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Twisting her listeners through deep techno sounds to warm house tracks, as dub techno chords, pumping basslines and delicate vocals drift together, Ocean’s music is simple but moody, favoring human feelings over machine-like clicks and pops.
In only a few short years since her 2008 debut, Ocean Lam has positioned herself as one of the leaders in Hong Kong’s electronic music scene. A former resident at Yumla, she has moved on to start two successful and distinctly different monthly nights at the famed Bassment Bar: FoxTrot, an all-female DJ night grounded in fun vibes; and Humdrum Hong Kong House and Techno, hosting international stalwarts including Ryan Elliott, Deetron, Dirt Crew, Dave DK, Glitterbug, I-Robots, and Spieltape, to name but a few.
Outside of her own Hong Kong events, Ocean has been the go-to choice to support other international names like Jimpster, Efdemin, Namito, Luke Hess, Till von Sein, Technasia and Marko Fürstenberg. She has had headlining slots at Hong Kong’s biggest music festival, Clockenflap, for three years running, and has been booked for corporate events for global brands such as Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana. Her performances abroad in places like Renate (Berlin), Sweden, Beijing and Thailand as well as her recent releases on Beatport have given the world a reason to keep an ear towards Hong Kong’s blossoming electronic underground.
Since 2010 she’s released two singles on Yumla Records, “Weirdos” and “Is All She Wants”, as well as 2013’s “Loosen Up”, released on Typhoon 8 Records. 2014 will see Ocean move on from the Humdrum collective to launch her solo event “Hypnotic”, complementing her semi-regular podcast of the same name.
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/ocean-1 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hypnotic.hongkong Humdrum: http://humdrumhk.wordpress.com/ Facebook Humdrum: https://www.facebook.com/humdrumhongkong RA: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/oceanlam
Video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=238455909672891&set=vb.214617925390023&type=2&theater
Mixsets: Live DJ set @Oma HK: http://soundcloud.com/ocean-1/ocean-oma-hong-kong-22-2-2014 Hypnotic podcast set: http://soundcloud.com/ocean-1/sets/hypnotic-podcast/ Live DJ set @Paloma Bar (Berlin): https://soundcloud.com/ocean-1/ocean-lam-sad-paloma-bar
Track released: https://soundcloud.com/typhoon8records/loosen-up-ocean-lam
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The Future of Classical Music Is … Instagram?
Elizabeth Nonemaker · January 2018
We classical musicians have changed a lot about our concerts. More and more, we’re playing in nontraditional venues, we’re relaxing show etiquette, we’re developing programs that interact with audience members or respond to their needs.
Classical Revolution Baltimore recently announced a show entitled “Classical Music For People With Short Attention Spans,” meant to accommodate, rather than correct, wayward listeners by presenting highlights of favorite pieces in under five minutes each. The most recent Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands featured the premiere of the Smartphone Orchestra, in which cell phones were neither silenced nor tucked into the darkness, but rather incorporated into the fabric of the performance.
Can we go further? As a composer, I’m of the opinion that classical music’s longevity depends on our community embracing new music, and not just new presentation formats, as its lifeblood. But what if the traditional ways of creating music are themselves outdated?
I’ve been thinking about content as the engine behind transforming listening experiences ever since I came across Ray Lustig’s composagram project. These are typically 15-second musical moments set to video and published on Instagram. Lustig developed the project as a “low-stakes creative exercise,” but what sets this project apart is both its integration with technology and the cumulative effect of the pieces.
Lustig started out as a microbiologist, and when I met with him, he told me that what he’s carried over from the sciences is a love of systems. He particularly enjoys writing canons for their built-in set of limitations. So, in the spirit of this approach, Lustig established his own set of rules when developing the composagrams project. Briefly:
Each composagram can last no longer than 15 seconds. (Initially, this rule was dictated by Instagram’s video time limit, but Lustig has stuck with the parameter even after the app’s cutoff extended to one minute – more on that later.)
No recorded improvisations, in that this seems “both too easy and too hard.”
At the same time, Lustig likes the idea of “not having a fixed score.” Instead, the audio can come from disparate sources, like a “collage … of fixed fragments.”
However: no fake instruments.
Electronic music is to be used sparingly. And, of course:
Each composagram must have a moving visual element. Lustig eschews depicting faces, opting rather for abstract images or landscapes.
From there, he was off. Since his first post in August 2015, he has produced dozens of these vignettes. It’s astonishing how distinct many of them are from one another. In one, a short phrase played by harp and a struck singing bowl fades into a discordant train whistle. Visually, we see much of the same: an image that looks like a bell overlaid by a black-and-white scene shot from behind the window of a moving train. In another, a passage of Renaissance-sounding music – with choir drone, harpsichord, and imitative strings – plays over an animation of geometric shapes that feel as if they’re cycling through oblique religious symbols.
A post shared by Ray Lustig (@raylustig) on Sep 16, 2016 at 1:42pm PDT
On the surface, Lustig’s composagrams are fun exercises that nod to several modern concerns in composing. Timelessly, they’re a great way to combat writer’s block, while stockpiling material that could be used in later pieces. They incorporate video, which audiences have increasingly come to expect from newly released music. The online platform allows composers all over the world to connect with each other; many other creators, whether they know Lustig or not, have taken up the #composagram challenge. Relatedly, the exercise can act to uninitiated artists as a primer on self-promotion and online PR work.
A post shared by Ray Lustig (@raylustig) on Jul 20, 2016 at 8:41am PDT
All of these elements combine to form the groundwork for what you could call a movement, something that Lustig has embraced when assigning the exercise to his students at Juilliard School’s evening division. In his words, they’re “trying to create the sense that this is a collective of artists working together on one project.” But what I find to be the most compelling force behind that movement is its emphasis on brevity. And it’s when you combine that brevity with all of the other social and technological aspects of the project that it seems that Lustig has developed an entirely new to way to listen – or maybe, more accurately – to process music.
Most other creators under the #composagram hashtag have embraced Instagram’s one-minute cutoff, but there’s a reason why Lustig chose to keep his own to 15 seconds. In his words, that’s more than enough time “to make a beautiful, single affect.” At the same time, it forces good quality: urging creators to finesse one idea, or one transition from some kind of music into another. In teaching his students, Lustig reflects that “people got the notion that you can have a really boring 15 seconds of music, that 11 seconds into it you’re waiting for it to end.”
And of course people understand that these days. Composagrams perfectly accommodate the rate at which we process information online – which is, in a word, fast – and the expectation to have our interest piqued immediately. While many content producers try to attract difficult-to-please consumers by making their creations incredibly arresting – thereby luring audiences in further – composagrams are not interested in holding your attention. By the time you’ve decided whether or not you’re interested in them, they’re already done.
When you stack all of these 15-second-long composagrams on top of each other – when you make the act of listening to them such a low-stakes activity – you essentially trick yourself into becoming a highly attentive audience member.
So here’s where the fun part comes in. Composagrams turn the dreaded “scroll” through social media into something substantive. When you stack all of these 15-second-long composagrams on top of each other – when you make the act of listening to them such a low-stakes activity – you essentially trick yourself into becoming a highly attentive audience member. Now, I can only authoritatively speak to my own experience (so I would invite readers to spend some time browsing through #composagrams, particularly the shorter ones, and share their impressions), but I notice a peculiar feeling after listening to each one: It doesn’t feel like enough. So I let it replay, and replay and replay. Each time, I try to pick up on elements that I hadn’t noticed before. Regarding the previously mentioned examples: how the train whistle is actually playing from the very beginning of the excerpt; whether those imitative strings are actually landing a semitone apart, or if they’re just in very close canon. When I feel as if I’ve worked through the puzzle of one vignette, I move onto another. The first time I did this, 20 minutes passed without my noticing. Maybe I should be ashamed to confess this, but I can’t remember the last time I did nothing but sit and listen to a recorded piece of music for 20 minutes, with absolutely no other distractions, for pure recreation.
I don’t think that purists should start wailing about classical music going the way of the tweet – that we’ve lost our capacity for extended listening, that long-form pieces are a thing of the past. If anything, composagrams suggest that we are primed for a deeper, more involved kind of listening experience than ever before. Maybe it’s because they force you to listen down, rather than across; maybe it’s because they encourage (or at least create the illusion of) your own agency. Whatever the reason, I think we could all take a leaf from Björk’s book, embracing the evolution of both our art and our world as something we should not be afraid of, even if that means changing the very way we think – and not just about music, but anything. Isn’t that, after all, the whole point of art?
Elizabeth Nonemaker
Elizabeth Nonemaker is a composer, writer and managing editor for 21CM.org. She writes about classical music for The Baltimore Sun and has worked for Children’s Radio Foundation and KPCC’s “The Frame.” As a composer, …more
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Cordray Lays Out Vision for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Office of Attorney General of Ohio(WASHINGTON) -- Richard Cordray made his first public appearance as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Thursday, saying he was honored to serve as the bureau’s first director.
“Consumer financial products can make our lives better and create opportunities to make something of ourselves, but these same financial products can also make life harder,” Cordray said as he laid out his vision for the agency and his immediate priorities as director during a speech at the Brookings Institution.
Although Cordray has been working with the bureau since its inception last year, and was officially nominated as director last summer, his appointment became official only on Wednesday. President Obama used his executive authority to appoint Cordray while the Senate was in recess, bypassing Senate Republicans who had delayed Cordray’s appointment while demanding structural changes to the CFPB.
Opponents called Obama's appointment -- and his appointment of three new picks to head the National Labor Relations board -- an unprecedented "power grab." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said of the maneuvering, "President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people.”
But Cordray now has full authority, and plans to make “it clear that there are real consequences for breaking the law,” he said.
“Consumers deserve to have someone who will stand on their side, who will protect them against fraud, and who will ensure that they are treated fairly in the financial marketplace,” he said. “The new consumer bureau was created to make sure these things are achieved for all Americans.”
Cordray emphasized why the CPFB should matter to people across the country; that losing a job or an unexpected injury can happen to anyone, “our mothers and fathers, our sisters and brothers, our sons and daughters.”
Referring to his time working as Ohio’s treasurer at both the state and local level, Cordray said he “saw good people with good intentions drowning in debts they could not afford” and that “consumer finance had become more complicated and more risky in recent years.
“Consumers need better information about the costs and risks of borrowing, and they need to be able to comparison shop for a good deal,” he said. “Consumers also need the peace of mind that comes from knowing the deal they were promised is the deal they are actually getting, not just tomorrow, but next month and next year as well.”
In the past six months, Cordray said that the CPFB had received thousands of calls and emails from people across the country, who recounted their own stories and experiences.
“They do not expect any special favors, they just want a fair shake,” Cordray said.
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 3:29PM by jc Permalink
tagged CFPB, Richard Cordray in Business General, Economy, Politics
Obama Appoints Cordray to Serve as Top Consumer Watchdog
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images(SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio) -- In a defiant start to the election year, President Obama used his executive authority Wednesday to bypass Senate Republicans and appoint Richard Cordray to serve as the nation’s top consumer watchdog -- a move his opponents are calling an, unconstitutional "power grab."
“Without a director in place, the consumer watchdog agency that we’ve set up doesn’t have all the tools it needs to protect consumers against dishonest mortgage brokers or payday lenders and debt collectors who are taking advantage of consumers. And that’s inexcusable. It’s wrong,” Obama said in Ohio with Cordray at his side.
Obama nominated Cordray for the position last summer, but Senate Republicans have held up his appointment to force structural changes to the agency. On Wednesday the president said he refused to take “no” for an answer and appointed Cordray to serve as the first director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) while the Senate is in brief recess.
“The only reason Republicans in the Senate have blocked Richard is because they don’t agree with the law setting up the consumer watchdog. They want to weaken it. Well that makes no sense at all. Does anyone think the reason we got in such a financial mess was because of too much oversight? Of course not,” Obama said.
The president cast his move to install Cordray as yet another step he is taking to protect the interests of the middle class. “When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them,” Obama said. “I will not stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people they were elected to serve. Not when so much is at stake. Not at this make-or-break moment for the middle class.”
To prevent Obama from making the appointment, the Senate has been in “pro forma” sessions -- gaveling in and out a few seconds later -- every few days in order to claim they are not in recess. Calling the move a “gimmick,” the White House determined the president had the legal authority to install Cordray because the Senate has effectively been in recess for weeks. The move infuriated Republicans who called it “unprecedented” and “arrogant.”
Before delivering his remarks at Shaker Heights High School, Obama visited the home of Endia and William Eason in Cleveland to illustrate why Americans need, “someone who will stand up for them” like Cordray.
The Easons almost lost their home and were left $80,000 in debt after falling victim to predatory lending by a mortgage broker. “It’s a good example of the kinds of trickery and abuse in the non-bank financial sector that we’re going to have to do something about,” Obama said as he sat around their dining room table. “And we’re so glad that we've got somebody like Rich Cordray who’s willing to take this on.”
Earlier in the day, Cordray told reporters that his first order of business will be to “begin working to expand our program to non-banks, which is an area we haven't been able to touch up until now.”
Obama's photo op notwithstanding, the Republican opposition to the CFPB is that it is a massive entity with virtually unchecked power -- which would all be in the hands of Cordray, who was personally appointed by the president. Opponents called Obama's appointment -- and his appointment of three new picks to head the National Labor Relations board -- an unprecedented "power grab." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said of the maneuvering, "President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people.”
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 3:43PM by jc Permalink
tagged Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama, Richard Cordray in Business General, Economy, Politics
Obama to Install New Consumer Watchdog Without Congressional Approval
Office of Attorney General of Ohio(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama will attempt to grant a recess appointment to Richard Cordray, his choice to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ABC News has learned, using powers ordinarily only available when the Senate is in recess, which it is not.
Forty-four senators object to the appointment, not over Cordray’s credentials, but over what they consider exceptional powers given to the new agency.
The president on Wednesday is headed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, outside of Cleveland, for a speech on the economy. Cordray, who is from Ohio, will travel to Ohio with President Obama.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 3:24AM by jc Permalink
tagged President Obama, Richard Cordray in Business General, Economy, Politics
Barney Frank Chastises GOP for Blocking CFPB Director Confirmation
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Barney Frank is more than miffed about Senate Republicans blocking the confirmation of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Board.
In a Friday Op-Ed the Massachusetts Democrat accused Republicans of “blatantly distorting the Constitution” because they have vowed to block any CFPB director nominee from being confirmed, regardless of the nominee’s merits.
“We’re going to see an extraordinarily qualified administrator of an important consumer protection agency be trashed by the Senate Republican minority because their primary goal is to ensure that financial institutions are not troubled by what they may see as an excessive concern for consumer fairness,” Frank wrote in the Washington Post op-ed.
“It is the legislative equivalent to an arsonist having set a fire and objecting to a building’s inhabitants using the fire exit,” he added.
The CFPB was created in response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis as a way to prevent unsound lending practices and avert another financial crisis. Frank was one of the authors of Dodd-Frank financial reform bill which created the CFPB.
Before the president named his nominee to lead the CFPB, 44 Senate Republicans sent a letter to Obama saying they will not confirm any nominee until the board’s structure is revamped.
Republicans have been staunchly opposed to the board and to many of the Dodd-Frank provisions. In the letter, they specified that they want to scrap the board’s director position altogether and instead diffuse power through a panel of directors. They also want any CFPB regulations to be approved by bank regulators before taking effect.
But the president has said he will veto any changes to Dodd-Frank or restructuring of the CFPB.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who signed the letter, told ABC News in July that Senate Republicans are “not going to budge and we shouldn’t.”
“We fought it last year. We’re going to continue to fight it,” Shelby said.
Frank wrote that the Republicans were waging a “war on financial regulation” and that Cordray’s confirmation was “collateral damage.”
“Senate Republicans are not entitled to use the confirmation power as a bludgeon to get their way when they cannot do so through the normal legislative process,” Frank wrote.
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 4:03PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Barney Frank, Consumer Financial Protection Board, GOP, Republicans, Richard Cordray, Senate in Business General, Politics
Obama Sidesteps Elizabeth Warren, Picks Cordray to Lead CFPB
Atty General's Office, State of Ohio(WASHINGTON) -- After a year of planning and defending the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Elizabeth Warren has been tossed out of the running to lead it. President Obama officially announced Monday that Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray will instead be his pick to run the agency, which begins operations this Thursday.
In a Sunday news release, Obama thanked Warren for her "extraordinary work" in standing up the agency that he said was her idea.
Now that she no longer has a shot to lead the CFPB, Warren may heed the cries for her to run for the U.S. Senate. Liberals have been pushing for Warren for months to run against Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown in a bid for the seat Ted Kennedy once held.
Warren, who served as interim director of the CFPB for the past year, has taken considerable heat for the bureau, which is designed to prevent another financial crisis by policing the predatory lending practices that led to the housing bubble and widespread foreclosures.
She weathered two fierce Senate Oversight Committee hearings where she and committee members sparred about everything from the bureau’s authority to ban financial products to when she could leave the hearing.
But it was unlikely that Warren could have drawn enough support to get beyond a filibuster for her nomination in the U.S. Senate.
“Professor Warren has done an outstanding job at standing up this agency and has been a tremendous asset to us all during the bureau’s first year,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a statement.
In 2010, just after passage of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation act, which officially created the CFPB, Obama named Warren as a special assistant to both the president and the Treasury Department. This type of appointment allowed Warren to bypass a Senate confirmation.
Soon after her appointment as interim director, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, spoke out against the president’s choice.
“The individual who heads this bureau will be able to make rules, with ultimately no checks and balances, that could have broad reaching implications for the U.S. economy as it relates to accessing credit, social justice and the safety and soundness of the U.S. banking system,” Corker wrote in a letter to the president. “The job is disproportionately reliant on the decisions of one individual with access to large sums of taxpayer monies to carry out the agency agenda."
In May, 44 of the 47 GOP senators expressed similar concerns. The group sent a letter to the president saying the Senate would not confirm any nominee unless the director position was replaced by a board, in order to diffuse power to more Senate-confirmed positions.
The 44 senators could now effectively prevent Cordray’s appointment, which they have vowed to do, because Democrats would not be able to overcome a filibuster.
"I remain hopeful that those who want to cripple this consumer bureau will think again and remember that the financial crisis -- and the recession and job losses that it sparked -- began one lousy mortgage at a time,” Warren said Sunday in a statement after the president’s announcement to appoint Cordray.
Warren said Cordray, whom she chose as the CFPB’s chief of enforcement in 2009, “will make a stellar director."
Cordray, 52, “has spent his career advocating for middle class families” and “looking out for ordinary people in our financial system,” Obama said in his Sunday statement.
Cordray earned his master’s degree from Oxford University and his law degree from University of Chicago Law School, where he was the editor of the law review. He has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 2:51PM by jc Permalink
tagged Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Cordray in Business General, Economy, Jobs
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How Nations Get Ahead
THE SOURCE: “Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC?” by Diego Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong, in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2010.
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Why are some areas of the world so poor and others so wealthy? Economists generally look for answers in contemporary conditions, such as the soundness of economic policies or the presence of political instability. When they do look to history, they tend to point to the Industrial Revolution or the colonial period as parting points, when some countries hopped on the train to modernity and others stayed at the station. But economists Diego Comin of Harvard University, William Easterly of New York University, and Erick Gong of the University of California, Berkeley, contend that inklings of future development patterns can be discerned as far back as the time of King David.
Comin and colleagues assembled “snapshots” of development for the predecessors of 100 modern nations at three points in history. For 1000 bc and “AD 0,” they looked at whether a society had technologies such as writing, pottery, and bronze or iron weapons, and whether it had begun to use pack or draft animals for transportation. For 1500, the relevant advances included firearms, ships capable of crossing oceans, magnetic compasses, movable-block printing, steel, and plows. The authors found that the level of technology adoption in 1000 BC explained differences in technological prowess 2,500 years later—in 1500, just before colonization—and that the technological differences in 1500 strongly predicted wealth variations today.
To put a number on it, with the data adjusted to account for migrations (thus counting America today as primarily European, not Native American), the countries that were the most technologically advanced in 1500 have populations earning 26 times more per capita than those that live in countries that were behind 500 years ago.
The major trends reinforce the authors’ belief that “technology adoption dynamics”—the inverse relationship between the cost of adopting new technology and a country’s level of development—play a major role in determining the wealth of nations today. Well-known historical puzzles, such as China’s failure to capitalize on its ancient technological achievements and the stagnation in the countries of the Islamic empire after their early progress, are not numerous enough to overturn the worldwide correlations.
The authors say that although their results help explain historical patterns, they do not predict the future. Today, technology is developed and spreads much more rapidly than in the past. It’s not a sure thing that the dynamics that shaped the last 3,000 years of development will persist in the centuries to come.
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Cuentas INC: “Successful Israeli Entrepreneur Arik Filstein as New Executive Advisor to the Board”
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Mr. Filstein is a successful Israeli entrepreneur and a well-known executive in the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange whose latest endeavor, which he personally led has reached a market cap of about US$150 million becoming one of the most popular public companies in Tel-aviv. Arik left the role of CEO of the company on May this year after acquiring Globus Pharma, a medical cannabis company.
Arik Filstein is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor who is passionate in creating new technologies, starting companies and scaling them up. On his website, Arik writes: “Years ago I started building technology businesses, and never stopped. My experience has given me a fascinating education in the nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship and strategy. And it also proved that a great venture is built on an instinct for finding the right people and looking far into the future.”
Mr. Dan Haloutz, former Chief of General Staff, Israeli Army stated that “Arik is a true leader, a talented person, knowledgeable and highly motivated. He deals well with macro and micro issues. Arik is a well-known entrepreneur; he enjoys natural leadership and management skills. His analytic way of thinking and ability to get a clear perspective on what truly counts, alongside his strategic, tactic, and resources management abilities, when combined with his leadership qualities, enables him to handle complex projects and situations, and execute. Following Arik closely during the last years, I have no doubt of his high potential contribution to any organization.” Mr. Haloutz was the chairman of Filstein’s company.
“We are very pleased that Arik Filstein has agreed to become an Advisor to the Board of Cuentas, Inc. as his experience, skills and a very deep knowledge on the capital market should help us reach the next levels of success”, stated Arik Maimon, CEO & Founder of CUENTAS. “We look forward to working with him and his special set of skills,” added Maimon.
“Now that Cuentas Inc. has defined its future path and goals, we are eager to study the potential benefits of Arik’s ideas and strategies as we apply them to mainstream commerce, banking and communications,” stated Michael De Prado, President & Founder of CUENTAS. “Cuentas continues to take important steps forward to reach our goals and advance the company towards success,” added De Prado.
About Cuentas, Inc.
Cuentas is a corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida, which, through its operating subsidiaries, engages in the business of using proprietary technology and certain licensed technology to provide innovative mobile banking, mobility, and telecommunications solutions, including wireless MVNO, to underserved, unbanked, and emerging markets. For more information, visit http://www.cuentas.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained herein that are not based upon current or historical fact are forward-looking in nature and constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Company’s expectations about its future operating results, performance and opportunities that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, that the reverse stock split may not have the intended benefits, that the Company may not meet applicable NASDAQ Capital Market requirements necessary for listing and/or NASDAQ may not approve the Company’s listing application; and any capital raises. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the Company’s management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results, performance, prospects, and opportunities to may differ materially from those set forth in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements.
Source:Yahoo Finance
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BanXIT, a Tel-Aviv Fintech Company, Partners With Entrepreneur Arik Filstein to Begin International Operations
Argentina Requests Arik Filstein as an Executive Jury Member 2017
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"Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect" --Emil Cioran, [...]
"When we are young we look for heroes. I have had mine: Kleist, Karoline von Gunderode, Nerval, Otto Weininger. . . . Intoxicated by their suicides, I was certain that they alone had gone to the end, that they drew, in death, the right conclusion from their thwarted or fulfilled loves, from their broken minds or philosophic pain. That a man should survive his passion was enough to make him contemptible or abject in my eyes: which is to say that humanity was superfluous." --"My Heroes", collected in Précis de décomposition
Emile Cioran (8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist. In his early books written in Romanian, Cioran proposed a philosophy of despair, showing a morbid obsession with death, but expressed in a deeply lyrical manner. He wrote mostly on nihilist themes of Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean provenance, with some contemporary influences like Giovanni Papini and Nicolai Berdiaev.
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2 Legacy
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Major themes and style
Professing a lack of interest in conventional philosophy in his early youth, Cioran dismissed abstract speculation in favor of personal reflection and passionate lyricism. "I’ve invented nothing; I’ve simply been the secretary of my sensations", he later said.
Pessimism characterizes all of his works, which many critics trace back to events of his childhood (in 1935 his mother is reputed to have told him that if she had known he was going to be so unhappy she would have aborted him). However, Cioran's pessimism (in fact, his skepticism, even nihilism) remains both inexhaustible and, in its own particular manner, joyful; it is not the sort of pessimism which can be traced back to simple origins, single origins themselves being questionable. When Cioran's mother spoke to him of abortion, he confessed that it did not disturb him, but made an extraordinary impression which led to an insight about the nature of existence ("I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" is what he later said in reference to the incident).
His works often depict an atmosphere of torment, a state that Cioran himself experienced, and came to be dominated by lyricism and, often, the expression of intense and even violent feeling. The books he wrote in Romanian especially display this latter characteristic. Preoccupied with the problems of death and suffering, he was attracted to the idea of suicide, believing it to be an idea that could help one go on living, an idea which he fully explored in On the Heights of Despair. He revisits suicide in depth in The New Gods, which contains a section of aphorisms devoted to the subject. The theme of human alienation, the most prominent existentialist theme, presented by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, is thus formulated, in 1932, by young Cioran: "Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?" in Tears and Saints.
Cioran’s works encompass many other themes as well: original sin, the tragic sense of history, the end of civilization, the refusal of consolation through faith, the obsession with the absolute, life as an expression of man's metaphysical exile, etc. He was a thinker passionate about history; widely reading the writers that were associated with the period of "decadent". One of these writers was Oswald Spengler who influenced Cioran's political philosophy in that he offered Gnostic reflections on the destiny of man and civilization. According to Cioran, as long as man has kept in touch with his origins and hasn't cut himself off from himself, he has resisted decadence. Today, he is on his way to his own destruction through self-objectification, impeccable production and reproduction, excess of self-analysis and transparency, and artificial triumph.
Regarding God, Cioran has noted that "without Bach, God would be a complete second rate figure" and that "Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure".
William H. Gass called Cioran's work "a philosophical romance on the modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease".
Cioran became most famous while writing not in Romanian but French, a language with which he had struggled since his youth. During Cioran's lifetime, Saint-John Perse called him “the greatest French writer to honor our language since the death of Paul Valéry.” Cioran's tone and usage in his adopted language were seldom as harsh as in Romanian (though his use of Romanian is said to be more original).
After the death of Cioran's long-term companion, Simone Boué, a collection of Cioran's manuscripts (over 30 notebooks) were found in the couple's apartment by a manager who tried, in 2005, to auction them.
However, a decision made by the Court of Appeal of Paris stopped the commercial sale of the collection; the trial is still taking place in France. Amid the manuscripts, which were mainly drafts of works that had already been published, an unedited journal was found which encompassed his life after 1972 (the year in which his Notebooks end). This document is probably Cioran’s last unpublished work.
An aged Cioran is the main character in a play by Romanian dramatist-actor Matei Vișniec, Mansardă la Paris cu vedere spre moarte ("A Paris Loft with a View on Death"). The play, depicting an imaginary meeting between Vișniec and Emil Cioran, was first brought to the stage in 2007, under the direction of Radu Afrim and with a cast of Romanian and Luxembourgian actors; Cioran was played by Constantin Cojocaru. Stagings were organized in the Romanian city of Sibiu and in the Luxembourg, at Esch-sur-Alzette (both Sibiu and Luxembourg City were the year's European Capital of Culture).
Pe culmile disperării (literally On the Summits of Despair; translated "On the Heights of Despair"), Editura "Fundația pentru Literatură și Artă", Bucharest 1934
Cartea amăgirilor ("The Book of Delusions”), Bucharest 1936
Schimbarea la față a României ("The Transfiguration of Romania”), Bucharest 1936
Lacrimi și Sfinți ("Tears and Saints"), "Editura autorului" 1937
Îndreptar pătimaș ("The Passionate Handbook”), Humanitas, Bucharest 1991
Mon pays/Țara mea ("My country”, written in French, the book was first published in Romania in a bilingual volume), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1996
Précis de décomposition ("A Short History of Decay"), Gallimard 1949
Syllogismes de l'amertume (tr. "All Gall Is Divided"), Gallimard 1952
La tentation d'exister ("The Temptation to Exist"), Gallimard 1956 | English edition: ISBN 978-0-226-10675-5
Histoire et utopie ("History and Utopia"), Gallimard 1960
La chute dans le temps ("The Fall into Time"), Gallimard 1964
Le mauvais démiurge (literally The Evil Demiurge; tr. "The New Gods"), Gallimard 1969
De l'inconvénient d'être né ("The Trouble With Being Born"), Gallimard 1973
Écartèlement (tr. "Drawn and Quartered"), Gallimard 1979
Exercices d'admiration 1986, and Aveux et anathèmes 1987 (tr. and grouped as "Anathemas and Admirations")
Cahiers ("Notebooks"), Gallimard 1997
Œuvres (Collected works), Gallimard-Quatro 1995
Des larmes et des saints , L'Herne | English edition: ISBN 978-0-226-10672-4
Sur les cimes du désespoir, L'Herne, | English edition: ISBN 978-0-226-10670-0
Le crépuscule des pensées, L'Herne,
Jadis et naguère, L'Herne
Valéry face à ses idoles, L'Herne, 1970, 2006
De la France, L’Herne, 2009
Transfiguration de la Roumanie, L’Herne, 2009
Cahier Cioran, L’Herne, 2009 (Several unpublished documents, letters and photographies).
Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect
Diogenes of Sinope
Misotheism
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The Pyramid & The Book
In 1920 Harvey announced plans to build a 130-foot-tall concrete and stone obelisk he called the “Pyramid.” Convinced that the fall of civilization was close at hand, he planned to leave a message for future generations in the structure.
The Book, authored by Harvey, would tell people of the future how to avoid the collapse that he feared was near. Harvey also planned to put in his Pyramid “numerous small articles - from the size of a needle and safety pin up to a Victrola.” View the entire Pyramid Booklet (PDF).
The Foyer
Around the obelisk he planned a large amphitheater that he called the “foyer” for the Pyramid. Work began on the amphitheater in 1925. One local resident described the project as unhurried and somewhat haphazard; Harvey had no plans or blueprints, and he worked out the design as he went.
Harvey was never able to raise enough money to build the Pyramid. But he did complete the amphitheater, and over the years local people came to call it “the Pyramids.” Read a report on the dedication of the amphitheater (PDF).
Amphitheater Dedication
While the amphitheater was under construction, Harvey built a high board fence around the area and charged visitors 25 cents to enter, see the progress, and hear him lecture on monetary theories. After the 1,000-seat amphitheater was dedicated in 1928, Harvey continued to charge admission to raise funds for the Pyramid. Over the years thousands of people visited the site, recording their names in a guestbook that was to be preserved in the Pyramid.
Missouri & Oklahoma Rows
During the early 1920s the resort reportedly was busy, but not busy enough to make the hotels successful. In 1927 Missouri and Oklahoma Rows were sold at auction in a foreclosure sale. At the time they were owned by a group of about 400 stockholders, of which Harvey was the chairman.
Hotel Frances
Within a year the new owner sold the property to the Ozark Industrial College and School of Theology, which operated until 1932. The old Hotel Monte Ne continued to be operated as a hotel under the name Hotel Frances.
Divorce & Remarriage
Harvey continued to write and raise funds toward the Pyramid project. He had often written against divorce, but in 1929 his failed marriage came to an end. He divorced his long-absent wife Anna and married his long-time secretary, May Leake. Their neighbors at Monte Ne chivaried the couple on their return from Bentonville.
Adventures Out West
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Monte Ne Heyday
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Goodbye to the Old, Hello to the New (Final Post)
I think it is only fitting that as 2017 draws to a close that we are shaking things up here.
When I first started blogging, a decade ago, I could never have imagined that I would be sitting here today releasing my ninth book. Even as I write this it still feels so unreal; as if I am writing about someone else. Yet, in a mere few hours, the third Alex Taylor novel, Brooklyn Bounce, will launch.
In addition, as we go forward into 2018, my presence on the world-wide-web will have an entirely new look. Today I am proud to announce that I have a new, dedicated website that will keep you up-to-date on all the latest information: www.andrewgnelson.org
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Book Update: December 2017
It is amazing how the days seems to pass by so quickly at this time of the year. In the blink of an eye the dog days of summer are gone and replaced by the chill in the air of fall, but that doesn't mean things have slowed down on the writing front. I am happy to announce that work has nearly been completed on my latest book: Brooklyn Bounce, and it is my intention, and the good Lord willing, to have it available in time for Christmas.
I had originally intended to release the book last month, but there were some real world issues that needed to be taken care of and these prevented timely editing, along with a chapter re-write. Now that is has been completed, it is over to my lovely editor for the final review and then publication.
While this final edit is being done I am working on the cover artwork. This is an interesting aspect of the process that I am sure most folks don’t even think about, but the reality is that there is a fine line when you are creating artwork. Most readers don’t consider the time and effort that goes into designing a cover. Large format artwork, which looks good on the shelves at the local book store, must also be capable of being shrunk down to a thumbnail sized format for an e-mail version on Amazon. This is more of a balancing act than you might believe. There is nothing more frustrating than coming up with a nice print version cover graphic only to see the title or author name disappear when it shrunk to e-book scale. Once you figure out that dilemma, then you need to come up with a graphic that will entice the potential reader, offering a clue as to what is to come, but at the same time you don’t want to give too much away.
Most of the time I can come up with an idea of what I want, but sometimes, this being one of them, I was stymied for a bit. In this example, the title, Brooklyn Bounce, refers to an action, not a particular place. This being an Alex Taylor novel, all the traditional images, which are associated with Brooklyn, had no actual bearing on the book’s content. In the end, I think that I have come up with a cover concept that covers things nicely; that is to say it is both visually appealing while still keeping things a surprise.
So please stay tuned, as I’m working out the final details and hope to have it done for a cover reveal sometime this week.
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Barnes & Noble Book Signing (Springfield, Illinois)
Hey folks, I'm going to be appearing at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 9th, 2017 from 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
I will be signing copies of my first two books: Perfect Pawn and Queen's Gambit. If you are going to be in the area, why not stop by. Also, if you know of any avid readers, especially in the mystery genre, please share this post with them.
Thanks for your support and looking forward to meeting with all of you.
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Perfect Pawn – Signed Edition Giveaway
To celebrate the updated release of my debut novel, Perfect Pawn, I am announcing a giveaway for an autographed copy.
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Today I Learned I was a Fascist.
Maybe only the 'Secret Police' are okay....
There is a sign currently being circulated by Antifa that depicts the Thin Blue Line as being a symbol of white supremacy. I think that little fact will come as a really big surprise to my brothers and sisters back in the NYPD and law enforcement in general. While I am no longer active in law enforcement, my novels tend to be very pro-cop, so I wonder if that makes me a Fascist Emeritus?
I’m not of course, but facts are a tad bit subjective these days. In fact, a lot of things seem to be very subjective and to be honest with you it is more than a little bit frightening. It seems as if we are hurtling headlong into George Orwell's 1984 and we are too busy fighting with one another to even notice it.
Case in point: Charlottesville, Virginia
Now, to be perfectly honest, prior to August 13th, I had no idea where this city was located, but I do now and for all the wrong reasons. Charlottesville is a city in Virginia. It is home to the University of Virginia, whose core campus was designed by Thomas Jefferson. On the outskirts, Jefferson’s mountain-top plantation, Monticello, includes a mansion and rebuilt slave quarters. It is also the gateway to Shenandoah National Park, along a section of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In other words it is probably a really nice place to visit, unless of course you happen to be the type of person whose travel bag contains batons, shields, face masks, or other similar items.
The origins of the post you are reading originated in a reply to a friend’s Facebook post, but have morphed beyond that, as I contemplated all that has unfolded recently.
Robert E. Lee Memorial in Charlottesville, Va
At the heart of the Charlottesville incident is the statue of General Robert E. Lee, which has been on display in the park since 1924. What is unusual about this situation is that the statue is actually one of four in Charlottesville commissioned by philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire. The other statues being: George Rogers Clarke, General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson and Meriwether Lewis, William Clark & Sacagawea. In fact, the statues sit in parks that were purchased by McIntire and then donated to the city, one of which is named Washington Park, after Booker T. Washington. All four statues are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
What occurred in Charlottesville was certainly abhorrent, but we also need to be intellectually honest when we look at it. Whatever your feelings, the ‘Unite the Right’ protest was legal. The organizers had secured the proper permits and had every right to be there. Now, that does not mean I agree with them, but I can accept that they had a legitimate right to assemble and protest what they believed, which was simply the city of Charlottesville’s decision to remove the Lee statue, as well as the Jackson statue, and dispose of it as they chose. That’s a serious point here. Several groups, including descendants of the original donor, questioned the city’s authority to dispose of the donated statues. In May, a court injunction was secured, barring the removal for six months, pending a legal decision.
Now some have tried to paint this as a clash between the right and left, but that seems lazy to me, because at its heart the issue, in this case the Civil War, is extremely complex. Whether you agree with President Trump or not, he was actually right. He said that there were really bad people there, as well as some good people, on both sides. The simple truth was that not everyone there protesting was a white supremacist; nor where they a member of Antifa. Some were just ordinary folks who were either for or against removing a statue. They didn’t come with batons, shields or facemasks, like the radical folks on both sides did; they just came to lend their voice and then things got out of hand, quickly.
As someone who spent over two decades in law enforcement, I have been on the front lines of some of these clashes. They are never pretty, but often they are very predictable. Both sides showed up intent on doing to each other exactly what happened and the good people, those who had an honest reason for being there, get lumped in to their respective sides. Tragically, many were injured as a result and three people, one protester and two state troopers, died.
Was it worth it? Obviously the answer is a resounding NO.
There should be no place in our society for racism or bigotry, but sadly that will never change.
Throughout the history of humanity it has always existed and I fear that it always will. I know there are folks who honestly believe that we can all peacefully co-exist, yet they are unable to point to any example of this ever happening. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for it, but let us also be honest in our assessment of the situation. The truth of the matter is that people of every color can be racist.
It's not shocking to me that this is such a hot button topic, but it seems that we are inching ever closer to opening Pandora's Box. In terms of statues, my personal belief is that they shouldn't be removed. They are memorials. Now some folks will say that these statues represent oppression to some, and I can understand that, but my question to them is when does it all end?
Do we create a blue-ribbon commission on statues and designate the position of Federal Statue Monitor? What statues should be up for consideration? Only confederate statues? What about statues of Jesus or Mahatma Gandhi? Should military personnel or even former U.S. Presidents be considered for the chopping block? What about statues honoring Native Americans? How about Martin Luther King, Jr. and, dare I even say it, what about Walt Disney?
Think this is me being ridiculous? Well, I can actually provide you with examples of all of the above being deemed offensive by some and calls for their removal.
What about the ‘questionable’ statues in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol? Speaking of the Capitol, should we rename the Russell Office building? He was pro segregation. When will the West Virginia Capitol be asked to remove their statue of Senator Robert Byrd; who held the title of Exalted Cyclops in his local KKK chapter. I recently heard someone defend him, saying that he had apologized. Robert E. Lee called slavery a ‘moral and political evil,’ but no one seems to be cutting him any slack.
What about street names? Highways? How about military installations?
For a moment let us be intellectually honest here and admit that somewhere, someone will be offended by something.
The (former) Durham, NC Civil War Memorial
Coming on the heels of the Charlottesville clash, a statue was torn down in Durham, North Carolina, by a bunch of insufferable little pricks and prickettes. That might sound harsh to some of you, but I have zero fucks to give for anyone who defaces a war memorial. The statue was not of Jefferson Davis, or Robert E. Lee, or any other notable figure of the Civil War. It was a common soldier and the inscription simply read: In Memory of the Boys Who Wore the Gray.
This was a memorial to those who fought and died. There was no justification in destroying that.
What’s next, should we advocate for desecrating graveyards?
Before you pop up and say that’ll never happen, guess what, it’s already been done.
Some have argued that there should be no statues that recognize bad regimes, such as Nazi Germany, but I can attest to the fact that there are WWII war memorials in Germany and they shouldn't be removed either. We can have an honest discussion as to memorials which honor heroes of the south such as General Lee, and where they should be placed, but where does it end?
Who gets to determine which group’s opinion trumps the others?
Welcome to Washington, Comrade Vlad, care
for a decadent cup of Starbuck's Coffee?
Honestly, we are quickly approaching Orwellian territory here with our revisionist history.
We have folks losing their minds over a statue honoring a general, who was not only revered in the south, but also highly respected in the north, yet we have a statue in Washington State for Communist revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin.
Let that sink in for a moment.
What about the bust of Lenin in L.A., or how about the depiction of Lenin on top of the Red Square apartment building in NYC?
Lenin's Russian Revolution resulted in the deaths of millions of people. Okay, so you say that on the grand scale of bad things Lenin wasn’t that horrible. What about Josef Stalin? Because we also have a statue of him in the United States. It’s in that hot bed of political correctness known as Virginia.
Will Antifa be marching the ninety miles to Bedford, Va. to demand that it also be torn down? Seeing as how they lean decidedly toward the ‘social’ end of the spectrum I think not.
When the Stalin statue was put up veterans were offended and called for its removal, but no one cared for their opinion. I guess they aren’t the right class of offended people.
The truth is that slavery was wrong and reprehensible, but let us also acknowledge the fact that it was also legal then. I’m not justifying it, but I am making a point.
Lately I have heard talk equating General Lee with being a terrorist. If we look at things through that type of revisionist lens, then so were the Founding Fathers. I’m pretty sure we can find a few folks in England who might be offended by their statues, but then again the English would probably offend the Native American’s who could easily claim that they were terrorists as well. That would be all well and good, but what about when folks from Asia say they are offended by Indian statues because it was really their ancestors who came to North America first?
The point is how far back in history do we go with all of this? Who becomes the arbiter of what is to be deemed offensive?
Benedict Arnold, where have I heard that name before ?
I have been hearing the argument played out that these statues should be removed because the men they honor were traitors. My problem with this statement is that I find it intellectually dishonest and we still have memorials to traitors in this country.
Politicians and pundits are trying to shrink something as immensely complex as the totality of the Civil War into a simple sound bite. Right vs. Wrong; Good vs. Evil.
Here's a newsflash: Robert E. Lee was not a traitor.
Want to know why? Because the southern states had formally seceded from the Union.
For the record I am not a confederate war apologist, I simply acknowledge the fact that there was a myriad of issues, political as well as societal, that ultimately led to secession and the ensuing war. We have had 150 years to argue the legalities and intricacies of what happened, but at the time it was all virgin political territory. It was argued in the south that each state had the right to secede at any time because the Constitution was a compact, or agreement, among the states. These states even resigned their representative seats in Congress.
The first state, South Carolina, had seceded in December 1980. Six others states, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, soon followed suit. Eventually, eleven states, nearly 1/3 of the Union, would secede.
At the time, President James Buchanan believed that there was no constitutional authority for a state to secede, yet he could find no constitutional authority for him to act to prevent it, thus creating a political quandary. As a result, his administration allowed for military commanders to surrender control of forts in the affected states.
In President Lincoln’s March 1861 inaugural speech he claimed that the secession was improper. He believed that state’s rights were subservient because the term ‘In order to form a more Perfect Union,’ contained in the preamble to the Constitution, amounted to a binding contract. Yet, in reading his inaugural speech, which I highly recommend you do, he seemed to accede a great many things to the south. It begs the question, if he wasn’t directly legitimizing the divide was he indirectly acknowledging that the states had a right to act on their own discretion, outside the law of the nation?
When President Lincoln took office he he instructed the last remaining commanders in the affected areas, including at Fort Sumter, to hold until fired upon. It created the necessary environment that would lead to the ensuing Civil War.
When Ft. Sumter was fired upon, Lincoln used it as a call to arms. He directed all the states to send troops which would be used to recapture the fort and other federal properties. This action prompted four others states, including Virginia, where Lee was from, to side with the other southern states and secede. Interestingly enough, Virginia had repeatedly rejected calls for secession, but also refused to take up arms against their neighbor states. Lee, who at the time was a decorated colonel in the United States Army and had been offered a senior command position in the Union Army, resigned his commission. While he was personally against secession he felt that he had a moral obligation to defend his home state.
Whichever way contemporary pundits want to paint him, the truth is that Robert E. Lee was a very complex man who was highly regarded on both sides. One interesting fact is that throughout the Civil War he wore only the rank of colonel, the last rank he held in the United States Army. When asked why he didn’t wear a general’s rank he was quoted as saying: "I do not care for display. The rank of Colonel is about as high as I ought ever have gotten." In fact, the only time he wore his prescribed rank, General in Chief of the Confederate Army, was the day he surrendered to General U.S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House.
Now, had those southern states tried to forcibly take over the U.S. government the allegation of treason might have some basis in truth, but this did not occur. While Confederate President Jefferson Davis was charged with it, he was subsequently released with no action taken. The reason why? The government attorneys agreed that if the case went to trial it would likely be lost because there was simply no evidence of treason. In fact, many at that time believed that if the case against Davis went forward that the constitutionality of secession might be affirmed.
Interestingly enough, it was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Salmon Chase, who gave Davis' legal team an argument for dropping the treason charge. Chase questioned if a person could be prosecuted for treason against the U.S. if he were not a U.S. citizen. The answer to which was no. Then Chase asked if there was a reference to the concept of a U.S. citizen in the Constitution. Again, there was not. A person could only be a citizen of his state. Therefore, by proving that the U.S. had no citizens, Davis could not be tried for treason. The issue was rendered moot when then President Andrew Johnson issued a pardon to all those involved.
Should we now retroactively charge and convict people for past non-crimes?
Secession is currently being considered in California. Should we go in and lock up those behind this idea?
Guess what folks, in five years, when all the statues are gone there will still be racism and hate in the United States, just like there is in every country in the world. Want to know why? Because you can't legislate morality!
Yep, pretty sure this one has to go !!
So when the statues are all gone, what will be next? Books? Art? Music? Buildings?
Trust me, once you start, there will always be more things to be corrected. When we have corrected the physical record, will we then begin to question the latent 'truth' of others hearts? Who will survive the test?
Who becomes the arbiter of what is to be deemed offensive? Will this be a rigid system of assessment or will it be a sliding scale, acquiescing to the societal whims of the day?
Think that's crazy thinking? I hope you're right. Then again, when I was growing up, I never thought we would be debating the 'political correctness' of sports teams either. Be careful for what you wish for, because it has been my experience that these things are like a pendulum. It might seem wonderful when it swings to your side, but the view is a lot more frightening when it careens back the other way. Like Pandora's Box, once opened it can never be closed.
Labels: Andrew G. Nelson, Antifa, Author, Charlottesville, Civil War, Confederacy, Diversity, KKK, Memorial, Robert E. Lee, Statue, Supremacy, Virginia, War, White Nationalists
Who Did You Have in Mind When You Wrote That Character For Your Book ?
As an author, it’s a question I get asked a lot regarding the characters in my books and I am always hesitant to answer, even though I think it is a really good question.
The primary reason is that as readers we all create mental images in our head of the characters in books and sometimes they don’t translate well to real life. It’s something I wrestled with when the movie version of Frank Herbert's seminal work, DUNE, came out. None, and I mean NONE, of the characters fit the image that was in my head, as I read the books.
Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I mean the casting of Jürgen Prochnow as Duke Leto Atreides was genius, and I could even get behind Francesa Annis as Lady Jessica, but Kyle MacLachlen as Paul Atreides…………. Seriously?
Paul was 15 in the book!! Whoever came up with that casting decision should be shot! Twice!!
And don’t even get me started on Baron Harkonnen and Feyd-Rabban!! But, I digress.
There is even a school of thought among some authors that says don’t write a description of your characters, but rather let the reader fill in their own vision. That would work fine until Hollywood get's over their love affair with remakes and make my books into a movie or TV series (Hint, Hint Hollywood). Then people would be freaking out that the characters looked nothing like they imagined. So I opted to describe the main players and in doing so I came up with some current actors who I thought fit the roles.
So if you are not interested in knowing who I had in mind, X this page out now………..
Seriously, leave now,………
Okay, that was your last chance.
For those of you who remained, here is my vision on who I believe best fits the description of the characters.
James Maguire:
The closest person to fit the bill of Maguire is Henry Cavill. I’ve seen him in a bunch of roles, from The Count of Monte Cristo to Superman, and I think he could truly pull it off. He also has that devilish smile which seems to resonate with just about any woman.
Cavill has the look and physicality of Maguire, which is important given Maguire’s military service as a Navy SEAL, and, while he is a bit younger, I think he can pull off the age group as well.
Melody Anderson:
What’s not to love about Tricia Helfer for this role? Honestly, she brings everything to the table. I first saw her in the role of Six on Battlestar Galactica. She has the acting chops and is stunningly beautiful. It was also import to find someone who could play that strong, athletic woman, and at 5’10” she easily fits Melody’s height.
The fact that she can also portray someone as tough as nails is important as well, given the fact that this might be important going forward in the role. Was that a hint? Plus she gets extra credit for liking cats.
Keith Banning:
Probably the EASIEST one for me to envision playing this role was Matthew McConaughey. There are just some roles written for a person and I have to admit that Keith Banning is his (so feel free to give me a call, Matt).
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed McConaughey in a number of roles, but his portrayal as Detective Rust Cohle, in the original True Detective series, reinforced my choice. He has that rare acting ability to go back and forth fluidly within a character, something that is extremely important for the character of Banning.
Plus there is an inherent darkness in the role that I think makes him a natural.
Alex Taylor:
Probably the HARDEST one for me and yet, when it was all said and done, the most natural choice. Katee Sackhoff, another Battlestar Galactica alumni, was born for this role. Her portrayal as Lt. Kara Thrace was like a casting call audition for Alex Taylor, the highly troubled, yet incredibly talented professional. To the rest of the world it seems as if Alex doesn’t wrestle with her demons, as much as she opens a bottle of whiskey and parties with them, but behind closed doors it is a battle-royale. It’s a role that I think Katee pulled off so well in BG. Alex might not be the most professional cop around, but she does know how to get the job done. Plus, Katee does that chip-on-her-shoulder attitude better than anyone I know and she also has the cop experience from doing Longmire.
Ironically, both Sackhoff and Helfer are friends off screen, which I think would provide an interesting element, especially when it comes to a little competition.
Genevieve Gordon:
Writing Gen, I envisioned someone who was an anti-Melody, both in looks and attitude. Ashley Greene, of Twilight fame, was the perfect fit. There was something smart-ass about her that seemed right at home with the character of Gen. The auburn hair and smaller stature also provided the perfect contrast between the two women.
She’s the perfect actress to play the other-half to the successful financial duo. I also think that she would be quite capable of delivering Gen’s barbs with the right level of humor and sarcasm.
So there you have it. The folks I think would do the best at bringing the characters in the books to life on the big screen or even a television show.
Feel free to let me know what you think of my choices or who you’d like to know the actor I envisioned for any other characters in the series.
Labels: Alex Taylor, Andrew G. Nelson, Author, Indie Authors, James Maguire, Murder, Mystery, Navy, New York City, NYPD, Series
Attention Hollywood: Enough with the Remakes
I like being entertained, it's probably one of the reasons I enjoy being an author. There is something very rewarding about being able to craft new worlds in your books for a reader to immerse themselves in.
For the time it takes to watch a movie, catch a television show or read a book, you are able to suspend belief and transport yourself far away from the trials and tribulations of the real world. That being said, you really do need to have a new world to go, but for some odd reason, Hollywood has apparently run out of new ideas.
Now, I will be the first to admit that I loved Ronald Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series. Having grown up watching the original TV show I was not at all upset when they brought it back with a more mature theme. They kept true to the original premise, but managed to add a darkness and complexity that I don't think would have worked nearly as well back in the 70's.
But, it seems that this is one of the true exceptions these days.
Hollywood seems hell bent and determined to remake everything and I just don't understand why. There is an abundance of new material out there to draw ideas from. Take my books as a prime example. Yes, I know it's a shameless plug, but that doesn't make it untrue.
One book reviewer opined that James Maguire was the new Jack Reacher. I'll confess that I think Maguire is a helluva lot more bad-ass, but I'm biased. And, as good as Maguire is, he also has a very complimentary cast of fellow characters, including a number of strong female ones, that provide something for everyone.
My motivation in writing riveting story-lines stems from the fact that I grew up as a voracious reader. I whiled away the hours journeying to far away places, traveling side by side with some amazing heroes and heroines. It didn't matter if it was Paul Artreides (Dune), Jack Ryan (Patriot Games) or Han Solo (Star Wars). The one thing these characters had was the ability to suspend my belief, but in a very plausible way. It is one of the things I strive for in my books.
I write characters that the reader gets invested in, whether they are the protagonist or the antagonist. The biggest reward for me is when a reader says: "You know, I hated so-and-so, but I read that chapter and couldn't help but feel bad for them." There is no greater reward, and no greater curse, then when you finish a book and the next thing you are getting are emails from your readers asking when they next book is coming out.
Today, Hollywood has simply gotten lazy. Rather than take the time to invest in new stories, they seem determined to prove that they can capture lightening once again. Often with dismal results.
Case in Point: CHiPs (The Movie)
To put it mildly this was a debacle. First, it was a slap in the face to the original series. Say what you will, but CHiPs was a positive television show that cast law enforcement in a good light. The movie, not so much. The $25 million dollar production managed to bring in an amazing $25.5 million dollar box office haul. That's right, for their effort they eeked out half a million in profit and garnered a dismal 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sadly, this level of movie buffoonery seems to be all the rage these days.
Whether they are remaking Carrie, Planet of the Apes, Starsky & Hutch, The Magnificent Seven, Rollerball, The Bad News Bears, Arthur, Baywatch, The Goodbye Girl, Total Recall, Conan, Ghostbusters (shudder), or even the 27th incarnation of SPIDERMAN, the bottom line is more often than not they fall flat on their face. I mean really, what's next in the queue? Dirty Harriett?
To a certain extent I can understand the appeal. You have a vehicle that had a following and you figure you can re-capture that for a new generation. Unfortunately, very few take the approach of Ron Moore and up their cinematic game. I think it is also one of the reasons why Netflix and Amazon Studios are enjoying such success.
There comes a point when you have hit rock-bottom and begin to re-evaluate things. Unfortunately, Hollywood seems intent to keep digging or, at the very least, beating the proverbial dead horse.
So if you folks in Tinseltown have reached the end of your rope, and want to secure a lucrative book franchise, have your people contact my people and we'll do lunch.
Labels: Alex Taylor, Andrew G. Nelson, Author, Book, Hollywood, Indie Authors, Interview, James Maguire, Movies, New York City, NYPD, Perfect Pawn, Remakes
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Northrop Grumman successfully tests new SYERS-2 sensor on RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS
Posted On Friday, 26 February 2016 09:14
World Defense & Security Industry News - Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman successfully flew a SYERS-2 intelligence gathering sensor on an RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft system (UAS), marking the first time the legacy U.S. Air Force sensor has been demonstrated on a high altitude unmanned aircraft, the company announced yesterday, Feb. 25, 2016.
A USAF RQ-4 Block 10 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial System
(Credit: Northrop Grumman)
With the success of the SYERS-2 flight, Northrop Grumman plans to fly an Optical Bar Camera (OBC) sensor and an MS-177 multi-spectral sensor later in the year. Payload integration is not new to Global Hawk. NASA has successfully integrated and flown over 30 different information-gathering payloads on Global Hawk.
Existing models of the U.S Air Force Global Hawk are capable of carrying an Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite (EISS), Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) and Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP). The addition of legacy and future sensors is made possible by Northrop Grumman's innovative Universal Payload Adapter (UPA), a bracket that mounts to an existing Global Hawk airframe, allowing it to support a wide variety of payloads.
"This SYERS-2 flight is only the beginning. We firmly believe that with the addition of the UPA, Global Hawk is capable of flying any mission the U.S. Air Force requires," said Mick Jaggers, vice president and program manager, Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system programs, Northrop Grumman. "Northrop Grumman is funding this study in order to prove that the system can affordably carry the same sensors as any other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance [ISR] aircraft. We look forward to continuing to work with our Air Force partners on this groundbreaking solution."
Flight tests are taking place at Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, Calif. facility in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force. Northrop Grumman and the Air Force reached a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) last year that allows the company to test previously unavailable sensors on the Global Hawk.
Northrop Grumman's high altitude long endurance UAS series have exceeded more than 160,000 total flight hours. The system's cost per flight hour has fallen to half that of the manned competitor.
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Blog | Tuesday, March 15, 2016
On beyond Zika
Like everyone else who has heard the news about it, I find the rapid spread of the Zika virus extremely alarming. The newly recognized capacity of this virus, which historically has caused mild, self-limited infections in adults, to induce microcephaly, a terrible birth defect, is nothing less than devastating. To date, Brazil has borne the brunt of this development, with thousands of newborns affected. But the virus has now been identified in at least 20 countries in the Americas. As I write this, the World Health Organization is scrambling to catch up with the global proliferation of this emerging infectious disease, and poised to declare a public health emergency.
As inevitably occurs when a new health threat emerges, this one is generating lots of media attention, with coverage in both the scientific literature and popular press. Predictably, much of that attention is specific to the Zika virus itself, with relatively less addressing the general circumstances that foster our vulnerability to such crises. Both topics matter.
This particular virus was originally identified in Uganda some 70 years ago, first in monkeys, then in people. That likely makes it a zoonosis at the start, a disease transmitted to our species from another. The vector shuttling between the two was the Aedes mosquito, the bite of which transmits the virus. The first human who got Zika, in other words, was likely stung by a mosquito that had drawn blood from an infected monkey not long prior. For the past half century, Zika has generally been limited to Uganda and Tanzania, with isolated outbreaks seen occasionally in other parts of the world.
That there is no specific treatment for Zika, named after the forest in Uganda where it was first identified, and no vaccine, is because until now the virus has not inspired much global concern, partly because it was not all that serious, and partly no doubt because it was “over there.”
Exactly why this infection, in the same family with the viruses that cause yellow fever and dengue fever, is suddenly implicated in an epidemic of birth defects is a work in progress. One likely explanation, for which there is evidence, is an evolutionary change in the virus itself. That may be compounded by exposure of new human populations, with perhaps different genetic vulnerabilities; transmission at a new scale; or other factors yet to be determined. We are currently on the steep part of the learning curve, racing to catch up with current events.
That's a familiar race. We ran it for Ebola, too; and SARS, and MERS. Whatever the next outbreak is, we will likely need to run it again. We keep getting left behind.
For now, practical advice about Zika is limited, and mostly of the “easier said than done” variety. Countries mired in the outbreak are advising against pregnancy. We are all encouraged to avoid mosquito bites. Travel advisories are being issued.
As we confront Zika, but mostly fail to think beyond it, I am tempted to compare this predicament to its analogy in the space I work in all the time, nutrition. For decades, we have shifted from 1nutrient fixation to the next. Fat, carbohydrate, sugar, gluten, and generally been left behind by the big picture. The result has been a flurry of misguided, mono-nutrient activity, and no meaningful improvement in our prevailing vulnerability to the marketing of junk food. We just keep encouraging the invention of new varieties of junk food, and reaping what we sow. At present, we have sown a bumper crop of gluten-free junk.
The situation with emerging infections is much the same. We react to each as if the particular bug is the entire problem, while paying far less attention to fundamentals of public health practice and preparedness that account for vulnerability not just to the last outbreak and the current one, but the next. That same tendency—the neglect of public health until we have cause to think about panic, outrage, or both—is on display in Flint, Michigan as well.
The implications of the Zika crisis are not confined to this particular pathogen, for there will be a next, and a next. I am reasonably confident that an acute concentration of resources and ingenuity on Zika will result in a vaccine. Welcome though that will be, perhaps even by some prone to misguided railing against vaccination, it will do nothing to resolve our basic vulnerability.
As the climate changes, and we are past the point of debating the fact of it, the distribution of pathogens is changing too. We have seen this many times already, and are thus forewarned: we will be seeing it again. Whether or not we are forearmed depends on how we react, and allocate resources.
There is, thankfully, ever more attention to how the more than 7 billion of us Homo sapiens are roughing up the planet's remaining pristine places. There is less, however, to the ramifications of it. For one thing, more people in more places inevitably means more encounters with bugs formerly unencountered. For another, the disruptions of ecosystems often circle back to bite us.
Another issue, relevant to almost every major peril our species now faces, is the very fact that there are more than 7 billion of us, and rising fast. There aren't just humans in ever more places, there are ever more humans in ever greater concentrations everywhere. Whatever else we may be, we are just one, vast Petri dish to our pathogens. Plagues are a product of dense populations and unprecedented population densities will predictably mean new plagues.
And then finally, there is our proclivity to disperse into our competing factions: nations, religions, political parties, and so on. The distinctions between “us” and “them” may matter enormously to us, and them, but to the Zika virus, we are all the same, accommodating species. From the bug's eye view, there is no “over there.” In a world of increasing global travel, the bug is right.
In our fantasies, we acknowledge that. The usual scenario is a science fiction adventure in which humanity is attacked by a scourge from without by an extraterrestrial menace, and that common threat provides common cause, and unifies us. We overcome our differences to defend our home, and our shared humanity.
From what we know about the universe, the probability of extraterrestrial visitation, hostile or otherwise, seems vanishingly remote- for reasons entirely unrelated to the probability of life on other planets. If interested in the mind-boggling barriers to such inter-stellar concourse, I recommend Lawrence Krauss' book, A Universe from Nothing, as a good place to start.
But the threats to us all, threats blind to the borders of nations, and deaf to the distinctions of ideology, are already here. They have no need to traverse the distance between stars.
The faults we must overcome for our own security lie not with exotic perils from distant stars, but with dangers evolving right here at home. The faults lie most particularly with ourselves. Ironically, Zika is named after a forest, and one of our great liabilities is the recurrent failure to see the forest through the trees. We react to each new pathogen, while doing little to anticipate the next.
We often fail as well to perceive and prioritize our common humanity. We rally to the defense of it when fighting the threats of science fiction fantasy, but miss the opportunity to do so in the face of real, clear, present, and inevitably recurrent danger.
Labels: David Katz , epidemiology , guest post , infectious disease , Nutrition , Zika
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The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands AXS TV Britain’s Finest – Tribute to The Beatles CLUB NOKIA
admin Press April 30, 2015 May 21, 2017 0 Comment
You’ve heard Katie Daryl say “One more song!” many times throughout the performances on AXS TV’s The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands. The third season of The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands season was technically set to end on April 21. In what essentially became the sixteenth installment of the season, Katie Daryl surprised viewers and provided a special episode “encore” with a brand new live performance of the show’s inaugural tribute band, Britain’s Finest – a tribute to the Beatles,
This particular show didn’t take place on on a Monday, nor did it air at the usual start time. It wasn’t even on the Sunset Strip…. and it turned out to be a fantastic affair that made for a very memorable part of the show’s history.
Hosted at the spacious and elegant Club Nokia in Downtown LA, the event served to honor past performers on the show (current band included) and as a celebration of the show’s recently announced renewal for an upcoming fourth season, which will see its return sometime in the Fall.
Other attendees of the live audience for this special event included invited guests and VIPs from The Cable Show – a television network conference that took place at the neighboring LA Convention Center. The past tribute all-star performers of the program mingled with the rest of the crowd both on the red carpet and inside during the show. A great party with an excellent band on live TV on weeknight broadcast from a deluxe state of the art venue? It doesn’t get much better than that!
The live telecast began in grand fashion at 10PM Pacific time for a 90 minute performance that spanned the career of The Beatles.
The first segment was presented in black and white to viewers at home. Very cool idea.
Britain’s Finest played an extended set list with several songs that weren’t regularly performed live by The Beatles. The song variety added even more to the overall experience of being there. The crowd on hand really enjoyed the concert and being treated to a great evening of music and fun. Given the incredible impact The Beatles had on television 50 years ago, along with all the gifted musicians in attendance, this was a very fitting crowd to witness this show. Britain’s Finest Finest took many of the cable executives and everyone else there on a blast to the past.
The positive energy of the band gave off a really happy vibe at the show. You could tell they really were enjoying putting on their performance, which, on top of everything else, made it all that much more entertaining.
They had about 3 minutes between each set to switch out their wardrobes when Katie Daryl took the audience through the commercial breaks to resume with their chronologically updated attire. They managed to pull everything off flawlessly to a delighted crowd.
The evening was the perfect way to end out the season on a great note. Hopefully, this is an indication of the good things to come for the upcoming season. There is a big family feeling between all the members of the various acts that make this show happen and it was a fitting way to part ways until next time.
Since its inception early last year, this show has not only done a great job of legitimizing the hard work of these great tribute bands; it also keeps the audience guessing– in a really good way. It takes the best tribute bands like these to make the audience feel like they are being transported to a different time witnessing a historic concert taking place. That’s what it’s all about.
SET LIST:
Eight Days A Week
We Can Work It Out
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Rocky Raccoon
Get Back Medley
Don’t Let Me Down
The World’s Greatest Cheering Section:
HUNDREDS OF PICTURES OF THE EVENT
Cheers to Season 4!!!
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Article Title: Maurício Mendonça Godoy’s Unique Entrepreneurial Skills
BFarmerJune 27, 2019Business, Company
Maurício Mendonça Godoy has become a business icon and an interesting feat into the entrepreneurial world. The go-getter man who has been in business for only two decades has had it all. It is not a wonder that Mr. Godoy is a co-owner of a company that he worked for before. This is proof of his much-needed skills and expertise in any company that he sets his foot into.
The Mackenzie Presbyterian University graduate runs one of the world’s largest firms and runs other 5 businesses. His resilience and outgoing nature have helped him a great way in career. Maurício Mendonça Godoy ensures that he tries his best to help those who run to him for help and advice. This has enabled Mendonça to win the trust of many, including his clients.
His skills and vast knowledge has made Estaleiros do Brasil Ltd. To stand firm and, no company can equal it in terms of services, clients turnover, and products as well. Just like any other ordinary person, Maurício Mendonça Godoy started his long journey by being employed right after his university education. It is in the many companies that he worked for that he honed his skills and grew interested in becoming an entrepreneur.
His expertise has made him head other prestigious firms like Toyo Setal ltd. His top leadership skills have seen Toyo Setal grow tremendously not only in New York City but around the world as well. His ability to manage any contract given to the companies that he runs has enabled him to be on the spotlight and be the most sought after entrepreneur today.
Godoy has moved further and incorporated a very highly skilled team of professionals in his companies. This, he says, is to ensure that the clients get first class services that will always make them come for more. Mr. Mendonça Godoy always encourages employees to work as a team and to be very proactive so as to bring out the best in them. Maurício Mendonça Godoy believes that his legacy will be carried on long after his retirement and hopes that the generation that follows will carry on with his good works.
Visit More : www.catho.com.br/buscar/curriculos/curriculo/15419940/
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Guilherme Paulus Journey in Business World and His Approach to Changes
BFarmerFebruary 10, 2019Business, Businessman, Company, Entrepreneur
According to the World Bank, growth in the service industry is one of the strong indicators of a healthy industry. Brazil industry is a perfect example of this statement because, for the last four decades, the economy has performed exceptionally well, thanks to the hospitality industry. One of the major contributors to this important industry is the legendary Guilherme Paulus. Apart from being a passionate commentator and mentor in this economy, he has invested his time and resources to the growth of the service industry. According to him, consistency in the investment world is vital and understanding the value of working with other professionals and entities is the key in succeeding in this fast-growing market.
Guilherme Paulus, in one of his early 2016 interviews pointed out that his journey in the service industry started shortly completing his education. He pointed out that during this time, he did not have any experience to run a company, and on top of that, he did not have funds. This was the period where he understood the importance of working together with other professionals and Carlos Vicente Cerchiari was his first ever partner. Working with Carlos Vicente Cerchiari gave his first company (CVC) the needed structures and more importantly the operational funds.
Check out ideamensch.com to read full interview of Guilherme Paulus.
Although Carlos Vicente Cerchiari later left the company to concentrate on his bureaucracy career, his contribution to CVC remain unmatched. From the 1970s, Guilherme Paulus has been on a journey to change the business environment of this country and more importantly the service industry. He points out that although the service industry did not have the needed structures, he was successful because of his view on work and his understanding of the business environment in Brazil. Through this company, Paulus was able to make Brazil a viable tourist destination in South America. According to him, this is one of his most treasured achievements in his life and an investor.
In the last five decades Guilherme Paulus has been in business, he points out that technology has changed significantly. In all these changes, however, he is always keen on exploiting the available technology. For example, internet according to him has changed the global approach to business. Thanks to the internet, it is possible to get the client’s feedback. Guilherme Paulus uses these feedbacks to improve his business and if needed to redesign his business model. In addition to utilizing technology, he is a firm believer of teamwork and more importantly working with other entities.
Learn more: https://www.sympla.com.br/palestra-guilherme-paulus__404412
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Helen Sedgwick
Books, News
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Comet Seekers” a novel by Helen Sedgwick
by Alexandra Bowie
Some people stay home and find the world; others must travel the world to find their way home. Roisin and Francois, two of the central characters in Helen Sedgwick’s eerie and satisfying novel “The Comet Seekers” meet far from home at a research camp in the Antarctic; she’s an astronomer and he’s a chef.
Roisin, who’s Irish, has spent her life studying the sky; as a child and adolescent she taught her cousin Liam to watch and map the sky whenever a comet appeared, so they could see its movement. Liam, whose mother died long ago, is tied to his isolated Irish farm by his promise to his father to help keep it going. Roisin pursues her studies in Hawaii, New York, and various places in Europe. But Liam draws Roisin back periodically, and at one point she gives up a fellowship in Bayeux, returns to Ireland and stays for a year. We know before she does that Roisin is one of the travellers. We watch her come to understand that truth about herself in a sensitive and beautifully written, very brief, scene: Roisin’s mother asks a question whose answer shows Roisin which love she’s willing to sacrifice.
Francois is from Bayeux; as Sedgwick puts it, from two channels away from Roisin’s village in southern Ireland. He’s a few years younger than Roisin, and was brought up by his mother, Severine. Even as a child Francois encouraged his mother to travel – one year they went to Edinburgh, where they ventured out to see a comet and met up with a group of astronomers bent on the same errand. But that’s the only trip they ever take, because Severine is held to Bayeux by her family – an extended family of ghosts who keep her company – who cannot find her if she travels far from home.
It’s a measure of the power of Sedgwick’s concept and writing that the reader believes entirely in the existence of these ghosts. Each family member may choose whether to introduce the ghosts to the next generation or not, and, for Severine, it’s an agonizing choice. The ghosts range from Severine’s mother and grandmother, to more ancient family members. There are Brigitte, a near-contemporary of Joan of Arc, whose skin and dress flicker like flames, and Aelfgyva, who appears in the Bayeux tapestry (as does, yes, Halley’s comet). Severine both wants Francois to believe her and to see the world. Francois worries that she’s succumbing to early-onset dementia. The ghosts appear for reasons of their own.
“The Comet Seekers” is broad geographically and temporally, with each era marked by the appearance of a comet and its earth-bound viewers. Sedgwick handles her themes of travel, home, enduring love, and family with a delicate sensibility that keeps the reader on edge and provides an ending that is both satisfying and, for Roisin and Francois, delicately ambiguous.
Have a book you want me to know about? Email me at asbowie@gmail.com. Follow me on Twitter at @abowie917.
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CARRALES SHOWBAND FACTS
Q: Who are the members of the Carrales Showband and what do they play?
A: The Carrales Showband has a wide variety of instruments, including some that are not usually played together. The musical arranger and bass player of the group is Joe Ely Carrales. He puts together the musical arrangements and sets the direction for the band. The lead singer and stage director of the band is Joe Ely Carrales, III know as "El Mariachi Loco." In addition to singing, he also plays the violin, trombone and banjo. The lead trumpet player is Anthony Carrales. Called the "Genius of Brass," Anthony plays the fluglehorn, cornet, trombone, valve trombone and mellophone. Ruben Hernandez is a reknowned trumpet player from Asherton, Texas. A.k.a."Superman," Ruben is an acomplished singer and guitar player. On Mellophone is the talented Felix Adan of Premont, Texas. Felix is also the heart of the Percussion section. Lead guitar is the wizzardry of Mike Barela. Mike is well versed in guitar and is Mr, "Majic Goldfingers."
Q: What kind of music does the Carrales Showband play?
A: Most of the songs are requests made by people that attend Carrales Showband concerts. Fan fill out a small slip of paper at the start of the gig and a "to learn" list is made. From this list, the song that is judged to be the "most easy" is selected and worked on for the next performance.
Q: Where can I hear the Carrales Showband?
A: The best way to hear the group is to book the band. Call (361) 348-2692 for details. The Carrales Showband also plays monthly at the Main Street Cafe in Premont, Texas. Call the Main Street Cafe at (361) 348-3226.
Q: What songs are on the Carrales Showband playlist?
A: To list all the songs here at this time would take more time and space than is available, but that list includes "Tijuana Taxi," "Tu, Tu y Solo Tu," "Solamente Una Vez," "Folsom Prison Blues," "16 Candles" and "Cumbia Del Sol." A more complete list will be posted here very soon.
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January 3, 2019 / Landscape Architecture / 0 comment / By Andrea Perez
Born in Nicaragua and raised in Miami, FL, Séfora Chavarria’s natural surroundings throughout her life consisted of tropical jungles and lush landscapes. She knew a career in landscape architecture would allow her to work with nature and create places where people can connect with the land through design.
This was the exact path she’d take earning her master’s degree from FIU’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental + Urban Design in 2011.
During her time at FIU, she learned to master the art of visualizing complex natural systems in relation to the built environment and making the intangible understandable. The curriculum encouraged her to explore new ideas and challenge existing norms.
“FIU’s Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design program provided me with the tools I would need to succeed not just as a landscape architect, but as an individual as well,” said Séfora.
“My leadership skills grew as I collaborated with my peers across disciplines and learned to take on a leading role coordinating design teams. Most importantly I was mentored to think worlds ahead.”
After graduating, Sefora traveled to Southeast Asia to work with renowned landscape architect and author, Made Wijaya. During her time in Bali, Indonesia, she worked on the iconic and award-winning the Naples Botanical Garden in Naples, FL, and contributed towards Wijaya’s last published book, Modern Tropical Garden Design.
Returning from her travels, Séfora took on a role at EDSA, Inc., an international landscape architecture and urban design firm with over 50 years of expertise. While working there, she was able to gain experience in over 30 projects spanning across 15 different countries around the world. One of her leading projects was designing the lush tropical gardens at 1 Hotel & Homes in Miami Beach where she was responsible for overseeing the project.
Sefora then decided to be her own boss and open her own landscape design studio, Tropical Alchemy in late 2017.
“My studio was born out of inspiration to raise the collective consciousness through the design of public spaces that serve as catalysts for social change and equality.”
Since its one-year anniversary, Tropical Alchemy has worked on some exciting projects including what will soon be El Jardín de Little Havana in the heart of Calle Ocho, a new urban master plan for the Ocean Terrace Neighborhood in the City of North Miami Beach, meditation gardens and many other projects.
She is also currently working on creating a butterfly and hummingbird garden at the prehistoric Well of Ancient Mysteries in Brickell and publishing a notebook for designers and completing her license requirements as a landscape architect. Aside from her projects, she is an avid member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Urban Land Institute, Tropical Audubon Society, and the Florida Native Plant Society.
Through Sefora’s professional experiences, apprenticeships and most recently her newest venture, Tropical Alchemy, her true passion shines through blending the natural world with built environments.
To find out more Séfora’s design firm, visit her website.
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A Look Back at the History of Social Media
By charlisays June 27, 2019 Social Media
I’m a social media butterfly, fluttering between all the coolest platforms from Instagram and Twitter to Facebook and Medium. I follow the big wigs of finance, keep up with the latest news and create social strategies for clients too. I’m also a 90’s girl so I’m old enough to remember when there was no social media, through to it’s inception and takeover. So, with Social Media Day set to be celebrated on June 30, I thought it both timely and appropriate to look back at an outlet that’s impacted business and my own personal life considerably. Here’s a look back at the history of social media.
The age of curiosity
Once upon a time, people wrote their private thoughts in diaries. They called friends using a landline phone and prioritised verbal conversation over messaging services, which were (quite frankly) poor at best during the mid to late nineties. But as the internet became more accessible and capabilities improved, a revolution took hold that changed the world considerably.
Even during the days of alien landing-style dial ups, the world was dying to connect. Abbreviations such as ‘asl’ (age, sex, location) were thrown around dodgy chat rooms by individuals riddled with curiosity as the idea of having an online profile and presence became a tangible reality. And as fascination grew, so did business opportunities and the chance to develop your very own personal network.
The very first social sites
Think back. Way back to 1997. Titanic hit the big screens, Harry Potter was published, Hanson released their smash hit “mmmbop” and Six Degrees started to make headway as a social site which is now credited as being the very first of its kind. Named after the idea that people are six or fewer social connections apart, Six Degrees made it easy to create profiles and add connections. Its users peaked at 3.5 million before doors finally closed in 2001 due to a lack of people connected to the internet.
Still get that famous Rembrandts theme song stuck in your head? I hear you. Well, Friendster was another early social network that managed to engage the mainstream. I know right! You’ve probably never even heard of it or it’s such a distant memory that you hadn’t remembered until now! Launched in 2002, Friendster introduced the idea of talking to strangers and opened up a potential new way to meet love interests. It was one of the first online dating avenues if you wish, setting the path for the likes of OKCupid, Tinder, Plenty of Fish and so on… sigh!
So why aren’t we raving about it today? Well, unfortunately Friendster couldn’t keep up with demand and experienced many technical hiccups causing frustrated users to quickly turn to MySpace which reared its head in 2003!
Are we in more comfortable territory yet? Most older millennials have heard of this platform which by 2006 had 61+ million registered users with 21+ million unique visitors. The site attracted 220,000 new registrants daily and provided the perfect way for teenagers and young adults (the demographic being between 16 and 34) to share personal information and view that of others. It was fresh, exciting and if you didn’t have it, you simply weren’t cool. When YouTube was founded in 2005, MySpace even gave people the option to embed video and share music they liked.
Interesting fact! MySpace’s popularity soared when Tila Tequila, one of the first online celeb influencers, moved to the platform after being kicked off Friendster for inappropriate behaviour. At one point, Tequila had around 1.5 million MySpace friends which was pretty impressive at the time – although not comparable to Kim Kardashian’s 141 million Instagram followers in 2019. MySpace became the most popular website in 2006 and was valued at $12 billion in 2007.
The Facebook Takeover
MySpace was purchased by News Corporation, a powerhouse media company. It was given professional managers to help guide its future as well as all the resources it ever wanted to support its growth. This governance, however, has been dubbed as one of the reasons the Facebook takeover was allowed to occur. While MySpace was using professional management to decide the platform’s future, the bunch of college grads running Facebook let the marketplace decide.
With no cement plans, no rules and seemingly no limit regarding technical prowess as the time, Facebook continued to impress while MySpace stagnated. Users drove advances such as Farmville and were constantly listened to. On the subject of Farmville… how did I find the time to sow crops and water trees every single day? Anyway, Facebook did not have first-move advantage, yet somehow it managed to take the world by storm trumping unique worldwide MySpace visitors in 2008. Timing is everything. And with rising broadband availability, Facebook was in the spotlight at the right moment attracting a wider demographic than previous social sites – whole families in fact, across numerous generations.
Facebook also learnt from failed sites before it, taking into account the importance of steady and controlled growth to avoid burning out like Friendster and co. What initially started as a Harvard-only site gradually expanded to other universities, high schools and then corporate users where a specific email address was needed. Only in September 2006 did it open its doors to anyone aged 13 and over.
Facebook today has 2.38 billion monthly active users!
The Rise of Twitter
Twitter launched in 2006 at a time when Facebook was expanding at a rapid rate. Social media was very much in the spotlight and people were welcoming change. But Twitter had a lot to live up to. Thankfully, approaching social from a different angle gave users something else to be interested in with the micro blogging idea and instant access to breaking news making Twitter a great place to get the gossip. The idea you could follow who you want without them following you back was also of instant appeal and helped Twitter get to where it is, today enjoying over 320 million active monthly users. 500 million tweets are sent every 24-hours with 100 million people taking to the platform daily. Incidentally, Twitter was and still is my favourite social media platform. You can follow me @Charli_Says
Let’s not forget Instagram
Instagram has been bubbling away since 2010, but its recent surge in popularity can’t be ignored. After Facebook purchased Insta for $1 billion in 2012, monthly users soared to 80 million and by the start of 2014, there were 150 million users. The option to tag photos and add links breathed fresh air into the platform which continued to grow thanks to constant updates such as filters and Insta stories with go live functionality which have attracted everyone from celebs to corporate businesses.
Today, Instagram has over 500 million daily users.
It’s vital to make connections and grow in your area of expertise and this is exactly what LinkedIn has focused on since its 2003 conception. What began as a platform to post CVs online quickly became a professional networking site adding new features such as hiring solutions for employees. Today, LinkedIn has 500 million active members with 260 million logging in each month.
Social media continues to grow and evolve. It has been surging forward since the nineties and promises to keep delivering surprise after surprise. So, happy #SocialMediaDay to all my followers and social media connections- I’m grateful for all of you. For strategy and social media management please send me a message.
2019 Pride Marketing Campaigns Wrap Up
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Reopening the Doors of Perception
In a time of endless war and triumphant cynicism, I found myself the other day unexpectedly walking through the doors of perception. Yeah, those doors.
“You know the day destroys the night/Night divides the day/Tried to run/Tried to hide/ Break on through to the other side . . .”
The words, the music — the Doors, the voice of Jim Morrison — ignite not just the Summer of Love but a crazy something I don’t dare call hope, because those days of cultural and political revolution overdosed and imploded, didn’t they? War won. The Vietnam War dragged on, millions died (or thousands, if the only death toll that matters to you is that of U.S. soldiers), MLK and RFK were assassinated, the Cold War quietly morphed into the War on Terror and eventually the 911 attacks gave the military-industrialists the “new Pearl Harbor” they needed. Today’s military budget is securely bloated.
Knowing this, I was blindsided by the impact a remarkable exhibition I recently attended with my daughter had on me. And the star of the show was born in 1757.
The show, running through next March at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, is called William Blake and the Age of Aquarius. Curated by art history professor Stephen Eisenman, it draws a link between the poetry, art and philosophy of Blake — an anti-authoritarian proponent of free thought and free love, a believer that every human being has a direct relationship with God — and many of the activists and artists of the ’60s, from Allen Ginsberg to Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix.
Blake spoke a complex truth. He embraced a far-flung, wildly loving philosophy of life: “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
These words, from Blake’s poem “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (the title itself shows the convergence of forces he revered), gave Aldous Huxley the title of his book The Doors of Perception, about his experiences with mescaline. Then they gave Morrison the name of his rock band. And eventually they gave millions of young people, coming of age as a pointless war simmered and raged and Jim Crow stood its ground at the schoolhouse door, a glimpse at a world beyond the cruel and small-minded order that ruled the day.
This was not a simple world that flickered momentarily. This was not a tranquil, easy peace: “We chased our pleasures here/Dug our treasures there/But can you still recall/The time we cried/ Break on through to the other side . . .”
The cultural breakthrough was only partial. The political breakthrough still, often, feels to me like a complete dud. The Vietnam War went on for eight years beyond the 1967 Summer of Love; it finally became unfightable and ended in retreat and 16 years of proxy wars and “Vietnam Syndrome.” The American public was sick of war and the pointless sacrifice of young men and women. Then the powers that be ended the draft; and they saw in Saddam Hussein the perfect face of evil. In 2001, the towers went down.
And once again an extraordinary door of opportunity opened. But the country’s leaders had no wisdom beyond their own agenda of global hegemony.
Stephen Glain quotes Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism adviser for Bush 43, in his book State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America’s Empire, recalling a cabinet meeting on Sept. 12, 2001, in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said: “You know, we’ve got to do Iraq. There just aren’t enough targets in Afghanistan. . . . We need to bomb something else to prove that we’re, you know, big and strong and not going to be pushed around by these kind of attacks.”
As it turns out, I had come across that quote, in an excellent essay by Danny Sjursen, the day before I went to the William Blake/Age of Aquarius exhibit, and it had become seriously lodged in my consciousness — not as a surprise or a shock, just as a banal “of course.” The world was trembling, international compassion flowed, and the leaders of the world’s most powerful nation were plotting in utter ignorance a war that would make them look big and strong.
As the president soon put it, America’s mission was to “rid the world of evil.” They concocted what might as well be called the War To Promote Terror.
And the ’60s — the Summer of Love, the peace movement — is sandbagged by history’s cynicism, or so it has seemed until I saw the exhibit at Northwestern. Suddenly I felt the raw hope of those days come back to life: the outrage and the music and the possibility. The doors of perception reopened. And there was William Blake.
O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue
To drown the throat of war!
When the senses
Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,
Who can stand?
Many people were standing. Politicians, even at the national level, dared to run on peace platforms and hippies stuck flowers in the barrels of guns. Oh, the cliché of that. Indeed, one of the pieces in the exhibit was a 1967 photo by Marc Riboud, taken during the march on the Pentagon that year, of a young woman confronting a soldier’s bayonet in her face with a flower. In the context of the exhibit, this wasn’t a cliché. It was courage.
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Fresh lead in Madeleine McCann case
Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 in Portugal sparking one of the most high-profile missing child cases in history.
Now British police have identified a new person of interest.
Tanned, with dark hair, unshaven and smelling of tobacco and aftershave, the new suspect is thought to have committed a string of break-ins and sexual assaults not far from where Madeleine disappeared
Though this man assaulted five British girls, all aged 10 or less between 2004 and 2006, he has never been found.
He's not the only person still being searched for by the police. With Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood of the London Metropolitan Police emphasizing that "it's very important for us to understand and identify who this offender is," there are six other individuals that police want to speak to in connection to the case.
Becky asked criminologist and child protection expert Mark Williams-Thomas how he felt about this new development. He said that although it's wide, "if anyone did know this person they'd be able to come forward." He also emphasized that the issues with solving the case go further than just eliminating suspects. "The problem is the relationship between the Portuguese and the British police is one that is at best difficult, because there is not a communication level that is really open." And, he adds, "The only people that will solve this will be the people in Portugal."
On what this means for the McCann's, Williams-Thomas said that any move forward was positive for them. "Gerry and Kate live to the hope that one day they will find out. They will never give up."
Text: Madeleine McCann: Hunt for missing girl goes on
Filed under: Becky's Interviews • Breaking News • Europe • United Kingdom
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The Flash Movie Loses Its Director!
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A recent rumor suggested that The Flash movie is moving ahead with its casting process. But unfortunately, it seems like the progress is about to slow down for a while! The March 16, 2018 release has lost its director. Seth Grahame-Smith, who was hired to helm The Flash movie last October, has now left. The Hollywood Reporter confirms his exit.
Why did he leave? According to the report, Grahame-Smith pulled out of the Scarlet Speedster's standalone movie due to "creative differences" with Warner Bros. Well, that is almost a regular event in Hollywood these days. Michelle MacLaren was initially signed to helm the Wonder Woman movie, but she eventually left the project for the same reason.
And with more than twenty-two months remaining before The Flash movie hits the theaters, the studio has ample time to hire another director. That’s what they did when MacLaren left Diana Prince's standalone movie. They hired Patty Jenkins, and there have been no further disturbances. So we don’t need to be too worried about Seth Grahame-Smith’s departure from the project.
The Flash movie would have been Seth Grahame-Smith's first movie as a director! (Photo Credit - Flickr)
The Flash movie was actually going to be the directorial debut of Grahame-Smith, who is best known for his best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. He worked on the scripts of 2012's Dark Shadows and the upcoming The Lego Batman Movie. Since The Flash movie was his first project as a director, it was unlikely that the studio would give him enough freedom in the creative process.
However, the project will still retain the script Grahame-Smith wrote, working from a treatment by The Lego Movie writers/directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The duo was reportedly the first choice for directing The Flash movie in its initial stages. But after they signed to direct the untitled Han Solo movie for the Star Wars franchise, it was no longer possible for them to take on the DC Extended Universe flick.
How do you see Seth Grahame-Smith’s withdrawal from The Flash movie? Share via comments!
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People who love to SING
with Village Voices in Emsworth
Village Voices came into being in September 2012 and meets in The Methodist Church in Emsworth every Wednesday evening. We are now entering our eighth year, and still loving every moment.
Recent Concert Recordings
O Fortuna
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West Side Story Medley
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Village Voices 2018
Photograph by Martin Stewart
EBA Lobster Pot Christmas Carols 2017
Our aim is to learn, rehearse and sing music in four part harmony from across all genres; folk to show music, standard classical through to popular music of our era.
With the help and guidance of our Musical Director, Denise Baugh, and supported by our Accompanist, Brian Budden, we are encouraged, with humour and a sense of fun, to improve our standard of performance and to broaden our repertoire with a wide range of music.
Village Voices is made up of a friendly, sociable group of people and if you come to our concerts, you will be welcomed and entertained. See the Forthcoming Events page for more information.
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Egypt’s Former President Mohamed Morsi Dies in Court
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Egypt's former President Mohamed Morsi has passed away during a trial court session in the capital Cairo, state television says.
It said 67-year-old Morsi fainted during a court session on Monday and died afterwards. "He was speaking before the judge for 20 minutes then became very animated and fainted. He was quickly rushed to the hospital where he later died," a judicial source said.
Morsi, a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood organization, was Egypt’s first democratically-elected president after the 2011 revolution, but he was deposed following a military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in July 2013.
He had been serving a 20-year prison term on charges of ordering the arrest and torture of protesters, a 25-year jail term on charges of passing intelligence to Qatar and a three-year term for insulting the judiciary.
In November 2016, the Court of Cassation scrapped the life imprisonment sentence for Morsi and 21 other defendants, including some who had received the death penalty, in the same case and ordered a retrial.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first world leader to pay tribute to Morsi, calling him a martyr. "May Allah rest our brother Morsi, our martyr's soul in peace," said Erdogan, who had forged close ties with the late former president.
Egypt's public prosecutor said the former president was pronounced dead at 4:50 p.m. local time (02:50 GMT) at the hospital, and that a medical report showed no apparent recent injuries on his body. Morsi suffered from medical neglect during his imprisonment as well as poor conditions in jail.
Human Rights Watch described the news of his death as "terrible" but "entirely predictable", citing the Egyptian government's "failure to allow him adequate medical care. Last year, a report by a panel of UK legislators and attorneys warned that the lack of medical treatment could result in Morsi's "premature death.”
"Our conclusions are stark," Crispin Blunt, the Detention Review Panel's chairman, said at the time. "The denial of basic medical treatment to which he is entitled could lead to his premature death." They panel said that Morsi was being kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, which under the UN guidelines, would classify as torture. The Egyptian Interior Ministry declared a state of alert on Monday, notably in Mursi's home province of Sharqiya in the Nile Delta, where the body was expected to be taken for burial.
Source: Press TV
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WATCH THESE PRESENTATIONS FOR FREE!
D4D will be broadcasting these sessions from the 5th Annual Conference. Check out these excellent sessions via the links below during the presentation times:
Monday, March 4th, 9:30am Central Time
OPENING KEYNOTE with Brad Frost: Let’s Work Together!
Tuesday, March 5th, 1:20pm Central Time
TUESDAY INVITED SPEAKER S. Craig Watkins: The Digital Edge: What Educators Should Know about the Digital Lives of Multi-Cultural Youth
Wednesday, March 6th, 10:30am Central Time
CLOSING KEYNOTE with Chris LaRoche: How Did We Get Here? A historical journey of user experience
OPENING KEYNOTE | BRAD FROST
Monday, March 4th 9:30am Central Time
Nobody works alone in a vacuum, and successful work hinges on how well a team communicates and collaborates with each other. This talk will explore many methods, tools, and techniques teams use to produce great web experiences. How do team members all stay aligned and working towards common goals? How do designers ensure colors, typography, and other design elements are used correctly? What deliverables should be created in an effective web design process? How are decisions communicated with the team, stakeholders, and the broader organization? There are no “right” answers to these questions, but this talk will cover some important principles and helpful tactics to help your team make great work together.
Brad Frost is a web designer, speaker, trainer, consultant, writer, and musician located in Pittsburgh, PA. He recently published Atomic Design, a book that introduces a methodology for thinking of our UIs as thoughtful hierarchies, discusses the qualities of effective pattern libraries, and showcases techniques to transform team’s design and development workflow.
CLOSING KEYNOTE | CHRISTOPHER LAROCHE
Wednesday, March 6th 11:30am Central Time
How Did We Get Here? A historical journey of user experience
With the expansiveness of the concept and idea of user experience everywhere in our digital and physical lives today, the question remains: how did we get here and how did this topic become so pervasive in such a short time?
The discussion will describe how the field has evolved, matured, adapted, and continued to expand: from humble beginnings, as human factors and usability, to becoming an all-encompassing term user experience that includes so many professions and areas. To answer this question, this talk focuses on the evolution of the journey of the UX field from its incubation in World War II and post war, through the evolution of the consumer society in the 1950s/1960s, through the software explosion of the 1980s/1990s, and the Web explosion of the 1990s/2000s. We will then discuss specifically how this professional solidified and became so important within the last decade.
Finally, a wrap up will include where the idea and concept of user experience is headed in the immediate future, with a call to action to understand the risks and benefits on the field’s horizon.
Christopher S. LaRoche works as a user experience consultant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focuses on researching and evaluating the accessibility & usability of Web sites and software. His interest also includes promoting inclusive design. Christopher S. LaRoche works as a user experience consultant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focuses on researching and evaluating the accessibility & usability of Web sites and software. His interest also includes promoting inclusive design.
He has worked as a technical writer, information designer, user researcher, and consultant in his career. Chris has worked at Autodesk, Sun Microsystems, Genuity/BBN, Domain Pharma, Fidelity Investments, Paragon Imaging, HR Block, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Additionally, Chris is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Professional Studies (CPS) at Northeastern University, where he has taught for several decades. He teaches a wide range of graduate courses in user experience. He has taught at Harvard University, University of Wisconsin, Bentley University, and Emerson College. Chris also teaches undergraduate courses in modern Irish history.
Chris has been a long-term member of the User Experience Professionals’ Association (UXPA), including previously serving on Board of Directors of the Boston and International Chapter(s). He presents regularly at professional conferences. Chris has an MA in Irish history from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and an MS in Human Factors from Bentley University.
INVITED SPEAKER | S. CRAIG WATKINS
Tuesday, March 5th 1:20pm Central Time
The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality
Craig’s recently published book The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. Relying on nearly three hundred in-depth interviews with students, teachers, and parents, and hundreds of hours of observation in technology classes and after school programs, The Digital Edge carefully documents some of the emergent challenges for creating a more equitable digital and educational future. Focusing on the complex interactions between race, class, gender, geography and social inequality, the book explores the educational perils and possibilities of the expansion of digital media into the lives and learning environments of low-income youth. Ultimately, the book addresses how schools can support the ability of students to develop the social, technological, and educational skills required to navigate twenty-first century life.
S. Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He is a Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, in the department of Radio-Television-Film. Craig is also a Faculty Fellow for the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan.S. Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He is a Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, in the department of Radio-Television-Film. Craig is also a Faculty Fellow for the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan.
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Is the War over the Organic Mission Betraying a Small State Mentality ?
That Sikkim is divided over the ban on most of the inorganically grown vegetables is common knowledge. The four main groups are- (a) hostile- opposing the ban, (b) happy- supporting the ban, (c) neither hostile nor happy - observing the ban and (d) blissfully unaware-ignoring the ban. The hostile group says that the ban has created a crisis like situation and a civil war is about to erupt. The happy group says that everything is fine and we must bear with some initial inconveniences hoping that it will finally do good to our farmers and the state. The third group is neutral, or at least not vocal and it is to be hoped that they are observing the process and outcome carefully. The fourth group mostly consists of children who have no time and maturity to think about it. They are probably the happiest group at this time.
The division between hostile and happy is, for the most part, a reflection of a political divide. It is, therefore, in essence, a battle between the ruling and opposition parties. This is not to deny that, there are non-political people on either side of the divide. However, most of the comments about the ban on inorganically grown vegetables are coming from supporters of the government and the comments against the ban are coming from opposition parties.
It is not, by any means, unhealthy to have a counter-perspective to every perspective. Easy acceptance of every government policy will definitely weaken the ideological backbone of society. One of the major roles of oppositional political forces and media is to question the government. However, the questioning must be driven by a deep sense of responsibility and one of the goals of the questioner must be to challenge the responders to a sensible debate based on solidly robust rationale. One should never ask a question only to create confusion in the masses and stir up public frustration. A civilized society must engage in debate in a most sensible way possible. Trying to create chaos in the name of questioning is dishonesty. In other words, the genuineness of the question determines the quality of the debate and the fruitfulness of the outcome. But the trouble arises when the questioner either doesn’t do his homework well or is hopelessly driven by his or her biased agenda. The dialectical conflict at present between the pro-organic farming group and the forces criticizing it has been devoid of adequate intellectual investigation and thorough reasoning. It is, for the most part, a mere venting of frustration and spreading of annoyance. Such questioning strikes me with underwhelming force.
The Sikkim Organic Mission has been arguably the most fiercely questioned government policy. Questions were asked, doubts were cast, counter-arguments were put forward and failure was prophesied. Nothing seems to convince the questioners and nothing seems to discourage the government. Even the Central Government (i.e., the BJP, which is an opposition party in Sikkim) approving Sikkim’s Organic Mission and some renowned global organizations giving awards to the Sikkim Chief Minister do not seem to have made any difference to those who oppose the mission. One and a half decades later, the battle continues. The opposition has not ceased to call it ‘fake’ and the government has not ceased to move on.
Now the battle is about whether or not the State government should have banned inorganically grown vegetables. If the branding of organic Sikkim has to benefit people at the grassroots, Sikkim needs to move forward in a big way in the use of organic products. The use of organically grown vegetables (henceforth OGV) is obviously the starting point. Given the abundance of inorganically grown vegetables from Siliguri marketed through the dominant business establishments of vendors, our OGV stands no chance without government intervention. It needs a serious push into the market if there is going to be any success whatsoever.
Jiwan Rai
To read the further article please get your copy of Eastern Panorama March issue @http://www.magzter.com/IN/Hill-Publications/Eastern-Panorama/News/ or mail to contact @easternpanorama.in
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Ah, Rome, a peaceful city full of life. A far cry from years back when it was war-torn and depressed. The Empress recalled the days when many legions and her elite 13 were needed just to protect it, and sometimes, that wasn't even enough.
The Empress walked slowly amongst her people in Rome, she was most definitely the peoples' Empress. All knew of her and all knew that she would have time for them when they needed her advice.
The day of the current threat was no exception, she had been in the market place talking with the citizens and her generals when a runner appeared looking half dead. She had the citizens take the runner back to the Royal Palace, she would follow and hear the message he carried soon after.
The runner advised her of an uprising in a settlement south of Rome, where a mighty leader had managed to turn some people against the ways of Rome and against the ways of the Empress. This man and his followers now drew close to Rome and would be here within the day, he was coming to take control of Rome and all of its people.
The Empress called upon her remaining Generals to send out runners from Rome to call back the rest of her 13 and also to revive the legions, as they would be needed once again.
The Empress now only needed one last piece of information from the runner, she needed the name of this man who sought to wrestle control of Rome. Her face dropped as he uttered only one word......Caesar!!
The runners left Rome that very day to recall the rest of the 13 as quickly as possible, other runners were dispatched to local villages to spread the word that new legions were needed in Rome. It took many days for the 13 to return to Rome, and by this time Caesar had taken Rome and his army was now in place.
It was now up to the Empress and the 13 to guide the Legions in the coming battle. Many would fight and many would die but in the end they had to bring about...... The Fall Of Caesar!
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The issue of an expanded HRO is creating rifts between faith leaders with close familial ties
Pastor R.L. Gundy, seen here in his Mount Sinai Baptist Church office, has become an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights.
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Posted Wednesday, December 23, 2015 12:00 pm
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by CHLOE HERRING
It was a little more than an hour into the second of Mayor Lenny Curry’s community conversations — this one, called “Religious Freedoms, Thoughts and Beliefs,” was held on Dec. 3 at Edward Waters College — when Pastor Ronnie Edwards of Blessed Hope Missionary Baptist Church expressed his disdain for the direction of the discourse.
“[We’re] beating a dead horse. We keep going back to love as if we don’t love,” he said. “My God doesn’t change.”
Audience members, sitting on bleachers in Adams-Jenkins Sports & Music Complex, responded with a synchronized “Amen.”
The “Amens,” just short of the familiar call-and-response (along with the fan-waving) gave the room an ecclesial feel. But, in a gymnasium and with an audience made up of both white and black people, it was certainly a far cry from the church proceedings that would carry on as usual a few days later.
The issue of expanding Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance to include protections for LGBT individuals has brought people together. But it has also created some rifts, locally, both between and among faith leaders and the churches they represent.
When the community discussion was over for the evening, people flooded onto the hardwood floors of the basketball court.
Edwards, who inspired a loud outcry after asserting “homosexuality is a choice,” was met with hugs and hearty handshakes. People of all races approached him with smiles, thanking him for his service and for speaking on their behalf.
The response to one of his comments, in particular, stood out. When asked how he felt about LGBT people being discriminated against just as blacks had been during the Jim Crow era, Edwards shot back, saying the “plight of black people is not in the same universe as the plight of LGBT.”
Many of the people sitting on the bleachers applauded enthusiastically.
Edwards’ insistence that local laws need not include protections for LGBT people, however, is not representative of every black pastor in Jacksonville.
In November, Pastor R.L. Gundy, of Mount Sinai Baptist Church, caused a media frenzy when he became an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights.
Edwards and Gundy were on the same page when changes to the HRO were proposed back in 2012. Since then, ideas about love and marriage have largely shifted, culminating in June when the Supreme Court granted same-sex couples the right to marry.
With the landmark decision, Gundy abandoned efforts to ban same-sex marriage.
Gundy said when LGBT people feel disparaged by the church, it creates a climate that is not conducive to his work as a pastor. Despite claims otherwise, Gundy said he considers any resistance to grant a marginalized community protection from discrimination to be hate.
“If I can’t minister to the people in church and they’re running away because they feel like the church is condemning them, I’m not doing ministry. I’m doing hate,” Gundy said.
FAMILIAL DIFFERENCES
Edwards is one of Jacksonville’s many religious leaders who argue that faith-based communities that do not support an inclusive HRO do, in fact, love LGBT people. It was one of his most recited talking points as a panel member during the community conversation.
Edwards declined to comment about Pastor Gundy’s change of heart, however, and was open only to saying he disagreed with Gundy, but wanted to keep his personal opinions private.
Gundy and Edwards are related by marriage, their families intertwined by law, their church membership at Mount Sinai and a deep involvement in the ministry.
Gundy, however, wasn’t sworn to silence.
“Ronnie Edwards is out of this church,” Gundy told Folio Weekly.
“Unfortunately, when he was at the meeting, and I walked in and I saw him, I didn’t know he was going to be there doing that,” Gundy said. “I said, ‘Well, it looks like he didn’t want to call a brother and talk to me because I’m his father in the ministry.’ So I said, ‘He [is] out of his league’ and he was.”
By changing his stance on the HRO, though, it may be Pastor R.L. Gundy who is out of his league, according to some members of black churches who attended the community meeting.
“I would probably be looking for another church,” said one woman in the audience who’d been asked what she’d do if her pastor supported an inclusive HRO. “He’s entitled to change his mind but his parishioners don’t have to stay.”
Earlier this month, a group of 19 African-American pastors called for a public referendum on the issue of an expanded HRO.
FOLLOWING HIS LEAD
On Sunday morning at Mt. Sinai, the parking lot was full. Inside the sanctuary, red and green Christmas ribbons adorned wooden pillars as light shined through windows that reached to the ceiling.
Gundy’s parishioners did not seem phased by his stance on the HRO. One woman, a member of Mount Sinai for more than 70 years, said Gundy opened discussions about it during a Bible study.
“We should not discriminate. If that was the case, we wouldn’t be where we are,” she said.
The woman joined others, like Percy Clarett, in full support of Gundy’s leadership and ideology.
“One thing he really wants is equal opportunity for people to live where they want to live. I think that’s really good. I think no matter who you are, you should be able to live where you want to live,” Clarett said. “He encourages us to love everybody.”
In fact, no one expressed opposition. Robert Lewis, a church deacon, said he has the utmost respect for Gundy.
“He ’bout treating humans like they supposed to be treated. He has an inner love. He’s very protective of people. I just got a lot of respect for him,” Lewis said. “I can’t speak for what other churches do, but when it comes to him, he shows compassion to everybody.”
Today, Gundy and Edwards still agree on at least one thing: The LGBT community’s struggle for civil protections is not the Civil Rights movement.
“It’s different. My ancestors came here as slaves,” said Gundy.
Though he is adamant that they are two different battles, Gundy, who calls himself a “social justice preacher,” said the fight for LGBT rights is not so far apart from the Civil Rights Movement that there is no common ground.
“There is similarities when it comes to discrimination,” he says.
Gundy says he instructs his congregation from the Bible, based on his personal convictions of how Christians are called to live.
“I trained them on the Biblical principles of love, non-discrimination and the fact that some people who are gay are born that way,” Gundy said.
He says he still has a huge issue with the church, which he said “is yet to repent from the sin of segregation, discrimination, disenfranchisement.”
“I can’t blame the church or evangelicals for having a Biblical stance because I have mine. But I can blame them when they don’t show the love imperative, which is the moral-ethical piece,” Gundy said. “We can’t continue to carry the name of Christianity and not carry the moral imperative of love. We can’t do that.”
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Posts tagged: qualifiers
Beyond The Hand Of God
Diego Maradona, Manager of Argentina
I have to say, I like this Argentina team. I’ve never been a particular supporter or proponent of the Argentineans before, but something about this team merits my attention and admiration. Perhaps it’s due to the fact that I happened to be in a bar full of football supporters, from all different countries, when Argentina had their do or die qualifying match against Peru back in October of 2009. The energy was electric and the game was incredible to watch. Astonishingly, Argentina had not done well in qualifying up to this point. They left it late into the rounds before finally securing their, some might say “rightful place” in the World Cup. The game was played under heavy rain and Argentina remained at 1-1 into the dying minutes. Commentators were practically writing obituaries of Argentina manager Diego Maradona as they scrutinized the last few moments of the match. As the rain poured down in injury time, 36 year-old Martin Palermo of Boca Juniors sprang into action and scored the winning goal. While it was not the match that completely clinched qualification, it was a match they could not afford to drop points in and the rest is history.
Nine months later, Argentina arrived in South Africa ready to be taken very seriously. But before they even had a chance to kick a ball in anger, pundits were writing them off. ‘Do so at your peril,’ I thought. The obvious choices of Spain, Brazil, and Germany were on the lips of journalists as favorites to win, but I believed that there was something special brewing in this Argentina side. Despite their somewhat wobbly qualification, they endured and most likely cemented an incredible team spirit through their trials en route to South Africa. And while no one ever completely writes off Argentina, there was less confidence in this team than in previous years.
Many saw Diego Maradona as a liability rather than an asset. Not Argentinean supporters of course, who believe the man is God incarnate, but rather the objective football fan. Understandably, Argentina sees Maradona with rose-colored glasses, but even they can admit the man has not had the most illustrious past. Despite his football acumen, his struggles with drugs and weight have hit the headlines more in the past 15 years than his playing prowess. But all credit to him; in the last few years he cleaned himself up, had an operation to help with his weight gain issues, and re-emerged in Argentina as a respected football pundit. He was handed the illustrious reigns of managing his country in 2008, and no one in Argentina would think to argue the choice.
The man knows glory, and lucky for him, he has a squad brimming with talent. To say, “the next Maradona” is now studying under him wouldn’t be much of a stretch. Lionel Messi, at the young age of 22 (he turns 23 tomorrow) is perhaps the most prolific player in the world since El Diego. His touch is mesmerizing and after a season where he scored 34 goals for Barcelona, no one would dare disagree with his standing as best in the world. And yet, Argentina still has an embarrassment of riches to call on other than the pint sized forward. You could start with the man Maradona famously used when describing his team, “My team is Mascherano and ten others.” The combative midfielder doesn’t posses the grace and skill of some his compatriots, but what he lacks in style, he makes up for in pure aggression. Add to that Gonzalo Higuain, Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Maxi Rodriguez, and Martin Dimichelis, and you’ve got one good looking squad. Maradona was so blessed he was even able to leave behind veterans Zanetti and Cambiasso and take instead Juan Veron and Martin Palermo.
Now we come back full circle to Palermo. Some were shocked at the player’s inclusion, even after his extraordinary goal in qualifying. As one of only six players playing their club football in Argentina, Palermo was a man Maradona was not leaving behind. And yesterday, against Greece in their final group match of the World Cup, Maradona was proved right. Rather than sure things up at the back with a 1-0 lead in tact, Maradona put Palermo in at the end of the game to go out and score another. He did just that. Palermo poached a goal and in the celebrations after, his entire team came running over to him. Maradona jumped into the arms of one of his staff on the sidelines, unable to contain his excitement.
This moment epitomized Argentina so far in this World Cup. They are a unit, banded together and there for each other on the pitch. Maradona’s wild enthusiasm and the love he shows for his players go beyond the typical relationship of a manager and his squad. Maradona didn’t pick players based solely on reputation and name, he picked the players he believed in with the conviction that they will return the favor with performances. And not necessarily performances that are only sensational blowouts, but performances with heart. This is the first team in South Africa to look as if they are truly enjoying themselves. And a lot of the credit must be given to Maradona, the man many believed to be the team’s major liability. Before the tournament, I believed Argentina would win the World Cup, or at the very least go far, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. Now I know. It’s not just the talent, but the spirit Maradona and his 23 men have that will see this team reach great heights, in this World Cup and beyond.
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Innocent Man Accused of Stealing His Own Pickup Shot by Police in Mesquite
MESQUITE, Texas – Police in Mesquite said Tuesday that a man suspected of breaking into a pickup truck, and was then shot by an officer after a confrontation last Wednesday, is actually the owner of the vehicle.
Lyndo Jones was still charged with one count of evading arrest, said Lt. Brian Parrish with the Mesquite Police Department, but those charges were dropped Tuesday evening. The lawyer for Jones stated that the Dallas County District Attorney’s office rejected the charge.
“He was detained because we had received information that there was a burglary in progress and, regardless of who owns the vehicle, regardless of what the actual situation is, if an officer receives a call that there is a burglary in process and arrives at the scene and finds what he deems to be a suspect, it is just simply a prudent matter to take that person into custody and further investigate and find out if the person is up to no good, and if they are, then we move forward with an investigation,” said Parrish.
Jones addressed the media Tuesday night outside of the hospital where he is being treated. He would not address specifics of what transpired last Wednesday. “I don’t why somebody would do that,” said Jones. “Why? I didn’t do nothing to you or did anything. Why? That’s what I want to know.”
Jones added that his doctors and nurses have taken good care of him in the hospital. “I’m feeling good, thankful that I am alive, living and breathing, and get to go home and see my little girls.”
The incident started at about 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, when police were called to the 1300 block of South Town East Boulevard for somebody setting off a car alarm.
When an officer arrived at the scene, he located Jones sitting inside of a pickup truck as the vehicle’s security alarm was sounding. The officer confronted the suspect and things then escalated quickly. That scuffle led to the officer firing his weapon and striking the man.
However, officials said that Jones continued to fight with officers even after he was wounded and placed into handcuffs. Police said that he demonstrated such physical strength that it took three officers just to hold him down until paramedics could arrive at the scene to assess his injuries.
“The situation was that Mr. Jones didn’t give the officer ample opportunity to start an investigation,” said Parrish.
Jones underwent surgery for his gunshot wound and has been released from Baylor Medical Center, but is still recovering. He was not armed at the time of the incident. The officer who shot Jones has been identified as Derick L. Wiley, a 10-year veteran of the Mesquite Police Department. Wiley is now on administrative leave.
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2010 / newscast
Robert Byrd, the Senate’s longest-serving member, dies at 92
Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin for Elena Kagan
Supreme Court effectively overturns Chicago’s handgun ban
G8 and G20 meetings wrap up in Canada
Street Beat: Hands Across the Sand
FDA calls medically unnecessary antibiotics in meat a “serious public health threat”
The Food and Drug Administration called on meat producers today to cut back on antibiotics given to animals destined for the dinner table. In today’s Federal Register, the FDA said that antibiotics given to animals create a “serious public health threat.” Such drug use fosters anti-biotic resistant bacteria that, when ingested, can infect humans. The FDA draft guidelines published today suggest antibiotics be administered only when medically necessary and under the supervision of a veterinarian.
US and EU agree on terms for swapping banking info in alleged terrorism investigations
The US and the European Union signed off on an agreement today to share financial information when investigating potential terrorism cases. The deal was struck after US authorities agreed to EU demands to provide more privacy protection. Before the US can access financial information from European banks, officials will have to explain the reasons they suspect terrorist activities. The EU also required that the US provide a plan to correct or delete inaccurate data, as well as ensure that individuals can sue the government if their financial information is misused. Last year – the EU refused to continue a temporary data sharing agreement saying civil liberties were not adequately protected.
More deaths in ongoing protests in Indian administered Kashmir
In Indian administered Kashmir today, police and security forces killed two more protesters, including a 9 year old boy, triggering more unrest across the region. Five demonstrators have been killed in the past four days. Shanawaz Khan has more from Srinigar.
Elections in Somaliland free and fair despite attacks on border polls
Election officials in the breakaway republic of Somaliland are tallying votes after more than 1 million Somalis cast ballots in a Presidential contest – Abdulkarim Jemale reports.
Guinea and Burundi elections
Election officials are counting votes today in two other African nations as well. In the first free elections in more than a half a century – voters in Guinea cast ballots yesterday – observers say polling went smoothly. But in Burundi, very few voters turned out today after ten grenade attacks in the 24 hours prior to polling. And they only had one option — the only candidate on the ballot was incumbent Pierre Nkurunziza. Six opposition candidates withdrew early this month claiming intimidation. Results in that election are expected quite quickly.
Kygyz voters approve new constitution
And in Kyrgyzstan, voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution that weakens presidential powers and establishes a parliamentary system. Elections to fill Parliamentary posts are due in October.
Iceland’s Prime Minster first world leader to marry same sex partner
The Prime Minster of Iceland is now officially the world’s first government leader married to a same-sex partner. Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir and her partner have been united in a registered partnership for years – but their union was converted to a marriage yesterday, when Iceland’s recently enacted law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect. The law affords gay couples in Iceland all the benefits of marriage – including the right to adopt children.
Honduras coup: June 28th, 2009
And today marks one year since the coup in Honduras. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya remains in exile in the Dominican Republic.
The longest serving member of Congress, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, died early Monday morning at the age of 92. Byrd was elected to the US House in 1953, then to the Senate in 1959, where he served for 51 years. As Chair of the Appropriations Committee, he brought billions of federal dollars to West Virginia, a state that’s faced high poverty for decades. Byrd had immense influence on Capitol Hill and held more leadership positions than any other Senator in US history.
In his youth, Senator Byrd was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and as an elected official, he voted against the Civil Rights Act and the nominations of Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, amongst other black political nominees. But in the decades following, he renounced some of these actions and said joining the KKK was the “greatest mistake” of his life.
“And so we who, like myself, we born in a Southern environment, grew up with Southern people, knew their feelings, knew about the Civil War and all these things, I thought ‘my goodness, we ought to get ahead of the curve really’, not have the law force us to do it. We ought to take down those signs. Well, that is what made me come to the conclusion that if I had to do it over again, I’d vote against that law.”
Byrd later won favor from the left for his outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq.
“The American public was sold on this war. Yes it was, yes it was sold on this war with methaphors about mushroom clouds. I heard all those and fanciful visions of our troops being greeted as liberators. I heard that and I saw that, yes! The fear tactics and half truths continue as the president suggests that terrorists would follow us here. Have you heard that before? If we withdraw from Iraq and the administration grasps at every straw to demonstrate progress on the ground.”
He led an unsuccessful filibuster against the resolution that gave sweeping war powers to former president, George w. Bush. On the day of the US-led military invasion of Iraq, Byrd said, “Today I weep for my country.”
The loss of a Democrat in the Senate has called into question the passage of the Financial Reform bill before the July 4th recess. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin will appoint Byrd’s successor.
The Senate Judiciary Committee began the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Elena Kagan. If confirmed, the current US solicitor general would replace Justice John Paul Stephens, who is retiring. Kagan served in the Clinton administration and was formerly dean of the Harvard Law School. FSRN’s Matt Pearson reports.
The Supreme Court wrapped up its 2010 session today. Justices agreed to allow a sex abuse scandal case against the Vatican to move forward. They have also agreed to hear a challenge brought against an Arizona immigration law that punishes employers for hiring undocumented workers. Although it’s not the controversial sweeping immigration law passed earlier this year, this may indicate the high court could eventually hear challenges to SB 1070.
The court also issued its final four rulings of the session today. A 5-4 decision upheld a University of California law school policy that prevented the Christian Law Society from receiving official school recognition and funding over the group’s refusal to accept members with ideological differences or because of sexual orientation.
Another important case was McDonald vs. Chicago, which questioned if an individual’s 2nd ammendment right to bear arms superceded the sections of the 14th ammendment allowing state and local governments to make their own laws. At the heart of the case was Chicago’s handgun ban. The court ruled that Chicago and the nearby community of Oak Park cannot ban handguns outright, but local governments can regulate firearms sales.
Today’s ruling mirrored the same split down ideological lines that overturned Washington DC’s handgun ban.
For a look at how this ruling may impact on-the-ground violence prevention efforts in Chicago, Shannon Young spoke with by Michael Rodriguez, Executive Director of Enlace Chicago, an organization that works to improve the quality of life for residents of the city’s Little Village community.
The G8 and G20 summits wrapped up in Huntsville and Toronto over the weekend, amidst big spending promises from the leaders and the arrests of over 600 protesters. FSRN’s Aaron Lakoff was in the streets of Toronto, and files this report.
On Saturday, thousands of people from 37 countries and all 50 states gathered to say no to offshore oil drilling and yes to clean energy. From WMNF Community Radio in Tampa, Seán Kinane brings us these voices from a Hands Across The Sand event on a beach in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Four Rivers
Aniishinabemowin
The Four Rivers team consists of a very passionate and dedicated group of professionals from a diverse set of backgrounds.
Sarah Cockerton,
Manager of Environmental Programs
scockerton@matawa.on.ca
Sarah has been with Matawa First Nations Management for over ten years and currently oversees operations of all divisions of Four Rivers. Raised in a multi-generational entrepreneurial family in southern Ontario, Sarah moved to Thunder Bay in 2000. She then pursued an Honours degree in Science at Lakehead University, graduating from the Water Resource Science Program. Her undergraduate work included an intensive Honours thesis, studying geochemical rock-water interactions at the former open-pit mines at Steep Rock, near Atikokan, Ontario. Sarah also holds an associates certificate in Project Management. Sarah is well versed in scientific concepts, tools and techniques related to field collection, laboratory analysis, the organization of data and GIS. Since serving at Matawa First Nations Management, she has worked very closely with multiple First Nations on planning and developing community lands and resource offices and support systems. She has been responsible for the development of regional environmental programs and services throughout the Matawa member First Nations homelands in northern Ontario, which included the development of the Four Rivers department in 2011, and Four Rivers Inc. in 2017.
Kimberly Jorgenson, M.Sc.
Environmental Services Coordinator
kjorgenson@fourrivers.group
With over fifteen years of experience in the environmental sector, Kim applies her diverse skill set to a variety of projects at Four Rivers Group. Since 2011, Kim’s role has included the oversight and coordination of environmental projects, from environmental site investigations and assessments to community-based Cultural Impact Assessments. She regularly coordinates and facilitates large gatherings (from community open house events to large-scale conferences) to communicate complex environmental processes and issues such as climate change and environmental monitoring. Kim is fluent in the fields of biology, environmental legislation, research science and geographic information systems. As a skilled field researcher in aquatic environments, including the collection, analysis and interpretation of scientific data and its synthesis, Kim develops a variety of technical reports and presentations on technical topics. Kim holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science degree from the University of Manitoba, and a Master of Science degree in Biology from Lakehead University. Kim was previously employed in the environmental consulting sector, where environmental baseline data collection and contaminated site compliance monitoring were part of her regular duties.
Peter Moses,
Mineral Development & Information Support Officer
pmoses@matawa.on.ca
Peter is a member of Pic River First Nation. Peter attended Confederation College and graduated with a Technical High School Diploma and continued his education at George Brown College graduating in Instrumentation Technology. After a brief retirement from the Pulp and Paper Industry as an Instrumentation Technician and Instrumentation Supervisor in 2003, he joined the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines as the First Nation Minerals Information Officer. His role was to provide education, information, advice, and expertise regarding geology, mineral exploration and mining to First Nation Communities throughout Ontario. Peter retired from MNDM in February 2014, and joined Matawa First Nations Management as the Mineral Development Information Support Officer within Four Rivers Environmental Services Group. In 2017, Peter received the prestigious Skookum Jim Award from PDAC recognizing his significant contribution to Canada's mineral exploration and mining industry through his work with companies, government, and Aboriginal communities.
Jennifer Duncan,
Geomatics/ Project Manager
jduncan@fourrivers.group
With over 6 years of experience in the environmental and mineral sector, Jennifer applies her geomatics knowledge to a variety of projects at Four Rivers Group. Over the past 4 years, Jennifer’s role at Four Rivers has included capacity building, training, community engagement and project coordination of several initiatives, all with a geomatics component. Jennifer is fluent in the field of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and is a talented cartographer, having created hundreds of custom maps along with two ESRI Canada award-winning maps (published nationally in their annual calendar). As a skilled Geomatics Professional, Jennifer has worked on a variety of different mapping projects including, but not limited to: mineral exploration and tenure mapping; traditional knowledge data collection and mapping; interactive online mapping applications; and, field data collection using GPS and UAV technology. Jennifer has an Honours Bachelors of Arts degree in Geography from Lakehead University and completed her undergraduate thesis research on Traditional Knowledge with a remote Eastern Arctic Inuit community. Jennifer was previously employed in the mineral exploration consulting sector for over 3 years, where GIS, research and report writing were part of her regular duties.
Laura Prior,
CURRENTLY ON PARENTAL LEAVE
Communications & Design Specialist
lprior@fourrivers.group
Laura Prior started work with Matawa First Nations Management in 2013 in the Communications Department. By 2014 she transitioned to the Environmental Services Group, Four Rivers as the Environmental Coordination Officer, to focus on outreach and capacity building initiatives. Her experience and expertise in the communications field pairs well with many environmental projects in the department. She can provide assistance in various communication areas, from creative design projects to information sessions to youth engagement. Laura graduated from Lakehead University with her HBA degree in Sociology. Her previous work experience includes marketing and customer service. Both her schooling and past employment bring valuable knowledge to Four Rivers, strengthening the department’s scope.
Jasmine Baxter,
Geomatics Intern
jbaxter@fourrivers.group
Jasmine Baxter is the Office Administrator with Four Rivers, responsible for coordinating project logistics and financial management. Jasmine has a background in social work, having graduated from Confederation College’s Native Child & Family Services program. She is the main point of contact in the Four Rivers office, and is skilled in coordinating the travel and venue logistics of large-scale events, and is responsible for purchases, service procurement and invoicing. As a proud member of Marten Falls First Nation and a mother of five children, Jasmine brings her superior multi-tasking and organizational skills to the Four Rivers team. Jasmine is passionate about watershed stewardship initiatives and Indigenous language preservation.
Kevin Wabasse,
Linguistics Officer
kwabasse@fourrivers.group
Kevin is the Linguistics Officer at Four Rivers Group., and is a member of Nibinamik First Nation (Summer Beaver) in northern Ontario. Kevin provides both oral and written Ojibway and Oji-Cree translation and interpretation of documents. He also provides communications and public relations support for various Four Rivers projects. He is bi-lingual and is able to speak in Oji-Cree and English fluently. He is capable of reading and writing in syllabics in the eastern Oji-Cree dialect. He has the ability to provide translation of documents into syllabics and provide interpretation for staff that aren’t able to communicate effectively with Elders from the Matawa member First Nation communities who only speak in Oji-Cree, Cree, or Ojibway. Kevin has over 7 years of experience in Administrative Support Services for multiple of First Nations organizations and communities.
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WA: State attenuation is more narrow than the 4A’s, and here it wasn’t satisfied →
W.D.N.Y.: No IAC for trial strategy def had nothing to do with house, which denies him standing to contest search
Posted on February 10, 2019 by Hall
Defendant disavowed any connection at trial to a particular house as a trial strategy. Thus, it was not ineffective assistance of counsel for not moving to suppress the search of a house he thus lacked standing in–defendant would not have prevailed on a motion to suppress if one had been filed on the merits, either. United States v. Pierce, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19353 (W.D. N.Y. Feb. 7, 2019).*
Defendant’s oversearching claim for searching his camper is rejected because the search warrant permitted it. People v. Madigan, 2019 NY Slip Op 00999, 2019 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 998 (4th Dept. Feb. 9, 2019).*
In an alleged sex offense, there was probable cause shown to seize bedding and clothing for DNA. State v. Shannon, 2019-Ohio-421, 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 438 (11th Dist. Feb. 8, 2019).*
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