 87,000 acres of land, donated by his mother, will become a new national monument managed by the National Park Service. (Yoon S. Byun)
By Juliet Eilperin and
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President Obama designated a large swath of Maine’s North Woods as a new national monument Wednesday, creating what is likely to be the last large new national park ever established on the East Coast.
In a statement, the White House said the move aimed to honor the National Park Service’s centennial, which will take place Thursday. The move occurred almost exactly 100 years after President Woodrow Wilson established Sieur de Monts National Monument, which eventually became Maine’s sole existing national park, Acadia.
“Following years of support from many local and state elected officials, tribal leaders, businesses and members of the public across the state, this designation will build on the robust tradition of growing the park system through private philanthropy, and will reinforce the need to continue protecting our great outdoors as we enter the second century of the National Park Service,” the statement said.
[National Parks turn 100, and they’re showing their age]
The designation of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument marks the culmination of a long, bitter struggle over the land’s fate. For more than a decade, Roxanne Quimby — the wealthy, polarizing co-founder of Burt’s Bees — tried to give away the area to the government to create a new national park.
“It may be one of the last, large national parks that we see in our lifetime,” said Theresa Pierno, president and chief executive of the National Parks Conservation Association in an interview Wednesday, adding that in a few years, “We’ll look back and say, ‘We can’t ever imagine why this was a controversy.’”
Still, some Republicans criticized Obama’s decision to protect the area without waiting for congressional approval, which is required to designate a national park. Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage (R) said it “demonstrates that rich, out-of-state liberals can force their unpopular agenda on the Maine people against their will.”
Quimby’s son, Lucas St. Clair, who took over the public campaign for protection in late 2011, said he was “thrilled beyond words” when he was officially notified Wednesday the president had signed the monument declaration. The designation “started with my mom’s vision back in the 1990s, when she was thinking how she could give back to the state of Maine” for being the birthplace of Burt’s Bees.
“It means there’s a slice of the northern forest that could remain intact for perpetuity,” he added.
By donating land worth $60 million, along with the facilities her family foundation has already built, an endowment of $20 million for operations and maintenance and a pledge to raise another $20 million, Quimby is effectively providing the government with a $100 million gift.
But residents in towns near the proposed parkland voted against its creation. The governor and legislature opposed it, and Maine’s congressional delegation refused to introduce the measure necessary to create a national park, which requires an act of Congress.
[New Maine park is a multi-million dollar gift wrapped up in distrust]
That left only the prospect of the president using his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to declare the land a national monument — something he has done nearly two dozen times while in office. He added to that list on Wednesday, in a move that creates the nation’s 413th national park site.
One of the last sprawling wild areas in the East, the 87,500 acre area along the east branch of the Penobscot River is home to lynx, bears, brook trout and moose, and it is one of the only places on the East Coast where rare bird species like gray jays, boreal chickadees and the American three-toed woodpecker can be spotted.
However, Quimby’s personality and relentless push for a national park divided this battered corner of New England, where shuttered paper mills have led to crippling unemployment and a shrinking population, and where distrust of the federal government runs deep.
St. Clair returned to his native Maine and took a more conciliatory approach, determined to win over locals. He restored public access to tens of thousands of acres east of the Penobscot River and vowed to keep them as a recreation area for hunting, snowmobiling and fishing, even if a national park or monument were next door. He built an 18-mile loop road around the proposed park, along with camping areas and hiking trails, and invited the public to come see it for themselves.
It will be the only National Park Service national monument that allows hunting, though not of bears, because Quimby’s family foundation put a specific provision for that activity in the deed it transferred to the federal government on Tuesday. It will also allow snowmobiling on all its existing trails, which means more than half the site will be open to the winter sport.
However no logging, except for tree removal the Park Service conducts for conservation or safety purposes, will be permitted.
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who is on a fact-finding mission in Greenland, issued a statement saying some of the concessions the Quimby family made to preserve traditional recreation activities means “the benefits of the designation will far outweigh any detriment and – on balance – will be a significant benefit to Maine and the region.”
And Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-Maine), who represents the area, said in a statement that while “opposed to a unilateral decision, ignoring the votes in the local towns, the Maine Legislature, and Congress, I will continue to work with everyone to move this project forward in the right way in order to build a stronger economy that creates more and better paying jobs in the Katahdin Region and in Maine.”
Some local residents said they still see commercial logging as the best way to revive the region’s sagging economy, but proponents of the monument said the boost in tourism would ultimately yield greater economic benefits. At this point only a few thousand people visit the site, but that number is likely to increase now that it’s received presidential recognition.
[What does that National Park Service consider a national park?]
The move by Quimby’s nonprofit, Elliotsville Plantation, comes at a time when the National Park Service faces an operations and maintenance backlog of $12 billion. The National Park Foundation has pledged to raise $350 million as part it its Centennial Campaign for America’s National Parks, and with this latest gift it has gotten more than $300 million toward reaching its goal.
As part of his effort to “reset” the conversation with residents, Maine’s congressional delegation and the White House, St. Clair also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a public relations agency and a Washington lobbying firm. He commissioned economic studies detailing how other communities had benefited from proximity to national parks and cited poll findings that two-thirds of residents in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which covers much of the state, would support a North Woods park.
But unable to persuade members of Maine’s congressional delegation to introduce park legislation, St. Clair altered the family’s strategy and began trying to convince the Obama administration to designate the land a national monument.
He repeatedly noted that other national parks had similar beginnings. Acadia began as Sieur de Monts National Monument. Grand Canyon National Park began as a monument designated by President Theodore Roosevelt. The creation of the modern Grand Teton National Park involved decades of bitter controversy over John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s efforts to donate thousands of acres to the project, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt first designating that land a national monument.
St. Clair also met anyone who would listen, assuring them that the government had no plans to use eminent domain or impose air quality standards or buffer zones that would hurt the forestry industry. He noted that when he started his outreach campaign, “No one really wanted to speak publicly about it.”
He made headway. The Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce endorsed the proposal. The Bangor Daily News backed it, saying the “region needs new life.” Polls showed broad support in much of Maine for a national monument in the North Woods, despite the outspoken local opposition.
“I was meeting with people behind the grocery store and behind the gas station, having hushed conversations,” St. Clair said, noting that after a recent town hall federal officials received 400 positive comments and 12 negative ones. “Today we have people who are extremely excited.”
In May, National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis came to the area for a series of hearings about the proposed monument. He got an earful during a day that included an angry crowd in East Millinocket and a more supportive crowd at a university auditorium in Orono.
What he heard ran the gamut from what a great idea the proposed national monument would be to what a detriment it would be to local residents. He heard the government praised as a savior for the local economy and criticized as a land-hungry force that could harm the timber industry and alter the Maine way of life, while providing only a paltry number of seasonal jobs.
During his visit, Jarvis told people that while he hadn’t yet decided on his recommendation to higher ups in Washington, the Quimby land “is absolutely worthy,” and the $40 million endowment promised by the family would be invaluable for getting it ready for the public.
“We have no representation anywhere in the national park system like the forests and lakes of northern Maine,” Jarvis said during one of the public hearings.
“What in blazes are they trying to monumentalize?” Anne Mitchell of the Maine Woods Coalition told The Post this spring. “There’s nothing extraordinary about it, except for a lot of black flies.”
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Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security
By Scott Higham and
Scott Higham
Investigative reporter
Ellen Nakashima
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The Islamic State and its supporters use social media to post propaganda and recruit followers. The Washington Post takes a closer look at how several groups in the United States monitor this activity. (Gillian Brockell and Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)
When a lone terrorist slaughtered 38 tourists at a Tunisian resort on June 26, the Islamic State turned to one of America’s leading social-media companies to claim responsibility and warn of more attacks on the world’s nonbelievers.
“It was a painful strike and a message stained with blood,” the Islamic State announced on Twitter following the massacre in Sousse , a popular destination for Europeans on the Mediterranean. “Let them wait for the glad tidings of what will harm them in the coming days, Allah permitting.”
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Three days before the assault, the Islamic State relied on another popular U.S. social-media platform, Google’s YouTube, to promote a grisly propaganda video of three separate mass killings. Men accused of cooperating with U.S.-coordinated airstrikes in Iraq and Syria are seen being incinerated in a car, drowned in a cage lowered into a swimming pool and decapitated by explosive necklaces looped around their necks.
Versions of it would remain on YouTube, even as company executives proclaimed during an international advertising festival that week in Cannes, France, that Google would not provide a “distribution channel for this horrible, but very newsworthy, terrorist propaganda.”
As the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, continues to hold large parts of Iraq and Syria and inspire terrorist attacks in more and more countries, it has come to rely upon U.S. social-media companies to summon fresh recruits to its cause, spread its propaganda and call for attacks, according to counterterrorism analysts. What is the Islamic State?
“We also have to acknowledge that ISIL has been particularly effective at reaching out to and recruiting vulnerable people around the world, including here in the United States ,” President Obama said July 6 at the Pentagon. “So the United States will continue to do our part, by working with partners to counter ISIL’s hateful propaganda, especially online.”
The social-media savvy of the militant group is raising difficult questions for many U.S. firms: how to preserve global platforms that offer forums for expression while preventing groups such as the Islamic State from exploiting those free-speech principles to advance their terrorist campaign.
“ISIS has been confronting us with these really inhumane and atrocious images, and there are some people who believe if you type ‘jihad’ or ‘ISIS’ on YouTube, you should get no results,” Victoria Grand, Google’s director of policy strategy, told The Washington Post in a recent interview. “We don’t believe that should be the case. Actually, a lot of the results you see on YouTube are educational about the origins of the group, educating people about the dangers and violence. But the goal here is how do you strike a balance between enabling people to discuss and access information about ISIS, but also not become the distribution channel for their propaganda?”
[In a propaganda war against the Islamic State, the U.S. tried to play by the enemy’s rules]
Some lawmakers and government officials say the companies are not going far enough.
“They are being exploited by terrorists,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin said in a recent interview. “I think there is recognition now that there is a problem, and so we’re starting to see people at the companies address additional resources. But more needs to be done because we’re still seeing the threat, and the threat is increasing, not decreasing.
U.S. technology companies “are being exploited by terrorists,” says Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, who was interviewed last month at the Justice Department in Washington. (Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post)
“It’s not a problem just here in the United States. I think they’re hearing it from governments and customers from throughout the world.”
A field analysis in May by the Department of Homeland Security warns that the Islamic State’s use of social media is broadening the terrorist group’s reach.
“ISIL leverages social media to propagate its message and benefits from thousands of organized supporters globally online, primarily on Twitter, who seek to legitimize its actions while burnishing an image of strength and power,” according to the analysis. “The influence is underscored by the large number of reports stemming from social media postings.”
In Europe, some governments are requiring social-media companies to block or remove terror-related posts.
Earlier this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved a bill that would require social-media companies to alert federal authorities when they become aware of terrorist-related content on their sites. The bill is designed to provide law enforcement agencies with information about potential terror plots. It would not require firms to monitor any users or their communications.
Putting more pressure on the social-media companies, a U.N. panel last month called on the firms to respond to accusations that their sites are being exploited by the Islamic State and other groups.
In the United States, government regulation of speech, regardless of how offensive or hateful, is generally held to be unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The social-media companies — each with its own culture, mission and philosophy — have been governing how and when to block or remove terror-related content.
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The revelations of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about U.S. government surveillance have also made the tech companies wary of cooperating with Washington.
Facebook has been the most aggressive of the large social-media companies when it comes to taking down terror-related content. The company has adopted a zero tolerance policy and, unlike other social-media companies, proactively removes posts related to terrorist organizations. Facebook also relies on its users to alert the company to posts that promote or celebrate terrorism and hires screeners to review content that might violate its standards.
“We don’t allow praise or support of terror groups or terror acts, anything that’s done by these groups and their members,” said Monika Bickert, a former federal prosecutor who heads global policy management for Facebook.
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Of all the large social-media companies, Twitter has been the most outspoken about protecting freedom of speech on its platform. Still, the company recently updated its abuse policy, stating that users may not threaten or promote terrorism.
“Twitter continues to strongly support freedom of expression and diverse perspectives,” according to a statement by a Twitter official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of recent death threats against employees by Islamic State supporters. “But it also has clear rules governing what is permissible. . . . The use of Twitter by violent extremist groups to threaten horrific acts of depravity and violence is of grave concern and against our policies, period.”
Another challenge for the companies: It is often difficult to distinguish between communiques from terrorist groups and posts by news organizations and legitimate users. Internet freedom advocates also note that much of what groups such as the Islamic State are posting can be seen as part of the historical record — even though many of the photographs and videos are horrific.
They point to the memorable 1968 Associated Press photograph of South Vietnam’s national police commander shooting a suspected Viet Cong fighter in the head on a Saigon street. They wonder how that Pulitzer Prize-winning image, which came to symbolize the chaos and brutality of the Vietnam War, would be handled in the age of social media and modern digital warfare.
“You want to live in a world where people have access to news — in other words, documentary evidence of what is actually happening,” said Andrew McLaughlin, a former Google executive and chief U.S. technology officer who now is a partner in the tech and media start-up firm Betaworks in New York. “And an ISIS video of hostages being beheaded is both an act of propaganda and is itself a fact. And so if you’re a platform, you don’t want to suppress the facts. On the other hand, you don’t want to participate in advancing propaganda.
“And there is the conundrum.”
‘Pure evil’
Before the rise of social media, many of the three dozen video and audio messages Osama bin Laden issued before his death were recorded in remote locations, smuggled out by couriers, and aired on what was then a largely unknown television station based in Qatar called Al Jazeera. Weeks could pass between the time when bin Laden spoke and when he was heard.
Al-Qaeda operatives communicated through password-protected forums and message boards on the Internet. Access was tightly controlled.
“It was a different time,” said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, which tracks online communications of terrorist organizations. “The jihadi groups decided what could be posted and released. Twitter became the way around the forums. It became the Wild West of jihad.” The propaganda wars since 9/11
Before his death, bin Laden had come to recognize the revolution that followed the launch of Facebook in 2004 and Twitter in 2006.
“The wide-scale spread of jihadist ideology, especially on the Internet, and the tremendous number of young people who frequent the Jihadist Web sites [are] a major achievement for jihad,” bin Laden wrote in a May 2010 letter that was later found by U.S. Special Operations forces inside his Pakistan compound.
Al-Shabab, a militant group in Somalia allied with al-Qaeda, became one of the first terrorist organizations to use Twitter for both propaganda and command and control during an attack, according to terrorism analysts. The group set up Twitter accounts under al-Shabab’s media wing, called HMS Press. Is al-Qaeda still relevant?
In September 2013, al-Shabab attracted worldwide attention when it live-tweeted a terror attack it carried out at the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi .
A woman and two children take cover behind a bar in Nairobi’s Westgate mall, which came under attack on Sept. 21, 2013. The group al-Shabab attracted worldwide attention when it live-tweeted its attack. (Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman runs for cover in the mall. “What Kenyans are witnessing at #Westgate is retributive justice for crimes committed by their military, albeit minuscule in nature,” tweested HMS Press, al-Shabab’s media wing. (Jonathan Kalan/AP)
“What Kenyans are witnessing at #Westgate is retributive justice for crimes committed by their military, albeit minuscule in nature,” HMS Press tweeted. A short time later, the group posted another tweet: “Since our last contact, the Mujahideen inside the mall confirmed to @HMS_Press that they killed over 100 Kenyan kuffar & battle is ongoing.”
In the end, more than 60 people were killed and an additional 175 wounded. Twitter took down those accounts that day, marking one of the first times the company removed material posted by a terrorist organization. But al-Shabab quickly created new Twitter accounts under different names — illustrating both the utility of the platform and the difficulty of policing it.
The attack and how it played out in real time inspired terrorists around the world.
“We must make every effort to reach out to Muslims both through new media like Facebook and Twitter,” Adam Gadahn, an American-born al-Qaeda propagandist, proclaimed in a 2013 interview. (In January, he was killed in a U.S. strike.)
The Islamic State has gone on to make Twitter one of its most important tools .
FBI Director James B. Comey testified to Congress this month about how the Islamic State is reaching out through Twitter to about 21,000 English-language followers. The group’s message, he said, is, “Come to the so-called caliphate and live the life of some sort of glory or something; and if you can’t come, kill somebody where you are; kill somebody in uniform; kill anybody; if you can cut their head off, great; videotape it; do it, do it, do it.” He described it as “a devil on their shoulder all day long, saying: Kill, kill, kill, kill.”
Comey also said that Twitter has become “particularly aggressive at shutting down and trying to stop ISIL-related sites. I think it led ISIL to threaten to kill their CEO, which helped them understand the problem in a better way.”
Others are not convinced.
“Twitter is providing a communication device, a loudspeaker for ISIS,” said Mark Wallace, a former U.S. ambassador who now runs the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit group that tracks terrorists and attempts to disrupt their online activities. “If you are promoting violence and a call to violence, you are providing material support. Twitter should be part of the solution. If not, they are part of the problem.”
At a Constitution Project dinner in April honoring Twitter for its leadership on First Amendment issues, Colin Crowell, the firm’s head of global public policy, acknowledged that Twitter has hosted “painful content” and content reflecting “terrorism, government repression” on its site. But, he said, “it is also a place where people can find . . . information, conversation and where empathy can be shared.”
The “key thing,” he said, “for us at Twitter is to recognize our role as the provider of this open platform for free expression . . . to recognize that that speech is not our own.”
It is “precisely because it’s not our own content that we feel we have a duty to respect and to defend those voices on the platform,” Crowell said. “The platform of any debate is neutral. The platform doesn’t take sides.”
In August 2014, the Islamic State uploaded a video on YouTube and other sites showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley .
A succession of other videotaped beheadings of Americans and Britons followed — Steven Sotloff , Peter Kassig , David Haines , Alan Henning — as well as the immolation of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh and the mass killings of Syrians, Kurds and Coptic Christians, among others.
Each slaying became a carefully orchestrated and slickly produced event.
“Pure evil,” President Obama called Kassig’s beheading.
For Facebook, the killings marked a turning point. The company made it easier for its 1.4 billion users — the largest in the world — to report content from suspected terrorist groups, and it began to aggressively remove their posts. The company also deployed teams of people around the world to review content that had been flagged as terrorist-related to determine whether the posts were in fact from terrorist groups in violation of Facebook’s terms of service.
Facebook has banned terror-related content from its pages for more than five years. In March, the company updated its community standards, explicitly prohibiting posts that praise or celebrate terrorist organizations and their leaders.
Bickert, Facebook’s policy chief, said posts flagged by users are examined by “operations teams” of content reviewers stationed in four offices around the world.
“We want to make sure we’re keeping our community safe, and we’re not a tool for propaganda,” Bickert said. “On the other hand, we can see that people are . . . talking about ISIS and are concerned about ISIS, in part, because they’ve seen this imagery and it makes it very real to people. So none of these issues are easy.”
‘Good luck’
France’s interior minister was still reeling from the Jan. 7 terror attack on the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo when he attended a White House counterterrorism summit in February.
The Islamic State and al-Qaeda had turned the Paris attack that left 12 dead into a propaganda coup. The groups boasted about the killings on social media, transmitting images that included the fatal shooting of a police officer as he lay wounded on a sidewalk, raising his arm in surrender.
While in Washington, the French official, Bernard Cazeneuve, had lunch with then-U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Cazeneuve told Holder that he was planning to meet with executives of social-media companies in Silicon Valley the following day, hoping to persuade them to stop terrorists from using their sites for propaganda, recruitment and operational planning.
According to a French official, Cazeneuve asked Holder whether he had any advice before he left for California.
“Good luck,” the attorney general said.
Cazeneuve arrived in California on Feb. 20, where he met with executives of several social-media companies, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Near the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, messages are affixed to a wall a few days after a deadly attack there. The Islamic State and al-Qaeda turned the Paris attack into a propaganda coup. (David Azia/AP)
Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, a leader of the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda, speaks in front of images of brothers Chérif Kouachi, left, and Said Kouachi — who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack — in a still taken from social media. (Reuters Tv/Reuters)
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve appears on a screen at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Feb. 20. Cazeneuve visited executives from several Silicon Valley companies. (Ben Margot/AP)
Cazeneuve, right, visits at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on Feb. 20. He was hoping to persuade Silicon Valley firms to stop terrorists from using their sites for propaganda and recruitment. (Ben Margot/AP)
“We needed to have the help of the companies,” said a French official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the trip on the record. “How could we work [together] much faster and quicker?”
The official said the meeting with Facebook went well. The company’s vice president vowed that Facebook would continue to take down terror-related content from the site.
At Google, the French officials met with public policy and legal executives, who said they had been removing terror-related posts and would continue to do so; YouTube users flag about 100,000 posts each day that are suspected of being in violation of the company’s terms of service.
Google officials also noted that the airing of the Charlie Hebdo video on YouTube was the subject of intense debate inside the company. In the end, company officials decided to leave the video up, on the grounds that it was newsworthy and had become part of the historical record. The video has since been deleted from YouTube’s channel in France at the request of French officials.
The French minister’s meeting with Twitter did not go well.
“It was our most difficult meeting,” the French official said. “The minister showed pictures of the Paris attack that were sent out on Twitter, including the execution of the police officer,” he recalled. “He was very graphic in his explanation. They had a lengthy explanation that it was not easy. We argued that child pornography is being taken down. They said their algorithms were not as easy to set up to find jihadi information. You need a bunch of people to review the material.”
The meeting ended “with no specific commitments” from Twitter, the official said.
The Twitter official said the firm does not comment on private meetings with government officials. “We have a strong working relationship with French law enforcement that predates the Charlie Hebdo attack,” he said.
In April, an Islamic State supporter in Somalia called for a Charlie Hebdo-style attack in the United States. The post inspired two men to try to attack a Garland, Tex., event where cartoonists were drawing the prophet Muhammad , according to Rita Katz, executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks terrorists’ online communications.
“Once you start using Twitter you start to understand how powerful it is, and that is why ISIS is taking advantage of it,” says Rita Katz, executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks terrorists’ online communications. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post)
The men were gunned down by security teams before they could open fire, but Katz said the attack could have ended very differently.
“Once you start using Twitter, you start to understand how powerful it is, and that is why ISIS is taking advantage of it,” Katz said. “Twitter must understand that they have to be responsible for the kind of information that they disseminate.”
Confronting the Islamic State online and removing its material is a constant challenge, computer scientists say. Lawmakers, government officials and terrorism experts frequently cite social-media companies’ efforts to rid their sites of child pornography. If they can remove that content, why can’t they screen out tweets and posts from terror groups?
From a computer science standpoint, solving the child pornography problem was relatively straightforward. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children maintains a database of thousands of photographs of child pornography, images that are frequently downloaded by pedophiles and traded over the Internet. Using software called Microsoft PhotoDNA, images are scanned and identified using unique digital markers.
Every time a new image is uploaded onto a site, a company can run it against the database, which compares the digital markers. Anything that matches is deleted and, by federal law, reported to the national center and then to law enforcement agencies.
Many social-media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, rely on the software, which can recognize images in still photos, but not videos.
Flagging terror-related content is more complex — but not impossible, computer scientists say.
Hany Farid, a Dartmouth computer science professor who co-developed Microsoft PhotoDNA, said the software is licensed to the national center solely to identify images of child pornography. But he said the software could be used to flag terror-related propaganda. For example, the software could identify a photograph of Foley, the American journalist, allowing companies to catch images of his beheading before they appear on their sites.
“The technology is extremely powerful, but it’s also limited,” Farid said. “You can only find images that you’ve already found before.”
Social-media companies also could download images of the Islamic State’s black flag, an image frequently displayed on the group’s propaganda posts and communiques, and create “hash values,” or digital fingerprints, of the images to search for them online, computer scientists say.
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But while social-media companies could use such techniques to detect every post with an Islamic State flag, not all of those posts would necessarily have come from the terrorist group. A journalist could have tweeted out a link containing material from the Islamic State, or a government agency or think tank could have issued a report about the group that contains an image of the flag.
The sheer volume of the content on social-media sites also poses a challenge, computer scientists said. Twitter has 302 million active users who send out 500 million tweets a day. YouTube has more than 1 billion users. Every minute of every day, they upload more than 300 hours of video.
“There is a long history of government asking technology companies to do things they can’t do. They say America has put a man on the moon. Why can’t the companies do this?” said Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union. “People treat computers like magic boxes. There is no silver bullet here. Companies are going to be reluctant to roll out technology that is going to have a high rate of false positives.”
As the more established social-media companies become more aggressive in monitoring and removing terror-related content, groups such as the Islamic State are also migrating to lesser-known sites, where they can share their messages and videos. The sites include Instagram, Tumblr and Soundcloud, according to terror experts. Islamic State’s English-language radio
One of the sites, the nonprofit Internet Archive in San Francisco, has been around for nearly 20 years.
The archive was founded in 1996 to provide the public with free access to millions of documents and videos and clips and Web pages — almost anything that has been on the Web. It is probably best known for its Wayback Machine. So far, it has captured and stored nearly 150 billion Web pages.
Map: What a year of Islamic State terror looks like View Graphic
Map: What a year of Islamic State terror looks like
In the past year, the Islamic State has created several accounts on the archive and has been using the site to host video and audio productions, online magazines and radio broadcasts, according to terrorism experts.
Internet Archive’s office manager, Chris Butler, told The Post that his organization is removing videos of beheadings and executions whenever it becomes aware of them, either during routine maintenance of the site or after outside complaints.
But unlike sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the archive does not have a flagging mechanism. Butler said the group is working on a system that will enable users to help identify and report problematic content.
“We do our best with a very small team and no lawyers on staff, and have nowhere near the budget of larger commercial sites handling similar quantities of content to us, like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook,” Butler said.
Twitter has recently stepped up efforts to remove terrorist accounts. In April, it took down 10,000 accounts over two days. That has led security researchers such as Daniel Cuthbert to lament the loss of what he saw as a valuable source of intelligence.
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Cuthbert, chief operating officer of Sensepost, a cybersecurity firm, supports removal of videos of beheadings and other content that “glorifies ISIS.” But he said he has lost a window into conversations between Islamic State members, supporters and potential recruits.
“I no longer have the ability to see who the key people are in ISIS when it comes to a social-media campaign, and how they’re tweeting, who they’re tweeting to, and how many are British nationals who may be getting groomed,” said Cuthbert, who is based in London.
After Twitter conducted the mass takedown, Cuthbert requested access to Twitter’s “firehose” — its entire stream of tweets. But a Twitter employee denied his request, citing concerns that he was sharing the material with law enforcement.
“We have certain sensitivities with use cases that look at individuals in an investigative manner, especially when insights from that investigation are directly delivered to law enforcement or government agencies to be acted upon,” the employee said in an e-mail to Cuthbert, which he shared with The Post.
The FBI’s Comey told reporters “there’s actually a discussion within the counterterrorism community” as to whether it is better to shut the accounts down or keep them up so they can be tracked for intelligence purposes. “I can see the pros and cons on both sides. But it’s an issue that’s live,” he said.
Counterterrorism officials say the constantly evolving social-media landscape is providing more places for groups such as the Islamic State to hide in cyberspace. Finding and shutting down sites and accounts is starting to resemble a carnival game of Whac-a-Mole, they say. As soon as one site or account is taken down, another pops up. As soon as one platform starts aggressively monitoring terrorist content, militants migrate to another.
Worse, investigators and terrorism analysts fear that the Islamic State and other terrorist groups are moving beyond public-facing social-media platforms for recruitment, increasingly relying on encrypted sites where their communications can continue largely undetected.
Comey recently said he is concerned that the Islamic State will use Twitter or another popular social-media platform to make contact with followers before “steering them off of Twitter to an encrypted form of communication.’’
John D. Cohen served as a former top intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security. He said counterintelligence officials have traditionally searched for the proverbial needle in a haystack when trying to identify terrorists and their plots. The explosion of social-media sites, he said, has complicated the search beyond compare.
“The haystack is the entire country now,” Cohen said. “Anywhere there’s a troubled soul on the Internet and a potential Twitter follower, that haystack extends. We’re looking for needles. But here’s the hard part: Increasingly, the needles are invisible to us.”
CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’ | This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group, its implications for the Middle East, and efforts by the U.S. government and others to undermine it.
Read more in the series:
In a propaganda war against ISIS, the U.S. tried to play by the enemy’s rules
From hip-hop to jihad, how the Islamic State became a magnet for converts
.The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein’s
‘Jihadi John’: Islamic State killer is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi
Fauzeya Rahman, a fellow at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, contributed to this report.
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Baylor Beats Notre Dame To Win NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
By Emma Bowman • Apr 8, 2019
Lauren Cox (#15) of the Baylor Bears shoots over Brianna Turner (#11) of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Amalie Arena Sunday night in Tampa, Fla.
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Baylor gave up a double-digit lead but hung on in the final minutes to win the NCAA women's title game against defending champs Notre Dame by a single point Sunday night in Tampa, Fla.
With the 82-81 victory, the Lady Bears clinched their third NCAA women's basketball championship — joining UConn and Tennessee as the only Division I programs with three or more titles. The last time Baylor clinched the title was in 2012 against the Fighting Irish.
Baylor kept a comfortable lead for the first half, before Notre Dame closed the gap to tie the game in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter.
With 3.9 seconds left, point guard Chloe Jackson drove past Notre Dame's defense to put Baylor ahead at 82-80. Then Notre Dame called a timeout and inbounded to tournament standout Arike Ogunbowale. The Irish had a chance to turn the game around when Ogunbowale was fouled going for a layup. But, lucky for the Lady Bears, Ogunbowale missed her first free throw in the remaining 1.9 seconds, leaving Baylor to hold on to the 1-point lead.
Baylor managed the final stretch without star forward Lauren Cox, who injured her knee in the third quarter. Cox, who hobbled to the sidelines on crutches to celebrate with her teammates after the final buzzer, told ESPN that she's unsure about the severity of her injury.
Cox, who contributed 8 points and 8 rebounds to Baylor's 62-50 lead before getting rolled off the court in a wheelchair, has remained a crucial player throughout Baylor's 37-1 season. Her early exit in the final raised the stakes for her teammates.
"We had to do it for LC," Chloe Jackson, referring to Cox, told reporters after the game. "She got us here. We had to finish the job for her."
The win brought Baylor coach Kim Mulkey to tears. "I'm emotional for a lot of reasons, but mostly for Lauren Cox, and I'm so happy," Mulkey said. "These are tears of joy, but they're also tears of thinking about injuries."
The NCAA reports its highest attendance in 15 years at the Women's Final Four and regional playoffs. That record fanfare was evidenced by the more than 20,000 fans that filled Tampa's Amalie Arena for the final game, as reporter Bradley George of member station WUSF reports.
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Attractions, Arts & Cultural Events Observe Wilmington’s African-American Heritage
Wilmington, NC - Wilmington is among the most historically significant African-American regions in the United States. African-American ancestry is traced back to the 1700’s, and although much important history left no visible landmark, several historical sites still exist, such as the Bellamy Mansion and Thalian Hall. In 2013, the City of Wilmington, in partnership with Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts, published an African American Heritage Guidethat includes these and other religious, educational, social and cultural sites. The guide’s 37 entries include the City’s 1898 Memorial, churches, cemeteries, and historical markers such as the U.S. Colored Troops highway marker at the Wilmington National Cemetery and Orange Street Landing at Cape Fear (a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site). Free copies of the 34-page Wilmington African American Heritage Guide is available online at www.wilmingtonnc.gov/home/showdocument?id=16. During the month of February, several events celebrate Black History Month. Other events that commemorate African-American heritage take place throughout the year.
Here’s a sampling of events during February, which is nationally designated as Black History Month:
FEBRUARY 1-16: “BREAKING THE BARRIERS” EXHIBIT. Cape Fear Community College and One Love Tennis will host a special exhibit on loan from the International Tennis Hall of Fame. “Breaking the Barriers” highlights the impact and achievements of African Americans in the sport of tennis. The exhibit features photos, news accounts and historical pieces that highlight trailblazers in the fight for racial equality in tennis, including Althea Gibson, who called Wilmington home and broke the color barrier by entering the U.S. National Championships in 1950. Free. CFCC Union Station Lobby, 502 N. Front Street, Wilmington. www.cfcc.edu
FEBRUARY 9: CAMILLE BROWN & DANCERS: MR. TOL E. RANCE. Inspired by Mel Watkins’ book, “On The Real Side: From Slavery to Chris Rock”, Spike Lee’s controversial movie, “Bamboozled”, and Dave Chappelle’s “dancing vs. shuffling” analogy, this evening-length dance theater work celebrates African-American humor, examines “the mask” of survival and the “double consciousness” (W.E.B. DuBois) of the black performer throughout history and the stereotypical roles dominating current popular Black culture. 7:30pm. Tickets required. UNCW Kenan Auditorium, 601 S. College Rd, Wilmington. 910-962-3500; http://uncw.edu/presents/camille_brown.html
FEBRUARY 15: “ALTHEA” FILM SCREENING. 6pm. “Althea” is a documentary about Althea Gibson, an African American with Wilmington ties who broke the color barrier by entering the U.S. National Championships in 1950. This special screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Lenny Simpson, Executive Director of One Love Tennis and a local Black tennis pioneer. Free admission. Union Auditorium (Room 170), CFCC’s Union Station, 502 N. Front Street, Wilmington. www.cfcc.edu
ONGOING: UPPERMAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER. Africana Lecture & Film Studies, Art Exhibits, Signature Programs, Special Events, etc. Throughout the month February and beyond, UNCW’s Upperman Center hosts film screenings, art exhibits, special events and collaborations to facilitate a wide variety of discussions on the black experience of the past and the current 21st Century. Most events are free to attend although some require tickets/pre-registration. Check website for detailed schedule. Upperman Center, Fisher Student Union, UNCW Campus, 601 S. College Rd, Wilmington. 910-962-2480; http://uncw.edu/upperman/events.html
ONGOING: BELLAMY MANSION MUSEUM OF HISTORY & DESIGN ARTS. Designed with Greek Revival and Italianate styling, this 22-room house was constructed with the labor of both enslaved skilled carpenters, and local, freed black artisans. On the northeast corner of the lot stands the original brick slave quarters, which has been recently restored and is among the most well-preserved urban slave quarters in the country. Admission charged. Bellamy Mansion, Wilmington. 910-251-3700; www.bellamymansion.org
ONGOING: CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY & SCIENCE. Reflections in Black & White features a selection of informal black and white photographs taken by black and white Wilmingtonians after World War II before the Civil Rights movement helped end legalized segregation. Visitors will have a chance to compare black and white experiences and reflect on what people’s lives were like in the region during the latter part of the Jim Crow era. Admission charged. Cape Fear Museum of History & Science, Wilmington. 910-798-4350; www.capefearmuseum.com
ONGOING: CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY & SCIENCE. Williston Auditorium. Education in Wilmington has a long, rich tradition, and the name “Williston” has been associated with schooling here since the 1860s. What began as an American Missionary Association school became — between 1923 and the day it closed its doors in 1968 — the only high school for African Americans in New Hanover County. The memory of Williston lives on through the work of a very active alumni association. Through the Williston High School Alumni Association’s generosity, the Museum’s auditorium is named to honor the school that so successfully served the African-American community. Admission charged. Cape Fear Museum of History & Science, Wilmington. 910-798-4350; www.capefearmuseum.com
COMING IN FALL 2017:
SEPTEMBER 2017: N.C. BLACK FILM FESTIVAL. Dates/venue TBA. Wilmington. www.blackartsalliance.org
NOVEMBER 2017: CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY & SCIENCE. CHANGING AMERICA. Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963 will help public audiences understand and discuss the relationship between two great peoples’ movements that resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation, and the March on Washington in 1963. One hundred years separate the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington, yet these two events are profoundly linked together in a larger story of liberty and the American experience. Both events were the results of people demanding justice. Both grew out of decades of bold actions, resistance, organization, and vision. Admission charged. Cape Fear Museum of History & Science, Wilmington. 910-798-4350; www.capefearmuseum.com
Wilmington, N.C.’s historic river district and the island beaches of Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, and Wrightsville Beach offers one destination with four unique settings. This year-round coastal destination is a convenient drive from Raleigh via I-40 and Charlotte via US 74. Prefer to fly? The Wilmington International Airport (ILM) offers daily flights to major airline hubs. For a complete event calendar, visit www.WilmingtonAndBeaches.com/events-calendar. Events often change without notice; please confirm details directly with event organizers. To request a free Official Visitors Guide call 1-866-266-9690 or email visit@wilmingtonandbeaches.com.
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Cable Television Service in Liberty, WV
Cable television uses both fiber optic and trunk cables that broadcast shows into your home via actual cables that carry the signals from your provider to your TV. Conversely, a satellite setup works with a satellite dish to broadcast the shows to your television using frequency instead of signals.
If you'd like to have cable television set up in your home, you'll start by using a special box that the company will attach to your residence using the necessary cables and outlets. Different companies often run pricing specials for new customers or for those who are bundling, but you'll still be responsible to pay a monthly bill for having their equipment for your service. Since it uses real wiring, cable television is far more stable, and your service is far less likely to get interrupted due to wind, rain or other inclement weather conditions. A satellite can be swayed by that type of weather, and that's why cable television in Liberty, WV, is more reliable. The wires and cables are firmly attached and not subject to the elements unlike satellite dishes that are exposed.
Installing cable television isn't too difficult, but it can take a fair amount of time to finish the job. The cable service provider you choose will have a technician come to your home to put in the necessary cables and give you the right boxes for service. Finishing the entire setup can take quite a while and that's where the high cost comes in. Often, you'll only get an estimate since the amount of time can vary, and that cost can cost a be as much as couple of hundred dollars especially if it takes the whole day to get everything installed. You'll find that when you schedule an appointment for installation, you'll be given a day of your choice and a time frame, and you'll have to be available during those hours in order to have the technician do the job.
Sometimes, you may be allowed to use a self-installation kit to set up your cable, and if you're able to do this, it can cut back on the costs. That's because you won't have to pay a for a technician to come from the company and do the work. You'll also save time since you can tackle the job whenever it fits your schedule. However, if your home is an area of Liberty, WV that doesn't have cable television access, cable TV may not be an option for you. This is usually only a problem in areas that are particularly rural or have a lot of mountains.
Providers of Satellite TV in Liberty, WV
As mentioned, the process a satellite TV company in Liberty, WV goes through to provide service involves encrypted data going from a satellite to the consumer's satellite dish. The provider starts this process by sending the data from their own broadcast center up to the satellite. The nice thing about satellite TV service is that it doesn't have cable's range restrictions. It doesn't matter nearly as much where a consumer is located, opening up satellite to a much larger number of consumers, including those who live in more remote locations that aren't eligible for cable service.
One point consumers should keep in mind if they're considering switching to satellite service is that the installation can cost more than it does with cable service, in large part because of the cost of satellite dishes in Liberty, WV. On the bright side, there are many providers that throw in the satellite dish and the installation free of charge. Consumers can find out what they'll need to pay for in the fine print of the contract. The main problem with satellite TV service is that the weather can affect it far more than the weather can affect cable TV service. If a satellite dish gets tipped over or damaged, that can cut off the consumer's TV service.
Many satellite plans also have either a DVR or even an HD DVR included in them, making it easy for consumers to record their favorite shows, set up parental restrictions, watch TV from any room in the home and purchase On Demand content, including shows and films. In fairness, cable companies sometimes throw in a free DVR with their service plans, as well. Although the equipment doesn't cost extra here, there is still a monthly fee for using it, which is usually at least $10 per month regardless of whether the consumer has cable or satellite service.
Liberty, WV Fiber Optic TV Providers
If you're business or home in Liberty, WV requires fast and reliable internet service, you might want to consider fiber optics. Fiber optic technology is the most cutting-edge service available. It works through the use of a fiber optic cable, and it's often referred to as Fiber to the home, or FTTH. Many people are still using cable or DSL for their Internet capabilities, and they are reliable as well. Fiber optic, however, delivers speed to help you through your busy day.
You can also expand your fiber optic service to include television and phone service as well as the Internet. It's an option offered to many cable subscribers.
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American Girl Doll, He-Man and Tickle Me Elmo throw down for Toy Hall of Fame honors
The public can vote for their favorite toy to be named among the three honored as inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year.
American Girl Doll, He-Man and Tickle Me Elmo throw down for Toy Hall of Fame honors The public can vote for their favorite toy to be named among the three honored as inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year. Check out this story on wisfarmer.com: https://usat.ly/2N7nQvf
Sonja Haller, USA TODAY Published 12:08 p.m. CT Sept. 13, 2018 | Updated 4:59 p.m. CT Sept. 13, 2018
He-Man has a serious fight on his hands from a giggly red holiday fad and an iconic line of dolls for the annual National Toy Hall of Fame competition.
He-Man is among the finalists along with American Girl Dolls, Tickle Me Elmo, the Magic 8 Ball and card game Uno.
American Girl has HUGE name recognition. She's the "It" girl of the moment. Then there are other finalists that punch the nostalgic button: pinball, Chutes & Ladders, chalk (yes, you read that correctly) and a sled that looks oh-so Normal Rockwell. Just look at it!
The sled, a wintertime staple, is up for induction into the Toy Hall of Fame. (Photo: National Toy Hall of Fame)
The point is that the muscle-bound Master of the Universe action figure has some worthy opponents. It's any toy's game this year.
The public can vote for their favorite toy
Anyone can nominate a toy for the 2018 Hall of Fame class. Twelve toys were chosen by a selection committee of industry, education and community experts. Three toys will be chosen to be inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame.
The public can cast their vote for a favorite toy through Sept. 19 as part of a "Player's Choice" ballot.
The three toys that receive the most public votes will be considered by the selection committee with the public collectively acting as one member of the committee.
The annual induction ceremony is Nov. 8.
A closer look at the finalists
To win, a toy must best meet the criteria of icon-status, longevity, discovery and innovation.
American Girl Dolls
Created in 1986, the 18-inch American Girl dolls explore America’s social and cultural history. Each doll comes with a narrative that fits her era. Molly McIntire, for example, is waiting for her father to return home from World War II. The My American Girl line, released in 1995, features dolls designed to look like their owners.
Historians believe that chalk was important in the lives of the earliest people. Plus, what parent didn't send their kid out to make some chalk art on a summer day? It's also great for an impromptu game of hopscotch.
Chutes and Ladders is based on an ancient Indian game called snakes and ladders. Milton Bradley introduced audiences to the much friendlier sounding game in 1943.
Fisher-Price Corn Popper
The Fisher-Price Corn Popper is known for its distinct sound and its bright, flying balls. (Photo: National Toy Hall of Fame)
Fisher-Price introduced the pushing device with the distinct sound called the Corn Popper in 1957.
The Magic 8 Ball delivers such fortunes as "ask again later" and "signs point to yes" when shaken. The cue ball was introduced in 1946 and reads out 20 answers.
Masters of the Universe Toys, including He-Man
He-Man and other Master of the Universe action figures have been battling since the '80s and have been featured on everything from toothbrushes to sleeping bags.
This arcade game with flippers and steel balls may have been edged out by home gaming systems, but you can still find them in amusement parks, restaurants, family fun centers and fairs.
This good ol' fashioned family fun device became mass produced in the 1800s. The "Flexible Flyer" appeared in the early 1900s and remains a wintertime staple.
This simple game of X's and O's became one of the first video games when it was programmed into a computer in 1952. It remains an enduring take-anywhere game because it's easily scratched out on paper with any writing utensil.
Tickle Me Elmo
Tickle Me Elmo became a worldwide phenomenon during the 1996 holidays. Everyone just HAD to have it. Elmo moved and giggled when poked and tickled.
Tudor Electric Football
Tudor Electric Football is among the National Toy Hall of Fame's 12 finalists. (Photo: National Toy Hall of Fame)
In this game, tiny plastic players vibrate across a motorized football field. People love it so much that this game is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
Easy to learn, quick to play. Simply try to get rid of all the cards in your hand. The game was created in 1971.
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CANADIAN TIRE’S MAUREEN SABIA DELIVERS CEO-IN-RESIDENCE ADDRESS AT LAURIER
Maureen Sabia, Chair of the Board at Canadian Tire, spoke to more than 100 students and faculty members at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics Oct. 28 as part of the Lazaridis School’s CEO-in-Residence series. Sabia urged the students to become leaders in their professions by valuing their integrity above all else, noting, "You won't succeed unless you're trusted – remember, you need to get your calls answered."
Recalling an hour spent with one of her personal heroes, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sabia told the crowd she admired Thatcher's strength and determination despite tremendous adversity.
"Doing what is right is the essence of leadership – and it takes courage," said Sabia.
She urged her audience to develop a clear vision of their success and a single-minded focus on realizing that vision. Calling discipline her "comfort zone," Sabia warned the students that becoming successful is tough, that "it is the reward of struggle," and that "there is no such thing as a balanced life unless mediocrity is your goal."
Dean of the Lazaridis School, Micheál Kelly, who introduced Sabia, noted her long list of honours, including an Order of Canada, two honorary doctorates – one of which was from Laurier – and making the Women’s Executive Network’s list of Canada's most powerful women in 2009.
Sabia urged the women in the audience to reject the idea of gender equity quotas, saying that she didn't need "that kind of help" even though she was one of only three women in a class of 300 while earning her law degree at the University of Toronto. She suggested that, as graduates, the students should develop a "yes, I can" mantra and take responsibility for their own success.
Sabia concluded her talk by urging the students to be curious, disciplined and to invest in their networks. She noted the importance of developing a style and a presence, as well as a reputation for personal accountability. Finally, she told the audience not to make hard and fast plans for the future, but to remain open to unexpected opportunities and risks that might come their way.
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LAURIER GRAD LAUNCHES BOOK OF INTERVIEWS WITH INTRIGUING CANADIANS
Cody Groat’s time at Wilfrid Laurier University represents more than just a chapter in his life. The result of his undergraduate years is, quite literally, an entire book.
Groat released his non-fiction work, Canadian Stories, in July. He will host a book signing on Laurier's Brantford campus at the Sanderson Centre Sept. 15 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
“When I was 18 years old and starting out at Laurier Brantford, I heard about a man by the name of John Turmel,” said Groat. “Turmel holds a world record for losing the most elections ever. I was shocked to discover that he lived only three blocks from our campus. I knew I had to meet him.”
Groat did meet Turmel, interviewing him under the premise of an online column he said he planned to start on famous Canadians. It was a fateful event, sending Groat’s natural curiosity levels from piqued to insatiable. “The passion I found from interviewing John soon overwhelmed me,” Groat said. “I spent hours a night researching who I could interview next.”
Flash forward a few months, and Groat was sitting down for coffee with former Prime Minister Paul Martin. He continued to reach out to Canadians whose life stories intrigued him, and eventually found himself Skyping with former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, talking over tea with Academy Award-winning director Norman Jewison, and abandoning his basket at the grocery store to accept a call on his cellphone from comedy legend Dan Aykroyd.
“I realized I didn't just want to write a word-for-word transcription, or the life story of the people I was meeting with,” Groat said. “I decided that I wanted each interview to be the story of my adventure, almost like this was a novel with me as the main character, each chapter focusing on a different adventure.”
The best of those adventures are now compiled between book covers under the title, Canadian Stories. Over 30 famous Canadians are featured in the self-published work, including the late Farley Mowat, Cardinal Thomas Collins, CBC icon Peter Mansbridge, and Michael Stark and Michael Leshner, Canada’s first legally married same-sex couple. The book’s introduction features John Turmel, the interview subject who started it all.
Cody launched the book in his hometown of Ingersoll, Ontario. He pledges that 40 per cent of profits from book sales will go to registered Canadian charities as a way of thanking interviewees for their time.
While this book is complete, the story is far from over. Groat will be leaving for England in the fall where he will be pursuing his Masters of Arts degree in World Heritage Studies at the University of Birmingham. “I’ve already been making calls,” he said, smiling, revealing that interviews are being booked, and a UK-based book is already in the works.
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Home News ATXI receives final approval to construct the Mark Twain Transmission Project in...
ATXI receives final approval to construct the Mark Twain Transmission Project in northeast Missouri
Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois (ATXI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE), received approval from the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) to proceed with the construction of the Mark Twain Transmission Project, a 100-mile, 345,000-volt transmission line and substation to be built in northeast Missouri.
The PSC granted ATXI a certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN) for the project, which will run from Palmyra to Kirksville in Missouri and north to the Iowa border, completing a critical link in the region’s energy infrastructure.
“Approval of the Mark Twain Transmission Project is a significant step toward strengthening our region’s energy grid and delivering customer benefits,” said Shawn E. Schukar, chairman and president of ATXI. “This project will deliver greater energy reliability, economic growth and improved access to clean energy sources for Missouri and its residents.”
The route will run through Adair, Knox, Lewis, Marion and Schuyler counties in Missouri and will include construction of the Zachary Substation adjacent to the existing Adair Substation in Adair County. Nearly 100 percent of the transmission line will be co-located on existing rights of way. Specifically, the route will co-locate on existing right of way on Northeast Missouri Electric Power Cooperative’s (Northeast Power) 161,000-volt line between Palmyra and Kirksville and Ameren Missouri’s 161,000-volt line from Kirksville to the Iowa border.
ATXI expects to invest $250 million in the Mark Twain Transmission Project. Construction of the project is planned to begin in April 2018 with a targeted in-service date of December 2019.
“We look forward to continuing our work with Northeast Power, landowners, community members, county commissioners and various local and state agencies as this necessary project moves forward,” said Schukar.
About Ameren Corporation
St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation powers the quality of life for 2.4 million electric customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a 64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois rate-regulated utility subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois provides electric distribution and transmission service, as well as natural gas distribution service, while Ameren Missouri provides vertically integrated electric service, with generating capacity of over 10,200 megawatts, and natural gas distribution service. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois (ATXI) is a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation and develops regional electric transmission projects.
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REPORTS: Ben Cousins tried to sell Brownlow Medal
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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 19: Ben Cousins of the Eagles poses with the 2005 Brownlow Medal after being announced as the winner during the West Coast Eagles Brownlow Medal Dinner at the Burswood Casino September 19, 2005 in Perth, Australia.(Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
Former West Coast star Ben Cousins tried to sell his 2005 Brownlow Medal to pay for his ice addiction, according to a report by the Herald Sun.
Friends have told the Herald Sun that Cousins tried to retrieve his medal, but his father, Bryan, refused to give it to him.
“He tried to sell his Brownlow … but he doesn’t even have it. His dad has the Brownlow in safekeeping,” a friend told the Herald Sun.
“He said he needed it to guarantee a bank loan, but why would he need a bank loan? He doesn’t have any property, he doesn’t have a business.”
The troubled former Eagle was arrested on Tuesday with possession of 13 grams of meth after reportedly threatening to bury Maylea Tinecheff, the mother of his children, while holding a screwdriver.
The 40-year year old faced court yesterday after being charged with possession of a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply, along with other offences and was taken into custody. He was later denied bail after his application was rejected.
Cousins was released from prison in January this year and as per his parole conditions had been working at West Coast in a part-time role.
“The little green man came just two days after he finished his parole,” a friend told the Herald Sun.
“He rang me a couple of weeks ago and he couldn’t even speak English.”
The friend added that Cousins was out of control while high and was failing his role as a father.
“He’s a nightmare. I feel sorry for his kids,” he said.
Other claims have been made that Cousins had sent threatening messages to other AFL stars seeking the return of his memorabilia.
While on parole, friends became so concerned about Cousins that they feared a call from the police saying he was dead.
“He was living with his parents but just disappearing for days on end,” a friend told the Herald Sun.
“Going back to jail for over a year would be the best place for him. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but it might happen.
“It’s been a decade of this.
“We agreed and we’ve decided to give him some tough love in the last few months,” the friend said.
“There’s two ways a drug addict can respond: they can get their life together or they can keep pissing in everyone’s faces who are trying to help them … We all know how this is going to end up.”
Bryan Cousins declined to speak to the Herald Sun on Wednesday.
“I can’t talk right now,” he said.
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REPORTS: Magpie facing the exit door, linked to Carlton
Alex Fasolo could join the Blues next season.
Danielle Ries
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA - MAY 01: Alex Fasolo of the Magpies looks to pass the ball during the round six AFL match between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Magpies at Domain Stadium on May 1, 2016 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Will Russell/AFL Media/Getty Images)
Out-of-contract Magpie Alex Fasolo could leave the Holden Centre at the end of the season, according to SEN Time On host Sam McClure.
The 26-year old forward has previously been linked to a return to Western Australia, and is now in talks with Carlton to join the club as an unrestricted free agent.
It has been reported that the Blues are discussing a three-year deal with Fasolo’s management, but these rumours have yet to be confirmed by both clubs as of yet.
Fasolo has only managed one game in the AFL in the 2018 season for the Magpies due to injuries and a form slump, which sees him featuring in Collingwood’s VFL team.
McClure told SEN’s Time On Fasolo is the player most likely to be departing from Collingwood.
“I get the sense that there may be another player, Heath Scotland, Daisy Thomas, going from Collingwood to Carlton, and it’s Alex Fasolo who I am referring to,” McClure said.
“He has only played one game this year, he has been injured with an ankle and shoulder, he has struggled for form as well, currently playing in the VFL.
“The 26-year-old, as I understand it, his management is in discussions with Carlton and although both parties will say it’s very early, I get the strong impression that Alex Fasolo will be joining Carlton on a three-year deal, if and when it happens.”
If the move was to happen, it wouldn’t cost Carlton anything at all via trade due to Fasolo being a free agent, but Collingwood would receive a compensation pick.
McClure explained Carlton are not the only ones monitoring the Fasolo situation.
“It would get compensation to Collingwood, if it’s a three-year deal at around average wage which what is being discussed in the early stages of negotiations, that would be about a third-round draft pick as compensation,” McClure said.
“He is a West Australian boy Alex Fasolo, and there is the situation at the moment where both Fremantle and West Coast are watching this situation closely.”
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Youxi Story
News about the video game industry and community in China.
The State of Chinese Game Translations for/by the West
In May, Games.QQ put out a list of classic video games produced in China, which included the Legend of Sword and Fairy (aka: Chinese Paladin) by Softstar Entertainment. First released in 1995, it became one of the most successful video game franchises in Taiwan and mainland China, even becoming a television series in 2005. Despite its domestic success, it has yet to see Western shores. A small group of foreigners are seeking to change this, however, according to an article by the South China Morning Post.
The article profiles some important figures in the fan-translation scene of Chinese video games, including Derrick Sobodash, who began doing amateur translation and coding as a hobby in 1996. He worked on translations for the game Legend of Sword and Fairy with two friends, and Heroine Anthem (2002) by himself. In 2006 he moved to China and began a full-time teaching job, limiting his ability to continue with his hobby. He decided to release his tools to the public, allowing other enthusiasts to pick up where he left off.
Though Sobodash worked independently (at best, with a few friends), Brandon Cobb worked with Taiwanese software company C&E to legally produce and distribute fully playable translations of their games. Cobb is president of Super Fighter Team, a start-up that was given the rights to a number of out-of-print titles by C&E (now no longer in the software business). SCMP writes, “The translations were sold for money and released in physical packaging in an effort to appeal to retro gaming enthusiasts – a rare occurrence in the fan translation world, but one made possible by the blessing of C&E.” Some of their re-released and fully translated games include Beggar Prince (1996), Sango Fighter (1993), Sango Fighter 2 (1995), and Super Fighter (1993).
Cobb was lucky in being able to contact the company that owned the games, acquiring the rights to those games and having a company to translate and re-release them. For Sobodash, “Because the patches are distributed for free online and require users to technically own a copy of the game first, Chinese companies are unaffected and usually unaware that the translations even exist.” In an interview with Hardcore Gaming 101, Sobodash also explained some limiting factors in the translation and dissemination of Chinese games, including the monopoly that Japan has on Western interest and attention:
I’ve encouraged not only Korean and Chinese translations, but any language other than Japanese. The groups Lakuuna and Revolve started some Korean-language projects, but today they are mostly dead. The obsession with Japan is [one of the] most dangerous limiting factors for the scene. It cuts off thousands of games from becoming potential projects…
Japan is the motherland of video games – but only when you disregard everything except console games. There is a lot of material out there in other languages; people on the internet speak these languages. The solution should be the translation scene. Even if you stay within Japanese, there are hundreds of games on dozens of systems still ignored by hackers as the emulators for those systems lack a debugger as convenient as ZSNES’s. This is a way for the scene to branch out and reach more people. If new ideas and new members stop entering a scene, it’s dead.
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PatientsLikeMe Lands $8M
PatientsLikeMe, a Cambridge, MA-based firm that provides social networking sites for people with specific illnesses, has raised $8 million of a planned $30 million round of equity financing, according to an SEC filing. Ben Heywood, the president and co-founder of the firm, said that his company doesn’t comment on financings. The company’s previous investors include CommerceNet of Silicon Valley, the private equity firm Invus, the Omidyar Network, which is the Redwood City, CA, philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, based in the Boston area. PatientsLikeMe was founded in 2004.
Goldman Funnels $51M Into Cloud Tech Company That Fights Fake Drugs
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USA women's soccer team prepares for parade, accepts Congress invite
"I believe first hand, it is wrong for the U.S. Soccer women to be paid and valued less for their work because of gender", Izzy-Brown wrote.
Within moments of the final whistle on Sunday, a spokesperson for the USA women's players association released a statement contending the 2-0 win and all that went with it was further proof that the men's and women's national teams should be paid equally. Following the team's triumph at the 2019 Women's World Cup with a 2-0 win over the Netherlands on Sunday, the USWNT players will be honored in a parade up the Canyon of Heroes.
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The bill would pull federal funding from the 2026 men's World Cup that is used to support host cities and the sport's governing bodies involved in the tournament. The soccer federation and the plaintiffs last month tentatively agreed to mediation, which is expected to begin now that the World Cup is over. The legislation comes days at the women's team latest World Cup victory - which fired up their long-running fight for equal pay.
"The inequality of pay is unjust and this wage gap with the U.S. men's national team has to stop". The women's games have also garnered higher ratings and more revenue in recent years. Forbes estimates that the 2018 men's World Cup in Russian Federation brought in $6 billion in revenue compared to an expected total of $131 million for this year's tournament in France. That support includes money for host cities, participating state or local agencies, the U.S. Soccer Federation, Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), and Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). However, that would still be far less than the $440 million allotted for male players in the 2022 World Cup.
It's estimated that over 1 billion people watched the women's team win it's fourth World Cup. That process was set to unfold after the World Cup ended, with both sides said to be interested in arriving at a resolution without facing off in a courtroom. "It's plain wrong, and it's time to #PayTheWomen". They've won zero World Cup titles.
After the final, the crowd at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon chanted "equal pay" during the post-match celebration.
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Japan Concerned Over Iran's Uranium Enrichment
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Ashleigh Barty makes shock exit at Wimbledon
Djokovic was also able to breeze into the next round without much trouble, knocking out Humbert in straight sets. "Okay. I actually thought I did quite well in trying to stay with her and trying to close it out in that 5-2 game.
Pederson eliminated Alex Bregman , 21-16, and moved on to the semifinals . "It means so much", Alonso said on ESPN. Pederson hit 8 more homers in the tiebreaker, initiating a swing off to see who advanced to the final round.
Serena Williams says therapy helped her get past US Open controversy
Williams was down a break twice in the opening set but came back both times and broke again in the final game. I turn over, exhausted from lack of sleep, thoughts still spinning in my head.
Apple cuts MacBook Air price by $100, gives MacBook Pro chip upgrade
A series of reports mentioned the 16-inch MacBook Pro in the past few weeks, without revealing any details about the device. Meanwhile, students can get a $100 discount on MacBook Air, meaning the base model starts at $1,000.
Virgin Galactic seeks space tourism boost with market launch
It'll fund the business as it races Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX to operate commercially and make a profit. A spacecraft was launched by Virgin Galactic , successfully flown into suborbital space and back to Earth in December 2018.
In the meantime, the spotlight will be firmly aimed at Hollywood when the NBA's 2019-2020 season tips off on October 22. Kawhi Leonard took nearly a week to make his shocking decision to join LA's other team, the Los Angeles Clippers .
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betsy Mon, 05/05/2008 - 10:05pm
The Last Roundup By Christopher Ketcham
DeFazio
Frank Church
NSPD 51
Oliver North
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19871.htm
The Last Roundup
For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. Is it also compiling a secret enemies list of citizens who could face detention under martial law?
By Christopher Ketcham
05/05/08 "Radar Magazine" -- - 28/04/08 --- -In the spring of 2007, a retired senior official in the U.S. Justice Department sat before Congress and told a story so odd and ominous, it could have sprung from the pages of a pulp political thriller. It was about a principled bureaucrat struggling to protect his country from a highly classified program with sinister implications. Rife with high drama, it included a car chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., and a tense meeting at the White House, where the president's henchmen made the bureaucrat so nervous that he demanded a neutral witness be present.
betsy's blog
Mukasey: It wasn't Afghanistan
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has admitted that he garbled his claim about the pre-9/11 intercept of a call between an al-Qaeda facility overseas and the 9/11 hijackers in the US last week. Today he told the Senate:
"One thing I got wrong. It didn’t come from Afghanistan. I got the country wrong."
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2...340778#comments
I have been all over this and I know the other end of the call was in Yemen. Here is the timeline we compiled:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&projects_and_programs=complete_911_timeline...
This is a huge issue for us. If people knew that the NSA was intercepting calls between the 9/11 hijackers in the US and a phone registered to a guy (Ahmed al-Hada) who had previously helped bin Laden murder about 240 people (including 29 Americans), but didn't bother to trace the calls, what would they think about 9/11?
The 9/11 Commission knew about this, but included only two cryptic references to it in its report. This reflects very badly on the 9/11 Commission.
loose nuke Mon, 03/31/2008 - 2:09pm
Attorney General Mukasey lies about 9/11 and international spying
Michael Ruppert
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3117.shtml
By Larry Chin
Online Journal Associate Editor
In a recent speech at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, Attorney General Michael Mukasey defended the Bush-Cheney administration’s illegal domestic spying agenda by proclaiming that the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented if the government had been able to monitor overseas phone calls to the United States.
Like every other member of the Bush-Cheney administration, Mukasey is lying. Lying about the fact that the “war on terrorism” is a fabrication. Lying about the pervasive worldwide eavesdropping capabilities of US intelligence agencies. Lying about the fact that 9/11 was a long-planned Anglo-American false flag covert operation.
According to Mukasey’s spin on the now-classic 9/11 fiction, Bush-Cheney “knew there had been a call from some place that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn’t know precisely where it went. We’ve got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn’t come home, to show for that.”
Kevin Fenton Sat, 03/29/2008 - 2:36pm
Attorney General Lies about Yemen Hub
Ahmed al-Hada
Attorney General Michael Mukasey is the latest government official to lie about the Yemen hub calls, which he used as a justification for the NSA's warrantless wiretapping programme. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went. You've got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn't come home, to show for that."
9/11 Timeline Obtains Major New FBI Document
Ahmed Alghamdi
Mohamed Atta
Nawaf Alhazmi
“A contributor to the History Commons has obtained a 298-page document entitled Hijackers Timeline (Redacted) from the FBI, subsequent to a Freedom of Information Act request. The document was a major source of information for the 9/11 Commission's final report. Though the commission cited the timeline 52 times in its report, it failed to include some of the document's most important material.
The printed document is dated November 14, 2003, but appears to have been compiled in mid-October 2001 (the most recent date mentioned in it is October 22, 2001), when the FBI was just starting to understand the backgrounds of the hijackers, and it contains almost no information from the CIA, NSA, or other agencies. This raises questions as to why the 9/11 Commission relied so heavily on such an early draft for their information about the hijackers.”
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/fbi911timeline
(Local mirror of zip file: 7.8 MB)
Summary of what the FBI document reveals:
Yemen Hub - Sumamry of 9/11 Timeline Chapter
Dina Corsi
I wrote a summary of the Yemen Hub chapter in the 9/11 Timeline. It is about the NSA listening to the hijackers' calls and how their explanation for why they didn't catch the hijackers based on the intercepts doesn't make any sense.
It begins:
Yemen Hub: NSA was listening in on the 9/11 hijackers’ calls for years
And how this became the rationale for the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program
The “Yemen hub” was an al-Qaeda communications hub that fell under US surveillance in the mid-late 1990s and was also home to Khalid Almihdhar, said to have been on the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9/11. There are still many unanswered questions about the surveillance, such as why were the NSA and its fellow agencies unable to roll up the plot based on the intercepts? And how did it come to be used as the justification for the NSA’s current domestic warrantless program?
http://www.iraqtimeline.com/blog/
Mekt_Ranzz Fri, 01/25/2008 - 12:59am
In Senate, a White House Victory on Eavesdropping
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/washington/25nsa.html?ref=us
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency’s wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers defeated a more restrictive plan by Senate Democrats that would have imposed more court oversight on government spying.
Mekt_Ranzz's blog
simuvac Fri, 10/12/2007 - 12:56pm
NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims
By Ryan Singel October 11, 2007 | 6:20:59 PM
Did the NSA's massive call records database program pre-date the terrorist attacks of 9/11?
That startling allegation is in court documents released this week which show that former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio -- the head of the only company known to have turned down the NSA's requests for Americans' phone records -- tried, unsuccessfully, to argue just that in his defense against insider trading charges.
Nacchio was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2007 after being found guilty of illegally selling shares based on insider information that the company's fortunes were declining. Nacchio unsuccessfully attempted to defend himself by arguing that he actually expected Qwest's 2001 earnings to be higher because of secret NSA contracts, which, he contends, were denied by the NSA after he declined in a February 27, 2001 meeting to give the NSA customer calling records, court documents released this week show.
Kevin Fenton Sat, 09/01/2007 - 12:30pm
Where is the NSA report on 9/11?
The FBI performed so bad before 9/11 that it took four and a half years to get an unredacted version of the DOJ inspector general's report. The CIA performed so bad before 9/11 that it took nearly six years to get a redacted summary of its inspector general's report. The NSA performed so bad before 9/11 that it has not even admitted its inspector general wrote a report.
Given that the NSA was tapping the hijackers' phones, it surely has a couple of issues to address and explain to the public (for example: why did you let them do it?), but it has not done so as far as I can see. I have never heard of any NSA inspector general report and, when I had a look just now, I couldn't find anything. The NSA admits at its website that it has an inspector general and he is reputed to have begun work on at least one report (into warrantless wiretapping), so presumably he would write a report into the agency's failings before 9/11. However, I can't find a single trace of it. Can anybody help me out here? Is there at least a mention somewhere, anywhere of the NSA inspector general writing a report on the agency's performance before 9/11?
aayers Tue, 08/21/2007 - 10:07pm
Why the Concern About Terror Drills
Operation Noble Resolve
Operation TOPOFF
It doesn't appear to me we, in Portland,are in the clear from a false flag attack until after Operation TOPOFF, in October. The information compiled suggests an agenda for a false flag nuclear attack in Portland actually exists. (1) Thanks to Captain May, the Oregon Truth Alliance and others, there has been publicity about a false flag attack in Portland during the drills. That publicity may have saved the city. We can use the evidence we have to influence the people of Portland to be motivated to help with 9/11 Truth.
The Cheneyites created an agenda to blow up our beautiful city and massacre the people. That should make people angry enough to do something, like the draft did during the Vietnam War.
aayers's blog
u2r2h Sat, 08/04/2007 - 6:29am
Spying on US population to be limitless
evesdropping
phone tapping
Senate Votes for Warrantless Surveillance
Bush threatened Senator to prevent their vacation.
16 democrats and one independent (former democrat Lieberman) voted with the republicans.
"We're at war. The enemy wants to attack us," Lieberman said during the Senate debate. "This is not the time to strive for legislative perfection."
The Bush White House tabled its demands thus:
What Is Not Acceptable
Some have proposed that the Government must obtain pre-approval from a court before it conducts critical surveillance of targets located overseas. This is unacceptable. The Government must be able to act immediately, particularly in the case of national security emergencies, to protect the Nation.
Some have suggested that FISA must be reformed, but only to permit collection against certain overseas threats like al Qaeda terrorists. This is unacceptable. There are many threats that confront our Nation, including military, weapons proliferation, and economic, and we must be able to conduct foreign intelligence effectively on all of them.
u2r2h's blog
simuvac Tue, 03/06/2007 - 5:35pm
AT&T Whistleblower An Example of What 9/11 Truth Needs (And What Stands in Our Way)
Mark Klein
The story of AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein is a prime example of what 9/11 Truth needs, and what stands in our way. This is from ABC's The Blotter:
Whistle-blower AT&T technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged government surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only by U.S. intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles Times.
In his first broadcast interview, which can be seen tonight on World News and Nightline, Klein describes how he stumbled across "secret NSA rooms" being installed at an AT&T switching center in San Francisco and later heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle.
"You needed an ordinary key and the code to punch into a key pad on the door, and the only person who had both of those things was the one guy cleared by the NSA," Klein says of the "secret room" at the AT&T center in San Francisco.
The NSA is the National Security Agency, the country's most secretive intelligence agency, charged with intercepting communications overseas.
Shrapnel Wed, 02/28/2007 - 11:47pm
What happens if we win?
Government Apologists
Media Complicity
“We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions--by abandoning every value except the will to power--they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.”
— George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001
So who is participating in the 911 cover-up.
The entire mainstream media. Literally hundreds of TV stations, and newspapers, weekly news magazines, the wire services, and a few hundred radio stations, not only in the USA, but in Britain, Australia, and much of Western Europe. These people are either totally unreliable, too stupid to see what is right in front of them, or too scared to do their jobs properly. Would you ever again trust any reporter who decided to support the official government conspiracy, even though he/she knew it was a cavalcade of lies, because that person was afraid of losing their income?
Shrapnel's blog
GeorgeWashington Thu, 02/15/2007 - 2:40pm
Cheney Upset That NSA Intercept Made Public
The National Journal has a story in today's paper that shows how upset Cheney was that the September 10th NSA intercepts were made public. It also shows that the administration was looking for any possible excuse to shut down the inquiries into 9/11.
Early on the morning of June 20, 2002, then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Fla., received a telephone call at home from a highly agitated Dick Cheney. Graham, who was in the middle of shaving, held a razor in one hand as he took the phone in the other.
The vice president got right to the point: A story in his morning newspaper reported that telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, apparently warned that Al Qaeda was about to launch a major attack against the United States, possibly the next day. But the intercepts were not translated until September 12, 2001, the story said, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Because someone had leaked the highly classified information from the NSA intercepts, Cheney warned Graham, the Bush administration was considering ending all cooperation with the joint inquiry by the Senate and House Intelligence committees on the government's failure to predict and prevent the September 11 attacks. Classified records would no longer be turned over to the Hill, the vice president threatened, and administration witnesses would not be available for interviews or testimony.
Somebigguy Sun, 11/19/2006 - 12:14pm
Activists Challenge NSA Surveillance
http://hosted.ap.org/
Nov 18, 4:20 AM EST
Activists to Question NSA Surveillance
By BEN NUCKOLS
Associated Press Writer
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Thirteen anti-war activists cited in July for protesting outside the National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade plan to use their trial to question the agency's monitoring of nonviolent groups.
The activists are charged with entering a military installation for illegal purposes, which carries a maximum six-month sentence and a $5,000 fine.
Six were arraigned Friday at U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The other seven were granted waivers that excuse them from appearing in court until their trial, which is scheduled for Feb. 9, said Max Obuszewski, one of the activists who was arraigned.
"We're going to try to turn this into a political trial," Obuszewski said.
Internal NSA e-mails posted on the Internet in January revealed the agency used local law enforcement to monitor a previous protest by the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, to which Obuszewski belongs. The e-mails appeared to show that the protesters were closely watched as they assembled in Baltimore and traveled to the agency's headquarters for a previous protest in 2004.
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Best TV of the Decade
It's that time again. Time for lists and more lists. Best books. Best movies. Best comics. Everyone's got a list. I used to rant against lists. (It seems that Entertainment Weekly's got a "best of something" issue every few months.) But blogs are a great place for lists. Plus it is December and the last year of the so-called "aughts" . . . . So, in the best spirit of "if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em," here's my first list for the month:
Best TV of the Decade:
(Note: This is not a top-ten list. Why limit--or force--myself to ten entries?)
1) The Wire. Hands-down, the best show of the decade. (Any list that doesn't have The Wire in the top two or three slots is worthless. (So there, Hollywood Reporter!)) The Wire is the most accomplished and satisfying show I've ever seen. Yes, I love Twin Peaks (which I still consider the most daring, innovative and mesmerizing show of all time) and although The Wire never challenged me like Twin Peaks--wow!--did it ever engross me! Over five seasons, The Wire told a Dickensian story of drug-dealers, junkies, cops and politicians in Baltimore, Maryland. It managed all at once to be tragic and hilarious, thrilling and thought-provoking. The acting, directing and writing were pitch-perfect. And the characters! Oh man, the characters. Who can forget Omar and Bunk and McNulty and Stringer Bell and Bubbles and Freamon and Ziggy, etc. etc? No character was a stereotype. There were no heroes or villains, just realistic people trying to survive in a desperate environment. The Wire, with its intricate, finely-tuned plots remains the best example yet of what can be accomplished in the medium of television.
2) The Office (British version). The first series to skewer the "genre" of reality TV and lampoon the kind of people who seek an easy road to "fame;" the 12 episodes (and two-hour finale) of The Office told a complete and satisfying story of what happens when ordinary people are put on extraordinary display. The star of the show (and "the show") was the smarmy, self-centered, fame-seeking, David Brent, played to heartbreaking and hilarious perfection by Ricky Gervais. Brent thought he deserved to be on TV, thought fame would solve all his problems. But his bid for fame turned out to be sad and delusional (not unlike what has happened with many recent reality "stars" and wanna-be's). Like The Wire, The Office took full advantage of television's strengths, not so much with extended narrative (as in The Wire) but with the medium of television, itself. The "idea" of the documentary--the presence of the cameras in the workplace--was as much a part of the story as the characters. The Office was innovative and refreshing, and it paved the way for so much of what is on TV today.
3) The Sopranos. There is much to like in The Sopranos, but what really strikes me is how series creator, David Chase, developed such complex and flawed characters. The stories on The Sopranos delivered thrills and intrigue, certainly, but it was the characters who, for me, provided lasting entertainment. Chase found ways of making their psychological states--their internal conflicts, rationalizations, and avoidance--the stuff of high drama. He was also lucky (and savvy) to cast James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. Together, Chase and Gandolfini shaped the most fully-realized TV character of all time. To be sure, there were other brilliant performances and memorable characters on The Sopranos, but Tony will always stand out among them. (Oh, and let's not forget that brilliant series ending. It goes on and on and on )
4) Mad Men. Intricate plotting (like The Wire) coupled with complex characters (like The Sopranos) easily makes Mad Men one of the best shows of the decade. And the series may have many more seasons to go; I don't doubt Mad Men will appear on many "Best TV " lists for the next decade. Mad Men has brilliantly explored the idea of different "identities" found in every person (the work persona, the home-life persona, the persona you only reveal to yourself). These identities compete for control in the show's main character, Don Draper (aka Dick Whitman) but are also evident in the show's other wonderful characters, particularly Peggy Olson and Pete Campbell. Mad Men is also about the sharp cultural shifts happening in the United States in the early sixties and while sometimes the show is too obvious in the way it highlights the differences between "now" and "then," it does provide a valuable look at unique moment in time: that still-point between the conformist, propagandized Fifties, and the radical, authority-defying Sixties. With season three, that still point has passed. The series has clearly reached a turning point and all signs indicate that it will redefine itself. What will Mad Men of 1964 look like? I can't wait to see.
5) LOST. Finally, network TV gets it right! A long, complicated, mind-bending mystery! From the beginning, LOST was about questions ("Guys, where are we?"). Could a show with such a strange premise and huge cast possibly keep its secrets and keep viewers satisfied? The X-Files tried and failed. So did Alias and Heroes. Somehow, though, LOST managed that most difficult of balancing acts: it simultaneously delivered satisfying answers while withholding complete narrative closure. Over LOST's five seasons, layers of mystery have been stripped away to reveal glimpses of a grander structure. There is a sense that the characters (and the audience) are getting closer to the truth. In fact, the greatest pleasure of LOST is piecing together clues from episode-to-episode and sensing the bigger picture come into view. Still, we have yet to see the whole picture and there is a chance that everything could fall apart. There's a lot at stake in the upcoming final season of LOST. Big revelations are due, but can they possibly meet viewer expectations? I think the creators of LOST know what they're doing (a rarity for ongoing network serials) so I'm expecting surprising and satisfying answers. I've got my fingers crossed, anyway.
OK, that's five shows. There are many other great series from the past ten years and I'd like to discuss them all, but time and other obligations prevent me. Still, I'd be remiss if I didn't at least mention these other noteworthy series from the 2000's. They are:
The West Wing, Deadwood, Big Love, the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica (the last few seasons of Galactica make it one of the worst shows of the decade so let's just pretend they never happened!), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and The Office (US version).
Of course, there are many series I've failed to see. Shows like Arrested Development, The Shield and House have consistently garnered great reviews. Their absence here says nothing about their quality.
Bonus! Best Single Episodes of the Decade (in no particular order):
* "Blink;" Doctor Who
* "The Body;" Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* "17 People;" The West Wing
* "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers;" South Park
* "Out of Gas;" Firefly
* "Training;" The Office (UK)
* "The Constant;" LOST
* "Pilot, Parts 1 & 2;" LOST
* "Here Was a Man;" Deadwood
* "33;" Battlestar Galactica
* "You Can't Go Home Again;" Battlestar Galactica
* "Hush;" Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Technically, this aired in December of 1999, but I can't let such a great episode be overlooked.)
That's it for now. More lists to come!
Posted by John at 6:26 PM
Afraid I haven’t seen anything on your lists but the two “Buffy” episodes.
How about substituting the Season 6 episode in which she was revealed to be in a mental institution (don’t recall its name off the top of my head) for “Hush?”
Raymond M.
I agree with pretty much everything you said. And the best scenes of the decade: 1) The scene in the third season of Mad Men where the guy gets his foot caught in the lawnmower and 2) The scene in the last season of The Sopranos where AJ tries to kill himself. It goes from being tense to funny to heartbreaking in just a few minutes. Brilliant.
James Fergin
Jenna January 7, 2010 at 2:30 AM
Do you not like True Blood? Is it just me or does it not remind you of Twin Peaks? They are structurally very similar.
John January 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM
Jenna,
I like True Blood but it really isn't one of my favorite shows. This past season in particular felt very disjointed. (There were essentially two different storylines and they did not mesh well. I think this is because the writers are trying to adapt the books while they also create original stories.) I also think the "vampire community" is poorly conceived (or, to be charitable, not fully conceived). I just don't buy the "Sheriff's" and "the Queen," etc. Of course, these are minor criticisms. Overall, I find the blending the romance and dark fantasy genres simply not to my taste. Still, I wish the series well. Always good to have supernatural shows on TV!
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» Quick 'n' Dirty
New uranium boom draws lawsuit
Concern about the Four Corners uranium resurgence turned to action last week. The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and Grand Canyon Trust have filed a lawsuit challenging the approval of up to 39 new uranium drilling sites within only a few miles of Grand Canyon National Park.
Last December, the Kaibab National Forest granted British firm VANE Minerals approval to conduct exploratory uranium drilling on national forest lands along the park’s southern boundary. It is the first of five such projects slated for the area.
The suit claims that the Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedures Act and Appeals Reform Act when it approved the uranium exploration using a “categorical exclusion,” the least rigorous analysis.
“Grand Canyon simply isn’t the place for uranium development,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity. “Our national treasures deserve better than the calamity of an adjacent industrial zone.”
The lawsuit follows a letter sent by the same groups outlining legal problems with the approval and requesting that the Forest Service withdraw its decision. The Forest Service claims it has little power to deny uranium development under the 1872 Mining Law. But the groups argue that the mining law does not override the agency’s obligation under the National Environmental Policy Act to carry out in-depth public and environmental reviews of such proposals.
“The mining law doesn’t negate the Forest Service’s duty to conduct detailed environmental and public reviews for new uranium development — and the Grand Canyon deserves at least that much,” said Sandy Bahr of Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter.
Fueled by a fifteen-fold increase in uranium prices during the last eight years, planned uranium development has increased enormously throughout and on federal lands south of the Grand Canyon. That land is facing 1,600 uranium claims, five uranium exploration projects and the possible opening of one mine.
“Some places should be off-limits to noise, heavy equipment traffic, drilling and potential contamination from uranium exploration and drilling; the rim of the Grand Canyon is one of those places,” said Dave Gowdey from Grand Canyon Trust. “Congress should act now to protect the park and its surrounding public lands.”
9-R to continue early release
Local students and parents will continue to enjoy early Friday release in the 2008-09 school year. Durango School District 9-R announced it will continue the early release pilot program next year in order to give teachers time for further career development in what are called “Professional Learning Communities.”
“Teachers are using their PLC time wisely to improve curriculum and instructional practices,” Superintendent Mary Barter said. “Anecdotal evidence from surveys and teacher comments indicates the work is having a positive impact on student learning.”
The district changed this year’s school calendar to dismiss students from 60 to 90 minutes earlier on Friday afternoons to give teachers time to work in Professional Learning Communities. In addition, middle school and high school classes started the school year two days earlier than elementary classes to ensure that students received the instructional time mandated by state law.
The Professional Learning Communities model is a research-based, proven strategy to improve student achievement, where teachers meet weekly to work in collaborative teams to improve instruction and student learning. Prior to the adoption of Professional Learning Communities last year, teachers rarely had the time or opportunity to work or discuss issues with teachers outside their grade level or department.
Families have also adjusted well to the Friday early release, said Administrator for Special Programs Libby Culver. Many families enjoy the extra time with their children and the ability to begin weekend activities a little earlier. And some teachers have noticed that the kids like Friday early release, too. “I have noticed that the students really love having a shorter day on Fridays,” wrote one teacher. “They are energized and excited rather than drained at the end of the week.”
Cause of Main Ave. fire pinpointed
Faulty duct work has been pinpointed as the culprit in last month’s devastating downtown fire. According to Durango Fire and Rescue Authority Fire Marshal Tom Kaufman, the Feb. 22
blaze started in a hood over the wood-fired grill and deep fat fryer in Season’s Restaurant, in the 700 block of Main Avenue. Although the hood’s fire-suppression system kicked in, it was too little too late. A duct used to vent the grease-laden vapors from the restaurant was installed too close to combustible paneling within a nearby wall. It is believed the paneling was ignited either by radiant heat from the uninsulated duct or by flames from a poorly welded seam in the duct. From there, the fire quickly spread to the attic that adjoins Season and Half-price Tees, as well as the attic over Le Rendezvous.
Although there were no codes in place at the time the buildings were constructed, the duct system did violate the city’s 1991 “Uniform Mechanical Code.” According to the code, such ducts must be installed at least 18 inches from flammable materials. The Seasons duct was installed six inches from combustible paneling.
The value of the buildings and lost contents is estimated at $4.5 million. Actual numbers will not be released until final settlement with building and business owners’ insurance companies.
The cause of the explosion that took the roof off of Le Rendezvous, injuring several firefighters, is still under investigation. DFRA is performing an internal investigation as is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The results of the NIOSH study will not be known for several months.
Fines upped for illegal snowmobiling
Snowmobilers ignoring wilderness signs may find it hard to outrun the long arm of the law. The U.S. Forest Service recently increased fines for illegally operating motor vehicles within a designated wilderness area from $75 to up to $500.
Snowmobiles, along with other means of motorized and mechanical travel, are not allowed within designated wilderness. Congress set these areas aside in the Wilderness Act of 1964 as an escape from sights and sounds of the modern world.
The new fines should be of particular interest to area renegade sledders. According to the San Juan National Forest, snowmobile tracks have recently been observed leading into the Weminuche Wilderness in several areas, including north of Snowdon Peak, Middle Mountain, Endlich Mesa and on the Continental Divide south of Stony Pass. As a result, the Forest Service has beefed up patrols in these areas. For information or details, call for San Juan Public Lands Center at 247-4874.
DNF saying goodbye to plastic
Starting in mid-May, shoppers at Durango Natural Foods will no longer be faced with the needless grocery store dilemma of paper or plastic. That’s because the member-owned store is phasing out the use of plastic grocery bags, which have come under increased scrutiny as of late.
“DNF has been paying attention to the national and international news that many chain stores, co-ops, cities and even countries are banning or placing significant taxes on plastic bag use,” said Minna Jain, of Durango Natural Foods. “Many of our shoppers have asked us to step up to the forefront of this issue and offer them more options than simply ‘paper or plastic.’”
According to Jain, about 14 million trees are used annually to make paper bags for Americans. Likewise, it takes 12 million barrels of oil to make a year’s worth of plastic bags. As a result, the store is phasing out plastic bags and asking shoppers to bring their own reusable bags.
“Deciding whether to use paper or plastic at a grocery store can make you feel like you’re caught between a paper mill and a petrochemical plant,” said Jain. “This environmental dilemma has a fairly easy solution – BYOB – ‘bring your own bag.’”
To make the switch easy for shoppers, Jain said beginning in April, customers can “borrow” a cloth tote for a deposit of $2.22. The money will be returned when the bag is. DNF also will be selling sturdy, washable totes for 99 cents as well as string cotton bags and heavier canvas bags made of recycled plastic bottles and recycled cotton.
Jain suggests making a small investment in reusable bags and to keep them in one’s home, car, and/or office. Seek bags that are sturdy and roomy enough to haul groceries. She noted that string cotton bags are also a good choice for everyday use because they expand greatly yet can be tucked in a pocket or purse. Another option is storage crates, which make loading and unloading groceries easy.
And for those who still have trouble remembering to pack their cloth bags, the store will offer paper bags for 20 cents each.
– Will Sands and Missy Votel
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pornography of food
These uncertainties are reflected in Pierre's writing in an often oblique or hazy way, particularly in Lights Out In Wonderland. The idea of the "pornography of food" as a metaphor for the end times, he tells me, came to him while reading Petronius on the decline of Rome. "The writing is so modern. The climate of unease and complaint in those books feels incredibly familiar. The banquet was the perfect medium for the powerful to express their power and the sense they had of being above the law. It was a way to be grand. I feel that has certain parallels with what has been happening of late. Bankers, politicians' expenses and all that. Eating out expensively is always a big factor in there, isn't it? Money and food seem to assume an incredible importance as a culture declines. I really do think that is the case today, as it was back then. You just have to look at food writing, restaurant reviews in particular, to see that. It comes close to the pornographic at times, that kind of fetishising of food and its rituals.
DBC Pierre – the initials stand for Dirty But Clean, a nickname he earned in his spectacularly misspent youth – is known by his real name, Peter Finlay.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/22/dbc-pierre-lights-wonderland-interview
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Watch and see what happens.
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This man had a hell of a crack at life
"the most important man in England"
L' Alberto Sordi della politica
Un mondo che non esiste più
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« The forgotten children of Turkey’s Syrian refugee crisis
The Dom: Syria’s Invisible Refugees »
Syria’s Gypsy refugees find sanctuary in an Istanbul ghetto – but for how long?
in außerhalb Europas, Analyse und Kritik des Antiziganismus, Fundstücke, Sonst in Europa, Antiziganistische Übergriffe, Abschiebung und Asyl und In English
In Tarlabaşı, Istanbul’s oldest slum, a tiny community centre offers a crucial place of safety and support for the shunned Syrian Dom community. But as the city gentrifies, there are fears these refugees may become victims once again
On the north-western corner of Istanbul’s famous Taksim Square, a small gang of children dart through the traffic, tapping on car windows and trying to catch the attention of passers-by to sell bottles of water. These Syrian Gypsy children from a community known as the Dom are in many ways the forgotten faces of the Middle East crisis, which has left an estimated 26,000 refugee children homeless across Europe. The Dom speak a separate language which traces back to the Indian subcontinent; even in times of peace they have always existed on the fringes of society, and are used to facing almost universal discrimination.Before war broke out, there were up to 300,000 Dom living in Syria. Now many live on the streets of Istanbul’s ghettos, part of the approximately 366,000 Syrian refugees seeking a new life in the Turkish city. Many reside in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul’s oldest slum. It is just a few streets from the ornate splendour of İstiklal Caddesi, the nearby avenue of sultans that once saw Istanbul dubbed “the Paris of the East”. But life in Tarlabaşı is very different: it has become known as a haven for Istanbul’s minority communities of migrants, Gypsies, transsexuals, prostitutes, and the outcasts of society.
Even here, however, the Dom children are despised. Other Syrian refugees and local Turks refuse to associate with them. When asked why, Ilyas, a shopkeeper who asked for his full name to not be used when speaking about the Dom, simply comments: “It is a prejudice, yes. I can’t explain it though. I just don’t like their complexion.” But one organisation is trying to help. Based in a tiny flat of no more than 70 sq metres, Tarlabaşı Toplum Merkezi (TTM) is a non-profit community centre started a decade ago by Istanbul Bilgi University’s Centre for Migration Research, and initially funded by the European Union. Run by four full-time employees and a small army of volunteer teachers, lawyers and even musicians, it provides educational support, psychological and legal counselling for nearly 5,000 children and 3,000 adults in Tarlabaşı. It exists as a place of safety and comfort; a way out from the deprivation and crime which pervades this sector of Istanbul.
For hundreds of years, Tarlabaşı’s narrow, winding streets were a peaceful home to non-Muslim diplomats and later Greek merchants who served the business district around İstiklal Caddesi. But as religious tensions rose through the mid-20th century, the Turkish government launched organised pogroms targeting non-Muslims in the city – the most notorious of which was the Turkish Kristallnacht of September 1955. In the ensuing violence, homes and shops were looted and destroyed. Over the following decades, those abandoned buildings were gradually filled by Gypsies known locally as “Roman”, and by refugees fleeing the Turkish-Kurdish civil war in the late 1980s. The construction of a six-lane boulevard which segregated the neighbourhood from Istanbul’s wealthy tourist district sealed Tarlabaşı’s fate. “Violence, drug issues and prostitution is definitely more visible here than anywhere else in the city,” says Ebru Ergün, a psychologist who has worked at the centre for the past five years. “The boulevard is one of the causes of that. It intensified the stigma surrounding this area and made it into a slum.”
Many of the children of Tarlabaşı fail to complete primary school before ending up as beggars or labourers, relying on state-run social services that provide little more than free lunches and sacks of coal. The Dom children, though, don’t even make it as far as school. “They live in awful conditions,” says Ceren Suntekin, a social worker at the centre. “They mostly beg or sell things near the tourist districts, and the police are quite violent towards them as they don’t suit the image that Istanbul is trying to create. The Roman mostly collect garbage on the street, sell flowers, or play music at clubs. They struggle to break out of this life because when they go to school, teachers discriminate against them and they don’t have the environment to study in when they come back home.” The TTM centre provides Turkish lessons to children and adults alike, so Tarlabaşı’s many Syrian and Kurdish residents can find jobs, earn a living, or even continue in education. Hasan Kizillar, 19, grew up in the local Roman community but learnt to play the violin, piano and other instruments in the centre’s orchestra. Now he works as a volunteer himself, teaching music to children, while preparing to study finance at Istanbul University. “He came from a very poor family,” Ergün says. “But like many Roman children, he was highly talented. We’re also slowly making progress with persuading families to allow girls to be educated, and running classes on literacy and gender equality.”
Most importantly of all, the centre is a place where those in trouble can seek help. Domestic abuse cases are commonplace in Tarlabaşı, and Ergün describes the centre’s recent attempts to aid a family of migrants where the mother and her two daughters had been beaten and sexually abused by the father for many years. “They were coming to us regularly,” she says. “We tried for a long time to persuade the mother to go to a shelter, and eventually she did. We found her a lawyer and now her husband is arrested and the children are safe. We’ve helped the woman find a job as her husband hadn’t allowed her to work; now she’s no longer dependent, we hope it will be a better life for them.” But this support network may not exist for much longer. Tarlabaşı is undergoing considerable change. Over the past few years, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has outlined an infrastructure agenda worth in the region of $100bn, and Tarlabaşı has been earmarked for urban transformation. Billboards depicting future visions of the neighbourhood – chic young couples strolling past modern apartments, retail outlets and hotels – are strewn outside the many ongoing building projects. Many of the dilapidated 19th-century buildings that have served as homes for Istanbul’s poorest, meanwhile, are rapidly being demolished. When forced out, the inhabitants often receive a fraction of the market price.
Issam Saade, a 51-year-old Kurdish waiter who has lived in Tarlabaşı since the mid-90s, explains that after years of fighting to stay, he was evicted last autumn following a court order. “There is more money coming into Tarlabaşı but not for the people who live here now,” Saade says. Two years ago, Istanbul’s rapidly escalating rents almost saw the TTM centre close down, but with the help of donations from the US, UK, Sweden and Holland, its work has been able to continue – for the moment. “Because of the gentrification process taking place here to attract tourists, the state wants the refugees and migrants who live in Tarlabaşı to move away,” Ergün says. “Many of them have nowhere to go, but the state doesn’t care about that. “They will have to move to wherever they can afford, and when they go, we will have to go too. We hope we can follow them to a new location and continue to help. Our centre is one of the few places where it’s safe for children from these communities to play, and where women can discuss their problems. There’s nowhere else providing that.” And what about the very poorest of all, the Dom children who beg on the streets of Taksim Square, where will they go? “We don’t really know. And I don’t think they know either.”
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Despite Syria ceasefire, fighting and starvation continues ahead of planned Geneva talks
Published in Syria
As various parties to the Syrian crisis, including the United Nations, Russia, and the United States, prepare for ‘proximity talks’ to take place this week, and as UN Special Envoy Stefan de Mistura attempts to put a positive face to a ceasefire he oversaw, it was clear within twenty-four hours of the ceasefire going into effect that it would not hold. Within the first week of the ceasefire a total of 135 people were killed according to one monitoring group, although the real number is likely to be much higher.
The cessation of hostilities between Bashar al-Asad’s regime and a selection of opposition groups took effect on 27 February. The ceasefire was orchestrated by Russia and the USA, co-chairs of the seventeen-member International Syria Support Group (ISSG). The joint US-Russian communiqué regarding the aims and logistics of the ceasefire noted that Islamic State group (IS) and al-Qa'ida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra were not included in the ceasefire agreement, and mandated that a US-Russian-led ISSG Ceasefire Task Force would be responsible for identifying IS- and Jabhat-controlled territory for continued airstrikes. The communiqué also committed all parties to ensure the safe passage of aid to areas requiring it. Within twenty-four hours of the ceasefire having gone into force, however, Russian aircraft are believed to have bombed targets in Hama province around the village of Herbanafsa, where rebels associated with the powerful Jaish al-Fatah faction are operating. In Darkosh, Idlib province, where Ahrar al-Sham (AAS) rebels are in control, the ceasefire is also not holding. Throughout the week following the signing of the ceasefire agreement, suspected Russian aircraft continued to pound villages allegedly linked to JAN and IS and those controlled by the Free Syrian Army, which is a party to the ceasefire. Due to international and regional actors putting their geostrategic goals ahead of promoting a complete winding down of hostilities, the ceasefire is incomplete and is barely holding even in its targeted areas.
The communiqué notes that the identification of armed groups will be based on UN Security Council Resolution 2254. Paragraph 8 of the resolution obligates UN member states to suppress ‘terrorist acts committed specifically by…entities associated with Al Qa'ida or ISIL’. A number of groups so identified by this resolution are backed by the USA – either directly or indirectly through its allies in Ankara, Doha and Riyadh. The powerful components of the Jaish al-Fatah coalition, such as Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam, are backed by Riyadh, received training through CIA programmes, and were invited to form part of the Saudi-backed Higher Negotiation Committee. Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam have occasionally fought alongside Jabhat al-Nusra, and also alongside Free Syrian Army-linked units, notably in the eastern Damascene suburbs. Ahrar al-Sham’s position on various issues has been particularly ambivalent. It aims to present itself as moderate and accommodating in various Arab media forums, while also stating that it will not abide by any ceasefire, and pledging support for Jabhat al-Nusra. The group opportunistically allies itself with al-Nusra in areas where IS and the Syrian forces pose a threat, while decrying Nusra’s exclusionary Salafism on the international stage to avoid being labelled a terrorist outfit.
Such tactics have provided Russia with the excuse to continue bombing ‘terrorists’. Meanwhile, Riyadh and Washington see groups such as Ahrar al-Sham as a counterweight to IS and regard them as battle hardened enough to be able to hold ground against the Syrian army. Turkey and Saudi Arabia will likely continue arming and funding certain groups within Jaish al-Fatah; Riyadh hopes to bolster its main proxy groups as the war enters a new and more unpredictable phase. Ankara hopes to strengthen groups that can win political and military victories against the Kurds. The ambition of the most powerful Syrian Kurdish armed group, the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), is to link the Kurdish cantons of Efrin with other Kurdish cantons ofCizire and Kobani by a strip of Syrian territory disputed between various rebel groups and IS. By linking these three cantons the PYD-YPG would be able to forge a contiguous Kurdish-controlled territory in order to entrench its social project and block supply routes to Jabhat al-Nusra, IS and other rebel groups. Ankara views this ambition as a direct attack on its security and foreign policy goals in Syria; an autonomous Kurdish area on its southern border could provide the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has renewed hostilities with the Turkish state, with a safe haven. Furthermore; any experiment in autonomy could provide inspiration to Turkey’s own restless Kurdish population. Turkey has therefore been shelling YPG positions along the border and threatened intervention into Syria – which is unlikely given the strong involvement of Russia.
Another important element of the ceasefire communiqué is the humanitarian aspect. Parties to the ceasefire are obliged to ‘allow humanitarian agencies rapid, unhindered and sustained access throughout areas under their control’. UN and partner aid agencies had planned to deliver life-saving aid to 154 000 civilians this week, but even this is subject to the politics of the groups involved, with many areas still subject to air raids. The siege of Deir al-Zor, wherein 200 000 people are trapped, continues because IS, which controls that territory, is not part of the agreement; and airdrops which were meant to ease the plight of the besieged inhabitants have been missing their targets.
De Mistura expressed hope that increased aid to besieged areas and a lull in the violence could set the stage for the revival of the halted Geneva peace talks. He wants ‘proximity talks’ to begin on 10 March. It is likely that the Syrian regime will attempt to create a situation on the ground before then that will grant them maximum negotiating power. Riyadh and Ankara, meanwhile, will look at ways to prop up rebel factions in order to both block both an Iranian diplomatic coup and a roll back of Kurdish goals.
What is the Islamic State? Expert Omar Shaukat explains all
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What is the Islamic State? Expert Omar Shaukat explains all.
Paris attacks: Omar Shaukat
The Islamic State militant group Isis - based in Syria and Iraq - claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. It said the attacks were to punish France for its involvement in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and for its attitude to Islam.
A game changer? Russia’s military involvement in the Syrian crisis
Russia’s military involvement in Syria, from the beginning of its aerial bombing on 30 September until the launch of cruise missiles its ships in the Caspian Sea on 7 October, has raised numerous questions about its intentions. Is Russia’s aim in Syria totargetpthe Islamic State group (IS) and pre-emptively eliminate IS Chechen fighters before they return to their homes, as it claims? Or has Russia entered Syria simply toprotect and bolster the Damascus government? And, if Russia continues its military activities in Syria at this level, could its intervention turn into another quagmire like Afghanistan was for the Soviet Union.
The question of whether Russia’s primary objective is to target IS or bolster the Syrian government is based on a false binary from the Syrian and Russia perspectives. Russia has repeatedly ridiculed the idea that there are ‘moderate’ rebels, and has labelled all insurgents as ‘terrorists’, as has been the Syrian government position since the uprising began in 2011. Russia even asked USA to share intelligence on rebels that might be battling IS, ostensibly to avoid targeting them.
Perhaps more important than determining Russian intentions is pondering how otherprotagonists in the Syrian conflict will respond to the latest Russian move. Russia’s bravado is on display; what is unclear is how countries that make up the broad coalition against the Syrian regime – the USA, Turkey, Saudi Arabia (and, to a lesser extent, Qatar, UAE and Jordan) – will respond to Russia’s intervention. Will these states support the Syrian rebels in a manner that will allow them to resist the renewed spirit in the Syrian Arab Army (and various other pro-regime militias), reinvigorated as they are by Russian support?
US response
If Ukraine is any precedent, and considering the general tendency of the US Obama administration in this second presidential term, the USA will not respond to Russian aggression by significantly increasing its support for the rebels. In fact, with all its talk about ‘deconfliction’, the USA is more interested in keeping out of Russia’s way in Syria, while attempting to develop an alternate strategy to confront IS, after having spectacularly failed previously.
Turkey’s response
Following the Russian entry into the Syrian battlefield, Turkey will have to rethink its role and re-evaluate whether it can support the Syrian insurgency in a manner that the latter might be able to confront the Russians. Despite Turkey having been at odds with Russia for a large part of their history, the ruling party, the AKP is in a precarioussituation with a new parliamentary election in less than a month, and an electorate that has to be won over. Further, it is dealing with a renewed Kurdish insurgency led by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that has the potential to destabilise parts of Turkey. Also influencing Turkey’s deliberations will be economic and energy ties with Russia that strengthened recently. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that he is willing to reconsider the agreement with Russia on its building the first Turkish nuclear power plant, and also hurting it economically by refusing to buy natural gas from Russia. However, though a change on either of these issues will hurt both Russia and Turkey, the latter will be affected much more than the former. But most importantly, even if Turkey does scale back its economic relations with Russia, it is not clear that this will translate into a greater military commitment towards the Syrian rebels.
Saudi Arabia’s response
Saudi Arabia is in a different situation to Turkey. Since it does not share a border with Syria, its support for Syrian rebels depends on its coordination with Turkey and Jordan over what these countries are prepared to allow along their borders with Syria. Any stronger Saudi rhetoric about supporting Syrian rebels needs, therefore, to be checked against this reality. Second, Saudi Arabia, like Turkey, is tackling numerous problems domestically – such as an increased IS threat within its borders, and the Houthi insurgency in Yemen which, even if pacified in Yemen’s south, will continue to pose a threat along the Yemeni-Saudi border. These factors will likely undermine the Saudi appetite for further fuelling the Syrian insurgency.
But herein lies another dilemma for Saudi Arabia. If it does not increase support for the insurgency, Saudi IS and al-Qa'ida sympathisers will likely be swayed by the argument that their government is an ‘apostate’ regime, and that they are obligated to fight ‘jihad’ against the Russians (also, Syrians and Iranians), thus creating a greater security threat within Saudi Arabia. There are already opinions being voiced in this direction. On the other hand, if Saudi Arabia increases its support for Syrian rebels, such support must be effective enough to force the Russians to withdraw, and to topple the Asad regime. Anything less than that will effectively be a victory for the Syrian regime. With Russians now backing the Syrian government, a rebel victory requires Saudi Arabia to either involve its own military in Syria or sufficiently equip the rebels with anti-aircraft weapons that can be effective against Russian aircraft. Neither of these is realistic, and, therefore, it will not be a surprise if Saudi Arabia accepts the Russian campaign as an invitation to de-escalate its support for the Syrian insurgency.
This, obviously, does not mean that the Syrian rebels will put down their weapons, even if their foreign backers, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and USA cease their support. What it means is that the Russian initiative to form a Syrian contact group – which would include USA, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – might lead to some political reconciliation in which the militarily exhausted rebel groups will be included in a transitional process to give the impression that the Syrian conflict is winding down.
This, however, presupposes that the rebels’ foreign supporters, especially Turkey and Saudi Arabia, are looking to reduce the bloodshed in Syria. That has not, thus far, been the predominant tendency with any of the protagonists in the Syrian conflict; most parties have been bent on bleeding their adversary into submission. It therefore remains to be seen whether the Russian intervention in Syria will force a change in this calculus or entrench the current sensibilities even further.
Obama’s anti-IS strategy: Everything but what is required
Published in Iraq
In a much-anticipated speech on Wednesday, US president Barack Obama unveiled his strategy for confronting the Islamic State group (IS). He emphasised the need for an international coalition supporting the efforts of Iraqi forces and Syrian rebels through airstrikes and logistical support inside Iraq and Syria. The US administration had already been working on the formation of an international coalition. The recent NATO summit resulted in a ten-nation alliance against IS, and US secretary of state, John Kerry, has also been trying to build an Arab consensus against IS. That move was pre-empted by an Arab League resolution earlier this week announcing Arab states’ willingness to support international efforts against IS. Additionally, the United Nations Security Council had unanimously adopted resolution 2170 in August, which called on member states to prevent the movement of terrorists and their obtaining arms or finances.
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ABOUT VLANE CARTER
In 1974, Vlane was born in Long Branch, NJ. He grew up in NYC with his family and attended school in the city. Throughout Vlane’s childhood and teenage years, he always had a creative imagination. He decided to put some of his best ideas on paper and he wrote his first short story in 1990, titled: “Terry’s Nightmares,” A Sci-fi/ fantasy short story written for the teenage mind. It was a hit among his friends and classmates in the 10th grade.
Vlane wrote a short story for the NYC Youth Magazine in 1991, it was also a hit amongst teenagers all around the city. Vlane later wrote a 30 page Junior James bond type of short story in 1992. The intense action, adventure, and romance of the short story drew special attention from his friends and a publishing company. Vlane later attended John Jay College in Manhattan, NY, further honing his writing skills and creativity.
In the spring of 2006, a more mature, logical, imaginative and educated Vlane Carter began a new series called Bialien. Vlane wanted to write a book that Sci-fiction, and Science technology fans would love to read. He also wanted to write a book that was easy to read and fully explained so a general audience would be interested in reading as well.
Vlane wanted to write a book that was ahead of its time and make a statement in the Sci-fi world. Vlane adopted a cinematic writing style. He realized that, unfortunately, people are reading less and watching movies more. So writing a book in a style that kept the reader entertained and wanting to read page to page was very important. Jumping into the action and leaving a cliffhanger at the end of chapter 1 was top priority.
Vlane’s personal views on society, human relationships, and technological advances to save the planet and environment have always been integral in his stories. Bialien promises to give the reader something to think about long after finishing the book. It expands the reader’s imagination, inspiring many hours of discussion.
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The original story can be found at http://bpnews.net/36101/background-checks-are-on-the-rise-lifeway-reports
Background checks are on the rise, LifeWay reports
by Erin Freshwater, posted Monday, September 12, 2011 (7 years ago)
For churches intent on enhancing their protection of children, a background checks service through LifeWay Christian Resources can be a key facet of their security policy. With a database of over 400 million criminal records, [URL=http://www.LifeWay.com/backgroundchecks]the website[/URL] has an extensive collection of public record sources, delivering reports in a concise and user-friendly format.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- More than 25,000 background checks conducted by churches or organizations on prospective workers in the past three years have turned up more than 1,600 felony offenses, with the number of organizations conducting background checks having risen 27 percent in the past year, according to LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Since launching LifeWay.com/backgroundchecks in 2008, more than 1,656 different churches or organizations have conducted 25,470 background checks. Of those, more than 45 percent (11,656) returned a criminal hit. A "hit" is any kind of incident, ranging from minor traffic violations to felony convictions, explained Jennie Taylor, marketing coordinator in LifeWay's direct marketing department.
Excluding traffic and non-traffic infractions (jay-walking, noise pollution, etc.,) more than 20 percent (5,107 searches) returned records with misdemeanor or felony results. More than 1,600 of those 5,107 searches returned felony offenses.
In 2008, LifeWay Christian Resources endorsed backgroundchecks.com to offer background screenings for churches and religious organizations at discounted prices. Through LifeWay's OneSource program -- encompassing products and services for churches and religious organizations that LifeWay has endorsed -- all churches and religious organizations can receive discounts on background screenings for their camp counselors, bus drivers, staff, volunteers and others.
"Churches are realizing that this is something they need to be doing," Taylor said. "With the OneSource program we've made it more affordable."
Backgroundchecks.com works with customers based on their specific needs and will consult with churches one-on-one to help select the best screening process for their particular situation, Taylor said.
"We've had tremendous feedback from churches and individuals who have used this service," she said. "Already we've seen more than a 27 percent increase in participation this year over last year. That just goes to show how important this service is to churches."
Churches can conduct due diligence, Taylor said, by utilizing backgroundchecks.com as a step in their security and safety policy. With a database of over 400 million criminal records, backgroundchecks.com has an extensive collection of public record sources, delivering reports in a concise and user-friendly format.
Fairview Baptist Church in Columbus, Miss., started using backgroundchecks.com in 2010.
"Our mission is to tell others about Jesus Christ," said Aubrey Adair, volunteer security team chairman at Fairview. "We have a lot of young people and children and we want to provide a safe environment for them and for other worshippers. For any worker who will be working with children 17 years and younger and for our security volunteers, we ask them to submit to a background check.
"This is not a foolproof process, but it's a stronger method than doing nothing at all," Adair said, adding that the church also uses the service for its Vacation Bible School.
Fairview has been very pleased with the service from backgroundchecks.com, including the turnaround time, which gives results within minutes, Adair said.
"They helped us set the program up and they gave us some great information," he said. "We were facing a generational change at church with a lot of younger families coming in -- this level of safety and precaution really appealed to them."
Country Oaks Baptist Church in Elk Grove, Calif., used backgroundchecks.com in their process of interviewing pastoral candidates.
"We were able to get an overall view of our new pastor candidate," said Arnold Dallas, a deacon at Country Oaks. "[Backgroundchecks.com] verified his degrees from college and seminary and had everything electronic, so we could print everything out and could talk by phone whenever we had questions."
Erin Freshwater is a writer in Nashville, Tenn. For more information, visit LifeWay.com/backgroundchecks or call 1-800-464-2799. For additional resources to help churches prevent the devastating effects of sexual abuse and other moral failures by staff members or volunteers, visit www.sbc.net/localchurches/ministryhelp.asp and http://sbclife.net/pdf/ProtectingOurChildren.pdf. Note: Statistics reported in this article are not derived from a representative sample but reflect clients who purchased background check services through LifeWay without regard to organizational type, denomination, region, demographic makeup or other factors.
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Site of Villa Maria Ursuline Academy
The Ursuline Sisters, founded by St. Angela in Italy in 1535, opened their first girls' school in North America in Quebec in 1639. In 1727, they opened the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans, followed in 1846 with the Ursuline Academy in Galveston. In addition to teaching, the nuns served as nurses during epidemics, hurricanes, fires and the Civil War. Their Galveston Academy building served as a refugee shelter despite heavy damages sustained in the devastating 1900 storm. Seeking a new school site further inland, Mother Superior Mary Joseph Dallmer selected Bryan over several other cities. With donations from Bryan citizens, the sisters purchased land from W.R. and Mary (Mitchell) Cavitt and began plans for Villa Maria Ursuline Academy at this site, which became known as St. Ursula's Hill. Contractor George Jenkins built a school and dormitory using a Nicholas Clayton design. The school opened in September 1901, but construction continued until October 21, St. Ursula's feast day. Girls at the academy studied traditional subjects, as well as sports and music, and maintained a large farm. The sisters worked closely with St. Joseph's Catholic Church and School, where they also taught. Facing low enrollment and burdened by the debt of costly building repairs, Villa Maria Ursuline Academy closed in 1929. Former U.S. Consul General Williamson S. Howell, Jr. bought the property and built a 24-room house using bricks from the school. The few graves of Ursuline nuns on the property were removed to Galveston, where the school resumed operations. Howell later sold to Allen Academy, which retained ownership until 1973. Today, nearby street names reflect the impact of both the academy and Howell. (2005)
2400 Osborn Ln. near its intersection with Ursuline Ave. and E. Villa Maria Rd., Bryan
Villa Maria Ursuline Academy of Bryan, Texas
Villa Maria Ursuline Academy Marker Dedication
30° 40' 35.0004" N, 96° 21' 9.7992" W
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Jonas Rivera
Released by Walt Disney Pictures on 6/21/2019 Nationwide
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
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AMC CLASSIC Kennewick 12
11:40 AM, 12:40, 2:10, 3:30, 4:40, 6:10, 7:10, 9:00
Fairchild Cinemas - Pasco
Fairchild Cinemas - Queensgate 12 Richland
11:45 AM, 1:10, 2:10, 3:30, 4:25, 5:50, 6:45, 8:05, 9:10
Showtimes in parentheses have bargain pricing.
Cinemas About Town
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For Helene
A prominent art historian was killed in a DUI accident involving a Melrose Place actress last weekend. Her colleague pays tribute.
Karin Bravin
Former Melrose Place star Amy Locane-Bovenizer has been in headlines recently for the fatal accident that occurred last Sunday when the actress, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, crashed into another car, killing its passenger. Most sources reported that the victim was “an art historian.” That passenger was indeed an art historian—a beloved and influential one: Helene Zucker Seeman, a 60-year-old adjunct professor at NYU’s school of continuing education, whose books were critical texts to periods in New York art, and whose work continued to be admired by others in her field.
Helene began her career in the art world working for Louis Meisel at his fine art gallery in Soho. She moved quickly from receptionist to director, and eventually co-authored a book with Meisel titled Photorealism, a complete reference work on the art of the photorealists up to 1979. Harry Abrams published it, and the book became a definitive guide to the technique, which is painting so detailed that it evokes the precision of a photograph. Helene’s previous book on the downtown Manhattan neighborhood, Soho: A Guide, was the first to focus on the burgeoning art neighborhood of the mid 1970s.
In 1980 Helene became the curator for Prudential Life Insurance Company, where she built one of the premier corporate American art collections bringing in works by such artists as Judy Pfaff, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Tom Otterness, and Lesley Dill, and commissioning pieces by other artists. During her 20-year tenure, Helene visited artists and galleries around the country, acquiring art for the collection and commissioning artists for site-specific work in Prudential’s buildings. I remember the excitement we used to feel when Helene walked through the door of the gallery. She had a keen eye and an infectious excitement when seeing an artist’s work for the first time. As her friend, Riva Blumenfeld, a private art adviser, says, “Artists and dealers alike welcomed Helene’s visits not just for her ‘good eye’ and financial support, but for her breadth of knowledge, warmth and genuine enthusiasm.” Hundreds of Helene’s friends and colleagues attended her funeral yesterday. And “integrity,” ended Blumenfeld, underscoring one of the many winning characteristics that described her friend. She will be missed.
Plus: Check out Art Beast, for galleries, interviews with artists, and photos from the hottest parties.
Karin Bravin runs BravinLee programs in New York with her husband, John Lee.
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Review: Lady Gaga in San Francisco
Posted on December 14, 2009 by Jim Harrington
If Lady Gaga had chopped 30 minutes out of her nearly 2-hour show on Sunday night at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco the result probably would’ve been, technically speaking, a better outing.
She could’ve devised a stronger song list, avoided the lulls in the action and weeded out some of the weaker theatrical elements. A shorter set, however, wouldn’t have given these fans what they really wanted – and that’s as much of Lady Gaga as they can possibly get.
Despite her impressive run atop the singles chart in 2009, Lady Gaga isn’t beloved by fans for mainly musical reasons. They seem to dig the person – and what she represents – even more than they do her songs.
The 23-year-old New Yorker, who has experienced a meteoric rise since the late-2008 release of the debut CD “The Fame,” is the perfect celebrity for the 21st Century. She embraces the fame game, while poking fun at it at the same time, and sells a hedonistic image that is equal parts retro glam-rocker and ultra-modern dance queen.
And, most definitely, people are buying.
Her two sold-out shows at the Bill Graham Civic, which also included a date on Monday, were the top tickets of the season. Scalpers were having a field day – reportedly demanding as much as $300 per ticket for these concerts. It’s amazing to think that this tour wasn’t originally supposed to happen. Gaga was initially going to spend the winter on tour with Kanye West, but the rapper backed out. There are several plausible reasons why he canceled – but, in retrospect, the most likely may be that West, arguably the artist of the decade, would have to play second fiddle to Gaga on this tour. That’s how hot she is right now.
The venue was filled with 8,000 joyous fans, many of whom, both male and female, were dressed up in wild Gaga-like fashion statements. The crowd acted like it was about to see a true event, not just some concert, and erupted as if winning lottery tickets were falling from the sky the moment the lights dimmed for Gaga’s set.
Opening with the track “Dance in the Dark” from Gaga’s recently released sophomore effort, “The Fame Monster,” the vocalist delivered a big-budget spectacle that absolutely dwarfed what she put on during her last visit to San Francisco, in mid-March at the Mezzanine. It was a Madonna-sized production from a woman with Madonna-sized aspirations.
The wardrobe and set changes came fast and furious. She first appeared on a near-dark stage, illuminated mainly by bulbs sewn on her jumpsuit, and then quickly mounted a giant cube, with a “keytar” draped from her neck, to sing “Just Dance.” Moments later, Gaga was working in a bizarrely appealing space suit, which would do little to protect her from the rigors of intergalactic travel, as she writhed alongside eight dancers to “LoveGame.” Then came Gaga playing the role of the erotic dancer as she crooned “Alejandro.”
And that’s just a bare-bones description of what happened in the first 30 minutes of the concert.
Amid the whirl of eye-popping theatrics, Gaga proved to be an OK dancer and a pretty strong vocalist, one who deserves all the Madonna comparisons, during such electro-pop offerings as “Monster” and “Teeth.” She strikes at the feet and hips, more so than the heart and head, although her aim seems most often targeted at the libido. Some concerts make you feel happy, or sad, but Gaga’s show boasts the unique ability to make 8,000 fans feel, well, horny.
Her between-song banter leans toward the explicit – which is probably just fine with many concert-goers, but maybe not all the parents that brought their young Gaga-wannabes to the show. She also made some hand gestures that men, especially those wearing dark trench coats, would get arrested for emulating on a public bus.
Gaga gets away with those tactics thanks to undeniable star power and pure attitude. She doesn’t concern herself with what you think of her R-rated maneuvers, or basically anything else, and she’ll tell you that straight to your face.
“Do you like my show?” she asked the crowd at one point. “If you don’t, I don’t care because you can (expletive) leave!”
No one left – and hundreds, if not thousands, couldn’t buy their way in. Lady Gaga, who looked for all the world like a flash-in-the-pan when she first hit the scene, has certainly won this round. With two albums to her credit, the singer is now one of the hottest celebrities in the world and, with every passing day, becomes an even bigger “Fame Monster.”
Concerts Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Lady Gaga
Jim Harrington
Uncharted 2 is the game of the year, according to the VGAs
Time Waster: Bidmas Blaster
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July 29 Ship Date
CPCPXX
001. Becoming
002. Maker Of Mornings (I Am Loved)
003. The Wonder
004. I'm Gonna Let It Go
005. Order Disorder Reorder
Order. Disorder. Reorder. Over and over and over. With his latest release, Jason Gray rolls out new music in a fashion never done before in the CCM genre. To best share the stories he’s been experiencing and learning recently, Gray will release the Order Disorder Reorder project in three volumes, giving each song room to breathe, giving us all time to pause and truly listen to each season. Because our ongoing transformation through Christ is only possible through all three.
First up is Order, a collection of five songs from the place of solid ground, when life’s directions make sense to our own understanding at the time. But there’s always more ahead….
Marketing Highlights
“I’m Gonna Let It Go” has been of Gray’s quickest impacts at radio, receiving the biggest first week of adds (over 40!) in his career. The song continues to make a fast climb up the charts. This follows Grays’ previous hits, including two Number 1 singles, plus an additional three Top 5.
About Jason Gray
With a heart for connecting with others, Jason Gray is known for the compassionate honesty and authenticity his music has provided for over a decade. Through his vulnerability, Gray has consistently reached listeners in a unique and compelling way, as noted by CCM Magazine: “When you buy a Jason Gray album, you can count on two things to be present on every song—the hook and the heart.” His 2016 album Where The Light Gets In debuted in the Top 5 of Billboard’s Top Christian Albums Chart, following earlier success of albums like Love Will Have The Final Word and A Way To See In The Dark, plus multiple No. 1 radio singles, including “With Every Act of Love” and “Nothing Is Wasted.” He has headlined tours of his own and shared the stage with artists like Steven Curtis Chapman, TobyMac, Michael W. Smith, and other friends. Audiences experience not only Gray’s musical talent, but the heartfelt way he shares his gifts and stories to support others.
http://www.jasongraymusic.com/
Matthew West, Josh Wilson, Steven Curtis Chapman
Where The Light Gets In
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Residence Life/Student Housing
Office of the Chaplain/Campus Ministry
Recreational Sports, Activities & Organizations
Varsity Athletics, Recreational & Leisure Facilities
The Division of Student Affairs at Providence College promotes the educational development of the student outside of the classroom. In addition to providing services which address the students’ personal needs while attending college, these efforts include the social, cultural, and recreational resources which make for a complete college experience.
The Division of Student Affairs seeks to help students discern and prepare for who they ultimately want to be by seeking growth in four key areas known as The Friar Four Pillars: Human Flourishing, Cultural Agility, Contemplation & Communication, and Integrated Learning. Programs and services built upon these pillars include the office of the dean of students, personal counseling, career education & professional development, residential life, student health, safety and security, community standards, citizenship & off-campus life, recreational sports & fitness, and student activities, and cultural programming. Complementing student affairs is the Office of the Chaplain/Campus Ministry, which focuses on students’ spiritual growth and development.
The Office of the Dean of Students provides a critical support system for students and develops programs to enrich students’ overall experiences. The office works with students and families to respond to crises and requests for leaves of absences, and serves as the supervisor of the CARE (Campus Assessment, Responsibility, and Evaluation) Team. The office coordinates the following programs: the Peer Mentor Program; the annual Horizons Fall Retreat for first-year and transfer students of color, and international students; and, Agape Latte, a program that facilitates reflection about faith. The office also advises Student Congress, BMSA, and campus media groups, specifically, The Cowl, WDOM, and PCTV.
Student Congress
Student Congress is the only organization on campus that represents the entire student body in all facets of College life. The Student Congress also has representation on various standing committees of the College. The president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary are elected annually by all students. Class officers and representatives are elected by each class. All officers serve for a one-year term.
Board of Multicultural Student Affairs (BMSA)
BMSA is a student-led organization that brings cultural awareness to the PC campus. BMSA has over ninety student leaders and functions as the umbrella organization that oversees clubs such as Afro-Am, Asian-Am, Circolo Italiano, Gaelic Society, MESA (Middle-Eastern Student Association), and OLAS (Organization of Latin American Students). SOAR (Society Organized Against Racism), ISO (International Students Organization), Motherland Dance Group, and SHEPARD (Stopping Homophobia, Eliminating Prejudices And Restoring Dignity) are affiliated organizations with BMSA.
Personal Counseling Center
Students face a number of challenges in their years at Providence College, and the Personal Counseling Center is here to help them meet these opportunities to integrate their personal, social, intellectual, and moral development. The Personal Counseling Center serves the needs of students seeking assistance around issues including, but not limited to: depression, self-esteem, anxiety, substance abuse, stress, eating disorders, sexuality, family pressures, crisis intervention, victimization, thoughts of suicide, life crisis, and critical life decisions. The Center offers individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, substance abuse assistance, workshops and outreach activities. All counseling services are confidential within the limits of the law and professional ethics. To find out more about how to make an appointment, click the following link: http://www.providence.edu/personal-counseling.
The College provides health services to its students during the academic year. The Student Health Center is staffed by four providers. Appointments are necessary to meet with one of the providers. The center provides laboratory services but does not provide x-ray or surgical services, treatment for major illnesses, or allergy shots. The staff refers students who need those services to either a local hospital or off-campus provider, and students assume financial responsibility for those services.
When the center is closed, from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. (Monday through Friday) and 24 hours on Saturday, Sunday, and some holidays, emergency medical services are provided by on-campus emergency medical technicians.
Complete Medical Record: All incoming freshmen and transfer students are required to submit a complete medical record on forms supplied by the College and signed by their provider. It is the responsibility of each student to update his or her medical record whenever there is a change in health status, insurance, or other relevant information. Every student is required to have medical insurance and must provide proof of insurance.
Services for Students with Disabilities
“Providence College seeks to reflect the rich diversity of the human family…and affirms the God-given dignity, freedom, and equality of each person.” (The Mission of Providence College). Consistent with this mission the College strives to offer equal educational and employment opportunities to all members of the College community. To this end we offer reasonable accommodations for the needs of persons with disabilities, meeting the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
An individual with a disability is someone with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. “Substantially limits” means being unable to perform a major life activity or significantly restricted as to the condition, manner, or duration under which a major life activity can be performed, in comparison to the average person or to most people. “Major life activities” include, but are not limited to such functions as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working.
Providence College employs a decentralized approach to providing accommodations to persons with disabilities. It is designed to preserve medical privacy as much as possible. At the same time, it allows administrators most closely connected to the needed accommodation to understand your disability and the accommodations that will help you achieve equal access to work, living, and learning opportunities. Click here to learn more about where to direct requests for disability accommodation (academic, transportation, dining, and residential life).
The Providence College Student Handbook provides information regarding the grievance policy related to accommodation requests.
The Office of Public Safety
The Office of Public Safety provides service to the campus community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The Office strives to ensure that members of the College community learn, work, and live in safe and secure environments. Members of the community share this responsibility and are expected to help the Office of Public Safety identify and report behavior that constitutes a violation of College policy and/or criminal law, and to take reasonable safety precautions. Providence College’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available at http://www.providence.edu/safety/Documents/safety-report.pdf.
Policy on Drug-Free Campus
Providence College, in compliance with the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendment of 1989, has adopted and implemented a program to prevent the illicit use of drugs and the abuse of alcohol by students and employees of the College, which includes enforcement of policies and standards of conduct with respect to behavior on College property, and behavior at any College-sponsored events. The College undertakes educational initiatives to inform students and employees of these policies. The College also employs a range of prevention-oriented activities to reduce the risk of alcohol or drug abuse.
The Center for Career Education & Professional Development: Discerning & Preparing for Who You Will Be
Self-Insight & Exploration, Professional Skill Development, and Market Readiness are the key “game plan” elements of the Center for Career Education & Professional Development. A typical game plan will include many, if not all, of these elements, and will be repeated through the four years of college and throughout life.
During Self-Insight & Exploration students identify their top five strengths using the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. Students discuss their passions, skills, and major, job, career, and market prospects in coaching meetings with career coaches.
Professional Skills Development occurs when students participate in learning experiences outside the classroom that enhance classroom learning, build skills, and foster professionalism, and in skills-gap programs that supplement a student’s academic experience, making them more employable.
Students will feel confident in their Market Readiness for jobs and/or professional school through research projects, interview preparation for jobs and professional school, career/graduate school document preparation, and dining etiquette programs, which all prepare students to enter the market.
The Center for Orientation, Transitions & Leadership
The Center for Orientation, Transitions & Leadership focuses on the preparation, progression, and success of Providence College students from the moment they step onto campus. The Center’s staff is dedicated to providing students a solid foundation for academic, personal, and professional excellence, and our various programs and leadership opportunities reflect this commitment. The Center’s programs include Advising & Registration Days and Fall Orientation for first-year students, the Dirigo Honor Society, the Leadership Fellows Program, and various other transition and leadership programs.
The Office of Community Standards
The Office of Community Standards helps students who have violated standards of behavior reconcile with themselves and the community. Guided by behavior change theories, Community Standards seeks to mitigate things preventing students from human flourishing. The office is committed to education, meaningful dialogue, accountability, and adherence to a disciplinary forum that is transparent, fair, and committed to student development.
All members of the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes must reside on campus, with the exception of those who commute from the home of a parent or guardian, are married, or have a compelling reason to reside off campus. All students who reside on campus must be full-time students in the day school and regularly attend the classes for which they are registered. All students who reside on campus must do so for the entire academic year; thus, residential students are responsible for all charges associated with that one-year commitment.
Students who have been approved for participating in study abroad or the Washington Semester program and require on-campus housing for one of the two semesters during the same academic year must apply and receive permission from the Office of Residence Life. Exceptions to the provisions in this paragraph are for extraordinary circumstances only and rarely granted, and must be obtained in writing from the Office of Residence Life.
The housing contract for resident students is binding for the entire academic year. Students residing in an apartment complex are charged a room fee and may elect any meal plan offered by the College. Students residing in the traditional halls or suites are required to purchase at least a minimum meal plan as prescribed by the College. The contract for room and board terminates 24 hours after one’s final examination in May. However, exemptions may be granted by the Office of Residence Life.
In the apartment complexes, suites, and traditional halls, rooms are fully furnished. Students are responsible for bringing their own linens, pillows, blankets, and personal items. The apartment complexes, suites and traditional halls follow the academic calendar and are closed during the vacation periods. Any exceptions to the aforementioned must be approved by the Office of Residence Life.
Every residential building provides Internet and cable TV access, a laundry facility, and study lounge space.
Traditional Residence Halls
The College has eight traditional residence halls with single, two-, three-, and four-person rooms, predominately occupied by freshman and sophomore students. These traditional halls are gender-specific by floor and/or building and are secured by the College’s card access system. Each building has its own unique setting and environment.
Apartment Complexes
The College has five apartment-style student residence buildings. Three buildings are comprised of six-person apartments, wherein there are three two-person bedrooms, while two buildings are comprised of four-person apartments (two bedrooms with two students per room). All apartments provide full kitchens (including a dishwasher) and are fully furnished. A garbage disposal and microwave are not included in the kitchens. Students are responsible for providing their own cookware, eating utensils, and cleaning supplies.
In addition to apartment-style living, the College offers suite-style residence living. The suites feature two- or three-person bedrooms, with an adjoining common living area that accommodates four, five, six, or seven persons per suite (two to three bedrooms). Each suite provides an efficiency-style area equipped with a refrigerator, a microwave, sink, and countertop space.
Citizenship & Off-Campus Life
The office of Citizenship and Off-Campus Life provides support for students living off-campus. The office advises the Off-Campus Coalition as well as serves as a liaison for the neighborhood. Providence College expects all students to abide by the “Good Neighbor Policy”. A cornerstone of off-campus living is citizenship in which students are provided opportunities to engage in on-going service in the community. The office also supports service groups and coordinates Urban Action, a three-day volunteer project for incoming first-year students.
All freshman, sophomore and junior students are required to live on-campus. Only seniors are allowed to apply to live off-campus. Students are advised not to sign leases until that permission has been granted. Graduate students, married students, and local students living with parents are exempt from this permission requirement.
All students living off-campus, including commuter students, are required to register their local off-campus address, current telephone number, emergency contact phone number, and email contact information with the Office of Citizenship and Off-Campus Living by the beginning of the second week of classes by emailing housing@providence.edu.
The chaplains, staff, and student leaders who make up the Campus Ministry team at Providence College bring together students, faculty, and staff for prayer, worship, and learning. Campus Ministry promotes the building of a genuine Christian community through a vibrant sacramental life, which includes Sunday and daily celebrations of the Eucharist and regular opportunities to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation. Through its many services and programs, Campus Ministry helps students explore their faith and serve their community. The goal of Campus Ministry is to help students integrate spiritual, academic, and personal growth.
The chaplain of the College is a Dominican Friar, who together with the other chaplains and campus ministers, is responsible for the pastoral care of the entire College community. The chaplain is always available to help and support students in times of crisis or difficult decision making.
The chaplains and campus ministers reach out to students of all faiths to offer pastoral support and promote full spiritual and personal development. Recognizing the impact we can have on society by working together and sharing the gifts with which we have been blessed, Campus Ministry offers members of the College community many opportunities to work for social justice through reflection groups, prayer vigils, and direct volunteer service to the local community.
Campus Ministry also seeks to help train future leaders for society and the Church. This is done through the peer ministry and retreats program, as well as through lectures, workshops, and opportunities for involvement in ministry to the College faith community.
Intramurals, Club Sports, and Recreational Fitness
Students who wish to participate in non-varsity sports have a wide variety of intramural, club, and recreational sports to choose from at the College.
Intramural sports provide physical competition in a variety of sports and skill levels and encourage respectable competition and good sportsmanship. The Intramural Athletic Board (IAB) is composed of approximately 15 students who support the Department of Recreational Sports in organizing, scheduling, and overseeing intramural competition.
Among the sports currently offered to both men and women are: flag football, ice hockey, soccer, 3-on-3 basketball, 5-on-5 basketball, softball, and wiffleball. Co-ed sports include tennis, volleyball, and ultimate. The IAB frequently hosts a number of one-day tournaments to introduce new sports for participation.
Club sports include men’s and women’s rugby clubs, men’s and women’s volleyball, ultimate, men’s ice hockey, racquetball, golf, figure skating, wrestling, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s lacrosse, cycling, running, and the sailing club. Physical fitness, recreational activities, and fitness classes are also provided based on established interest. A variety of fitness classes are offered, as well as personal training.
Student Activities & Cultural Programming
The College provides a vibrant calendar of educational and social events. The College also supports over 100 organizations for students to build relationships, expand their knowledge, gain leadership skills, and try something new. At the beginning of each semester, the Involvement Fair provides information about clubs, and an opportunity for students to speak with current members to learn more.
Board of Programmers
The Board of Programmers (BOP) sponsors cultural, social, and recreational programs designed to promote human flourishing and to complement academic programs. Popular programs include bi-weekly coffeehouses, lectures, concerts, and trips to the Providence Performing Arts Center, Fenway Park, and Broadway.
Varsity, Athletics, Recreational & Leisure Facilities
Providence College has a rich athletic tradition. The Friars play an active role in intercollegiate athletics through membership in the NCAA, ECAC, HOCKEY EAST Association, America East Conference, and The BIG EAST Conference. The Dunkin’ Donuts Center, with a seating capacity of just under 12,000, serves as the home court for the men’s basketball team.
On-campus athletic facilities include the Peterson Recreation Center, the Joe Mullaney Gymnasium in Alumni Hall, the recently renovated Schneider Arena, and four large field and recreational areas. These include the Marjorie D. Lennon and Rev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P. Field (an artificial-turf field) for intercollegiate and recreational purposes, and the new Hendricken Field, which includes the Ray Treacy 100-meter track, as well as a turf field for rugby and soccer.
Peterson Recreation Center
The Peterson Recreation Center is the hub of all intramural athletics and recreational activity at Providence College. The Center is available for use by all eligible members of the College community. It is home to the Cuddy Racquetball Complex, and the Taylor Natatorium, a 25-meter pool. The Cuddy Racquetball Complex has three courts with observation windows and a fitness studio where a wide variety of group fitness classes are taught.
Alumni Hall-Joe Mullaney Gymnasium
Alumni Hall is the home of Joe Mullaney Gymnasium, which has a 2,620-seat capacity and serves as the home court for the women’s basketball and volleyball teams. It also serves as the practice court for the men’s basketball team. It provides offices for the athletics and military science departments. It also houses strength and conditioning facilities, a food court, and other learning and training facilities.
Concannon Fitness Center
Opened in September 2007, the Concannon Fitness Center is a 23,000-square-foot addition to the Peterson Recreation Center and Alumni Hall. It features a three-story glass atrium, 11,500 square feet of space on the first level for cardiovascular and selectorized strength equipment, 4,600 square feet of space on the second level for cardiovascular equipment and plate-loaded strength equipment, and 2,700 square feet of space on the second level for free weights. The Center also includes a 3,600-square-foot varsity athletics weight room.
Friar Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex
The Friar Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex is an artificial-turf facility that opened in September 2005. This multi-million dollar facility serves as the home of the Friar field hockey and lacrosse teams. It also is used by intramural teams. The artificial-turf field was dedicated as the Marjorie D. Lennon and Rev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P. Field in 2010. Located beneath the complex is the Peterson Garage.
Schneider Arena, with a seating capacity of 3,030, is the home of the Friar hockey teams. The arena provides student activities such as ice skating and intramural hockey.
Slavin Center
Slavin Center, the student union, is one of the main hubs of the Providence College campus and is home to the College’s many student organizations and clubs. It also houses a variety of offices and facilities that provide services to students, from the Office of Student Housing (Residence Life and Off-Campus Living) and the Providence College Bookstore to the Center for Career Education & Professional Development, the Dean of Students Office, and ‘64 Hall, which serves as a meeting room, lecture hall, and function hall. The Alumni Hall Food Court is accessed through the lower level of Slavin Center. The Balfour Unity Center, also in lower Slavin, features multicultural art, hosts programs, is a place to study, and a popular meeting space for student clubs and organizations. The Living Room, in lower Slavin, features a fireplace and is a cozy place to study or hold informal meetings, and Dunkin Donuts is also located in lower Slavin. During the academic year, Slavin Center is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
McPhail’s Entertainment Facility
Slavin Center houses McPhail’s Entertainment Facility, a multipurpose student facility where students can gather throughout the week to socialize with friends, grab a snack, shoot a game of pool, or watch the big game on a wide-screen TV. A number of special entertainment offerings are promoted on a weekly basis throughout the academic year.
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Grand Lake Multi Use Path officially opens today with new name: The Maryann Corbett Trail.
The CBRM Active Transportation Committee, along with Velo Cape Breton, Cape Breton University and funding partners celebrated the official opening of the Maryann Corbett Trail today in Sydney. The ceremony took place at one of the Mayflower Mall trail entrances, revealing the new name, honouring Maryann Corbett, a former resident of the New Waterford area and true practitioner of active transportation.
Mrs. Corbett, at 69 years of age, was the winner of a walking race that was held in 1929 along the Sydney Glace Bay Highway. She is a remarkable example of a person who incorporated physical activity into her everyday life and practiced "active transportation" long before the term was used. The Maryann Corbett Trail was a project recommended by the CBRM Active Transportation Plan, which was adopted by CBRM Council in 2008.
The pathway is designed for both cyclists and pedestrians and is 3 metres wide, paved and 10 kilometres in length. Funding partners, in addition to the CBRM, included the Government of Canada, with contributions through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s (ACOA) Innovative Communities Fund and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund, and the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Energy’s Connect 2 Program and the Recreation Facility Development Program of the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage.
Approximately 65,000 persons live within 10 kilometres of the new Maryann Corbett Trail. The trail connects Sydney, CBRM’s largest community to the Glace Bay area, to Cape Breton University (CBU), the Marconi Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College, the McCurdy Airport and the region’s largest shopping centre, the Mayflower Mall. The pathway will be especially beneficial for the 500 students who live on the CBU campus as it will provide them with the opportunity to travel by bicycle to many regional destinations.
CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, in speaking about the project, commented, “This project will promote physical activity, will support environmentally friendly modes of transportation, and will enhance connectivity between the University and the surrounding communities. CBRM wants to thank everyone involved in this project, notably our many community and funding partners.”
“Congratulations to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on the completion of the Maryann Corbett Trail. It is an important addition to the amenities Cape Breton offers,” said Rodger Cuzner, Member of Parliament for Cape Breton – Canso, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for ACOA. “The Municipality has capitalized on a unique opportunity to build and strengthen the rural economy by developing infrastructure that enhances tourism and business investment potential by creating a more environmentally sustainable community.”
Energy and Mines Minister Derek Mombourquette, MLA for Sydney-Whitney Pier, said “From day one, The Province of Nova Scotia recognized the importance of this trail to the community. Over the years we’ve made a significant investment in this project to ensure Cape Bretoners have healthy, vibrant neighbourhoods, and all of us enjoy better air quality by reducing emissions.”
“The Cape Breton Regional Municipality has done a tremendous job contributing in a meaningful way to the national climate change agenda. We are proud to take part in this project, supporting local solutions with national impact and contributing to infrastructure renewal and our transition to a low-carbon economy,” said Vicki-May Hamm, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Photo: The Corbett family & community members at the Grand Opening
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Brain activity pattern may be early sign of schizophrenia
MIT neuroscientists found that patients who develop schizophrenia show abnormally high levels of communication between the superior temporal gyrus (brown) and the limbic regions (green).
Schizophrenia, a brain disorder that produces hallucinations, delusions, and cognitive impairments, usually strikes during adolescence or young adulthood. While some signs can suggest that a person is at high risk for developing the disorder, there is no way to definitively diagnose it until the first psychotic episode occurs.
MIT neuroscientists working with researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Shanghai Mental Health Center have now identified a pattern of brain activity correlated with development of schizophrenia, which they say could be used as a marker to diagnose the disease earlier.
“You can consider this pattern to be a risk factor. If we use these types of brain measurements, then maybe we can predict a little bit better who will end up developing psychosis, and that may also help tailor interventions,” says Guusje Collin, a visiting scientist at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the lead author of the paper.
The study, which appears in the journal Molecular Psychiatry on Nov. 8, was performed at the Shanghai Mental Health Center. Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, a visiting scientist at the McGovern Institute and a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, is one of the principal investigators for the study, along with Jijun Wang of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, William Stone of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the late Larry Seidman of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Martha Shenton of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Abnormal connections
Before they experience a psychotic episode, characterized by sudden changes in behavior and a loss of touch with reality, patients can experience milder symptoms such as disordered thinking. This kind of thinking can lead to behaviors such as jumping from topic to topic at random, or giving answers unrelated to the original question. Previous studies have shown that about 25 percent of people who experience these early symptoms go on to develop schizophrenia.
The research team performed the study at the Shanghai Mental Health Center because the huge volume of patients who visit the hospital annually gave them a large enough sample of people at high risk of developing schizophrenia.
The researchers followed 158 people between the ages of 13 and 34 who were identified as high-risk because they had experienced early symptoms. The team also included 93 control subjects, who did not have any risk factors. At the beginning of the study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure a type of brain activity involving “resting state networks.” Resting state networks consist of brain regions that preferentially connect with and communicate with each other when the brain is not performing any particular cognitive task.
“We were interested in looking at the intrinsic functional architecture of the brain to see if we could detect early aberrant brain connectivity or networks in individuals who are in the clinically high-risk phase of the disorder,” Whitfield-Gabrieli says.
One year after the initial scans, 23 of the high-risk patients had experienced a psychotic episode and were diagnosed with schizophrenia. In those patients’ scans, taken before their diagnosis, the researchers found a distinctive pattern of activity that was different from the healthy control subjects and the at-risk subjects who had not developed psychosis.
For example, in most people, a part of the brain known as the superior temporal gyrus, which is involved in auditory processing, is highly connected to brain regions involved in sensory perception and motor control. However, in patients who developed psychosis, the superior temporal gyrus became more connected to limbic regions, which are involved in processing emotions. This could help explain why patients with schizophrenia usually experience auditory hallucinations, the researchers say.
Meanwhile, the high-risk subjects who did not develop psychosis showed network connectivity nearly identical to that of the healthy subjects.
This type of distinctive brain activity could be useful as an early indicator of schizophrenia, especially since it is possible that it could be seen in even younger patients. The researchers are now performing similar studies with younger at-risk populations, including children with a family history of schizophrenia.
“That really gets at the heart of how we can translate this clinically, because we can get in earlier and earlier to identify aberrant networks in the hopes that we can do earlier interventions, and possibly even prevent psychiatric disorders,” Whitfield-Gabrieli says.
She and her colleagues are now testing early interventions that could help to combat the symptoms of schizophrenia, including cognitive behavioral therapy and neural feedback. The neural feedback approach involves training patients to use mindfulness meditation to reduce activity in the superior temporal gyrus, which tends to increase before and during auditory hallucinations.
The researchers also plan to continue following the patients in the current study, and they are now analyzing some additional data on the white matter connections in the brains of these patients, to see if those connections might yield additional differences that could also serve as early indicators of disease.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Collin was supported by a Marie Curie Global Fellowship grant from the European Commission.
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60 NCAA Players Drafted
NHL teams select players or recruits from 30 of 60 Division I programs.
Cameron Crotty was one of seven Boston University players or recruits selected in the NHL Draft, most of any school.
Half of all Division I programs had a player or recruit selected in the 2017 NHL Draft, with 60 current or future college hockey players drafted in the two-day event at Chicago’s United Center.
Sortable: NCAA Players/Recruits Selected
Six first-round picks began the proceedings on Friday night, followed by 54 additional selections on Saturday. Twenty-nine of the 31 NHL teams selected at least one player on the college path (Calgary and St. Louis the lone exceptions).
Boston University led all schools with seven players or commits selected, the second straight year that the Terriers had the most players taken in the draft. Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth, Penn State and Wisconsin each had four selections.
Eight of the players selected spent 2016-17 in NCAA hockey, led by first-round selections Ryan Poehling (St. Cloud State) and Jake Oettinger (Boston University).
Thirty of the college players selected are defensemen, equaling the number of forwards (25) and goaltenders (5) combined. That follows a trend that saw 37% of NHL defenseman this season come from the college ranks (compared to 32% of all players). Fifteen of the first 100 selections in the draft were current or future NCAA defensemen.
Also noteworthy:
The first 12 NCAA players taken represented nine schools
Cale Makar (No. 4 overall) became the highest draft choice in University of Massachusetts history; Makar’s future teammate, Mario Ferraro, became the second-highest Minuteman ever selected at 49th overall
Jake Oettinger is the first college goaltender selected in the first round of the draft since Cory Schneider (Boston College) in 2004
This marked the third year in a row that multiple current college players were selected in the first round of the draft
College hockey had a record 314 former players appear in the NHL in 2016-17, comprising 32% of the league (another record).
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I-T dept conducts searches at premises of pulses traders
By Unknown July 23, 2016
The Income Tax department has conducted searches in various states, including Gujarat and Maharashtra, on the premises of pulses traders, the government said today "Evidence of tax evasion and other violations of the I-T Act, 1961 were recovered during such actions," Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. He said the tax department had conducted searches and surveys at various premises of assessees engaged in the business of pulses. Such premises were located in various states, including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi. Business Standard New Delhi , 23th July 2016
Parliamentatry panel for less restriction ARC boards
A parliamentary panel has recommended doing away with the present restrictions on the composition of the board of directors of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs). And, suggested other changes in a government Bill to amend the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest ( Sarfaesi) Act, 2002 and other relevant legislation. A committee of both Houses, headed by Rajya Sabha member Bhupender Yadav of the ruling party, has recommended doing away with the existing clause in the Sarfaesi law which states that more than half of the members in an ARC board cannot be either nominees of any sponsor or associated in any manner with the sponsor or any of its subsidiaries. This was suggested following the proposed permission to the sponsor of an ARC to hold up to 100 per cent stake in it and to permit non- institutional investors to invest in securitisation receipts. Amendments to Sarfaesi were incorporated in the broader legislation— the Enforcement of…
I-T info for over Rs 50L income raises hackles
Consultants Grapple With Valuations Of Jewellery, Assets During Disclosures A tax consultant with a leading firm is facing a unique problem. His father had bought a Swiss watch almost 60 years ago. When a local shopkeeper saw it, he offered to buy the watch for a pittance. The consultant then sent it to the company , which has estimated the cost of repair at $5,000 (over Rs 3 lakh). With the income tax department seeking detailed disclosures of assets -property , bullion, jewellery , vehicles, yachts, aircraft, etc -from those with taxable income of over Rs 50 lakh during 2015-16, tax practitioners have been grappling with a series of queries and clarifications. While the consultant with the Swiss watch is finding it tough to ascertain the value, his counterpart at another firm believes that there is no need to provide any details, pointing to the rules released by the income tax department. “Jewellery is not clearly defined. It can include diamond-studded or gold-plated watches,“ said M…
GST Bill Slated for Passage in Rajya Sabha Next Week
Sources said Cong has softened its stand & some meeting is likely by the beginning of next week There appears to be some forward movement on the Goods and Services Tax Bill with Congress showing a more positive attitude towards the government on the issue, leading the Narendra Modi dispensation to list it in the business for the forthcoming week in the Rajya Sabha. Government sources claimed that Congress has softened its stand at Congress has softened its stand to some extent on the GST Bill and some meeting ground is likely by the beginning of next week. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been engaged in back channel negotiations with the Congress leaders. However, a structured meeting has not been held after the `preliminary talks' between the government and the principal Opposition before the Monsoon Session began. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi stated in the Rajya Sabha that the Goods and Services Tax Bill is listed for discussion and passage i…
Over Rs 8 lakh cr tax revenue locked up in appeals
Over Rs 8 lakh crore tax revenue was locked up in appeals before various courts and authorities at the end of last fiscal, government said today. As on March 31, 2016, over 3 lakh cases were pending before the Commissioner of Income-Tax (Appeals), Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), High Courts and Supreme Court, Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. Business Standard New Delhi,23th July 2016
1. Permission to pay service tax through non electronic modes.
2. Sebi may help in government’s recapitalisation plans for PSBs.
3. CBDT gives option to file revised income declaration in Form 1 of IDS.
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5. CBDT launches paperless PAN & TAN application process, PAN/TIN to be issued within one day. New Aadhaar e-Signature based application process also made available.
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Intel leak in Finland
Thread: Intel leak in Finland
Apparently this was at a level equal to TS/SCI.
Defence Forces file criminal complaint over newspaper's intelligence story
The Finnish Defence Forces' Defence Command has filed a criminal complaint regarding the disclosure of security intelligence data to Finland's most widely-read newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat. The paper featured a story on a top secret intelligence research centre on Saturday
Rationalization by the editor.
Esa Mkinen, editor at Helsingin Sanomat, explained in a column late Saturday afternoon that the newspaper decided to make the data public in line with its primary duty to inform.
"The most important task of the media is to monitor and control the activities of the authorities. HS is responsible for supplying its readers with sufficient truthful information about what is happening in society," he wrote.
The editor makes the case that the residents of Finland, and even its MPs, know very little about the centre that was reported on in the article, and so the paper felt compelled to share the data it had obtained.
Mkinen wrote in his column that "if you want to say more than the official data, you have to rely on classified information".
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/d..._story/9981036
Meanwhile, the Kremlin's laughing up it's sleeve.
The intelligence center’s surveillance activities were not confined to Russia, but that country was effectively the primary target of the operation, the paper notes. The center, it says, has been tasked with detecting Russian military movements in the St. Petersburg region based on electromagnetic radiation.
Special attention was drawn to Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline project, laid under the Baltic Sea and running from Vyborg to the coast city of Greifswald in north-east Germany.
At the end of the past decade, prior to the construction of the first line of the project that began in 2010, the Finnish intelligence services were seriously concerned about the potential use of the pipeline and its service towers for espionage, arguing that surveillance systems could be planted inside them. The concerns apparently faded with time, as the center stopped considering this possibility in 2006.
https://www.rt.com/news/413439-finla...report-russia/
Plot twist, found while looking for relevant updates.
Professor and former Finnish ambassador, Alpo Rusi and the former party secretary of The Finnish Centre Party, author Jarmo Korhonen have published a new book titled “The Kremlin’s Footsteps – Finlandization and Background of the 2002 Spy Scandal” (Kremlin jalanjälet – suomettuminen ja vuoden 2002 vakoilukohun tausta (Docendo 2017)). The book is available only in Finnish, but it cover issues of high international relevance.
Alpo Rusi – who is currently a professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania – became the focus of a Finnish spying scandal after leaving his post as an advisor to Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari (1994-2000). Alpo Rusi’s brother, Jukka, had been in contact with the East German STASI during the Cold War and documents concerning Jukka Rusi – in which Alpo Rusi was marked as a possible future contact – were used to label him as a spy.
The spying claims concerning Alpo Rusi were completely false, but the investigation process revealed many gaps in Finnish society and the challenges of Finnish “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” [the struggle to overcome the past] in general. What happened to Rusi and President Ahtisaari has become a prototype for Kremlin-style active measures. While the investigation itself was kafkaesque, the details contained inside the broader situation were created during the era of finlandization.
https://upnorth.eu/finnish-historian...-intelligence/
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Drama in the Persian Gulf (Tehran gets uppity)
Thread: Drama in the Persian Gulf (Tehran gets uppity)
4 Weeks Ago #1
Considering what this is doing to the price per barrel of gasoline, and the potential plot twists where this could wind up down the road, a separate thread is warranted.
The US military on Friday released a video it said shows Iran's Revolutionary Guards removing an unexploded mine from one of the oil tankers targeted in the Gulf of Oman. Tehran denied involvement, accusing the US of waging an "Iranophobic campaign".
https://www.france24.com/en/20190614...ng-iran-attack
Shortly after the crews of the two tankers attacked this week in the Gulf of Oman evacuated their stricken vessels, the ships that rescued them were surrounded by Iranian military boats and told to transfer the mariners into their custody, according to declassified U.S. intelligence reports obtained on Friday by CBS News.
One of the civilian rescue ships eventually complied with the Iranian military's request. The other did not. The new details help to paint a picture of what happened Thursday in the Gulf, near the vital shipping channel of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a third of the world's oil supply passes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tanker-...ce-2019-06-14/
The Japanese owner of a tanker attacked in the Gulf of Oman claimed Friday that it was struck by a flying projectile, contradicting reports by U.S. officials and the military on the source of the blast.
"We received reports that something flew towards the ship," said Yutaka Katada, president of Kokaku Sangyo Co. at a press conference. "The place where the projectile landed was significantly higher than the water level, so we are absolutely sure that this wasn’t a torpedo. I do not think there was a time bomb or an object attached to the side of the ship."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/j...-used-n1017556
Related?
(Bloomberg) -- A group of hackers that shut down a Saudi Arabian oil and natural gas facility in 2017 is now targeting electric utilities, according to the cybersecurity company Dragos Inc.
The group, Xenotime, has been probing utilities in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific regions since late 2018, Hanover, Maryland-based Dragos said in a blog post Friday. They’ve focused mostly on electronic control systems that manage the operations at industrial sites, Dragos said.
U.S. officials have long warned grids are acutely vulnerable to cyber attacks. Disrupting a region’s electrical infrastructure could cause widespread chaos, triggering blackouts and crippling financial markets, transportation systems and more.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/hackers-...grid-1.1273504
Dragos has shied away from naming any country that might be behind Xenotime's attacks. Despite initial speculation that Iran was responsible for the Triton attack on Saudi Arabia, security firm FireEye in 2018 pointed to forensic links between the Petro Rabigh attack and a Moscow research institute, the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics. If Xenotime is in fact a Russian or Russia-sponsored group, they would be far from the only Russian hackers to target the grid. The Russian hacker group known as Sandworm is believed to be responsible for attacks on Ukrainian electric utilities in 2015 and 2016 that cut power to hundreds of thousands of people, the only blackouts confirmed to have been triggered by hackers. And last year the Department of Homeland Security warned that a Russian group known as Palmetto Fusion or Dragonfly 2.0 had gained access to the actual control systems of American power utilities, bringing them much closer to causing a blackout than Xenotime has gotten thus far.
https://www.wired.com/story/triton-h...us-power-grid/
Stay tuned. This sounds like it's going to get stupid.
Historical backgrounder for those too young to remember the First Act.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Mysterious attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz this week show how one of the world’s crucial chokepoints for global energy supplies can be easily targeted, 30 years after the U.S. Navy and Iran were entangled in a similarly shadowy conflict called the “Tanker War.” While the current tensions are nowhere near the damage done then, it underscores how dangerous the situation is and how explosive it can become.
https://www.apnews.com/ceb6e7a86bf14a9a8d8ecf81c9dcc7ef
Someone's been reading up on Kraska's deniability scenario (PDF) and basic maskirovka.
“The Department of Defense will be reluctant to retaliate until they are certain what happened and who fired on whom, and why,” he said.
The U.S. has been beefing up naval and air power, capable of striking Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf over the last month after the White House said it had information about possible future attacks against American interests. The Pentagon would not say Thursday whether there were plans to speed the buildup.
Nader and Cancian believe it’s possible Iranian-funded Houthi rebels, who are mired in a civil war in Yemen, may be to blame. If that’s the case, “the U.S. will not want to get involved in a shooting war over Yemen,” Cancian said.
It will likely take days, weeks or even months for the military to go through the forensics needed to find out exactly who is behind the attack. But if it is determined to be Iran, Cancian believes the U.S. forces in the area will make quick work of Iran’s navy. “The U.S. has assets designed to take on Russia and China. Iran’s ships are very exposed. I’d expect the U.S. would be able to sink Iran’s navy in about two days.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/14/us-b...-could-do.html
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The Independent has the DoD video, not great quality and without anything in support e.g. mapping showing the boat's onward journey.
Link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8958376.html
Previous post would not accept editing. Bellingcat adds in the NYT a commentary:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/o...r-attacks.html
How merchant ships can keep safe in dangerous waters
I doubt many, indeed any readers of the Forum will need this, but it may help others understand the risks and how to mitigate them. Plus there are multiple links:https://theconversation.com/gulf-of-oman-attacks-how-merchant-ships-can-keep-safe-in-dangerous-waters-118952?
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Turbulent Times - Brief Thoughts on the Gulf Security Situation
A British blogger's commentary that ends with:
This remains a complex and fast moving situation, and more events will surely follow. But, for now, it is worth trying to capture some of the bigger issues as it moves along, and in time consider the lessons and impacts more broadly. Whatever else happens, the hope must be that this ends peacefully and not with an escalation into an ever more challenging proxy war, where the new threshold of gradually accepted use of low level violence suddenly leads to an accidental escalation of something significantly more widespread by accident.
Link:https://thinpinstripedline.blogspot....s-on-gulf.html
An IISS commentary by an ex-diplomat that ends - nearly - with:
Whatever the strategy of either side, it is possible that with an increased amount of tension, rhetoric and military personnel in the region a miscalculation trips both sides into uncontrolled escalation. That is a legitimate concern that surfaced with the downing of the drone. But even in the event of miscalculation, the escalation need not be automatic.
Link:https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/...an-in-the-gulf
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The US may have withheld a physical military response to Iran shooting down a drone, but it might not have shown similar restraint with a digital campaign. Washington Post sources say the President greenlit a long-in-the-making cyberattack that took down Iranian missile control computers on the night of June 20th. The exact impact of the Cyber Command operation isn't clear, but it was described as "crippling" -- Iran couldn't easily recover, one tipster said.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/22/...-control-syste
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Tehran And Its Iraqi Allies Respond Asymmetrically To Trump Admin’s Iran Policy
US against Iran: war by other means
A French newspaper article by a Canadian journalist familiar with the region; useful as gives a comprehensive overview of the region and more. After the recent White House announcement this is topical:
Yet, countries under sanctions rarely concede to ‘outside interference’, ‘imperialist pressure’ or ‘economic terrorism’. As an instrument of national power, the imposition of sanctions is a blunt tool that achieves little other than privation and enmity.
(Later) While the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign is significantly damaging the economy and causing suffering among ordinary Iranians, it has not altered Iran’s campaign of ‘maximum resistance’ — if anything, it has strengthened Iranian resolve to resist.
Link:https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/us-...by-other-means
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Iran in the Gulf: signalling, skirmishing or war?
An IISS commentary that opens with:
Iran has been engaged in a steady and escalating series of hostile acts in recent months. As John Raine explains, the principal messages behind them are ones of defiance and capability.
Link:https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/...n-in-the-gulf?
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The march toward war continues
The rather pessimistic title comes from a 'Foreign Affairs' article (commended via Twitter and only the opening is free to view) and the article opens with:
With each passing day, the United States and Iran draw each other deeper into conflict. So far, they have stopped short of war. But the likelihood of an armed conflict increases with every additional provocation, whether it is an attack on a civilian tanker ship or another round of sanctions.
Link:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2019-06-28/us-and-iran-are-marching-toward-war?
Just who is going to join in? There is this rather unusual statement from Mossad:
Israel and U.S.-aligned Arab countries have a unique chance to forge a regional peace deal given their shared worries about Iran, the chief of Israel’s Mossad spy service said on Monday.
Link:https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-is...-idUKKCN1TW2LI
Paul Rogers explains the potential for the UK being involved, alongside Oman and Qatar. He also notes this rather large movement of USAF explosives to a munitions depot in the UK, near to a RAF base used - at times - by USAF strategic bombers:
Also relevant is one of the largest US Air Force munitions stockpile sites in Europe at RAF Welford, 35 km southeast of Fairford, in Berkshire. It may just be a coincidence that last month a US Air Force unit moved a substantial quantity of munitions from the United States through a port of entry, reported to be Newport in South Wales, to Welford. In this five-day operation, the largest of its kind for a decade, 71 trucks moved 121 containers with 450,000 lb (204,000 kg) net explosive weight.
Link:https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org....tish-dimension
May be just a routine matter that move. I think not.
Too many questions after this
Does this strange story, originally in a Kuwaiti paper and now on National Interest's website have an effect on the current situation?
It starts with:
Iranian Air Force commander Brigadier General Farzad Ismaili, who had been in office since 2010, has been fired by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after he kept secret that Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35 stealth fighters had violated Iran’s airspace, the Kuwaiti daily Al Jarida reported on Saturday. The newspaper emphasized that it was the original media source that exposed the Israeli raids, which had taken place in March 2018.
The most puzzling sentence is this, with my bold:
According to Al Jarida, Iranian intelligence received top secret information that the Israeli fighter planes even managed to photograph Iran’s underground bases. Khamenei, who received this information, now suspects a cooperation between Russia and Israel, and that the Russians gave Israel the secret code of the Russian radar in Iran – according to the Kuwaiti newspaper.
Link:https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...-iran-airspace
1 Week Ago #14
A nasty, brutal fight”: what a US-Iran war would look like
A pessimistic story which concludes:
The bottom line: It’d be hell on earth
Link:https://www.vox.com/world/2019/7/8/1...p-nuclear-iraq
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Molecular matching makes an IMPACT
by Kelsey Kaustinen | Email the author
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
HOUSTON—Precision medicine efforts are underway across the globe, but it could be argued that few are quite as extensive as the IMPACT (Initiative for Molecular Profiling and Advanced Cancer Therapy) study by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, retrospective results for which were presented at the 2018 American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. The study looked to determine the results of matching patients to therapies based on tumor-specific gene mutations across tumor types, with participants receiving either matched targeted therapy (MTT) or non-matched treatment (NMT). As seen with long-term data, the MTT group had a three-year overall survival (OS) of 15 percent, compared to 7 percent in the NMT group, and a 10-year OS of 6 percent, compared to 1 percent in the NMT group.
A total of 3,743 MD Anderson patients were enrolled in IMPACT from 2007 to 2013, with all patients referred to MD Anderson’s Phase 1 program with end-stage disease. Median age was 57 years, with women representing 61 percent of participants and men representing 39 percent. Breast, lung, melanoma, gastrointestinal and gynecologic cancers were the most common in this group, with 77.7 percent of patients' cancer types falling into those categories.
All IMPACT participants underwent molecular testing, with 1,307 found to have at least one molecular alteration, 711 receiving MTT (with or without chemotherapy) and 596 receiving NMT. Of those who received MTT, the majority received an investigational drug under evaluation in a clinical trial, while others received a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved targeted therapy commercially approved for another indication. Earlier in the course of the study, patients were tested for mutations in individual genes, according to an ASCO press release, but as the study progressed it switched to next-generation sequencing to test 20 to 50 genes at at time.
Dr. Apostolia M. Tsimberidou, professor of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at MD Anderson and principal investigator for IMPACT, presented the findings at ASCO.
“This is the first and largest study—with the longest follow-up—to assess the impact of precision medicine approaches on survival across multiple cancer types,” said Tsimberidou. “Our findings show that molecular testing of tumors using next generation sequencing can be used to optimize therapy and should be taken into consideration when selecting therapy for patients with difficult-to-treat cancers.”
“When we opened IMPACT, it was viewed as incredibly novel. Because of the variability, frequency and rarity of alterations in specific solid tumor types, it was thought it would be difficult to use molecular testing for clinical trial selection, without taking into consideration any specific characteristics,” she added. “However, gleaning from our Gleevec-CML experience, we hypothesized that genetic and molecular analysis of solid tumors also could enable the selection of optimal therapy for patients with solid tumors.”
Of the patients who received MTT, median progression-free survival (PFS) was four months, with median OS of 9.3 months. Those who received NMT saw median PFS of 2.8 months and median OS of 7.3 months.
IMPACT's investigators used trial data to create a prognostic score that could predict OS, and MD Anderson reported that the absence of liver metastases, normal LDH levels, normal functional status, albumin levels and platelet counts are all independent factors for longer OS—as was receiving MTT. Accordingly, liver metastases, elevated LDH levels, poor functional status, low albumin levels, elevated platelet counts and an age of 60 years or older were all associated with shorter OS. Molecular alterations in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and NMT also registered as independent factors for shorter OS.
“When IMPACT first opened, we tested for no more than one-to-two genes,” Tsimberidou noted. “Now patients are being tested for hundreds of actionable genes, amplifications and mutations, as well as for immune markers. Ideally, in the future, patients’ tumor testing and cell-free DNA analysis will become the standard of care at the time of diagnosis, in hopes of making a difference for patients upfront, especially in those with hard-to-treat cancers.”
A follow-on study is already underway—IMPACT2, a randomized Phase 2 study comparing PFS in MTT patients versus NMT patients. MD Anderson announced an alliance in August 2014 with Foundation Medicine to conduct IMPACT2. Foundation Medicine's FoundationOne is a validated, comprehensive genomic profiling assay that can detect all classes of genomic alterations in solid tumors across 315 cancer-related genes and 28 genes that are often rearranged in cancer. An MD Anderson press release noted a prediction that more patients will be eligible for MTT in IMPACT2 compared to IMPACT1 due to FoundationOne's more comprehensive abilities compared to the previously used molecular testing.
“Based on the IMPACT1 data, a validated, comprehensive profiling approach has already been adopted by many academic and community-based oncology practices. They use this approach for select groups of cancer patients for whom existing diagnostic and treatment options are inadequate, such as non-small cell lung cancer, cancer of unknown primary and rare tumors,” Dr. Vincent Miller, chief medical officer of Foundation Medicine, said in a 2014 release detailing the launch of IMPACT2. “This study has the potential to yield sufficient evidence necessary to support broader adoption across most newly diagnosed metastatic tumors. We’re pleased to partner with MD Anderson, who is uniquely positioned to execute this study given their clinical trials expertise.”
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Who would be your next coach
by JDetroitTitan » Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:34 pm
I would go with Andy Bronkema because one he lives in Michigan, secondly he is a young up and coming coach and thirdly he has a proven track record with Ferris State.
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Re: Who would be your next coach
by R.B.J1 » Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:55 am
I have thought about who should be hired as our next coach. Dwayne Stephens popped in my mind, but he might be tainted now. Mcsam was in favor of hiring Lou Dawkins. I am sure we will have plenty of candidates, either this spring or next spring. Bleacher Report had an article about up and coming assistant coaches last fall, none of them pique my interest.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2740 ... in-2017-18
I think we should take a look at Lindsey Hunter, he had a nice nba career, and the parents of potential recruits in metro Detroit should remember him from his days as a Piston. He is currently an assistant coach at Buffalo.
http://www.ubbulls.com/sports/mbkb/coac ... y?view=bio
by JDetroitTitan » Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:29 am
R.B.J1 wrote: I have thought about who should be hired as our next coach. Dwayne Stephens popped in my mind, but he might be tainted now. Mcsam was in favor of hiring Lou Dawkins. I am sure we will have plenty of candidates, either this spring or next spring. Bleacher Report had an article about up and coming assistant coaches last fall, none of them pique my interest.
I like both these pick but I would be concerned that they are only assistant coaches since BA was an assistant coach from UM. My feeling is still give BA one more year to turn this thing around .
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by udballer » Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:36 am
Michael Thomas. Young, energetic, defense-focused. Multiple Class A state championships. Contacts throughout the state (Flint, Saginaw, Kalamazoo). Currently in process of turning a subpar Class A team into a state contender in year 1. College coaching experience, college playing experience... though at a lower level. He should cost us less than the current staff and deliver much, much more.
by Commissioner » Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:46 pm
Obviously you have to look at the whole package and who is right for the job. I wouldn't start by automatically ruling out anybody who doesn't meet some specific criteria. But that said, I want someone who has been a successful head coach. And that said, I expect BA to be back.
by Commissioner » Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:43 pm
Commissioner wrote: Obviously you have to look at the whole package and who is right for the job. I wouldn't start by automatically ruling out anybody who doesn't meet some specific criteria. But that said, I want someone who has been a successful head coach. And that said, I expect BA to be back.
For example, I'd want someone like John Becker at Vermont. His reported salary there is $275K. We probably can't get him--they are raising funds for a new, $80 million athletic complex, and he turned down the Duquesne job last year. But that's the kind of guy I'd want. He's 49.
Casey Alexander at Lipscomb earns about $250K, maybe less. He took over a team coming off back-to-back 18 loss seasons. He's in his 5th year, and they're having their second straight 20-win season. Before that he was head coach at Stetson, where he took over a team that had won 7 and 8 games in the two prior years, and got them to 15 wins in year two, when he left for Lipscomb. Before that, he was an assistant at Belmont. He's 45, and a proven winner.
Pat Kelsey at Winthrop earns $227,500. He accepted the Massachusetts job last year, then changed his mind and returned to Winthrop. A la Don Haskins, when he got to UMass he said it "just didn't feel right." Winthrop was 13-17 and 12-20 in the two years before he took over. They went 14-17, then won 20 games in year two. They've won 19, 23, 26, and 18 (so far) since. Before that he graduated from and was an assistant at Xavier, so he's got the Catholic thing and some knowledge of our area and Xavier's successful program. He's 42. We probably can't get him--he'll hold out for a better job--but that's the kind of record I'm looking for.
Bashir Mason at Wagner is just 34. He's a Hurley family protege, who has won 61 games the past three seasons at the little Staton Island college. He's paid under $200K at Wagner.
Rob Krimmel at St. Francis is 41. They've won 18 games this year, the most since Jim Baron was coach in 1991. In the 7 years before Krimmel took over, they hadn't won more than 11 games in a season.
Bob Richey at Furman is 32, and has won 22 games in his first season. He's almost certainly getting paid less than $200K.
I'd also take a proven D-II winner, like Andy Bronkema from Ferris State. Early 30s in age, ranked #2 in the country, a winner as a player (Cornerstone) and head coach.
In other words, as low as we've sunk the last few years, the salary and resources here still make this a pretty good job compared to many others. I'm not suggesting that any of these guys are THE GUY. They are just a few examples of young guys out there who are proven winners, many proven turn-around artists, for whom the Detroit job should still be attractive, and that's what I'm looking for.
by udballer » Thu Mar 01, 2018 2:26 pm
Good post, Commish. I'll take any of these guys if Thomas turns us down.
by Resurget Cineribus » Thu Mar 01, 2018 4:48 pm
I agree, excellent post. I don’t know if we could get many of these but maybe
the Ferris coach whose name has come up before. I think we are a high risk/reward
school so we have to pay. On the other hand, maybe Bacari can himself win 15 next year
and start digging out of the hole he is in. I still believe he was the right choice and can
still win at this level. But even I would lose patience with another 8 win season.
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by StJoeUofD » Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:03 pm
I am not sure I would start by looking for a young guy. I think I would look for a steely veteran that is looking for his last chance to turn around a program. He would be old enough (over 60) to get great respect and patient enough to handle all the negative vibes that are around the program. One of his charges would be to find a couple asst. coaches that could be developed into the next head coach. Set up your system, train the assistants in what respect for the game and responsibility to the team are all about, then pass it along in 3-5 years. For a guy like that money doesn't matter, only the challenge.
If you are going young, get Andy Bronkema.
StJoeUofD
by JDetroitTitan » Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:39 pm
JDetroitTitan wrote: I would go with Andy Bronkema because one he lives in Michigan, secondly he is a young up and coming coach and thirdly he has a proven track record with Ferris State.
Guess who won division 2 NCAA tournament. Yes Andy Bronkema the next UDM coach!!(fake new we don’t have that pull)
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by 77-85Titan » Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:07 pm
Lavar Ball. He can bring in a shoe contract and, in keeping with U-D tradition, he can bring in family members.
77-85Titan
by kirky313 » Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:37 pm
Rp3... Just like what Memphis just did last week.
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by upbasketballfan » Mon Mar 26, 2018 6:41 pm
Willie Green?
upbasketballfan
by Titan Jim » Mon Mar 26, 2018 6:50 pm
Andy Bronkema
Titan Jim
by R.B.J1 » Mon Mar 26, 2018 6:57 pm
upbasketballfan wrote: Willie Green?
That would be a home run hire, but would he be interested? He's probably making at least $500,000, living in California, the Golden State Warriors are perennial contenders. He doesnt have to recruit or deal with boosters,demanding alumni, and a few fans. If I was Willie Green...I'd say thanks, but no thanks.
A related topic should be: "How long after JJ gets fired before JJJ transfers?". Followed by "Who would take him?"
Answers: Immediately and CCNY.
by Titans96 » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:39 pm
We can only hope... It certainly wouldn't hurt the Titans.
JJJr would leave immediately. No one would want him except maybe Houston Baptist or Incarnate Word.
Titans96
by R.B.J1 » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:27 pm
I would like for the titans to at least interview Montana's head coach Travis DeCuire, his team played very disciplined against Michigan in the NCAA tournament and actually had the wolverines down 10-0. If he can get players to sign with him to attend school in Missoula, Montana, he should able to do really well getting players to Detroit. I am sure he wants to get the heck out of Montana too.
https://gogriz.com/coaches.aspx?rc=192&path=mbball
by JDetroitTitan » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:35 pm
R.B.J1 wrote: I would like for the titans to at least interview Montana's head coach Travis DeCuire, his team played very disciplined against Michigan in the NCAA tournament and actually had the wolverines down 10-0. If he can get players to sign with him to attend school in Missoula, Montana, he should able to do really well getting players to Detroit. I am sure he wants to get the heck out of Montana too.
Nice fine. I like that he has a solid record
by ptctitan » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:36 pm
One thing is clear. Some posters here will not be happy with whatever Vowels decides.
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Offered to match state investments in leadership development and community planning
The period leading up to the 2007 legislative session was an exciting time for early care and education advocates, and for the Memorial Fund. Over the previous years, awareness and political support for early childhood issues had been growing. State leaders, legislators, agencies and government officials were focused on the issue.
Governor M. Jodi Rell had sought legislation in 2006 to establish the Connecticut Early Childhood Education Cabinet (the Cabinet), charged with evaluating the school readiness program, as well as an Early Childhood Research and Policy Council (the Council) to support this work. The Cabinet was informed and supported by a network of state agencies that had begun working more closely together.
To take advantage of this momentum, the Memorial Fund Trustees voted at the end of 2006 to extend and intensify the Discovery initiative. What had started as a 6-year, $16 million initiative had grown into an 8-year, $28 million initiative.
There were still areas of serious concern. Funding for the Parent Trust Fund , which provided grants for parent leadership training, would have been eliminated under the proposed state budget. While advocates had started working together, they were still advancing different and sometimes competing agendas. And, Discovery communities were, overall, still more focused on affecting change on the local level than driving an agenda at the state level.
By the start of the 2007 session, the Memorial Fund had developed relationships with state agencies and leaders, other local and national funders. Executive Director David Nee, in his role as the co-chair of the Research and Policy Council, had been working with a committee examining how public and private resources could be collectively allocated to community capacity building. This exploration led to an offer to the State of Connecticut – the Memorial Fund would allocate $900,000 in 2007-2009 for local planning and $350,000 in the first two years for parent leadership training if the state would match this investment, dollar for dollar, in new funds.
The State accepted the offer. The additional funds allowed the Parent Trust Fund to support thirty-seven parent leadership programs in communities, compared to twenty-one prior to the increase in funds. A whole new group of parents, grandparents, and other adult caregivers, more than 1,000 per year since 2007, received civic leadership training that would prepare them to work with school, community, and state leaders to improve health, safety, and learning for all children.
The state matching funds for community planning were used for grants, technical assistance and to document this new partnership. The early childhood work already underway in communities provided the foundation for the roll-out of this work. Through the partnership, 23 communities developed comprehensive community plans for early childhood by 2009.
Overall, the matching funds strategy increased the visibility and credibility of the work and created opportunities to build relationships. The plans served as a platform for communities and statewide organizations to rally around. Relationships among the State and private funding partners were built and strengthened. Advocates were able to connect their work to this process and the plans developed in the 23 communities. In addition, the plans received local press interest and attention from elected officials. The resources going into Discovery communities increased significantly as did awareness of the local collaboratives.
Starting in 2010, the Memorial Fund made funding available to develop comprehensive plans in 20 more communities and to implement existing plans in 15 communities. The Children’s Fund of Connecticut provided another $100,000 per year to continue to support health strategies across both groups of communities. The public-private partnership has shifted its focus to supporting local decision-making structure and process in implementing, enhancing or developing comprehensive community plans.
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The closure of Dahlan's satellite channel underscored the brewing dispute between Fatah's two leading figures, as President Abbas accuses Dahlan of insubordination
Saleh Naami in Gaza, Monday 6 Dec 2010
The decision by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah yesterday to shut down the satellite channel, Tomorrow's Palestine, which is co-owned and overseen by Mohamed Dahlan, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, was yet another manifestation of severely deteriorating relations between Dahlan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Although the director of the broadcast station, Elias Al-Zananiri, refused to comment to Ahram Online on the closure, he instead attributed it to "the legal steps". A reporter at the channel, who asked to remain anonymous, said that this is part of ongoing enmity between Dahlan and Abbas.
This most recent action is the latest in a series initiated by Abbas against Dahlan, which thus far have included the reduction of police protection outside his home and the issuance of a decision to "purge" Dahlan's supporters from important posts within West Bank ministries and the security apparatus. What is more, Abbas formed a committee to investigate Dahlan's "insolence" towards him, headed by Abu Maher Ghoneim and including Azzam Ahmed and Othman Abu Ghreiba -- all members of Fatah's Central Committee.
Sources told Ahram Onlinethat the recent dispute erupted after Abbas received reports that Dahlan strongly criticised him and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad during Fatah meetings in the West Bank and Palestinian gatherings in the Arab world. Dahlan, according to these informed sources, was especially critical of Abbas's negotiating tactics with Israel, adding that Abbas was ready to make "very dangerous compromises".
Examples of these "compromising" statements appeared in Haaretz newspaper when Yasser Abed Rabbo, a close adviser to Abbas, was reported as saying that the PA was prepared to recognise the Jewish character of the state of Israel if a Palestinian state were to be established. Dahlan has condemned such statements as well as others made by Abbas in which the Palestinian president indicated his acquiescence to Israel's preferred self-description.
Abbas, as sources allege, was most irked by the fact that Dahlan was able to form a large camp among senior ranks in Fatah's Central Committee to direct and indirectly work against the Palestinian leader. This clique includes Tawfiq Al-Tiray, the former director of General Intelligence, former foreign minister Nasser Al-Qudwa, former governor of Nablus, Mohamed Al-Alul, and leader of Fatah in Lebanon Sultan Abu Enein. The move has also caught the interest of a large number of members of Fatah's Revolutionary Council.
The Palestinian presdient and his circle accuse Dahlan of challenging their authority by attempting to convince Al-Qudwa, the nephew of late President Yasser Arafat, to compete for the leaderships of Fatah and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), since he is presently more "competent" to lead the Palestinian people.
Dahlan's attempts to "blatantly" interfere in the affairs of Fayyad's government also drew bitter criticism from the president, according to Ahram Online sources who indicated that Dahlan attempted to manoeuvre a cabinet reshuffle. They allege Dahlan went as far as phoning several figures in Gaza to offer them possible ministerial posts in the new cabinet – Abbas and Fayyad had no knowledge of this at the time. Abbas cancelled the cabinet shuffle.
Sources assert that Abbas was able to secure the support of Egypt and Jordan in confronting Dahlan, and accordingly, the Egyptian authorities informed Dahlan that he is unwelcome in Egypt and will only be allowed passage through the country but not permission to stay. Meanwhile, the Jordanian authorities have subjected Dahlan to intrusive searches as he enters and exits Jordan.
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Review: Cinderella: Age of Darkness (1 of 3)
Submitted by S.J. Mitchell on Tue, 10/28/2014 - 16:02
Title: Cinderella: Age of Darkness (1 of 3)
Publisher: Xenoscope
Creative Team: Joe Brusha and Pat Shand (story), Pat Shand (writer), Ryan Best (artist), Renato Guerra (colorist), Jim Campbell (letterer), Nicole Glade (editor)
The latest offering by upstart indie company, Zenescope, is a Cinderella story like you've never heard before. Of course ALL of their fairy tales are unlike any you've heard before; that's kind of the point. In this version of the tale, 'Cindy', has drawn the ire of the Dark Queen for her repeated failures as an assassin. Rather than just kill Cindy herself, the Queen has decided to task her with a suicide mission: Hunt down and kill Hades, the last living God. Armed with her own sword, three 'gifts', and repeated advice to just run away, Cindy is out to prove once and for all that she's not an idiot...
Cindy is portrayed as a slightly air-headed badass with a chip on her shoulder. Not always making the best decisions, she has an affinity for style points. She’s a flawed character and those are the best kinds. It allows room for growth as her story develops, I just hope she doesn’t lose any of her charm along the way. Her internal dialogue is wonderfully entertaining and is worthy of a good laugh. There are several moving parts to the plot as we see things from Cindy’s point of view, as well as Hades’. Shand has us jumping back and forth as the story develops and gets a lot accomplished in setting up this 3 issue mini-series. The moments of levity mixed with action will have you reading at a quick pace. You won’t want to stop and study the panels as you get wrapped up in the dialogue.
That’s not to say that the art isn’t worth it though…
I won’t bury the lead here. The art is beautiful. Ryan Best delivers dynamic action sequences and he really excels in a place where I don’t think artists get nearly enough credit when they do it right, and criticism for not doing it at all: facial expressions. We get so much out of a single lift of the eyebrow, it allows us to see that these characters have genuine personalities and aren’t just ‘cookie cutter’ robots. The backgrounds provide just the right amount of detail so it doesn’t clutter, but still give you a sense of depth. Movement is clearly defined in a way that it doesn’t look like characters are standing still and ‘posing’, there is a lot of life in these pages. It’s enjoyable enough that you can re-read this issue, just to admire the artwork.
Favorite NON-Spoiler(ish) Line:
"It's less ‘I don't know’ and more ‘I don't give a crap’. Either way, I get a version of what I want."
The first of three issues in the Cinderalla: Age of Darkness mini-series, by Zenescope, was a lot of fun. It contains a nice mix of violence, drama and levity blended with wonderful art. Pat Shand once again delivers a fantastical first chapter in his latest comic book fairy-tale adventure.
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Slave sheep & MIT Lincoln Lab help Nazi DHS with Cybernetic prison surveillance
Author Topic: Slave sheep & MIT Lincoln Lab help Nazi DHS with Cybernetic prison surveillance (Read 2743 times)
Anti_Illuminati
Notice that a lot of their cybernetic enslavement programs are named AFTER PAGAN GODS?
http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/homeland/homelandprotection.html
The Homeland Protection mission is supporting the nation's homeland security by developing technology and systems to help prevent terrorist attacks within the U.S., to reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and to minimize the damage and assist in the recovery from terrorist attacks. Current sponsors for this mission area include the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and other federal, state, and local entities. Efforts include architecture studies for the defense of civilians and facilities against potential biological attacks, development of the Enhanced Regional Situation Awareness system for the air defense of the National Capital Region, development of cyber-security technology for critical homeland infrastructure protection, and the evaluation of technologies for border and maritime security.
The Department of Homeland Security sponsors work on the Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS). ISIS is a high-resolution, 360° immersive video surveillance system that supports real-time and forensic situational awareness in an urban environment.
Notice they have an American flag near it--the symbol of the police state.
http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=792
DHS tests new security measures at Logan Airport
Geoffrey Harvey, PNNL, (509) 372-6083
High-resolution video camera provides unparalleled surveillance
BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has launched a pilot project at Boston Logan International Airport to test and demonstrate new video surveillance security technology. The Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance, or ISIS, provides unprecedented, high-resolution 360-degree camera coverage combined with video analytics software-high-tech advancements that address challenges faced by current-generation security systems.
While ISIS is designed for use in any environment where surveillance of large open areas is required, testing the system in an airport environment contributes to the Department's ongoing efforts to enhance aviation security.
DHS selected the Massachusetts Port Authority, the owner and operator of Logan Airport, to host the ISIS pilot, which is part of the DHS Wide Area Surveillance project. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., developed the technology; the WAS project is managed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
"This surveillance system provides a persistent and high-resolution 360-degree perspective of the airport terminal," said PNNL Project Manager Doug MacDonald. "The system automatically detects abnormal events and helps operators identify suspicious incidents in large, open areas with a resolution equivalent to dozens of HD television monitors."
The ISIS system features include:
* Continuous 100 megapixel video recording of the entire terminal
* Simultaneously access to the live feed for multiple analysts to retrieve digitally captured scenes at any time for forensic review without disrupting the ongoing coverage
* The ability to archive captured video
* Designation of exclusion zones, or restricted areas where people are not normally present, which can be monitored and scanned for abnormal activity or suspicious items that may have been left behind or removed.
"This is a collaborative effort to bring our nation's leading research institutions together to develop and demonstrate enhanced surveillance technologies," said DHS Program Manager Dr. John Fortune. "DHS welcomes Massport's involvement. Because of its important role in our nation's transportation infrastructure, Logan is an ideal location to conduct the evaluation."
DHS installed ISIS at Logan as a test bed to demonstrate a "proof-of-concept" system and show the utility and capability of the ISIS prototype compared to the standard CCTV systems currently in use. The pilot allows for system testing in an operational environment and evaluation by potential end users. A follow-on second generation system currently in development at Lincoln Laboratory will be considerably smaller, while offering even higher image resolution.
Last month, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano received a first-hand demonstration of the ISIS technology from Fortune, lab, and airport officials while on a visit to Logan Airport.
"Massport welcomes the opportunity to help bring promising new security technologies to the point where they can be deployed throughout the country to enhance homeland security," said Director of Corporate Security for Massport, Dennis Treece. "This camera system is a great example of a locally-developed technology that can benefit from testing in a real-world, real-time operation."
The effort is part of the DHS Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency, a division of S&T that is designed to develop cutting-edge technologies and provide high-payoff advances in capability to the Homeland Security community. DHS has invested approximately $3 million through HSARPA to develop this technology and install the ISIS prototype at Logan. If successful, the pilot could pave the way for use of the system in other public venues and urban areas.
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Against all forms of tyranny
Re: Slave sheep & MIT Lincoln Lab help Nazi DHS with Cybernetic prison surveillance
http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1273160563362.shtm
ISIS: New Video Camera Sees It All
ISIS takes new video-camera and image-stitching technology and bolts it to a ceiling, mounts it on a roof, or fastens it to a truck-mounted telescoping mast.
360° surveillance video promises high-res detail, multiple views, and DVR features
Traditional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law enforcement officers for a range of scenarios—canvassing a crowd for criminal activity during a Fourth of July celebration, searching for who left a suitcase bomb beneath a bench, or trying to pick out a terrorist who has fled the scene and blended into a teeming throng in the subway. But there are shortfalls. For starters, once they zoom in on a specific point of interest, they lose visual contact with the rest of the scene.
But a new video surveillance system currently being developed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) may soon give law enforcement an extra set of eyes. The Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (or ISIS) takes new video camera and image-stitching technology and bolts it to a ceiling, mounts it on a roof, or fastens it to a truck-mounted telescoping mast.
Like a bug-eyed fisheye lens, ISIS sees v-e-r-y wide. But that’s where the similarity ends. Whereas a typical fisheye lens distorts the image and can only provide limited resolution, video from ISIS is perfectly detailed, edge-to-edge. That’s because the video is made from a series of individual cameras stitched into a single, live view—like a high-res video quilt.
“Coverage this sweeping, with detail this fine, requires a very high pixel count,” says program manager Dr. John Fortune, of S&T’s Infrastructure and Geophysical Division, “ISIS has a resolution capability of 100 megapixels.” That’s as detailed as 50 full-HDTV movies playing at once, with optical detail to spare. You can zoom in close…and closer…without losing clarity.
The stitching together of several images isn’t exactly cutting-edge magic. For years, creative photographers have used low-cost stitching software to create breathtaking high-res images (like that famous image of the National Mall from Inauguration Day 2009). But those are still images, created days or weeks after a scene was shot. ISIS is quilting video—in real time!And a unique interface allows you to maintain the full field of view, while a focal point of your choice can be magnified.
Other neat tricks—many of which are commercially available—will be provided by a suite of software applications called video analytics. One app can define a sacrosanct “exclusion zone,” for which ISIS provides an alert the moment it’s breached. Another lets the operator pick a target—a person, a package, or a pickup truck—and the detailed viewing window will tag it and follow it, automatically panning and tilting as needed. Video analytics at high resolution across a 360-degree field of view, coupled with the ability to follow objects against a cluttered background, would provide enhanced situational awareness as an incident unfolds.
In the event that a terrorist attack has occurred, forensic investigators can pore over the most recent video, using pan, zoom, and tilt controls to reconstruct who did what and when. Because these controls are virtual, different regions of a crime scene can feasibly be studied by separate investigative teams simultaneously.
Many of the ISIS capabilities were adapted from technology previously developed by MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory for military applications. With the help of technology experts from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lincoln Laboratory has built the current system with commercial off-the-shelf cameras, computers, image processing boards and software.
ISIS creators already have their eyes on a new and improved second generation model, complete with custom sensors and video boards, longer range cameras, higher resolution, a more efficient video format, and a discreet, chandelier-like frame—no bigger than a basketball. Eventually, the Department plans to develop a version of ISIS that will use infrared cameras to detect events that occur at night.
S&T formed a partnership with the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), and in December 2009, began an ISIS pilot at Logan International Airport, allowing potential Homeland Security end users the opportunity to evaluate the technology. Beyond the potential for enhancing security at our nation’s airports, if successful, the current testing at Logan could pave the way for the eventual deployment of ISIS to protect other critical venues.
That’s a good thing, says S&T’s Fortune. “We’ve seen that terrorists are determined to do us harm, and ISIS is a great example of one way we can improve our security by leveraging our strengths.”
http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/05/07/DHS-Big-Brother-high-resolution-video.aspx?p=1
Big Brother is watching in high definition
DHS' Science and Technology Directorate is testing a 360-degree, high-resolution video system at Boston airport
* By Alice Lipowicz
* May 07, 2010
The Homeland Security Department is testing a new 360-degree video surveillance system at Logan International Airport in Boston that is described as offering high-resolution imaging and analytics without the distortion of the typical fisheye lens.
DHS' Science and Technology Directorate partnered with the Massachusetts Port Authority to evaluate the new Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS) technology. The significant new capability of the system is its high-definition, image-stitching technology that seamlessly melds together images from several cameras in real time and without the usual distortion, according to a May 6 news release from the department.
“Whereas a typical fisheye lens distorts the image and can only provide limited resolution, video from ISIS is perfectly detailed, edge-to-edge. That’s because the video is made from a series of individual cameras stitched into a single, live view — like a high-resolution video quilt,” the news release said.
The cameras have 100 megapixels each, as detailed as 50 high-definition movies. The interface of the camera allows you to maintain the full field of view, while simultaneously zooming in on areas of interest.
Analytic software applications allow users to define zones of interest and provide an alert if that zone is breached. Another application allows the operator to choose a target to be followed, such as a person, package or vehicle, and the cameras will automatically tag and follow the target across 360 degrees.
“Video analytics at high resolution across a 360-degree field of view, coupled with the ability to follow objects against a cluttered background, would provide enhanced situational awareness as an incident unfolds,” the news release said.
Many of the capabilities were adapted from technology previously developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory for military applications. The Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory collaborated in building the new system.
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.
TSA/DHS/IP6/NRO/WTO/Internet2 must comply with the "Self-Organizing" principals
Quote from: Dig on December 22, 2010, 05:54:51 am
All new data mining systems must comply with the "Self-Organizing" principals of the Universe (A philisophical idea run amuck). These data mining systems require protocol to comply with the following principals:
Strong dynamical non-linearity, often though not necessarily involving Positive feedback and Negative feedback
Pavolovian dog training, nudging, behavioral modification, mind control
Balance of exploitation and exploration
Very interesting to find the phrase "exploitation and exploration" here. This is an arbitrary balance which is impossible to control as there become less and less elites in control of they system. Undoubtably, it will always "evolve" into 100% exploitation.
Multiple interactions
This seems to be why there is no limit to the billions of cameras being distributed in every product we buy, the RFID explosion, and nanotech sensoring systems.
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately
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Topic: ♥ TAR13 ♥ *WINNERS* Nick Spangler & Starr Spangler!!
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Re: ♥ TAR13 ♥ *WINNERS* Nick Spangler & Starr Spangler!!
This one is long but good!
To see the added links and pictures go here:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The_Fantastick_Nick_Spangler_And_His_AMAZING_Win_20081220
The 'Fantastick' Nick Spangler And His 'AMAZING' Win
Saturday, December 20, 2008; Posted: 04:12 PM - by Joseph F. Panarello
When a writer has done the number of celebrity interviews that I have, he realizes that there are a handful of celebrities he would never want to meet again. Most, however, are genuinely nice people and enjoyable to work with. There are others who become friends-true and genuine friends. Such is the relationship that has developed between me and Nick Spangler who is currently starring as Matt in the lovely revival of The Fantasticks which is enjoying a healthy run Off Broadway.
I first encountered Nick at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, New York. Their 2006 production of The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt was done in a circus-like setting and Nick was a true stand-out as the young hero. A little more than a year later, on a cold March Sunday afternoon, I wandered into the Snapple Theater Center on Broadway and 50st Street to see the more traditional version of The Fantasticks that was playing there and found a slip of paper in my Playbill advising that "At this performance the role of Matt will be played by Nick Spangler". In the intimate setting of this theater, Nick's talents were even more evident. His clean-cut good looks and his clarion singing voice indicated that he was a true leading man in the Rodgers and Hammersetin tradition. A short time later I interviewed him for Broadway World and in the course of that conversation we became friends.
In March, 2008, Nick and I met for lunch and a matinee of Gypsy at the St. James Theater. As usual, the conversation and laughter flowed freely and he brought me up-to-date on his relationship with his girlfriend Monica and other events in his life. As we parted ways, he told me he wouldn't be around for a few weeks because he and his sister were going to be "backpacking through Europe." I was happy for him and asked that he remember to send me a postcard. His response was a simple, "Can do!" We shook hands and parted. The postcard never arrived.
Several months later I received an invitation from Nick inviting me to a special luncheon at the Friar's Club. Obviously he was back in town! The Theater Hall of Fame was inducting legendary actress Frances Sternhagen into their ranks and at the event Nick was to be awarded a Fellowship from the Jerry and Elaine Orbach Foundation.
The luncheon was a splendid event and I mingled freely among such luminaries as Dana Ivey, Marian Seldes, Len Cariou and Karen Ziemba. At the luncheon, I was seated between Nick's father and Burke Moses, who had played El Gallo in The Fantasticks for a lengthy time. I also got to meet Nick's beautiful girlfriend, Monica. In the course of the conversation, Nick mentioned that he had just finished "The Amazing Race" for CBS. As someone who doesn't watch much commercial television, the comment didn't mean much to me. Perhaps it was just another sitcom.
In September of that year, I received an e-mail inviting me to interview both Nick and his sister Starr for Broadway World. Doing my research for the interview I learned what "The Amazing Race" encompassed and the grand prize was one million dollars. Whew! This was much more than a sitcom!
At that particular interview I not only got to meet Starr Spangler, but I learned how arduous the tasks were on "The Amazing Race" I also discovered that the Spangler siblings had signed documents about taking a vow of silence about the race and its outcome. One slip and Nick and Starr would forfeit any of the winnings they'd accrued in the course of the race. As a result, I found that my communications with Nick were unintentionally curtailed. I didn't want to put him or myself in any awkward situation.
This made me wonder how the cast of The Fantasticks were relating to Nick while he was performing with them on stage and his previously taped exploits were being telecast to the nation. Therefore, after a recent matinee of The Fantasticks, I met with several members of the cast and staff of the show to learn how they dealt with watching Nick and Starrs accomplishments on television and what their reactions were like when the Spanglers took home the grand prize of one million dollars. One of the first things I learned was that the cast and crew at the Jerry Orbach Theater (which is part of the Snapple Theater Center) had a small television in what is commonly called "the green room" so they could watch the show when they weren't on stage.
"It was very odd," chuckles John Thomas Waite, who charmingly plays the Old Actor in The Fantasticks. "Nick was just as cool as could be. He was right up front about saying he couldn't talk about it. He told us that he and Starr had signed 27 pages of non-disclosure documents. The cast and I were like little kids on Sunday nights, running to see where they were. It was only after the episode aired that Nick would explain how things seem to go by so swiftly on television but he and his sister were actually in that cab for four hours with a driver who didn't speak English."
On December 7th finale, when the Spangler siblings were the first to cross the finish line, there was quite a bit of celebration backstage. "We were like children," reminisces Waite. "We were all happy and it wasn't because Nick was going to be a millionaire. It was nice to root for him and we were going nuts. However, we were under strict orders that there was to be no screaming or yelling in the green room in the middle of the show!"
Margaret Ann Florence (who actually may be related to TV chef Tyler Florence) plays Luisa in The Fantasticks and imbues the role with much more humor than is usually found in it. Her vivacity came across clearly as she sat in her dressing room talking to me. Has there been any difference in playing tender love scenes with Nick now that he's such a big winner? "I think he's the same person that he was before I knew that he won all that money! But I'm happily married and I know that Nick is happily involved with his girlfriend so there's no yearning now in the love scenes that wasn't there before just because he has money." She laughs and adds, "I'm proud of him and very happy for him." Margaret Ann admits that she tried to coax some sort of vibes about the race from her co-star, but Nick didn't yield any information. "I must say, if I had to play a game of poker with him I'd really worry because he was very, very good about not letting on at all!"
The role of Mortimer (The Man Who Dies) is played to great effect in this production by Michael Nostrand. Michael is a veteran of the original production of The Fantasticks, having appeared in several different roles while the show was in its original run at the Sullivan Street Theater. Michael relates how nervous he became when the last episode of "The Amazing Race" aired.
He was sitting in the green room with the box office manager and the few cast members who weren't on stage when Nick won. They walked up and down the backstage corridor quietly muttering "He won! He won!" and then set about informing the actors who were performing. "When we went out to do ‘Round and Round' we were behind the curtain and gave thumbs up signs to let the other members of the cast know the good news.
John Capo's office is on the top floor of the Snapple Theater Center. John handles the public relations for the show and was in the enviable position of having one of the stars of his show generate real and positive publicity. " For the week leading up to the finale, I had two separate scenarios for Nick. There was one scenario if he won and another if he didn't. It was frustrating but a lot of fun to work on. "Where was he when the world learned that Nick and Starr had won the race? "I was at home. I thought the final episode was edited so brilliantly that it sucked me in from start to finish. I did not know who was going to round that corner. I thought Ken and Tina were going to do it at one point, but the whole season was leading up to the big Nick and Starr win.
At the minute they won I was positioned at my computer because I had my press release ready to go out the second that happened. We had a guy at the New York Times waiting and a whole lot of others. I'd written the press release at about four o'clock on Friday before I left work. I actually held up the press release and brought it to each producer and had them kiss it for good luck. Bringing it home with me, I stowed away in my e-mail. As soon as he won I sent it out and it went from there."
Of course the main reason for this particular visit to The Fantasticks was to see Nick Spangler himself. We'd only communicated by e-mail since "The Amazing Race" began airing and he greeted me with a huge "buddy hug", thanking me for the voice mail I'd left when the final episode aired. I admit I'd gotten chocked up when he and his sister crossed the Finish Line and it was apparent in the message I left. Why not? Shouldn't I take pride in my friend's achievement?
Nick and I sat down to talk right on the stage of the theater. He was so calm and relaxed that I found it hard to believe he'd been making the rounds of talk shows and had come back from Los Angles the day before, where he taped a visit with Bonnie Hunt on her TV show. Michael Nostrand had referred to Nick as a "young Cary Grant" and talking to Nick, I realized how apt that comment was. No matter what is confronting Nick Spangler, he gives the impression of being suave and in control. That's a good quality to have for a young man who would like to make his career in the theater.
Nick commented that when it came to CBS show, "Ninety percent of the race takes place at an airport or on an airplane. All the fun stuff that they show in every episode: the tasks, the roadblocks and those things, they account about ten percent of the time you spend. You can land in a country and two and a half hours later be done. What you have to do is very tiring so it feels a lot longer. When you finally get twelve hours to stay at a hotel you're getting as much sleep as you can!"
When the teams were given "mandatory rest stops, the accommodations could be just as good as they were bad. Every once in a while we'd be driven to a 5 star hotel and every now and then, specifically in Bolivia, Cambodia and Kazakhsthan, we had accommodations that were not so sweet. I think it was Cambodia where we had a teeny little room with no air conditioning and it was a million degrees outside. It was rough, but they called that the ‘cultural experience' of the race!"
As so much of "The Amazing Race" plays out in taxicabs, has Nick had even the thought of hailing a cab now that he's back in New York City? "That's funny," he smiles, "the day I got back to the city, I was walking from my apartment to the subway and I looked up as I was crossing Broadway. There was a cab that was available right there and without even thinking I broke into a run to hail it. At the end of the race, especially in Russia, we always needed cabs. So I stopped about ten steps later and told myself that I didn't need a cab anymore because I travel on the subway! It as very strange."
There's a scene in The Fantasticks where Nick picks up a sword and duels with El Gallo. It's here that Nick displays his agility and theatrical training. Did this training help him in the race? "In hindsight, I feel that my acting training and career helped me because when you're on the race, more than knowing foreign languages or knowing foreign cities, what aids you most is being able to think on your feet and making split second decisions. You never know what's coming and the amount of preparation you can do is teeny because you can study for days and suddenly they'll throw something at you and I'd think, ‘Well how did I know we were gonna do that?' So I really do think that much of the race was like an improve skit. You never knew what was coming at you and you had to be receptive and adapt and respond in a timely manner. I think that's where a lot of the other teams tripped up. They were focused on the goal of being fast and being first, but because they were so focused, they weren't open to their environment. I think if you watch the whole season you see other teams make lots of mistakes reading their clues or looking for something Actually Starr and I made very few mistakes in the course of the race. I think my openness and observation skills really helped."
It was mentioned that at one point in the race Nick was wearing a shirt with his sister's name emblazoned on it and she was wearing his. What was the story behind that? "Starr and I spent most of the race in first place. That's where you can relax a little bit and that helps you to be more observant and note more of what's going on. We'd had this terrible cab driver for four hours and we finally got where we needed to go and realized we weresuddenly in last place. Needless to say, this was a very important leg. We arrived at this army camp and read the clue which stated that ‘you must put on army fatigues'. It didn't say that they were marked and had our names on them, so we ran into the tent and there were only two left because all the other teams had put theirs on already. We were so frantic that we just grabbed the first ones we saw and then we had to put the boots on and stuff. By the time we were actually marching I looked at Starr and saw on her breast ‘Nick' and I realized we were wearing each other's uniforms. At first I thought we were going to get a penalty for it but it really wasn't a big deal. I looked a little silly on television," he comments with a laugh.
None of the tasks the teams were required to perform looked particularly easy, but Nick says that one stood out in its difficulty from the others. Probably the most difficult task we did was the ONE task on the entire race that we had to give up on - The Kiwi Squashing in New Zealand (episode 4) It was incredibly difficult. I still have scars on my feet from that one!"
During the race, there were conversations on various message boards about what was perceived as "unethical actions" that the Spanglers took in the course of the race. Nick carefully explains what happened in several instances:
"I'm not so sure I DID play very unethically... A lot of these situations were depicted in misleading ways. For example, the accusation that Starr had pushed a female player's sports bra off a balcony were false. The incident never happened. As for the ‘stealing' of a taxi from Ken and Tina, well, it was the last hour of the race and the cab had a GPS. You'd have to be crazy not to grab a cab like that under the circumstances."
As millions of television viewers know, during the course of the race, Starr Spangler became romantically involved with one of her competitors, Dallas Imbimbo, whose teammate was his mother Toni. "I've seen Starr go through many relationships down through the years, both in high school and college, It was funny because Starr's not the kind of person who would let that interfere with her race. I never heard anything about it when we were racing. If we were in a country and racing in taxis, she wanted to be in front of Dallas and Toni at every minute. It was only on the airplanes or in the airports that she would and kind of disappear and talk with him. I would hang out with Toni a little bit. To be honest, in the scope of the race, it was nice for her to have some kind of distraction so that she wasn't so focused on the race because as I said, you CAN be too focused and that can be a detriment."
Making the situation more interesting, Dallas and Toni live only a few minutes from where Nick and Starr grew up in Califormia. "Toni is lots of fun and is an awesome mother. As soon as Starr and I met her we thought she'd get along with our Mom. In fact, as soon as the race was over Toni met our Mom and now they go for walks and have lunch together all the time. I like to think Toni is very fond of me and Starr. I think she approves of the relationship."
Along the way, Nick and Starr won several prizes for coming in first place on various episodes. As of our conversation, neither Nick nor Starr have been able to enjoy them. "You're not allowed to take any prizes or prize money until the finale airs," explained Nick. "Since it only aired three days ago, I haven't had the time to go on any of our trips or drive around in one of our cars. Just before today's matinee I got a voicemail and it said,"Hi, this is so-and-so from ‘The Amazing Race'. We're sending out prize checks and I want to make sure I have the right address for you.' It finally dawned on me that they were going to send me a check for five hundred thousand dollars! I still don't know how all the prizes work and how I'm getting them." All together, Nick and Starr won seven legs out of the eleven and won the million dollars, four trips for two, two electric cars and two jet skis.
All of this success hasn't kept Nick Spangler from being one of the most grounded young man in New York's theater community. Contract negotiations for The Fantasticks are coming up and he plans to stay with the show. "It's a great show and it's lots of fun. There's a reason why it's the longest running show in the world. I love doing it and have every intention of staying here."
He's handsome, he's talented, he's articulate and he's rich. It seems that Nick Spangler has it all. Just don't expect him to send you any postcards from Europe!
THE FANTASTICKS is playing at the Jerry Orbach Theater, which is located in the Snapple Theater Center (50st Street and Broadway). Tickets can be obtained at www.ticketmaster.com
Nick's website is located at www.nickspangler.com
Nick and Starr's website is located at: www.nickandstarr.com
Nice article:
Fortune a reality for alumna after winning "The Amazing Race"
As a teenager, TCU alumna Starr Spangler and her brother Nick Spangler would watch every episode of the CBS reality show "The Amazing Race" together. Now 22 years old, Starr Spangler has competed in and won the race, and had viewers just like her hanging on the edge of their seats.
Starr Spangler said, like many things she does in life, applying for the race was quite spontaneous. When Starr Spangler turned 21, the minimum age required for the show, she looked online and the applications were due in a week.
Starr Spangler said she thought to herself, "Hey, it's now or never." She said she called Nick, who she knew would be a fantastic teammate, and they got their application and video together within the week.
After several callbacks and rounds of application processes, they were in.
But with a torn MCL, a major ligament of the knee, Starr Spangler said she could not prepare physically for the race as much as she wanted. However, she said she could mentally prepare by doing things from studying languages and currencies of different countries to basic geography.
The first leg of the race brought them to Brazil, where Starr Spangler said she recalls the most physically daunting task of the entire race: moving an 800-pound boat from one side of the beach into the water by rolling it on logs.
The brother and sister duo won this contest as well as six others challenges, including the finale in Portland, Oregon. Starr Spangler said she remembers being in the taxi on the way to the finish line and knowing they were going to win.
"You are racing for a million dollars so it's very stressful," Starr Spangler said. "The luck that occurs in the race is incredible. A lot of it is skill and doing what you can do to move forward, but then there comes a point where you can't do anything."
In addition to luck, Starr Spangler said her and her brother's relationship as siblings is what gave them an advantage over the other teams.
"We are best friends," she said. "We really balance each other out. Our characteristics are very different. It definitely gave us the edge because we are brother and sister and didn't fight once on the race. Family going in and family going out."
Their father, Jim Spangler, said watching his children compete was nerve-racking, but he was proud of how well they worked together and what they were able to accomplish at such a young age.
While attending TCU, Starr Spangler was also a cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys. She said cheerleading was something she wanted to do since she was a young girl, and it became her social atmosphere in place of a sorority.
Jessica Skillman, a fellow education major who graduated in the same class as Starr Spangler, said she remembers her practicing with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders until 10 or 11 at night and still being prepared for class the next day without complaints.
"I've never met anybody as determined as her," Skillman said. "If she wanted to do something, she would just do it."
Starr Spangler said she is currently working at a medical research center for children as an analytical behavior analyst in Manhattan, New York. As for the million dollars, she said she is waiting until she finds a project she would like to spend the money on. She said she would also like to continue traveling and seeing more of the sites she only raced by in the contest.
Out of all her experiences, from balancing school and cheerleading to racing around the world with her brother, Starr Spangler said the most important thing she learned was to try.
"Nothing is unattainable," she said,"If you apply yourself, you can do whatever you want to."
redskevin88
Hey guys, I saw Nick Spangler's Facebook page, and it shows he is married to a Monica Spangler
He is indeed, and she is a doll!!
kittygoesmeow
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Starr is battling lymphoma...she has started a blog to keep updates.
http://starr-spangler.blogspot.com/
« Last Edit: November 22, 2010, 07:04:26 PM by kittygoesmeow »
AmazingRace
Yup, we didn't win. Damn.
Quote from: kittygoesmeow on November 22, 2010, 07:01:23 PM
Will be praying for her and her family!
Thank you for sharing this. I know we all send her and her family all the love. support, and prayers possible.
Will be hoping for the best possible news from her tests.
Love you Starr!
The King of St Olaf
That's so sad. Stay strong.
Prayers are with you Starr! Stay strong!
Zvarri
RFF Full Member
Starr, please get better soon
I have started a new thread where we can all send Starr our messages of love and encouragement here:
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23829.0.html
Peace, Love, TAR! :D
Get better Starr!! I have a question for anyone who can answer it. Are Starr and Dallas still dating? Just wondering...
"Like most things, it can be fixed by whipping a rock at it." --Courtney Yates; Survivor: China/Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
An interview by Toni (TAR 13) I stumbled upon. Reveals something we've never known about Nick and Starr...
Really interesting, how TAR doesn't show you these stuff.
The Biggest Blunder in Race History: When Dallas lost the team’s Fanny Pack (which contained all of their money, maps, and even their US Passports), their demise was set in stone. “Well it was a biggee and it will certainly be remembered for a long time. The thing about the Race is that it absolutely is reality. People lose their passports while traveling all the time. To be traveling in the Race environment and all that entails is tough enough. There were at least two other times on the Race where racers had lost passports or fanny packs, but fortunately they were able to recover them. I’m sure it actually happens a lot, we just did a more thorough job of it. Starr had actually left her passport in the airport in Singapore while she was changing clothes. We were getting ready to get on the plane and she was asking Nick if he had it. They went back and forth and I finally told her I’d wait with her stuff while she ran back to the bathroom to see if she left it there. Fortunately it was still there. Also, when Nick and Starr did the fast forward in Kazakhstan they left their fanny pack at the restaurant. They were almost all the way to the pit stop and noticed they didn’t have it. They had to turn around and go back and again fortunately it was there. Actually at this point we kind of hope no one else loses theirs – we kind of like going out big.”
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/blogs/2009/the-amazing-race/the-amazing-races-toni-imbimbo-where-is-she-now/
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István Szalay
Dr. István Szalay
Director, Leader of the Institute for Farm Animal Breed Protection, scientific consultant
He has been working in HáGK and its legal predecessors since 1980. He was director of the institute between 1992 and 2000, and was nominated as director again in 2010. As the leader of the HáGK Institute for Farm Animal Breed Protection he organises in vivo gene bank, gene conservation and gene rescue programmes of the Centre. As a scientific consultant of the institution he takes part in several research projects, his main research fields include genetics and in vivo conservation of small populations, poultry genetics, ecological type, traditional animal husbandry, sustainable use and adaptation studies of old Hungarian poultry breeds in underprivileged regions of the Carpathian Basin and Southeast Asia. He is the founding chairman of the official breeding organisation of old Hungarian poultry breeds in Hungary: the Association of Hungarian Small Animal Breeders for Gene Conservation (MGE) since 1997, honorary university professor in the Corvinus University of Budapest and Széchenyi István University (Mosonmagyaróvár), and member of 4 PhD schools of Hungarian universities.
E-mail: szalay.istvan@hagk.hu
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Haley Reinhart Forum › Topics › Haley Reinhart
"Listen Up!" - Haley's first album
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jonesing for some Gingerbread Cake
RE: Preorder Haley's Album - Link / possible cover art
I wondered over at IDF if the song titles indicated a story telling of a relationship...all the parts from infatuation to separation...I ordered them with that theme in mind....
"Oh My"
"Wonderland"
"Now That You're Here"
"What You Don't Know"
"I'm Not Calling You A Liar"
"Undone"
"Wasted Tears"
“Keep Coming Back”
"Get Yourself Together"
"Run Away"
"Free"
"Hit The Ground Runnin'
Or are they just coincidentally thematically similar?
It's an interesting theory and the song titles lend themselves to relationship material but I don't think the album will tell the story of a relationship from beginning to end.
I think it's unlikely because so many writers were involved. Plus, Haley said back in November:
Quote: Sure, there will be songs about relationships, but I want there to be more than just love songs or songs about broken hearts or loss of love or rejected love. Music should also be inspiring and motivational, and I’m hoping to work some of that into the album as well.
A key thing with me is about letting yourself be beautiful, or rather allowing yourself to accept the beauty that is inside everyone. That’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.
Quote: Limited quantity will include a display book signed by Haley! – SOLD OUT!!!
03-24-2012, 01:36 PM, (This post was last modified: 03-24-2012, 02:02 PM by Petr.)
(03-24-2012, 04:03 AM)Miguel Wrote:
I´m sure there is gonna be some kind of deluxe cd on sale, once the actual album hits the store, they usually release regular and some kind of special edition. I just hope, that the album comes out in Europe at the same time as US, because my patience is reaching its limits.
Meanwhile, being the good boy that i am, i have sent emails and requests to all major radio stations in my country. They are usually pretty slow with introducing new music, unlike lets say UK, so i dont think they gonna go for it, but i may as well try and keep bugging them untill they give in, or Haley´s stardom reaches the old continent.
Now I´m off to a party (obviously bringing HER´s music with me), so to my fellow Haley People, peace out!
(03-24-2012, 01:36 PM)Petr Wrote: Now I´m off to a party (obviously bringing HER´s music with me), so to my fellow Haley People, peace out!
Have a good time, Mr. Ambassador.
(03-24-2012, 08:57 AM)John Brown Wrote:
Completely unrelated to the musical aspect, Haley's an amazingly gorgeous young woman and either always is shown in the best light or always knows how to project that best light.
Last night, after a comment that I'd seen, I went to bed with the thought of "what color/s does Haley look best in" and at first I thought "vibrant colors." But then I remembered how infinitely dreamy she is in these pastels, so I'd just say that she should stay away from OD green.
03-27-2012, 12:25 AM, (This post was last modified: 03-27-2012, 12:40 AM by Miguel.)
A USA Today article has some information about the deluxe album that the marketers at Interscope should have previously made clear:
Quote: "(The album) has (a) sultry feel, very retro but modern at the same time," says the singer, who was known for her versatility during her time on Idol. "Things travel between rock and funk and jazz, but it all has a sort of continuity with pop undertones. It does feel like a collection to me."
Fans who'd like to hear her go further afield should consider picking up the deluxe edition of Listen Up! Haley takes a few more stylistic liberties there. "They stretch out," she says. "There's one that goes in a reggae direction and another that's more on the rock side, then one that's just out there and psychedelic-sounding."
...Listen Up! comes out May 22, but the album is available for pre-order via Haley's website. A signed, limited-edition version of the album, which includes a CD and a flipbook of vintage-art postcards, has already sold out.
"I've got a really great following that has kept up and is eager to see what is going on," Haley says. "I couldn't be happier about that."
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/...3FaXdXwC8B
03-27-2012, 02:32 AM, (This post was last modified: 03-27-2012, 02:33 AM by john.)
Haley has come a long way in describing the sound of the music on her album. I was going to say it sounds like a description of a fine wine, but on second thought she might have inspired by a trip to Starbucks...
Quote: Caffé Verona®
A passion for the culinary romance of Italy inspired this seductive, full-bodied blend of Latin American and Asia/Pacific coffees, with Italian Roast added for depth. It’s rich and well-balanced with a dark cocoa texture and a roasty sweetness.
03-27-2012, 12:16 PM, (This post was last modified: 03-27-2012, 12:17 PM by Miguel.)
RE: "Listen Up!" - Haley's first album
Quote: "I have had an amazing time and the process of working with producers and co-writers it was all very fast. It was like speed dating, but we got it done. It was an exhausting process, but then again, what isn't? The past two years... But it's been well worth every single blood sweat and tear because I am proud and it is something that defines me."
"I did like 30 songs in two and a half months. I just kept busting them out, so the more we did the more I knew which direction I wanted to go. ... A lot of stuff is mid-tempo so it has a good groove to work. I also pictured doing this stuff live on stage and I know I will have a lot of fun with it."
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2012/03/ha...album.html
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Iolar Mhara - Haliaeetus albicilla
White-tailed Eagle populations declined throughout much of their European range during the 19th century leading to extinction in Ireland, Scotland, the Faeroes, and most of southern Europe. Human persecution through shooting and laying poison baits were the primary reasons for population declines and extinctions in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century. Environmental pollution led to further wholesale declines throughout the species range from the 1940s-1960s. Discovery of the catastrophic effects of pollutants on the reproduction of predatory and scavenging birds at the top of food chain led to the banning of DDT, a widely used crop pesticide. White-tailed Eagles were among the species most adversely affected by DDT and other pollutants such as PCBs but populations began to recover with the banning of DDT in the Baltic States in the early 1970s.
The loss of both Golden and White-tailed Sea Eagles in the early 20th century has been considered “the single most significant loss in our birdlife probably since the coming of man to Ireland” (D'Arcy 1999). Sea eagles were once widespread, although apparently largely coastal and western in their recent historical distribution in Ireland. The prevalence of place-names containing the Irish name for eagle ‘Iolar’ or anglicised derivations suggests a long historical association between man and eagles, such as Sliabh an Iolar (near Slea Head), Beenanillar Head (mountain of the eagle) on Valentia Island, and Cloghananillar (stony place of the eagle) near Hog’s Head. Eagles are mentioned in poetry as early as the 8th century, in the illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells and in the heraldic shields of several old Irish families such as O’ Donoghue and O’ Rafferty.
D’Arcy suggests that Ireland held a minimum of 75 nest sites attributable to sea eagles in the early 19th century. The advent of gamekeepers and game production on estates, and the introduction of strychnine as a poison bait led to drastic population decline. Sea eagles, being commoner, less wary of humans and more of a scavenger, suffered more so than the Golden Eagle during this period. Eagle eggs and skins were also highly prized by the Victorian collectors. By 1894 there were “still one or two pairs in Mayo and Kerry” but by 1900 the species was gone, the last documented nesting being in 1898. The Golden Eagles hung on as a breeder for another 14 years, the last pair nesting in Mayo about 1912. A single Golden Eagle was seen in south Mayo up to 1931. For the first time in millennia Irish skies were devoid of eagles.
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The Littleton girls' tennis team finished their regular season undefeated while earning the second seed in the NHIAA Division III Tournament and they remained undefeated through tournament play so far as they won back to back games against seventh ranked, Moultonborough (6-3), and third ranked Kearsarge (7-2). The Crusaders advance to the NHIAA Division III Championship where they will face top ranked St. Thomas Aquinas on Wednesday, May 29 at Pinkerton Academy. Game time is posted for 4 p.m.
Left: Littleton's top ranked tennis player, Laney Hadlock, reaches for a shot as she picked up a huge singles win during Littleton's semifinal victory over Kearsarge.
Right: Littleton pitcher, Parker Paradice, delivered a great performance for the Crusaders last week as Littleton earned a close, 10-6 victory over Profile.
photos: Corey McKean
The Littleton boys' tennis team has finished up their 2019 season as they finished their regular season with an overall record of 8-6, but fell in the first round of the NHIAA Division III Tournament to second ranked Profile by a score of 8-1 back on Wednesday, May 22. Littleton's Jean Carlos-Diaz would pick up the only win for the Crusaders on the day.
The Littleton Crusaders girls' softball team will begin their NHIAA Division IV Playoff run on Wednesday, May 29 as they currently sit in 13th place with an overall record of 8-8 and will be traveling for their first round game. Littleton finished off their regular season strong, going 2-1 in their final week of games so hopefully they can carry that momentum into playoffs.
The Littleton Crusaders softball team gathers around Maddie Dumont at home plate after Dumont launched a three-run homerun in third inning action to help lift Littleton over Profile last week.
The Littleton Crusaders baseball team will also be starting their tournament run as they will play their first round game on Thursday, May 30 where they currently sit in 8th place with an overall record of 11-7 and they should host a first round playoff game. They too, also finished out the regular season in strong fashion, going 3-1 in their final week of games.
The Littleton Crusaders girls' tennis team has ended the regular season as the top team in the NHIAA Division III as they went undefeated, posting a record of 14-0. Littleton would have a few tough games last week to close out the regular season as they defeated neighboring Profile, 5-4, and then earned another 5-4 win over Moultonborough on Wednesday, May 15. Littleton will be the top ranked team entering the playoffs where they will host an opening round game on Wednesday, May 22.
LEFT: Littleton's Alexis Sparks reached high for the ball while trying to keep her foot on the bag during the Crusaders home game with Profile last Wednesday.
RIGHT: Littleton's Jasmine Brown earned many big wins over last weeks matches for the Crusaders, helping to lead Littleton to a 14-0 record on the regular season.
The Littleton Crusaders boys' tennis team will await their fate to see if they make it into the NHIAA Division III Tournament as they currently sit in sixth place in a tight field of teams with similar records. Littleton ended their final week of games strong as they picked up back to back wins over Bishop Brady and Moultonborough, both on Wednesday, May 22.
The Littleton girls' softball team went 1-2 over their last week of games as they defeated Moultonborough by a score of 15-9, while dropping games to Groveton and Profile. The Crusaders currently sit at a record of 6-7 on the season while they will finish up their regular season this week with their final game happening on Thursday, May 23 as they host Lisbon. Game time is posted for 4:30 p.m.
The Littleton boys' baseball team bounced back after dropping four straight games to win all three of their games last week, picking up wins over Groveton, Moultonborough, and Profile. The Crusaders currently sit at a record of 8-7 on the season and will finish up their regular season this week with a final home game on Thursday, May 23 as they host Lisbon. Game time is posted for 4:30 p.m.
The Littleton boys' baseball team huddle around Coach AJ Bray to get a pre-game speech prior to their game with Profile on Wednesday.
May 6 - May 11
The Littleton Crusaders girls' tennis team remains undefeated after they had another solid week of games, picking up six straight wins to move to an overall record of 12-0 on the season. The Crusaders would have their closest match of the year, however, as they hosted neighboring Profile on Saturday, May 11, but they came away with a 5-4 win with Olivia Corrigan and Makayla Dermako picking up a big doubles win which made the difference in the contest. Littleton will wrap up their regular season this week, with their final match coming on Wednesday, May 15 as they travel to play Moultonborough. Game time is posted for 4 p.m. Littleton will then await their seeding for the NHIAA Division III Tournament.
The Littleton Crusaders girls' softball team got on the positive side of their record over last weeks games as they improved to an overall record of 5-4 on the season after splitting with Woodsville and earning a commanding, 22-7, win over Lin-Wood on Thursday, May 9. The Crusaders will have three games this week with their final game of the week falling on Wednesday, May 15 as they host Profile. Game time is posted for 3 p.m.
The Littleton boys' baseball team ran into a tough schedule over their past week of games as they dropped four straight games, two to Pittsfield, one of Woodsville, and another to Lin-Wood with Pittsfield and Woodsville both sitting at the top of the Division IV standings. The Crusaders will look to get back on track as they play three games this week with their final game of the week falling on Wednesday, May 15 as they host Profile. Game time is posted for 3 p.m.
The Littleton boys' tennis team earned their best win of the season on Monday, May 6 as they hosted the Profile Patriots and earned a 5-4 victory. Littleton improves to an overall record of 8-4 on the season while they finish up their regular season this week with their final game happening on Tuesday, May 14 as they host Bishop Brady. Game time is posted for 4 p.m. Depending on how the Crusaders finish their season, they will wait to see if they make it into the NHIAA Division III Tournament.
Left: Littleton's Olivia Corrigan hits a strong forehand for a point during her match on Saturday, May 11 at Remich Park.
Right: Littleton's Tyler Le hustles to reach his opponents shot and returns a well placed shot into the back left corner of the court for a point during his match on Monday vs. Profile.
April 29 - May 4
The Littleton Crusaders boys' baseball team posted a record of 2-2 over their last week of games as they defeated Gorham by a score of 19-2 and Colebrook by a score of 6-2. The Crusaders would run into a tough Pittsfield Panthers team over the weekend, however, dropping both games 9-3, and 4-3 to move to an overall record of 5-5 on the season. Littleton will play again on Wednesday, May 8 as they travel to play Woodsville. Game time is posted for 4 p.m.
The Littleton softball team had just two games last week as they defeated Gorham 17-10 while they were edged out by Colebrook, 12-11. The Crusaders move to an overall record of 3-3 on the season and will play again on Wednesday, May 8 as they host the Woodsville Engineers for a double header. Game time is posted for 3 p.m.
There has been no stopping the Littleton Crusaders girls' tennis team as they remain undefeated on the season, sitting at an overall record of 6-0 on the season. Littleton defeated Prospect Mountain, 8-1, and then earned a commanding 9-0 win over White Mountains Regional. Littleton will look to keep the ball rolling as they will play again on Tuesday, May 7 as they host Profile. Game time is posted for 2 p.m.
Left: Littleton's Madisen Dumont led the Crusaders past the Gorham Huskies on Thursday, May 2 as Dumont went 5-5 at the plate with four RBI's.
Right: Lexi Walker hits a strong backhand for a point as Littleton defeated White Mountains Regional, 9-0, on Tuesday, May 30.
Littleton Tennis: The Littleton Crusaders girls' tennis team is coming off their third straight win of the season as they defeated the Profile Patriots back on Thursday, April 18 by a score of 6-3. After a week off for Spring break, the Crusaders will return to action on Monday, April 29 as they travel to play Prospect Mountain. Littleton will also host the White Mountain Regional Spartans on Tuesday, April 30. Game time is posted for 4 p.m.
Littleton Baseball: The Littleton Crusaders baseball team suffered their first loss of the season on Thursday, April 25 as they hosted the undefeated Woodsville Engineers and fell by a score of 7-2. Littleton will look to get back on track but they have a tough week ahead, facing the defending Division III Champions, White Mountains Regional back to back while also playing Gorham on Wednesday, May 1. Game time is posted for 4 p.m.
LEFT: Littleton's Laney Hadlock hits a strong backhand shot for a point back on Thursday, April 18.
RIGHT: Littleton's Josh Finkle comes in to pitch relief midway through for fourth inning for the Crusaders on Thursday, April 25 against the Woodsville Engineers.
The Littleton boys baseball team came away with a 15-2 win over the Lisbon Panthers on Wednesday, April 17 to open up their season as Nick Sanborn got the start on the hill, throwing four innings while striking out eight and Zach Horne came in relief, throwing two innings and recording four strikeouts. Littleton was also led by Josh Finkle at the plate, going 3-5 on the day while recording three RBI's.
The Littleton girls' softball team would fall in their season opener by a score of 9-6 to Lisbon. Madison Dumont came in to pitch early in the second inning, recording 10 strikeouts but walking eight. Lisbon would go hit-less on the day, scoring all their runs off walks and errors to pick up the win.
Both Littleton baseball and softball teams will play again on Monday, April 22 as they host Pittsburg-Canaan. Game time is posted for 4 p.m.
Left: Madisen Dumont threw a solid game for Littleton on Wednesday, recording 10 strikeouts on the day, but it wouldn't be enough to lift the Crusaders over the Panthers.
Right: Littleton's Nick Sanborn hurls a pitch on Wednesday as he picked up the season opening win for the Crusaders.
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< Everything Else ~ Paula Abdul has a new song
Has anyone heard Paula Abdul's new song yet??? It's called "All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow."
Apparantly her and randy were on Ryan Secrest show this morning to premiere the song.
It is also rumored that she might perform the song in Super Bowl.
Yep it is official. It was posted on Paula's website that Paula and Randy will have a Superbowl suprise.
It also looks like that Randy Jackson produced the song and the song will appear on Randy's album entitled "Randy Jackson's Music Club #1" and will be released on March 11, 2008.
"All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow."
Thats a long title for a song!
has anyone seen the video for this...i really like all the dance moves..paula's still got it
i love the song and the video, shes great
This is video song is very very nice and beautiful also. she's performance is very well she is very great ......
this is very great song
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October 25, 2018 by Peter T Young Leave a Comment
Amfac Center
The story of Hawai‘i’s largest companies dominates Hawaiʻi’s economic history. Since the early/mid-1800s, until relatively recently, five major companies emerged and dominated the Island’s economic framework. Their common trait: they were focused on agriculture – sugar.
They became known as the Big Five: C. Brewer (1826;) Theo H Davies (1845;) American Factors (Amfac) – starting as Hackfeld & Company (1849;) Castle & Cooke (1851) and Alexander & Baldwin (1870.)
“By 1941, every time a native Hawaiian switched on his lights, turned on the gas or rode on a street car, he paid a tiny tribute into Big Five coffers.” (Alexander MacDonald, 1944) Things changed.
On June 3, 1968, the first increment of Mililani’s single-family homes went on sale; 112 houses were originally offered for purchase at $25,000 to $35,000 each.
In its time, Mililani was one of the biggest signifiers that the Big Five were abandoning agriculture in Leeward and Central Oahu in favor of suburban development. Castle & Cooke created Mililani out of pineapple fields it had owned since 1948. (In 1976, the H-2 Freeway opened.)
On June 19, 1970, following the changes in travel that the introduction of jetliners in 1959 made another Big Five company, Alexander & Baldwin, was seeing changes. Just 6-years previously, A&B bought out the interests of other Big Five ownership in Matson (Castle & Cook, C Brewer and Amfac). (NY Times)
In 1970, A&B’s Matson line’s Lurline had her last voyage – it was the end of the era (dating back to 1933) of Matson’s 5-day luxury liner travel between Hawai‘i and the West Coast, and the end of Boat Days at Honolulu Harbor. (Honolulu Magazine)
About this time, other changes were going on in downtown Honolulu, around the waterfront – Amfac was redeveloping its headquarters building.
Previously (1901), Amfac-predecessor Hackfeld built a stone and concrete building that covered the mauka-Ewa corner of the block and had its main public entrance on the Queen-Fort Street corner, beneath a fourth-level dome.
Another entry closer to the harbor on the Fort Street side opened to the company’s three floors of offices, many occupied by managers and clerks for the once immense operations of one of the largest of Hawai‘i’s Big Five sugar companies.
Oliver Traphagen came up with a both ornate and solid design for U-shaped structure to extend the whole of the Fort Street frontage and continued in along the Queen Street and Halekauwila Street (now Nimitz) sides.
The project was completed in March 1902. For over half a century, the Hackfeld Building (later renamed American Factors (Amfac) Building) dominated the harbor edge of downtown Honolulu. (Fort Street Mall)
Then, starting in the late-1960s, Amfac was redeveloping its headquarters in a joint venture (under the name Center Properties) with Seattle developer Richard H Hadley. The new complex eventually filled the entire block bounded by Bishop, Queen Fort and Halekauwila (now Nimitz) Streets.
The new complex, named Amfac Center, was built in two distinct phases between 1968 and 1971; the towers are marble-faced skyscrapers, now recognized as late International Style or, alternatively, as “Formalist.”
The first of the two 20-story buildings, the Amfac Tower (Amfac Building), was completed in 1968 at the corner of Bishop and Halekauwila (now Nimitz) streets.
The old stone Hackfeld/Amfac Building came down in 1969 to prepare for the construction of the second of the two Amfac Center buildings, the Hawaii Tower (Hawaii Building), completed in 1971.
After subsequent sales of controlling interests in the company and liquidation of land and other assets, in 2002, the once dominant business in Hawaiʻi, the biggest of the Hawaiʻi Big Five, Amfac Hawaiʻi, LLC filed for federal bankruptcy protection. (TGI)
That year, John Edward Anderson, purchased the Amfac Center and renamed it the Topa Financial Center. Topa comes from the Topatopa mountain range in Ojai, east of Santa Barbara, California, where Anderson has a ranch of the same.
Topa means gopher in the language of the Chumash, American Indians who live in the Santa Barbara area. As part of the name change, Amfac’s 20-story twin towers were renamed the East Tower and West Tower. (Ruel)
(There is some suggestion that there is a connection between the Amfac Center and the former World Trade Center (completed in 1973), reportedly through the architect who was apparently associated with each. If so, more to come on that.)
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Big Five (plus 2)
“By 1941, every time a native Hawaiian switched on his lights, turned on the gas or rode on a street car, he paid a tiny tribute into Big Five coffers.” (Alexander MacDonald, 1944)
The story of Hawaii’s largest companies dominates Hawaiʻi’s economic history. Since the early/mid-1800s, until relatively recently, five major companies emerged and dominated the Island’s economic framework. Their common trait: they were focused on agriculture – sugar.
They became known as the Big Five:
C. Brewer & Co.
Founded: October 1826; Capt. James Hunnewell (American Sea Captain, Merchant; Charles Brewer was American Merchant)
Incorporated: February 7, 1883
Theo H. Davies & Co.
Founded: 1845; James and John Starkey, and Robert C. Janion (English Merchants; Theophilus Harris Davies was Welch Merchant)
Incorporated: January 1894
Amfac
Founded: 1849; Heinrich Hackfeld and Johann Carl Pflueger (German Merchants)
Incorporated: 1897 (H Hackfeld & Co;) American Factors Ltd, 1918
Castle & Cooke
Founded: 1851; Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke (American Mission Secular Agents)
Incorporated: 1894
Alexander & Baldwin
Founded: 1870; Samuel Thomas Alexander & Henry Perrine Baldwin (American, Sons of Missionaries)
Some suggest they were started and run by the missionaries. Actually, only Castle & Cooke had direct ties to the mission – Castle ran the ‘depository’ and Cooke was a teacher.
Alexander & Baldwin were sons of missionaries, but not a formal part of the mission. Brewer was an American sea captain and merchant; the founders of Davies were English merchants and the founders of Amfac were German merchants.
Hawaiʻi’s industrial plantations began to emerge at this time (1860s;) they were further fueled by the Treaty of Reciprocity – 1875 between the United States and the Kingdom of Hawai‘i eliminated the major trade barrier to Hawai‘i’s closest and major market. Through the treaty, the US obtained Pearl Harbor and Hawai‘i’s sugar planters received duty-free entry into U.S. markets for their sugar.
As the sugar industry pushed ahead, something else new was introduced into the economic scheme of things. In Honolulu two or three new firms began business solely to handle the affairs of the scattered plantations.
They began by acting as selling agents for the planters. Gradually they took over other functions: financing crops, importing labor, purchasing machinery for the planters and serving in all ways as their business agents. The new businesses soon found themselves running the sugar industry.
By the 1880s, five of these concerns, called factors, eventually dominated the field. How effectively the Big Five could band together as one against outside forces whether the enemy was foreign capital, insects, labor, competing products or disease was well demonstrated by their Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, more familiarly known as the HSPA. (MacDonald)
This group organization for Hawaii’s sugar industry was founded in 1882 as the Planters’ Labor and Supply Company when the planters found they had common problems in irrigating the sugar lands, growing the cane, and finding labor. That was its immediate official purpose.
“Everything that comes into the territory comes through a large corporation. The independent businessman who attempts to enter business here immediately finds that even nationally advertised lines from the mainland are tied up by the Big Five. It is almost impossible to get an independent line of business as they have everything – lumber paint, right down the line.” (Edward Walker, High Sheriff of Hawaiʻi, 1937; Kent)
Acting as agents for thirty-six of the thirty-eight sugar plantations, the Big Five openly monopolized the sugar trade. Twenty-nine firms, producing seven out of every eight tons of sugar exported from the Islands, refined, markets and distributed through the Big Five’s wholly owned California and Hawaiian Sugar Company, whose refinery, the largest in the world, was on San Francisco Bay. (Kent)
They branched out into other businesses. To squeeze additional profits out of the sugar trade, they started their own refinery in California; it was to become the largest in the world. They built up a fleet of ships, the Matson line, to carry the sugar away and to bring back goods and passengers.
They developed inter-island shipping, built hotels, put capital into insurance, cattle, pineapples, banking. They took over bodily the wholesaling of goods coming into the Islands; ninety percent of retail stock came from their warehouses.
Their capital started the public utilities. Their street railway transported Hawaiians, their gas and electric plants lighted the city, they acquired the communications systems. (MacDonald)
The sugar industry was the prime force in transforming Hawaiʻi from a traditional, insular, agrarian and debt‐ridden society into a multicultural, cosmopolitan and prosperous one. (Carol Wilcox)
With statehood in 1959 and the almost simultaneous introduction of passenger jet airplanes, the tourist industry began to grow rapidly.
The industry came to maturity by the turn of the century; the industry peaked in the 1930s. Hawaiʻi’s sugar plantations employed more than 50,000 workers and produced more than 1-million tons of sugar a year; over 254,500-acres were planted in sugar. (That plummeted to 492,000-tons in 1995.)
A majority of the plantations closed in the 1990s. As sugar declined, tourism took its place – and far surpassed it. Like many other societies, Hawaii underwent a profound transformation from an agrarian to a service economy.
There were a couple other associated entities that were associated with the Big 5” Dillingham (Benjamin Franklin Dillingham) and Campbell (James Campbell) and their associated companies.
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“Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, and for all who come after you, as the only great sight which every American … should see.” (Teddy Roosevelt)
It was the home of a group of people that some call the Anasazi, a Navajo word for ‘Ancient Ones.’ About 2,000 years ago, the Pueblo people learned to survive in extremely harsh conditions and for more than 1,000 years thrived there. Then, they simply disappeared. (Shields)
The Hopi, Yavapai, Navajo, Apache, Zuni, Paiute (Kaibab,) Havasupai and Hualapai are among the tribes that call the canyon home, each with their own language, customs and beliefs. (NPS)
The Colorado River began carving a course to create the Grand Canyon, 4 to 6-million years ago. The nearly 300-river-miles long Colorado cut the 1-mile deep, 10-miles wide canyon, exposing rock and sediment formations that are nearly 2-billion years old. (Stampoulos)
In 1540, a Spanish Nobleman, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, led the first expedition of Europeans into the southwest, in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola that were reputed to contain great riches.
Spanish explorer Don Pedro de Tovar accompanied Coronado and led an expedition to Hopi country. Tovar is credited with as being the first European to learn of the existence of the Grand Canyon. But the Spanish left, unable to cross its impassable void.
Later, more foreigners came.
In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran and his nine companions became the first to record the 1,000-miles of the Green and Colorado River from Wyoming through the Grand Canyon. Powell was the first American to consistently use and publish the name, ‘Grand Canyon.’ (NPS)
Miners discovered valuable mineral resources in the Grand Canyon in the late-1800s; but extraction was dangerous and expensive. Mining claims waned and tourism increased.
In the early days, reaching the Grand Canyon was difficult. Initially, horses, mules, river rafts and stagecoaches brought people to the canyon. The 73-mile trip from Flagstaff to the canyon rim took 10 to 12-hours. (Stampoulos)
In 1876, the Santa Fe railroad was one of the fastest expanding railroads in the country. In 1889, Fred Harvey had a contract for exclusive rights to manage and operate the eating houses and lunch stands with the Santa Fe, west of the Missouri River.
Passengers on the Santa Fe ate well because of Harvey’s special refrigerated boxcar that supplied fresh California fruits and vegetables. He had ‘Harvey Girls’ (“young (unmarried) women between 18 and 30-years of age, of good character, attractive and intelligent”) as waitresses and salesgirls.
The Fred Harvey Company operated all of the hotels and restaurants along the Santa Fe railroad lines, as well as many dining cars. (Stampoulos)
Soon, the Santa Fe Railway (and others railways) reached the South Rim of the canyon. In 1901, Harvey died, and his son Ford Harvey took over the company. After Fred’s death, the company’s good reputation for fine food and service grew even more. (Armstrong)
Newspapers across the country heralded the passenger trains carrying visitors to the Grand Canyon; the story stirred public interest, instigating what would later become a ‘boom’ of visitors to the canyon – more than half of them arrived by train at the Santa Fe Station. (Shields)
The company decided to go ahead with plans for a first-class hotel at the Grand Canyon. Ford was in charge of what became the company’s crown jewel, the El Tovar Hotel (named after the early Spanish explorer) – the Charles Whittlesey-designed log structure opened its doors on the canyon rim (and at the rail station) on January 14, 1905.
The hotel soon became the mecca for travelers from all over the world. In order to serve the large number of visitors. The Fred Harvey Company had to maintain a fairly large staff. To accommodate them, men and women’s dormitories were built near the hotel.
The Harvey Company continued its growth well into the 20th century.
So, what’s the Hawai‘i connection? … In 1968, Amfac (one of Hawai‘i’s ‘Big Five’ companies) bought the Fred Harvey Company (and with it, the concession for El Tovar and other hotels, shops and activities at the Grand Canyon.)
Amfac had its beginning in the Islands when, on September 26, 1849, German sea captain Heinrich (Henry) Hackfeld arrived in Honolulu with his wife, Marie, her 16-year-old brother Johann Carl Pflueger and a nephew BF Ehlers.
Hackfeld opened a general merchandise business (dry goods, crockery, hardware and stationery,) wholesale, as well as retail store.
Hackfeld later developed a business of importing machinery and supplies for the spreading sugar plantations and exported raw sugar. H Hackfeld & Co became a prominent factor – business agent and shipper – for the plantations.
A few years later, with the advent of the US involvement in World War I, things changed significantly for the worst for H Hackfeld & Co. In 1918, using the terms of the Trading with the Enemy Act and its amendments, the US government seized H Hackfeld & Company and ordered the sale of German-owned shares. (Jung)
The patriotic sounding “American Factors, Ltd,” the newly-formed Hawaiʻi-based corporation (whose largest shareholders included Alexander & Baldwin, C Brewer & Company, Castle & Cooke, HP Baldwin Ltd, Matson Navigation Company and Welch & Company,) bought the H Hackfeld stock. (Jung) At that same time, the BF Ehlers dry goods store also took the patriotic “Liberty House” name.
American Factors shortened its name to “Amfac” in 1966. The next year (1967,) Henry Alexander Walker became president and later Board Chairman of Amfac.
Over the next 15-years, Walker took Amfac from a company that largely depended on sugar production in Hawaiʻi to a broadly diversified conglomerate (which included the acquisition of the Fred Harvey Company in 1968.)
Later, the resort management company became known as Xanterra Parks and Resorts (the present concessionaire and operator of hotels (including El Tovar) and other functions at the Grand Canyon, and elsewhere.)
In 1893, President Benjamin Harrison established it as a forest reserve. On January 11, 1908, President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt placed the Grand Canyon under public protection, declaring it a national monument. Congress updated the Grand Canyon to national park status and doubled the protected area in 1975. It was named a World Heritage Site in 1979.
They say the average length of stay for visitors to the Grand Canyon is 3-hours; take some time to see and experience what some suggest is one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World (Grand Canyon, Mount Everest, Northern Lights, Harbor at Rio de Janeiro, Great Barrier Reef, Paricutin and Victoria Falls) – it is something to behold, that neither words, nor pictures, can adequately describe.
Tourist at the edge of the Grand Canyon, ca. 1914
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Filed Under: Buildings, Economy, General, Place Names Tagged With: American Factors, Amfac, Big 5, El Tovar, Fred Harvey Company, Grand Canyon, Hackfeld, Hawaii, Liberty House
April 20, 2016 by Peter T Young 1 Comment
Walker Estate
Captain Heinrich Hackfeld was an adventurer born in Dalmenhorst, in Oldenberg, Germany. He was a sea captain on the China run when he sailed into Honolulu Harbor for provisions.
He stayed; he and his brother-in-law Johann Carl Pflueger founded a dry goods store called H Hackfeld and Company in 1849 in Honolulu. In 1881, Paul Isenberg became a partner.
George Rodiek was first vice president of H Hackfeld & Co; he also served as German consul in the Islands. In 1905, Rodiek built a two-story home with a series of garden featuring ferns, rocks and orchard in Nuʻuanu.
Then, WWI came (1914-1918.) In 1918, using the terms of the Trading with the Enemy Act and its amendments, the US government seized H Hackfeld & Company and ordered the sale of German-owned shares. (Jung)
The patriotic sounding “American Factors, Ltd,” the newly-formed Hawaiʻi-based corporation, whose largest shareholders included Alexander & Baldwin, C Brewer & Company, Castle & Cooke, HP Baldwin Ltd, Matson Navigation Company and Welch & Company, bought the H Hackfeld stock. (Jung)
The German-started H Hackfeld & Co became one of Hawaiʻi’s “Big Five.” (Hawaiʻi’s Big 5 were: Amfac – starting as Hackfeld & Company (1849;) Alexander & Baldwin (1870;) Theo H Davies (1845;) Castle & Cooke (1851) and C Brewer (1826.))
In 1918, Rodiek sold his Nuʻuanu home to Alan Wilcox who remained in it until the 1930s when it was taken over by Henry Alexander Walker (Walker became president of American Factors in the 1930s – American Factors shortened its name to “Amfac” in 1966.
The next year (1967,) Alexander’s son, Henry Alexander Walker became president and later Board Chairman. Over the next 15-years, Walker took Amfac from a company that largely depended on sugar production in Hawaiʻi to a broadly diversified conglomerate. After adding so many companies, Amfac sales were $1.3 billion by 1976, up from $575 million in 1971. (hbs-edu)
After subsequent sales of controlling interests in the company and liquidation of land and other assets, in 2002, the once dominant business in Hawaiʻi, the biggest of the Hawaiʻi Big Five, Amfac Hawaiʻi, LLC (Limited Liability Company) filed for federal bankruptcy protection. (TGI)
OK, back to the house … The nearly-6-acres of grounds were originally used for orchards and vegetables although the Japanese garden was put in shortly after the house was built (thought to be the oldest formal Japanese garden in Hawaiʻi,) the stones, lamps and images specially brought from Japan for it.
Wilcox expanded the gardens, but it was not until the Walkers took over the house that the grounds were made into a showplace. (NPS)
The Walkers turned the estate into world famous orchid gardens. Una Walker (Henry Sr’s wife) maintained the estate by making the grounds available for weddings and visitors and as a movie and television set.
The Walker residence is one of the few intact estates that were built in the upper Nuʻuanu Valley before and after the turn of the century. The Classical Revival style reflects an era of gracious living that for various reasons has passed from existence except in a few isolated cases. (NPS)
In 1973, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; in addition more that 20 of its trees are listed as exceptional trees. (Being on the register doesn’t mean that a private landowner cannot demolish a historic site.)
In 1989, two years after Una’s death, the house and its grounds were sold by the Walker heirs to Masao Nangaku of Minami Group (USA) Inc. His intention was to restore the original house to be used as a corporate retreat; he renovated the house.
After Nangaku experienced financial problems, Richard Fried and partners took the property over and, in 1998, asked for planning permission to build a chapel to facilitate weddings on the site.
When this was refused, the estate was sold to Holy-eye (the Hawaii business arm of Forshang World Foundation and Forshang Buddhism World Center) the same day.
In 2005, Holy-Eye listed the estate for sale. In June 2006, real-estate developer TR Partners attempted to purchase the estate and planned to demolish the building and subdivide up to 20-home sites.
In 2006, Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation listed the Walker Estate to that year’s Most Endangered Historic Site (listing there calls attention to Historic resources that are often threatened by demolition, neglect, ignorance and/or apathy.)
The Taiwan and US flags are flown at the entrance to the property.
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Fred Harvey Company
The rapid growth of railroads after the Civil War was both a response to an existing need and an attempt to meet the challenge of future development. The frontier was pushing across the Kansas plains. (Snell)
Cyrus K Holliday took concrete steps toward the building of a railroad to the west as early as 1859; he has been credited with inaugurating the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (Santa Fe) railroad system.
“The said company is hereby authorized and empowered to survey, locate, construct, complete, alter, maintain and operate a railroad, with one or more tracks, from or near Atchison, on the Missouri River, in Kansas Territory, to the town of Topeka, in Kansas Territory, and to such a point on the southern or western boundary of said Territory, in the direction of Santa Fe, in the Territory of New Mexico”. (AT&SF Charter; Snell)
After getting to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the rail reached Needles, California in 1883 and would later reach all the way to Los Angeles in 1885 with a connection to San Francisco by 1900.
Frederick Henry Harvey was born on June 27, 1835 to Charles and Helen Manning Harvey, he lived in Liverpool, England with his family until they immigrated to the United States in 1850.
He first worked as a dishwasher with Smith and McNeill Café in New York for just $2 per day. He moved to New Orleans; then in 1853, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Six years later, he and a partner opened a restaurant in St. Louis (just before the Civil War broke out.)
The Civil War was bad for the restaurant industry, but good for the rail industry. Mr Harvey’s business partner left to join the Confederacy and the restaurant closed.
Harvey went to work for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (commonly called the ‘Burlington.’) On January 14, 1860 he married Barbara Sarah Mattas; they had 7 children, 5 of which survived to adulthood.
During this time, Harvey noticed that the lunchrooms serving rail passengers were deplorable and most trains did not have dining cars, even on extended trips. The custom at the time was typically to make dining stops every 100-miles or so.
The dining stops were short, no longer than an hour, and the passengers were expected to find a restaurant, order their meal, get served and eat. When the train was ready to go, it left, often leaving passengers stranded at the station.
Harvey tried unsuccessfully to interest the Burlington in a co-operative arrangement to provide good food for travelers. But the Santa Fe was interested and early in 1876 he acquired the lunchroom at the Topeka depot. Service and food were dramatically improved, and both Harvey and the Santa Fe desired to see his operations expanded.
Before long, the first Harvey House Restaurant opened in the Topeka, Kansas Santa Fe Depot Station in 1876. Leasing the lunch counter at the depot, Harvey’s business focused on cleanliness, service, reasonable prices and good food. It was an immediate success.
The Harvey Houses became the first chain restaurants, with the Topeka depot becoming the training base for the new chain along the Santa Fe Route. Soon Harvey lunchrooms extended from Kansas to California.
By the late-1880s, there was a Harvey establishment every one hundred miles along the Santa Fe line. Setting high standards for efficiency and cleanliness, the food was always served on china and customers were required to wear coats.
Harvey found that the men he hired to work in his restaurants weren’t working out; he began hiring women at a time when the only jobs for respectable females were as domestics or teachers. Harvey began to recruit them in newspaper ads across the country.
In order to qualify as one of the ‘Harvey Girls,’ the women had to have at least an eighth grade education, good moral character, good manners, and be neat and articulate. Harvey paid good wages, as much as $17.50 per month with free room, board and uniforms.
In return for employment, the Harvey Girls would agree to a six month contract, agree not to marry and abide by all company rules during the term of employment. In no time, these became much sought after jobs.
The famous ‘Harvey Girls,’ carefully trained, well-groomed young women who were hired as waitresses, further increased customer traffic. Before long, Harvey was operating restaurants, hotels, gift shops and newsstands in increasing numbers along the railroad route.
Fred Harvey’s rest houses became gathering places for visitors searching for mementos of Indian land and the Native residents of some of the West’s most striking cultural and geographic terrain.
In the 1890s, the Santa Fe Railway began including dining cars on some of its trains; Harvey got the contract to serve food on those, as well. About this same time, George Pullman began building (and staffing) his own sleeping cars.
After World War I, rising affluence, more automobiles and more leisure time hurt the Harvey Company. While keeping many Harvey Houses, they moved away from full reliance on train passengers. They packaged motor trips of the southwest, including tours of Native American villages (Indian Detours) and natural wonders(such as the Grand Canyon
At its peak, there were 84 Harvey Houses. They continued to be built and operated into the 1930s and 1940s (in 1946, its 7,000 employees served 33,000,000 meals a year to travelers.)
So, what’s the Hawai‘i connection? … In 1968, Amfac (one of Hawai‘i’s ‘Big Five’ companies) bought the Fred Harvey Company.
Amfac had its beginning in the Islands when, on September 26, 1849, German sea captain Heinrich (Henry) Hackfeld arrived in Honolulu and opened a general merchandise business (dry goods, crockery, hardware and stationery,) wholesale, as well as retail store.
Hackfeld later became a prominent ‘factor’ – business agent and shipper – for the sugar plantations. However, with the advent of the US involvement in World War I, things changed. In 1918, the US government seized H Hackfeld & Company and ordered the sale of German-owned shares. (Jung)
The patriotic sounding ‘American Factors, Ltd,’ the newly-formed Hawaiʻi-based corporation (whose largest shareholders included Alexander & Baldwin, C Brewer & Company, Castle & Cooke, HP Baldwin Ltd, Matson Navigation Company and Welch & Company,) bought the H Hackfeld stock. (Jung) At that same time, the BF Ehlers dry goods store took the patriotic ‘Liberty House’ name.
Amfac first got into resort management in 1962 when it developed some of its land at Kāʻanapali Beach Resort, Hawaiʻi’s first master-planned resort. Twenty-five years after it started, the Urban Land Institute recognized Kāʻanapali Beach Resort with an Award of Excellence for Large-Scale Recreational Development.
Amfac expanded its resort experience in the Islands in 1969 when it acquired Island Holidays Hotel Co and its chain of ‘Palms’ resorts (including Kona Palms, Maui Palms and Coco Palms) started by ‘Gus’ and Grace Guslander.
Walker took Amfac from a company that largely depended on sugar production in Hawaiʻi to a broadly diversified conglomerate (which included the acquisition of the Fred Harvey Company in 1968.)
Later (2002,) the resort management company became known as Xanterra Parks and Resorts. (Lots of information here is from Harvey Houses, Armstrong, Legends of America and Xanterra.)
Topeka Depot where Fred Harvey took over the 2nd-flr lunchroom in early 1876
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Todd Haley has emerged on Cardinals shortlist of candidates
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You can bet Ben Roethlisberger is all smiles this morning. Offensive coordinator Todd Haley has emerged as a candidate for the Arizona Cardinals head coaching job and indications are he’s a very serious candidate for the job.
Mike Jurecki of XTRA 910 Radio in Phoenix reports the Cardinals have asked the Steelers for permission to interview Haley. The Steelers are expected to grant permission.
Haley who had a down season in Pittsburgh, had been expected to be among the candidates on Arizona’s shortlist. Reports of the Cardinals being close to hiring Andy Reid are now false. Haley was the Cardinals offensive coordinator in 2007 and 2008. With Haley at the helm as offensive coordinator in 2008 and Kurt Warner at QB, the Cardinals were 4th in total offense that year and were 3rd in the NFL in scoring, averaging 26.7 points per game.
Haley hasn’t put together the same type of success in Pittsburgh, despite having Ben Roethlisberger at the helm. The Steelers ranked 21st in overall offense and were 22nd in the league in scoring, averaging 21 points per game.
Roethlisberger and Haley don’t have a horrible relationship on a personal level but Roethlisberger is not a fan by any means of the ball control offense/short passing game the Steelers have developed under Haley. To be blunt, he doesn’t like this offense.
Roethlisberger posted his lowest yards per attempt in five years, averaging just 7.27 yards per pass, an area that use to make Roethlisberger one of the best QB’s in the game.
Despite questions about whether this offense is ever going to be a great fit for this team, the Steelers have no intentions of making a change (perception is why) and the only way Haley isn’t back is if he takes another job.
However, I was told a few weeks ago that Mike Tomlin wouldn’t be losing any sleep if he left. Some (not ownership) actually hope it would happen as Tomlin could then elevate Kirby Wilson to OC.
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Summer Reading, II
Yesterday I finished Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. An enjoyable book, though some times the visions of my imaginations where influenced by flashes from the educational show Wishbone (isn't it a pity how most of the educational shows I used to watch and love aren't on anymore? Actually, a lot of kids watched Wishbone. It was a good show.). My boyfriend said Mark Twain is hilarious. While I wouldn't use hilarious to describe Tom Sawyer (perhaps that is because of my personal definition of hilarious. To say it is hilaroius is to say that the reader should be cracking up once or twice every chapter), there are still very funny parts. The afterword said, though, that often The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is praised more then Tom Sawyer, so one day I might perhaps read Huck Finn. However, now it is on to Dune Messiah, if I can get to the library before Sunday.
Time v. Talk Radio!
Michael Moore gets his first doubtful approval from me with the quote in this article, saying “I don’t like this film being reduced to Bush vs. Kerry.” However, that's not what this post is about.
From TIME:
"Today people get their news and, just as important, their attitudes from more rambunctious sources: from the polarized polemicists on talk radio and cable news channels, from comedians and webmasters. That’s poli-tainment, and as practiced by Rush Limbaugh and a host of right-wing radio hosts, and by Matt Drudge on the internet, it hounded Bill Clinton’s presidency while spicing and coarsening the standards of political discourse, Corliss writes."
Ouch. Play nice, kids! Notice, of course, that it's only the "right-wing radio hosts" that are slandered as "poli-tainment" and Matt Drudge, who, if you notice, posts links to articles (does he write anything on his website himself? Hmm, pretty hard to pull of poli-tainment if you're not doing any writing EDIT]: I may be wrong there. I think Drudge does write short articles, but a lot of his stuff is just links to other articles). The sources cited here do have their opinions, and they speak up about them. Oh, my! They don't claim to be indifferent, but they aren't in the entertainment industry. To these right-wingers, the facts are the most important part of what they do. I'm sure it's the same with many left-wingers out there too.
Just a question, sirs. What is Michael Moore's movie? An unbiased documentary? I find that highly doubtful. I'm sure it crosses that "poli-tainment" line.
http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,660927,00.html via drudgereport.com
Congratulations to the new government in Iraq. If anyone didn't notice (and I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't), power was handed over to the Iraqis -
two days before the deadline.
Hate Speech and Voting Responsibly
Ah, Campaign 2004. The joy, the insanity. The hate speech.
I walked into Barnes and Nobles today, and in a prominent display they had dozens of political books. All well and good. Here are a few of the titles: "The Bush Hater's Handguide," "The I Hate George W. Bush Reader (Apparently, there's a whole series of these, from attacking the President's cabinet to attacking the whole GOP)." These books might very well make good points. But the titles just turn me off right away. To proclaim such extreme hate is to show that you blind partiality. If you hate something, nothing will change your mind about it, nothing will quench your raging rhetoric, and everything is available for you to twist and use in your hate reign.
The hate campaign is a terrible thing, a terrible thing for Democrats, a terrible thing for Republicans, for homosexuals or heterosexuals, for pro-life or pro-choice. It's just not right.
Vote for Kerry. Vote for Nader. Vote for Bush. By all means, vote for who you think is right. But don't you dare cast a hate vote. Don't you dare ruin democracy that way. You step back and think about this rationally, think about who you're voting for and why. "Anybody but Bush" is a sick mantra. How can we sink to such mindless, degrading hate speech? And degrading is what it is. Can we not put enough effort into this year's election to know why we're voting for who we're voting for? Are the inflammatory words of a few impassioned people going to shift our foundations, our beliefs and our convictions? Are we going to forsake our honor?
It shames the country when we cast hate votes. It shames America because that is not the way our republic democracy is supposed to work. We insult the election when we do that, we insult the candidates, and we insult our fellow countrymen, because we try to steal their votes because of our senseless hate.
Take the hate out of this year's election. Put intelligence and honor back in.
Summer Reading, I
Summer is when I finally get some time to read what I want to read, and I started off this summer with Dune by Frank Herbert, a sci-fi book that practically started a cult following. Let me tell you, it wasn't the easiest book to get into. It's long, and I don't have the best reading habits when it comes to long books, but I managed to get all the way through (I was so determined not to quit). At first, I had a very hard time understand why it has such a following. It was interesting, yes, but to me, it wasn't engaging enough for such a fan base. However, between watching the Sci-fi channel's miniseries Children of Dune and finishing the book, I came to understand the attachment more. It truly is a great story, an epic, and a tragic family history. I think that's what I really came to connect with, the fate of the Atriedes family, how despite their best efforts, they ended up plunged in betrayl and death and tragedy. Now the whole Dune series has been slotted into my summer reading. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a sci-fi/fantasy epic.
Save the Whales and Kill the Babies
I went to Aquire the Fire over this weekend, an awesome Christian teen conference down in Balitmore, and one of the speakers there spoke about sex. She told us that if we took all the American deaths in all the wars in the last hundred years, World War I through the Iraq operation now, it would not equal the number of babies killed every year by abortion.
How can we do this? How can we be silent and let this happen? How can we be accomplices to murder? It's time I commit myself to taking a stand against this crime, and I challenge all to do the same. This is not a choice of a woman - this is the life of a child. The phrase "It's a child not a choice" may seem over used, but it's so true. How can we claim the power to decide whether or not a baby lives or dies? What gives us that so called "right?" And how can we take away the baby's right - the right to live? It's a shame that we have so degraded human life.
For those of you who are unconvinced that life begins at conception, I challenge you to read "ProLife Answers to ProChoice Agruments" by Randy Alcorn. If you are so sure that an unborn baby is not a life, then it is no threat to you. But what if you're wrong? Can we stand to err on the side of murder? Will you refuse to take this book and read it? Are you afraid of being wrong?
If there was one issue that I could choose to mark the grave importance of this year's election, I think it would be abortion. The President has always been in support of life. How can Mrs. Heinz Kerry say that she believes abortion is "stopping the process of life" and yet be pro-choice (see article below)? Isn't "stopping the process of life" also known as killing, murder? How dare Senator Kerry say "...the goverment should stay out of the bedrooms of Americans"? This is not about the privacy of Americans. This is about the sanctitiy of the lives of Americans. As much as you value the lives of the soldiers in Iraq, Mr. Kerry, so value the lives of the babies here. This is not an issue about the lifestyles Americans choose, about their sexual lifestyles. This is about the murder of millions. How dare you twist the issue! The Kerry's are trying to walk both sides of a decisive line. You cannot have "rare but... safe and legal" abortion. How would you propose to do this, Senator Kerry? And if you make it rare, why is that? Is it because you believe it is the killing of a child? Is it because you believe it is wrong? And if it is morally wrong, how can we make it legal? If it is murder, how can we legislate that? If you are not against abortion, Senator Kerry, you are for it. You cannot walk this rope without falling.
The decision you make this coming November about the President of the United States is crucial. Our nation is in a moral crisis that we must all pull together and work to rectify. It's time to stand up and do something about this. If we don't, how many more babies will die? Who could I save if I just worked a little, talked to a few people, prayed a little harder? What could her name be? What might his children look like?
Are we really this cruel and heartless? Are we really this morally deluded?
How many more thousands of babies are we ready to sacrifice?
Here are some other thoughts on abortion and the "March for Women's Lives:"
After Abortion
Cor ad cor loquens
"ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments
A survey of Aborted Women
Abortion Statistics - What You Didn't Know
This trailer is incredible. I could definitely see Spiderman 2 surpassing the first one, if only by a margin (I'd have to say X-2 was better than X-Men. I have high hopes for the third movie, even if they are dimmed a little by realistic pessimism that movies go down in quality as the number following the title gets higher). The Spiderman movies present such a great internal conflict for Peter Parker. Where does he draw the line between his life and the consuming life of Spiderman? "With great power comes great responsibility." Amen to that. Something we can all apply to our own lives.
But doesn't Mary Jane ever get tired of playing the damsel in distress? First she was dangled over the edge of a bridge, now she's carried off by the Doc Oc guy. Poor girl needs some superpowers of her own.
Why I Love Tony Blair
Tony Blair on Iraq and Our Complacency
One thing I really like about this speech is how Mr. Blair points out how the minority is causing trouble in Iraq. He says, "The current upsurge in violence has not spread throughout Iraq. Much of Iraq is unaffected and most Iraqis reject it. The insurgents are former Saddam sympathisers, angry that their status as 'boss' has been removed, terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda and, most recently, followers of the Shia cleric, Muqtada-al-Sadr."
It is very hard for Americans to make judgements on the mindset of an entire country. What do we know about what is going on over there besides what we are told by our media? What do we know of all the advancements being made that Mr. Blair mentioned, the banks, the growing economy, the growing equality, the possibility of advancement in education? We see the extremists, the terrorists, running around, ambushing our troops, abducting our citizens, but what does the average citizen say? What of those who lost family members to Sadaam's regime, those women who are just now realizing their rights? What of those who long for unity and peace?
Mr. Blair says the terrorists realize what these attacks in Iraq do to our mindset:
"They know it is a historic struggle. They know their victory would do far more than defeat America or Britain. It would defeat civilisation and democracy everywhere. They know it, but do we? The truth is, faced with this struggle, on which our own fate hangs, a significant part of Western opinion is sitting back, if not half-hoping we fail, certainly replete with schadenfreude at the difficulty we find."
If we pull out of Iraq now, what then? Will we watch as a nation crumbles in on itself, so close to freedom and democracy, eaten alive by extremism and terrorism? What will the world think of us then, as we turn our back on what is our responsibility? Regardless of what we may have thought going into the war, the truth is that the rebuilding of Iraq is our responsibility now, and we must see it done. Peace will not come to Iraq if we abandon it now.
"...Have we the stomach to see it through?"
via Drudge Report
Madrid, Spain. March 11, 2004.
He says the President, I'm thinking maybe it's him. Okay, first of all, I don't really listen to talk radio, so I don't know anything about Stern. But from reading the article I was struck by a flaw in his purpose. He says, "I'm about to be served up my head on a platter because all I wanted to do was make people laugh." You want to make people laugh about politics? Sure, there's a time for that, but it also sounds like he wants people to take him very seriously. So which is more important, making people laugh or dedicating yourself to the truth (or what he thinks is truth) behind politics. And if it's the former, how much will he twist the latter to get his precious laughs?
People whose goal in life are to make others laugh are not bad people, but you'd better know them well, or they might become careless with topics, issues, and the truth just to make you laugh.
It's nice to see the Chorincles of Narnia getting a movie break; if other fantasy movies made in the last few years are any precedent, it should be good. I do wish Peter Jackson and Weta were working on it, but can we always have our way? Let's keep our fingers crossed for The Hobbit.
Lord of the Oscars
I had to ask, on Sunday, why the Oscar Orchestra bothered to learn any other music besides the Gondor theme?
Kudos, Peter Jackson, cast and crew. You deserved every little golden man you won.
Finally, someone following the laws
It's refreshing to see someone who follows the laws, what with the disaster in San Francisco. Plan and simple, people, regardless of how you feel on the subject, law is law. If I don't agree that I should have a license for my gun, that doesn't mean I can keep one without registration. That's not civil disobedience. Nor is this. I may not agree with Spitzer's personal views, but I admire him for upholding the law in the face of the public loud mouths.
I was slighted by Sen. Russell Feingold's (D) comment about this being a divisionary tactic. If so, than it's of the Democrat's devise, no? If I recall correctly, the President only took a stand after the wave of illegal activity began. Here's the thing that my dad's been pointing out: this issue is becoming increasingly demanding of the American people. You are going to have to make a decision whether or not you support this behavior. If you don't, you agree with the President, and I hope you will live out your beliefs in the vote. If you do, then you're more inclined toward the Democratic platform. If you don't do anything, then you're voting pro-gay marriage. It's not just that Republicans are pro-heterosexuality. It's that Demoracts are pro-homosexuality.
I encourage you, before you push that button or pull that lever, to think hard about where your convinctions are on this issue, and to vote according, because it's one or the other. There is no inbetween.
Proof that the guys in my class will never grow up...
I thought it might stop after college... But then again, you just want to giggle when you read this.
DrudgeReport
Mayor Takes Illegal Action
Reaction against gay marriage ban. The issue itself aside (that's for another, uber long post that I have no time for), I found the behavior of the mayor of San Fransisco shocking. Mayor Gavin Newsom disregards the law in the name of "civil disobedience." What an example he shows to the people who elected him. If he can disregard the law, why not the average citizen? Is it not the mayor's job to uphold the law? I do not have respect for this man. Maybe it is because we disagree on the issues, or maybe it is because I think of civil disobedience as the refusal to take complying action, not the snapping action of seizing opposite action.
A song about me, really...
My new favorite song is "She's So High" by Tal Bachman. Request it on your local radio station now!
When it comes to the economy, I'm not an expert. I know that when the stock market is up, that's good, and when it's down, that's bad. I know that when I get money I usually spend it. I know that tax cuts are cool because they mean I get money to spend. I know that soon I will have no money because of college.
I also know that I can easily find a job, and this is what puzzles me. I've heard that the economy is bad, it's hard to find a job, look at the unemployment rate. I say, look at all those "Now Hiring!" signs. I'd bet you that if I went out today and put my mind to it, I could find a job within a week. I held one temporarily during December because a family member had connections to a place that needed an extra hand during the holidays. I made good money, which I promptly put back into the economy through Christmas present shopping. In a few weeks, I'm going to be back on the hunt again (not like I really hunted before), and I'm confident I'll find a place with ease and haste. Now, I'm not going to be working at the most prestigious places. Nope, cashiers and hostesses aren't glitzy jobs, but they're jobs. Toy's R Us was hiring previously, Pizzeria Uno said they'd hire me in January, I'm pretty sure I saw a sign for jobs in the Coconuts window. And these are things I've just seen when driving by. Are these the best jobs, the highest paying? No. Will they necessarily give you enough to live off of? That depends on your family, your rent, your eating habits, if you really need that gym membership or that satelitte dish. I honestly can't say if all the jobs that are out there will pay for your standard of living. But I'm puzzled when someone screams, "Look at unemployment!" because I look, and what I see is a crowd of eager employers.
Moon Walking
Polls on NASA plans via Rasmussen Reports. I'd love to see Americans on the moon again. I think it's a great way to expand scientifically. Besides, why not explore? There is no falling off the edge of the solar system or galaxy.
Blushing at the Grammy's
I turned on the Grammy's for about half a minute the other night, and, of course, I saw Justin Timberlake. First of all, the dude was wearing a pink shirt. What happened to his stylists? Second of all, from the clips we heard, I thought he was the worst singer (though the last guy in the series of clips wasn't too smashing either). Third of all, there was no way that the Superbowl stunt was unintentional. What happened, Justin? Did your hand spaz? What a poor choice of words. On one hand, it's nice that he apologized, but "unintentional?" What's intentional then?
Your Friendly Neighborhood New Yorkers
Who said people in New York aren't friendly? I was in East Harlem on Sunday, and I stopped by McDonald's for breakfast. The guy sitting next to me started talking about Bush and Saddam and on and on and I made the mistake of wondering if he was talking to me and made eye contact with him. He talked to me about fifteen minutes straight, ranging from politics to how I should go into biology to make lots of money and how he was going to get millions in a little while. I hardly had to say anything, just smile and nod. Eventually I had to interrupt, I had to leave, and he was very polite and said it was nice talking to me, and I said the same, and vowed never to stay and eat at that McDonald's again. Friendly, yes. A little scary, that's true too.
"Hello, my name is Amy..."
Hi, my name is Amy, and I'm... a blogger. Careful, it's catching. There's little to say about me, more to say about my new blog. Scriva is Italian for "write," an apt title considering what a blog is, simply a collection of writings. A collection on a myriad of different topics to. I'm prepared to write about anything and everything. Movies, music, travel, what little I know of politics, current events, stories I'm working on, what guys need to know about girls to stop frustrating us, etc. This blog may be a small voice, but a voice it will be. It comes fully equipped with plenty of opinions, and I'd like to hear any responses back (considering I can figure out how this thing works.).
I hope you enjoy your time here. Cheers!
The Reveal
"The Reveal"
Sounds charming and seductive, doesn't it? Absolutely opposite of the shameful display that was Janet Jackson's performance at the Superbowl Half-time show. Thankfully, I didn't see it, didn't even know about it until the next day. On Tuesday, I was sucked into the public debate.
I don't normally listen to morning talk shows. I think they're boring and silly, and I'd much rather listen to music when I'm half asleep and trying to wake up. The Tuesday after the Superbowl, though, I had 95.5 on, WPLJ for all you Tri-Staters, and they were going on and on about Janet Jackson, none of them upset by it. One of the hosts said it was a generation thing (more on this later) that was causing the debate. I continued listening, and the hosts started putting people's phone calls on the air. There was a succession of about four or five callers, most of them saying they had no problem with what Janet Jackson did, most of them - sorry to say this - men. Then one host said, "Where are all the women?" That's when I grabbed my phone. It took me a while to get through, but when I did, I was adamant about what I had to say.
"Hi," I blurted out to the female call screener. By this time I was shaking with nervousness. "My name's Amy, and I just wanted to say that I think this Janet Jackson thing's horrible, and it's not a generational gap because I'm 18 and I think it was disgusting."
Or something along those lines. It was early, I was nervous. The caller took down my name, my opinion (I have a lot of those), where I was from, and told me to turn down my radio and wait. Woohoo, I was going to be on the radio (I had been snubbed once by Z-100, but that's another story)!
One of the previous callers had said that it was no big deal, that people go around topless all the time in Europe. The host laughed and said that maybe American needed to loosen up. Bwaha, another opinion to hit them with!
When I finally heard them announce my name and welcome me to the show, I jumped right into my arguments. No, this was not a generational thing. No, just because people in Europe go around half naked does not mean it should be allowed on TV here in America (I went off on something about how even though people do drugs doesn't mean we should make marijuana legal. I should have thought of a better argument than that, but that's what I said then, so I'm sticking to it.). And if this was what happened this year at the Superbowl, what's going to happen next year, and the year after that, and the year after that?
The hosts were very polite and made some acknowledging comments, thanked me, and then I was off the air. That long story for this opinion.
What Janet Jackson did was disgraceful (and illegal), and we should not tolerate it. There were kids watching the Superbowl with their parents, people who would prefer not to see that kind of indecency. Not just your grandparents, either. I would have been mortified if I had been watching that with my guy friends. Let's just make pop singers, women in general!, more of a sex icon than they already are. And to think this was shown on national TV w/o warning or advisory. There are other channels for this shame, you know. And just because people in Europe go around topless doesn't mean that America's uptight. We have topless/nude beaches here to, but we still have some shred of propriety left. Cover up, Janet Jackson! If Eve can realize that she needs clothes, than I think you can too. I get very frustrated, because I know that what she did just isn't right, but many Americans are just too callous to see it. It wasn't funny. It wasn't cool. It was disgusting.
Come on, America, where has your sense of decency gone?
My parents said that my call sparked a few others in protest. I just heard the guy who IMed in to say that I needed to shut up, in not so few words. That's okay, though. I still like his comment the best.
Scriva
Bobby Knight once said, "All of us learn to write in second grade. Most of us go on to greater things." As much as I am humored by this quote, I have to disagree with Bobby. I'm here to prove that some of us do go to write, and it is a greater thing.
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Al-Qaeda Chief Calls For 'Unrelenting Blows' On Army In Kashmir
New Delhi: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri has asked the 'Mujahideen in Kashmir' to inflict 'unrelenting blows' on the Indian Army and the government in Jammu and Kashmir in a message released by the terror group's media wing. In the 14-minute speech, Zawahiri also brought to light Pakistan's involvement in fuelling cross-border terrorism in Kashmir in a message titled 'Don't Forget Kashmir'. Zawahiri hails from Egypt and the United States has announced a reward of $25 million for information leading to his arrest or death. The Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) Long War Journal in an article said the Al-Qaeda had been grooming an upstart group to wage jihad against the Indian forces in Kashmir. '(I am) of the view that the Mujahideen in Kashmir - at this stage at least - should single-mindedly focus on inflicting unrelenting blows on the Indian Army and government, so as to bleed the Indian economy and make India suffer sustained losses in manpower and equipment,' Zawahiri said. Calling both the Pakistani Army and the government 'toadies of America', Zawahiri compared Pakistan's policy on Kashmir to that of the Taliban and migrant terrorists. The video was posted on 'As-Sahab' channel, an in-house production of the al-Qaeda used to relay the organisation's views to the world, also asked the terrorists 'to establish stronger channels of communication with their Muslim brethren all over the world'. The video has been checked by security agencies who believed it was an attempt to unite the disgruntled terrorist ranks in the valley, officials said. While Zawahiri did not mention Zakir Musa, the terrorist killed by security forces in Kashmir in May, his photo flashed on the screen as the chief spoke on Kashmir. Musa was the founder of the Indian cell of the Al Qaeda, titled 'Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind'. Pakistan's 'conflict with India is essentially a secular rivalry over borders managed by the American intelligence', said the Qaeda chief. Zawahiri also claimed that the 'fight in Kashmir' is not a separate conflict but instead is part of the worldwide Muslim community's 'jihad against a vast array of forces'. He called on 'unnamed' scholars to spread this point. 'You (the scholars) must clearly state that supporting the jihad in Kashmir, the Philippines, Chechnya, Central Asia, Iraq, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, Somalia, the Islamic Maghreb and Turkistan is an individual obligation on all Muslims, until sufficient strength is achieved to expel the disbelieving occupier from Muslim lands,' he said. Zawahiri claimed that Pakistan prevented the 'Arab Mujahideen' from 'head[ing] to Kashmir after expelling the Russians from Afghanistan', which was countered by the author by quoting the 9-11 Commission. Thomas Joscelyn, in his article for the journal, said that the US had learned of the presence of Pakistan's military intelligence service at one of al-Qaeda's camps in Afghanistan, which was struck in retaliation for the August 1998 US Embassy bombings. The Pakistanis were training Kashmiri jihadists at the camp, according to the author. The writer also highlighted the 'double game' played by Pakistan after the gruesome 9-11 terror attacks in the US. While Pakistan did conduct counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda following the 2001 attacks, it also harboured the Taliban's senior leadership, including members of the al Qaeda-allied Haqqani Network. 'All the Pakistani Army and government are interested in is exploiting the mujahideen for specific political objectives, only to dump or persecute them later,' Zawahiri claimed, highlighting Pakistan's role while casting them in a negative light. Zawahiri also told terrorists not to target 'mosques, markets, and gathering places of Muslims' in Kashmir. The video comes amid the government's recent claims of reduction in infiltration in the state. The Ministry of Home Affairs has told Parliament that compared to infiltration in 2018, the number this year has come down by 43%, recruitment of local Kashmiris by terror groups is down by 40% and there is a hike in number of terrorists killed by 22%.
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Featured News, Latest News, Politics, Slider PostsBy Russell Sherrill July 17, 2019 Leave a comment
EXCLUSIVE — Scherie Murray, a New York businesswoman who immigrated from Jamaica as a child and is active in state Republican politics, is launching a campaign Wednesday for the congressional seat held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fox News has learned. In a phone interview, Murray, 38, confirmed her intention to run for the New York congressional seat…
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What is going on in this country right now, especially on Capitol Hill, is nothing short of deceitful behavior which intentionally distorts the truth in order to win a political battle. I saw it firsthand when I testified on Capitol Hill this past Friday, in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Aside from…
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Thomas Homan testified before Congress on Friday to explain why the agency under his watch did what they had to do in order to secure the border and save lives. Appearing before hostile Democratic representatives who were clearly there to score political points, Homan proved himself to be courageous,…
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a twister. She’s loud, destructive, and forms during intense storms of political theater. When she touches down, the damage can be devastating. She’s been on a roll trying to make fascist America into a real-life thing. It’s not. She compared the detention centers at our southern border to Nazi concentration…
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Railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming to be taken private in $8.4B deal
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U.S. freight railroadsOpens a New Window. operator Genesee & WyomingOpens a New Window.on Monday agreed to be acquired by Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC in a deal valued at about $8.4 billion, including debt. The announcement comes a day after Reuters reported news of the development, citing sources. The Transaction will result in…
Trump says he’s optimistic about trade deal with Chinese President Xi, in interview with Tucker Carlson
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GAME ON: President Trump Vows Victory in 2020 During Official Campaign Kick-Off
Featured News, Latest News, Politics, Slider PostsBy Russell Sherrill June 19, 2019 Leave a comment
“It has been my honor to serve as First Lady for the past two years and I am excited to do it for six more,” First Lady Melania Trump said Tuesday night in Florida. President Donald Trump officially kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign from the Amway Center in Orlando Tuesday, touting his record in…
J.J. Watt calls on fans to ‘chip in and buy’ Whataburger after a majority stake is sold
BusinessBy Russell Sherrill June 18, 2019 Leave a comment
Houston Texans star J.J. Watt has called on fans of fast food chain WhataburgerOpens a New Window. to buy the Texas-based fast food joint back after a majority stake was sold to a Chicago investment firm. News of the sale to Chicago-based BDP capital Partners prompted dismay from its fans, including the Houston Texans defensive end, who tweeted…
ICE to remove ‘millions of illegal aliens’ in US, Trump says, scant on details
President Trump late Monday announced on Twitter that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin the process of “removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the U.S.,” but did not elaborate on what new measures will be taken. “They will be removed as fast as they come,” Trump said. Mark Morgan,…
Trump blames Tehran for Gulf tanker attacks after Navy releases video showing Iranian boat removing unexploded mine
President Trump pointed the finger at Tehran Friday for this week’s attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman, after the U.S. Navy released video purportedly showing an Iranian vessel removing an unexploded mine that had been attached to one of the tankers. In an interview with “Fox & Friends” Friday, President Trump said of Iran’s alleged involvement: “We don’t…
Trump slams contempt vote against Cabinet officials, says Dems have gone ‘Loco’
President Trump issued a warning to House Democrats Thursday following a committee vote to hold Attorney General Bill Barr and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in contempt, blasting the move and vowing “Republicans will remember!” And in an early-morning Twitter tear, he went on to complain that Democrats are “accomplishing nothing for the people” and charge: “They have gone…
10 best US states to live in 2019, according to WalletHub
A recent analysis ranked all 50 U.S. states to determine which one was the best to live in based on economy, education, safety, quality of life and affordability. The report by WalletHubOpens a New Window. named Massachusetts as the best state to live in. The state ranked second for economy and education and health. Massachusetts also took…
Jon Stewart, First Responders Testify Before Congress On 9/11 Victim Compensation Funding
Celebrity Jon Stewart, amongst others, testified before Congress today on behalf of 9/11 first responders and survivors to discuss the status of the expiring 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. The fund, which assists these heroes with various medical-related expenses for illnesses and injuries caused by the horrendous terrorist attack, is quickly running out of money due…
Border Patrol’s Worst Nightmare: ISIS Planned To Attack America Utilizing Our Weak Immigration Laws
For years Border Patrol agents have expressed concern about America’s immigration policies, saying that the United States’ southern border was vulnerable. They have expressed concerns about a potential terrorist using the United States-Mexico border as a means of gaining access to America to carry out a terrorist attack. And, not surprisingly, their fears have become…
Trump, other leaders mark D-Day’s 75th anniversary in Normandy, France
Featured News, Latest News, Politics, Slider PostsBy Russell Sherrill June 6, 2019 Leave a comment
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com President Trump paid stirring homage Thursday to the brave Allied fighters who “stood in the fires of hell” to help turn the tide of World War II, speaking at the edge of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, where thousands of men stormed the shore 75 years ago in a relentless onslaught that was…
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President Trump delivered remarks for the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, honoring veterans who fought in Normandy, referring to them as the “pride of our nation.” “We are gathered here on freedom’s altar,” he said at the commemorative event near Omaha beach. “Today we remember those who fell and we honor all who fought right…
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Giles Gunstone
Giles practiced as a solicitor before joining KCH Garden Square in 2007 as a member of the Civil team. He has a direct and robust approach to cases and will pursue an argument with vigour, backed up by a high regard for the client’s best interests.
During his practice at chambers, Giles’ work has been a mixture of property litigation, commercial law (including employment) and general civil litigation (usually excluding Personal Injury). As an experienced advocate, Giles has always enjoyed going to Court or Tribunal.
Property Litigation has been a part of Giles’ practice for many years and he is able to advise and deal with cases involving landlord and tenants disputes, issues as to possession, the enforceability of covenants, mortgages and problems between neighbours. Like others in chambers, Giles is particularly experienced in cases involving social housing and has acted for many local authorities and housing authorities and has been instructed by most of the local solicitors with a legal aid contract for housing. In all these cases, Giles has a realistic approach and will explore practical solutions to satisfy the client’s requirements.
Giles has often worked for limited companies and their owner managers. He has wide experience in commercial contract disputes and debt recovery. The solicitors’ practice in which Giles was a partner had a particular reputation in insolvency, and Giles is familiar with most issues that are likely to be experienced in both personal and corporate insolvency. He has worked with (and against) many local insolvency practitioners. One niche that is taking an increasing amount of Giles’ time is that of minority shareholder actions. Disputes between shareholders are difficult, and can involve different areas of practice. Giles can advise fully and can consider not only the claims of competing shareholders, but also the potential for claims relating to the related capacities of being a director and / or an employee.
In employment cases, Giles has acted for both Employers and Claimants. His cases involve the “usual” claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination under the Equality Act, but Giles also has experience of areas of employment such as TUPE, wrongful dismissal, holiday pay, redundancy, restrictive awards and covenants in restraint of trade. He also has experience of applications to regulatory bodies such as the Fitness to Practice Panel of the GMC.
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Giles has given seminars for local solicitors in conjunction with the Nottinghamshire Law Society on various subjects within his range of work.
Giles qualified as a solicitor with the Kent County Council and then moved into private practice with work which initially included divorce, and criminal defence. However, he soon started to deal only with civil disputes. Most of his career as a solicitor was spent with the Nottingham firm Actons, in which he became a partner and Head of its Civil Litigation Department.
Having re-qualified as a barrister in 2007, Giles joined chambers and has been here ever since. His practice has always been limited to civil claims, and has evolved over time with the precise mix of work changing a little from time to time. Some of Giles’s work is done on a direct access basis and he is much in demand from company directors who wish to act on behalf of their companies, but have specialist help during the progress of a case and at trial.
A representative summary of the some of the recent cases in which Giles has appeared over the last year or so are:
K Mortgage Co ltd v R*** a case concerning a mortgage taken out fraudulently by one of two owners who forged her partner’s signature. Initial interlocutory work set aside a possession order that had been made against Giles’ client and permitted a subsequent settlement on satisfactory terms
P*** ltd v F*** ltd was a case of a commercial lease that had been assigned to one of the parties and there were issues as to the assignee’s obligations and whether the lease had been terminated prior to the end of the original term.
Inquest into the death of R*** V*** This was an example of Giles’ development of his practice into the realm of the more complex inquests. Representing one of many interested parties, this was a 5 day inquest that received significant local interest. The tragic circumstances of the death of a local man were carefully and sensitively handled and the interests of Giles’ client were safeguarded.
C*** v the Trustees of a religious organisation. A claim of unfair dismissal in the Employment Tribunal in which there was an unusual application relating to the disclosure of documents and the extent of the duty of search.
BT** ltd v AAT Ltd a contract dispute between two local companies in which Giles represented the defendant to the claim which was successfully defeated. He then also acted upon an appeal to the High Court where the efforts of the claimant to challenge the result was again resisted.
(Names concealed to avoid identification of the parties)
A reported case in which Giles appeared was a difficult minority shareholder case in the High Court, which can be found as:
Pinfold v Ansell & Others [2017] EWHC 889 (Ch)
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Langley Avenue Church of God
About LACOG
History of Langley
Reverend Cynthia Thomas
Personal Mission StatementTo remain a yielded vessel through which the love and ministry of Jesus Christ may flow at all times, in all circumstances and to all persons.
Pastor Thomas grew up in Decatur, Illinois, where she was active in church service and ministry at an early age. She served as a Sunday School teacher at age eleven, and was the lead singer for her church’s five-member special singing group from ages twelve to fourteen. Growing up, she was blessed to be able to accompany her mother, Reverend Christine Hawkins, who was in service to The Lord on evangelistic speaking engagements from time to time; who helped to plant a church in Springfield, Illinois; and served as pastor of Williams Street Church of God in Danville, Illinois.
Education and Teaching Experience
With an interest in languages, she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in French and a minor in English from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. After teaching a few years, she received a Master of Arts Degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, with a double major in French and Political Science. Other courses were taken at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. Since teaching had always been her desired career since childhood, she was appreciative of the opportunity to teach French for a total of thirty-five years in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois and Evanston, Illinois. While teaching, Pastor Thomas kept her knowledge of the French language alive by making summer visits to Montreal, attending graduate summer school at the University of Nancy II, in Nancy, France, and working for a winter session in a ski school in Ristolas, France, located in the French Alps.
Ministry Preparation
Witnessing the ministry of her mother as an evangelist and later, as a pastor, granted insight into the dedication required in ministry. Knowing, studying and fully embracing the Word of God remained a priority for Pastor Thomas. Her mother said to her even as a teen, ” Cynthia, you REALLY think about The Lord”, because she related so much of practical life to the scriptures. After accepting The Lord’s call upon her life for ministry, Pastor Thomas was mentored in ministry by her eldest sibling, renowned evangelist, Dr. Johnnie Mae Brown. Dr. Brown guided her in the principles of studying the Word, prayer, and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide in all areas of life. Rev. Thomas continued with spiritual development with courses of study at the Midwest School of Ministry and Theological Studies in Evanston, Illinois and Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
Ministry Service
Rev. Thomas has served as a minister at three churches. At First Church of God Christian Life Center in Evanston, Illinois, she served on the pastoral staff, served as a Sunday School Teacher, Women’s Ministry President, Youth Ministry Team Coordinator, Junior Church Coordinator, New Converts Teacher, Sanctuary Choir Member, Spiritual Nurturer, preacher and as a pastoral advisory team member. At Agape Christian Fellowship Church of God in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, she served as an Associate Minister, taught weekly Biblical Perspectives and facilitated the Women’s Saturday Bible Study.
In 2004, Rev. Thomas became a part of the ministry team at Langley Avenue Church of God under the leadership of the Reverend Doctors Noah and Carolyn Waddy Reid, where she assisted however she was needed. Pastor Thomas has also served the National Association of the Church of God as an instructor of the In-Service Training Institute, as a member of the program committee for the summer camp meetings, as president of the women’s ministry for five years and as secretary for the Board of Directors and secretary for the General Assembly of Ministers.
Ministry Travels
In the year of 2000, Rev. Thomas acknowledged that The Lord was moving her into a ministry of evangelism. Although she continued teaching in the public high school, she began traveling throughout the country to minister as called upon and directed by the Holy Spirit. Although challenging, The Lord blessed her to experience preaching, teaching and ministering at Women’s Weekend Celebrations, Conferences, Conventions, Revivals, and Pastors’ Anniversary Celebrations in many venues, including: Illinois (Chicago, Decatur, Springfield, Naperville, Rockford, Harvey, East St. Louis), Indiana (Anderson, Indianapolis), Ohio (Akron, Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati), Missouri (St. Louis), Pennsylvania (Sharon, Hershey, West Middlesex, Philadelphia), New Jersey (Trenton, Elizabeth), New York ( Brooklyn), Georgia ( Atlanta), Alabama ( Birmimgham, Talladega), Maryland (Columbia), Wisconsin ( Milwaukee), Washington, D.C.,Virginia (Richmond), Washington, (Seattle), Oregon ( Portland),Texas (Dallas, Halletsville), Florida (Daytona Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville), Kansas (Kansas City), South Carolina (Columbia), Michigan (Detroit, Pontiac), and California (Oakland, San Jose, San Diego).
Langley Avenue Church of God Installation
Upon the retirement of Rev. Dr. Noah Reid, Rev. Thomas became the Interim Pastor. She served in this capacity July 1, 2011 – October 13, 2012. She was unanimously voted upon by the congregation on October 14, 2012, to become their pastor. She was installed on November 4, 2012, by leaders who have poured encouragement into her life; Pastor Eric Livingston, Illinois State Pastor, and Bishop Timothy and Sister Clye Clarke, First Church of God, Columbus, Ohio.
Ministry Affiliates
1. Illinois Church of God Ministries
2. National Association of the Church of God
3. Church of God Ministries, Anderson, Indiana
4. Christian Women Connection
5. Women in Ministry International
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New York City at night, February, 1972. In a heavy snowstorm, Laurel Massé, going home after her waitress shift, hailed a cab. It stopped, she got in. The driver was wearing a cap covered with 1939 World’s Fair buttons. She asked about them. This, the first of many long conversations with Tim Hauser, was the beginning of a musical friendship that led to the founding of the award-winning vocal group, Manhattan Transfer, and the beginning of her long musical career.
For seven years, Ms. Massé toured internationally with the Transfer, recording four albums (certified gold and platinum) and the Just a Gigolo movie soundtrack, and making numerous television appearances (including Mary Tyler Moore’s 1974 television special Mary’s Incredible Dream, and The Manhattan Transfer Show on CBS TV in 1975). With her expressive voice, clear diction, and ready wit, the tall redhead left an indelible mark on the group.
But in 1978, a near-fatal automobile accident cut short her tenure with the quartet. Recovery took a long time; she returned to stage and studio in 1980 as a solo artist. Her solo recordings Alone Together and Easy Living both charted on Billboard; Again was a People magazine pick. Feather and Bone (2000) was described by The Absolute Sound as “a recording of extraordinary musical and sonic value.” That Ol’ Mercer Magic, an all-Mercer recording (with Janis Siegel of Manhattan Transfer and Lauren Kinhan of New York Voices) came out in 2009 to great critical acclaim. In 2012 she released Once in a Million Moons, a duo collaboration with pianist/arranger Tex Arnold. Ms. Massé has also guested on CDs of many other artists, including Barry Manilow, percussionist Layne Redmond, bluegrass artist Tony Trischka, and songwriter Carol Hall. Her monthly live jazz show on NPR’s WAMC featured performances by guests such as Peter Eldridge of New York Voices, and Roseanna Vitro.
Since 1997 she has been part of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason’s Ashokan Music and Dance Camp as resident vocal coach in jazz, western, and swing styles, and has been a Master Instructor at The International Cabaret Conference at Yale since 2004. She has lectured and taught master classes at prestigious institutions such as Dartmouth and The Royal Academy of Music (UK), and is an adjudicator for high school and college jazz and show choir competitions. She is currently the 2014/15 STAR Artist-in-Residence at The Center at Eagle Hill, in central Massachusetts.
Ms. Massé received the prized MAC Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), and the Bistro (Best Jazz Vocalist, 2009). Ms. Massé has been both a guest soloist and a member of the professional choir at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. As an actor, she has participated in Project Rushmore’s readings of Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” (as Lenny) and Shakespeare’s “King Lear” (Cordelia), and is featured singing her own composition The Heavens Tonight (co-written with Larry Kerchner and Hubert “Tex” Arnold) in the Kairos Productions feature film, Camilla Dickinson. She is an ASCAP writer and a member of SAG/AFTRA.
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This article is about redistricting in the United States. For redistricting in general, see Redistribution (election).
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Redistricting is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries in the United States.
Legislative representatives
In 28 states, the state legislature has primary responsibility for creating a redistricting plan, in many cases subject to approval by the state governor. To reduce the role that legislative politics might play, twelve states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington) determine congressional redistricting by an independent or bipartisan redistricting commission.[1] Five states: Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia give independent bodies authority to propose redistricting plans, but preserve the role of legislatures to approve them. Arkansas has a commission composed of its governor, attorney general, and secretary of state. Seven states have only a single representative for the entire state because of their low populations; these are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.
State constitutions and laws also mandate which body has responsibility over drawing the state legislature boundaries.[2] In addition, those municipal governments that are elected on a district basis (as opposed to at-large) also redistrict.
Each state has its own standards for creating Congressional and legislative districts.[3] In addition to equalizing the population of districts and complying with Federal requirements, criteria may include attempting to create compact, contiguous districts, trying to keep political units and communities within a single district, and avoiding the drawing of boundaries for purposes of partisan advantage or incumbent protection.[4] In the states where the legislature (or another body where a partisan majority is possible) is in charge of redistricting, the possibility of gerrymandering (the deliberate manipulation of political boundaries for electoral advantage, usually of incumbents or a specific political party) often makes the process very politically contentious, especially when the majorities of the two houses of the legislature, or the legislature and the governor, are from different parties. The state and federal court systems are often involved in resolving disputes over Congressional and legislative redistricting when gridlock prevents redistricting in a timely manner. In addition, the losers to an adopted redistricting plan often challenge it in state and federal courts. Justice Department approval (which is known as pre-clearance) was formerly required under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in certain states that have had a history of racial barriers to voting.
Partisan domination of state legislatures and improved technology to design contiguous districts that pack opponents into as few districts as possible have led to district maps which are skewed towards one party. Consequently, many states including Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas have succeeded in reducing or effectively eliminating competition for most House seats in those states.
Other states including California, New Jersey and New York have opted to protect incumbents of both parties, reducing the number of competitive districts. The Supreme Court's ruling on the Pennsylvania redistricting effectively allows elected officials to select their constituents by eliminating most of the grounds for constituents to challenge district lines.[5]
Redistricting may follow other criteria depending on State and Local governments:[6]
compactness
contiguity
equal population
preservation of existing political communities
partisan fairness
racial fairness [7]
Esri has offered its services as a platform for redestricting to allow for complete government transparency. Since the process of redistricting is intrinsically linked to geography, GIS can address this issue effectively.[6]
Main article: Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing district lines to achieve political gain for legislators. The practice of gerrymandering involves the manipulation of district drawing in aims to leave out, or include, specific populations in a legislator's district to ensure his/her reelection.
Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)
United States congressional apportionment
↑ "2009 Redistricting Commission Table". National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). June 28, 2008. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
↑ Blake, Aaron. "Government Redistricting Web Sites". Purdue University Libraries. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
↑ "TheHill.com - Redistricting looms over 2010 landscape". thehill.com. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
↑ Miller, Jason C.,Community as a Redistricting Principle: Consulting Media Markets in Drawing District Lines (July 6, 2010). Indiana Law Journal Supplement, Vol. 5, 2010.
↑ "Vieth v. Jubelirer". supct.law.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
1 2 "ArcGIS is Making Redistricting More Efficient and Transparent" (PDF), ArcUser, p. 26, Spring 2018
↑ Jacobson, Gary (2013). The Politics of Congressional Elections. New Jersey: PEARSON Education. p. 9.
All About Redistricting Includes state criteria.
Creating Fair Congressional Districts A site with an algorithm using just population and state shape for creating congressional districts.
redistrictinginamerica.org A comprehensive source for information about redistricting in all fifty states from the Rose Institute of State and Local Government
MappingSoftware.com Maptitude for Redistricting News
Congressional Apportionment from the Office of the Clerk at the United States House of Representatives, including historical representation by state
District sizes and other data from 1900-2000 from the United States Census
Government Redistricting Web Sites from GovDocs at Purdue University Libraries, includes list of state websites
Public Mapping Project
A Citizen's Guide to Redistricting, 2010 Edition, downloadable
Reapportionment and Redistricting in the U.S. from the ACE Project
Rodriguez, Lori. "Getting point of redistricting." Houston Chronicle. Saturday August 24, 1991. A25.
www.FloridaRedistricting.org
Jeffrey B. Lewis; et al. (2013). "Digital Boundary Definitions of United States Congressional Districts, 1789-2012". University of California, Los Angeles.
"Redistricting: How Powerful Interests Are Drawing You Out of a Vote". ProPublica.
The Redistricting Game - Where Do You Draw the Lines A simulation of how redistricting works. It uses the real US laws and practices and incorporates quotes from US political leaders.
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The Resource A review of the September 2005 shooting incident involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Filiberto Ojeda Ríos : executive summary, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General
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EU’s Mogherini Could Usher in Better Relations with Iran
September 3, 2014 Eldar Mamedov 2 Comments
by Eldar Mamedov
Just as the nuclear-focused talks between Iran and world powers are set to resume, the European Union has named Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini its new foreign policy chief. While current High Representative Catherine Ashton will remain in her post as the key mediator in the negotiations until the Nov. 24 deadline, Mogherini’s appointment has already got people asking: How will she deal with Iran?
Mogherini’s new post (announced on Aug. 30 and beginning on Nov. 1) is good news for Europe’s relations with Iran. In contrast to Ashton, Mogherini has demonstrated the ability to look beyond the nuclear issue and take a broader view of the country.
Lady Ashton deserves praise for attempting to solve the conflict over Iran’s controversial nuclear program, but she was not interested in pursuing any initiatives in bilateral EU-Iran relations until after the nuclear issue was resolved. Her choice of advisors belied her view of Iran as a nuclear problem rather than a country; most of them came from the rather hawkish non-proliferation camp. These advisors credited crippling sanctions with whatever constructive moves the Iranians made, including the interim nuclear deal reached in Geneva last November, while ignoring the significance of other factors stemming from Iranian internal politics. Tellingly, Iran desk officers at the Ashton-led European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s fledgling foreign service, were not even included in her delegation to Tehran in April 2014. Such a narrow focus on the nuclear issue has prevented the EU from building more confidence with Iran. It has also impeded the opening of an EU delegation in Tehran as well as dialogue on regional security—steps many experts, and diplomats on the ground in Tehran have long stressed as important and useful.
Mogherini comes to office with a much more promising background than her predecessor. As an expert in political Islam, she understands the complexity of the Middle East and the role different regional actors play. In her remarks to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Sept. 2 (delivered in her capacity as Italy’s foreign minister), Mogherini expressed confidence that the deal between the P5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany) and Iran will be reached within the deadline. She also recognized Iran’s and other regional states’ legitimate security concerns, particularly the threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, Iraq and beyond. In a refreshing departure from the old-fashioned zero-sum logic dividing the region into “allies” and “rogues”, Mogherini acknowledged the need for an inclusive regional security framework to deal with the Middle East’s problems. In this regard a recent high-level meeting between Iranian and Saudi officials was mentioned as a promising development. Mogherini forcefully advocated the role of diplomacy, the need to “talk to all,” and, true to her word, announced talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif the following day.
However, assuming that Mogherini is ready to take a much more pro-active line in building relations with Iran, she will face formidable challenges along the way. Apart from the traditional external naysayers (Iranian exile groups, right-wing pro-Israel lobby organizations), the EU complex’s institutional set-up—involving the Council, Commission, 28 Member States, the Parliament and the EEAS—might prove to be a major hurdle. Besides investing considerable political capital into improving relations with Iran—viewed as a controversial project by many—Mogherini will also have to prove adept at fighting and winning bureaucratic inter-institutional fights. She has some advantages on her side: unlike Ashton, Mogherini hails from a country that has traditionally been at the core of European integration, and she enjoys the backing of Europe’s most influential politician, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Some personal traits also help—in the European Parliament Mogherini came across as self-assured and vigorous even in hostile environments. According to one senior European lawmaker who asked not to be named, Mogherini has every quality necessary for becoming something more than a “secretary to the ambassadors of the EU member states”—a veiled reference to Ashton’s performance.
In fact, the European Parliament may have lent Mogherini a hand. On Sept. 2, the Foreign Affairs Committee voted on the EU’s general budget for 2015. The budget includes a request for the opening of the EU delegation in Tehran, once the nuclear negotiations are “concluded successfully”—a condition that was introduced by conservative lawmakers who view the move as a reward to Iran rather than a foreign policy tool. But in practical terms it doesn’t change much, since the delegation is not going to be opened before the deadline for the talks anyway. If this initiative survives the trilateral negotiations between the Council, Commission and Parliament over the final shape of the budget, it would be a significant boost for Mogherini’s efforts to build a more forward-looking relationship with Iran.
The EU’s new high representative faces a steep road ahead when it comes to Iran, but Mogherini’s demonstrated instincts and abilities are encouraging. Let’s hope she gets a chance put them into practice.
Photo: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif walks with his Italian counterpart in Rome, Italy during high-level talks on Sept. 3, 2014. Credit: Shargh
This article reflects the personal views of the author and not necessarily the opinions of the European Parliament.
Analysis, EU, Iran, Political Islam, Sanctions Catherine Ashton, EU's High Representative, Iran nuclear deal, Iran nuclear talks, Who is Federica Mogherini?, Will Federica Mogherini engage with Iran?
Eldar Mamedov
Eldar Mamedov has degrees from the University of Latvia and the Diplomatic School in Madrid, Spain. He has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and as a diplomat in Latvian embassies in Washington D.C. and Madrid. Since 2007, Mamedov has served as a political adviser for the social-democrats in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (EP) and is in charge of the EP delegations for inter-parliamentary relations with Iran, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, and Mashreq.
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Mogherini isn’t going to solve anything. Firstly the negotiations going on have almost nothing to do with nuclear bombs. That is a Red Herring for the sheeple.
The real negotiations are between Washington and Khamenei, (who makes ALL major decisions in Tehran). Europe is a very small party. And these negotiations are about Cold War 2 that the Obamanation has declared against Moscow and Beijing.
It will be important for both sides to find out if Tehran will devolve into the new Anti- Empire Axis or become “non aligned”.
The real issues are who Iran will sell its oil to and in what currency as well as whether Tehran will become a part of Empire’s dollar based trading and banking system.
Other issues will have to do with regional cooperation in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Levant.
If all goes well Iran’s image will be restored in Empire propaganda media and forums and the nuclear issue will all but be forgotten.
Tehran is in any case many years away from any nuclear weapon and if and when it were to come up with one, (like the ones the Pakis have),by Empire standards they will be things suitable only for museums of old arms.
It seems that the big equation in all this, has been left out, that being the E.U. and what happens to it. In its place, it’s always been the Israeli hoot and hollering about the “sky’s falling unless you bomb Iran. That the U.S. has become a willing stooge, goes without saying. Perhaps, this is payback to the E.U. for allowing what happened with the Nazi genocide of the Jews. After all, they are one the first line of defense in any future combat, especially with Russia. The next few months are going to be interesting.
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Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up was Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (lead guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), and John Deacon (bass guitar). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock, into their music.
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