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Category Archive: Environment
The Famed Tsukiji Fish Market Closes and New Toyosu Fish Market Opens Today: How Does this Impact Tokyo 2020?
The Toyosu fish market is pictured in this photo taken from a Mainichi helicopter on July 30, 2016. (Mainichi)
The Tsukiji era is over. The Toyosu era has begun today, October 11.
After decades in the planning, the government has finally moved the fishmongers of Tsukiji to a former gas storage facility in Toyosu, about a few kilometers southeast of the famed fish market.
One of the most popular tourist attractions in Japan, tens of thousands visited Tsukji daily to enjoy the fresh seafood, and if they arrived before 5 am, as hundreds did every weekday, to watch the auction of frozen tuna laid out like lumber on the slick fishmonger floor.
Tsukiji was also a significantly large market, as over 1,540 tons of seafood valued at USD14 million or JPY1.6 billion traded hands every day. Around 650 businesses operated in Tsukiji, including 100 vegetable traders that sold 985 tons of fruits and vegetables daily, creating a vibrant community with over 14,000 workers and 28,000 buyers doing in the crammed confines of the Tsukiji market.
This coziness of Tsukiji, while part of the charm, was also part of the problem. Working within facilities originally constructed prior to World War II, Tsukiji businesses were not air conditioned, and kept their fish and vegetables fresh with crushed ice. Since storage space was limited, fish could be found stored outside, even in the summer months. The hustle bustle of Tsukji was made greater with the countless number of trucks that transported goods in and out of Tsukiji on its narrow roads.
The cramped quarters were an issue, and the move to Toyosu nearly doubles the available space for the market from 23.1 hectares in Tsukiji to 40.7 hectares in Toyosu. There were other reasons to move – the steel beams that kept the buildings up were rusting, the building standards were not up to date in terms of eartquake resistance, asbestos was said to be in the walls, and rats filled the nooks and crannies.
The Loop Line 2 plan, Nikkei Asian Review
And then there is the coming 2020 Tokyo Olympics, providing an extra incentive to accelerate the move. Plans for 2020 included:
a transportation hub of 3,000 vehicles, called Bus Rapid Transport (BRT), that would be used to move athletes, officials, and volunteers around to the various Olympic venues,
an extension of a major road artery, called Loop Line 2, from downtown Toranomon to Toyosu, that would allow vehicles to move unimpeded via a tunnel dug underneath Tsukiji, and
The Olympic Village, to be built between the Tsukiji market and Toyosu market.
When Yuriko Koike came to power as governor of Tokyo in the summer of 2016, she put a halt to the planned November 7, 2016 move of the fish market to Toyosu when high levels of a poisonous chemical, benzene, were detected in the soil and in the air of the former gas storage facility.
Tsukiji Fish Market Aerial View
Two years later, after measures to diminish the impact of the contaminents in the soil were taken, Governor Koike officially gave the go ahead to open Toyosu on October 11.
That decision has brought closure to many of the Tuskiji businesses that eventually moved to Toyosu. But the delay has left considerable uncertainty for others, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.
One party is the Tokyo Olympic Organizing committee, which gives the committee much less time to convert the Tsukiji fish market into a transportation hub. Dealing with the tens of thousands of people on the move for two weeks during the Games, in addiiton to the already congested roads and trains of Tokyo, will be a tremendous challenge, and the readiness and effectiveness of the BRT will be critical to the success of the 2020 Olympics.
Another concerned party is a group, including Mitsui Fudosan Residential, Mitsubishi Jisho Residence, Sumitomo Realty & Development and Nomura Real Estate Development, which are creating different parts of the Olympic Village. The rooms for athletes will be converted and sold as condos after the Olympics, according to Nikkei Asian Review. They write that the 24 blocks of 5,600 condominums will help drive the population of the Harumi bayside area from 12,000 today to about 29,000 in ten years.
Unfortunately, the development of the tunnel part of the Loop Line 2, planned to transport people and vehicles underneath Tsukiji, was postponed after the move of the fish market to Toyosu was postponed.
As the area of the Olympic Village is not close to any train station (the closest station being a 25-minute walk to Kachidoki Station on the Oedo Line), the developers of the condos were depending on the development of high-speed connections from the Olympic Village Harumi waterfront area to Shimbashi train station in about 10 minutes, but that possibility appears to be in jeopardy with uncertainty over the development of the tunnel.
Uncertainty doesn’t sell.
Developers are hoping to start selling the condo units before the games, aiming to sell more than 4,000 of 5,600 units. But the uncertainty over whether the BRT will be fully operational by the autumn of 2022, when new owners are scheduled to take possession, is causing worries about how this will work out.
Toyosu has opened, and the era of early morning jaunts to the fish market, standing meters from the valuable frozen tuna being hawked in auction is over. As this site explains, you will find a more antiseptic version of the Tsukiji experience.
Expect the experience at Toyosu to be different from the lively, messy but also charming and authentic Tsukiji. It seems like a very organized and sterile atmosphere—and only certain clearly-marked areas will be accessible to visitors. The times of tourists touching the price tags of tuna are over—your experience is all behind glass windows now.
The author at Tsukiji one early May morning in 1989, with an ugly moustache.
October 11, 2018 Business, Economics, Environment, health, Japan, Olympics, Pop Culture, Tokyo 2020, Tourism
Olympic Ransom and the Terror Attack of the ’64 Olympics that Never Was Part 2: Yumenoshima – from Garbage Dump to Tokyo2020 Archery Venue
Shimazaki hiding from the police on Dream Island, in the Asahi Television produced film, Olympic Ransom
The phone rings. It’s Kunio Shimazaki, and he’s asking for police inspector Masao Ochiai, to inform him where to deliver the ransom money. If the police do not comply with his demand for 80 million yen, then he will set off another bomb in Tokyo, one that will certainly derail the good-feel bandwagon of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (See part 1.)
Shimazaki hangs up, but the police notice in the recording of the call that seagulls could be heard in the background. The Tokyo University student, Shinozaki, as created by Hideo Okuda, in his 1984 novel “Olympic Ransom” (Orinpikku no Minoshirokin), is keeping out of sight.
Yumenoshima today. The area behind the white fence will be the archery venue for Tokyo 2020. You can see the chimney for the incinerator that get rids of waste and provides heat for the greenhouse.
The police, of the possible hundreds of seaside spots along Tokyo Bay, wonder where Shinozaki, and his partner in crime, Tomekichi Murata, could be.
As it turns out, they are hiding on Dream Island, a landfill in Tokyo Bay off of the mouth of the Arakawa River. First planned in the 1930s as the possible site to replace Haneda Airport, it was opened to the public as a beach called Yumenoshima, the island of dreams. Alas, dreams don’t last forever. The beach was closed, re-opening as a garbage dump in 1957, an out-of-the way destination for the increasing amount of waste generated by a fast-growing economy.
The map of Yumenoshima, the white box in the middle is where the archery venue will be.
Unfortunately, the ten million tons of garbage accumulated over a ten-year period, was left to fester. And only 8 months after the end of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, it was reported that massive number of flies, that literally blackened the sky, made their way from Yumenoshima across the Sumida River into the heart of Tokyo. As famed translator, Edward Seidensticker wrote in his book, Tokyo Rising, the Japan Self-Defense forces were brought into the fight off the plague of flies.
Initial efforts of the Self-Defense Force (the Japanese army by another name) to exterminate the flies seem initially to have had only the effect of spreading them. Finally a scorched-earth policy worked. Dream Island was for a time a cinder on which not even flies could live.
Today, Yumenoshima is a nice weekend outing, where you can hold a barbecue, sail away from the Marina, walk through a tropical greenhouse, visit the museum of the famed Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a symbol of the horrors of the nuclear age in the 1950s, or play baseball by the seaside on one of 12 fields.
An illustration of the planned archery venue for Tokyo 2020.
It will also be the site for the archery competition during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. A grassy field across the street from the greenhouse, the area is fenced off as construction continues.
From an idea to a dream to a nightmare, Yumenoshima has settled into middle age as a family outing. And in 2020, the world of archery will descend on the man-made island, dreaming of gold.
If you look closely, you can see Tokyo Skytree in the distance.
October 7, 2018 Economics, Environment, Field Sports, Japan, Olympics, Others, Tokyo 2020, Tourism
Tokyo 2020 and The Angst of Daylight Saving Time in Japan: Athletes First? NBC First? Workers First?
2018 has been a sweltering summer in Tokyo. With temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Centigrade (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in early August, the media and internet had a field day on perceived disastrous consequences of athletes and spectators collapsing on the streets and in the stands during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
But when the idea of incorporating Daylights Saving Time in Japan came up, the media and internet in Japan had another field day condemning that idea.
Why is daylights saving time – the idea of pushing the clock ahead in the summer of 2020 – being considered? There are two reasons brought up.
Potentially cooler weather for the marathon runners: An early start time of 7:30 am is being considered for the marathons. If the clocks are pushed one hour ahead, 7:30 am is actually 6:30 am – the presumption being that the conditions will be cooler.
Broadcaster’s bottom line: Additional advertising revenue for the American broadcaster could be gained by shifting the clock at least one hour ahead. If we presume that 10 am will be a starting time for a lot of major events, that would be 9 pm in New York City without daylight saving, and 8pm with daylight saving.
The South Korean government agreed to institute daylight saving time in 1988, the year of the Seoul Olympics. According to this article, a Trans World International executive named Barry Frank was hired as a consultant to the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee (SLOOC), and helped the committee negotiate with the networks for broadcasting rights.
Frank seemingly had an insoluble problem — an Olympics half a world away, with individual athletic federations balking at changing their starting times and U.S. television balking at paying hefty rights for delayed telecasts. Any hour he could find to add to our prime-time schedule was crucial. NBC is paying a base of $300 million for U.S. television rights, with a risk-sharing formula tied to advertising sales that could boost the fee to $500 million. “This might have been worth $25 million in the overall scheme of things,” Frank said of the daylight savings ploy.
Daylight saving time is used in over 70 countries.
So the clocks in South Korea shifted one hour ahead in the summer of 1988. That was the only year Korea had daylight saving time.
The Japanese government may be considering it, but there may be some lingering bad memories of a time when Japan did have daylight saving. That was in the immediate years after World War II. Japan had lost the war, and was placed under the control of the Allied Powers, led by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, American General Douglas MacArthur. The Americans, thinking of the positive impact that DST has had in the US, thought the Japanese would welcome an extra hour of daylight in the summer evenings. They didn’t.
According to historian John Dower, in his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, the immediate post-war years were miserable ones of loss, destitution and despair. Bringing on the night, and retreating to the shadows as soon as possible, was preferable apparently.
It was also in 1948 that lingering exhaustion in the general population translated into widespread popular criticism of one of the occupation’s most minor innovations, the introduction of American-style daylight savings time. Called sanmo taimu (“summer time”) in the marvelous new pidgin terminology of the moment, setting the clock forward an hour was opposed on the grounds that it simply extended the difficulty of “daily” life. People preferred that darkness come earlier, although they did not succeed in getting daylight savings time repealed until September 1951.
When it became known this year that daylight saving time was being considered by the government to deal with the summer heat issues during the upcoming Olympics, the reaction was generally negative. The recommendation being discussed was a two-hour shift ahead, and the fears of even longer working hours filled the air, according to Reuters.
Economists said the measure’s impact on behavior could be mixed. “If people start working two hours early and finish two hours early, consumer spending is expected to rise,” said Toshihiro Nagahama, executive chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute. “But given the labor shortage, the end of working time may not change and people may still work longer hours.”
That was the biggest fear on social media, where the topic was one of Monday’s hottest and worries ranged from having to reprogram computers to losing sleep. “It’s way too easy to imagine that we’ll start work two hours earlier and finish the same in the dark, meaning long days,” wrote one.
August 27, 2018 Economics, Environment, health, Olympics, Other Olympics, Social Issues, Tokyo 2020
Bill Bowerman, Rancho Rajneesh and the Constitutional Conflict: Netflix’s “Wild Wild Country” Tells the Tantalizing Tale of Rajneeshpuram
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh drives one of his Roll-Royces as Ma Anand Sheela walks alongside in this photo from The Oregonian archives.
He was a war hero in the Second World War, coming home to Oregon with a Silver Star and four Bronze Stars. He was one of the greatest track and field coaches of the 20th century – coaching his University of Oregon track and field teams to four NCAA titles, and over 30 Olympians. He would go on to co-found a company that would possess one of the greatest brands today – Nike.
Bill Bowerman was a giant in the world of sports.
And has been revealed in an amazing Netflix documentary series – Wild Wild Country – he was also an activist, standing tall in the face of a religious commune that tried to buy and build its way into a quiet farming and ranching community in central Oregon.
In 1981, a 64,000 acre plot of land called the Big Muddy Ranch was sold to an organization affiliated with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the leader of a religious movement founded in Pune, India. The organizers, led by charismatic secretary to the Bhagwan, Ma Anand Sheela, informed Margaret Hill, the mayor of Antelope, the closest town to Big Muddy Ranch, that the commune would have no more than 40 people employed on the ranch.
But in just a few years, the Rajneeshee’s built a small town literally from the ground up. According to the book, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon, by Kenny Moore, a growing group of red-clad sannyasin (followers) cleared 3,000 acres of Big Muddy, grew fruit, wheat and vegetables, raised cows and chickens, built a dam, a 40-acre reservoir and an irrigation system, a power sub-station, a sewage system, a phone system, a runway for their airplanes, and a transportation system of 85 school buses.
True, they used 50 million dollars in contributions from its 200,000 worldwide followers, but their Rancho Rajneesh was a labor of love for the sannyasin, and an incredible achievement. And so proud were they about their creation, they were willing to fight to keep it.
However, the Oregonians living near and around Rancho Rajneesh were concerned about the strange religious “cult” that had invaded their quiet part of the world. Bowerman’s son, Jon, owned land bordering on Rancho Rajneesh. And over time, the Rajneeshee’s would ensure their safety by beefing up their security.
“They had armed guards watching us here constantly,” Jon would recall, “with big spotting scopes by day, searchlights by night. It was like being watched by the East German border guard in Berlin. The lights were as bright as 747 landing lights, and periodically they would shine them at our house.”
Bill Bowerman
At first stunned at the scale of Rancho Rajneesh, and the brashness of their denizens, local citizens began to push back. Bill Bowerman, who was constantly in conversation with state and local authorities regarding the ongoings of the Rajneeshpuram, decided to form a non-profit organization, Citizens for Constitutional Cities, that raised funds to legally oppose the Rajneeshees. In his press release, he laid down the gauntlet.
My ancestors have lived in Oregon since 1845. My son Jon is a rancher in Wheeler County. Bowermans past, present, and future are deeply committed to this state. Thousands like me have become concerned about the effect this group has had on its neighbors. As an educator and coach at the University of Oregon, I have always welcomed and encouraged new ideas and diverse people to come and live in this great state, irrespective of race, creed, national origin, or religion.
Citizens for Constitutional Cities is going to monitor the activities of the Rajneeshee and challenge them in court if necessary to avoid the creation of unlawful cities in this state and protect our citizens from harassment and intimidation in violation of Oregon and United States Constitutions.
In the statement, Bowerman includes phrasing to diminish the idea that his organization was about religious discrimination, which the Rajneeshee’s claimed was the case.
As the documentary powerfully shows, the bigger issues may have been attempts by certain leaders within the Rajneeshees to win power in local municipalities in order to ensure their legal status as a city. According to the documentary, their tactics included importing people (primarily homeless people from across America) to vote on their behalf, harassment, mass poisoning, and attempted murder.
In the end, the Rajneeshees failed to convince the authorities that they were victims of religious discrimination. On the contrary, they were found to have violated the US Constitution’s directive to ensure separation of “Church and State,” as the incorporated entity of Rancho Rajneesh did not appear to clearly separate government leadership from religious leadership.
Bowerman was in the middle of this constitutional fight, and as he had done his entire life, he won.
I heavily encourage you to watch Wild, Wild Country.
April 29, 2018 Environment, Geo-politics, Olympics, Pop Culture, security, Social Issues
A Tale of Two Dams: How the 1988 Seoul Olympics Sparked a Competition to Build Big Walls Near the Border
Google Maps view of the DMZ
It was 1986. Preparations were under way for South Korea’s coming-out party – The 1988 Seoul Olympics. And on the other side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), North Korean began preparations of their own, breaking ground for a dam to be built on the Bukhan River, a short 19 kilometers from the border. Completed in 2003, it is called the Imnam Dam.
Perhaps fears of North Korean terrorism during the South Korean Olympics were top of mind for South Koreans, so they began to imagine the worst. As the New York Times explained in an article in 2007, then President Chun Do-hwan did imagine a scary scenario – the new dam in the North producing a monstrous flood, pounding waters headed straight for the South.
In response to the so-called water-bomb scare, South Korean television networks broadcast artists’ conceptions of monstrous walls of water unleashed from the North Korean dam, wiping out most of Seoul, 120 miles downstream, with the impact of a nuclear explosion during the Olympics.
A year later, in 1987, the fears were too hard to resist, and the South Korean government gave the green light to their own dam project, today called the Peace Dam. Located about 16 kilometers from the border to the north, the Peace Dam took a while to build, and in fact was finally completed in 2005, seven years after the Seoul Olympics. But it stands today, 125 meters high and 600 meters wide. There is actually no reservoir at the Peace Dam. Its sole purpose is to be peace of mind – a wall just in case the feared flood from the North ever comes racing down the Bukhan River – peace of mind in this case that cost USD429 million.
Peace Dam in South Korea
It actually seems like a bit of expensive folly, and to be fair, the South Korean government suspended construction work on the dam after a few years. But when satellite photos apparently showed signs of cracks in the Imnam Dam in the North, fears of the deluge arose anew in the imaginations of the leaders. Work resumed, and the Peace Dam was finished.
Actually, it is another dam in North Korea that is causing grief – The Hwanggang Dam on the Imjin River, which is 42 kilometers from the DMZ. Over the past several years, there have been 8 cases where North Korean officials released massive amounts of water, causing significant flooding in South Korea. It’s not the “nuclear explosion” impact that was feared in the 1980s, and yet 6 South Koreans were killed when water was released from the Hwanggang Dam in September 2009.
The South and the North have an agreement that the North would provide notice to the South when they intend to release dam waters, commonly after significant rainfall, but in practice, the North Koreans rarely do.
In the end, should they have bothered building the Peace Dam? I guess one could say that they were dam-ed if they did, and dam-end if they didn’t.
“Like the two Koreas, the two dams are twin brothers, born at the same time, facing each other across DMZ,” said Lee Tae-ik, an official at Korea Water Resources Corporation, which maintains the South Korean dam. “The Peace Dam is an inevitable child of a divided nation.”
January 23, 2018 Environment, Geo-politics, Olympics, security
Eero Mantyranta: The Ruddy Cheeks and the Genetic Advantange of a Cross Country Skiing Legend from Finland
There were whispers.
The four-time Olympian and 7-time medalist in cross-country skiing, including three gold medals, Eero Mantyranta of Lankojarvi, Finland was a legend in his country and his sport. But he could not outrace the rumors of blood doping when he competed.
As a child, everyone in Lankojarvi skated and skied, but Mantyranta excelled, winning his first cross-country ski race at the age of 7, and then dominating all takers into his early teens. Eventually he was able to find employment as a border patrol guard, who got around his territory on skis. As a twenty-year old, he made the Olympic squad that traveled to Squaw Valley, California for the 1960 Winter Games, snagging a gold medal in the 4x10km cross-country ski event.
Four years later at Innsbruck, Austria, Mantyranta was one of the Games’ stars, taking two more golds in the 15 and 30-km races, as well as a silver medal in the 4x10km relay. And in his third Olympics, Mantyranta tool home a silver and two bronze medals.
All that success only encouraged the rumors. After all, it was known since he was a teenager that Mantyranta had “high hemoglobin and far more than the usual amount of red blood cells,” according to David Epstein, author of the fascinating book, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. “Normally, those are signs that an endurance athlete is blood doping, often with a synthetic version of the hormone erythropoietin, or EPO. EPO signals the body to produce red blood cells, so injecting it spurs an athlete’s own body to bolster its blood supply.”
But also according to Epstein, the rumors were untrue.
First there were indications that other members of the Mantyranta family also rested for high levels of hemoglobin, but because there were little ill effects from higher-than-average hemoglobin levels, doctors were never concerned. But this coincidence made hematologists from Finland wonder. After putting the Finnish Olympian through additional blood testing, it was learned that in fact Eero Mantyranta had very low levels of EPO, and that when most people stopped producing hemoglobin based on what the body considered enough, Mantyranta’s body was genetically designed to continuouisly pump out hemoglobin.
And more hemoglobin meant not only very ruddy cheeks. It also meant high levels of oxygen circulated inside Mantyranta, a significant advantage that allowed him to ski faster and longer than almost every other cross-country skier. Most certainly, Mantyranta’s singular drive to train and increase his performance as a cross-country competitor was essential to his Olympic success. But most certainly, so was this genetic advantage.
Here’s how Epstein remembered Mantyranta in this obituary, when the great cross country skier passed away in 2013.
Being born with talent is one thing; alchemizing it into Olympic gold entirely another. And though I drew attention to Eero’s startling biology, that’s worth remembering as well. I’ll remember Eero the way he was when I met him. A jovial and remarkable-looking man, with dark, slicked-back hair and prominent cheekbones that seemed to pull at the corners of his mouth, giving him a slightly inquisitive look. There was a thickness about him, a barrel chest and bulbous nose. I remember when he shook my hand, I felt as if he could’ve crushed my fingers, and I noticed that his middle finger was bent at a right angle from the top joint. He spent the brief period of Arctic winter sunlight that day working in his reindeer yard. I thought he must have been the strongest seventy-three year old I had ever met. That’s how I’ll remember him.
January 22, 2018 Doping, Environment, health, Olympics, Other Olympics, Others, Winter Sports
The Transformation of Akasaka Mitsuke in 1964 – Where I Work Today
In 1959, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government approved a plan to build a complex network of highways and roads, with a completion date of August, 1964 – in time for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
As it turns out, four of the eight main expressways planned for were completed by the Tokyo Olympics opening day, one of them being expressway no. 4, also known as the Shinjuku Shuto Expressway. One part of that expressway passes through Akasaka Mitsuke, which is near a new office called Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, where I work today. For those who know, it is the site of the old Akasaka Prince Hotel, across the street from The New Otani Hotel.
As you can see above, in this photo from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Report on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, prior to the commencement of construction, probably around 1960, traffic wasn’t bad, and there were no tall buildings like the Moto Akasaka building to block the view of the greenery of Togu Palace, the official residence of the Crown Prince.
In the next picture, in 1964, you can see the new highway go up Sotobori Doori, and veer right, heading East along Aoyama Doori. It appears that quite a few buildings were torn down along Aoyama Doori to make way for the expressway.
The expressways in Tokyo – symbols of progress in those heady happy days of 1964.
January 16, 2018 Business, Economics, Environment, Japan, Olympics, Tokyo 1964
Musashino Forest Sports Plaza: First of the New Permanent Tokyo 2020 Venues
Musashino Forest Sports Plaza on the left, and Ajinomoto Stadium on the right
It was a cold and desolate Sunday when I walked around the grounds of the new Musashino Forest Sports Plaza. Located a short walk away from Tobitakyu Station on the Keio Line, the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza is right next to Ajinomoto Stadium, the home of the J-League Division 1 soccer team, F. C. Tokyo.
There were no events scheduled at either the Sports Plaza of Ajinomoto Stadium on the January afternoon I visited, but come July 2020, this quiet area of Chofu, very near the American School in Japan where my son went to high school, will be filled with thousands of noisy fans. The Musashino Forest Sports Plaza opened on November 27, 2017, the first of eight new permanent Tokyo 2020 venues to be completed. The Plaza will host badminton and pentathlon fencing in the 2020 Olympics, as well as wheelchair basketball during the 2020 Paralympics.
View of the Main Arena on the left background, the sub-arena with its pool and gym on the right background, with a track and field in the foreground.
According to this article, the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza is built to serve the community long after the Olympics end. The facilities include a swimming pool, a gym, a multi-use sports area and two fitness studios which are available to the public. The roof of the facilities are made up of solar panels, to help provide a more sustainable energy source.
Main Arena and its solar panel roof
And in line with Tokyo2020 Accessibility Guidelines, “the facility designed to be accessible to all, including the elderly, people with impairments, parents with infant strollers and those with guide dogs. The main arena has space for wheelchairs, and the space is designed with enough height difference between the rows of seating to ensure that those in wheelchairs can see clearly, even if spectators in front of them stand up.”
Ajinomoto Stadium will also host matches in the soccer competition during Tokyo 2020, and will be called Tokyo Stadium during the Olympics in accordance with its non-commercialization policy.
January 11, 2018 Economics, Environment, Field Sports, Japan, Olympics, Paralympics, Tokyo 2020, Track and FIeld
In This, the Year of the Dog, Is Eating Dog Worse than Eating Cow?
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If you’re following the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics on Twitter, you can’t avoid the tweets on calls to boycott the 2018 Winter Games in support of a ban on the eating of dog meat in Korea. Certainly, as 2018 just happens to be The Year of the Dog in the Asian zodiac timeframe, and the Winter Olympics are in South Korea this year, this is an opportune time to protest the consumption of dog meat.
Over the past two millenia, gaegogi, or dog meat, has been consumed in Korea, as well as China and Vietnam. Wikipedia cites an article that states 25 million dogs are eaten each year by humans. I have never tried dog meat, or cat meat for that matter, which is also consumed by humans to lesser degrees, primarily in Asia.
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But I have had horse meat, a popular delicacy in Japan. It’s called basashi, served raw like sashimi, and it is delicious. But friends who had never in their life had the thought of eating horse would probably outwardly protest, or inwardly recoil upon hearing that horse was a highlight of Japanese cuisine.
Basashi, or raw horse meat, a popular dish in Japan.
There are quite a few commentaries on the internet on this topic – the idea that eating animals viewed first as pets and friends is abhorrent, while eating animals viewed first as food is not even a passing thought for most people (vegans and animal activists excluded).
Why is that? Jared Piazza, a lecturer in moral psychology from Lancaster University commented about the terrible ways dogs are slaughtered for human consumption, and the ambivalence it creates in many:
I too find myself heartbroken by these images. But as a vegan I find myself wondering why isn’t there more outrage in the world over the slaughter of other animals. For instance, each year in the US roughly 110m pigs are killed for meat. Where is the same public outcry over bacon?
The simple answer is emotional prejudice. We just don’t care enough about pigs for their needless suffering to pull at our heartstrings. As Melanie Joy, social psychologist and expert on “carnism” points out, we love dogs, yet we eat pigs, and there are simply no good moral reasons for such hypocrisy.
However this belief really just reflects the fact that people spend more time getting to know dogs than pigs. Many people have dogs as pets and through this relationship with dogs we’ve come to learn about them and care deeply for them. But are dogs really that different from other animals we eat?
Dr. Marc Bekoff wrote in Psychology Today explained that our feelings towards animals slaughtered so they can become pork chops or hamburger or chicken soup are muted since these animals are “out of sight, out of mind” for many of us.
In my essay concerning eating pigs I wrote, “When some people learn that I go to China to work with Animals Asia in their moon bear rescue program (link is external) (see also) they ask, ‘How can you go there, that’s where they eat dogs and cats?’ I simply say that I just left the United States where people routinely eat pigs, cows, chickens, and millions of other sentient beings.” Why is eating dogs different from eating cows and pigs at a barbecue or in a restaurant? For one, we don’t see the actual painful process of how pigs and cows become meals.
In the end, is the debate about whether people eat dog or cat meat? Or is it about whether we care how we treat animals raised for human consumption? Do many of us prefer to keep such images out of sight, out of mind? (Yes, I struggle with the non-committal nature of this post’s conclusion.)
January 8, 2018 Environment, health, Japan, Olympics, Pop Culture, Social Issues
Happy Year of the Dog! PyeongChang Hoping to Catch Some Lillehammer Magic
Lillehammer Norway
It’s 2018! So it’s Year of the Dog.
And according to the Chinese Zodiac, there are five different cycles of Dog Years. This year is the Earth Dog, which in theory, means that people born in 2018 (or 1958), are “communicative, serious, and responsible in work.”
With the coming 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, this is actually only the third time an Olympics will have been held in the Year of the Dog. Twelve years ago, the Olympics were held in Torino, Italy in 2007, and twenty-four years ago, the Winter Games were held in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994 (Year of the Wood Dog). That was the first time the Winter Games were held in a year different from the Summer Olympics.
One similarity between PyeongChang and Lillehammer – both are cities of tiny populations: 27,400 in Lillehammer and 43,600 in PyeongChang. The PyeongChang Olympic Organizing Committee can only hope that the similarities don’t stop there as the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics are considered one of the best ever. Costs were not astronomic. Security wasn’t paramount. And the Olympics were welcomed by the local folk.
As ESPN writer, Jim Caple, wrote in an article called “How Lillehammer Set the Standard,” Norway put on a great show. “The 1994 Games likely were the greatest Winter Olympics ever.”
American speed skater, Dan Jansen, agreed with that sentiment:
The whole experience, not just my experience, but the whole Winter Games themselves in that specific city, were as good as they can be. Just because the people were so proud to host the Games. Winter sports are a way of life there, and it really showed in the way they put the Games on and the attitudes of the people. I don’t want to say they were better than any other, but the way a lot of those stories unfolded, it was certainly hard to compare any Games after that, with all those stories in one Olympics. Every story [every Olympics] is important, but it all just seemed to come together.
And years later, citizens of Lillehammer appear to appreciate their connection to and the impact of the 1994 Olympics. As this post in the blog, Life in Norway, posits, Norwegians enjoy the fruits of the Olympic legacy.
These days, many visitors see Lillehammer as a quiet town. I sure did when I first visited in 2012, as the town centre was almost deserted on a Saturday morning. But it didn’t take long to realise it was because the locals spend their precious leisure time in the mountains, taking advantage of the facilities very few towns of its size are blessed with. Local children zoom around the Olympic arena on sledges and skis, perhaps dreaming of their own future Olympic glory.
May 2018, the Year of the Dog, be a wonderful year for the organizers, the fans and the athletes of the PyeongChang Olympics.
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HomeWORLDWIDEARTS & CULTUREMusic & Arts“In the Spirit” preview-Kahil El’Zabar and David Murray on tour for Black Music Month
“In the Spirit” preview-Kahil El’Zabar and David Murray on tour for Black Music Month
May 14, 2019 Debra Davy Music & Arts 0
Kahil El'Zabar and David Murray; photo courtesy of the artists
The Legendary Murray/El’Zabar Duo!
These two modern music masters have been at the forefront of creative exploration and compositional diversity over the past four decades. Murray and El’Zabar are recognized by their peers to be consummate virtuosos who produce ingenious interpretations that take their place within the history and future of Great Black Music!
Sir Kahil El’Zabar, conductor, composer, percussionist, is revered globally as a cultural visionary and an innovative music conceptualist. He has recorded more than 60 acclaimed projects, most recently releasing Be Known: Ancient Future Music with his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble through Spiritmuse Records.
Sir Kahil El’Zabar; photo by Bill Tucker
El’Zabar, an educator and collaborationist/impresario, who holds a PHD in Interdisciplinary Arts from Lake Forest College, has worked with such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Cannon Ball Adderly, Archie Shepp, Paul Simon, Lester Bowie, Nona Hendryx, Kurt Elling, Billy Bang, Eddie Harris, Neneh Cherry, Henry Threadgill, Roy Ayers, and David Murray. In May 2014, El’Zabar was Knighted by the Council General of France for services to the French Government in a 14 year Artist-In-Residency.
David Murray is one of the most recorded musicians in the history of jazz, with well over 200 celebrated projects. One of the founding members of the World Saxophone Quartet, the renowned saxophonist has worked with greats like Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, McCoy Tyner, Lester Bowie, Hamiet Bluiett, Jerry Garcia, Max Roach, Amiri Baraka, Randy Weston and Fred Hopkins and is currently working with Macy Gray as part of his David Murray Big Band. In 2012, David Murray received an Honorary Doctorate Of Music Degree from Pomona College. He has won numerous awards over his vastly successful career including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Grammy Award for the Best Jazz Instrumental Group Performance, for his Tribute to John Coltrane.
Selected Tracks featuring Kahil El’zabar and David Murray:
The Ebullient Duke– https://youtu.be/Du6KklGKjHA
Meditation for the Celestial Warriors– https://youtu.be/-YDTED9ZEFI
One World Family – https://youtu.be/-YDTED9ZJune EFI
Kahil El’Zabar, percussion, and David Murray, saxophone
This reviewer was able to interview El’Zabar at length and to speak with David Murray about the upcoming tour and their longstanding partnership. Mused El’Zabar, “The title for our June 2019, Black Music Month Tour is In The Spirit. David Murray and I both feel strongly about the importance of metaphysical phenomena, and how it can be expressed and experienced through the performance of creative music.
Both Mr. Murray and I have dedicated decades of study and research to the development of our sound and musical vocabulary. When we come together and play this music, our intention is to inspire one another to go beyond any provincial formulas into an enlightened space of creative music-making. We call this way of being in the music In The Spirit!”
When asked about the specific music for the upcoming tour, he said, “We will both keep working on our set list over the next couple of weeks; we regularly get on the phone and talk about our compositions and the desired approach. We also talk about the aspirations of the sound we would like to achieve as an ensemble, and how we feel about which instrument to use on certain compositions; we are both multi-instrumentalists.”
Regarding their unique sound, he stated, “David and I take great pride in our ability to share with an audience an extremely diverse and engaging repertoire. We have such a big sound despite being only two musicians onstage!”
Reflecting on their much-lauded ability to deviate from traditional patterns, El’Zabar acknowledged, “We never play a song or composition exactly the same way. Improvisation is at the core of our mission; we use our own compositions as well as other composers’ works to discover new approaches and openings in the music. There is a distinct balance that we strive for in the adherence of structure within the rhythmic, harmonic, chordal, melodic, and modal sensibilities of each piece, and also in the way we deconstruct our approach to each composition to find epiphany through the journey of improvisation.”
The lauded humanitarian waxed enthusiastic about his colleague, saying, “I believe and trust in the desire and hunger that David Murray and I both have for playing music. We inspire one another tremendously. Mr. Murray is truly one the greatest tenor saxophonists ever! I am confident and thankful of my abilities upon my instruments, and the connection between us brings out the best in both of us.
We have been performing as a duo for more than 40 years! I feel strongly that the passion and courage it takes to create and perform this music is a fraternal bond that David Murray and I share. It feels so good when David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar are In The Spirit!”
David Murray; photo by Fabrice Monteiro
It’s been written that David Murray, saxophonist, and percussionist Kahil El’Zabar “provide a crucial thread between jazz musicians who exploded the genre through bop and avant garde experiments and the current generation”. Indeed, Murray has been quoted as saying “I feel like the missing link sometimes… I knew a lot of the older cats that none of these younger cats today would ever have been able to meet.” Murray describes the musical bond with El’Zabar as “a stream of consciousness. We create spirituality-based original sounds and within each tune one can find many songs”.
About the extraordinary shaping of melodies they perform, Murray said, “Improvisation is taking care of other people’s ears and their feelings. The audience, those in front of us as we perform, want to be satisfied sonically and have a need to be soothed. Our music will do that; it’s a channel into the brain and the heart”.
In The Spirit! 2019 Tour Dates:
June 2: Chicago, Illinois, The Promontory.
June 4: Cleveland, Ohio Night Town.
June 5: Grand Rapids, Michigan Tip Top Deluxe Bar.
June 8: Cincinnati, Ohio, The Jazz Loft.
June 9: Erie, Pennsylvania, Artlore Gallery.
June 11: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gardenalia
June 12: Northhampton, Massachusetts, Golden Triangle.
June 13: Boston, Massachusetts, Outpost.
June 14: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ars Nova.
June 15: Atlanta, Georgia, Gallery 992
June 16: Washington, DC, Rhzome.
June18: Baltimore, Maryland, Andie Musik.
June 19: Burlington, Vermont, Radio Bean.
June 20: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sal la Rosa.
June 21: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Remix Lounge.
June 22: Detroit, Michiagan, Nnamdi Art Center
June 23: Los Angeles, California, David Kordansky Gallery
June 24: Los Angeles, California, Private Home
June 25: San Luis Obispo, California, 4 Cats Café and Gallery
June 27: San Diego, California, WorldBeat Cultural Center
June 28: Santa Monica, California, Moss Theater
June 29: Oakland, California, East Side Arts
June 30: Berkeley, California, Back Room Music
July 1: San Francisco, California: Bird and Beckett
David Murray on tenor sax and Kahil El’Zabar on trap kit; photo courtesy of the artists
For information and tickets, contact individual locations by website or telephone
Kahil El'Zabar
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Improvised Jazz Review- Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at Millennium Park
June 24, 2018 Debra Davy Music & Arts 0
On Monday, June 18, 2018, renowned Chicago-born percussionist/vocalist Kahil El’Zabar and his 45th Anniversary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, featuring David Murray, tenor sax extraordinaire; Corey Wilkes, trumpet virtuoso; and Ian Maksin, a classically-trained and intuitively graceful cellist, opened […]
Intuitive Music From the Inside Out Review- Fulcrum Point at 20 hosts a weekend of improvisation
June 6, 2018 Debra Davy Music & Arts 0
On June 1, 2018, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, celebrating it’s 20th anniversary season, presented an unprecedented gathering of 10 globally renowned musicians at The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. in Hyde Park for a rousing […]
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New Parent Prods Xylan To Reset Government Goals
Alcatel's proposed $2 billion acquisition of Xylan Corp. gives the networking company new punch in the federal market as it tries to expand, increase support services and compete with giants like Cisco, Lucent and 3Com, company officials said.
Xylan of Calabasas, Calif., which has a federal office in Rockville, Md., plans to use Alcatel's bulk first to grow its networking business with the Air Force, NASA and the Energy Department, said Brett Michaels, Xylan's vice president of federal sales.
"They have the finances and worldwide support infrastructure to guarantee to the government we can take on any project," Michaels said.
Just compare Xylan's 950 employees and $1.5 billion market value to Paris-based Alcatel's work force of nearly 200,000 and market cap of $21 billion.
Xylan already is resetting its government goals. The company's federal division, which had $43 million in sales last year and expected to double it in 1999, is now pushing for a bit more, said Michaels.
"We see tremendous opportunity because of the size of Alcatel and the strength they bring to market," he said. No specific revenue goal has been set.
"Xylan is a key part of Alcatel's plan to meet a variety of customer needs for next generation networks," said Amy Morenz, Alcatel's press officer. In fact, Alcatel has formed a new Internet division aimed at leading the company's network strategy, Morenz said.
The division will be headed by Martin de Prycker, formerly director of Alcatel's network strategy. Details such as where the division will be based or how Xylan fits into it have not been finalized.
Co-founded in 1993 by Steve Kim, now chairman and chief executive, and three partners, Xylan makes data networking switches. These devices act like traffic lights on the information highway, sending data such as e-mail to the right places. When Kim started the company, he bet switches would soon replace routers as the most efficient means of directing traffic in local area networks because they are faster and less expensive. His gamble paid off.
The Xylan acquisition, which was announced March 2 and is expected to close in April, is part of a trend driving telecommunications and networking companies together. Customers no longer want separate lines for telephones and data networks. Instead video, voice and data links are converging, and companies like Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., are bulking up to capture market share.
In January, Lucent announced plans to buy Ascend Communications Inc. for $20 billion. In August, Northern Telecom Ltd. bought Bay Networks Inc. for $9.1 billion. Cisco has bought more than 25 companies since 1993. And two days after Alcatel announced it was buying Xylan, it signed an agreement to buy Assured Access Technology Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., for $350 million. Assured makes networking products used to send voice and data over the Internet.
"Everybody has to figure out how they're going to compete against Cisco and Lucent," said James Wade, an equity analyst at BT Alex. Brown Inc. in Baltimore. "In that world, size matters."
Though Xylan grew fast revenue zipped from $443,000 in 1994 to $348 million in 1998 it always has been a small fish in a big pond. Consider market leader Cisco, which posted sales of $8.5 billion last year and has a market value of $155 billion.
Xylan has more than 4,000 commercial and government customers, including Alcatel, IBM Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., the Navy and the Army. Government revenues are 12 percent of total sales.
For the last two years, Xylan has grown 65 percent annually, outpacing the data networking market, company officials said. The market for networking switches has grown from $83 million in 1993 to a projected $7.9 billion last year, according to the Dell'Oro Group, a Portola Valley, Calif., consulting company.
Despite its growth, Xylan needed a partner to compete in today's consolidating market, company officials said.
"It became clear that, to be a major player, we'd need to be part of a larger company, someone that's a leader in the voice industry," said Douglas Hill, Xylan's vice president of corporate marketing.
Analysts agreed. "They've done an outstanding job competing against Cisco. But as the stakes get a little higher, the issues get a little bigger," said Paul Johnson, an analyst at BankBoston Robertson Stephens in Boston.
Strong performance has not kept the stock from being shaky. In 1996, Xylan issued stock in a follow-on offering at $54 a share. Last year, shares hit a low of $9.62.
Analysts say several factors have hurt Xylan's stock price. First, Xylan is a technology company with a small capitalization in a volatile market, said Wade of BT Alex. Brown. The lagging share price also can be attributed to competing with and being compared to market leader Cisco, as well as occasionally missing analysts' expectations.
But the acquisition will yield a nice payday for investors. Xylan was trading around $20 a share before Alcatel came and offered to pay $37 each for all outstanding shares, a premium nearly twice Xylan's market value at the time. The stock quickly jumped to $36 a share. Alcatel owned nearly 7 percent of Xylan's stock before the acquisition.
Under the deal, Xylan will keep its brand name and function as a wholly owned subsidiary. No layoffs are expected, and Kim will continue as chairman and chief executive, said Hill.
So far, the only changes are Xylan's revenue goals. Alcatel expects Xylan to be a $1 billion company by 2001, Hill said.
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Aquafornia news July 22, 2013
Aquifer: Aquafornia’s Water Word of the Week
Aquifer: Aquafornia debuts its new Weekend Wrap-up feature called “Water Word of the Week” with a word that coincidentally begins with the first letter of the alphabet.
A search on Water Education Foundation’s new site Aquapedia, a free online water encyclopedia, defines aquifers as “an unseen but critical resource in California’s water supply system. These natural basins that sit below the surface are found underneath 40 percent of California’s land area.” Along with the definition are diagrams and sections titled Aquifer Overview and Aquifer Challenges. (photo: Great Basin National Park has a regional aquifer system.)
Another online source of general reference information is “Aquifer Basics” from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The website also includes a listing of principal aquifers such as the California Central Valley aquifer system and Coastal Basin aquifers.
Making headlines recently due to drought in the Southwest has been the Ogallala Aquifer, which encompasses 174,000 square miles underneath parts of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas). Author Marc Reisner wrote about it in “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water,” published in 1986. In July 2013, NBC Learn produced a YouTube video featuring an overview, background and a wide-range of interviews about the Ogallala Aquifer.
For a better understanding of aquifers, read Western Water (May/Jun 2011) titled “Preserving Quantity and Quality: Groundwater Management in California.” “In California’s basins, groundwater occurs in aquifer systems composed of clay, silt, sand and gravel,” Gary Pitzer wrote. “The sand and gravel provide water to wells.”
Also, a USGS study published in May 2013 addresses the nation’s aquifers.
Aquafornia News & Exclusives
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Commitment to Cubs pays off for Rothschild
Jeff Vorva
When the Cubs invited Larry Rothschild back for another year after Dusty Baker and the rest of the 2006 coaching staff were whacked, some fans were outraged. Rothschild was even booed at the Cubs Convention earlier this year. But it’s been all worth it for him now that the Cubs have qualified for the postseason for the first time since 2003.
After Jim Leyland was hired to manage the Detroit Tigers before the 2006 season, Cubs pitching coach Larry Rothschild had a chance to join his pal in Detroit and ink a multiyear deal.
They would have been reunited for the first time since pairing up to help the Florida Marlins win the World Series in 1997. But Rothschild declined, signing a one-year deal with the Cubs for less money.
Detroit became the darling of baseball and a surprise entrant in the World Series in ’06, while the underachieving Cubs finished in last place. Two of Rothschild’s prize pupils, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, again had numerous injury problems, and fans and media members torched Rothschild.
When the Cubs invited the former Homewood-Flossmoor High School standout back for another year after Dusty Baker and the rest of the 2006 coaching staff were whacked, some fans were outraged. Rothschild was even booed at the Cubs Convention earlier this year.
But it’s been all worth it for him now that the Cubs have qualified for the postseason for the first time since 2003. (The Tigers, by the way, will sit this one out.)
Still, it would be understandable if Rothschild had been banging his head on a wall and kicking himself last year for not accepting the Tigers gig.
“I’m human, so there were a few times when I thought, ‘What did you do?’” said Rothschild, who pitched in seven games for the Tigers over the 1981-82 seasons. “I thought it might not have been the greatest decision, but you step back and look back at the reasons you made it.”
Some of those reasons:
“Overall, I’m from Chicago, and you go to Wrigley Field and it’s a special place to go even though the times weren’t good,” he said. “I had been there in ’03 and a lot of ’04 when the times were good. I know what it could be and the possibilities.
“The one thing I’ve said all along is to get it done here (winning a World Series) would be as special -- the most special thing you could ever have in your sports life professionally. It’s such a unique situation. You can’t replicate it anywhere. It’s something that at the end of your days – it would be a great memory to have. That’s what you look at. It would be unbelievable for the city of Chicago. I kept my focus on that as much as I could.”
Rothschild, in his sixth season as Cubs pitching coach, lives in Tampa, Fla., during the offseason but is happy to spend his summers in Chicago. In recent weeks, he’s been able to tend to important family matters. And he enjoys keeping up with old friendships.
“I still have a lot of friends in the area,” he said. “I have some childhood friends who I am still close with and I stay in touch with. I love Chicago. If we didn’t have the kids settled in, we would move back here.”
During the offseason, he needed all the friends he could get. As the only holdover from a staff that had overseen two straight sub par seasons, he took some heat. But he chose to remember the good things about his career rather than let some bad seasons bring him down.
“Again, being human, I have some feelings about it -- you wouldn’t be human if you didn’t,” Rothschild said. “But people get frustrated. I understand the business end of it. I understand how it’s changed as well over the years.
“You have to understand that there are so many great things that happened to me in this game. When things aren’t great, it’s kind of ridiculous to focus on the fact that you’re getting criticized.
“I’ve got two World Series rings. For me to look at a losing season and say ‘Wow, how could I go through that?’ How many people have a chance to be in two World Series? I don’t care what happens to me throughout my career, I’ve been pretty fortunate. I really have been. It’s a wild ride, but it’s been a pretty good ride.”
In coming back this season, Rothschild was also reuniting with Cubs manager Lou Piniella. Rothschild was Cincinnati’s bullpen coach in 1990 when Piniella managed the Reds to the World Series crown.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry defended the rehiring of the 53-year-old Rothschild all offseason, and the move has paid off.
This year, Rothschild has had a hand in helping change Jason Marquis from a 14-16 pitcher with a 6.02 ERA in 2006 to a hurler with a 12-8 mark and a 4.60 ERA. Carlos Zambrano’s 18 wins are a career high, and Ted Lilly (15-8, .652) had the best winning percentage of his big-league career.
“Larry’s been one of the best pitching coaches in baseball for a long time now,” Hendry said. “Jim Leyland offered him almost twice as much money to go to Detroit than to stay here. I give Larry a lot of credit for seeing it through and wanting to stay. He was never the root of any problem.
“It (criticism) comes with the territory. When it doesn’t go well, it’s easy to play ‘pile on.’ I’m happy for Larry because he hasn’t changed a bit.”
But the attitude on this staff has. If Rothschild indeed gets his wish to win it all in Chicago, having a staff of hard-nosed pitchers will have played a part.
“I like the whole grittiness of the staff,” Rothschild said. “I like that characteristic in players, especially pitchers. They battled each and every day, which as a coach, that’s a nice thing to have.”
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New Zealand’s All Blacks Sevens Take to the Field with Singapore Students
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SINGAPORE, April 13, 2016 – New Zealand All Blacks Sevens players and 30 rugby players from the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) took to the field today, ahead of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series Singapore which kicks off on Saturday.
Organised by New Zealand Rugby sponsors AIG and Air New Zealand, the skills and drills session is part of both companies’ efforts to support the growth of rugby in Singapore and educate local players about how to stay safe on the field.
AIG Singapore’s Chief Executive, Mr Matt Harris, said, “It’s a fantastic opportunity for us to bring some of the world’s best rugby players to share their talents with budding sportsmen here in Singapore.
“The Rugby Sevens is returning to Singapore after a 10-year absence to expected large crowds, and it’s exciting to be involved in the rising popularity of rugby here through our partnership with the All Blacks teams.
“AIG is thrilled to support one of the fastest growing sports in Singapore with the training session, where a key priority for AIG is making the sport safer for the next generation of Singapore’s rugby players,” added Mr Harris.
Air New Zealand’s Manager of Sponsorship and Communities, Meghan Blair, said, “As an airline that is ‘Crazy About Rugby’, we are extremely proud to support the All Blacks Sevens and are delighted to be able to connect fans with the team in Singapore and around the world. This is the first training event we have held in Singapore and we hope to be able to bring more special events and initiatives like this one to the local fans and sporting community here.”
As part of the training session, students from Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) were put through their paces on the field, and had the opportunity to get their questions answered by All Blacks Sevens players Kurt Baker, Gillies Kaka, Antonio Kiri Kiri, Josh Van Lieshout, Isaac Te Aute, and Sione Molia.
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) Principal, Mr Winston Hodge, said that it was a great experience for the students to meet the All Blacks Sevens and hone their skills with the players.
“New Zealand is one of the world’s most successful rugby nations and many ACSians are passionate about the game. To have our students interact with professional athletes is an excellent way for them to develop themselves both on and off the field,” said Mr Hodge.
AIG and Air New Zealand are dedicated to growing rugby around the world through their partnerships with New Zealand Rugby. AIG is an official sponsor of the All Blacks, Māori All Blacks, All Blacks Sevens, the New Zealand Women’s Sevens team, the New Zealand Black Ferns and the New Zealand Under 20 team. Air New Zealand has been a long time sponsor of rugby in New Zealand for more than two decades, and is the Official Airline of the All Blacks and the All Blacks Sevens.
As an advocate of safer communities, AIG launched the AIG Rugby Safety Awards last year, which encouraged players and fans at all levels to share rugby safety tips via social media showing how they prepare for a safe rugby game.
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Politico Pulls A Playboy
New Media Musings From Dana Perino
The Media’s Modus Operandi On Global Warming
by K. Daniel Glover on June 3, 2009
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher knows a thing or two about media bias when it comes to the debate over global warming because he was a victim of the arrogant “settled science” argument recently on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews. Rohrabacher, R-Calif., appeared on the show with fellow Rep. James Moran, D-Va., and was immediately attacked by both the host and his House colleague.
“I’m inclined to ask him how he feels about the Earth revolving around the sun or whether, you know, smoking causes cancer,” Moran needled Rohrabacher at the end of his introductory comments. “These things have been resolved, Dana, by the best experts.”
Matthews took the condescension cue from Moran and posed his first question to Rohrabacher this way: “Congressman Rohrabacher, are you a Luddite, a Troglodyte? Are you a part of the “Planet Of The Apes” that doesn’t want science?”
That’s just the way I remember them teaching us to ask questions in journalism school. And it only got worse after that, with Matthews desperately trying to turn the discussion into a debate about Rohrabacher’s religious views on evolution.
Rohrabacher reflected on that experience yesterday at the Heartland Institute’s Third International Conference on Climate Change. “I brought very serious scientific issues, and they called me names,” he said of their “dishonest approach.”
That’s par for the “faulty science” course in the global warming debate, Rohrabacher said. Former Vice President Al Gore and others who warn that humans are causing the globe to get dangerously warm won’t entertain questions from critics and won’t give research money to scientists who disagree.
In an earlier presentation at the conference, University of Alabama at Huntsville research scientist Roy Spencer suggested that the media is complicit in pushing one perspective on global warming. He said he gets regular media calls for reaction to scientists espousing one view or another about global warming, but when his groundbreaking theory about cloud cover as a natural, cyclical cause of global warming was published in the Journal of Climate, no journalists called. No one covered the story.
He said colleagues have reported similar media silence when they find the rare outlet that will publish their work
“We have had a one-sided presentation being given to the American public” for 15 years, Rohrabacher said, and the result may be “draconian laws” that kill the American and global economies.
He called the push for costly regulations to cap carbon-dioxide emissions “the biggest power grab in the history of mankind” and the start to “an agenda that is just frightening.” Rohrabacher warned that the next logical step would be global regulation, including the possibility of international rules against frequent-flier miles because of the global-warming alarmists’ hostility toward air travel.
The last thing the world needs is for the United Nations to be given the power to regulate the climate, he said. “Half of their members are lunatics and crooks.”
Rohrabacher lauded the scientific experts at the conference for challenging the climate hysteria in recent years. He said “the tide has turned” in terms of public opinion because of vocal skeptics offering sound and convincing scientific evidence that contradicts the prevailing views about global warming.
He cited the alarmists’ intentional change in lingo from “global warming” to “climate change” as proof of success. “That is an admission that they were absolutely wrong.”
Rohrabacher lamented that many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill who oppose “cap and trade” legislation won’t fight it based on science and instead have opted to argue that the rules would be too costly. If global warming is a real threat, he said, then the country and the world should spend whatever money is necessary to combat it. But he said the science is wrong, and lawmakers need to make the case against cap and trade on those grounds.
He urged the experts who understand the science to continue speaking the truth loudly, “and eventually humankind will recognize it.”
K. Daniel Glover
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Address by the General Secretary of the C.C. of AKEL A. Kyprianou to the anti-fascist, anti-racist march on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 23 March 2019, Nicosia
On behalf of the C.C. of AKEL, I extend a warm greeting of solidarity to all immigrants and refugees living in Cyprus. I address a warm greeting to Cypriot and foreign workers who are waging together the struggle to make ends meet, and in the fight against racism and neo-fascism.
As far as AKEL is concerned, we are sending out clear messages every day. We repeat them on this day too. No immigrant, no “foreigner” is our enemy, but our fellow human beings. A simple and painfully true conversation was posted on social media on the pretext of the refugee question. It said “You are not a foreigner, you are poor. If you were rich you wouldn’t be a foreigner anywhere.”
Cyprus in 2019 confirms in the most tragic way this painful truth. If someone has money and can buy a luxury home or apartment, the government doesn’t just welcome him/her with open arms, but also grants a passport as well. If it is a poor refugee then they are hosted in facilities of dubious quality or handed vouchers for a family to survive and about 250 euros to rent a place to live. If one has money, then all doors are opened to you and you’re called an “investor,” if you don’t have money you’re labelled a “foreigner” – the first, biggest and easiest victim of neo-fascism.
Unfortunately, there are certain forces and circles who have forgotten or want to forget that we ourselves were once refugees; that we were standing in queues to get a blanket, a dish of food and were sleeping in refugee tents. Regrettably, there are people who talk about the “purity of our race and nation” today and in the name of the homeland are promoting the greatest crime: the selling off of Cyprus’ future and its partition. Those who today appear before the people as their advocates and protectors, but at every critical moment side with with big capital and doing the dirty work on its behalf.
This has also been the case in our country.
When it first appeared, ELAM was presented as a force against the establishment. At every critical moment, however, it proved to be the most valuable bastion of support for Mr. Anastasiades and DISY. ELAM tilled the balance of forces in favour of Mr. Anastasiades in the second round of the Presidential Election. It voted willingly all the draft bills that dissolved the Cyprus Cooperative Bank and burdened billions of euros on people’s backs.
Recently we had the revelations about draft-dodging. Those who portray themselves as “super-patriots”, those who are more or less about to launch a raid to get Constantinople back, didn’t even see fit to do their military service. They didn’t even keep guard not even once for their homeland, but they want to liberate it…
They play the same role in Cyprus as their associates do across Europe: thuggery, xenophobia, racism, populism, hatred and violence against the weak. This is what they really are. A part of what they really are like was revealed just last week when the President of ELAM under pressure – due to the revelations about draft-dodging – lost his temper and threatened the waging of “an unorthodox political war” and a response to the accusations in “military terms.” The masks are gradually coming off and the branch of the “Golden Dawn” party is being revealed.
But who are they threatening? The history of this country is written with the blood shed by hundreds of heroes of democracy, who did not yield when guns were being aimed at them, who did not give in when they were being thrown alive into the lion’s den of the battle, who didnt worship fascism when they were being tied alive on trees to be burned. The history of country place is written with our own blood. The shame of our country’s history is written with their own betrayal. We do not forget who they were, we do not ignore who they are. Instead, for years, we have insisted on resisting and exposing them.
By our very nature we stand against racism’s inhumane content. We combat and politically isolate neo-fascism. We cultivate the respect for every person and every culture. We point out that imperialism is the one solely responsible for creating the waves of refugees. Capital is the one responsible for illegal immigration which wants to attack the gains and rights of all working people, domestic and foreign. We insist that the only answer is the strengthening of the organization of the working people. For us, no immigrant is our enemy. For us, no refugee is a threat. That is why we will not cease struggling with the peoples of Europe, the peoples of the world against racism and neo-fascism, for the right of every person to life and dignity!
Long live the friendship of the peoples!
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Jefferson County schools' new Burkett Center a huge improvement, teachers and parents say
Updated Sep 27, 2012 ; Posted Sep 27, 2012
By Marie Leech | mleech@al.com
View full sizeTrey Nelson, 5, experiences sensory perception at a Promethean board in his classroom at Jefferson County's new Burkett Center. (The Birmingham News/Linda Stelter)
MORRIS, Alabama -- For years, the William E. Burkett Multi-Handicapped Center in Ketona struggled to provide an extraordinary educational experience for the most severely handicapped students in Jefferson County.
Teachers and staff gave all they had as the needs grew and administrators pushed for more. But it wasn't good enough.
Because Burkett, which opened in 1977 as the Springdale Multi-Handicapped Center, was more a warehouse than a school. It was never cut out for helping children and young adults with very special needs do much more than get through the day in safety.
These days, though, give parents and teachers new hope. The new Burkett Center -- which opened this year in the old-but-renovated Mortimer Jordan High School in Morris, and is having an open house today -- is designed to offer the same kind of attention to students that staffers have given for so long. The school is for students with multiple mental and physical disabilities.
Being in a former high school means the hallways and classrooms are much bigger than those in the old building, and to make the classrooms even bigger, walls were torn down to convert two classrooms into one.
The $2.5 million renovation gave the school 10 kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms; four pre-kindergarten classrooms; two physical therapy rooms; a daily living unit that includes a kitchen, laundry room and living area; a media center; two playgrounds, and a gymnasium.
The old building didn't have luxuries like a gym, media center or daily living unit, said Principal Daniel Roth.
"The old school was a lot smaller and we really just made do," said teacher David Elliott, whose class includes the most severely disabled children. His classroom in the new Burkett Center is a good three times the size of his old one.
Students have beanbag chairs with special seats, and physical therapy tables line the walls. Even though most of his students are blind, his classroom -- like all classrooms in the school -- has an interactive white board and other state-of-the-art equipment and technology. The room is bright and airy, as are all the rooms in the building, and is painted a soothing combination of light blue and gray. As required by law, each classroom has a bathroom.
"In the old building, we just used lunchroom tables or anything we could find," Elliott said. "We were on the floor, really."
Still, he said, it's what goes on inside a building that counts, and that hasn't changed. The new facilities just made it easier.
"We feel like we're really part of a community now," Elliott said. "Where we were before in Ketona, we were in an industrial area, so there was no real community."
Teacher Rob Dawson agrees, although the move for him was bittersweet. "The old school in its own way was a very intimate place," he said. "It was very small and it was very old, and it had a very institutional feel that will be, in some ways, hard to replace, and in other ways, easy to walk away from."
Dawson works with the higher-functioning students in the school, and said his goal is to teach them life skills so they can live as independently as possible.
The school has a life skills classroom, where older, higher-functioning students learn about food safety and preparation, cooking and how to do laundry.
Rebecca Skelton, vice president of the PTA at Burkett, said the new school was much needed. Skelton has a 15-year-old son there.
"It's like night and day," she said of the two schools. "It's like moving from the projects into a really nice suburb."
Roth said his teachers and faculty have always poured their hearts into their work, and that hasn't changed. What has changed, he said, is that they don't have to contend with the "old-building issues," such as lack of space and old equipment.
"It's bigger, cleaner and state of the art -- it's just incredible," he said. "Burkett finally got the attention that the school and the students deserve."
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World’s largest women’s patriotic service organization to gather in Reno for 97th National Convention
—8/17/17—INDIANAPOLIS – Nearly 9,000 Legion Family members, including 2,000 women representing the American Legion Auxiliary (ALA), will convene Aug. 28-24 in Reno, Nev. for the National Conventions of The American Legion Family. ALA members from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, together with members of The American Legion and Sons of The American Legion, meet annually to celebrate successes from the administrative year, elect national officers, and set national priorities to guide their organizations in the coming year. This year marks the ALA’s 97th National Convention.
The event follows the end of the 2016-2017 administrative year and provides an opportunity for ALA leadership to hear from national committee chairmen on successes and issues relevant to the Auxiliary’s longstanding mission of serving veterans, the military, and their families.
“The ALA has existed for almost 100 years now, and our contributions to veterans, our country, and our communities have proven to be just what our country needs. American Legion Auxiliary members in 2016-2017: Focused on their Legion Family working together to support our collective missions; provided even more help for veterans; and created new paths to help at VA medical centers,” said Mary Davis, 2016-2017 ALA national president.
A highlight of the ALA’s National Convention is the presentation of the Woman of the Year Award, which recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations for efforts that especially benefit the military, veterans, and their families. Davis will present the award to Cameron Cruse and Lisa Bradley, co-founders of R. Riveter, at a special luncheon in their honor on Aug. 22.
Other activities include a patriotic parade through Reno and hands-on workshops for members to learn how to better work the ALA’s mission. For all who are unable to attend Convention in person, the ALA will host a live video stream and blog, and provide up-to-the-minute updates on social media throughout the week. For more information, visit www.ALAforVeterans.org.
American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) members have dedicated themselves for nearly a century to meeting the needs of our nation’s veterans, military, and their families both here and abroad. They volunteer millions of hours yearly, with a value averaging $2 billion each year. As part of the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization, ALA volunteers across the country also step up to honor veterans and military through annual scholarships and with ALA Girls State programs, teaching high school juniors to be leaders grounded in patriotism and Americanism. To learn more about the ALA’s mission or to volunteer, donate or join, visit www.ALAforVeterans.org.
Communications Division (317) 569-4500; pr@alaforveterans.org
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Jeddah Tower
Jeddah Tower or Jiddah Tower (Arabic: برج جدة), previously known as Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة) and Mile-High Tower (برج الميل), is a skyscraper under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at a preliminary cost of SR4.6 billion (US$1.23 billion). It will be the centrepiece and first phase of a SR75 billion (US$20 billion) proposed development known as Jeddah Economic City that will be located along the Red Sea on the north side of Jeddah. If completed as planned, the Jeddah Tower will reach unprecedented heights, becoming the tallest building in the world, as well as the first structure to reach the one-kilometre-high mark (Initially planned to be 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) high, the geology of the area proved unsuitable for a tower of that height). Jeddah Tower seeks to bring great changes in terms of development and tourism to the city of Jeddah, which is considered the most liberal city in Saudi Arabia.
The design, created by American architect Adrian Smith, who also designed Burj Khalifa, incorporates many unique structural and aesthetic features. The creator and leader of the project is Saudi Arabian Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the wealthiest man in the Middle East, and nephew of the late King Abdullah. Al-Waleed is the chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) which is a partner in Jeddah Economic Company (JEC), which was formed in 2009 for the development of Jeddah Tower and City. Reception of the proposal has been highly polarized; it has received high praise from some as a culturally significant icon that will symbolize the nation's wealth and power, while others question its socioeconomic motives, and forecast that it will have negative financial consequences.
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Tim Conway, Comedian and ‘Carol Burnett Show’ Star, Dies at 85
One of the biggest names in American comedy has died. Tim Conway, the beloved star of The Carol Burnett Show and McHale’s Navy, passed away today. He was 85 years old.
More, from the Associated Press:
Conway died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles care facility, according to Howard Bragman, who heads LaBrea Media. Conway’s wife, Charlene Fusco, and a daughter, Jackie, were at his side. The cause was a disorder in which there is an excess of fluid on the brain, Bragman said.
Conway won five Emmys over his career, including four for his brilliant work on The Carol Burnett Show. Upon the news of Conway’s passing, Burnett released a statement calling her former co-star “one in a million, not only as a brilliant comedian but as a loving human being. I cherish the times we had together both on the screen and off. He’ll be in my heart forever.”
Conway was technically a guest star through most of The Carol Burnett Show’s 11-year run, although he joined the cast full-time in its final seasons on CBS. Here’s one of his famous sketches from the show with Harvey Korman, his frequent comic collaborator, playing his ideal foil:
Born in Ohio, Conway first got his start working in local Cleveland television. He moved to New York and joined the cast of The Steve Allen Show in 1961, then became a star on McHale’s Navy as Ensign Parker opposite Ernest Borgnine’s Commander McHale. Younger viewers might know him as Dorf, the character he played in a series of instructional video spoofs throughout the 1980s:
Conway continued working steadily into the 1990s and 2000s; in 2008 he won an Emmy for an appearance on 30 Rock. He also provided the voice of many animated characters, including Barnacle Boy on SpongeBob SquarePants, where he worked with his old McHale’s Navy co-star Ernest Borgnine as Mermaid Man, a spoof of Aquaman and his sidekick, Aqualad. Conway leaves behind an enormous body of work that will continue to be watched and enjoyed for decades to come.
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10 Best Family-Friendly Museums in Savannah: Interactive, Inspirational, Educational and Fun
BY Amy Pine
Don’t cross museum visits off your to-do list just because you’ve traveled to Savannah with the whole family. The city has an impressive array of family-friendly museums that provide hours of entertainment for busy kids and their families.
If you dig cool historical details and want to give your kids free rein to roam and play, then head to the Savannah Children’s Museum. The two-level, outdoor museum, which sits on the site of the former Central of Georgia Railroad building, features more than a dozen exhibits including an underground archeology table, imagination playground and life-size building blocks.
The Savannah Children’s Museum is part of the Coastal Heritage Society’s Tricentennial Park, which also houses the Georgia State Railroad Museum. The outdoor museum’s restored antique locomotives and model trains will impress railroad buffs of all ages.
Art lovers and their children will adore the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center for the Arts, a modern art museum with a two-floor play space just for kids. If you can drag your little ones away from the interactive displays, feel free to take them through the museum’s other exhibits, including an impressive permanent collection featuring work by Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.
Other must-see family-friendly museums include the Massie Heritage Center, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Fort Pulaski museum, National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum and the Pinpoint Heritage Museum. And current and former Girl Scouts can’t leave Savannah without stopping by the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, a house museum dedicated to the founder of the Girl Scouts.
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This 19th-century fort, which was occupied by the Confederate Army during the Civil War, is a must-see for history buffs. Only a 15-minute drive from Downtown Savannah, Fort Pulaski was designed by Napoleon's engineer, and though it fell during the Civil War, it still remains intact, with moats, drawbridges, enormous ramparts and mysterious tunnels. After learning about the Fort's fascinating history, visitors can access one of the historic site's many walking trails, which feature magnificent views of the marsh and Savannah River. Be sure to keep your eyes out for one of the Fort's 11 protected species, including bald eagles, manatees, loggerhead sea turtles and peregrine falcons.
People of all ages and races are moved by this museum's brilliantly composed exhibits detailing Savannah's role in the civil rights struggle. Housed in a structure that was built in 1914 as an African-American bank, the museum is named for Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, former NAACP president and dauntless hero of Savannah's civil rights movement. Today the three-story museum provides unparalleled insight into life during segregation, with highlights that include an exhibit dedicated to the NAACP, fiber optic map of 87 significant civil rights sites and events, a replica of a lunch counter where sit-ins occurred, and an extraordinary film with stirring first-hand accounts.
This fascinating museum pays homage to the tiny community of Pin Point, a century-old African-American community on the banks of Savannah's Moon River. Pin Point, best known as the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was founded in the 1890s by first generation freedmen, and has been a self-sustaining community ever since. The museum, located in the former home of the A.S. Varn & Son oyster and shrimp factory, explores the neighborhood's Gullah/Geechee culture through artwork, artifacts and interactive exhibits. The museum also regularly hosts live demonstrations in its outdoor covered pavilion, showing guests the art of skills such as net making.
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Located in Pooler, a burgeoning area in Southwest Savannah, the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is a must-see for those interested in learning more about aviation history. The museum tells the history of the Eighth Air Force Division, which was activated in Savannah in 1942, just 53 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 1 million men and women have served in the division, which played a pivotal role in World War II, flying bombing missions over Nazi Germany. The impressive museum pays homage to the division's service in that war and the ones that followed. Among the displays are retired aircraft including a B-47 Stratojet, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17A and F-4C Phantom, which are located on the museum's grounds. Other exhibits include a Prelude to World War II gallery, art gallery, POW exhibit, Post WWII exhibit and memorial gardens, among others.
Housed in the historic Scarborough House (circa 1819), this museum is a fantastic source of information about Savannah's seafaring history. The port city was a major player in the import and export trade, and the ships that sailed its waters were amazing vessels. Many of them are replicated here in models, including the City of Savannah, a 245-foot-long, 38-foot-wide iron hulled vessel that was powered by both sail and by steam. The Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum also features artwork, maritime artifacts, a gift shop, and lovely gardens that feature a variety of camellias, azaleas, magnolias and other native plants.
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The Massie Common School opened its doors in 1856 and educated Savannahians until 1974. Today the Massie Heritage Center serves as an architecture and history museum, featuring engaging, state-of-the-art exhibits. A three-dimensional model of the city's National Landmark District gives visitors a unique glimpse of the city's historic areas, while a touch screen laser show tells the story of Savannah's history. In addition to architecture exhibits, guests can tour the original school facilities and see an authentic 19th-century classroom. The Massie Heritage Center also has an exhibit dedicated to local Native American history that includes artifacts dating from pre-history.
Train-loving tots and railroad buffs alike adore the Georgia State Railroad Museum, considered the largest and most complete antebellum railroad repair facility still in existence. Guests can enjoy lunch in a restored dining car before heading across the street to the museum, where they will find beautifully restored antique locomotives and enchanting model trains, as well as a working roundhouse and old-fashioned repair shop. Visitors can tour the luxurious presidential cars, ride a 1913 steam locomotive or 1947 diesel locomotive and even operate a vintage handcar. Kids especially love the Baggage Car, an old railway car that's been transformed into a children's play space.
The first National Historic Landmark in Savannah, this iconic gem is the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Built in 1821, the English Regency-style townhouse has been elegantly restored and is furnished with many original pieces from the Gordon family. Whether you're a lifelong Scout or clueless as to the difference between a Daisy and a Brownie, you'll be captivated by the home's lavish antiques, Gordon Low's original artwork and GSUSA memorabilia, such as a Thanks Badge presented to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in 1917. The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace welcomes more than 65,000 visitors a year, including Girl Scouts from around the country.
This striking 64,000-square-foot modern art museum features an impressive permanent collection and hosts major traveling exhibitions from around the world. The Kirk Varnedoe Collection, the Jepson Center's permanent collection, includes works by renowned artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg , Chuck Close and Richard Avedon. The museum also boasts a 3,500-square-foot interactive gallery for children and families called ArtZeum. The Jepson Center itself is a work of art. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, the museum's sleek design includes hung-glass ceilings and cantilevered walls. The Jepson Center is part of the Telfair Museums, a series of three unique art venues in Downtown Savannah that also includes the Telfair Academy and the Owens-Thomas House.
This two-level, outdoor museum, which opened in June 2012, encourages kids to use their hands, make noise and interact with their surroundings. The Savannah Children's Museum features more than a dozen exhibits in the Imagination Station, including an underground archeology table, imagination playground, giant building blocks and life-size games such as tic-tac-toe. Other unique exhibits include a maze that features a giant Lego panel, an interactive garden and a misting station to keep kids cool on hot days. The museum is located in the ruins of the old Central of Georgia Railroad station, which adds an element of historic charm to the unique play space.
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Tajikistan: The success story that failed
Once celebrated for its successful post-conflict reconciliation, Tajikistan has reverted back to the dictatorial path.
by Massoumeh Torfeh
In power since 1992, Rahmon has gradually tightened the noose taking full control of the parliament, the judiciary and the elections, writes Torfeh [Getty]
Tajikistan may be a small country in Central Asia, but it was once hailed by the United Nations as one of the few international success stories of peace and reconciliation.
Yet the events of this year alone have turned Tajikistan into a model, not for success, but for the failure of the international community in sustaining the democratic achievements of a nation that lost 100,000 lives to end a five-year civil war between 1992 and 1997.
The Tajik president, Emomali Rahmon, has moved to make himself president for life, ban and imprison all opposition and silence the media - and the world has remained silent.
Today is the 17th anniversary of the Electoral Law of December 10, 1999, which led to the first multi-party elections observed by the UN and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
WATCH: Tajiks vote in referendum seen as cementing president's power (1:38)
This was supposed to put in place a parliament truly reflective of the peace and reconciliation accord of June 1997, guaranteeing a power-sharing system with a 30 percent quota of positions for the opposition, made up mainly of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) and the Democratic Party of Tajikistan.
Today, that opposition is all but obliterated. Many have faced suspicious deaths, others allegations of terrorism in "blatantly unfair [trials] behind closed doors, marred by serious violations of due process and credible allegations of torture or ill-treatment in pre-trial detention." In May 2016, Tajik prosecutors demanded life sentences for leaders of IRPT, which was banned in September 2015.
Tajik President Rahmon, in power since 1992, has gradually tightened the noose: taking full control of the parliament, the judiciary and the elections process, thus overruling the separation of powers.
Controversial constitutional amendments in May 2016 granted him to rule indefinitely, effectively removing all the term limitations. The minimum age for a candidate has been lowered so that the president could hand over to his son.
Where did all go wrong?
But how did this drastic misuse of a UN-observed reconciliation accord happen, and why are the UN, OSCE, Russia and Iran, which designed and observed the process, quiet?
The first reason is the weakness of the opposition itself. The leader of the IRPT, Said Abdullah Nuri, presided over a party that became powerful in the year 2000, with its members filling most of the government positions allocated. It had transformed from an armed organisation to one committed to peaceful and legal political methods.
Yet in the process, the party made too many concessions to the president to ensure those government posts remain intact. This, in turn, created conflict within the IRPT leadership, and deep frustration among many of its members.
The failed democratisation in Tajikistan provides a perfect breeding ground for youth radicalisation.
Moreover, IRPT did not use its power for protecting democratic institutions and democratic rights. Some IRPT members continued to use mosques and madrasas for political activities, despite a legal prohibition. The president used their activities as an excuse to ban and confront them, and then to prohibit Islamic teaching.
Now, 70 percent of all mosques are closed. Important preachers, such as Eishan Nourdinjon Tourajonzoda and Eishan Abdul Khalil, are banned from preaching, religious schools have been closed down and there are cases of forced beard-shaving and removal of headscarves. Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of IRPT, escaped Tajikistan and is currently somewhere in Europe, fearing for his life.
International silence
The second reason for the deterioration is that the need for post-conflict stabilisation in Tajikistan was never tackled seriously by the two main international guarantors: the OSCE and the UN. Both organisations initially pledged "continued international support", yet neither really followed through.
On the 10th anniversary of the peace accord, a statement by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made no mention of any problems. At a meeting in June 2015, Ban and Rahmon discussed water sanitation. In a joint press conference that followed, one small sentence was uttered about "implementing UN human rights recommendations".
WATCH: Religion restrictions debated in Tajikistan (2:49)
Even at the outset, when President Rahmon changed the constitution to increase his tenure from five to seven years, the UN and the OSCE stood by in silence.
A special UN office was set up in May 2000 with the task of "helping to build democratic institutions, and promoting respect for human rights", but it proved ineffective.
Other UN agencies have been equally silent. While President Rahmon has taken part in several UNESCO events, celebrating Tajik culture, UNESCO has never highlighted the abysmal state of freedom of expression in the arts (and other sectors) in Tajikistan.
Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders have often raised alarms over the treatment of imprisoned journalists, but little UN or OSCE condemnation has been voiced.
Khikmatullo Sayfullozoda, the editor of Najot, a newspaper linked to IRPT was arrested in September 2015, and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Harassment of independent journalists has also intensified. Mohiedin Dustov, the editor of Nigoh newspaper, is receiving death threats. Several lawyers who defended the IRPT's leaders were themselves tried and convicted, while two-thirds of the country's lawyers have been disbarred.
The OSCE having the "longest-running operation in Central Asia", has observed five elections in Tajikistan. While it has criticised the processes every time, it has not been outspoken enough about the failures of the electoral process, the sham referendums and the human rights abuses.
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As for Iran and Russia, the two main supporters of the conflicting sides, they seem to have concluded a more important deal between themselves over regional power-sharing. This is why Iran has remained surprisingly silent on the treatment of Islam and the IRPT, which it once supported wholeheartedly.
While the international community remains silent on the abuses in Tajikistan, its failed democratisation has become a perfect breeding ground for youth radicalisation. Official figures say 1,094 Tajik nationals have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS). Other militant groups in the region area also recruiting: the Taliban in Afghanistan, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Uighur East Turkestan Islamic Movement of China.
It will soon be clear that this international silence will cost the region dearly.
Massoumeh Torfeh is the former director of strategic communication at the UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan and is currently a research associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science specialising in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. She was the UN spokesperson in Tajikistan between 1998 and 2000 during the peace and reconciliation process.
Massoumeh Torfeh
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh is a Research Associate at LSE, specialising in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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Facebook users top one billion
The one billion user count is up from the end of June, when it had 955 million active monthly users.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on his Facebook 'wall' on Thursday [EPA]
Social media company Facebook says it now has more than one billion users, in a new milestone for the world's biggest social network.
Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on Thursday, saying the number is "humbling."
"This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month," he said in a statement.
"If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you. Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."
Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, said it reached one billion monthly active users on September 14 at 12:45 pm Pacific time. That includes 600 million mobile users.
The one billion user count is up from the end of June, when it had 955 million active monthly users. The company also said it has seen 1.13 trillion "likes," or endorsements by users, since the company launched the feature in February 2009. Many of the ad campaigns that companies conduct on Facebook are designed to garner likes.
It said 219 billion photos were uploaded as of September. Excluding deleted photos, about 265 billion photos have been uploaded since 2005.
About 17 billion location-tagged posts were made on the website, Facebook said, and 62.6 million songs have been played 22 billion times since September 2011.
The median age of a Facebook user was 22, it said, and the top five user countries were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.
The new data came a day after the company said it was letting US users pay a fee to boost the visibility of their postings - its latest effort to look beyond advertising for revenue.
Advertising accounted for roughly 84 percent of the total revenue in the second quarter.
With Facebook's revenue growth rate slowing sharply in recent quarters, analysts and investors believe it needs to find new ways to make money.
Shares of Facebook rose 2.1 percent to $22.27 in premarket trading on Thursday. The stock made its public debut at $38 in May.
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Classical International
Brazilian Traditions
Paulo Sérgio Santos
Quinteto Villa-Lobos
Biography by Alvaro Neder
Wood and brass quintet devoted to exploring the connections between Brazilian popular and classical music, the Quinteto Villa-Lobos started its activities in 1962 by the initiative of bassoonist Airton…
Artist Biography by Alvaro Neder
Wood and brass quintet devoted to exploring the connections between Brazilian popular and classical music, the Quinteto Villa-Lobos started its activities in 1962 by the initiative of bassoonist Airton Barbosa, backing up the musical mission Caravana Cultural de Pascoal Carlos Magno. Until 1964, the group played in several Brazilian regions and also in Latin America. In 1966, their first LP was recorded, Quinteto Villa-Lobos. Also in that year they performed, together with Edu Lobo, Nara Leão, and Tamba Trio, at the show 5 na Bossa at the Zum Zum club in Rio. The show was recorded live and released as an LP. In 1972, the quintet recorded, with Luizinho Eça, the LP Vanguarda. Five years later, it dedicated the LP Quinteto Villa-Lobos Interpreta to choro masters like Ernesto Nazareth, Zequinha de Abreu, Paulinho da Viola, Pixinguinha, K-Ximbinho, Patápio Silva, and others. In 1979, the group recorded the soundtrack of the film O Grande Palhaço. In 2000, commemorating 35 years of their career, the quintet launched the CD Quinteto em Forma de Choros, recorded in 1997. With Marco Pereira, Gilson Peranzzetta, Joyce, Guinga, and Água de Moringa, in 2001 the group recorded the CD Quinteto Villa-Lobos Convida, recording new songs by Joyce, Guinga, Peranzzetta, and Marco Pereira, and classics by Pixinguinha, Jacob do Bandolim, and Ernesto Nazareth.
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Craig Fuller
Pop/Rock (9)
AM Pop (9) Album Rock (9) Contemporary Pop/Rock (9) Folk-Rock (9) Psychedelic/Garage (9) Soft Rock (9)
Amiable/Good-Natured (9) Carefree (9) Earnest (9) Laid-Back/Mellow (9) Light (9) Relaxed (9) Innocent (8) Romantic (8)
Affection/Fondness (9) In Love (9) New Love (9) Day Driving (7) Summer (7) The Great Outdoors (6)
Pure Prairie League
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Song Review by Mike DeGagne
Fresh out of the '70s country-rock scene emerged the melody-ridden "Amie," a charming little country-pop tune that would give the Ohio-based Pure Prairie League their second biggest chart hit, but would easily become their most memorable. Written by their lead man at the time, Craig Fuller, who had a voice that was custom-made for radio, "Amie" made it into the Top 30 in 1975 as Pure Prairie League's first charted single. The song originates from 1972's Bustin' Out, an album that utilized Mick Ronson to help put together its lush string arrangements and light, affable sound. FM radio automatically soaked up the single, as did the country stations, and while Fuller, as conscientious objector to the Vietnam War was doing alternate service working in a hospital in Kentucky , the rest of the band was enjoying "Amie"'s success. A demand by college radio prompted RCA to release the song a short time after it had made its mark, and "Amie" soon became one of the decade's most popular country-rock tunes. The band itself went through various personnel changes, and soon after Fuller was let out of prison, he went on to form American Flyer, replaced by lead singer Larry Goshorn. After Goshorn exited, the band enjoyed their highest of four Top 40 hits with 1980's "Let Me Love You Tonight," this time with Vince Gill as the frontman. The band scored hits with "I'm Almost Ready" and "Still Right Here in My Heart" in the early '80s, but like most of the country-rock bands of the time, Pure Prairie League faded into obscurity, with Gill enjoying a rather successful solo career in country music. Even after their demise, the band will always be remembered for two distinguishing characteristics; Luke, their Norman Rockwell-drawn cowboy character, and by Fuller's sweet voice which made "Amie" one of the genre's best songs.
Bustin' Out
RCA 4:18
Sound Explosion
Ronco Silver
Amie & Other Hits
Pure Prairie Collection
Mementos 1971-1987
Rushmore Productions
The Best of Country Rock [K-Tel]
K-Tel Distribution 4:21
Sounds of the Seventies: AM Nuggets
Time / Life Music 3:17
K-Tel Distribution
The Best of Pure Prairie League
Mercury Nashville 4:18
Hillbilly Fever, Vol. 5: Legends of Country Rock
Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 23
Rhino 2:39
Heroes of Country Music, Vol. 5: Legends of Country Rock
Rhino / Warner Bros.
Dim the Lights: Soft Rock Hits of the 70's
Mellow Rock Hits of the '70s: Ventura Highway
70's Southern Rock
Rhino / Essex 3:14
Dick Bartley Presents Collector's Essentials on the Radio, Vol. 2: The '70s
Varèse Vintage / Varese 2:41
Rockin' 70's [BMG]
BMG Special Products 4:20
Hits of the 70's [Columbia River]
Valmark 4:20
Delta Distribution 4:20
Highway Rock: Southern Nights
Madacy Distribution / Madacy 4:21
Amie: The Encore Collection
Soft Rock Classics [Rhino Box]
70's Greatest Rock Hits, Vol. 4: Southern Comfort
Priority Records
Best of Southern Rock [Rock Bottom]
Greatest Hits of the 70's, Vol. 7
Platinum Disc 4:18
Greatest Hits of the 70s [Box Set #2]
Time in a Bottle: Mellow Rock Classics
Rock On, 1975: Midnight Blue
Greatest Hits of the 70's [BMG Greeting Card CD]
Goin' South
Razor & Tie 3:17
Rolling Stone Presents: The 70's California Sound
Dream Merchant and Other Classic Seventies Hits
Columbia River Entertainment Group 4:20
Singers & Songwriters: 1975-1979 [2001]
The Ultimate Jukebox Hits of the '70s, Vol. 3
Collectables 4:20
Jukebox Hits of the '70s [Collectables]
40 Years of Jukebox Hits: The 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's
Desperado: The Best of Country Rock
The Greatest Hits of the 70's [Platinum 2003 #2]
Best of 70's Rock
Greatest Hits of the 70's [BMG Special Products]
The Real '70s
Oldies But Goodies: 13 of the Best 70's Country
Original Sound Entertainment 4:21
Pure Prairie League/Bustin' Out
Acadia 4:17
Rock of the Seventies [Sbme]
Sony Music Distribution 4:21
Singers & Songwriters: Troubadours
Singers & Songwriters [Time-Life Box Set]
Classic Rock: 100 Proof
The 70s: Pure Prairie League
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Landmark New Privacy Law in California to Challenge Businesses Nationwide
July 5, 2018 By David Caplan
Following our June 4 and July 2, 2018 blog posts tracking California’s November 2018 ballot measure turned hastily enacted new California privacy law titled The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Group released a more detailed “first look” review of California’s sweeping new law. The advisory provides an overview of […]
Filed Under: Ballot Initiatives, California, Data Protection, Legislation, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Regulation Tagged With: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), US State Law
California Approves the California Consumer Privacy Act in Response to Consumer Privacy Ballot Initiative
As discussed in this blog’s June 4, 2018 blog post, a group called Californians for Consumer Privacy gathered enough signatures for a new measure called the Consumer Right to Privacy Act to qualify for the November 2018 ballot. With momentum building for passage of that ballot measure, various stakeholders met with California legislators to devise a bill […]
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Momentum Building for California’s Consumer Right to Privacy Act Ballot Initiative
June 4, 2018 By David Caplan
In early May, a group called Californians for Consumer Privacy gathered enough signatures for the Consumer Right to Privacy Act (CRPA) to qualify for the November 2018 ballot. The ballot initiative builds on existing California laws directed at protecting the privacy of California consumers’ personal information, including the Shine the Light law (Civil Code §1798.83) […]
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Cabin By The Sea
The Dirty Heads have clearly avoided the sophomore slump with their latest album, Cabin by the Sea, and better yet, I would argue they have even exceeded the high expectations surrounding the record prior to its release. While the band’s debut in 2008 was quite impressive, it’s evident The Dirty Heads have refined their sound and are now even closer to perfecting their unique blend of music. Once again, Watson and Bushnell compliment each other nicely on vocals and to no surprise, there are a variety of guest musicians featured on the album as well. Cabin by the Sea is a strong album from start to finish and only further proves why there is no one better than The Dirty Heads at creating music with infectious good vibes.
Despite the fact that the album may not offer as many tracks as its predecessor, the quality of the record more than makes up for it. The album begins with the brief but enjoyable “Arrival,” and then transitions into the title track which may very well be recognized by many listeners as the best song on the album. Still, the clear highlight of the record is the four collaboration tracks, each standing apart from the next. “Your Love,” a laid back and light-hearted love song, was done with Kymani Marley, son of the reggae legend Bob Marley. For “Mongo Push,” the group again collaborated with Rome Ramirez; while it’s unlikely the song will achieve the same type of success as “Lay Me Down,” it still makes for a solid track laid over a funk beat with killer vocals delivered by Rome. “Dance All Night” has heavy reggae influences and includes the addition of the band’s close friend, Mastisyahu. And finally, “Smoke Rings,” featuring Del the Homosapien, shows the group connecting with their hip-hop roots. The majority of the songs on the new release are predominantly acoustic driven with a touch of reggae flavor, which certainly works within the flow of the album. Songs such as “Notice,” “Burn by Myself,” and “Best of Us” are the epitome of this and the latter being one of the top songs on the record.
This is the ultimate feel good album; the songs are easy going, the lyrical content is uplifting, and literally every track would be ideal for a summer playlist. With this new release, The Dirty Heads are truly starting to come into their own. This is not another So-Cal band imitating Sublime desperately trying to re-create the magic of Bradley Nowell; these guys are talented and have worked hard to utilize all of their musical influences (which do in fact include Sublime) in order to develop a style and sound that is unique. Cabin by the Sea is a record that will not only appeal to fans of the group, but could very easily find a mainstream audience as well. This record was undoubtedly an important statement for the band coming off of the success of their debut effort and furthermore, it is my guess that this is the album that launches The Dirty Heads into stardom.
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Featured Review: 1byone Bluetooth Sport Earphones
By John Anon December 09, 2015, 6:07pm
Bluetooth headphones and earphones are literally everywhere now. Bluetooth has made it that regardless of your budget or needs, there is a pair of Bluetooth-enabled headphones or earphones available to you and bringing with it, a wire-free listening experience. That said, with such a selection currently available, finding the right pair of Bluetooth earphones can be a daunting task. If you are in the market for a new pair of earphones, one which comes with a Bluetooth connection and wire-free experience, but one which is at the more affordable end of the price spectrum, then today we are taking a quick look at the 1byone Bluetooth Sports Earphones.
One of the aspects which was immediately noticed with the 1byone earphones, is that 1byone has put some thought and effort into the presentation of the earphones. More often than not when buying affordable priced earphones, the packaging can be a little on the basic side. This was not the case with the 1byone option and you do get a well packaged and presented item.
As well as the actual headphones, the 1byone Bluetooth Sports Earphones also come equipped with a selection of ear tips. Again, these were rather nicely presented and offer the option to adjust the earphones to your ear size. In terms of size, the tips include a small, medium and large option. Underneath the earphones and additional tips is where you will also find a small carry pouch. Again, it seems 1byone took the time here to produce a better pouch then is often countered at this price and the pouch comes with a nice and soft (almost suede like) feel. Inside the pouch you will find the microUSB charge cable for charging the earphones. This is a standard and very short cable which comes white in color. Although, the one noticeable aspect is that the cable is a flat cable. Completing the box, the pouch also contains a rather substantial user guide.
Design & Comfort
The 1byone Bluetooth Sports earphones on the surface, looks quite similar to a number of the Bluetooth earphones that you can pick up right now and at a similar price point. However, they do come with some subtle differences. In terms of the overall design, these are Bluetooth earphones and this does mean they are designed to be used wire-free. This results in a very small and compact pair of headphones. with minimal wiring on offer. In total, the cable which comes equipped with the earphones and joining the two earbuds measures about 18-inches, so about a foot and a half. This means, at the maximum, you can expect about nine-inches of play on either side.
This is slightly longer cable than on other earphones, which often edge much closer to the 12-inch marker and this did prove to be of benefit when testing. If you need the extra length then it is there and so the earphones at no point ever felt tight or restricted. For those who prefer less dangling of the cable, then the earphones do conveniently come with a small clip attached which can be altered up or down (kind of like a zip), This will either lengthen or shorten the cable between the the two earbuds. At the most extreme opposite, the cable offers about 7-inches of distance between the two earbuds. In terms of the remaining cable and due to the nature of the clip, the additional cable adopts a centralized pendant position, which again proved to be quite a good design. Sticking with the cable for a minute add the test unit comes in a very bright green (although other colors are available too) which did make these quite noticeable earphones for those who like that sort of thing. It is also worth pointing out that the cable is a flat cable which again did add to the presentation and general use of the earphones.
Moving to the earbuds and these are of the most part generic earbuds. The tips come in a slightly darker shade of green (unless you order a different color) and also come with additional ear hooks for added support when needed.
As these are Bluetooth-enabled earphones, this does mean they come with a rechargeable battery inside and can be recharged via a microUSB cable. The port for charging is conveniently located underneath the right earbud tip. Which means you do not have to worry about additional weight being added unnecessarily, which was another benefit.
Last up is the control panel. This comes in the form of a fixed unit attached to the right earbud side of the cable and on the whole, is rather slim. The thin plastic box is rather simple and comprises of three buttons, two of which are your volume/track controls. The middle button is your power button which also doubles as your Bluetooth pairing button and also triples as your call hang up/answer button - as these earphones also offer hands free calling as well.
Overall, the 1byone Bluetooth Sports Earphones were considered to be rather well-designed earphones. As mentioned, these do on first impressions adopt somewhat of a generic look, but the more you pay attention to the detail, you do begin to notice that 1byone has made an effort to improve the earphones as much as possible. When considering the price, to see any small adjustments like this is a good sign that they are likely to be earphones worth investing in.
Sound Quality & Performance
When it comes to the sound quality, the 1byone Bluetooth Sports Earphones perform very well. At this price point, the sound sometimes encountered is one which is often a little tinny. This is not the case with the 1byone earphones. The sound on offer is a lot richer and far more balanced in this respect. The mids and top come through nicely and are pronounced (more so than the bass), but at no point do they reach a tinny level. The quality of the tops and mids is just a lot better than what you would expect at this level or find on other alternatives.
Of course, the bass end is where these earphones do suffer a little and the bass is not as dynamic as some would prefer. However, again, if compared to a number of other options in this price bracket, the byone earphones do provide a sufficient enough bass. Although, not as clear as the tops and mids, it is there and noticeable, just not prominent.
Likewise, there were no issues with the volume. The 1byone earphones offer a decent level of volume and should be certainly loud enough for most users and most conditions.
Battery Life & Connectivity
With these being Bluetooth earphones, the level of battery life on offer will always be a contributing factor to whether or not the earphones are worth picking up. For some, this actually might be the deciding factor. If the earphones only offer a minimal level of usage before needing to be recharged, than their appeal as a portable and wire-free headset is diminished. In the case of the 1byone earphones, the battery life on offer was generally quite good.
In terms of the numbers, on average the 1byone earphones are said to offer up to seven hours of either talk time or music playback. In testing though, that number was found to be a little on the optimistic side. More often than not, the battery life encountered came in around the five hour marker. This was largely considered to be the maximum they would last in between charges but also when used at their loudest volume setting. So depending on how loud you like your earphones to be, the five hour marker could be improved upon if listened to at a lower volume. In terms of the recharging, there is not much to complain about either. Typically speaking, the headphones did reach a full charge in full in about two hours. The earphones also come with a low battery warning audio prompt as well, so once you are down to your last fifteen minutes or so, you are audibly warned that the battery is low. A warning which becomes more frequently given as the battery depletion level draws closer.
There were also no notable issues in terms of connectivity. the 1byone earphones make use of Bluetooth 4.1 and this does mean that they make use of a very reliable Bluetooth connection. When testing, the 1byone earphones were extremely reliable in maintaining the connection and no drop-offs or drop outs were encountered, with the earphones consistently remaining in contact with the streaming device. Bluetooth 4.1 is expected to offer a connectable distance of about 33 feet (10 meters) and again, during testing this would found to be about right. The 1byone earphones to maintain a connection well with a distance between them and the streaming device. That is, a connection which was not prone to distortion or crackling, like you would encounter with other earphones in this price bracket.
If you are in the market for a new pair of earphones or as a gift for someone else, then the 1byone Bluetooth Sports Earphones did prove to be reliable earphones when tested. Although the bass is not the most pronounced or punchiest, it is there and is certainly accompanied by a warm and vibrant mids and top end. As such, the sound quality for the cost was deemed to be pretty good. Battery life is also another aspect which was deemed to be good with about five hours of usage expected in between charges. Not to mention, the general design of the headphones did clearly highlight that 1byone has looked to offer a few more subtle and beneficial differences. Overall, these proved to be a good and very reliable pair of earphones for under $50.
Buy the 1byone Bluetooth Earphones
John Anon
John has been writing about and reviewing tech products since 2014 after making the transition from writing about and reviewing airlines. With a background in Psychology, John has a particular interest in the science and future of the industry. Besides adopting the Managing Editor role at AH John also covers much of the news surrounding audio and visual tech, including cord-cutting, the state of Pay-TV, and Android TV. Contact him at [email protected]
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Alaska's commercial fishing industry just had its first year with no deaths
Author: Annie Zak
For the first year-long period on record, from Oct. 1, 2014, through the end of September 2015, the Coast Guard recorded zero operations-related commercial fishing fatalities in Alaska, a milestone in an industry known for its "Deadliest Catch" persona.
In an article in Alaska Fish & Wildlife News, published by the state Department of Fish & Game, the change is credited partly to management practices that have been making the industry safer for years. But also, the article notes, fewer people are fishing.
Through much of the 1980s, an average of 31 fishermen died in Alaska each year, according to the report.
Six commercial fishing boats sank last summer, but no one was killed. However, one death aboard a commercial fishing vessel was recorded between June and September 2015, according to a Coast Guard enforcement report.
The death wasn't included in the zero-fatality count because it wasn't explicitly related to operations on the fishing boat -- for example, if someone dies of natural causes while on the vessel -- said Scott Wilwert, commercial fishing vessel safety program manager for the Coast Guard in Alaska.
The first fatality of 2015 came in October, when 36-year-old Gary Graves died while diving for sea cucumbers near Kodiak.
You can read the whole article here.
Annie Zak
Annie Zak covers business news and general assignments. She joined the Daily News in 2015 and previously was a reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle and the Orange County Register in California.
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Advocacy Hub contract win for Advocacy Focus
We are excited to announce that we have been re-commissioned as Lancashire’s advocacy provider, securing the Lancashire-wide Advocacy Hub contract.
We will continue to deliver our high quality statutory advocacy services for another three years and will now add non-statutory advocacy services and the Single Point of Contact (SPoC) to our offering. (More on this below).
Justine Hodgkinson, CEO of Advocacy Focus, says: “We are delighted to retain this contract once more and will soon be delivering the full range of advocacy services across Lancashire.”
“Since securing the statutory advocacy contract in 2016, we have grown considerably as an organisation, expanded our team by over a third, celebrated our 20th anniversary and supported over 10,000 people with high quality independent advocacy. It’s been an extremely successful – and very busy - three years!”
Advocacy helps people to become more involved in important decisions about their health and social care and live the lives they want to live. Statutory advocacy refers to advocacy that is required by law.
Non-statutory advocacy also known as ‘generic’ advocacy is a preventative approach that many local authorities don’t provide funding for. However, it is a service that can make a significant difference to people when dealing with health and social care services, and enables people to take control of their own care and treatment, with a focus on self-advocacy and the empowerment of individuals.
The Single Point of Contact will be the gateway into Advocacy Focus and we will adopt a ‘tell us once’ approach. This will act as a central point of contact for all advocacy enquiries; providing information and advice and will connect people with experienced Independent Advocates who will listen, triage a person’s needs, take referrals and where necessary signpost to other services to offer a holistic approach.
Advocacy Focus will be providing all of these services as the Lancashire Advocacy Hub from 1st August 2019 and as a result of this, will create several more job opportunities for Lancashire residents.
Justine finishes:
"We are delighted to continue working with Lancashire County Council and look forward to enabling real change for people in our communities. We have a passion and a commitment to looking after Lancashire and over the next three years our team will do just that.”
Although the services are commissioned by Lancashire County Council, Advocacy Focus works independently from local authorities and health and social care services and in the best interest of the person.
View our latest vacancies.
Published: 8th July, 2019
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You are here: Mobility Beat Motoring The soon to launch in SA, All-New Mazda3 wins top prize at 2019 Red Dot awards
The soon to launch in SA, All-New Mazda3 wins top prize at 2019 Red Dot awards
The all-new Mazda3 has captured the "Red Dot: Best of the Best" prize at the 2019 Red Dot product design awards. Southern Africa launch timing is set for the third quarter of 2019.
The competition's highest accolade is awarded to products whose designs are considered genuinely ground-breaking and visionary. The new-generation compact joins the growing list of award-winning Mazda models designed according to the KODO: Soul of Motion philosophy.
The international jury selected fewer than 100 products for the "Best of the Best" prize from the more than 5,500 entries received from 55 countries. Criteria for selection include innovation, functionality, ergonomics and longevity. Mazda and the other winners will receive their awards on 8 July at the 2019 Red Dot award ceremony in Essen's Aalto Theatre, Germany. The new Mazda3 will then join the "Design on Stage" exhibition of award-winning products at the Red Dot Design Museum Essen and feature in the Red Dot yearbook, website and design app.
"Winning the 'Red Dot: Best of the Best' is a very special honour because only a very small percentage of entries are granted this distinction," says Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of Red Dot. "It is well-deserved recognition for a wonderful design achievement and proof that the award-winning companies are among the best in design."
This is the seventh Red Dot prize to date for Mazda's Kodo models following the MX-5 RF in 2017, the MX-5 soft top, CX-3 and Mazda2 (all 2015), the previous generation Mazda3 (2014) and the Mazda6 (2013).
Initiated in 1955, Red Dot is one of the world's largest design competitions. The product design winners, selected this year in 48 categories including cars & motorcycles, have earned the right to bear the Red Dot symbol, an international seal of excellence.
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3rd ASEM Summit (ASEM3) Partnership for Prosperity & Stability in the New Millennium
The 3rd Asia-Europe Meeting Summit (ASEM3) was held on 20-21 October 2000 in Seoul, Korea, chaired by President KIM Dae-jung of Korea. Participants included the Heads of State and Government of the 25 countries participating in the ASEM Process, and President Romano PRODI of the European Commission. The Summit was themed "Partnership for Prosperity & Stability in the New Millennium".
The conclusions of the meeting are summarised in a Chair's Statement, in the Asia-Europe Cooperation Framework (AECF) 2000 and in a separate Seoul Declaration for Peace on the Korean Peninsula.
ASEM3 was attended by 10 Asian (Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam) and 15+1 European (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the European Commission) members.
More than 4,000 people including delegates (over 1,800) and media representatives (over 2,200) participated in the meeting.
17-31 October 2000 Seoul, Korea
Side Event 3rd Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF3)
Chair's Statement ASEM3 - Chair's Statement
Declaration ASEM3 - Seoul Declaration for Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Final Report Asia-Europe Vision Group (AEVG) - Final Report (Full)
Working Methods Asia-Europe Cooperation Framework (AECF) 2000
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Tommy Robinson in contempt of court for ‘aggressively confronting’ defendants
Tommy Robinson leaves the Old Bailey in London after being found in contempt of court by High Court judges (Aaron Chown/PA)
Tommy Robinson has been found in contempt of court by High Court judges for “aggressively confronting and filming” defendants in a criminal trial and broadcasting the footage on social media.
Two senior judges found the former English Defence League (EDL) leader was in contempt when he filmed defendants accused of the sexual exploitation of young girls and live-streamed the footage, in breach of a reporting ban, outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.
Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, denied any wrongdoing, saying he did not believe he was breaching any reporting restrictions and only referred to information that was already in the public domain.
But Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting at the Old Bailey with Mr Justice Warby, found him in contempt in three respects.
She said he was in contempt by breaching the reporting restriction imposed on the trial, by live-streaming the video from outside the public entrance to the court and by “aggressively confronting and filming” some of the defendants.
The judge said the content of the video “gave rise to a substantial risk that the course of justice in that case would be seriously impeded” and the confrontation of the defendants was a direct interference with the course of justice.
She added: “In our judgment, the respondent’s conduct in each of those respects amounted to a serious interference with the administration of justice.
“Detailed reasons for this decision will be handed down shortly. A hearing to decide the appropriate penalty will take place on a date to be fixed by the court.”
Robinson’s supporters gathered outside the Old Bailey during the two-day court hearing (Aaron Chown/PA)
A provisional date of July 11 was given, depending on the availability of a medical expert for Robinson.
The judge said the court will aim to give full reasons for the decision next week.
Robinson, wearing a blue jacket, blue shirt and jeans, showed little reaction as the judge announced the decision.
There was a brief flare of anger from Robinson supporters in the street outside the court as news of the result filtered through.
A small number marched purposefully towards the front of the court entrance, to barriers sectioning off police from the public.
The crowd, as one, then began chanting “shame on you” while pointing at the court, and beer cans were thrown at journalists.
Robinson was surrounded by journalists and security as he left the court.
Addressing the crowd, Robinson said the decision was wrong (Aaron Chown/PA)
A couple of his supporters then sprang from the crowd to film journalists, calling them “scum”.
Addressing the crowd, Robinson said the decision was wrong.
He repeated his claims the verdict will have a negative impact on press freedom.
He said: I’ve been convicted cos of who I am, not what I’ve done.”
Speaking after the ruling, the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC, who brought the contempt proceedings against Robinson, said: “Posting material online that breaches reporting restrictions or risks prejudicing legal proceedings is a very serious matter and this is reflected in the court’s decision today.
“I would urge everyone to think carefully about whether their social media posts could amount to contempt of court.”
Robinson broadcast the footage on May 25, 2018 while the jury in the second of a series of linked grooming trials was considering its verdict.
Supporters of Tommy Robinson face off with police outside the Old Bailey in London (Aaron Chown/PA)
A reporting restriction was in place which postponed the publication of any details of the case until the end of all the trials involving 29 people, in a bid to ensure all defendants received a fair trial.
The 36-year-old, from Luton, Bedfordshire, was jailed for 13 months after being found in contempt of court on the day of the broadcast.
The video lasted an hour-and-a-half and was viewed online 250,000 times after being live-streamed on Facebook.
He served two months in jail before being freed after that finding of contempt was overturned by the Court of Appeal in August 2018.
But the case was then referred back to the Attorney General, who announced in March that it was in the public interest to bring fresh proceedings against Robinson.
Dame Victoria and Mr Justice Warby gave permission for the Attorney General to bring a new case against Robinson at a hearing in May.
Contempt of court carries a maximum sentence of two years.
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Dr. Mike Curry
Superintendent’s Message for the 2018-2019 School Year
Full disclosure: I am super excited to see what the next nine months will bring. For me, there is no better season than “School Season.” It has been a pleasure to lead the Abingdon-Avon School District for the past 14 months. Among the numerous changes that have occurred in the past 14 months, the district has seen growth academically, updated numerous facilities, and increased our social media presence. None of these improvements occur without a hard working teaching corps, dedicated support personnel, a flexible and talented summer maintenance and custodial staff, and a forward-thinking administrative team.
Over the summer, Hedding Grade School received a refresh, consisting of a complete paint makeover and the installation of a new safety window in the front entrance. School safety is a major concern for the board, staff, and administration. Over the next couple of summers, we will be continuing to find ways to make our schools as safe as possible. In another effort to improve aging classrooms, the 6th grade wing on the Avon Campus has been overhauled into progressive classrooms, in-line with many of our remodeled classrooms.
In an effort to do what is best for kids, the District Office moved out of Hedding Grade School (all in one week). This move allowed for the division of an overcrowded classroom into two separate classes. A private space was created for students, counselors, and social workers to visit and address the increasing social emotional and mental health issue that young students come to school with every day. Additionally, the library was moved in order to keep all of our K-2 classrooms as close to each other as possible. The inclusion of five Knox Warren Special Education Cooperative Center-based classrooms across the district, while an awesome benefit for our students, left nowhere in the district to relocate the Central Office. The office is now offsite in a public setting. We can be found at 507 N. Monroe St. Suite #3.
Additionally, in order to continue to work towards providing the best education we can for our students, the district hired two instructional coaches to support our staff as we focus on writing and math on a deeper level. To allow for deeper thinking and creativity, the district has jumped into the Makerspace concept with both feet. At the end of last year, we purchased enough technological and hands-on creative resources to fully support a Makerspace at Hedding Grade School, Avon Elementary School, and AAMS.
At the end of the day, this is a fantastic district with great people trying hard to serve our students and staff the best way they can. I look forward to continuing along this path of improvement through focused instruction, relationship-building, and academic and social supports for our students.
Have a GREAT 2018-2019 School Year,
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"We can write sexy songs and spiritual songs — and songs that are both. We can write anything we want — and get away with it." — Bono
Your Blue Room - Soundtrack Edit Lyrics
"'There are some beauties on there. 'Your Blue Room' is one of my favourite songs, which was actually used in the Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders song 'Beyond The Clouds.' The song is based on the idea that sex is a conversation of sorts. ON one level it's purely carnal but on another it's a prayer. It's an incredible thing to say to your lover or your maker: 'Your instructions, whatever their direction.'" - Bono, U2 By U2 2006
(This track can be found in the movie Par-Dela Les Nuages)
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Anouska Hempel’s sailing boat is as legendary as the designer herself
Legendary designer Anouska Hempel holidays in grand fashion—on her personal sailing boat, a traditional gulet with black sails
Karl Treacy
Published: Aug 03, 2016 | 17:05:38 IST
Photo courtesy Anouska Hempel Design
Anouska Hempel—or Lady Weinberg, as she is known in her private life—is dealing with a downpour. Or rather her crew is. This is the downside of having a boat, even if it is in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Mallorca in May. Men far more dashing than your typical deckhand hurry below with cushions and mattresses, as the boat’s owner and designer takes refuge beneath the expansive awning to chat.
If the unexpectedly inclement weather is the downside, the upside is the 28-metre-long boat itself. A traditional wooden gulet, the purchase of the Beluga 1, as it was named, took place in Bodrum, Turkey, some 15 years ago. Out of the water and perched on stilts at the end of the season, even in its poorly state it was a case of love at first sight. The decisive Hempel went into the nearest bar and “chatted up” two trusty sailors (“one’s name was Genghis”) willing to navigate it to Mallorca “by the stars and the moon”, a journey that took three weeks.
The lights, cushions, and runners on the seats in this salon by the bridge are all by Anouska Hempel Design. The tan leather plates are by Ralph Lauren. The baskets and trunks are antiques. Photo: Will Pryce
SLOW, STEADY
The restoration and renovation job took well over a year. And it’s an ongoing project, “because you have to look after a wooden boat very, very well”. Stretching wide in the water, with its distinctive black sails, the Beluga 1 has become an enviable and instantly identifiable classic—spotted around the Mediterranean from Seville to Istanbul and the Amalfi Coast. It’s available to hire throughout the summer months, hand-picked crew included, and Hempel says she manages to snag only about two weeks on it each year.
Much has been made of her desire to buck the trend for the type of slick yacht favoured by her peers. For her, the reason is simple. “I didn’t want a speedboat,” she explains. “I didn’t want anything that goes fast around the Mediterranean. I’m a gypsy and a slow one, so I needed to be on my own ground and be in an environment that I liked, and it’s easier to do that in a beautiful, big, wooden [boat] than it is on a very lovely, compact, white shiny thing.”
Encroachments from the modern world such as lights and switches are hidden as much as they can be, and the exquisite interior has a focus on the functional. In the kitchen, sinks have a wooden rim to avoid chipping plates, drawers are without handles, and heavy baskets are on tracks for easy sliding.
In this dining area on the aft deck, the chairs are from a gentleman’s club in Mumbai. The cushions are by Anouska Hempel Design. Photo courtesy Anouska Hempel Design
CONDUCIVE TO CHANGE
For Hempel, working on a boat as opposed to a hotel was “common sense”. She says, “All you have to do is make sure everything is in its place, [that] there’s a place for everything, and make sure things are secure. You need [an innate] common sense at the end of the day.”
An innate sense of style doesn’t hurt, either. In the space below deck—transformed from a warren of small cabins into three-to-four exquisite ones—wood, unsurprisingly, dominates. The charming interiors have strong competition, however, in the aft deck—with its awning stretching the width of the boat, and its surfeit of divans and cushions that encourage worry-free lounging in the place with the
best view.
At the time of this interview, Hempel was getting ready to work her magic on the boat once more, in what would be its fifth makeover. The overhaul was going to be entirely cosmetic: “You never change everything on a boat this age,” she pointed out.
What’s changing is the colour scheme: “Going from ginger to saffron, if you want to go down the spice route with me,” Hempel smiles. “Saffron and turmeric and mustard and black. The chef will be doing food to match—basically Asian with an Italian twist.” Given the designer’s eye for the subtly special detail, that seems a given. Any yacht-spotters out there shouldn’t get too used to the new incarnation. Creative urges and itchy fingers indicate the scheme has perhaps a two-year lifespan. After that, “Mustard will be out and wasabi will be in!” she suggests with a laugh. And the menu adjusted accordingly, of course.
The quilt on the bed in the stateroom is from Japan and the cushions are from France; the blind is made from an opium mat from Thailand, and is held up by Syrian horse straps. Photo courtesy Anouska Hempel Design
A famous beauty with impeccable style, her razor-sharp intellect is also coupled with a tireless work ethic. She is the first to admit that she doesn’t suffer fools gladly, nor, when it comes to her exacting vision, any tedious attempts to water it down. “‘I will not be value-engineered’—it will say that on my tombstone,” she states enigmatically, her disarming sense of humour laced with something a tad spikier.
The clientele of her eponymous design firm might be at the high end of the market, but she’s not afraid of spreading her talent around—if the project makes sense. “Give me an old tanker and I’ll turn it into a student hotel. It has to be wild and wonderful.” But not just her name slapped on any old thing. “It’s got to be something amusing. It can’t just be a rubber mat for the bath that you don’t slip on.”
While luxurious black-sailed gulets have yet to be dumbed down for the masses, she’s rather Zen-like about the re-appropriation of her ideas in general. “Everyone copies everything you do anyway. The moment you open a hotel you’ve had it. You’re exposing yourself to the riff-raff and the gentry of the world—all with the same turn of the key.”
Anouska Hempel Design, and its team of 30, is currently working on apartment blocks, hotels, restaurants, palaces, and several big gardens, from Dubai to Istanbul and Manchester. The late-July to early-August period will witness the opening of two hotels: Blakes Singapore (carrying forward the legacy of the boutique hotel that started it all) and the Franklin, in Knightsbridge, London.
“Bored? I’m too busy to be bored. I think that’s a terrible word!” she replies incredulously when asked about the impetus behind her unceasing workload. “You can’t be bored. Life’s too busy and wonderful and there’s always something around the corner.” Navigated, undoubtedly, with grace and a steady hand—just like she sails.
The view from the bow of the Beluga 1, owned by London-based designer Anouska Hempel.
Will Pryce
The lights and lamp in the study are from the Anouska Hempel Design couture collection. The baskets are in leather.
The tables in the foreground are by Anouska Hempel Design; in the background a Riva motor boat is in tow.
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-search-for-yield-leads-to-private-debt-1429935385\nThe Search for Yield Leads to Private Debt\nAmey Stone\nApril 25, 2015 12:16 am ET\nThe search for yield is going even farther afield: Investors are being sold private debt.\nThe selling point is obvious—private-debt funds yield up to 10% to 12% a year. But they’re far from simple. Similar to private-equity funds, private-debt funds make direct loans, or buy the existing loans, of mostly private companies. These funds are usually set up as partnerships, where only qualified investors can get in, and assets are locked up for 10 years.\nThe underlying loans usually have floating rates, which adjust as interest rates change—good news for investors as rates rise. Loans are higher in the capital structure than bonds, which makes them lower risk than high-yield bonds.\n“These options have always been around, but they are more powerful today because of the low interest-rate environment and nervousness about when the Fed will raise rates,” says Adam Taback, deputy chief investment officer for Wells Fargo’s private bank.\nBut private-debt funds are mainly the purview of institutional investors and investors with at least $5 million in investable assets. Private wealth firms may make this strategy available to investors who qualify, but only as a supplement to a more traditional fixed-income strategy, says Taback, who advises that no more than 5% to 15% of a portfolio be invested in private-debt funds.\nTHE MAIN PROBLEM is that private debt is illiquid. “These funds shouldn’t be the hub of a fixed-income allocation,” Taback says, “but can be used to navigate the current environment and for some extra yield.”\nTaback’s cautious take is sensible, even for not-so-high-net-worth investors. For them, there are a growing number of products that make private debt accessible to everyone. These products come in a variety of flavors, each with its own very particular set of risks and benefits.\nFor starters, there are business-development companies, known as BDCs. BDCs are public companies that trade on stock exchanges and are in the business of making loans to midsize companies. Some investment managers don’t like the BDC structure—they can have high fees and come with hidden risks. They do, however, yield around 10%, and have a better track record for solvency in the financial crisis than banks. Investors can invest in BDCs directly; there are a handful of mutual funds and exchange-traded products, but they’re tiny.\n“A big reason why we’ve seen the BDC market grow tenfold in the past 10 years is that the withdrawal of banks from this marketplace has created an opportunity,” says Grier Eliasek, president of Prospect Capital (PSEC), which is a BDC itself. “But investors have to be mindful about what kind of deals nonbanks are doing, as well as the amount of leverage.”\nBANK-LOAN FUNDS, also known as floating-rate funds, are open-end mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that buy the more liquid loans of large high-yield companies, often issued as part of a merger. There are also ETFs, such as PowerShares Senior Loan (BKLN).\n“We look at the larger, more liquid part of the market,” says Stephen Casey, who manages the Neuberger Berman Floating Rate Income fund (NFIAX), which has a current yield of 4.75%. Two other good bets: Eaton Vance Floating Rate (EVBLX) and RidgeWorth Seix Floating Rate High Income (SFRAX).\nFinally, the new world of peer-to-peer lending is worth a mention. Here, online marketplaces, such as Funding Circle, allow institutions and qualified investors to make direct loans to companies. Others, like Lending Club, act as a platform for unsecured consumer or business loans.\nNo matter what the vehicle: “It’s all about the underwriting,” says Taback. “You need to invest with firms that have established processes and teams.”\nE-mail: amey.stone@barrons.com"
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The UK has been getting a head start on World Oceans Day with organised beach cleans taking place in locations across the country, from Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan to the Royal Docks in London.
The global event, which has taken place on the 8th of June every year since 2002, celebrates the importance of oceans and aims to inspire direct action such as beach cleans to protect them. In fact, there are thousands of World Oceans Day events in more than 120 countries and a social media reach into the several billions.
Recent news reports have highlighted the blight of plastics in our oceans and this has led to an upsurge in anti-litter and anti-pollution campaigns by individuals, local groups and national organisations.
Whether it’s through a formal Oceans Day campaign or simply highlighting issues, we can all make a difference.
Even the Royal family have been doing their bit to help. Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge took part in a beach clean in Anglesey in North Wales organised by the County Council and environmental group Surfers Against Sewage.
Helping the Menai Bridge Scouts collect litter from the shore, Kate Middleton spoke to the children about the importance of looking after the environment, while Prince William discussed with the organisers the problem of tackling micro-plastics in the ocean.
While volunteering is hugely important, you could also turn your passion for the briny into a new career. And the most exciting marine job is one that sees you, quite literally, in at the deep end as a commercial diver.
This underwater work is necessary for repairs on ships, bridges and oil platforms. But by far the most exciting role can be monitoring and photographing marine life. Many professional underwater photographers work on assignments for magazines and some move into filming for television documentaries and movies.
If you love the idea of working in the ocean, you might also consider training as a recreational scuba diving instructor – a job that could ultimately take you to far-flung and exotic locations, giving lessons to holidaymakers.
Similarly, as a trained lifeguard, you could have the opportunity to safeguard swimmers not only in the UK’s pools but also in beach locations in some of the most beautiful parts of the world. No formal education is necessary, but you will need training in order to be certified.
Not all jobs for ocean lovers involve getting wet. If you love science and have studied to a degree level, the role of marine biologist allows you to combine this with studying oceans and their inhabitants. Although diving can be a big – and fun – part of this role, most of the work will also take place in the controlled conditions of a laboratory.
This is an incredibly important job: monitoring marine eco-systems is vital to understanding how oceans and their resident wildlife work and, through this, finding new ways to protect them.
Another science-based role is that of the hydrologist. If it contains water, you’ll be in your element – studying everything about H2O, including its chemical properties, distribution and vulnerability to potential pollution. Essentially, this job is all about ensuring there’s enough water to support life on earth.
An oceanographer, meanwhile, is a geoscientist whose mission is to analyse the physical and chemical properties of ocean waters and how their properties and movement affect the planet’s climate and coastal land areas.
With the increasingly dangerous impact of climate change, this work has never been more important, offering analysis and predictions about the impact of environmental events.
Of course, studying the oceans would not be possible without the ability to visit them.
That’s where marine engineers come in. As specialist technical professionals, they design and build engines and propulsion systems that power not only boats but also submarines – crafts that allow marine scientists to study the ocean floor.
The engineering work can also involve maintaining and repairing often complex machinery on ships of all sizes, from small yachts to massive cruise liners.
A specialist area is that of maritime design where, as well as engineering know how, you can use technical skills such as computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Finally, if you’d like to get up close and personal with wildlife, you might consider training to become an aquatic veterinarian, treat a huge range of marine animals such as seals, fish, dolphins and turtles.
This could be as part of marine conservation projects here in the UK or in locations as far away as the Galapagos Islands archipelago in the Pacific.
Why not turn your love of oceans into a full-time career? You can find a wide variety of maritime-linked roles online.
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Your Essential Guide To This Year's Best Festivals
Summer is just around the corner (we promise) and many of this year’s biggest festivals are already showcasing their line-ups and experiences.
It’s around this time of year that many of us start to make plans to escape the confines of the office and discover live music, whether that be at home or overseas.
And the European festival scene provides plenty of options, across every musical genre you can think of; stretching from the western tip of Portugal to Estonia and Latvia on the Russian border. Wherever your wanderlust points you, we guarantee there’ll be something there waiting. Here’s our guide to the best of what’s out there in 2018.
Revived in 2002, and with its origins in 1960s counter-culture, the Isle of Wight Festival has emerged as a favoured destination for UK festival-goers. Held between 21st and 24th June, IoW already has a killer line-up confirmed, featuring Kasabian, Liam Gallagher, Depeche Mode and The Wombats among others.
Most attendees tend to camp, but there are also ‘glamping’ options provided by the organisers and hotel, cottage and bed and breakfast options available through the official site.
Farr is a true platform for electronic artists and is held between 5th and 8th July. There’s a camp-site five minutes away from the music, while hotel bell tents are available for a touch of luxury in a rural setting.
Further north, and offering a true urban experience, newcomer Live at Leeds transforms the city centre into a festival for one day only.
On 5th May, Bands including The Vaccines, Circa Waves and Ash will perform across venues throughout the confines of the concrete.
VIP tickets are already sold out, but you can buy admission to all venues, where than 100 artists will perform, for less than £40.
If you’re up for jumping on a plane and heading for more exotic climes then there’s no shortage of options.
Held across locations in Barcelona and Porto, Primavera Sound has a legendary reputation as one of Europe’s top festivals for independent acts, while also attracting big names from a range of genres.
This year’s edition will feature the likes of A$AP Rocky, Chromeo, Tyler the Creator, Arctic Monkeys and Lorde, against a backdrop of dozens of smaller international artists, and across the course of seven days between 28th May and 3rd June.
1,500 miles east in Transylvania, Romania, you’ll find Electric Castle. Look beyond the creepy location and you’ll discover a unique festival experience that is held in an actual castle, and which combines a diverse musical line-up with arts and technology, while putting emphasis on guest interaction.
Held between 18th and 22nd July, Electric Castle is a true 24- hour festival, and among the acts already confirmed are Mura Masa, Damian Marley, London Grammar and Jessie J. Cluj-Napoca airport is less than 30 miles from the festival site, and accommodation in the city is relatively cheap.
Even if your summer months are already booked up, you don’t have to miss out on a European festival experience in 2018.
In Paris, Pitchfork Festival is held at the Grand Halle de la Villette in the north east of the city each November, and promises an unrivalled party experience over three days.
Line-up announcements are expected in the months ahead, but Bon Iver have already indicated that they’re on board, while Pitchfork’s legendary after-parties feature DJ sets spinning well into the early hours. Pitchfork is the perfect option if you’re looking for something later in the year.
Everyone has opinions on men’s’ festival fashion and assembling a wardrobe-to-go that meets the demands of live music while matching the vibe can be tough.
For sunnier destinations, pair a short sleeve floral shirt with a slim dark blue chino short, or add a twisted yarn stripe t-shirt to darker chino shorts.
When it’s wetter, the best festival jackets are light and waterproof, so a technical parka in navy or olive is a good option. Pair it with a selvedge skinny jean to guard against elements while staying sharp.
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You are here: Home START YOUR RESEARCH Tracing your ancestors
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A team of volunteers manage The Centre for Heritage and Family History on the second floor of teh Central Library in Reading. The Centre is accessible by car (parking is FREE during the evening and at weekends), bus and train and opening times are posted on the website. Entry to the Centre is also FREE.
You can access online services like Findmypast, The Genealogist, The British Newspaper Archive and the worldwide version of Ancestry at the Centre - which means that you can research almost any county or country in the world from this location. Access to these resources is FREE of charge. Many other datasets for Berkshire and surrounding counties are accessible on the computers at the Centre too.
The society has an extensive library of books, film and fiche records in its Reading premises. There is a well-stocked bookshop too, where you can obtain all of the society's CDs and other publications, and family and local history books, like the Historical Atlas of Berkshire, 2nd Edition, published in December 2012.
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Home/Uncategorized/Super Sunday in store for Manchester
Super Sunday in store for Manchester
Manchester City and Manchester United can both bounce back from midweek Premier League setbacks when they face Arsenal and Leicester respectively on Sunday.
Pep Guardiola‘s City were stunned up in the north east on Tuesday as they threw away a lead handed to them after just 24 seconds, losing out 2-1 against Rafael Benitez’s lowly Newcastle outfit at St James’ Park.
Fortunately, Leicester managed to hold Liverpool to a 1-1 draw at Anfield the following night as Jurgen Klopp’s men moved five points clear of City at the top and not seven.
Liverpool don’t play until Monday so that gap can be cut to two points when Arsenal visit the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, and City will be vying to bounce back in style to put some pressure on their Merseyside title rivals.
It’s an ideal game for City – they have won each of their last four meetings against Arsenal – while their home form in general is exceptional, with 11 wins from their 12 matches in the league and 40 goals plundered.
It is likely that both teams will score in this clash. Despite their strong attacking line-up, the Citizens have kept just two clean sheets in their last 11 league games while Arsenal have found the net at least once in 10 of their previous 11 away games.
Meanwhile, United’s eight-game winning streak under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came to an end when they were held to a 2-2 draw by Burnley at Old Trafford.
It could have been worse but Paul Pogba‘s penalty and Victor Lindelof’s stoppage-time effort saw United storm back from two down with just three minutes of normal time left on the clock.
They head to the King Power Stadium to face a Foxes side who are winless in four, have lost two of their last three games at home, and who the Red Devils have beaten in four of their last five meetings.
No team in the top flight has been involved in more games in which both teams have scored than United, so expect an away win and goals galore on Sunday in the East Midlands.
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Home/Uncategorized/Spurs looking to maintain title pressure
Spurs looking to maintain title pressure
Tottenham have forced their way back into the Premier League title race over recent weeks but nothing short of a victory will do when they welcome Leicester to Wembley on Sunday.
Late goals have been the order of the day for Spurs recently, as their last three top-flight wins against Fulham, Watford and Newcastle have come with goals in the 83rd-minute or later.
Something similar could be required for Mauricio Pochettino’s side on Sunday, as Leicester have a proven track record against top-six sides this season, following up a recent victory over Manchester City with a 1-1 draw at Liverpool in their last away fixture.
However, that is the only time Leicester have avoided defeat in any of their last five games, with their last victory coming back on New Year’s Day against Everton.
That should certainly give Spurs the edge in this fixture and they are priced at 5/7 to claim all three points come Sunday.
Entertainment should also be on the cards at Wembley, as these two sides have shared 21 goals in their last four league meetings, including nine when they last met at Wembley in May – Spurs prevailed 5-4 that day.
Son Heung-Min is certainly someone that is likely to be amongst the goals, as he has netted nine times in his past 10 league and cup appearances for Spurs, while he has scored three goals and set up two in his last two league starts against Leicester.
The South Korean has certainly helped fill the void left by the injuries to Dele Alli and Harry Kane and he is priced at 23/20 to score anytime on Sunday.
Jamie Vardy is Leicester’s most likely threat for a goal and, at 21/10 to be an anytime scorer, he could be a good shout given he has netted three goals in his last three appearances against Spurs.
One bet to perhaps steer clear of is the draw, as Spurs are yet to share the spoils in any of their 25 league games to date this season, while there has only been one draw in the last seven meetings between the two sides.
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No Progress After Venice Commission
on June 5, 2018 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
“There was no progress in finding a solution for Bosnia’s Election Law after a meeting between the country’s political leaders and Venice Commission representatives, and a new meeting is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Leaders of Bosnian political parties met with the Venice Commission’s delegation on Monday to discuss the issue which, if remained unresolved, leaves it unclear how the upcoming October general election results will be implemented.
Two years ago the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled that some provisions of the Election Law were inconsistent with the state Constitution and subsequently deleted two sections of the Law which treat the matter of representation in the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), the semi-autonomous entity shared by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats.” (N1)
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Eldersburg Elementary to hold fundraiser to fight brain cancer
By Lauren Loricchio and Carroll County Times
When Cathy Chiaramonte, a fourth-grade teacher at Eldersburg Elementary School, had a headache for three weeks in January, she though it was just a sinus problem.
Chiaramonte, 54, was diagnosed in February with glioblastoma multiforme after an episode at school in which she was rushed to the emergency room, she said. GBM is a fast-growing brain tumor, according to information from the American Cancer Society,
"When she had symptoms at school, we were obviously beside ourselves," said school nurse Cathy Kasper.
But Chiaramonte's colleagues and students know her for her strong-willed personality.
"We know she's a fighter and she will fight it," Kasper said.
To raise money for Chiaramonte and brain cancer research, the school is holding the first C2 Celtic Canter 5K and one-mile fun run, named for Chiaramonte's Irish roots, on May 16 beginning at 8:45 a.m. The race route begins and ends at the elementary school, located on Johnsville Road.
Money will help Chiaramonte with travel related to receiving clinical trials to treat the cancer as well as to the National Brain Tumor Society, an organization looking to find a cure for brain cancer, Kasper said.
The school expects at least 250 runners and more than 200 additional participants to attend a festival with games and activities. The event had raised roughly $2,000 as of March 31, Kasper said.
Kasper, a good friend of Chiaramonte, has coordinated the event with other teachers, including Brandy Hunt, Billy Kavalos, Lani Hrones, Tricia Mower and Danielle Centofanti, Kasper said. The school's PTA is sponsoring the event, she said.
GBM causes increased pressure in the brain, prompting symptoms such as headache, nausea, vomiting and drowsiness, according to the American Brain Tumor Association.
Depending on the location of the tumor, patients could experience memory or speech difficulties, weakness on one side of their body, visual changes, and memory or speech difficulties, according to the organization's website.
The tumors affect more men than women, the website says.
"It's very aggressive as far as I hear — it's very tenacious — much like myself," said Chiaramonte, who laughed while looking over at her daughter, Jessica.
According to the U.S. National Library of the National Institutes of Health, it is the most aggressive form of glioma brain tumors.
Chiaramonte said hearing the diagnosis was "surreal."
"You're hearing the words and you know what it is, but you don't believe it," Chiaramonte said.
There were no major changes that indicated anything was wrong before that day at school, though Chiaramonte said that in hindsight, "maybe there were some teeny things."
Since the diagnosis, Chiaramonte said she's been exercising more than ever, part of her physical therapy plan. She also goes to the doctor every day for radiation and chemotherapy treatments. After 60 days of treatment, she will have a one-month break before going back on chemo for 12 months, she said.
The treatment forced her to take a leave of absence from school, she said.
Kasper said the school told students that Chiaramonte had surgery, notifying parents of her condition. Parents had the choice of whether to tell their children about Chiaramonte's diagnosis, she said.
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On March 31, Chiaramonte, who returned to school to be interviewed for this article, was met with hugs from two of her fourth-graders, Erin Willig and Alina Partch.
"I do miss the kids — I do miss talking with them," Chiaramonte said, whose face lit up when she saw her students.
A third-grader at the school, Katie Mattern, will donate her birthday gifts to raise money for the cause at her ninth-birthday party to be held April 12. She is asking that in lieu of gifts, her friends and family bring checks or cash to support the May 16 event.
"I do think it's important to do that because I want to help," Mattern said. "I want to donate money to support brain cancer research."
Chiaramonte said being diagnosed with cancer has taught her a few things that she will take back with her to the classroom.
"When I come back to teaching, I'll be much more patient and understanding," she said.
Even though it's been difficult, Chiaramonte said she feels lucky to have a strong support system behind her.
"You have no idea how good it feels to have people behind you," Chiaramonte said. "People have been so amazing here."
Chiaramonte said she feels support from students who send her letters as well as other members of the Eldersburg community.
"People know them because they've been here for so long," Kasper said.
Chiaramonte's husband, Ralph, has taught at Liberty High School for more than 30 years. The couple has two children, Jessica and Matthew.
She said it's easier to be diagnosed with the disease than to see a loved one experiencing it.
"I don't have to see it; I just plug through," she said.
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What: C2 Celtic Canter 5K and one-mile fun run with a festival with games and activities for families
When: Race is held Saturday, May 16 at 8 a.m. Registration starts at 8 a.m. and the walk/run begins at 8:45 a.m.
Where: Eldersburg Elementary School, 1021 Johnsville Road
To register: Pre-registration for the 5K is guaranteed if the registration is postmarked by May 1. Refreshments and door prizes will be provided to 5K participants. Awards will be given for age groups and overall winners. Cost is $30 for the 5K, $10 for the one-mile fun run and $12 for a T-shirt. Register online at: imathlete.com. Mail registration with payment to Eldersburg Elementary C2 Celtic Canter, 1021 Johnsville Road, Eldersburg, MD 21784.
To donate: Companies may sponsor the event at levels ranging from $50 to $350. Checks can be made to Eldersburg Elementary PTA and mailed to the school's address or given to an event representative.
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For more information about the event, contact C2CelticCanter@gmail.com or visit the event Facebook page at: facebook.com/c2celticcanter
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Urban streetscape planned for downtown Columbia's crescent
By By Luke Lavoie and llavoie@tribune.com
A rendering of the streetscape of the mixed-use development planned for the southern most portion of the crescent development. To the right is a state-of-the-art swim center. The design will be akin to the streetscape in Bethesda Row. (Provided by Design Collective Inc.)
Howard Hughes Corp.'s latest plan for the idle, undeveloped crescent property in Columbia is to create an urban downtown with a Bethesda Row-esque streetscape that will house retail, restaurants, residential and civic space.
The plan calls for 2,100 residential units, a 250-key hotel, 203,000 square feet of retail, up to 4,360 parking spaces and 225,000 square feet of civic uses – which would include a new county library, state-of-the-art swim center, conference center and concert hall – directly south of Merriweather Post Pavilion. The developer also plans to build 1,125,000 square feet of general and medical office space in three plots west of the pavilion.
"The plan calls for the crescent to be, literally, a downtown, with a mixed-use of residences, offices, shops; a place where you can live work and play on a 24-hour basis," said David Weinreb, chief executive officer of Howard Hughes.
"Our goal, obviously, is to evolve Columbia into a vibrant, 21st-century place to be. From the start we have shared [Columbia founder Jim] Rouse's vision for the crescent, and respect the plan to create a real city in the garden."
In total, the project will include 4.8 million square feet of development and would cost the developer $1 billion to build. According to John DeWolf, Howard Hughes senior vice president, the developer hopes to be through the county approval process for the land use plan by the summer or fall of this year, with construction beginning in spring 2015. DeWolf estimates construction on the first phase to take at least a year and a half, which would put the opening of some of the buildings in late 2016.
Howard Hughes' plans are scheduled to be presented at a presubmission community meeting on March 31 at 7 p.m. on the fourth floor of Howard Community College's Student Services Hall.
"The crescent represents, to use a painter's term, an open canvass for us to do something great," Weinreb said. "I think this is one of the great opportunities in the country to create a great urban experience that is unmatched."
Weinreb and DeWolf said the development south of the pavilion will include towers and skyscrapers that DeWolf said could be up to 20-stories high.
"We are looking to create maximum density," Weinreb said. "The more people we have the more vibrant the downtown community will be."
The office space, which will be accompanied by approximately 50,000 square feet of retail and an additional 4,230 parking spaces, will be split between three parcels west of the pavilion and Symphony Woods. The parcel located at the corner of Hickory Ridge Road and Broken Land Parkway, known as area two, is intended to be the medical office hub that could include full-service outpatient care. DeWolf said those buildings would likely be around seven-stories high.
"Healthcare is on everybody's mind," Weinreb said. "Great preventative medical facilities are really the future, and so the opportunity to create spaces that are appealing to the finest medical facilities and doctors is something we are quite focused on."
Weinreb said Howard Hughes is in negotiations with a medical tenant in the Baltimore-Washington area that he declined to name.
DeWolf and Weinreb said they toured Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center at Green Spring Station in Lutherville, and that is what is envisioned for the crescent.
"We really have in front of us what the vision is," DeWolf said. "It doesn't exist as things sit now in between Washington and Baltimore, on that corridor. We are in a perfect spot for that to be duplicated."
The parcel located on the corner of Little Patuxent Parkway and Broken Land Parkway, known as area one, will be general office space, with buildings up to 15-stories high. DeWolf said the developer wants to fill the entire area with a single tenant, and that the architecture will mirror the office buildings across the street at Corporate Center.
DeWolf said the plan will be implemented in three phases, with each phase targeting the three areas of development.
The first phase, which will total 1.6 million square feet of development, will be divided between three parcels. The plans call for 150,000 square feet of office space and 500 parking spaces in area one. The developer plans to build 150,000 of square feet of medical office and 600 parking spaces on area two.
In area three, which is the largest and located directly south of the pavilion, the first phase calls for 725 residential units, the hotel, 97,000 square feet of retail and dining space, a 100,000 square-foot library, a 50,000 square-foot conference center, a 50,000 square-foot aquatic center, a 25,000 square-foot concert hall and between 1,200 and 1,900 parking spaces, in garages.
DeWolf said the opening dates and phasing of the rest of the development will be dependent on market factors.
Maintaining Merriweather
DeWolf and Weinreb added that, although not part of the official development plan, maintaining and renovating Merriweather Post Pavilion is critical to the developer's vision for downtown.
"Merriweather is central to our plan, it defines the spirit of downtown Columbia and our crescent project," Weintreb said. "We recognize that Merriweather was saved, now we want to carefully consider its future. It's critical that Merriweather is successful at a commercial level so that its sustainable."
DeWolf said the bill proposed last week by Howard County Executive Ken Ulman that would strip Howard Hughes of control, and redevelopment responsibilities, of the pavilion later this year – which DeWolf said is 10 years earlier than expected – does not change their plans.
DeWolf said Howard Hughes plans to sign a long-term lease with an operator, which may or may not be existing operator I.M.P., which he and Ulman agree is necessary to make the renovations of the property possible.
DeWolf likened the Merriweather project to the redevelopment of the former Rouse Co. building, which is slated to reopen this summer as a Whole Foods. He said both buildings need significant upgrades, and the best way to pay for them is to have a significant investment from an operator.
"[Investment from an operator] is what gives you the financial muscle to go out and borrow [the money] to rebuild the building," he said of both projects. "We want to change the notion of that relationship from landlord-tenant to almost joint venture partner," said DeWolf, who added he hopes to have an announcement on a deal next month.
He added Howard Hughes hopes that joint venture relationship will extend to the Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission, who is slated to receive the property from the developer for $0.
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DeWolf said the developer's consultant, Adrian Ellis, the former director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, is working on reconfiguring the programming for the venue. DeWolf said Ellis estimates $15 million in renovations need to be done, while a county-hired consultant put the price tag at $24.6 million.
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Lisa Fay Coutley
Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of tether (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2020), Errata (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, and In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Rona Jaffe scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize, chosen by Dana Levin. Recent/forthcoming poetry publications include AGNI, Blackbird, The Los Angeles Review, Narrative, and Pleiades. Recent/forthcoming prose publications include The Cincinnati Review, The Hunger, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, & Poets & Writers. She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry & Creative Nonfiction in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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Science resources for teachers
FameLab International
See the project in action
FameLab is designed to inspire, motivate and develop young scientists and engineers to actively engage with the public and stakeholders.
Effective science communication has the potential to alter stereotypes, create excitement and interest, and ultimately justify public funding for scientific research.
UK involvement
The UK is a centre of excellence for science communication and recognises that science accessibility to a non-scientific audience is an ever-growing priority for researchers worldwide.
Each year the FameLab International final is held at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK. National winners from across the globe flock to the festival to prove their science communication prowess, engage with other enthusiastic science communicators, and to learn from UK experts in the field.
Since its birth at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival in 2005 FameLab has grown into the world leading science communication competition.
The partnership with the British Council, begun in 2007, has seen the competition go global, with more than 5000 young scientists and engineers participating in over 25 different countries. 2015 sees FameLab’s growth set to continue, with the addition of even more countries to the competition.
Under the patronage of the Ministry of Education and Science
Produced and created by Cheltenham Festivals
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Bible Translation Conference
Introduction to the Theme
Pre & Post-Conference Events
Background on the Theme
1. Why was the theme ‘Bible translation and embodiment’ chosen?
The theme ties together some very important issues related to the theory and practice of Bible translation:
a. In 1999, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published their book Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. In this book, they make the following claims based on recent findings in cognitive science: 1. The mind is inherently embodied; 2. Thought is mostly unconscious; and 3. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. If these claims are true, they may have far reaching implications for our views on language, thought, and communication. It is therefore important to critically examine these claims and think specifically about what the implications might be for the theory and practice of Bible translation. What would ‘embodied’ translation practices look like? And in what respects would they be different from current translation practices?
b. Performance-based approaches (storying, ethnoarts performances, film, sign language) have recently become more and more important in the domain of Bible translation and Scripture engagement. These ‘embodied’ forms of communication are sometimes contrasted with ‘disembodied’ forms of communication (print communication). More research is needed to examine this divide, to compare these different modes of communication and to evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses.
c. In recent years, it has become more obvious that Bible translation is not just a technical profession. It also has theological (hermeneutical / philosophical) and social dimensions. The concepts ‘embodiment’ and ‘incarnation’ can help to explore the relation between translation, theology, and social and religious context in a focused and systematic manner.
2. What does the term 'embodiment' mean in the context of Bible translation?
The term ‘embodiment’ can be used in a variety of senses:
a. TO REFER TO THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALLY SHAPED BY BODILY EXPERIENCE: In cognitive science, the term ‘embodiment’ expresses the idea that the human brain is part of the human body and that language, meaning, knowledge and communication are inherently shaped by our body and our bodily experiences. Body and mind are not polar opposites, but rather work closely together. All language and communication is anchored in and shaped by the way we experience our bodies in the world. This philosophical orientation differs from Platonic and Cartesian dualism in which mind and body, like meaning and form, are viewed as polar opposites.
b. TO REFER TO PERFORMANCE BASED MODES OF COMMUNICATION: In this sense, the term refers to direct, animated, engaging, here-and-now forms of communication: oral communication, dramatic performances, films, readings, and so on. These flow-inspiring forms of communication are often contrasted with the indirect, disembodied (inanimate), static, unchanging containers in which information can be stored: books, audio recordings, video files, etc.
c. TO REFER TO PHYSICAL CONTAINERS OR PRODUCTS OF RECORDED COMMUNICATION: In some cases, the term can also be used to refer to the physical object that results from our process of recording information, such as a book, a scroll, a digital file, a recording, a film, a blog, a painting, etc. Note the conflict between these last two uses of the term.
3. What is the relevance of 'embodiment' with regard to Bible translation?
a. EMBODIMENT AND METAPHOR: The term ‘embodiment’ in relation to Bible translation calls our attention to the largely metaphorical structure of human language and thinking. Metaphors are not just stylistic embellishments of literal language; they structure our languages and cultures and evoke meanings that go far beyond plain, literal expressions of meaning. This raises questions about the degree to which metaphors as culturally embodied language forms are truly translatable from one language to another. What are the practical and theoretical implications of these insights for Bible translation in general and for the translation of metaphors in particular?
b. EMBODIMENT AND MEDIA: One of the latest developments in Bible translation is the emergence and proliferation of non-print media in addition to print media: oral and other performance-based approaches to Bible translation (drama, film, ethnoarts, etc.) have emerged as alternative or complementary media forms in which Bible translations can be presented. What added value do these ‘embodied’ forms of communication offer? And, conversely, what continued (added) value is offered by print as compared to non-print forms of communication? The answers to these questions are highly relevant for strategic planning related to Bible translation and Scripture engagement.
c. EMBODIMENT, INCARNATION, AND SCRIPTURE ENGAGEMENT: Jesus’ incarnational ministry is a model for all Christian ministry, including Bible translation work. Jesus did not just deliver a message, but he embodied God’s love and gave himself for his people. In a similar way Bible translation is not just a matter of delivering a faithful translation: it is a ministry in which local and cross-cultural workers truly serve the communities they encounter in a spirit of love, respect, and humility. Communities and individuals will feel attracted to the translated Word of God if they see our love and commitment to them reflecting God’s love in Christ for sinful people.
4. What does the term 'incarnation' mean and how is it connected to Bible translation?
In Christian theological discourse, the term ‘incarnation’ refers to the unique Biblical truth that the eternal Son of God became a true human person (Jesus) in order to reconcile sinful people with God and to redeem them from the power of sin, guilt, and death. In missiological discourse, the terms ‘incarnation’ and ‘incarnational ministry’ refer to ministries that focus on compassion, presence, solidarity, participation, servant leadership, and vulnerability, in accordance with Jesus’ exemplary ministry on earth.
Bible translation is an incarnational ministry in the sense that it is not just a technical skill that is provided for the benefit of others. Those who are involved in Bible translation ministry care deeply about the recipients of the translation and engage personally with them in the context of their physical, social, and spiritual needs.True incarnational ministry is found when the words and actions of Christian workers reflect the work and character of Jesus Christ. Bible translation ministry is incarnational to the degree it engages with people and reflects the character of Jesus Christ.
5. Some of the topics mentioned seem to be rather abstract and theoretical. What is the practical value of including these topics?
The organizers of BT Conference believe that in order for Bible translation practices to prosper and flourish, there needs to be a healthy, critical interaction between theory and practice. Theory needs to improve the quality of translation practices, and translation practices in turn need to inform the theory.
Reflection on the theory and practice of Bible translation and on the relation between language, thought, and the world can help translators, exegetes, and others interested in cross-cultural communication to become more aware of their own implicit assumptions in this regard and to critically examine these.
Translation studies in general and Bible translation in particular are not isolated from other fields of study (linguistics, anthropology, literary studies, cognitive studies, orality, missiology, postcolonial studies, etc.), but rather build on and are shaped by insights from these fields. Translation theory also contributes in a unique way to interdisciplinary scholarly discussions, as well as to the promotion of excellence in translation.
6. Does referencing Lakoff and Johnson’s book Philosophy in the Flesh (1999) imply that the organizers of BT Conference necessarily endorse their views on language, thought, and communication, either wholly or in part?
This is definitely not the case. Lakoff and Johnson have many important things to say about the embodied nature of language, thought, and communication, and they give ample evidence showing that meaning emerges from embodied experience and contexts. But they also make claims that not everybody would agree with. Their rejection of the correspondence theory of truth (i.e. that human thought and language are a direct, literal reflection of the inherent structures of the world) is a point in case. This perspective may lead to a relativist perspective on truth, even though Lakoff and Johnson do criticize the relativism advocated in postmodernism.
Lakoff and Johnson raise many important questions in their landmark study on Philosophy in the Flesh (1999), just as they did in their earlier work Metaphors We Live By (1980). But their interpretation of the embodied and metaphorical nature of human thought and communication is open to debate and critical examination.
7. What are some good research questions related to the theme of BT 2019?
The theme of the conference, Bible Translation and Embodiment: Incarnate Word and Incarnational Mission, is very rich and can be explored in different directions. The theme has theological, cultural, linguistic, technical, and social dimensions. Below are some suggestions of relevant research questions:
A. What are the implications of the insight that language, thought, and communication are to a large degree metaphorical? What are the actual or potential implications for the theory and practice of Bible translation?
B. What does ‘embodied’ translation theory and practice look like? In what respects would it be different from current approaches to Bible translation and theory?
C. What are some possible implications of ‘embodied’ translation in regard to (1) the role and meaning of the source text; (2) the concept of ‘equivalence’; (3) the style of translation (‘foreignizing’ or ‘domesticating’); (4) the ‘invisibility’ of the translators (Venuti 1995); and (5) the role of the clients / recipients / host community?
D. What root metaphors do we use for the process of translation and for the relationship between the source text and the translation in the receptor language? How do these metaphors shape our understanding of translation and the way we translate?
E. What are the most fruitful ways of translating Biblical metaphors across linguistic, cultural, historical, and cognitive/experiential boundaries? What are the main challenges? And what are some good strategies to overcome these challenges?
F. What are the implications of the idea that much of our language, thought, and communication is ‘unconscious’ (Lakoff & Johnson 1999)? How does this concept of ‘unconscious knowledge’ relate to communication categories like ‘implicit information’, ‘implicature’, and to Polanyi’s (1958) concept of ‘tacit knowledge’? What are some possible implications for the theory and practice of Bible translation and for the training of translators and consultants?
G. What are the pros and cons of using religious idiomatic vocabulary from the host culture in vernacular Bible translations? What are the missiological paradigms that would advocate for and oppose religious idiomatic vocabulary?
H. What is the added value of performance-based communication in Bible translation) compared to print-based communication and other forms of recorded information?
I. What is the remaining (added) value of print-based communication and other forms of recorded information?
J. Where do we draw the line between ‘Bible translation’ (as a genre / product) and ‘Scripture-based products’? What are the theological and hermeneutical implications if this distinction is lost?
K. How do we define quality in translation? What technical, theological (hermeneutical / philosophical) and social factors need to be considered? And how can these be kept in balance?
L. What is the role of the local Church as the representation of the body of Christ in defining and monitoring the quality of Bible translation and in taking responsibility for Scripture engagement in urban and rural settings?
8. Can other topics be addressed in abstracts and presentations at BT conference?
The answer to this question is a definite yes. The theme is intended to bring some focus and unity to the topics that will be presented. It does not intend to limit the scope of topics to be discussed in papers and presentations. But hopefully most presentations will have some implicit or explicit connection to the overall theme.
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Dortmund vs. Bayern - the German
The Bundesliga Preview Show - Matchday 27
Cologne - The Bundesliga Preview Show is the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga's weekly TV programme, offering a global audience a unique perspective on Germany's top flight throughout the season. We have in-depth previews of the upcoming league action, exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes reports, the best goals from the latest league encounters and much more besides.
Coming up on the Bundesliga Preview Show this week...
Back from the international break and raring to go again, the Bundesliga Preview Show this week kicks off with an appetiser for Saturday's clash of the titans between Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern München. The stakes may not be as high as has usually been the case of late, but a look back at some of those recent meetings provides a salient reminder that this is never one for the faint-hearted.
We also spend time with Dortmund skipper Mats Hummels and Bayern newcomer Sebastian Rode, take a look at one of the game's fastest-rising young coaches and his newest Bundesliga colleague, with a real job on his hands at Hamburg, examine Mönchengladbach's current formula for success, check out some of the top players at the bottom end of the standings and get things underway in our Team of the Season vote.
Borussia Dortmund against FC Bayern. Over the past few years, this old-time Bundesliga rivalry has earned its niche among the classics of the world game as well, a reputation cemented by their head-to-head in the 2013 UEFA Champions League final.
Jürgen Klopp is the man behind the revival that propelled Dortmund back into the upper echelons of European football and even though ten places and more than 30 points currently separate the sides, Bayern have every reason to be very wary of the hosts going into Saturday's big game at the Signal Iduna Park, as a brief overview of their record against BVB under Klopp will amply demonstrate. We'll also get the views of some of the protagonists from either side ahead of the latest instalment.
Mönchengladbach Report
It has been a long time coming but, third in the table and looking ever stronger as the season progresses - exemplified by their 2-0 win in Munich last time out - Borussia Mönchengladbach are well on the road back to the top of the German game under Lucien Favre.
On the tactical front, those occasions on which the Foals have been similarly dominant in possession of the ball have not necessarily been best rewarded in terms of points. That said, and a plethora of skilful, pacy wide midfielders notwithstanding, they are far from being a pure counter-attacking side either, with the likes of Max Kruse and Raffael also thrown into the creative mix. We examine the multi-pronged secret of Gladbach's success.
In their first half-season under Markus Weinzierl in 2012, FC Augsburg earned all of nine points and already looked to have one-and-a-half feet back in Bundesliga 2. A remarkable turnaround after the winter break saw the management's faith in their new coach rewarded and come the end of the campaign, the Bavarian Swabians had escaped the drop with something to spare.
Last year they finished eighth and Weinzierl's fellow professionals voted him coach of the season, ahead of Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp. The story continues in 2014/15, with Augsburg well in the running for a debut place on the European stage under the aegis of the 40-year-old tactician, himself in the fast lane to joining the game's coaching elite.
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the Rubicon Project Acquires Fox Audience Network (FAN) for Technology Assets and Team
Company Announces $18 Million Growth Financing and Reaches Profitability Ahead of Plan
November 01, 2010 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--the Rubicon Project, the advertising technology company, has acquired Fox Audience Network (FAN), one of the Web’s most advanced advertising technology platforms, to significantly expand its team and continue driving rapid revenue growth. The acquisition accelerates the Rubicon Project’s plan to deliver premium Web publishers the most complete, end-to-end display advertising platform. As part of the deal, News Corporation will receive a non-controlling minority equity stake in the new combined entity.
Separately, the Rubicon Project also announced an $18 million round of funding, bringing total financial investments to $60 million. The current financing round included funding from News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. the Rubicon Project reached profitability in October 2010, ahead of plan and excluding any revenue from the FAN acquisition, it will generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2010.
“There is great synergy across the technology and market vision of the two companies and teams. Backed by News Corporation’s support, FAN’s talented engineering team has developed unique, industry-leading display advertising technologies,” said Frank Addante, CEO and Founder of the Rubicon Project. “the Rubicon Project’s REVV platform is the number one yield optimization platform in the industry, powering more than 60 billion ad transactions each month and will process 500 billion real-time bidding (RTB) transactions in Q4. REVV fuels the industry’s largest display advertising marketplace, where 600+ ad networks, exchanges and DSPs from around the world reach 550+ million unique users. The addition of FAN’s technology assets positions us to provide a complete platform 18-24 months ahead of schedule. Combining the technology with our market share and financial strength – we now have everything we need to successfully execute our vision.”
As part of the acquisition, more than 100 FAN employees will be joining the Rubicon Project team – a majority in engineering and product. the Rubicon Project does not sell its technology to advertisers; therefore it did not acquire FAN’s direct ad sales team.
Key assets and highlights of the FAN transaction include:
MyAds self-service ad buying platform
FAN’s SDC publisher ad server
Audience hypertargeting and insights technology
Real-time bidding algorithms
100+ FAN technology employees
Former CTO and EVP of Product, Technology and Operations at FAN, John Carnahan, joins the Rubicon Project’s leadership team as CTO. Carnahan will be responsible for overseeing all product development activities, and formulating long-term vision and strategy for the REVV platform. Prior to FAN, Carnahan was Lead Developer at Yahoo! Research.
About the Rubicon Project
the Rubicon Project, the world leader in Yield Optimization technology, launched in 2007 with a mission to automate buying and selling across the $65 billion global online advertising industry. Powered by data-driven algorithms and pricing intelligence data, REVV, the company’s yield optimization platform, has optimized more than 900 billion ad transactions for more than 350 of the largest properties on the Internet and is forecasted to reach 500 billion RTB transactions by Q4 2010. REVV helps premium Web publishers like NBC Universal, Time Inc., Gannett and CareerBuilder make more money by optimizing their ad space, eliminate unnecessary ad operations costs and protect their brands. The platform powers the REVV Marketplace, the world’s largest premium display advertising marketplace. More than 600 ad networks, exchanges and DSPs access premium inventory and audiences through the REVV Marketplace and its unparalleled reach of more than 550 million unique users. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Seattle, London, Paris, Hamburg and Sydney, the company is backed by $60 million in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures Asia, GE/NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Fund and News Corporation.
the Rubicon Project
Devan Fearman
Devan@rubiconproject.com
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Chan Ngot You has dedicated her life to being a housewife and caring for her four children. The 78-year-old grandmother of four shared that she was introduced at the age of 18 to the craft of sarong cloth weaving. “It is really good exercise for the legs and hands!” However, she stopped doing weaving after two years and decided to be an amah.
As an amah, Ngot You had an unusual colleague. She worked side by side with her mother-in-law for the same employer, although they both had different roles. Her mother-in-law would do the cooking, while Ngot you washed, ironed and cleaned. “We got along well; there were no conflicts,” said Ngot You. She stopped work as an amah when she became pregnant with her first child, and decided to be a full-time housewife.
Ngot You took it upon herself not just to care for her children’s needs, but also to cook lunch for her husband and his workers at their garage. “My children are very well-behaved, so it was easy looking after them since birth,” she says, with a hint of pride. However, when the youngest daughter went to secondary school and there was “nothing for her to do at home”, she came out again to work at a steel factory in Aljunied from 1964 to 1968. The factory shifted to another location, and Ngot You stopped working for good to concentrate on her children and housework.
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Is the green economy the new status quo?
July 26, 2018 | 6:40 pm
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USUALLY the story goes like this: businesses are taking advantage of loopholes to increase profits at the expense of the environment and local communities, and the policy makers are scrambling to close these loopholes. However, more and more, we’re seeing evidence of the opposite: businesses are taking advantage of the market demand for sustainable and ethical products, and policy makers are trying to regulate to incentivize and replicate these behaviors.
Business-as-usual is still the usual, of course. But policy makers in some countries are working to redesign their whole economic system to weed out perverse incentives in the economy, and design in desired catalysts for greener and fairer workplaces, products and lifestyles.
“The SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] represent an entire agenda around development that presupposes the transition to the green economy,” said Achim Steiner, Administrator of the UN Development Programme.
His words came during an address last night on the side lines of the UN’s High Level Political Forum, at which world leaders gather to assess their progress against the agreed-upon Sustainable Development Goals.
The event, entitled “Transforming our economies and lifestyles: greener and fairer for future generations,” homed in on finance and lifestyles as key drivers for inclusive, green economies. The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) — a UN program that helps governments go through precisely this process of reorienting their economies to value sustainability and social equity — hosted the event.
Lena Hök, from construction and development group Skanska remarked on the role that financial institutions could play in reorienting market incentives. “When financial institutions raise environmental or social demands on their investments, it gets a real leverage in the business world,” she said. “Green bonds and investments signal to companies the need to integrate sustainability processes into their core business, measure their work and be transparent with the performance. By doing so business gets a better understanding of their risks and business opportunities as well as a clearer pathway on how to contribute to the sustainability agenda.”
Some organizations may already be ahead of the pack. “We’re currently witnessing a zeitgeist moment, where consumers want companies to define who they are and what they stand for,” said Lance Gould, cofounder of Silicon Valley Story Lab. This is also reflected in the priorities of job applicants, according to CEO of BNP Paribas USA, Jean-Yves Fillion. “They are not so much focused anymore on ‘How much am I going to make? What is my career path?’ They ask about ‘what are your values? What are your sustainability goals?’” he said.
While the mood in the room was upbeat and optimistic, some of the speakers acknowledged that it won’t all be plain sailing ahead. “We have to be honest that there won’t be only ‘win-win situations,’” said Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, State Secretary for the Environment from Germany. “We must therefore ensure the success of structural transformation without causing harsh structural breaks.”
Since 2013, The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) has grown into an increasingly prominent alliance of UN Agencies, international partner organizations and governments. The partnership is recognized as an innovative and efficient model of excellence for delivering on the 2030 Agenda. Drawing on the expertise of five UN Agencies — UN Environment, the International Labour Organization, the UN Development Programme, the UN Industrial Development Organization, and the UN Institute for Training and Research — PAGE challenges business-as-usual growth and business models, and places sustainability at the heart of economic systems. At the global level, PAGE partners with the donor community, the wider UN system, governments, civil society and the private sector to amplify and accelerate transitions to greener, more inclusive development, and to support future generations and sustainable development pathways. — The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)/Reuters.
QUOTES FROM THE EVENT
“We have an entire agenda around development that presupposes that the transition in the green economy context is actually something that’s going to happen. Because without it, the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals or the 2030 Agenda is purely a theoretical exercise.”
— Mr. Achim Steiner
UN Development Programme
“This issue of sustainability is clearly on the table of discussions within companies. The question isn’t anymore ‘should we do something?’ the question is ‘how can we focus on things that matter? How can we focus on things that align with priorities that were developed by the UN?’”
— Mr. Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
CEO, Solvay
“It’s what we do, but as well it’s what we decide not to do anymore; we have to be consistent…We decided to stop financing companies which principal activity is connected to exploring, producing, and distributing oil and gas from shale and from oil sands.”
— Mr. Jean-Yves Fillion
Chief Executive Officer, BNP Paribas USA; Chairman, BNP Paribas CIB Americas
“We have an imperative need to change the model. We will not be able to continue developing with just one planet because the resources are simply not enough. This is why we have to change dramatically and we have to do it fast.”
— Mr. Daniel Calleja-Crespo
Director General for the Environment, European Commission
“I don’t believe in frightening people into shifting their lives. I believe in making sustainable lifestyles attractive and reachable for all.”
“I propose to the politicians to dare to be a bit bold when talking to the financing market: and to push them. It doesn’t necessarily mean to regulate them, but to push them, and don’t be afraid.”
— Ms. Karolina Skog
Minister for Environment and Energy Sweden
“Let’s be clear: the benefits of a green economy go beyond the strictly environmental. Those whose livelihoods are threatened the most by environmental degradation and climate change are often amongst the poorest and most affected by fragility. The shift to a green economy therefore is not just imperative to safeguard our planet, it is also a key piece to address the puzzle of inequalities, create quality jobs and strengthen the resilience of individuals, communities and societies”
— Mr. Neven Mimica
Commissioner for International
Cooperation and Development
“To capitalize on the momentum of people’s interest in sustainable consumption and production, we need to make sustainable choices easily available and attractive to consumers… We need economic revolution to do that: we need a transformation from a fossil-fuel based, single-use economy into a circular economy which is based on renewable materials and maximal lifecycles for different products and materials.”
— Mr. Kimmo Tiilikainen
Minister for the Environment,
Energy and Housing, Finland
“The defining feature of the world today is inequality within countries and between countries. And inequality, of course, excludes a lot of people, particularly indigenous peoples, who are the ones who still maintain a lot of the world’s biodiversity and protect a lot of the world’s remaining tropical forests.”
— Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
“An inclusive green growth economic model is one of the sure ways to achieve sustainable development, as it turns environmental limitations and constraints into opportunities by transforming current economic systems.”
— Ms. Patricia Appiagyei
Deputy Minister for the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation
“If construction corporations take the aim to build for a better society, including counting on their carbon footprint, the energy efficiency, the water efficiency, etc., then we have a large step we are taking forward just by doing that.”
— Lena Hök
Senior Vice-President
Sustainability, Skanska AB
“We should remind ourselves the banking is socially useful when it’s done right: it’s about channeling money to socially useful products. We all need to work on making baking beautiful.”
— Mr. Jens Frølich-Holte
State Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
“Given our enormous challenges in our countries of poverty, inequality and under-development; it is imperative that we as leaders share our experiences and more importantly strengthen existing partnerships in order to build economies that are both inclusive and sustainable — with the SDG’s at their center. In doing this we must ensure we leave no one behind.”
— Ms. Edna Molewa
Minister of Environmental Affairs
“For the first time in human history, a new model is possible… There is no choice to be made between the green and the gold – between the economy and the environmental opportunity – we can do it all at the same time.”
— Mr. Erik Solheim
“Green bonds differ from conventional bonds in that the proceeds are used specifically for projects with tangible environmental benefits. Although the green bond market is still only a small fraction of the global bond market, development of standards and taxonomies continues to encourage growth. Particularly, the expansion of the Green Bond Principles in 2017 opened up additional qualifying categories and introduced new opportunities for green bond issuance.”
— Ms. Anna Zubets-Anderson
Vice-President, Senior Credit Analyst
Moody’s Investor’s Service
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Beijing Told to Cut PM2.5 by One-Fourth This Winter
By Wu Gang
The Chinese government has for the first time set emission-cut targets for cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and nearby areas for the winter season. Above, motorists and bicyclists battle smog during a polluted day in Beijing. Photo: IC
With cold weather and its accompanying burst of choking air pollution on the way, the central government has ordered Beijing and a number of other northern cities to cut their respective PM2.5 concentrations by 25% this fall and winter.
It is the first time the Chinese government has set emission-cut targets for cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and nearby areas for the winter season, Liu Bingjiang, a senior official in charge of air pollution prevention with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, told the media on Friday.
Authorities released a detailed accounting system that holds a city’s mayor or even its top official — the party secretary — responsible for failing to achieve emission-reduction targets.
Other cities told to cut PM2.5 levels were Tianjin, Shijiazhuang and Taiyuan. All of the affected cities must reduce the number of heavily polluted days by 20%.
About 20 other cities in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan provinces were given different reduction targets, with PM2.5 concentration needing to be at least 15% year-on-year and heavily polluted days falling by at least 15%, Liu said.
PM2.5 refers to particulate matter 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and cause cancer.
In a document jointly released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and nine other ministry-level bodies, if a city does not achieve 60% of the emission reduction target, the city’s vice mayor will be held responsible; if the city achieves less than 30% of its target, the mayor will be held responsible; and if the PM2.5 level ends up increasing instead of falling over the winter, the party secretary of the city will be held responsible.
Possible punishment includes party disciplinary or administrative punishments, the document says, without elaborating.
Beijing’s PM2.5 concentration rose 5.4% in the first two months this year over the same period last year — the first increase since 2013.
Liu said this winter will witness a decisive battle to determine whether North China can achieve the new targets.
The new targets are from an action plan by the State Council announced in September 2013, which was touted as the most serious pollution-attack plan in history.
It stated that the Beijing-Hebei-Tianjin area, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta would have to have their PM2.5 levels cut by about 25%, 20% and 15% respectively by the end of 2017.
Contact reporter Wu Gang (gangwu@caixin.com)
Beijing's Attempts to Kick Coal Addiction Helps Clean Up Air
Levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the capital's air have dropped significantly in the past four years, study finds
Tianjin Speeds Up Ban on Polluting Coal-Toting Trucks
Shift to rail transport reflects national push to reduce smog
Nation Criminalizes Tampering with Air Pollution Data
Officials found guilty of manipulating readings, facilities to face criminal charges
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Primary school children in West Sussex are being invited to fight plastic pollution in the environment by taking part in a global Plastic Planet Challenge.
UK based environmental education organisation 'Wastebuster' has teamed up with Recycle Now to launch the challenge which is designed to motivate young people and their families to reduce plastic use and recycle.
Chichester District Council, as a member of the West Sussex Waste Partnership, is backing the challenge and is urging all of the primary schools in the district to take part.
Schools can access a range of great resources to explore plastic and recycling in the classroom and will be invited to ask their children to design a plastic pollution poster.
The winning designs will be made into a customised design on a refillable drinking water bottle.
Councillor Roger Barrow, Cabinet Member for Residents' Services and Councilolr John Connor, Cabinet Member for Environment Services are supporting the challenge.
"Reducing and recycling plastic is such an important issue for so many people at the moment so this challenge has come at the right time" says Cllr John Connor.
"The Plastic Planet Challenge is a fun and engaging way for children to find out how they can prevent plastic pollution and motivate their families to do the same."
In addition, the West Sussex Waste Partnership will be selecting their favourite designs from the West Sussex entries and award the winners with the following prizes:
Key Stage 1 - composting/gardening kits for the winners class,
Key Stage 2 - a fully funded trip for a year group, to their state-of-the-art recycling facility, based in Ford (includes transport).
Schools can find out more about the challenge
Cllr Roger Barrow added: "In the Chichester District we are recycling more than ever, and by encouraging children to take part in this challenge we hope to continue this trend and inspire the next generation to take care of the environment and prevent plastic pollution in years to come."
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Injuries clue
CHILDREN who develop attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in later life may have been more likely to suffer injuries as an infant, says new research.
Helen Rae
While head injuries do not cause it, they can be an early sign of a later diagnosis, researchers said.
This may be because children who go on to develop ADHD take more risks as youngsters, and are more likely to suffer head injuries.
Children with ADHD display problems such as inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.
Symptoms include a short attention span, restlessness, being easily distracted and constant fidgeting.
ADHD affects between 3% and 9% of school-age children and young people.
In the latest study, experts analysed data from 62,088 UK children, of which 2,782 had a head injury and 1,116 a burn injury.
They were trying to find if suffering an injury as a child could lead to ADHD. But they found no evidence of a direct link between the two.
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The Role of Resettlement in Refugee Responsibility Sharing
Paper No. 3
Series: Global Leadership and Cooperation for Refugees
Jessie Thomson
While resettlement is considered a fundamental component of international responsibility sharing, it is questionable whether it has played a meaningful role in practice, with so few refugees benefiting from resettlement annually. Resettlement continues to be a tool that only a small number of states are using in any significant way to demonstrate international solidarity, and efforts to use resettlement more effectively and strategically in order to influence solutions, improve the protection environment and lessen the burden on refugee host countries have been limited. If resettlement is to be a truly effective component of international responsibility sharing, critical changes are needed.
As outlined in this paper, the Government of Canada has an opportunity to lead this effort, in particular in light of its most recent leadership on resettlement in response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Resettlement has the potential to be a powerful tool for change, but it has yet to realize its full potential.
World Refugee Council
Find out more about the World Refugee Council
Global Security & Politics
The Global Security & Politics Program at CIGI launched the Global Leadership and Cooperation for Refugees project to develop and advance ideas for a new system of international cooperation that is capable of anticipating mass movements of people and managing them in a way that is politically viable, fair for all states and properly funded, as well as to consider ways in which Canada can provide international leadership on this crucial issue.
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Thu 18 Sep 2014 < Back to listing
CATS College Canterbury has been shortlisted for Boarding Initiative of the Year and Outstanding Senior Leadership Team of the Year in prestigious Independent School Awards 2014.
In The 5th Annual Independent School Awards CATS College Canterbury has been shortlisted for two separate categories: Boarding Initiative and Outstanding Senior Leadership Team of the Year 2014.
Hundreds of nominations for outstanding schools, departments and individuals were submitted across 12 categories covering the full range of Independent school activity.
These awards showcase and celebrate excellence in the private sector across the UK, providing benchmarks for the sector as a whole. CATS College Canterbury is recognised as giving tremendous value for money to the parents and students overall. The shortlisted logo is a kite mark of that excellence and value.
Jonathan Ullmer, MBE, Principal of CATS College Canterbury, is delighted to be shortlisted and wanted to thank his staff personally for all their hard work in the last year.
“It is really an award which reverberates across the whole college. Being shortlisted against some of the top boarding schools in the UK is a marvellous recognition of our strengths in Canterbury. It is something for everyone to feel really proud of. The achievements of all our staff in reaching this amazing level are to be highly commended as the college is only as great as all of its teachers, staff and students.”
The winners will be announced during the forthcoming gala dinner in Nottingham on Thursday 13th November. On the night itself The Independent School Awards will also announce The Independent School of the Year 2014. Further details can be seen on www.fisawards.co.uk.
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March man in his 60s arrested after reports of alleged sexual assault on teenage boys in the town
Ben Jolley
A man in his 60s was arrested in March in connection with two reports of sexual assault on teenage boys in the March area.
He has been bailed to return to a police station next month while a police investigation continues.
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Council show their faith in church hall
PUBLISHED: 12:52 13 January 2006 | UPDATED: 21:37 28 May 2010
A FORMER church hall in Whittlesey should not be demolished, say Fenland District Council planners. They claim the former hall makes a positive contribution" to the character of the conservation area. Agents for the owner told the council's planning comm
A FORMER church hall in Whittlesey should not be demolished, say Fenland District Council planners.They claim the former hall makes a "positive contribution" to the character of the conservation area.Agents for the owner told the council's planning committee that neither the town council, highways authority or Whittlesey Society opposed the hall's demolition.And the agents said the hall was nearly derelict, there had been no campaign to keep it open, there were plenty of other halls for hire in the town and it would be too expensive to renovate it. Councillors inspected the hall before taking the decision to refuse consent for its demolition. The committee also rejected plans for 12 flats on the site.
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Cerussi & Gunn P.C.
Personal Injury Attorney | New York | New Jersey
Railroad Injuries (FELA)
Charles A. Cerussi
Brian R. Gunn
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For the past 20 years, Charles Cerussi has devoted his practice exclusively to the trial of civil cases in New Jersey and New York. He specializes in litigating serious and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. Mr. Cerussi has extensive experience in the handling of cases involving medical malpractice, motor vehicle/trucking accidents, construction and other workplace accidents, product liability cases, and cases involving injured railroad workers brought under the Federal Employers Liability Act (“FELA”).
Charlie received his Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University in 1991, and his law degree from St. John’s University School of Law in 1994, where he was a member of the Law Review.
After practicing in the field of personal injury law at two large law firms between 1994-2001, Charlie founded the firm in 2001 based upon his belief that there was a need for a boutique firm in the field of Civil Trial Law that would further the objectives that are set forth within our firm’s Principles.
In 2002, Charlie was designated as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a distinction held by less than 2% of the attorneys in the state. Charlie was re-certified in the area of Civil Trial Law in 2007 and again in 2012.
Charlie is proud of the record of successes that he has achieved for his clients. He has 53 cases in which there was a settlement or verdict in favor of his client between $500,000 and $25,000,000, including 27 separate settlements and verdicts of $1,000,000 or more.
Charlie has been named a Super Lawyer by Thompson Reuters in the field of Plaintiff Personal Injury: Medical Malpractice every year from 2008-2018. He is also a member of the American Association for Justice, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
He is admitted to the Bars of the States of New York and New Jersey, the United States District Court of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
From a professional standpoint, Charlie is most proud of the relationships that he has built and continues to maintain with his clients. Many former clients remain friends. These relationships have been built on Charlie’s empathy and compassion for the client’s unfortunate circumstances, and a trust that is built over the course of the litigation from Charlie’s integrity, hard work, and providing the client with the answers and justice that first led them to retain him as their attorney.
Charlie resides in Monmouth County, New Jersey with his wife and their three children.
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WARSHIP POSEIDON (The Adventures of Jonathan Moore, Book 1) by Peter Greene – Coming of Age, Maritime War, Treasure Hunt – Action / Adventure
Title: Warship Poseidon (The Adventures of Jonathan Moore, Book 1)
Author(s): Peter Greene
Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Historical Fiction, War
Publisher: Sven Gillhoolie Publishing (2011; 2016)
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Author Peter Greene often read to his two children at bedtime. But one night, the bookshelf held nothing that enticed them. So, as he explains in the Acknowledgements to this book, he decided to tell them a story. The first words that came out of his mouth were: “Twelve-year-old Jonathan Moore lived in a three-sided wooden box at the end of a dark and filthy alley.” Thus was born the title character of The Adventures of Jonathan Moore, who Greene decided should be “as normal and as human as any real child,” whether in the nineteenth or the twenty-first century.
In England of the early 1800s, help for orphans was the duty of family or church. When twelve-year-old Jonathan Moore’s mother dies, and he hears nothing from his father, a Navy captain, he shuns appealing to either family or church. Thus, he finds himself homeless on the streets of London. Fortunately, he makes friends with a boy of similar age, Irish-born Sean Flagon. Together, the boys manage to sweep enough London chimneys to keep them from starving, until one rainy day when first Sean and then Jonathan are snatched by a group of men and soon find themselves in a cage strapped to a cart headed for the Chatham docks. They’ve been “pressed” into service on one of His Majesty’s warships, the Poseidon, which they soon discover isn’t such a bad lot at all.
The two boys look in awe at the rows of cannon (cannon being both singular and plural in England). And when shown to the closet of a room that is to be their new quarters, they realize that, though tiny, it’s dry, and there are rope hammocks to sleep in, wrapped in blankets. That certainly beats a leaky wooden box in an alley, with a piece of board for a cover. Better yet, they’re soon sitting at tables on the main deck, where hot fish stew is served for dinner (as it is most days, they soon learn), accompanied by hardtack or softtack (hard bread or rolls). The next morning Jonathan awakes to see huge white sails unfurled in the wind. The Poseidon is underway.
Much adventure and not a little danger await them, from one side of the North Atlantic to the other. After all, England is at war against France, and Napoleon Bonaparte has many fine French warships. One of them is the Danielle, which the Poseidon and her crew encounter more than as they make way from Lisbon to the Bahamas.
The aim of both these enemy warships is to search for an ancient Spanish treasure chest, which an equally ancient map indicates is buried on Skull Eye Island. On peaceful days at sea, there are lessons to be learned about being a seaman—taught aboard ship by experienced sailors, junior and senior officers, and even Captain Walker. The boys’ lessons also include fencing and swordsmanship, which stand in good stead when they must battle the French crew aboard the Danielle.
This thrilling tale of high adventure is not without an element of poignancy, however. Jonathan senses that several on board the Poseidon knew or know about his father, Captain Nathaniel Moore, who the boy had assumed was dead. They seemed to recognize him by name, and they treat him with more caring and respect than the other young boys, including his friend Sean. Yet, they consistently change the subject when he tries to question them.
Exciting and fast-moving as Warship Poseidon is, the tale is rendered even better by its author’s skill as a storyteller. Greene has thoroughly researched this era—including its shipbuilding, the administrative management of both English and French Navy vessels, the design of the warships themselves, and how their crews lived aboard them and battled from them. The story is presented in infinite detail, painted in vivid color, and written in a literary style. Much care has gone into the characters’ speech—emulating the language of the time while ensuring that it can be understood by its twenty-first-century readers, whether they be young or old—since this tale is one to be read with pleasure by all generations.
To Peter Greene we would say—in British parlance both then and now—”Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!” So, have great fun reading Warship Poseidon and then proceed without delay to Books Two and Three: Castle of Fire and Paladin’s War. But don’t stop there! Mr. Greene declares there may be a prequel in the works as well as another type of series beginning!
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Gemma Padley , Another Man, May 10, 2019
“I like it when you look at a picture and you don’t know what you’re looking at,” says Casper Sejersen. We speak to the photographer and Another Man contributor as a new solo exhibition opens in London
For a man who speaks quickly, barely pausing for breath, Casper Sejersen doesn’t give much away. He is eager to talk about his new body of work, One, Two, Three, Four, which goes on show at Cob Gallery from this Saturday, but is equally keen not to say too much. This doesn’t come from a desire to be deliberately mysterious or evasive – the Danish photographer is personable and open – but rather because his work is all about suggestion. Less seems to be more, and being too literal or descriptive just isn’t his bag.
“I like to shoot simple things because then you can put your own stories onto the objects instead of having something described too clearly in front of you,” says Sejersen. “With this body of work it’s about objects I have always loved, sometimes very generic objects like matches or a glass. Of course, I have to make my pictures in a way I believe in and then it’s up to the viewer to create their own kind of vision from what they’re looking at. But I try to avoid looking into things too much. I would rather be inspired by music or a poem or by something from daily life.”
In his life as a fashion, beauty and still-life photographer, Sejersen has shot campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Mugler and Elie Saab, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines including AnOther and Another Man. In 2013, he was commissioned to photograph the cast of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and ended up shooting a set of “orgasm portraits”, which made it into his book, Belongs to Joe, published by MACK in 2015. If his editorial and commercial work is suggestive and darkly humorous, his personal work takes a more intimate turn. In fact, the images in this latest body of work are shot just about as close as you can get, almost uncomfortably so.
Scabs, scars, cuts, grazes, fleshy wounds and bloody scratches all feature. The work takes its cue from rhythm we are told, in particular, drumming, hence the title. “My father played drums and I did too,” says Sejersen. “Music and drumming have always been close to my heart. I wanted to do a story that was based on rhythm and rhythmic patterns, not in a literal way, but more in the case of childhood memories and how I, as a child, had to do things in a specific way. I used counting – the counting of a watch or counting table corners when I came into a room to keep myself in control. It wasn’t a big OCD thing it was more like how a child playfully avoids stepping on the cracks in the pavement. All these kinds of childhood memories about drums, control, being out of control, about the years before you turn into a man.”
In one set of images we see the skins of drums complete with all manner of marks and scuffs. Sejersen seems to be drawing a parallel between the marks on the surfaces of the drums and the marks of time and experience on human skin by juxtaposing close ups of each. When seen in this way, the photographs take on a sinister quality and hint at violence.
But for Sejersen, violence isn’t all that far from beauty and romance. “I like it when you look at a picture and you don’t know what you’re looking at,” he says. “For example, the photograph of a mark, a love bite, on a girl’s throat. At first it looks like it’s from violence, but when you read the title that mark turns into something else. I like these contrasts that come from very ordinary things or memories, and interpreting them.”
Indeed, dualisms or dichotomies – sound and silence, chaos and control, fragility and strength, reality and fantasy, pain and pleasure – are the lifeblood of this work, its pulse, its DNA. These polarities, which we sense aren’t really that far apart at all, are what make the work so densely layered and compelling.
“I’m always aiming for extremes, in a way,” says Sejersen. “If you look at a watch and the clock hand is one minute to 12, and that is pure hell, and one minute past is pure heaven, there’s only two minutes between them, and it’s so much more fun to be up there than it is to be at five, six, or seven o’clock. The best example I can give is when you bump into something and it hurts like hell, but the moment you can feel that the pain is getting smaller it is actually a little close to happiness even though it still hurts, because you feel that relief.
“Making the work has been a great journey,” he adds. “My fashion work has to have another life, but with this project I could be very personal. And yet, looking at the final pictures alongside everything else, I can see they have been there all along.”
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Sun care from the sea
Larissa Bright Australia has partnered with AIMS and CSIRO to investigate filters that translate the sun screening ability of corals into molecules that could protect the consumer from UV rays
Located off the coast of Queensland, Australia's world heritage listed Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world and host to the world’s most diverse marine ecosystem and its largest coral ecosystem. Despite being exposed to the highly damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation of the Australian climate for extended periods of time, the shallow water corals of the Great Barrier Reef appear to be able to thrive under conditions of extended solar irradiation. It has been known for some time that coral extracts contain one or more UV absorbing substances[1] , but their identity and mechanism of action was, until recently, a mystery. Research from scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) helped to solve this puzzle with the identification of a family of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) as being present in the corals[2,3].
Larissa Bright and CSIRO scientist Dr Mark York
These compounds are thought to be secondary metabolites produced by the algae which live in symbiosis with the corals of the Great Barrier Reef. They possess the ability to absorb light and examples of these compounds which absorb ultraviolet light have been isolated. The identification of the role of the MAAs as nature’s sunscreen has been further reinforced by experimental observations of a correlation between UV exposure and levels of MAAs present[4]. The structure of some representative examples, along with their absorbance maxima can be seen in figure 1.
The need for photoprotection
Australia’s harsh climate is well known for the damage it can do to skin – the country possesses the highest per capita incidence of skin cancer in the world, with approximately two out of every three Australians being diagnosed with skin cancer by the age of 70[5].
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Today: Outsmarted by Your Car?
Dear Car Talk | Dec 04, 2014
Dear Car Talk:
While on a recent business trip with a bunch of fellow engineers, the battery in my 2010 Toyota Highlander with a keyless-start system went dead. Of course, we blamed it on the youngest member of the team, whom we had forced to do the long drive that day. But the reality is that the battery was four years old, and it just died. Luckily, we found a helpful engineer from Boeing who happened to be parked near us -- an electrical-power expert, too!
He jumped the car for us for about five minutes and got the basic lights and beeps working again, but the car would not start. The green "ready" button was lit up for the push-button starter, but no response. So after checking all the stuff we could think of, we got the owner's manual out and handed it to the rocket scientist on the team. In time, the rocket scientist found the problem. In order to start the car after jumping it, one has to open and close the driver's door with the ignition off! Bingo -- it worked. Why have such a nuisance safety procedure? Most folks would have headed for the tow truck or dealer before figuring it out. Please comment!
-- Steven
Outsmarted by a car. Welcome to my world, Steven. The reason you needed to open and close the door is because of the way the smart key communicates with the keyless ignition system. With a push-button start system, the car and the smart key have to talk to each other. Before starting the car, the computer asks, "Are you there, key?" And the key responds: "Yo, dude, it's me. We're good."
But the computer doesn't know to look for the key unless the driver's door is opened and closed. That's its signal to check for the presence of the correct smart key. Otherwise, it doesn't even ask. And since the battery died when the door was closed, and then you opened the door while the battery was still dead, the computer never got the (open door/closed door) signal to check for the presence of the key. But congratulations on saving yourself time and money by reading the owner's manual and solving the problem.
Resorting to the owner's manual is atypical male behavior, Steven. It's a humiliation greater than even asking for directions! I'm both proud and ashamed of you.
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Medical Center About Us News 2011 April CVMC Welcomes New Trustee
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Catawba Valley Medical Center Welcomes New Trustee
HICKORY, NC –Catawba Valley Medical Center (CVMC) recently welcomed Jay Reardon, President of Hickory Chair Company, to its Board of Trustees. Reardon’s position is effective this month.
“We are very pleased Jay Reardon will be joining our Board,” says J. Anthony Rose, President and CEO of Catawba Valley Medical Center. “He will lend his leadership and expertise as Catawba Valley Medical Center continues to serve the healthcare needs of area citizens. He will be a great asset to our board.”
Reardon graduated from the University of West Georgia with a degree in Political Science and Sociology, and has been at Hickory Chair since 1996. Reardon was pleased to become a Board Trustee at CVMC. “I continue to be extremely proud of CVMC’s mission and vision for its hospital and services to the community. I look forward to serving during a time of expected changes in the healthcare system. I know that CVMC will strive to continue providing the highest quality care to Catawba Valley residents.” Reardon and his wife, Ginnie, live in Hickory.
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is a not-for-profit, public healthcare system providing and promoting the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center for health education, wellness services, preventative medicine and acute care. Located in Hickory, N.C., CVMC has received three Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has been recognized for providing “An Outstanding Inpatient Experience” for a third consecutive year by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information, please visit http://www.catawbavalleymedical.org.
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Christian Brothers Services to Sponsor Speaker at LCWR 2017 Assembly
Romeoville, Ill., August 1, 2017 - Christian Brothers Services (CBS) is sponsoring featured speaker, Jan Richardson at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Assembly 2017 in Orlando, Florida, from August 8 – 11, 2017.
Richardson, an artist, writer and ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, serves as director of The Wellspring Studio, LLC, and has authored several books including, In the Sanctuary of Women: A Companion for Reflection & Prayer; In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season; Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons, and her most recent work, The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief. She has traveled widely as a retreat leader and conference speaker.
In addition to sponsoring a featured speaker, CBS will also be exhibiting at the assembly. Representing CBS will be Brother Thomas Hetland, FSC, religious institutes relationship manager; Sister Geraldine Hoyler, CSC, religious institute consultant; Sister Yvonne Weidner, OSF, member relations associate and Matt Robbie, business development specialist.
LCWR is an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. The conference represents nearly 80 percent of the approximately 48,500 women religious in the U.S. and serves to assist its members to collaboratively carry out their service of leadership to further the mission of the Gospel in today’s world.
About Christian Brothers Services
Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Romeoville, Illinois, Christian Brothers Services is a nonprofit, Catholic organization that administers cooperative programs in the areas of health, retirement, property/casualty, and technology as well as financial, administrative and Catholic school consulting to church congregations, organizations and dioceses internationally.
About Catholic School Management
Founded in 1973, NCEA Financial Consulting Services focused exclusively on finance and development consulting services for Catholic school and diocesan administrators. In 1979 demand for a broader scope of services resulted in the creation of Catholic School Management (CSM). In 2014, Christian Brothers Services acquired CSM's growing operations, making CBS the national leader in consultative guidance for Catholic schools. CSM's team of experts represents more than 500 years of experience in the education field with a focus on strategy, planning and leadership.
Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, Brenner, McDonagh & Tortolani, Inc., BMT Management and Financial Consultants was acquired by Christian Brothers Services in 2017. Providing premier consulting services to 280 religious institutes and many sponsored ministries in need of assistance, BMT offers the management of daily operations, including accounting and financial management, benefits eligibility management, human resources, investment consulting and real estate planning and sustainability studies.
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CIA Fires Employee For Media Leak
By Sean Alfano
April 21, 2006 / 4:00 PM / CBS/AP
The CIA fired a top intelligence analyst who admitted leaking classified information that led to a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a network of secret CIA prisons, government officials say.
The officer was a senior analyst nearing retirement, Mary McCarthy, The Associated Press learned. Reached Friday evening at home, her husband would not confirm her firing.
In McCarthy's final position at the CIA, she was assigned to its Office of Inspector General, looking into allegations the CIA was involved in torture at Iraqi prisons, according to a former colleague who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is under investigation.
Without identifying McCarthy by name, CIA Director Porter Goss announced the firing in a brief message to agency employees circulated Thursday. Such dismissals are highly unusual.
U.S. officials tell CBS News that these are the actions of a very aggressive and reinvigorated Inspector General's Office at the CIA and that they are raising "stress and apprehension" among intelligence operatives.
Agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano confirmed an officer had been fired for having unauthorized contacts with the media and disclosing classified information to reporters, including details about intelligence operations.
"The officer has acknowledged unauthorized discussions with the media and the unauthorized sharing of classified information," Gimigliano said. "That is a violation of the secrecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA."
Citing the Privacy Act, the CIA would not disclose any details about the officer's identity, assignments or what she might have told the news media. A law enforcement official confirmed there was a criminal leaks investigation under way, but it did not involve the fired CIA officer.
The official said the CIA officer had provided information that contributed to a Washington Post story last year disclosing secret U.S. prisons in Eastern Europe. The law enforcement official spoke only on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the matter.
The Post's Dana Priest won a Pulitzer Prize this week for her reporting on a covert prison system set up by the CIA after Sept. 11, 2001, that at various times included sites in eight countries. The story caused an international uproar, and government officials have said it did significant damage to relationships between the U.S. and allied intelligence agencies.
Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said on the newspaper's Web site: "We don't know the details of why (the CIA employee) was fired, so I can't comment on that. But as a general principle, obviously I am opposed to criminalizing the dissemination of government information to the press."
It was unclear if Priest or any other reporters who spoke to McCarthy would be brought into an investigation. Post spokesman Eric Grant said no reporter at the paper had been subpoenaed or had spoken to investigators about the matter.
CIA Director Porter Goss was livid over the leaks and vowed in an appearance before Congress in February to crack down, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart.
"The damage has been very severe to our capability to carry out our mission. I use the words very severe intentionally," Goss told Congress, adding that a federal grand jury should be impaneled to determine "who is leaking this information."
But some in the intelligence community are supporting McCarthy.
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern told CBS correspondent Joie Chen that McCarthy is really a whistleblower with no other way to stop what she saw was an agency run amok.
"She saw a war crimes act in progress, she saw no oversight by congress," McGovern said, "so she said 'well alright somebody's got to do it, I'll take the risk.'"
On Friday, another government official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said the fired officer had failed a lie-detector test.
It was not clear if the person was taking a routine polygraph examination, as is required periodically of employees with access to classified information, or if the test was among those ordered by Goss to find leakers inside the agency.
Justice Department officials declined to comment publicly on the firing and whether the matter had been referred to federal prosecutors for possible criminal charges.
Almost immediately, the firing turned political. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., praised the agency for identifying a source of the leaks and encouraged vigorous investigation of other open cases. "Those guilty of improperly disclosing classified information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Roberts said.
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., called on President Bush to hold accountable those in his administration who leaked information about the Iraq intelligence in the run-up to the war and outed undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. "Apparently, President Bush doesn't believe what's good for the CIA is good for the White House," Menendez said.
One law enforcement official said there were dozens of leak investigations under way. Another said there had been no referral from the CIA involving the fired employee, normally a precursor to a criminal investigation.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is under investigation.
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Zuckerberg should testify over Facebook scandal, says expert
March 18, 2018 / 4:03 PM / CBS News
Data harvesting concerns
NEW YORK -- Facebook's leadership needs explain its use of data to lawmakers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Jennifer Grygiel, a social media expert and assistant professor of communications at Syracuse University, told CBSN on Sunday. Cambridge Analytica was hired by the Trump campaign in 2016 and has come under fire after reportedly harvesting more than 50 million Facebook profiles without users' permission via a third-party app.
"I hope that people in Congress are taking a look at this very carefully and that they step up and start to hold these companies accountable," she added. "I think we need to hear from Mark Zuckerberg and the heads of the platform. I think they need to testify and disclose exactly what's happening with the data."
"We need them to testify and tell us exactly what's going on here," she said. Sens. Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar have already called for senior figures from Facebook to appear personally in front of the Senate.
In a statement released late on Friday, Facebook acknowledged that it learned it had been "lied to" about Cambridge Analytica and an affiliate's activities in 2015, more than two years before suspending the firm from its platform, but did not alert users at the time. Facebook insisted there was no breach of their system.
No framework exists to protect social media users
"People are able to exploit systems that aren't regulated. If anything, this underscores that maybe this wasn't a traditional breach, per se, but essentially there was nothing protecting users of Facebook of having their data used in ways that they didn't agree to," Grygiel said. "This highlights that there isn't a regulatory infrastructure in the United States and possibly the world to make sure that users are protected."
How 50 million profiles were harvested from Facebook
Grygiel said Facebook functions "in similar ways" to Cambridge Analytica but has access to vastly more data than the likes of Cambridge Analytica. "We saw from reports from around the last election that they were embedding staff from Facebook into the campaigns."
"In a lot of ways Facebook is functioning as a way to help campaigns target audiences -- and they have the most data, so I would say Facebook itself is another company working in similar ways," she added.
Grygiel said there are "great concerns" about the upcoming midterm elections that "need to be addressed immediately."
Wired editor-in-chief and CBS News contributor Nick Thompson told CBSN on Saturday that it's "even more damning" Cambridge Analytica obtained the data from Facebook "without it being a breach."
Facebook loophole allowed abuse of personal data
Man suing Cambridge Analytica calls scandal a "wake-up call"
"It didn't work because somebody hacked in and broke stuff," Thompson added. "It worked because Facebook has built the craziest most invasive advertising model in the history of the world and someone took advantage of it."
Since it was a violation of Facebook's terms of services, Thompson said he's not sure what government agency would be tasked with regulating the platform to prevent a recurrence in the political sphere.
"I'm not sure, though, that you can actually regulate your way out of this problem because on the flip side of this, the reason political advertising on Facebook is so effective is because Facebook is a great tool for advertising," he said. "You can't just shut down all advertising on Facebook or make it harder for people to micro-target on Facebook because in general that's just the way business works and they invented this great tool."
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Report: Suspect in 1975 missing sisters case to plead guilty
By Crimesider Staff
Updated on: September 8, 2017 / 11:44 AM / CBS/AP
BEDFORD, Va. -- A convicted sex offender accused in the 1975 murders of two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping mall is expected to plead guilty to the crime that has haunted the region for more than four decades.
Lloyd Lee Welch Jr., 60, was scheduled to stand trial Tuesday in the killings of 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and 10-year-old Katherine Lyon.
Online court records in Bedford County, Virginia, indicate the trial has been "withdrawn" and a plea hearing is scheduled instead for the same date.
A source confirmed the expected guilty plea to CBS affiliate WUSA9. The Washington Post, citing multiple officials familiar with the case, also reported Thursday that Welch plans to plead guilty.
Lloyd Welch Delaware State Police/WUSA9
Prosecutors and Welch's attorneys declined to comment, citing a gag order that Circuit Judge James Updike issued in the case.
The Lyon sisters disappeared March 25, 1975, after walking from their home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., to Wheaton Plaza to have pizza with friends during a school vacation.
Police affidavits unsealed in 2015 detailed how Welch surfaced in the case. A week after the girls vanished the then-18-year-old Welch went to the mall, Wheaton Plaza, and told a security guard that he had seen the sisters leave with a man in a car. Police gave him a polygraph test which showed he was lying, according to the affidavits, which did not say whether authorities continued to look into Welch.
The detectives on the case in 2013 set out to learn more about Welch, who had been arrested in 1977 in a burglary case. His mug shot from that arrest strongly resembled a sketch in the Lyon sisters case that had been drawn based on a witness's description of a man at Wheaton Plaza who was staring at the girls and following them, according to the affidavits.
In interviews with police beginning in 2013, Welch acknowledged he was there, and said he believed they'd been "abducted, raped and burned up," according to court documents. He also allegedly admitted leaving the mall with the girls.
Welch, a former carnival worker, was charged two years ago in the killings. He was already in prison in Delaware, having pleaded guilty in 1998 to molesting a 10-year-old girl.
If convicted at trial in Bedford of two counts of first-degree felony murder during "the commission of abduction with the intent to defile," he faced the possibility of the death penalty.
Welch was prosecuted in Bedford because authorities believe he dumped the girls' bodies there, on a remote mountain where his family owned land. The mountain has been the subject of several searches. But without recovering the girls' bodies, prosecutors may have had a difficult time proving their case at a trial.
The case shook the community.
"It was very scary at the time," recalled Jane Harding, who lives around the corner from where the sisters lived, told WUSA9. Harding has lived there since the 1950s.
Any plea deal would not be final until Welch appears before a judge and agrees to the terms. The deal would also need the judge's approval.
The Post reported that the plea agreement also would resolve two unrelated sexual assault cases in Prince William County in northern Virginia. In 2016, Welch was indicted there in the rape of a 6-year-old girl in 1996. Earlier this year, he was indicted for allegedly sexually abusing another girl about the same time.
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Interview: 2017 Must-Know - EDEN
EDEN explores love, nostalgia, heartbreak, fame, and more within his EP, ‘i think you think too much of me’ - with the 21-year-old Irish artist showcasing his mastery of empathy in a refreshingly frank way. Previously existing as The Eden Project, he made EDM/dance/drum and bass, but now as EDEN, his focus is in songwriting and instrumentation.
Fellow New Zealander Lorde praised his song ’sex’ by saying the following: “It does something very simple and intense to my brain - you managed to make it sound just as messy and emotional and twitchy and kind of in love and definitely freaked out as that situation feels.” We have to agree, and the rest of the EP expands upon that feeling - it’s the type of EP that you can endlessly find new aspects of.
With his very own record label MCMXCV which he releases EDEN music under, we’re excited to hear what’s to come.
MUST-LISTEN: ‘rock + roll’, ‘sex’, ‘XO’, ‘Circles’, ‘drugs’.
YOU WILL LIKE, IF YOU LIKE: Lontalius, James Blake, Troye Sivan, LANY, Wet, SOHN, Banks, Tove Lo, Lorde.
CDM: I love your ‘i think you think too much of me’ EP, it’s so rad. The first four songs’ titles, ‘sex’, ‘drugs’, ‘and’, ‘rock + roll’ touch on some clichés of the entertainment industry - do you think these old school ideals about the industry are something that still exist, or are something that have been romanticised over time?
EDEN: Definitely something that has been romanticised over time, I mean, I guess they are lots of things that existed in some sort of fashion, those kind of clichés and shouldn’t exist, but certainly not much anymore. I guess that is what you kind of associated with back in the ‘80s, how crazy the record industry was - at least as far as I’ve seen, it’s not really as much like that anymore.
CDM: I love the line, “I can’t love you when I can’t even love myself” - do you think it’s an important lesson to learn, that often you have to learn to love yourself before you can properly love other people?
EDEN: Yeah definitely, I think so much of how we interact with other people comes with our own expectations of how we are expected to be treated, or if you’re just not okay or insecure about certain things about yourself, kind of often it's just how you relate to other people. It’s important to just be okay with yourself, it’s a difficult thing to get comfortable with or get used to thinking about, but it’s an important aspect of life.
CDM: ‘rock + roll’ is my favourite song on the EP, I love the references to musical legends - Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Sinatra. Do you think that musical legends of our time exist? It’s so easy to think of older generations’ examples (like the ones you list), but it’s strange to think about what musicians are gonna be legendary when we’re older.
EDEN: Yeah it’s a weird one. I think I read some article or some statistics of Drake, his numbers right now are really similar to… I guess it’s a different world that we have with streaming now and a whole lot of different ways of consuming music than they did back in the day, the scale of him as a brand and as a musician is quite similar to Michael Jackson when he was in his prime, which I thought was really interesting. But also it’s interesting to think, is there ever going to be another Bowie equivalent who was just a pop culture icon for his entire life? I don’t know... it’s hard to say. I’ve never been one to make predictions or try to guess things ahead of time!
i just want to live like the ones before : @nkios
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CDM: It’s a super nostalgic song too - you sing, “I just wanna live like the ones before.” Do you think that our generation has an inherent sense of nostalgia for previous generations?
EDEN: Yeah, and I mean that line as kind of a trap in that it’s a lot, but that is kind of what the whole song is about - pining for an idea of something other than what it actually was. In saying that, I want to live like it was before, it’s cool we could live in the ‘50s and they all had really good style and stuff - but also while being sexist and racist and a whole bunch of other things that weren’t great. So it’s kind of just that a lot of people tend to idolise things that at least portions of, aren’t really accurate.
CDM: And is the talking at the end of that song a real voice memo of yours? It adds another layer to the song, which makes it so much more relatable, of the girl talking about trying to discover what she wants to do with her life.
EDEN: No, I wish. I like to keep those things a secret, but I can say it’s not me talking unfortunately. That’d be really cool, but…
CDM: How does your songwriting process work?
EDEN: It’s really different for each of the songs, for example 'and' was a song I think I wrote in maybe a day or thereabouts, not very long at all, but then you take a song like ‘drugs’ and that went through multiple versions. ‘drugs’ I wrote almost completely on guitar before I started producing the instrumental for it, ‘and’ was the other way around, I made the instrumental and the lyrics and a cool idea at the same time and maybe that’s why it was quicker. It varies and kind of depends on where the spark of inspiration comes from.
CDM: Do you write your lyrics specifically for the songs, or do you write poems or prose and then evolve them into song-form?
EDEN: Oh no, it’s definitely specifically for the song, although I do really like poetry and stuff, but for me when I’m writing it kind of feels more like I’m uncovering something rather than I’m physically writing something. I don’t really feel like, “Yeah I made this,” it’s more when I finish writing songs, this is how it’s supposed to be and I feel like an archaeologist that has uncovered something and that’s just the way it has always been. It’s very hard for me to explain. <laughs>
CDM: Lyrically, do you have a favourite song that you’ve written?
EDEN: Not really, and that’s a really hard question to answer, it’s like asking which one of your kids is your favourite kid. Not that I have any kids or anything. <laughs> I don’t know... I’m always tempted when people ask me, to say a song that gets the least love because I feel protective about all of them, but if one song is not getting-- not that the songs get hate, but the least popular song, I’m just like, “Guys, pay more attention to this one!”
CDM: The EP explores a variety of instrumentals - piano, guitar, synths. When you’re songwriting, do you know what particular instrument you want to be using for a particular song, or does it happen at random each time?
EDEN: Well, somewhere in between knowing and not knowing, and that’s kind of a non-answer. The ‘i think you think too much of me’ EP, everything is very deliberate. I knew I wanted this song to sound like this, and this song to sound in a different way. It’s not necessarily the instruments that I know I’m definitely going to use, guitar or something, but the overall sound I have a better idea of, I know it’s definitely going to sound this way and I guess that’s something that is really hard to put into words until it actually happens.
CDM: As well as your own work, you’ve produced songs for other people - for example, ‘Heights’ by ATO. How do you find that process differs to your own musical creation process?
EDEN: I like it a lot actually, because it can push you to do things, or explore sides of music or types of ideas that you’re working on that you wouldn’t have thought of yourself. So it depends, because I’ve worked with people in that it’s for them, so everything I make is tailored to what they want for their project, but for example when I work on hip-hop projects-- with ATO it was very much a collaboration of those things, so I’ll give him an instrumental or an idea that he wouldn’t have thought of that he can work off, and he gives me back stuff that I never would have thought of, and kind of bouncing off each other more. It’s quite fun actually. It also allows me to explore a whole other genre and style of music that I wouldn’t be doing myself, I mean I’m not a rapper by any stretch of the imagination. <laughs>
CDM: You had New Zealander Lontalius support you at a couple of the American tour dates, which is rad - we love Eddie! Do you have a favourite song of his?
EDEN: Yes, but I don’t think it’s out yet. But from the album, my favourite song is probably ‘Glow’. ‘Glow’ is a really great song, I love that one.
CDM: At what point did you transition from The Eden Project into EDEN? Was it an obvious transformation for you?
EDEN: Yeah. I mean, I guess in terms of music I was building towards the style that I do now for a while, but then with the actual change of name that was definitely a hard kind of border, like, “This is over, please don’t expect any more big EDM drops in my songs.” I definitely wanted to separate the two - and not in a huge way, just as a definite split. Because I’ve seen other people try to move on from projects and it can get very messy especially when there are songs that were pseudo-hits or just very popular for the old name, but I’ve tried to do it as cleanly as possible.
CDM: When can people expect to hear an EDEN album?
EDEN: I have no idea! I wish I did, but I’ve just been home for maybe three weeks, maybe a little less from tour. I’m just trying to decompress for a while and see what comes from there. Hopefully it’s an album - maybe it’s not an album, maybe it’s an EP, or maybe it’s one song. I’m really eager to just get new music out, so I’m working on a couple ideas. I just wanna let things go where they wanna go - I’m not gonna try to force myself to make an album if it’s not going to be great, I’m very much just enjoying letting things be how they’re supposed to be, and seeing how things work out!
CDM: You put so much thought into the visuals behind your music - through videos, merchandise, and I’ve seen images from your live show which are stunning. Is it important to you to be involved in these aspects of your career? And why do you think that the visual representation of your sound is so important?
EDEN: I guess it’s important to me because up until a year and a little bit, maybe 15 months ago, I didn’t have anybody working with me on this project - so everything was from me. So when you come from having to build up a project from making all the music, all the visuals, all of that side of things, it’s hard to let go of it a little bit - I’m kind of a megalomaniac when it comes to things. I’m very controlling. <laughs> So for me it just feels like it needs to be a certain way and I guess that’s the same for music. In the same way that I feel like I’m discovering something and it just has to be that way, it’s kind of always supposed to be that way, it’s the same for visuals and stuff. At least for me with videos, I can let go of the reigns a little bit and hire/work with people that I love their stuff and I can be like, “You do your thing,” and I’ll have absolute faith that it’s gonna come out in a way that I love - so that’s been a nice thing I’ve been able to do that I haven’t done before. I’m very attached to every aspect of this project - from music to visuals to everything in between, to the live show. I just want to make something that is very me, I don’t know if that sounds self-centred or not but it’s the truth.
CDM: If E.D.E.N. were an acronym, what would each letter stand for?
EDEN: I have no idea! It’s probably something that I’ve thought of before, but it’s a difficult one to work out!
CDM: You’re one of our 'must-know’ artist picks for 2017... who are yours?
EDEN: Definitely Lontalius, this band I love called Microwave, this other group called Hairspray - they just put out a new EP that is really dope, I love that. There’s a lot of people! I could list people forever, all my friends! Listen to my playlist on Spotify, basically, that’s all the stuff you need to listen to.
EDEN’s ‘i think you think too much of me’ EP is out now - click here to purchase.
Watch the ‘sex’ music video below…
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What Does a Corrections Officer Do?
What Education Is Required to Become a Corrections Officer?
Where are Corrections Officers Employed?
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Corrections Officer Job Description: What You'll Do
Here’s What You’ll Do in a Career in Criminal Justice as a Corrections Officer
Students can enter the corrections field in many ways, but earning a criminal justice bachelor's degree can help them gain access to the profession while also improving their employability and growth potential. While a high school diploma often represents the minimum requirement for corrections officers, federal prisons may require applicants to possess a bachelor's degree.
Furthermore, many corrections officers must complete an academy training program, which requires candidates to understand legal regulations and operations, as well as various institutional policies and security procedures. Earning a criminal justice degree can help prepare for this. Read on for an in-depth description of the corrections officer position and how choosing the right degree can lead to a promising career in the field.
Corrections officers typically work as government employees in prisons, jails, and detention centers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 54% of these professionals work for the state government, 37% work for the local government, and 4% work for the federal government. The remaining 5% work in facilities support services.
While corrections officers typically receive pay that exceeds the national average for all jobs, working as a government employee also offers other perks, like health and life insurance and competitive retirement provisions. Within government institutions, corrections officers work in a more structured environment as far as promotions and raises go. According to PayScale, experienced professionals with 10-19 years of experience enjoy a 40% increase in their salary compared to entry-level workers in the field.
The main responsibility of a corrections officer is to guard and ensure the safety of the institutionalized and other personnel.
Corrections officers mostly work in their respective facilities, but the career may take these professionals into a variety of environments. In addition to public and private outreach, corrections officers may travel to courtrooms and other facilities, often while in transit with prisoners. The duties and environments also change with job title, such as jailer, custody assistant, detention deputy, or correctional sergeant.
The main responsibility of a corrections officer is to guard and ensure the safety of the institutionalized and other personnel. Some day-to-day duties may include inmate supervision, rule enforcement, conduct reporting, and ensuring that safety standards are met. These officers perform daily checks on prisoners and facilities. This may include performing headcounts and verifying prisoner health, along with checking the doors, locks, and windows in the facility.
While maintaining the health and safety of everyone in contact with the facility, corrections officers sometimes engage in conflict resolution and the de-escalation of potentially dangerous situations. Officers also carry the responsibility of observing and reporting on events. This requires a strong understanding of legal procedures, institutional guidelines, and laws. The following list highlights some of the qualities corrections officers benefit from.
What are the Qualities a Corrections Officer Should Have?
Officers need strong communication skills, including oral, listening, and written competencies. The position requires officers to comprehend duties and orders and provide valuable information in a clear and concise manner through reports and oral presentations.
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Once a conflict erupts, officers need skills to de-escalate the situation. They often settle disputes using verbal negotiating techniques, reason, or simply by listening. Sometimes, these situations require physical and self-defense training.
Strong observational skills allow officers to perform the daily tasks of inmate and facility checks, along with the reporting that comes with the position. Corrections officers rely on their powers of observation to reflect on situations and accurately relay that information to those who were not present.
The structure and legal guidelines that govern government institutions require professionals to closely follow a strict set of rules and standards. With every action, corrections officers should use good judgement and take advantage of their training to ensure they adhere to the laws and policies in place.
Perceptiveness
This career requires the ability to assess people and situations to determine and ensure the best possible outcomes. To keep everyone safe, professionals need the ability to identify problematic situations. They also require the awareness and insight to know why people act in certain ways.
The corrections officer profession accepts candidates with a variety of educational and professional backgrounds. With a relevant bachelor's degree in a field like corrections or law enforcement, for example, candidates possess specialized training that may give them an advantage during the application process and in a training academy program.
Bachelor’s Degree in Corrections
A bachelor's degree in corrections provides students with specialized training in the field. Many universities across the country offer these programs to better prepare students for the operational requirements of the profession. Students also learn about the legal aspects they must understand and adhere to. Learners may delve into psychological elements in these programs, studying negotiation, rehabilitation, and leadership tactics. Depending on the course load and transfer credits available, most students complete these degrees in four years.
As with most bachelor's degrees, students typically complete 120 credits in corrections programs. In addition to focused corrections theory and training, many programs require students to complete general education courses, communication classes, and even physical training. To provide students with practical experience, corrections programs often include practica or internships. For learners who are unsure about their future plans, corrections degrees allow for some flexibility, often offering courses that cover the juvenile justice system, judicial administration, and community-based corrections.
Bachelor’s Degree in Law Enforcement
A bachelor's degree in law enforcement equips students with specialized training related to public safety and the legal system. While students pursuing law enforcement often seek policing careers, these programs also provide training for a variety of other criminal justice professions.
These degrees offer foundational training that covers general education, the criminal justice system, and American law. Participants may also take psychology and crisis prevention training. In these courses, students learn how to assess and de-escalate potentially dangerous situations involving inmates.
As an increasingly popular degree, law enforcement programs can be found in every state. Typically, these programs require 120 credits and take four years to complete. In addition to the components discussed above, law enforcement programs typically feature internships or practica in a law enforcement setting. Students can use these practical experiences to pursue experiential learning in their target job environment. Furthermore, law enforcement programs often include physical training, which may benefit candidates later in their careers.
Explore More Degrees in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Associate Degree in Public Safety Administration Associate Degree in Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree in Corrections Bachelor's Degree in Law Enforcement
Corrections officers jobs are expected to decrease by 7.7% between 2016 and 2026, according to Projections Central. The table below shows the states with the highest number of people employed in this job, along with the number of individuals working in this occupation as of May 2018.
Top States for Corrections Officer Careers
Number Employed
New York 35,460
California 34,980
Florida 33,060
Pennsylvania 16,850
North Carolina 15,720
Source: BLS
The following table shows the 10 metropolitan areas with the highest number of people employed as corrections officers, along with the number of individuals working in this occupation as of May 2018.
Top Cities and Metropolitan Areas for Corrections Officer Careers
City / Metropolitan Area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 21,390
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 8,460
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL 6,890
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 6,660
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 5,700
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH 5,540
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 4,790
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA 4,370
Bakersfield, CA 4,270
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 3,950
Explore Corrections Officer Salary Information
Many of the industries and positions in this field pay workers above-average salaries. The federal government, for example, features median annual wages of more than $58,000 for correctional officers and jailers.
The following link provides a comprehensive look at the salary information for corrections officers.
Learn More about Corrections Officer Salaries
Explore More Careers in Criminal Justice
The corrections officer profession offers students a promising career, but it may not meet everyone's interests. For students looking for more information on other criminal justice degrees and careers, the following links are a great place to start.
Explore criminal justice associate programs Explore criminal justice bachelor’s programs Explore criminal justice master’s programs Explore criminal justice doctorate programs
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GTA IV Episodes Coming To Disc As Standalone Game
posted by DarkMagePR on 5:37 PM No Comments
Liberty City is about to get a little more fabulous -- Rockstar Games has announced The Ballad of Gay Tony, the second episode for Grand Theft Auto 4.
"The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves, and made something that is both epic and very innovative. This episode's focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities."
The Ballad of Gay Tony stars Luis Lopez, a "part-time hoodlum" and "full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince," better known as "Gay Tony." As usual, he'll have to juggle competing loyalties while also trying to determine who is "real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price."
The latest GTA4 episode will be available on the Xbox 360 this fall for 1600 Microsoft Points ($19.99). In addition, the episode will be available on retail disc titled Episodes from Liberty City, which will also include the first episode Lost and Damned. Episodes from Liberty City will retail for $39.99, and will not require the original game to play.
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EZ Meds Compliance Packaging
Take Charge®
Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
Sprouts Drug Store
The W.W. Martin Pharmacy was founded in 1901. Fred Hoose, who had worked for Mr. Martin the owner, purchased that business in either in 1910 or 1921 (conflicting historical records). The building was moved to its current location by rail, year unknown, it has been told that the home was built in Oswayo, dismantled, loaded onto the train and moved to its current location at 122 Academy Street.
The Rexall Drug company was established in 1904. Martin's must have been with Rexall because Fred Hoose former owner was also. The pharmacy was a Rexall store when purchased in 1955 by the Sprout family.
Joe Sprout attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, Pa., completing it in just 3 years instead of the usual 4 years. This was after he served in the Navy during WWII as a pharmacist's mate. His Navy service was cut short due to a bout of rheumatic fever. He was sent to to California to recover from the rheumatic fever where his met a young girl named Bernice at a USO dance and soon married.
After Joe's discharge from the Navy, the young couple moved back across country to Philadelphia for Joe to attend pharmacy college. Bernice then moved to Muncy where in 1947 their son Howard was born. On several occasions, Joe would hitch rides from Philly to Muncy to spend a bit of time with his family. Joe's dad, Ray Sprout still lived in Muncy, serving as the mayor.
Joe and Bernice dreamed of raising their family based on having quality time together as a family and being active in a church. In 1955, Joe was working at Harter's Drug store in the small town of Muncy, Pa. Joe's career at Harter's Drug Store was not allowing him time for his family or his faith. He worked 60-70 hours per week and didn't see his family as much as he wanted. Moving away from Muncy seemed the only option but was hard on Ray (Joe's dad) since Joe was his only child and Joe's mother had died when he was a teen. Bernice's family was still in California. Joe and Bernice embarked on an adventure to build a life together in another town. The year was 1955.
Joe was able to get a list of pharmacies for sale in rural areas of Pennsylvania. They made a trip to Shinglehouse and actually drove around the countryside counting houses to see if there were enough families to support the pharmacy. The Sprout Family then moved to Shinglehouse. On October 26, 1955. Joe Sprout took over ownership of the pharmacy which was renamed Sprout's Drug Store.
122 E Academy St
Shinglehouse, PA 16748
Monday-Thursday: 9:30a.m.-6p.m.
Friday: 9:30a.m.-5p.m.
Crones Drug Store | Darling's Pharmacy Darling's Sugar Grove Pharmacy
Darling's Tidioute Pharmacy | The Youngsville Pharmacy | Sprouts Drug Store
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Armor Ratings & NIJ Levels
TSA Info
PLATE MAINTENANCE
DFNDR ARMOR THREAT CLASSIFICATIONS
Each armor threat is rated to defeat the listed threat and *special threats including all threats listed in previous ratings.
IIIA III III+ III++ III X IV
50gr liberty civil defense *7.62 x 51mm
steel jacket nato M80 7.62 x 39mm
PS BALL RUSSIAN 7.62 x 63mm
JSP 5.56 x 45mm
M855 A1 *7.62 x 63mm
AP M2
127 gr rangers S X T P+ 7.62 x 39
Ball 7.62 x 39mm
MSC Chinese 7.62 x 54mm
R-L 7.62 x 54mm
R-LPS 7.62 x 54mm
R-B-32 API
124 gr fmj rn 5.56 x 45mm
M193 5.56 x 45mm
M855/SS109 *7.62 x 63mm
230 gr speer tmj 7.62 x 39mm
mild steel core
180 gr jsp
FN 5.7 x 28mm
40 gr ss 197
158 gr fmj
240 gr swcgc
240 gr sjhp
Levels of NIJ Certified Body Armor
The following information was provided directly from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, NIJ standards. Ballistic Resistance of body armor, NIJ Standard-0101.06 – visit www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij
The follow contains information on level IIA, level II, level IIIA, level III, and level IV.
NIJ BODY ARMOR CLASSIFICATION
Personal body armor covered by this standard is classified into five types (IIA, II, IIIA, III, IV) by level of ballistic performance. In addition, a special test class is defined to allow armor to be validated against threats that may not be covered by the five standard classes. The classification of an armor panel that provides two or more levels of NIJ ballistic protection at different locations on the ballistic panel shall be that of the minimum ballistic protection provided at any location on the panel.
2.1 Type IIA (9 mm; .40 S&W)
Type IIA armor that is new and unworn shall be tested with 9 mm Full Metal Jacketed Round Nose (FMJ RN) bullets with a specified mass of 8.0 g (124 gr) and a velocity of 373 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1225 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and with .40 S&W Full Metal Jacketed (FMJ) bullets with a specified mass of 11.7 g (180 gr) and a velocity of 352 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1155 ft/s ± 30 ft/s). Type IIA armor that has been conditioned shall be tested with 9 mm FMJ RN bullets with a specified mass of 8.0 g (124 gr) and a velocity of 355 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1165 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and with .40 S&W FMJ bullets with a specified mass of 11.7 g (180 gr) and a velocity of 325 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1065 ft/s ± 30 ft/s).
2.2 Type II (9 mm; .357 Magnum)
Type II armor that is new and unworn shall be tested with 9 mm FMJ RN bullets with a specified mass of 8.0 g (124 gr) and a velocity of 398 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1305 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and with .357 Magnum Jacketed Soft Point (JSP) bullets with a specified mass of 10.2 g (158 gr) and a velocity of 436 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1430 ft/s ± 30 ft/s). Type II armor that has been conditioned shall be tested with 9 mm FMJ RN bullets with a specified mass of 8.0 g (124 gr) and a velocity of 379 m/s ±9.1 m/s (1245 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and with .357 Magnum JSP bullets with a specified mass of 10.2 g (158 gr) and a velocity of 408 m/s ±9.1 m/s (1340 ft/s ± 30 ft/s).
2.3 Type IIIA (.357 SIG; .44 Magnum)
Type IIIA armor that is new and unworn shall be tested with .357 SIG FMJ Flat Nose (FN) bullets with a specified mass of 8.1 g (125 gr) and a velocity of 448 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1470 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and with .44 Magnum Semi Jacketed Hollow Point (SJHP) bullets with a specified mass of 15.6 g (240 gr) and a velocity of 436 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1430 ft/s ± 30 ft/s).
Type IIIA armor that has been conditioned shall be tested with .357 SIG FMJ FN bullets with a specified mass of 8.1 g (125 gr) and a velocity of 430 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1410 ft/s ± 30 ft/s) and with .44 Magnum SJHP bullets with a specified mass of 15.6 g (240 gr) and a velocity of 408 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (1340 ft/s ± 30 ft/s).
2.4 Type III (Rifles)
Type III hard armor or plate inserts shall be tested in a conditioned state with 7.62 mm FMJ, steel jacketed bullets (U.S. Military designation M80) with a specified mass of 9.6 g (147 gr) and a velocity of 847 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (2780 ft/s ± 30 ft/s).
Type III flexible armor shall be tested in both the “as new” state and the conditioned state with 7.62 mm FMJ, steel jacketed bullets (U.S. Military designation M80) with a specified mass of 9.6 g (147 gr) and a velocity of 847 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (2780 ft/s ± 30 ft/s). For a Type III hard armor or plate insert that will be tested as an in conjunction design, the flexible armor shall be tested in accordance with this standard and found compliant as a stand-alone armor at its specified threat level. The combination of the flexible armor and hard armor/plate shall then be tested as a system and found to provide protection at the system’s specified threat level. NIJ-approved hard armors and plate inserts must be clearly labeled as providing ballistic protection only when worn in conjunction with the NIJ-approved flexible armor system with which they were tested.
2.5 Type IV (Armor Piercing Rifle)
Type IV hard armor or plate inserts shall be tested in a conditioned state with .30 caliber armor piercing (AP) bullets (U.S. Military designation M2 AP) with a specified mass of 10.8 g (166 gr) and a velocity of 878 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (2880 ft/s ± 30 ft/s). Type IV flexible armor shall be tested in both the “as new” state and the conditioned state with .30 caliber AP bullets (U.S. Military designation M2 AP) with a specified mass of 10.8 g (166 gr) and a velocity of 878 m/s ± 9.1 m/s (2880 ft/s ± 30 ft/s).
For a Type IV hard armor or plate insert that will be tested as an in conjunction design, the flexible armor shall be tested in accordance with this standard and found compliant as a stand-alone armor at its specified threat level. The combination of the flexible armor and hard armor/plate shall then be tested as a system and found to provide protection at the system’s specified threat level. NIJ-approved hard armors and plate inserts must be clearly labeled as providing ballistic protection only when worn in conjunction with the NIJ-approved flexible armor system with which they were tested.
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Walmart parts with Asda but retains many of its e-commerce innovations
Bloomberg News | May 1, 2018
Over the years, Walmart has hired Asda’s top talent and borrowed its innovations in everything from e-commerce to employee training.
(Bloomberg)—Walmart Inc. is parting with Asda, but the British grocer will always be part of Walmart.
How Walmart's sale of Asda reflects its global strategy
Bloomberg News | Apr 30, 2018
Asda’s two-decade run as one of Walmart’s biggest international operations created a special relationship between the U.S. and British retailers, who on Monday revealed plans to combine Asda, No. 11 in the Internet Retailer 2017 Europe 500, with British rival J Sainsbury Plc, No. 4, in a $10 billion deal. Over the years, Walmart has hired Asda’s top talent and borrowed its innovations in everything from e-commerce to employee training. It has even adopted some of the Brits’ retail lingo.
“Asda’s ascendancy came from being seen as the best-run asset in the Walmart empire,” said Brandon Fletcher, an analyst with Sanford Bernstein & Co. and a former Walmart executive. “There was a notion that they had this magic sauce.”
Sainsbury shares rose as much as 2% in London on Tuesday, extending Monday’s 15% gain. Walmart dropped 0.8% in premarket trading.
Walmart will retain a 42% stake in the combined company, but perhaps of greater value are the Asda-developed executives and ideas. These have helped Walmart transition from a struggling brick-and-mortar retailer to a nimbler, more digitally focused merchant that can go toe-to-toe with Amazon.com Inc. Typically, the credit for that evolution goes to Marc Lore, the e-commerce whiz who came to Walmart when it acquired Jet.com. But Asda’s influence, while not as apparent, runs longer and deeper.
About 18% of retail sales take place online in Britain, compared with about 12% in the U.S.
Walmart’s senior management roster is sprinkled with former Asda executives, including Judith McKenna, who heads the company’s international business and Mark Ibbotson, the executive vice president of U.S. central operations—a key role that oversees 4,700 stores and whips lagging locations into shape. Asda hires brought fresh ideas to Walmart’s Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters, while diluting its hidebound corporate culture along the way.
‘Seasoned group’
“They have acquired great human capital with the managers that have run the Asda business,” said Ken Harris, managing partner at Cadent Consulting Group, who’s advised retailers and consumer-product companies for more than 25 years. This “seasoned group of talent” knows how to compete against any rival, he said.
McKenna, who took over as head of the company’s international unit earlier this year, is the highest ranking of the group. Before her promotion, the Middlesbrough, England native was chief operating officer in the U.S., where she launched curbside pickup of online grocery orders and helped develop the employee academies that trained 250,000 workers last year.
The drive-up grocery service—which will expand to more than 2,200 locations this year—has proven popular and offers Walmart a key advantage over Amazon, which is still trying to figure out the fresh-food business. The concept was largely pioneered at Asda, which installed its first drive-through “click and collect” location in 2012 and had 600 of them by 2014.
Britain’s smaller size and denser population than the U.S. lends itself to e-commerce, and this has helped fuel the online success of retailers like Asda and rival Tesco Plc, No. 5. About 18% of retail sales take place online in Britain, compared with about 12% in the U.S.
‘Stores of learning’
The idea for Walmart’s academies also came from Asda, where they’re called “Stores of Learning.” Previously, Walmart employees got most of their training on the job, which meant tasks were fulfilled according to the whims of the store manager. Today, Walmart insists that its stores adhere to a practice from Asda called “One Best Way”—a centralized guide for everything from stocking shelves to dealing with customers. Store managers are also brought to Bentonville for training, which wasn’t done regularly before.
McKenna, an accountant by training, also scrapped an ineffective inventory-management system in the stores and replaced it with one developed inside Asda, which has helped reduce out-of-stock items. Ibbotson, who started his career at Sainsbury, also worked with McKenna at Asda.
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Another one of her top lieutenants is Richard Mayfield, who held senior roles at British retailer John Lewis before joining Asda in 2012. Even Sainsbury CEO Mike Coupe, the architect of this week’s mega-deal, worked for Asda in the late 1990s.
While Asda wrote the blueprint for many Walmart practices today, it wasn’t immune to the cutthroat nature of the U.K. grocery market, as the intrusion of German discounters and the revival of market leader Tesco have taken a toll on Asda’s market share and profitability.
The British grocer’s operating profit margin of 3.5% is narrower than that of Walmart’s overall business, according to Bill Dreher, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group. So, Walmart’s margins should tick up about 10 basis points as a result of the deal, he said.
The Sainsbury transaction will let Walmart “expand into much higher growth markets of China and India, and away from the extremely competitive and slow growth U.K. market,” Dreher said in a research note. He noted, however, that “the lessons learned, and many executives maintained from Asda, will benefit Walmart going forward.”
Walmart is No. 3 in the Internet Retailer 2018 Top 1000.
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Endometrial Cancer Classification: Types of Endometrial Cancer
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Endometrial Cancer Classification
Endometrial cancers may be formed from epithelial cells, mixed epithelial and mesenchymal tumours (carcinosarcomas), or mesenchymal tumours.
Traditional classification of endometrial cancer is based either on clinical and endocrine features (such as types I and II) or on histopathological characteristics (such as endometrioid, serous, or clear-cell adenocarcinoma). There are some tumors that are difficult to be distinguished based on this approach as their features might be overlapping in some cases.
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Types of endometrial cancer
Various types of endometrial cancer are discussed herein:
Most of the endometrial cancers are carcinomas (usually adenocarcinomas). They develop from the single layer of epithelial cells that line the endometrium. There are some subtypes of endometrial carcinoma, which are categorized into two categories, based on clinical features and pathogenesis:
Type I: Type I endometrial carcinomas generally develop before the time of menopause. These are more common in whites who have had endometrial hyperplasia. These cancers are generally minimally invasive, and have a survival rate with treatment. About 70-90% of carcinomas are of Type 1.
Type II: Type II endometrial carcinomas occur in older, post-menopausal women in most cases. These are more common in black women, and do not depend on the exposure to estrogen or history of endometrial hyperplasia.
Endometrioid adenocarcinoma
In this endometrial cancer type, the cancer cells grow in certain patterns. More than 3 out of every 4 cases of adenocarcinomas of the womb lining are of this type. These cancers are often diagnosed at an early stage and so are usually easy to be treated relative to other types.
There are different subtypes of endometrioid cancer. Some of them have squamous cells as well as glandular cells. Adenoacanthomas have a mix of cancerous glandular cells and non cancerous squamous cells. If both the glandular cells and squamous cells are cancerous, it is called adenosquamous carcinoma.
Serous carcinoma
Serous carcinoma is a Type II endometrial cancer. About 5–10% of diagnosed endometrial cancer are of this type. This is more common in post-menopausal women with atrophied endometrium and black women.
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It is aggressive in nature and often invades the myometrium and metastasizes within the peritoneum or the lymphatic system.
Clear cell carcinoma
Clear cell carcinoma is a Type II endometrial tumor. Only less than 5% of diagnosed endometrial cancers are of this type. It is usually aggressive and carries a poor prognosis like that of serous cell carcinoma.
Mucinous carcinoma
Mucinous carcinomas are a rare form of endometrial cancer. They make up less than 2% of all diagnosed endometrial cancer. Mucinous endometrial carcinomas are most often stage I and grade I. The prognosis for these cancers is very good.
Mixed or undifferentiated carcinoma
Mixed carcinomas have both Type I and Type II cells, with one making up at least 10% of the tumor. An example is malignant mixed Müllerian tumor.
Undifferentiated endometrial carcinomas are not very common and constitute only less than 2% of the total diagnosed endometrial cancers. They have a worse prognosis.
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Matthew D. Saronson
Matt Saronson is a partner in the firm’s Tax Department whose practice focuses on advising sponsors and investors on the U.S. and international tax ... Read Full Biography
Fund Formation
LeapFrog Investments in the formation of LeapFrog Financial Inclusion Fund III, a $700 million emerging markets-focused impact fund.
DBAY Advisors in the formation of DouglasBay Capital III Fund, a European fund making investments in small and micro-cap listed companies.
AAC Capital Partners in its sale of a $1.5 billion investment portfolio to a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Akina in its European mid-market buyout funds of funds.
Apera Asset Management in the formation of its €750 million private debt platform, focussing on senior secured loans to lower mid-market businesses in German-speaking Europe, France, Benelux, the UK and Northern Europe.
Ares Management in the formation of Ares Europe Real Estate Fund IV, a $1.3 billion Europe real estate fund.
Aureos Capital in the formation of Aureos Latin America Fund, a $184 million Latin America buyout fund.
Baring Vostok in the formation of its Russian private equity funds, including Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund V, a $1.5 billion Russia, CIS buyout fund.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the formation of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund X, a $10 billion North America and Western Europe buyout fund.
Deutsche Bank in its secondary opportunities funds.
Exponent Private Equity Partners in the formation of Exponent Private Equity Partners III, a £1 billion UK buyout fund.
Metric Capital Partners in the formation of MCP Private Capital Fund III, an €850 million European special opportunities fund.
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia in its Asian buyout funds.
Och-Ziff Capital Management in the formation of its private equity funds.
Park Square in the formation of its European mezzanine funds, including Park Square Capital Partners III, a €1.2 billion subordinated debt fund.
Park Square in the formation of its credit opportunities funds, including Park Square Capital Credit Opportunities II, a $2.4 billion senior debt programme.
Prosperity Capital Management in its open and closed-end funds investing in Russia/CIS.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Westbury Street, a leading independent contract caterer and hospitality services provider in the UK.
A leading secondaries fund sponsor in its acquisition of a portfolio of venture capital and private equity interests from a major European private equity manager.
Helios Investment Partners in fund arrangement aspects of the IPO on the London Stock Exchange of Vivo Energy, the company that distributes and markets Shell-branded fuels and lubricants to retail and commercial customers in Africa.
Motor Fuel Group in the financing and tax structuring of its £1.2 billion acquisition of MRH, the UK's largest petrol station and convenience retail operator.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a 40% ownership interest in Belron, which valued the company at €3 billion.
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in its investment in Datamars.
Helios Investment Partners in its sale of a minority stake in Interswitch to TA Associates. Helios Investment Partners remains the majority shareholder following the transaction.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $2.3 billion sale of Mauser Group, a leading global supplier of industrial rigid packaging products and reconditioning services, to Stone Canyon Industries.
HarbourVest Partners in its £806.6 million acquisition of the investment portfolio of SVG Capital, a publicly-listed investment fund. The acquisition followed an initial £1,015 million takeover offer by HarbourVest Partners for SVG Capital. The deal has been recognized by various industry award schemes, including the PEI Awards and being named Private Equity Deal Of The Year at the IFLR European Awards.
HarbourVest Partners in its secondary acquisition of limited partnership interests from multiple sellers in funds managed by Indigo Capital Partners.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the financing and certain other aspects of its acquisition of BUT, the largest furniture retailer network in France, in a 50:50 partnership with WM Holding, a company related to the XXXLutz Group.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in tax aspects of its acquisition of Kalle, and the related financing.
AltaOne Capital in its acquisition, with Silver Lake, of a 37.6% interest in Cegid Group, valuing the company at €580 million.
HarbourVest Partners in its co-investment with IK Investment Partners in the Salad Signature group, a Dutch and Belgian food business.
Prudential Financial in its $350 million partnership with LeapFrog Investments, targeting investments in life insurance companies in Africa.
Dover Corporation in its €425 million acquisition of Tokheim Group’s dispensers and systems businesses.
Nereus Capital in its joint venture with Hareon Solar and Treasury Group to invest in solar projects in India.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in tax and related financing aspects of its approximately £500 million acquisition, alongside management, of Motor Fuel Group.
HarbourVest Partners as co-investor in the 2012 take-private of Omega Pharma, and its subsequent sale in 2014 to Perrigo Company for €3.6 billion.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the sale of an approximately 12% stake in B&M for £384 million.
HarbourVest Partners as a selling shareholder, together with Exponent, in the purchase of Trainline by KKR.
SPIE in the €2.16 billion refinancing of its existing debt.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in tax aspects of its €1.2 billion acquisition of Mauser Group, a leading provider of industrial packaging.
Petroleum Equity in its $133 million acquisition, through its investment vehicle Alpha Petroleum, of ATP Oil & Gas (UK) in the U.S. Chapter 11 cases of ATP's U.S. parent and the follow-on successful CVA proceedings of ATP UK.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a significant stake in B&M Retail.
HarbourVest Partners in its $1.4 billion acquisition of the private equity fund interests and direct co-investments of Conversus Capital.
Stone Point Capital in its sale of an interest in Securis Investment Partners, an insurance-linked securities manager.
Ray Investment, whose shareholders were funds controlled by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo, BAML Capital Partners and Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, in a series of accelerated book-building offerings of Rexel shares valued in excess of €3.3 billion.
The management team of ABN AMRO Capital, a private equity buyout firm with €3.1 billion of funds under management, in the sale of ABN AMRO Capital to the management.
Baring Private Equity Asia in its $360 million acquisition of Nord Anglia Plc.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its €2.1 billion acquisition, with AXA Private Equity and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, of SPIE from PAI Partners; its acquisition of British Car Auctions, Europe's leading vehicle auctions and remarketing company; and its £417 million acquisition of Bodycote Testing Group, the laboratory materials testing business of Bodycote Plc; the private equity consortium of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity in their $15 billion acquisition of Hertz from Ford Motor Company.
HarbourVest Partners on various matters relating to its direct and secondary investment programme.
Park Square Capital in the restructuring of the Gala gaming group.
Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1997, J.D.
University of Massachusetts, 1994, B.A.
Funds/Investment Management
Matt Saronson is a partner in the firm’s Tax Department whose practice focuses on advising sponsors and investors on the U.S. and international tax aspects of private equity funds and representing private equity and corporate clients in complex, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional acquisitions, dispositions, financings and partnership transactions. Working with the firm’s fund formation lawyers in the United States, Europe and Asia, he has advised on a broad spectrum of private funds. Mr. Saronson is a member of the taxation committee of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, and of the international tax and tax reporting working group of Invest Europe (previously the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association).
Mr. Saronson is recognised for his ability to “distil sophisticated concepts into plain English” in The Legal 500 UK (2018). He is also recommended by IFLR1000 (2015) and recognised as a Foreign Expert – U.S. for Tax in Chambers Global (2015). He joined Debevoise’s New York office in 1997 and relocated to the firm’s London office in 2003, where he became a partner in 2006.
Mr. Saronson has published numerous articles and is a frequent public speaker. Recent publications include “US Tax Reforms,” BVCA Technical Bulletin (May, 2018); “BEPS: LPs React To New Tax Environment,” Private Equity International (December/January, 2018); “BEPS Action 6 And Private Equity Funds,” Tax Journal (March, 2017); “How New FATCA Regs Affect Private Investment Funds,” Law360 (June, 2012); and “Catch Ya by FATCA,” The Global Legal Post (April, 2012). Recent speaking engagements include “Recent tax changes and their impact on private equity,” BVCA Summit Conference (October, 2018); “Legal Strategies: Balancing GP Interests and Maintaining Competitive and Marketable Positioning to LPs,” EMPEA Masterclass (October, 2018); “Mergers and Acquisitions,” EMPEA Masterclass (October, 2018); “Key Tax issues and Developments,” Invest Europe Fund Structuring Training (September, 2018); “US Tax Reform - Impact for the Luxembourg Fund Industry,” Arendt Seminar on US Tax Reform (July, 2018); “Legal Strategies: Balancing GP Interests and Maintaining Competitive and Marketable Positioning to LPs,” EMPEA Fundraising Masterclass (October, 2017); “Ensure the Right Terms: Making Both Parties Happy,” African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (April, 2013), “US international tax policy following the US Presidential Election,” BVCA Tax, Legal & Regulatory Conference (November, 2012); and “Developments in Taxation of Private Equity,” International Bar Association (November, 2009).
Mr. Saronson received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1994, where he graduated with highest honors, and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he graduated with highest honors in 1997 and was a member of the Law Review. Mr. Saronson was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to the Bar in New York and Vermont.
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Attractive prize fund and new DEKM partner
11. February 2019 Back to news overview »
Participants compete for €38,500 prize fund
Best newcomer receives €5,000
Lubricant manufacturer RAVENOL as new partner of DEKM
The second season of the German Electric Kart Championship (DEKM) will start with the test days in Lonato (ITA) in April. In total, the talented young drivers have to compete on five race weekends in three countries as part of the German Kart Championship (DKM). “Attractive prize funds are without doubt an important incentive in motorsports,” emphasizes Oliver Schielein, Managing Director of DEKM promoter IKmedia. “This year, we will be giving out cash prizes of €38,500 in total.”
Focus on equal opportunities and performance
Tires, the weight of the e-karts and test days will be fixed before the races to ensure equal conditions for all drivers and to establish a sustainable racing series. The high performance Rotax THUNDeR racing e-kart has a maximum acceleration from 0-100 km/h in 3.5. sec and reaches a top speed of 130 km/h. The Rotax THUNDeR features a Rotax ePowerpack, a new Sodi Sigma DD2 chassis and Vega tires. The e-karts will be assigned to the participants at random.
The central fielding of all vehicles will create identical starting conditions for all young racing talents and will balance any economic disadvantages in the cost-intensive motorsport, putting the focus on racing skills.
To the prize package together with the partners
“We want to give the young drivers the opportunity to refinance their involvement in the DEKM to a certain extent,” explains Schielein, who used to be a race driver himself. “We are therefore pleased that, together with our partners, we were able to generate a prize fund which is highly attractive for karting.”
Focus on drivers’ performance and commitment
“Fair distribution of the prize fund was important to us,” highlights Oliver Schielein. The winner of the second season of the DEKM, for example, will receive €10,000. The prize fund will be distributed as follows:
1st place – €10,000
2nd place – €8,000
3rd place – €6,000
4th place – €4,000
In addition, the best rookie will be rewarded with €5,000. €2,500 for the best communication strategy provide an additional incentive. During the test days in Lonato (Italy), a media workshop will be held which is specially designed for the DEKM participants. It will teach the young talents vital lessons in connection with their own media appearances.
DEKM welcomes RAVENOL as a new partner
Since its foundation in 1946, RAVENOL has stood for innovative, modern and reliable products “made in Germany”. Since 2004, the company has also been active in national and international motorsports and has been the official lubricant partner of the Racing Point F1 team since 2018. From the 2019 season, RAVENOL will support the pioneering work of the DEKM in kart racing and support the fledgling racing series with its own motorsports experience.
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Two face drug, gun charges in Dover after investigation
Dover officers arrested two people with nearly an ounce and a half of marijuana, packing materials and drug money, police said.
Two face drug, gun charges in Dover after investigation Dover officers arrested two people with nearly an ounce and a half of marijuana, packing materials and drug money, police said. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/08/08/two-charged-drug-gun-charges-dover/933973002/
Adam Duvernay, Delaware News Journal Published 11:02 a.m. ET Aug. 8, 2018 | Updated 1:30 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2018
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Maurice Butler and Mary Honey(Photo: DOVER POLICE DEPARTMENT)
Dover police on Wednesday morning arrested two people with nearly an ounce and a half of marijuana, packing materials and cash they believe are drug proceeds, police said.
Dover and Delaware State Police drug units concluded what they described as a lengthy drug investigation by searching a home in the 900 block of Simon Circle Wednesday, police said. They collected the drugs and found a shotgun during the search, police said.
Police charged 26-year-old Maurice Butler and 18-year-old Mary Honey with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of drug paraphernalia, conspiracy and being local fugitives.
DRUG AND GUN CHARGES
Man overdosed, left sex worker with 10-year-old child: police
More than 3,500 bags of heroin, $2K found in Dover drug bust
Delaware crime suspects: August
Police charged Wesley Fagg with aggravated menacing, possession of a firearm while committing a felony and possession of a firearm while intoxicated. He was committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution in lieu of $13,000 secured bail. DSP
Travis Shaw, 22, was charged with a Controlled Substance, 1 count felony Possession of a Controlled Substance with an aggravating factor, 1 count Felony Conspiracy 2nd degree, 1 count misdemeanor Resisting Arrest, 3 counts of Illegal Operation of an Off-Highway Vehicle, and 1 count of Operating an Off-Highway Vehicle Without a Helmet. Courtesy of New Castle County Police
33-year-old Travis Lucyies from Jackson, Alabama, was charged with his fourth Offense Driving a Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol, Vehicular Assault Second Degree Driving Under the Influence (2 counts), Leaving the Scene of a Collision Resulting in Injury, Leaving the Scene of Property Collision Accident, Reckless Driving, Driving Without a Valid License, Driving Vehicle at Unreasonable or Imprudent Speed, Following a Motor Vehicle Too Closely, and multiple other related traffic offenses. Courtesy of Delaware State Police
Clay Conaway Delaware State Police
44-year-old Melanie Ballard of Smyrna has been arrested after police say she pointed a loaded handgun at her former tenant. Delaware state Police
Lenear Kellam was charged for possession of a controlled substance with an aggravating factor, receiving stolen property more than $1,500, disregarding a police officer's signal, resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia not related to personal use of marijuana, and a variety of traffic offenses. DSP
Michael Smith was charged with possession of firearms and ammunition by a prohibited person, carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a firearm while under the influence and DUI. Smith was sent to the Sussex Correctional Institution in default of $33,500 cash bond. DSP
Edwin Alfredo Alarcon, 35, of Rehoboth Beach, has been charged with two counts of possession of a deadly weapon during commission of a felony, second degree assault injury to a law enforcement officer, two counts of first degree reckless endangerment, terroristic threatening, two counts of criminal mischief, resisting arrest, driving under the influence of alcohol and other traffic-related offenses. Delaware State Police image
Teresa Grunden was arrested Aug. 22 for an incident in May during which she allegedly sealed up a school bus she was driving because children were being too loud. She was an outside contractor for the Milford School District. Milford police
23-year-old Carlos Ortiz-Perz. New Castle County Police
Daniel Long, 32, was charged with over 50 burglary and theft-related crimes. Courtesy of New Castle County Police
Shane Williams was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed firearm, having expired tags and possession of marijuana, a civil violation. NCCP
Sean Wiley, 31, of Dover was charged with Offensive Touching (3 counts), Assault 3rd Degree, Menacing, Disorderly Conduct, Public Intoxication, Trespass 3rd Degree, Resisting Arrest, and Hate Crime. Courtesy of Dover Police Department
Jerome Davis was charged with theft of $1,500 or more, possession of burglary tools, criminal mischief more than $1,500 and second-degree trespassing. Dover police
Cody Daisey was charged with second-degree burglary, attempt to commit second-degree burglary, possession of burglar tools, resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of attempt to commit theft. He was released after posting bond. DSP
Charles Moore was charged with disorderly conduct and third-degree conspiracy. He was held in lieu of $5,000 cash-only bail. NCCP
Richard Thomas was charged with reckless endangering, criminal mischief and possession of a firearm while committing a felony, all felony charges. He was held in lieu of $25,000 cash-only bail. NCCP
Kayla Felton was charged with disorderly conduct and one county of third-degree conspiracy. She was released on $500 unsecured bail. NCCP
Mahogany Felton was charged with disorderly conduct and one county of third-degree conspiracy. She was released on $500 unsecured bail. NCCP
Charles Bradigan, 30, was charged with first-degree assault, felony possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, and one count misdemeanor Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Courtesy of New Castle County Police
Lutricia Ingram was charged with possession and possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a firearm while committing a felony and by a prohibited person, and endangering the welfare of a child. Dover police
Larry Harris was charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, third-degree conspiracy, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, tampering with evidence and probation violation. Dover police
Derek Johnson was charged with four counts each of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, two of those charges involving drugs, third-degree conspiracy, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, illegal gang participation, possession a firearm with a destroyed serial number and endangering the welfare of a child. Dover police
Michele Machado was charged with possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia and third-degree conspiracy. Dover police
Katherine Howard was charged with possession of ammunition by prohibited person, maintaining a drug property and third-degree conspirac Dover police
Warren May, 26, has been charged with two counts of possession of a firearm by a person prohibited(prior felony conviction), receiving stolen firearm, resisting arrest, disregarding a police officer signal, driving while suspended or revoked, reckless driving, failure to properly use turn signal, display of license plate, unreasonable speed, failure to stop at a red light, driving across a median. Courtesy of New Castle County Police
Antwine Mobley, 26, of Middletown, has been charged with three counts of third-degree rape where the victim was younger than 16 and the suspect is at least 10 years older. NCCP
Newark police arrested Christopher Lane, 37, after discovering large quantities of steroids in his vehicle. He was charged with multiple counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver in varying quantities, delivery of a prescription drug for another to consume or possess without a prescription, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Newark police
Destiny Thomas, 25, of Millington, Maryland, has active warrants for two counts of second-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, two counts of firearms theft, theft of more than $1,500, theft under $1,500 from an elderly victim, theft less than $1,500 and two counts of criminal mischief. DSP
George Thomas III, 32, of Queen's Anne County, Maryland, has active warrants for two counts of second-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, two counts of firearms theft, theft of more than $1,500, theft under $1,500 from an elderly victim, theft less than $1,500 and two counts of criminal mischief. DSP
Jesse J. Planter, 29, has been charged with being a fugitive from another state, criminal impersonation, resisting arrest and entering or remaining on closed lands without permission, among other charges. Jesse J. Planter, 29, was charged with being a fugitive from another state; criminal impersonation; resisting arrest, and entering or remaining on closed lands without permission, among other charges.
Alan Stoltzfus was charged with second-degree burglary, possession of burglar's tools, offensive touching of a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and criminal mischief. DSP
Nicolas Lynn, 20, was charged with one count of first-degree attempted robbery. DOVER POLICE DEPARTMENT
Nikolaih Rivera was charged with extortion, theft under $1,500, and criminal mischief under $1,000. Milford police
Carl Fennell, 73, was charged with 10 counts of first-degree unlawful sexual intercourse. Courtesy of Dover Police Department
Bruce Lane, 32, of Milford, has been charged with second-degree assault, strangulation, stalking, endangering the welfare of a child and breach of release. Lane's cash bail was set at $8,000. Milford police
Mark J. Smith, 27, of Georgetown, has been charged with possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, first-degree burglary and two counts of theft of a firearm along with seven other charges. Delaware State Police image
Ethan A. Mulford, 27, of Seaford, has been charged with possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, first-degree burglary, two counts of theft of a firearm along with eight other charges. Delaware State Police image
Matthew R. King Jr., 32, of Laurel, has been charged with possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, first-degree burglary, two counts of theft of a firearm along with five other charges. Delaware State Police image
Mary Honey, 18, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of drug paraphernalia, conspiracy and being local fugitives. Dover police
Maurice Butler, 26, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. possession of drug paraphernalia, conspiracy and being local fugitives. Dover police
Maurice Harrison, 28, of Georgetown, was arrested Aug. 8 on the charge of stealing a vehicle owned by the city of Milford. Milford police
Police are searching for a man who stole $700 from a senior citizen at the Delaware Park casino, police say. Courtesy of Delaware State Police
Jason Sammons, 25, has been charged with eight counts of second-degree burglary, eight counts of theft under $1,500 and six counts of criminal mischief. Dover police
Antonio Stevens was charged with first-degree attempted robbery, wearing a disguise while committing a felony and resisting arrest. He was committed to the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in default of a $6,500 cash bond, police said. Dover police
Matthew McDavid was charged with possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, second-degree assault and leaving a motor vehicle unattended. DSP
Nafese Pierce was charged with felony possession of shoplifting tools, felony shoplifting, second-degree conspiracy and resisting arrest, according to police. DSP
Tajah Brooks was charged with two counts of felony shoplifting, eight counts of reckless endangering, vehicular assault, resisting arrest, disregarding a police officer, aggressive driving, reckless driving and multiple other traffic offenses, police said. Brooks was committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution on $18,426 cash bond. DSP
Shawn R. Hollowood, 30, of Buffalo, New York, has been charged with attempted carjacking, possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony and second-degree assault. Delaware State Police
Yeiricel Contreras-Garcia, 25, of Millsboro, has been charged with first- and second-degree assault, two counts of possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and reckless driving. Courtesy of Delaware State Police
Justin Anders of Bear has been charged with multiple drinking and driving offenses, none of which are felonies. Rehoboth Beach Police Department
Daekwon Tilghman, 22, was found in possession of a counterfeit controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, police said. He was charged and later released on bond. Dover police
Wadeea Albaadani, 39, came to the Dover Police Department shortly after the arrests were made at Fulton Deli in Dover. He was charged for selling drug paraphernalia, police said. Dover police
Police arrested 27-year-old Walter Morris after finding him in possession of a counterfeit controlled substance, crack cocaine, and drug paraphernalia Dover police
Bruce G. Williams Jr., 54, of Laurel, has been charged with seventh-offense DUI, prohibited driving after a judgment, driving while his license has been suspended or revoked, failure to have insurance identification in possession, operation of an unregistered motor vehicle and fictitious tags. Courtesy of Delaware State Police
Juliana Strobel was charged with possession of cocaine, ecstasy, a personal-use quantity of marijuana, non-marijuana-related drug paraphernalia and failure to have her driver's license in her possession, DNREC said. DNREC
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Alpha Flight #1 Facsimile Edition
In 1983, exploding from the pages of UNCANNY X-MEN, came Canada's premier super-team: Alpha Flight! Vindicator, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Snowbird and Shaman - together with new recruits Marrina and Puck - took center stage in an always-surprising series, written and drawn by John Byrne at the peak of his powers! Alpha Flight may have been officially shut down by Department H, but they're still Canada's first line of defense when the giant Tundra wreaks havoc! Relive the issue that made stars of Alpha Flight - one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) #1. Rated T.
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El Mozote -- 30th anniversary commemoration
Ninth in a series
This weekend, people from throughout El Salvador and the world gathered in a remote location in northeastern El Salvador to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the El Mozote massacre. It was a time to remember and a time for renewed commitment to the quest for justice for the victims. This year, the commemoration commenced on Saturday, December 10, which is the 63rd anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Anniversaries bring infrastructure improvements to El Mozote. There was fresh asphalt pavement on the last few hundred yards into the village. A grader smoothed a hill side to make parking spaces for cars, just as the cars started to pull in.
A raised stage had been raised close to the little church on the main plaza in El Mozote. The whole plaza was filled with hundreds of people. Vendors sold artisan items, T-shirts, and pupusas.
As we arrived, a children's chorus was beginning to sing under the direction of Sister Anne Griffin. More than one of the subsequent speakers commented on the hope embodies by those voices singing on the spot where hundreds of children were massacred. Children read the names and ages of child victims.
The event was attended for the first time by a high level official of the current Salvadoran government. Hugo Martinez, El Salvador's foreign minister. Others present included the ambassadors of Venezuela and Colombia, representatives of the United Nations, Oscar Luna, El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudsman, and others. But the most important attendees were the family members of the victims of El Mozote.
The headlines this event generated came from the remarks of Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez. After commenting that prior Salvadoran governments had treated the immense suffering of El Mozote was a matter of indifference, he said
I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate on behalf of the government of El Salvador our request for forgiveness to the thousands of innocent victims, but especially the victims of the massacre at El Mozote.
Martinez said that the government under Mauricio Funes was accepting the responsibility for the crimes committed and that it was in solidarity with the victims of El Mozote and the surrounding communities.
Later in the morning, Oscar Luna, El Salvador's human rights ombudsman, made his presentation. Starting with the events of 30 years ago, he traced the search for justice up to the present day proceedings in front of the Inter-American Court for Human Rights. He left no doubt of his opinion that what has been done so far has been insufficient. He called for a repeal of the Amnesty Law, a judicial investigation of those responsible for the command and control of the massacre, and concrete reparations including financial, medical, psycho-social and legal assistance to the families of the victims.
The voices of the victims were also heard this day as those who had lost family members presented their testimony. Other parts of the commemoration included a Catholic mass, a music concert, dance presentations, and more.
This weekend also saw the dedication of a new monument to the innocent victims of the massacre. The new monument is located about 1 km down the road past El Mozote. Not completely finished, it rises dramatically on a hillside with dramatic views. On top, as a crown, are the silhouettes of the El Mozote family from the monument in the village square. Statutes of prophets of non-violence encircle the monument including Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mother Teresa. A figure of Jesus Christ includes the phrase "my peace I give you, my peace I leave with you."
You can see pictures I took of the new monument and the anniversary activities at this link.
Greg said…
Excellent series and thank you for ensuring its publication.
Of many, many unfortunate things perhaps the most is that, at this date, despite even the current calls for additional judicial attentions, none should be expected.
All in the government, ALL, know that a cornerstone of the 1992 Peace Accord ensured those on BOTH sides of the conflict would receive amnesty for alleged war crimes.
El Mozote represents the most heinous of such crimes. But the FLMN and its 5 guerrilla armed forces are likewise responsible for equally horrific events such as the murder of unarmed ESAF soldiers at Punte Oro, the bed by bed murders of wounded and injured ESAF soldiers at El Paraiso, the assassination of LT Commander Albert Schaufelberger in San Salvador, the murder of the U.S. Marines in the Zona Rosa, and numerous murders of intimidation by the FMLN of Salvadoran innocents to include those brutalized during the early free elections of the 1980s.
All have blood on their hands and the General Amnesty was meant, selfishly, to cover rather than wash that blood away.
What do we call it when the assassins accuse the assassin?
When we grieve for those at El Mozote we would do well to grieve for all of those whom both sides murdered, maimed, and tortured for no other reason that the pursuit of political power by any means.
The mirror of self-recognition is often unkind.
Yael said…
Thank you, Tim, for your excellent series on El Mozote... you do the English-speaking community a service by offering accessible, well-written information about the impact of this heinous crime 30 years later, and the efforts to heal and recover.
ixa said…
@ Greg, Are You serious? FMLN attacks on soldiers? How many babies did they bayonet?> Zona Rosa Murder? Are a few American Intel peeps more important than 1, 000 Campesinos? Ah ya I forgot, they were communists. Te vale verga verdad?
you need to know though that the peace accords were signed before the amnesty law. January 92 Chapultupeq, MEx, then when Forensics led by Clyde Snow (Argentinian Team) made the findings known in the Fall of 92, ONLY THEN, did Cristiani push through the amnesty law Knowing that the MAJORITY *90% of abuses were committed by army (BIRIS), Atlacatl, BRacamonte, Belloso, PRAL, etc. and (paramilitaries,(See rom Madness to Hope UN Truth Commission. Then for the next 10 years Arena pushes through propaganda the "both sides forgiven:BS Excuse. You also need to know that North Americans lost good men in LIVE combat against the FMLN, Green berets, etc, and we NEVER awarded the purple heart because reagan had it as tagged as LIC, Low intensity Conflict. Read Greg Walker's @ the Hurricane's eye and be enlightened. El Salvador would have healed if it would have taken the path of South Africa in facing its past. Unfortunately the RIGHT, backed by the USA in the 90s did not let that happen. One day...
you need to know that the peace accords were signed before the amnesty law. January 92 Chapultupeq, MEx, then when Forensics led by Clyde Snow (Argentinian Team) made the findings known in the Fall of 92 in the convent at El Mozote, ONLY THEN, after Cristiani found out, did he push through the amnesty law Knowing that the MAJORITY *90% of abuses were committed by army (BIRIS), Atlacatl, BRacamonte, Belloso, PRAL, etc. and (paramilitaries,(See From Madness to Hope UN Truth Commission. Then for the next 10 years Arena pushes through propaganda -the "both sides forgiven:BS Excuse. You also need to know that North Americans lost good men in LIVE combat against the FMLN, Green berets, etc, and the U.S. NEVER awarded the purple heart because reagan had the war tagged as LIC, Low intensity Conflict. Read Greg Walker's @ the Hurricane's eye and be enlightened. El Salvador would have healed if it would have taken the path of South Africa in facing its past. Unfortunately the RIGHT, backed by the USA in the 90s did not let that happen. One day...it will come out and there will be more than a visit to Romeros tomb to have justicia..
In 1998, the United States Government/Military - after a ten year grass roots campaign led by former U.S. Service members who fought/served in El Salvador - authorized full combat awards and decorations.
These include among others the Purple Hearts, Silver Stars, and two posthumous POW medals for U.S. aviators shot down then executed by their FMLN captors (LTC David Picket, buried at Arlington and SP4 Dawson).
It has been for some time a formal U.S. military campaign.
The No Greater Love Foundation, in May of 1996, dedicated a small monument and plaque along with what is today a fully grown White Oak, in memory of all of those who were killed in the war, Salvadoran or otherwise.
In part the dedication reads:
"El Salvador 1981-1992. Blessed are the peacemakers. In sacred memory of those who died to bring hope and peace."
Representatives from the Salvadoran embassy were in attendance. The memorial was initiated by the Veterans of Special Operations - El Salvador, the grass roots organization that successfully pursued the historical realignment of the war to reflect the Truth of U.S. involvement.
You can Google the historical record on this, both in the general/major media and official military awards/decorations websites. Bradley Graham of the Washington Post did excellent front page story on this event.
It's sad to hear someone, anyone, offer one human life has more value or concern than another.
The Jewish faith offers -
Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a states:
"FOR THIS REASON WAS MAN CREATED ALONE, TO TEACH THEE THAT WHOSOEVER DESTROYS A SINGLE SOUL... SCRIPTURE IMPUTES [GUILT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD DESTROYED A COMPLETE WORLD; AND WHOSOEVER PRESERVES A SINGLE SOUL..., SCRIPTURE ASCRIBES [MERIT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD PRESERVED A COMPLETE WORLD."
From the Quran -
Quran: 5; 32 -
"For that cause we decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for another manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he saved the life of all mankind..."
The world's religions and sects, for the most part, as well as the world's human rights movements, likewise offer the same thought process.
The General Amnesty in El Salvador was agreed to and has been upheld since by the Salvadoran Government, with members in both high and low places coming from all political parties and voices.
A war crime is a war crime is a war crime, by international law. Be it one or 1000, the numbers do not detract any less from the deed.
Elements of the FMLN committed murders, atrocities, assassinations, and all matter of intimidation throughout the course of the war. They were no less culpable, no less "justified", no less excusable than those carried out by their mirror images on "the other side".
Both sides who could face investigation and indictment are happy to quietly point at the amnesty and shake their blood-stained fingers "No-no, I/we have been abstained from justice".
Such a declaration is not unusual. Amnesty, forgiveness, the laying down of arms and anger, takes on many forms, some of them easier to accept than others.
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SMEs Contributing Most to Industrial Automation Growth
Industrial automation is on the rise in India, marking a significant increase in the adoption of human-machine collaborative tools. Universal Robots (UR), which offers its popular collaborative robots, or cobots in the manufacturing and factory automation space, has been the biggest benefactor of this in India. However, according to Pradeep David, general manager (South Asia) of Universal Robots, it is not the large companies that have been the biggest growth contributors in recent times. In contrast, it is actually the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are fuelling this growth.
Speaking to News18 recently, David stated, “In the past three years, we’ve grown in usage and implementation exponentially. When we first came in, our primary businesses were with the larger companies — for them, they don’t really have a choice but use automation in the manufacturing process. But today, I can go as far as saying that industrial automation is growing exponentially in India because SMEs are adopting new tech.”
David further claimed that the SME-boosted growth of industrial automation has made UR’s cobots the fastest growing entity in all of industrial automation today. He said, “The cobots business has been expanding by nearly 65-70 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), and is expected to continue at that pace for the next five years. There is no segment in India around automation that is growing so dynamically.”
David notes that the International Organisation for Standardisation’s acknowledgement and certification of collaborative industrial robot systems and the work environment has contributed significantly to the rise of this segment across the world, and across various engineering businesses spread all over India. The ISO/TS 15066 paper, published in 2016, lays down the safety requirements of these tools. This allowed UR to sell its products in India, since the requirement of any industrial equipment in Indian regulations is to comply with ISO certification norms.
Two of the most important areas that David touched upon are the aspect of whether these SMEs are ready to implement advanced technologies such as AI and ML, and whether the infusion of automation in small enterprises may lead to eradication of manual jobs. Touching upon the former, David stated, “One of our objectives is to reduce compulsory usage of advanced, smart tech in industries. So, we offer systems that offer fixed locations for components in businesses such as machining. In simpler words, if a part can be placed at a fixed place from where the cobot can make use of it, it is easier to do so.” He further added, “One of the biggest problems that SMEs face is that they do not wish to rely on external engineering companies and pay every time they want to make a change. So we teach the SME and operators to program the robots themselves.”
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Professor Peter Henderson
Hartel, P., Butler, M., Currie, A., Henderson, P., Leuschel, M., Martin, A., Smith, A., Ultes-Nitsche, U. and Walters, R.J. (1999) Questions and Answers About Ten Formal Methods. Gnesi, S. and latella, D. (eds.) Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems. pp. 179-203 .
Chatters, B., Henderson, P. and Rostron, C. (1998) SIMMER: Software and Systems Integration, Modelling, Metrics and Risks (Getting to Level 4). Proc. European Conf. on Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI). 4.16-4 .
Chatters, B., Henderson, P. and Rostron, C. (1998) The Cellular Manufacturing Process Model: Planning a Complex Software And Systems Integration Project. Coombes, H., Huysduynen, M. Hooft van and Peeters, B. (eds.) Proc. European Software Measurement Conf.. pp. 559-564 .
Greenwood, R. M., Warboys, B., Harrison, R. and Henderson, P. (1998) An Empirical Study of the Evolution of a Software System. Proc. 13th Int. Conf. Automated Software Engineering (ASE). pp. 293-296 .
Henderson, P. (1998) Laws for Dynamic Systems. Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Re-Use (ICSR). pp. 330-336 .
Henderson, P. (1998) From Formal Models to Validated Components in an Evolving System s.n.
Phalp, K., Henderson, P., Abeysinghe, G. and Walters, R.J. (1998) RolEnact - Role Based Enactable Models of Business Processes. Information and Software Technology, 40 (3), 123-133.
Abeysinghe, G., Henderson, P., Phalp, K. and Walters, R.J. (1997) An Audience Centred Approach to Modelling for Business Processes ReEngineering. Gyorkos, J., Krisper, M. and Mayr, H. C. (eds.) Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Re-technologies for Information Systems (ReTis'97). pp. 63-80 .
Henderson, P. (1997) Formal Models of Process Components. Leavens, G. T. and Sitamaran, M. (eds.) Proc. Int. Foundations of component-based systems Workshop. pp. 131-140 .
Gravell, A. M. and Henderson, P. (1996) Executing Formal Specifications Need Not be Harmful. Software Engineering Journal, 11 (2), 104-110.
Henderson, P. and Walters, R. J. (1999) Modelling Component-based Systems as an aid to Design Validation. 14th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). pp. 303-6 .
Berrington, N., DeRoure, David C., Greenwood, R. and Henderson, P. (1994) Distribution and Change: Investigating two challenges for Process Enactment Systems. Warboys, B. C. (ed.) Software Process Technology. 152--162 .
Henderson, P. and Walters, R. J. (1999) System Design Validation Using Formal Models. Proc. 10th Int. Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP). pp. 10-14 .
Henderson, Peter and Howard, Yvonne (1999) Simulating a Process Strategy for Large Scale Software Development. Proceedings of Workshop on Software Process Simulation Modelling, ProSim99. 10pp .
Chatters, Brian, Henderson, Peter and Rostron, Chris (1999) An experiment to improve cost estimation and project tracking for software and systems integration projects. 25th EUROMICRO Conference. Informatics: Theory and Practice for the New Millennium. pp. 177-184 .
Henderson, P. (1972) Derived semantics for some programming language constructs. Communications of the ACM, 15 (ll), 967-973.
Henderson, P. and Snowdon, R. A. (1972) An experiment in structured programming. BIT, 12 (4), 38-53.
Henderson, P. and Quarendon, P. (1974) Finite state testing of structured programs. Lecture notes in Computer Science, LNCS 19. pp. 72-80 .
Henderson, P. and Snowdon, R. A. (1974) A tool for structured program development. Information Processing 74, 1, 204-207.
Henderson, P. (1975) Finite state modelling in program development. SIGPLAN Notices, 10 (6), 221-227.
Henderson, P. (1977) An approach to compile time type checking. Information Processing 77, 1, 523-527.
Henderson, P. and Morris, J. H. (1976) A lazy evaluator. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Principles of programming languages (POPL). pp. 95-103 .
Henderson, P. (1977) Structured Program Testing. Current Trends in Programming Methodology. pp. 1-15 .
Henderson, P. and Snowdon, R. A. (1978) The TOPD system for program development,. Structured Analysis and Design -- State of the Art Report. pp. 284-305 .
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Henderson, P., Gimson, R. G., Snowdon, R. A. and Pratten, G. D. (1979) The maintenance of software with multiple versions. Structured Software Development -- State of the Art Report. pp. 100-115 .
Henderson, P. (1979) Program Parts and their Relationship. Proc. State of the Art Conf. on Long Life Software. 4/1-4/14 .
Henderson, P. , Hoare, C. A. R. (ed.) (1980) Functional Programming - Application and Implementation: Russian Edition 1983, Japanese Edition 1985 , Prentice-Hall Int. Series in Computer Science
Henderson, P. (1981) System Design, State of the Art Report , Pergammon-Infotech Ltd.
Henderson, P. and Gimson, R. B. (1981) Modularisation of Large Programs. Software: Practice and Experience, 11 (5), 497-520.
Darlington, J. , Henderson, P. and Turner, D. A. (eds.) (1982) Functional programming and its applications , Cambridge University Press
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Henderson, P. (1982) Purely Functional Operating Systems. Functional Programming and its Applications. pp. 177-192 .
Henderson, P. and Jones, S. B. (1984) Shells of Functional Operating Systems. SERC Distributed Computer Systems. pp. 290-298 .
Henderson, P. (1984) A practical view of functional programming. Data Processing, 26 (2), 34-36.
Henderson, P. (1985) Specifications and Programs. Software, Requirements, Specification and Testing. pp. 75-82 .
Henderson, P. (1986) Functional programming, formal specification, and rapid prototyping. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-12 (2), 241-250.
Henderson, P. and Minkowitz, C. J. (1986) The me too Method of Software Design. ICL Journal, 5 (1).
Minkowitz, C. and Henderson, P. (1987) A Formal Description of Object-Oriented Programming Using VDM. Airchinnigh, M. Mac an, Bjørner, D., Jones, C. B. and Neuhold, E. J. (eds.) VDM-Europe Symposium on VDM - A Formal Method at Work, LNCS 252. pp. 237-259 .
Budgen, D., Henderson, P. and Rattray, C. (1989) Academic/Industrial collaboration in a Postgraduate MSc Course in Software Engineering. The Journal of Systems and Software, 10 (4), 261-??.
Henderson, P. and Warboys, B. C. (1989) An architectural framework for Systems. ICL Technical Journal.
Glaser, H. and Henderson, P. (1991) Functional Programming. McDermid, J. A. (ed.) Software Engineer's Reference Handbook. 35/1-35/6 .
Gravell, A. M. and Henderson, P (1991) Why Execute Formal Specifications? Neumann, B. De, Simpson, D. and Slater, G. (eds.) Mathematical Structures for Software Engineering. pp. 165-184 .
Henderson, P. and Warboys, B. C. (1991) Configuration Description for Component Reuse. Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Software Reuse.
Henderson, Peter (1993) Object-oriented specification and design with C++ (McGraw-Hill International Series in Software Engineering), New York, US. McGraw-Hill, 288pp.
Henderson, P. and Pratten, G. D. (1993) Implementing Potential-for-change. ICL Technical Journal, 8 (3), 383-397.
Henderson, P., Jones, G. A. and Jones, S. B. (1982) The LispKit Manual: Two volumes , Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Henderson, P. (1993) Functional Programming, Formal Specification and Rapid Prototyping. al, A. McGettrick et (ed.) Software Engineering in Europe. pp. 241-250 .
Henderson, P. (1994) Software Processes are Business Processes Too. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on the Software Process. pp. 181-182 .
Henderson, P. and Pratten, G. D. (1995) POSD - a notation for presenting complex systems of processes. Proc. 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems. pp. 125-128 .
Henderson, Peter (2000) Systems Engineering for Business Process Change , Springer Verlag UK
Henderson, P. and Howard, Y. (1998) Simulating a Process Strategy for Large Scale Software Development using System Dynamics. Software Process Improvement and Practice, 5, 121-131.
Henderson, Peter, Howard, Yvonne Margaret and Walters, Robert John (2001) A Tool for Evaluation of the Software Development Process. Journal of Systems and Software, 59 (3), 355-362.
Henderson, Peter and Walters, Robert John (2001) Behavioural Analysis of Component-Based Systems. Information and Software Technology, 43 (3), 161-169.
Henderson, Peter, Crouch, Stephen and Walters, Robert John (2001) Inconsistency Tolerance across Enterprise Solutions. 8th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems. pp. 164-169 .
Henderson, Peter, Walters, Robert John and Crouch, Stephen (2002) RICES: Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions. Henderson, Peter (ed.) Systems Enginerring for Business Process Change: New Directions. pp. 367-371 .
Henderson, Peter, Crouch, Stephen, Walters, Robert John and Ni, Qinglai , Kowalcyzk, R, Muller, J.P, Tianfield, H and Unland, R (eds.) (2003) A Comparison of some Negotiation Algorithms using a Tournament-Based Approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2592, 137-150.
Butler, Michael, Ferreira, Carla, Henderson, Peter, Chessell, Mandy, Griffin, Catherine and Vines, David (2002) Extending the Concept of Transaction Compensation. IBM Systems Journal, 47, 743-758.
Henderson, Peter (2002) Functional Geometry. Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 15 (4), 349-365.
Henderson, Peter, Walters, Robert John, Crouch, Stephen and Ni, Qinglai (2003) DataWarp: Building Applications which Make Progress in an Inconsistent World. Stefani, Jean-Bernard, Demeure, Isabelle and Hagimont, Daniel (eds.) 4th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. 17 - 21 Nov 2003. pp. 167-178 .
Henderson, Peter, Crouch, Stephen and Walters, Robert John (2004) Information Invasion in Enterprise Systems: Modelling, Simulating and Analysing System-level Information Propagation. Seruca, Isabel, Filipe, Joaquim, Hammoudi, Slimane and Cordeiro, Jose (eds.) The 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2004), Portugal. 14 - 17 Apr 2004. pp. 473-481 .
Henderson, Peter, Walters, Robert John and Crouch, Stephen (2004) Implementing Hierarchical Features in a Graphically Based Formal Modelling Language. The Twenty-Eighth Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference. 28 - 30 Sep 2004. pp. 92-98 .
Henderson, Peter, Crouch, Stephen, Walters, Robert John and Ni, Qinglai , Card, D N (ed.) (2005) Effects of introducing survival behaviours into automated negotiators specified in an environmental and behavioural framework. Journal of Systems and Software, 76 (1), 65-76.
Henderson, Peter and Yang, Jingtao (2004) Reusable Web Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 185-194.
De Silva, Nishadi and Henderson, Peter (2005) Narrative support for technical documents: Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), United States. 24 - 28 May 2005.
Lee, Yih-Jiun and Henderson, Peter (2005) A Practical Modelling Notation for Secure Distributed Computation. The INA workshop in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Taiwan. 28 - 30 Mar 2005.
Crouch, Stephen, Henderson, Peter and Walters, Robert John (2005) Building applications able to cope with problematic data using a datawarp approach. Chen, Chi-Sheng, Filipe, Joaquim, Seruca, Isabel and Cordeiro, Jose (eds.) Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, United States. 25 - 28 May 2005. pp. 411-414 .
Lee, Yih-Jiun and Henderson, Peter (2005) A Modelling Notation for Grid Computing. The Workshop of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, China. 15 - 19 Dec 2005.
Yang, Jingtao, Cirstea, Corina and Henderson, Peter (2005) An Operational Semantics for DFM, a Formal Notation for Modeling Asynchronous Web Services. The 5th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2005), Australia. pp. 446-451 .
Yang, Jingtao, Cirstea, Corina and Henderson, Peter (2005) Document Flow Model: A Formal Notation for Modelling Asynchronous Web Services Composition. OnTheMove Workshops, Cyprus. pp. 39-48 .
De Silva, N and Henderson, P (2005) Computer Support for Narrative Structures. Computers and Writing 2005, United States. 16 - 19 Jun 2005.
Henderson, Peter and De Silva, Nishadi (2006) A narrative approach to collaborative writing: A business process model. 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Cyprus. 23 - 27 May 2006.
Atkinson, M P, De Roure, D, Dunlop, A N, Fox, G, Henderson, P, Hey, A J G, Paton, N W, Newhouse, S, Parastatidis, S, Trefethen, A E, Watson, P and Webber, J (2005) Web Service Grids: an evolutionary approach. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 17 (2-4), 377-389.
Crouch, Stephen, Henderson, Peter and Walters, Robert J (2007) Selecting a Distributed Agreement Algorithm. The 2007 ACM Syposium on Applied Computing. 11 - 15 Mar 2007. pp. 586-587 .
Crouch, Stephen, Henderson, Peter and Walters, Robert John (2007) DataWarp: Empowering Applications to Make Progress in the Face of Contradictory or Inconsistent Data. The Thirty-first Annual (IEEE) International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC07), China. 23 - 27 Jul 2007. pp. 583-590 .
De Silva, Nishadi and Henderson, Peter (2007) Narrative-based writing for coherent technical documents. ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC), United States. 22 - 24 Oct 2007.
Henderson, Peter and De Silva, Nishadi (2008) System architecture induces document architecture. The 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008). 01 - 03 Jul 2008.
Crouch, Stephen, Henderson, Peter and Walters, Robert (2008) Utilising Located Functions to Model and Optimise Distributed Computations. 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Finland. 28 Jul - 01 Aug 2008. (Submitted)
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Home » Daily » Hungarian Govt: “Families are more important than economic growth”
Hungarian Govt: “Families are more important than economic growth”
Jul 11, 2019 by Voice of Europe
Amid its launch of a new budget aimed at supporting families and halting its demographic decline, the Hungarian government told Breitbart that it believes thriving families are more important to its society than economic growth.
By Arthur Lyons –
This week, Hungary’s government – led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party – introduced new measures which beginning in 2020 will fund the new Family Protection Action Plan. The plan is expected to increase funding for families by 695 million euros, making for a total of nearly 4.1 billion euros in subsidies for Hungarian families.
The new budget comes a few months after Prime Minister Orbán first announced that Hungary would be seeking to implement drastic changes that could see women with at least four children excused from having to pay taxes on their income for the rest of their lives
While speaking with Breitbart London, a government official indicated that there was an unmistakable distinction between Hungary’s approach to population decline and that of its Western European partners, who often choose to important people – usually from developing countries – instead. The government spokesman said, “Europe is at a crossroads. Western Europe seeks to address the problem of demography with simple solutions which only offer short-term success, but convey catastrophic consequences in the long run.”
The Fidesz party spokesman continued, saying, “Hungary has a long-term approach and opts for the more difficult path, as a result of which, however, Europe could become an economically strong, rejuvenated continent. Either we encourage births by placing the interests of families in the focus of politics, or we encourage ever further flows of migration.”
The Hungarian government’s high ratio of family funding to its GDP reflects that it has prioritized the family over economic growth merely for the sake of economic growth.
“Our goal is to halt Hungary’s demographic decline using family support measures,” the spokesperson said, adding, “What we need is not numbers, but Hungarian children: we’re not seeking to sustain an economic system, but Hungary, the Hungarian nation and Hungarian history; we want to encourage the continuation of our families for several generations.”
The spokesman also mentioned how Hungary was looking to persuade other countries in Europe on the upsides to having stronger family policies in place.
“So the hostility to the childbirth incentives program stems from the fact that those who want to solve Europe’s demographic problems through migration abhor family policy. The converse is also true: we who want to solve the problems of Europe and our own country through family policy abhor migration,” he explained.
Italy – with its national populist Interior Minister and de-facto leader Matteo Salvini – is one Western European country which has looked to emulate the Hungarian family policy. Salvini has clearly stated that he strongly supports pro-family policies, and he isn’t just talking about it. His party, the League, has proposed legislation that would give free tracts of rural land to Italian families with at least three children to assist in repopulating rural regions, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.
Hungary’s policies to increase family spending contrasts starkly with countries like Germany who have taken in excessive numbers of migrants. In 2018, German expenditure on asylum seekers reached 23 billion euros – a record level.
Source: Hungarian Govt: “Families are more important than economic growth” – Voice of Europe
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The Emergency Housing program of Refuge for Women was established to provide emergency, non-conditional, temporary shelter to women who are either survivors, or at risk, of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, violence, and assault, and to provide them with access to multi-sector services. As the words emergency and non-conditional indicate, the shelters offer immediate, free safe housing for adult women.
The goal of the emergency housing program is to work together with female survivors to:
• Ensure their safety and security.
• Provide tailored, individualized services.
• Empower them to support one another and themselves.
• Develop service plans with them in order to establish or rebuild their support networks and support their reintegration into the community
After admission to the Emergency Housing program, the survivor goes through a reception phase during which she is welcomed and made familiar with the shelter’s philosophy, objectives and services. Survivors in the emergency housing program are offered many different forms of support during their 30 to 90 day stay, including:
• Immediate basic assistance: Including food, clothing, and hygiene items.
• Security: The Emergency Housing program has established security measures, including cameras, fencing, security personnel and gated entry, and establishing direct communication with law enforcement to ensure protection in the event of a security incident.
• Medical care: Including on-call doctors and nurses to provide immediate medical services.
• Psychosocial and Therapeutic Support: Individual therapy is offered to support survivors to develop their capacities to understand their own emotions and learn how best to enter into recovery. Group therapy activities, including substance use disorder treatment, equine and art therapy, daily coaching sessions are part of the psychosocial support program. All psychosocial services are provided in-house and support is available 24/7.
• Case management: Targeted case managers provide survivors with the opportunity to express their needs, priorities and wishes and work with them to develop an individualized service plan. Such plans are designed to facilitate the survivors’ access to health services, mental health and psychosocial support, legal assistance, job placement, vocational training, social services, longer-term housing and other services.
• Education, skills building and job placement: Different educational activities are provided such as vocational training and activities to build life skills, for example in communication skills, stress and anger management, resource allocation and budgeting. They are also encouraged to participate in targeted psychosocial support activities (e.g. pottery classes, jewelry making and painting).
• Peer-to-peer support services: The peer-to-peer support program enables survivors to recognize and appreciate their individual strengths, to support themselves in their recovery and to develop a mentoring relationship with another survivor who has been trained in peer support services.
• Recreation: Weekly activities are offered.
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Home / Cover / Barriers to energy efficiency in the Ivory Tower
Barriers to energy efficiency in the Ivory Tower
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Insufficient awareness and lack of capacity to promote best practices have been identified as key barriers to the development of energy efficiency in Nigeria. This was the major observation a week ago in Abuja when representatives of the nation’s 128 state, federal and private universities gathered to explore ways to promote energy efficiency best practices and conservation in the Ivory Tower.
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State
The university community has been identified as a major consumer of electricity such that a huge potential exist to save significant amount of energy in the sector. Observers believe that the universities are also well positioned to help spread the national energy efficiency culture.
Consequently, the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), Federal Ministry of Environment (FME) and the United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) in partnership with the National Universities Commission (NUC) held a day-long forum themed: “Promoting Energy Efficiency Best Practices and Conservation in Nigerian Universities”.
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State
The event was aimed at enhancing the capacity of Nigerian universities to develop strategies and programme to reduce energy demand in their various campuses; and to enhance the capacity of Nigerian universities to promote best energy efficiency best practices and conservation.
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Participants observed that there is absence of effective electricity metering systems in most of the universities, even as several offices, laboratories and residential buildings in the campuses are not metered, leading to high tendency to waste energy.
Apart from the use of inefficient appliances and poor consumer behavior that leads to energy wastage, many of the universities, participants submitted, do not have programmes and policies to promote energy efficiency best practices and conservation.
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State
The university community is well positioned to spread the energy efficiency culture by integrating energy efficiency study into the university curriculum, they added, but lamented that this is currently absent in the university system.
It was likewise noted that most of the buildings in university campuses were built without putting into consideration the efficiency of the buildings, and that there are no incentives to encourage research and development (R & D) in the area of energy efficiency, leading to dearth of research material in this area.
It was however suggested that the NUC should partner with ECN and the UNDP/GEF to introduce energy efficiency studies into universities curriculum as General Studies. Likewise, participants want prepaid metering system installed in all the buildings and offices within the university campuses including staff quarters, shops and student hostels.
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In a communiqué released at the close of the session, participants submitted: “Sensitisation on energy efficiency and conservation should be conducted regularly in universities to change behavior and attitudes of students and staffers.
“The universities should develop programmes and policies to promote energy efficiency culture in their various campuses, while government should make funds available in the national budget to support energy efficiency research and development.
“Yearly energy audit should be carried out in all universities and the audit should guide budgetary process in the institutions. Government should develop energy performance standards that will regulate the production, importation, distribution end-use appliances in the country.
“Government should provide incentives and subsidy to support the retrofitting of building in universities, which should conduct regular training for staff members and students on the importance of energy efficiency best practices. New designs, constructions and equipment supplies to all universities must represent energy efficiency application.”
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Dignitaries present at the meeting include the Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Ita Okon Bassey Ewa (who was represented by Dr. Mrs. Grace Ogolo, Deputy Director in the Ministry of Science and Technology); Director-General of the ECN, Prof. E. J. Bala; Minister of Power, who represented by the Dr. Godknows Igali Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power; Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie; who was represented by Prof. Adebisi Balogun; and Minister of Environment who was represented by the Mr. M. T. Abu, Director of Planning Research and Statistics, in the ministry, and the GEF Operational Focal Point for Nigeria.
Etiosa Uyigue, National Project Coordinator, UNDP GEF Energy Efficiency Programme, states that the overall objective of the project is to improve the energy efficiency of series of end-use appliances used in residential and public sectors in Nigeria through the introduction of standards and labels and demand-side management programmes.
The project, he adds, will assist government to increase access to electricity and at the same time mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases resulting from energy generation.
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Home Entertainment Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Now Available – IGN
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Now Available – IGN
Someone has cast Alohomora on the game.
By Matt Purslow
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has exited its beta phase and is now available to download on Android and iOS devices in select regions. That means the game has unlocked a day ahead of schedule.
Earlier this week developer Niantic announced that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite would be released on Friday, June 21, but it appears that the game is already available for many users. IGN staff in both the UK and US have been able to download and play the game on iOS and Android, so it’s worth checking your app store to see if it’s available for you.
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For those jumping into the game now that it’s available in more regions, you may be lost with all the AR wizarding world has to offer. Be sure to check out our Harry Potter: Wizards Unite guide for everything you need to know as you start, including Harry Potter: Wizards Unite spells, find out more about Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’s Professions and take a look at everything we know about in the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Registry of collectibles.
If you’ve yet to investigate what Niantic’s latest is all about, check out our Harry Potter: Wizards Unite preview, where we take a look at this new trip to the Wizarding World. While the game doesn’t allow you to hang out with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, it does appear add a little magic to every day life.
In other Harry Potter news, last month Pottermore and Warner Bros. announced a joint collaboration for the new site, WizardingWorld.com, which now acts as the new home for Harry Potter and Fantastic Beats content. There’s no news relating to the leaked Harry Potter RPG, though, and we can’t help but wonder where that is.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Government requests cleaning contract proposals
The NSW Government has resumed the procurement of its outsourced cleaning contract, known as the Whole-of-Government Facilities Management Contract, to provide services to approximately 4,200 government sites across the State, including schools, TAFE campuses, ambulance stations and fire stations.
CEO of Property NSW, Brett Newman, said the Government was focused on ensuring the new contract delivered value for money for the people of NSW, while also ensuring a more equitable distribution of cleaning resources across sites.
“The current Whole-of-Government Facilities Management Contract has been in place for seven years and costs more than $400 million per annum,” Mr Newman said.
“Times have changed and it’s appropriate to consider how we can deliver improved service and value for money for the State’s taxpayers, while at the same time protecting the jobs of permanently employed cleaners who were hired prior to 2 March 2018.”
While protecting the jobs of many cleaners, the new contract will move, over the contract term, to a fairer model of delivering cleaning services based on the total square metres cleaned rather than the current approach of fixed hours at different locations.
Property NSW is now seeking revised proposals from respondents as part of its Request for Proposals (RFP) process.
“The Government is inviting respondents to last year’s procurement process to submit revised proposals on how improvements in quality and innovation can add value to the delivery of cleaning services, while also maintaining cleaners’ current protections and entitlements,” Mr Newman said.
To cater to the revised timeframe, the Government recently extended the contracts of existing cleaning service providers from 30 June 2018 to 1 March 2019.
The Government will continue to consult with stakeholders throughout the process.
Property NSW manages the Whole-of-Government Facilities Management Contract on behalf of participating agencies.
Eight new contracts to deliver maintenance services to about 3,000 government sites, expected to save the Government more than $60 million, were awarded in April and came into effect on 1 July.
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CASALE, GIULIO
Lottomatica Roma 16 Guard
Height: 1.85 Born: 14 July, 1990 Nationality: Italy
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Grew up with Virtus Roma (Italy) juniors.
Made his debut with Virtus Roma during the 2007-08 season.
Has been member of the Italian U-16 National Team.
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Cochlear implant surgery has grandfather rediscovering life
Mike Scheerer was sitting at his kitchen table, drinking his coffee - his regular morning ritual. But this particular morning, he kept hearing a "tick, tick, tick." "Do you hear that second hand?" Scheerer asks his guest. "I had never, ever heard that before." The soft click of his wall clock was the first distinct new sound Scheerer's brain picked out the morning after his new cochlear implant was turned on.
Mike Scheerer was sitting at his kitchen table, drinking his coffee - his regular morning ritual. But this particular morning, he kept hearing a "tick, tick, tick."
"Do you hear that second hand?" Scheerer asks his guest. "I had never, ever heard that before."
The soft click of his wall clock was the first distinct new sound Scheerer's brain picked out the morning after his new cochlear implant was turned on.
"It took me awhile to figure out what it was." Scheerer walked around his apartment until he finally pinpointed the source.
And the birds. His face lights up when he mentions the birds.
"The birds singing. The birds and the trees. I would say that's the most beautiful thing I've heard. I never heard birds before - that I can remember. Maybe I heard them as a kid growing up."
Scheerer was born with cerebral palsy, but he believes it was the meningitis he contracted at age 6 that stole his hearing. Over the years, it deteriorated until about 30 years ago when it reached a point "that I couldn't hear anything without my hearing aid."
Even with the most powerful hearing aid available, Scheerer knows he missed a lot. "I would catch maybe two words of every sentence." To fill in the rest, he relied on reading lips. That's why he jumped at the chance last month to be the first patient to have cochlear implant surgery in Peoria. Previously, the closest implant program was in Champaign.
"I didn't know about them (cochlear implants) until five years ago. I wanted to have it done, but the distance was a problem for me, and I had heart troubles at the time."
On Sept. 15, Scheerer had a cochlear implant surgically placed in his right ear, his only good ear - making it a risk. On Oct. 13, after the swelling had subsided, doctors turned it on, and Scheerer's whole world changed.
"This is a God-given gift." He keeps repeating it. There are no better words.
As big a deal as this is for Scheerer, a 58-year-old father of three, grandfather of five, it's almost as big a deal to Peoria, says Dr. James Klemens, Scheerer's surgeon.
"It's not a small sort of thing to set up the program," said Scheerer, who has worked with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center for the past year to set this up. "This is never going to be a huge moneymaker. That's the reason that you can't just run off and start a cochlear implant program in a lot of places. You have to have people who are committed to doing it despite the fact that you are either going to break even or maybe even lose some money."
And St. Francis eagerly stepped up, Klemens says. In addition to buying the equipment, the hospital's audiologists had to be specially trained.
"Doing the procedure is kind of the easy part, quite frankly," says Klemens. "It's a complex sort of procedure, but it's still the easy part because you have to have the audiologists who do all the pre-operative testing to make sure the patient is a candidate. And then you have to train the audiologists on how to program the device. And the programming is a very complex process. And then, if you want to do things with children, it gets even more complex."
Cochlear implants are very different than hearing aids. Where hearing aids amplify sound, cochlear implants bypass the damaged portion of the ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, about 188,000 people worldwide have received implants as of April 2009.
"The people who need this surgery are people who are bilateral, both ears, severely or profoundly deaf," says Klemens. "Everybody knows somebody who can't hear and uses hearing aids. That person is not deaf. That person may have a moderate or even severe hearing loss, but if they can get by with hearing aids or without having to read lips, then they don't have severe or profound hearing loss to the point where they would benefit from a cochlear implant. If you have severe or profound hearing loss in one ear and not in your good ear, then you still would not benefit from a cochlear implant. Because the hearing in your good ear is never going to be able to be matched by the cochlear implant. So you have to have nothing better."
Scheerer was a good candidate.
"The hearing aid he had was the most powerful and even that wasn't working for him. His audiologist told him it was just a matter of time before he'd be completely deaf," says Brad Scheerer, one of his sons.
Doctors had to put the implant in Scheerer's one good ear because it was the only one that was still getting any stimulation. His left ear had been basically turned off for so long that an implant likely wouldn't have worked.
"You don't just flip this thing on and all of a sudden you can hear," says Klemens. "What happens is, you're used to using your entire cochlea, but this electrode only goes about halfway up. But the brain is absolutely amazing. It figures out and remaps where it's hearing. The brain compensates. The other thing that happens is that as he uses this longer, he'll get better at it. Over the course of several years even."
Simple conversations with his sons and grandchildren. His cat's meow. Scheerer is ecstatic. He can patiently wait for his next love: music. At some point, his implant will have to be programmed specifically for music.
"Deafness kept me in the dark about a lot of things," Scheerer said. "You can't imagine. I don't seek pity, just understanding and compassion. But this has made it possible for me to enjoy life much, much more."
Jennifer Davis can be reached at jdavis@pjstar.com.
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Burress relatively unapologetic in return to team
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- An unapologetic Plaxico Burress rejoined the New York Giants on Monday, noting he didn't lose any sleep after the Super Bowl champions suspended him for a game.
The receiver who caught the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl attributed his absence on Sept. 22 to a family emergency, which he described as having to take his son to school.
"It was just a situation I had to deal with that morning, and I made the right decision," Burress said during a conference call that lasted about 20 minutes. "I don't have any regrets about the decision I made at all."
Burress said family would still come first next time, but that he would make sure he made a telephone call to let the Giants know about the problem.
"My emotions were that they suspended me," said Burress, who sat out Sunday's 44-7 win over Seattle. "That was the decision they chose to do. I'll take it at that. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I got me some rest and was able to get away for a while and chill out and relax. Things like that happen. I'll keep moving forward and get back to doing what I do: catching footballs, scoring touchdowns and get back to work."
Along with the suspension, Burress was fined one week's pay, or roughly $117,500. The Giants originally docked him $235,000, but the player and the team reached a settlement last week that cut the fine in half.
Burress, who caught a career-high 12 touchdowns last season, never explained why he did not report to Giants Stadium after dropping his son off at school. He indicated that there was more involved without getting into explanations.
"There are some things that you guys don't know," Burress said. "So you can't say it wasn't an emergency on my part because you don't know everything that was going on."
The nine-year veteran refused to be more specific.
"Coach said I was suspended because I needed to be more responsible. I was being responsible, I just put my child first," he said.
Burress also refused to discuss problems with his wife. Police were called to his home twice this year in response to domestic problems.
"There is nothing to tell, he said.
Burress said he and his wife talked to the team on the night of Sept. 22, and he spoke with general manager Jerry Reese the next day. He was suspended the following day after a meeting with Reese and coach Tom Coughlin.
Burress said he did not argue with either Reese or Coughlin after being suspended, and that he respected their decision being for the good of the team.
"What was I supposed to do, cry?" said Burress, who admitted he let down his teammates by not being on the field Sunday. "They told me I was suspended. I didn't argue with them. I took it, walked out and left."
Burress said he watched the first half of Sunday's game and felt the team was clicking, noting that halfback Brandon Jacobs ran the ball well and Eli Manning was efficient.
"We all celebrate each other's success and that's what separates us from a lot of the teams around the league," Burress said. "We don't care who goes out and catches the ball or scores or things like that. We want to see everyone do good. Because of me not being able to play a lot of guys got in and got action, which will make us a better team down the road."
Burress said several teammates spoke with him during the suspension.
"I'm really, really not concerned about the way my teammates look at me as far as basing decisions on my family," he said. "My family is my first priority. It doesn't matter how people look at me. Football is the best temporary job I'm ever going to have in my life. My family is going to be here forever. I told them that. I'll tell you guys that. I feel I made the right decision. I'm still living. I'm still walking around. I'm fine."
Burress admitted he does not know how many times he has been fined since joining the Giants in 2005, but it is a lot.
"Some of the demands they ask me to do, I just don't meet," said Burress, who led the Giants with 18 catches after three games. "Maybe I have a problem with time or something, I don't know. I haven't been able to quite put my finger on it. Does it really bother or affect me? No. When it's times to step on the field and play, that's what I do."
Burress, who was barred from Giants Stadium during his suspension, returned early Monday morning, and did some lifting and running. He also talked to Coughlin, who said Burress remains a starter.
"As far as being on the same page, we hit and miss sometimes," Burress said of Coughlin. "We had a conversation today and I listened to what he had to say and we'll move on from there."
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Power Is an Addictive Drug
In this excerpt from his new book Power: Why Some People Have It–And Others Don’t, author Jeffrey Pfeffer tells about one man’s indulgences in the perks of power, and the devastating withdrawl when it was taken away.
By Jeffrey Pfeffer 5 minute Read
Nick Binkley, a guitar-playing, song-writing (he has produced several music CDs) graduate in political science from Colorado College, with a master’s degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, made a career in finance when he figured out he could not support himself doing music fulltime. Binkley joined Security Pacific Bank in California as an assistant vice president in 1977 and rose through the ranks, moving to the bank holding company’s financial services systems division in 1983 and eventually becoming vice chairman of Security Pacific Corporation responsible for all the nonbanking subsidiaries, which included venture capital and personal finance (e.g., personal lines of credit). When Bank of America purchased Security Pacific in the early 1990s, Binkley became vice chairman and a member of Bank of America’s board of directors with an extensive portfolio of businesses within the bank.
In his senior positions, first at Security Pacific and then at Bank of America, Binkley had all the perquisites of power. He recounted flying with the Security Pacific CEO in a private jet for a lunch in Japan and then flying back after the lunch. He had access to positions on nonprofit boards, tickets for the opera and symphony when he wanted them, and helicopters, private planes, and limousines to take him around. When Bank of America acquired Security Pacific, Binkley got a golden parachute to protect him in the event that he lost his job. Although encouraged by Bank of America’s CEO at the time, Richard Rosenberg, to stay at the bank, Binkley figured that as a senior outsider, he did not necessarily have the most secure future, so he decided, as his parachute was expiring, to “pull the cord,” leaving with some colleagues from the venture capital operation to form Forrest, Binkley and Brown, a venture capital and private equity firm that was backed by the Sid and Lee Bass interests of Fort Worth, Texas.
As Binkley described it, one day he was vice chair of one of the largest banks in the world, and the next day he was not. The transition was, to put it mildly, difficult. He notes that occupying a senior-level corporate position in a large organization requires an enormous amount of energy to get through the day. To be a public figure and perform at
a high level requires an intensity that produces, in his words, “a caffeinated high.” When you leave such a position and that level of activity ceases, it is almost, as Binkley put it, “like a car going from ninety miles an hour to a dead stop.” When the adrenaline rush ceases, there is a visceral, physiological reaction. In addition to the change in activity
and intensity level, there is also the change from being the center of a universe of people fawning over you and heeding your every request to a more “normal” and less in-the-limelight existence. As a high-level executive in a large corporation, Binkley observed, you are surrounded by “players”–that is, by people of equally high status. And when you no longer have that job, you lose these associations because most of the people are only interested in your companionship when you hold status and power. This feeling of no longer being a player or a member of the elite is a loss felt intensely by many who have been successful at the power-and-money game.
Nick Binkley described a withdrawal that had physiological as well as psychological components–he was literally ill and had difficulty sleeping. He could not imagine that withdrawal from hard drugs could have been any more difficult. The loss of power, even though voluntary, put stress on his marriage which, in the end, not only endured but became stronger. Today Binkley is a member of the outside financial advisory board of the San Francisco Zen Center; he also serves on corporate boards and is winding down the venture capital firm after some 17 years. He was attracted to the Zen Center’s Buddhist meditation and spiritual practices when he sought help in coping with the “power withdrawal symptoms.” In the center of frenetic energy and attention, it is difficult not to lose one’s identity and values.
While I was visiting the London Business School in 2005, Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, came to give a talk and promote his newest book. As Welch lapped up the adulation of the LBS students, I thought to myself, “Why is he doing this at this stage in his life?” One can reasonably conjecture, not just for Welch but for many other people who have left positions of great power and status and continue to serve on multiple boards and maintain an intense pace, that, accustomed as they were during their work life to days filled with frenetic activity, once out of the job they seek to re-create the same peripatetic life, the same adrenaline high, and if possible, the same level of adulation they once received routinely.
People have a heightened risk of death in the period immediately after they lose their job–and not just because of greater financial stress or the absence of medical insurance. As Michael Marmot, a British researcher on the effects of social standing on health, has written, one reason there is a connection between not working and health is because being out of work “represents loss of a social role and all the things that go with it.”
Power is addictive, in both a psychological and physical sense. The rush and excitement from being involved in important discussions with senior figures and the ego boost from having people at your beck and call are tough to lose, even if you voluntarily choose to retire or leave and even if you have more money than you could ever spend. In a power- and celebrity-obsessed culture, to be “out of power” is to be out of the limelight, away from the action, and almost invisible. It is a tough transition to make. And because it is, some executives seek to avoid switching to a less powerful role–Sandy Weill of Citigroup and Hank Greenberg of AIG worked long past normal retirement age and finally were forced out by boards of directors of these large public companies when they refused to anoint successors. Bill Paley of CBS asked his biographer Sally Bedell Smith why he had to die as he maintained control of the media company into his eighties. These examples and numerous others illustrate yet another price of power–the addictive quality that makes it tough to leave powerful positions. But everyone eventually has to step down, and the druglike nature of power makes leaving a powerful position a truly wrenching experience for some.
Excerpted with permission of the publisher Harper Collins from Power: Why Some People Have It–And Others Don’t by Jeffrey Pfeffer. Copyright (c) 2010 by Jeffrey Pfeffer.
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Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
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The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers and students to experience The Odyssey in all its glory. Green’s version, with its lyrical mastery and superb command of Greek, offers readers the opportunity to enjoy Homer’s epic tale of survival, temptation, betrayal, and vengeance with all of the verve and pathos of the original oral tradition.
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U.S. military members pay final respects to what they believe may be the remains of one to two crew members from a B-24 bomber that crashed during World War II at a ceremony at the Palam airport, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The bomber was on a supply run from India to China over the Himalayan Mountains when it went missing in 1944. The return of the remains to the U.S. represents the first repatriation of WWII-era remains from India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (The Associated Press)
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, second left, shakes hand with U.S. military members after they loaded the casket what they believe may be the remains of one to two crew members from a B-24 bomber that crashed during World War II in C-17 aircraft after a ceremony at the Palam airport, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The bomber was on a supply run from India to China over the Himalayan Mountains when it went missing in 1944. The return of the remains to the U.S. represents the first repatriation of WWII-era remains from India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (The Associated Press)
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter participates in a ceremony to pay respects to what they believe may be the remains of one to two crew members from a B-24 bomber that crashed during World War II before its loaded into C-17 aircraft at the Palam airport, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The bomber was on a supply run from India to China over the Himalayan Mountains when it went missing in 1944. The return of the remains to the U.S. represents the first repatriation of WWII-era remains from India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (The Associated Press)
NEW DELHI – Tiny bone fragments carry a world of significance and perhaps closure for at least one American family who lost a loved one over the mountains of India in World War II.
During a solemn ceremony Wednesday, U.S. military members paid final respects to what they believe may be the remains of one to two crew members from a B-24 bomber that crashed on a supply run from India to China over the Himalayan Mountains.
Eight people on the plane were killed in the crash. For the first time, the Defense Department's POW/MIA Accounting Agency is bringing home remains of missing military members from India.
Two bone fragments — small enough to fit inside a sandwich bag — along with some other artifacts were found during a U.S. excavation in the rugged mountain.
Their discovery and return gives hope to families that the remains of the estimated 350 U.S. service members still classified as missing in India may someday find their way home.
According to Gary Stark, the India desk officer for the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the B-24 — known as Hot As Hell — went missing with its crew of eight in January 1944. The aircraft was one of many that ran supplies from China to India, flying people and parts back and forth over what they called the Hump.
After Wednesday's ceremony at the airport in New Delhi, the remains, which were put in ceremonial boxes and then into flag-draped caskets, will be sent to a lab in Hawaii for DNA testing. Only then will officials know if the fragments belong to one or two crew members.
The crash site is one of many in the mountains where U.S. aircraft went down as they tried to negotiate the harsh and jagged terrain. Teams have tried to excavate sites before, but in 2008-2009 they found no remains. This time, experts aided by mountaineering adventurers identified four areas to search. Two were in terrain that was too dangerous for crews to work in because of possible landslides.
High on the steep mountains of Arunachal Predesh, along India's northeast border, the recovery team climbed more than 9,000 feet.
According to Marine Capt. Greg Lynch, the team hiked for three days to set up a base camp, then climbed to the crash site every day, carefully sifting through dirt to find remains.
"It was very physically grueling to go to this particular area and to conduct this recovery," said Lynch, a team leader who was not on this project. He said the team included 12 mainly military members, along with another dozen or so contractors.
Along with the bone fragments, the team found other items associated with the crash but no personal effects, such as dog tags or watches, that could identify the crew.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who has been traveling in India, watched as taps was played and the remains were placed in the caskets and loaded onto a C-17 aircraft for the flight home.
The Pentagon has restated its commitment to families of the thousands of servicemen still unaccounted for from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Many of those families have, over the years, complained bitterly of delay and even neglect from the Pentagon agencies charged with finding, recovering and identifying remains from overseas wars.
Carter's predecessor at the Pentagon, Chuck Hagel, ordered the MIA accounting bureaucracy to reorganize and consolidate as part of an effort to improve its performance, which also has come under criticism in Congress.
Under increased scrutiny, the POW/MIA office has increased the number of remains that were identified last year, to nearly 100, and expects to exceed that number this year.
No more excavations in India are planned for the fiscal year that ends on Sept. 30, and officials said they didn't know the schedule for next year.
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Have your say on street design project for Stanway
Winstree Road, Stanway
THE first street design project of its kind is coming to Stanway this month.
Essex County Council has commissioned Sustrans, a sustainable transport charity, to deliver a community-led street design project.
It will enable residents living in and around Winstree Road to have a say on how their streets can be improved.
The project aims to improve travel for cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists and drivers on a road which has three schools.
A fourth school is due to open in September.
On-street pop-up events will take place in Winstree Road on July 17 and18.
Residents will be asked to complete a short survey, have a chat about the street and plot ideas and routes on a large plan of Winstree Road.
On July 17, the pop-up event will be outside the Winstree Road Medical Practice from 10.30am to 12.30pm, before moving outside Stanway Fiveways Primary School from 2.45pm to 3.45pm and finally stopping at the top of Holly Road from 4.45pm to 5.45pm.
On July 18, the pop-up event will be outside the Stanway School from 8.30am to 9.30am, then midway along Woden Avenue from 10.30am to 11.30am, before moving to opposite Stanway Primary School, on Silver Witch Green from 2.45pm to 3.45pm.
The project started in April and is now moving into a new phase of community engagement.
Kevin Bentley, county councillor responsible for infrastructure, said: “I urge all residents to have their say during the pop-up events.
“This project will help to secure a stronger, safer and more neighbourly community and support the growing community of Stanway.”
Email willow.mitchell@sustrans.org.uk to find out more.
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DANVILLE, PA – Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and Guthrie Clinic have expanded their relationship with a new, multi-year agreement for all GHP coverage options.
The new contract went into effect Jan. 1 and adds Guthrie as an in-network, preferred provider for all GHP members. Guthrie has three hospitals in northcentral Pennsylvania and a multi-specialty group practice of more than 300 physicians and 200 advanced practice providers.
“Guthrie provides patients with quality, affordable health care and we are proud to offer Guthrie’s Robert Packer Hospital, Corning Hospital, Towanda Memorial Hospital and Troy Community Hospital as health care choices for all of our members in northcentral Pennsylvania,” said Steven Youso, president and CEO of GHP.
“We are pleased to expand on our longstanding relationship with Geisinger Health Plan and provide members with access to quality, affordable health care close to home,” said Joseph Scopelliti, MD, president and CEO of Guthrie.
The previous agreement applied to Geisinger Gold and GHP Family plans. GHP has nearly 20,000 members in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga and Wyoming counties.
About Geisinger Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan, begun in 1985, is headquartered in Danville, Pennsylvania. The plan serves nearly 600,000 members in Pennsylvania. Coverage is available for businesses of all sizes, individuals and families, Medicare beneficiaries, Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medical Assistance recipients. For more information, please visit GeisingerHealthPlan.com.
About Guthrie
Guthrie is a non-profit integrated health system located in north central Pennsylvania and upstate New York, serving patients from a twelve-county service area. Guthrie is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network and is the first health system based in Pennsylvania and New York to join this network. Guthrie is comprised of a research institute, home care/hospice, hospitals in Sayre, Pa., Corning, N.Y., Towanda, Pa., Troy, Pa. and Cortland, N.Y., as well as a multi-specialty group practice of more than 325 physicians and 210 advanced practice providers offering 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities in Pennsylvania and New York. In addition, Guthrie offers home medical equipment and respiratory therapy products at seven convenient Med Supply Depot locations. Guthrie provides a wide range of services and programs to enhance the health and well-being of those it serves.
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Truett Cathy (1921-2014)
Chris Starrs, Athens,
Truett Cathy, the founder and chairman of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, was a successful businessman and one of the country's most generous philanthropists, sharing his fortune primarily with disadvantaged children.
Born on March 14, 1921, in Atlanta, Samuel Truett Cathy developed a philosophy early in life, for which he credited his success, to work hard and place his trust in God. His father, an insurance salesman, was beaten financially and emotionally by the Great Depression, and as a result Cathy looked to his mother for emotional support. His mother also provided financial support for the family, renting a house and taking in boarders. Cathy helped the family by selling Coca-Cola, operating a paper route, and performing odd jobs.
Original Dwarf House
serving in the army Cathy opened the Dwarf Grill (so named because the restaurant had only ten stools and four tables) in the small Atlanta suburb of Hapeville in 1946. In 1949 he married Jeannette McNeill, and the couple later had three children—Dan, Don, and Trudy. In 1961 Cathy developed the product that would make his fortune—the pressure-cooked chicken breast sandwich. In 1967, soon after creating the sandwich, Cathy opened the first Chick-fil-A restaurant, in the Greenbriar Shopping Center in Atlanta.
With only occasional setbacks the company has become one of the largest privately owned restaurant chains in the country. By 2014 Chick-fil-A included more than 1,800 restaurants in the United States. Despite this success,
Truett Cathy with Foster Children
Cathy maintained that his company focused on people rather than profits, and for that reason Chick-fil-A would remain closed on Sundays, use an innovative formula for developing managers and restaurants, and provide college scholarships to employees.
A Sunday school teacher of thirteen-year-old boys for more than fifty years, Cathy and his wife took in more than 150 foster children. In 1984 he established the WinShape Center Foundation and the WinShape Homes program, consisting of fourteen foster homes (nine in Georgia, three in Tennessee, one in Alabama, and one in Brazil) created to provide a caring family environment for children whom Cathy described as "victims of circumstances."
Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People
foundation also awards twenty to thirty students each year with scholarships to Berry College in Rome (jointly funded by the college), and through its Leadership Scholarship Program, Chick-fil-A has contributed millions of dollars in college aid to restaurant employees. WinShape Camps is another component of the foundation, providing two weeks of summer camp at Berry College for boys and girls.
Cathy wrote about his business practices and personal philosophy in several books. His published titles include Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People (2002), The Generosity Factor (2002), Chick-fil-A, Inc. (1998), and It's Easier to Succeed Than to Fail (1989). Cathy was named a Georgia Trustee in 2013, an honor conferred by the Georgia Historical Society and the Office of the Governor.
Cathy died on September 8, 2014, in Clayton County at the age of ninety-three.
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CQAF: The Blockheads – Festival Marquee, Belfast
The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival has been a long standing mainstay in the calendar since 1989. Despite its long history I am ashamed to actually admit that to date I had never attended any of its events. The Festival itself combines various cultural elements comedy, music, theatre and the visual arts and take place in a variety of locations and venues around Belfast City Centre. Pleasant surroundings, a well tuned sound system and no queues for either bar or food services. I have attended many events over the years which have never effectively manage the basic provisions of food and drink service for their audiences. The majority of the music shows programmed take place in the the Festival Marquee with others like The Black Box and Belfast Barge playing host.
After the original booked act the enigmatic and legendary Wilko Johnson was forced to withdraw at short notice for health reasons it was his former band mates The Blockheads that stepped in. The Blockheads have been around and have established their musical legacy dating back to the late seventies. With the death of front man Ian Dury, this role has been taken by a former friend and acquaintance Derek Hussey. I was curious to see how this would come over in a live setting but The Blockheads however have not chosen to pursue the retro “Greatest Hits” package of many of their peers. Many bands of that era still in existence choose to tour the same set each year. Instead The Blockheads continue to record and release new material, which obviously has a direct effect on their live shows, keeping them fresh and current for their audiences.
First up where the long named Billy Miskimmin’s Mercy Lounge, a name unfamiliar to me despite their leaders intro listing of his musical pedigree with many international and global stars. Billy, originally a Belfast man, was returning to his musical roots after global tours and experiences with bands as musically diverse as the Yardbirds and Nine Below Zero, playing studio sessions for artists such as Marc Almond and Stiff Little Fingers and he was even personally invited by Bruce Willis to play at the Hollywood Premiere of his Twelve Monkeys movie. Suffice to say that they totally blew me away.
With a musical style forged in a variety of genres, not dissimilar to Van Morrison, utilising a guitar and harmonica dual interplay they seemed to have a style which instantly got the audience moving and grooving. Quite simply one of the best bands I have seen in many years and definitely will be exploring their musical history very soon. I was particularly impressed with the guitarist who showcased a variety of styles and techniques. The Mercy Lounge showed no mercy when it came to delivering a solid and energetic set, encoring with an extended version of Canned Heats “On the Road Again” as audience members were encouraged to shake their thang on the Marquee dance floor.
Onto the headliners The Blockheads which seemed to have attracted many die hard fans, judging by the t-shirts in evidence. Audience was a nice mix of generations and exuded a party and good-natured atmosphere throughout the performance. Lineup featured four original members, a rare feature these days amongst bands of that era. Vocalist Derek Hussey, effectively presented the cockney storytelling nature of the songs following in the footsteps of his predecessor. Mixing some latter and new songs with their well known hits, they delivered an enjoyable and entertaining set. Engaging well with a good natured bonhomie with the audience, the band seemed to be having a great a time as those attending. Even the older songs which were played – i.e. the bands “hits” – retained a vigour and freshness as if the band were playing them for the first time.
Indeed songs like “Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick” and “Reasons to be Cheerful” sounded as good as they did when I first heard them back in the day. With a groove laid down by drummer and legendary bassist Norman Watt-Roy the band sounded musically solid. No doubting the band’s musicianship from the regular and original members to the saxophonist and with regular shout outs to Wilko Johnson and his health crisis were warmly appreciated by the audience attending. A very pleasant evening out and 2 new bands that I had never witnessed live before. Initially with the original headliners withdrawal I felt ticket sales would be adversely affected, however fortunately this didn’t appear to be the case. “Reasons to be Cheerful” as they sang , well this evening I had many. Mark Dean, GiggingNI.com
3rd may 2014, cathedral quarter arts festival, cqaf, festival marquee, the blockheads, wilko johnson
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France’s Invasion of Mali: A Carefully Planned Military Intervention
By Roger Annis
Global Research, March 06, 2013
Socialist Project
Region: sub-Saharan Africa
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
France perpetrated two large deceptions in conducting its military intervention into Mali more than seven weeks ago. These have been universally accepted in mainstream media reporting. The first is that the unilateral decision to invade Mali on January 11, 2013 was hastily made, prompted by imminent military threats by Islamic fundamentalist forces against the south of the country where the large majority of Malians live.
The second is that France intends to quickly exit Mali. “French leaders have said they intend to start pulling out the 4000 troops in Mali in March to hand over security to the Malian army and to the UN-backed AFISMA force, an African military contingent,” says a typical report, in the Chicago Tribune on February 18.
Restoring capitalist stability in Mali will be a tough job. The Mali population is deeply sensitive to violations of its national sovereignty. And the peoples of the world are weary from the recent military adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But the economic stakes leave France, the U.S. and their allies little choice but to carry on with intervention. Billions of dollars of capitalist investment is pouring into Africa in an unprecedented grab for resource wealth. Mining investments from Canada alone have risen from $6-billion in 2005 to $31.6-billion in 2011. Meanwhile, as an article in the Toronto Star recently reported, there is a “troubling trend” in the continent toward “resource nationalism.”
“Under pressure from civil society groups and labour unions, governments are driving a harder bargain” to obtain a better share of resource wealth and perhaps improve environmental and other regulations.
Far from planning any withdrawal, the imperialists are putting into place a long-term military occupation of Mali, likely masked with an “African” component and a rubber stamp approval of the UN Security Council.
A Planned Intervention
A February 7 report published in the France daily Le Nouvel Observateur provides an extraordinary, blow by blow account of the lead-up to the France intervention in Mali. Columnist Vincent Jauvert and his colleague Sarah Halifa-Legrand spoke to officials in the French government and ministry of defence. The journalists describe the deep concern that arose in the halls of power in France following the military defeat of Mali’s army and government in early 2012 by the pro-autonomy movements of the Tuareg and other national minorities in the north of the country.
The defeat became a double fiasco when the U.S.-trained leader of Mali’s army, Captain Amadou Sanogo, led an overthrow of the country’s constitutional government one month later, on March 22. None other than General Carter Ham, commander of the U.S. Africa Command (Africom) recently acknowledged the fiasco when he admitted to an audience at Howard University in Washington on January 24 that there have been “shortcomings” in the years-long training program of the Mali army.
French-led plans for intervention accelerated following the election in France in May 2012. “When the outgoing government passed over the (foreign affairs) files, Mali was on the top of the pile,” one official at the ministry of defence told the journalists.
New French president François Hollande has strenuously denied any planned intention to intervene in Mali. But soon after his election, French special military forces were infiltrating the north of the country to map aerial bombing targets and conduct other preparations.
The Hollande government masked its intentions by proposing an “African-led” military force to take control of northern Mali. But Jauvert reports that this was never a serious proposal. The United States was entirely unconvinced, saying that few, if any, of the African militaries are up to the task. Some leaders of African countries told France the same thing. Whether France believed its own words is largely unimportant because plans for an intervention proceeded apace.
Three UN Security Council resolutions on Mali were voted in 2012. They opposed the national rights struggles of the Tuaregs, Arabs and other national minorities in the north in increasingly harsh language. However, none endorsed a French intervention. The last resolution, in December, mentioned the creation of an “African-led” military occupation force, but that was left in the dust by the intervention of January 11.
France had no international mandate to intervene, and that’s equally the case in Mali law. There is no constitutional government in the country. The elected government was overthrown last March. The “interim” prime minister eventually invested by “interim” president Dioncounda Traoré was tossed out of office by the military on December 11. Traoré himself was badly beaten by Mali soldiers last May and went to Paris for safety and treatment. The army’s U.S. and French “trainers” were reduced to pressuring for Traoré’s return and resumption of office.
Adding to the political farce, Sanogo was appointed last week by Traoré to head a commission that is supposed to “reform” Mali’s military. The first fruit of the new commission appears to be the disbanding of the paratroop regiment that intervened unsuccessfully last April to reverse the March coup. As reported in January by the Ottawa Citizen‘s David Pugliese, several dozen of the Canadian-trained paratroopers were kidnapped and disappeared soon after by the army. Tensions remain high between that regiment and the army.
Without UN approval or an authoritative Mali government in place, a fable was needed by France to justify intervention. This appeared in the form of dire reports in early January that well-armed Islamic fundamentalists along the unofficial line demarcating the north of Mali were about to move on the south, possibly targeting the capital city Bamako. International news reports were all over this story, further lending it an air of credibility.
Who Are the ‘Jihadists’?
The entry of heavily armed and well-financed Islamic fundamentalist forces in the north of Mali last year has indeed been a deeply troubling event for the country. They pushed aside the longstanding, national rights movements of the Tuareg and other national minorities and ruled with an iron fist, violating the elementary rights of the populations they controlled and causing Malians to fear they could take control of larger areas of the country. France had considerable success in selling its military intervention as a rescue effort.
Author and professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) Jeremy Keenan reported in some detail in a December 2012 article about the shadowy ties that link the fundamentalist forces across north Africa to Algeria, the U.S. and the Gulf states. His article was titled “How Washington helped foster the Islamist uprising in Mali” and he writes, “The catastrophe now being played out in Mali is the inevitable outcome of the way in which the Global War on Terror has been inserted into the Sahara-Sahel by the U.S., in concert with Algerian intelligence operatives, since 2002.”[1]
In the past decade, the United States has initiated a vast militarization of the countries of west Africa. It founded the Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Partnership in 2005, now regrouping 10 west African countries. For three of the past six years, Mali was the host country of the annual military exercises of the partnership, termed “Operation Flintlock.”
Such wasteful expenditures of resources are especially repugnant considering the existing difficulties in west Africa, including extreme poverty, public health emergencies and sharp shifts in climate and rainfall patterns that are affecting peasant livelihoods and food production.
No Peace or Reconciliation
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) has offered to cooperate with France in battling the fundamentalists.[2] There are reports of coexistence, if not cooperation, in some northern areas. On February 17, the movement issued a statement welcoming an eventual UN military force.
An earlier communiqué by the group on February 11 listed 12 proposals to guide the recovery and future development of the north of Mali, including respect for human rights, meaningful economic and social development and a resolution of decades-old demands for political self-determination. These could well serve as a social and economic blueprint for the whole country.
But there is little evidence that France and its allies have any intention of doing anything but continue the plunder of Mali’s and Africa’s resources. The MNLA’s demand that the Mali army not be allowed into the north of Mali has been ignored, for example. Leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and FIDA, as well as some media in France have documented predictable reprisals by the army against civilian populations as it arrived in the footsteps of the France invasion.
One tragic story among many has been the forced exodus of the Tuareg and Arab populations from Timbuktu as the French and Malian armies took control of the city in early February (a story that has been ignored by the world’s media).
A February 17 declaration by the MNLA explains, “The MNLA has established that the return of the army, militias and administration of Mali into the territory of Azawad with the support of France has opened the door to reprisals and massacres of the Tuareg and Arab populations.”
France has blocked journalists from traveling to and reporting from northern Mali.
Meanwhile, the offensive by the fundamentalists in 2011-12 has stirred an already existing anti-Tuareg chauvinism in southern Mali and in neighbouring countries, perhaps fueled by what may have been strategic errors by the MNLA in creating temporary alliances with fundamentalists to try and end the Mali army’s deepening war against Tuareg autonomy.
One capitalist politician in Mali calls the MNLA and its demands for political autonomy a “trojan horse” of Islamic fundamentalists. Another, former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (1994-2000), says Mali should never talk to the MNLA because of the latter’s pro-autonomy program.
Most political parties in Mali, including those on the left, have supported the French intervention. Some on the left even backed the military coup last year. The coup’s declared aim was to prosecute a more effective war against “secessionists” in the north (this was even before the arrival of large numbers of armed fundamentalists).
Regional tensions are heightened by the French intervention, particularly with neighbouring Niger. Like Mali, it is a desperately poor country with a non-democratic government and with an even larger Tuareg population. AFP reported on February 10 that Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou “has made forceful demands for the disarmament of the MNLA and spoken out against talks with the movement on self-determination.”
Niger recently agreed to allow the U.S. to operate drones from its soil and U.S. President Barack Obama has dispatched 100 U.S. soldiers to the country. Niger has suffered three military coups in the past 16 years.
Obfuscation by media of the numbers and origins of people made refugees by the conflict in Mali further confuses the situation. The “hundreds of thousands” of refugees from northern Mali reported in mainstream press refer mostly to who fled the Mali army’s war against the peoples of the north.
Looking at prospects for peace, Peter Pham of the U.S. think-tank Atlantic Council (himself a supporter of the French intervention) told an IRIN News report on February 12, “The Tuareg historically have had three deals with Malian governments that were legitimate, but all of them are now in the dustbin of history. Why would they possibly believe that a deal with the current batch of characters would hold?”
At least one mining industry observer in Canada doesn’t hold out much hope for reconciliation in Mali, either. Canadian Business reports that Toronto mining analyst Pawel Rajszel, head of the precious metals team at Veritas Investment Research, told investors in January to, “take their money and run.” “We haven’t changed our opinion,” he told the Canadian Press more recently.
Imperial Solutions
France and its allies are now working at the UN Security Council to cobble together a Haiti-style military/political occupation mission in Mali. Ground soldiers will be African as much as possible, but the overall direction will be firmly in the hands of the U.S. and Europe. That will be all the more the case in Mali than in Haiti for there is no African military that can assume the same leading role as Brazil and Chile have rather successfully done in Haiti.
The European Union has already taken a big step toward occupation through its decision this week to dispatch a military “training” force of 500 soldiers. Lead contingents, including from Germany, have already arrived.
Another parallel with Haiti is the insistence by the foreign powers to stage a quick national election. Never mind that hundreds of thousands of people in Mali have been driven into refugee camps or other harsh living conditions and that the country’s military is still in control of political decision-making.
During a visit this past week to Mali of a delegation of U.S. senators and members of Congress, Senator Christopher Coons said, “After there is a full restoration of democracy, I would think it is likely that we will renew our support for the Malian military.” Coons is chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa.
Mali’s population has been weakened and disempowered by decades of neocolonial plunder, foreign aid and military intervention. As they recover from the disastrous policies of their pliant governments and foreign overseers, active solidarity is needed to assist them in asserting anew their class and national interests. •
Roger Annis is a writer and antiwar activist in Vancouver, Canada. This article first appeared on the Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal website.
1. Jeremy Keenan is the author of the 2009 The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in the Sahara and of the forthcoming The Dying Sahara: U.S. Imperialism and Terror in Africa , both published by Pluto Press.
2. Azawad is the name given by the Tuareg people to their historic homeland that transcends the present-day borders of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Libya and Algeria. For background on the Tuareg people, read the recent article, “Who are the Tuareg?,” by Sarah Knopp.
The original source of this article is Socialist Project
Copyright © Roger Annis, Socialist Project, 2013
Articles by: Roger Annis
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Saudi Arabia Killing Children: United Nations Complicit in Crimes against Humanity
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Theme: Crimes against Humanity, United Nations
“It appears that political power and diplomatic clout have been allowed to trump the UN’s duty to expose those responsible for the killing and maiming of more than 1,000 of Yemen’s children.” Sajjad Mohammad Sajid, Oxfam Director in Yemen, Jun 7, 2016
It is such cases that give the United Nations a bad name. And if heads and decay say something about the rest of the body, Ban Ki-Moon says all too much in his role as UN Secretary General. Always inconspicuous, barely visible in the global media, his presence scarcely warrants a footnote. This has been a point of much relief for various powers who have tended to see the UN as a parking space for ceremony and manipulation rather than concrete policy.
A most sinister feature of the latest UN reversal is the role played by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia behind the move. Other powers have previously attempted to prejudice the various organs, and functions of the UN, exerting various pressures. In March, Morocco made its position clear when it expelled 84 UN staffers from a UN peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara region after Ban deemed the disputed territory “occupied”.
The Kingdom is engaged in an enthusiastically bloody campaign in Yemen against the Shia Houthi insurgents, one that can scant be described as compliant with the laws of war. This was one of the subjects of a 40-page report, written primarily by the UN chief’s special representative for children and armed conflict Leila Zerrougui.
In an expansive document spanning several countries and regions, it was found that the Saudi-led coalition had been implicated in the deaths of some 60 per cent of the 1,953 child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year.[1] A policy of systematic targeting of hospitals and schools was also noted. In Aden alone, six facilities were attacked 10 times.
On Monday, the UN announced that the Saudi-led coalition had been removed from the child’s rights blacklist. This sent a flurry through various diplomatic channels. The Secretary-General found himself red faced and crestfallen. According to Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric, “Pending the conclusions of the joint review, the secretary-general removes the listing of the coalition in the report’s annex.”[2]
Ban expressed a sense of helplessness. Before reporters at UN headquarters, he explained how, “This was one of the most painful and difficult decisions I have had to make.” Before him was the “very real prospect that millions of other children would suffer grievously if, as was suggested to me, countries would de-fund many UN programmes.”
Hoping to salvage tattered credibility, Ban still insisted that he stood by the contents of the report, warning that the coalition might make an ignominious reappearance depending on the findings of an investigation. In UN-speak, those findings can always be tinkered with. Given that Saudi Arabia will front that investigation along UN officials, the result is as good as decided.
The response by Saudi Ambassador Abdullah al-Mouallimi on Thursday gave a true sense of implausible deniability. “We did not use threats or intimidation and we did not talk about funding.” A slew of aggressive calls from coalition countries suggested otherwise. On Tuesday, Foreign Policy reported that the Kingdom had dangled the threat of severing ties with the UN and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in counterterrorism and humanitarian aid if it was not removed from the list.[3]
The Monday warning involved senior Saudi diplomats threatening UN officials with their powers of conviction, stretching across other Arab governments and those in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to similarly sever ties.
What, then, could Ban have done? From the start, the role of the secretary-general was unclear. A US Department of State meeting prior to the Preparatory Commission in London (Aug 17, 1945), recorded that the SG “should be a man of recognized prestige and competence in the field of diplomacy and foreign office experience. He should be between forty-five and fifty-five years of age and be fluent in both French and English.”
In 1985, that noted doyen of international law, Thomas Franck, emphasised that the SG was an official best disposed to fact-finding, peacekeeping initiatives and good offices. He surmised in a Hague Academy of International Law workshop that, till that point, the office had been occupied by those “completely successful in drawing a line between their role and the role played by political organs at the behest of member States.”
All in all, combative, engaged UN secretary-generals remain a distant murmur, one initially built by such figures as Dag Hammarskjöld and Trygve Lie. The last of any note to push the buttons of various powers, notably that of the US, was the late Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who brought a sustained arrogance to the office.
It was, to a degree, a fair call. The Cold War had thawed, thereby providing the body the prospect for a more active role. It was not to be, though Boutros-Ghali became one of the main celebrity hates for US politicians.
What we have gotten since is weak will and pliability, best reflected by Ban’s decision. To be fair, the organisation’s effectiveness has tended to suffer at stages because of an inability to collect back dues, or keeping the line of revenue flowing. The greatest violator of that tendency has been Washington itself. Again, the money card has been played, with all too predictable results. Human rights remain the playthings of the powerful.
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: [email protected]
[1] http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=s/2016/360&referer=/english/&Lang=E
[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/saudi-arabia-denies-claims-child-blacklist-160609170624957.html
[3] http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/07/saudi-arabia-threatened-to-break-relations-with-un-over-human-rights-criticism-in-yemen/
Copyright © Dr. Binoy Kampmark, Global Research, 2016
Articles by: Dr. Binoy Kampmark
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Magnum Hunter Resources Reschedules Fourth Quarter 2013 Financial and Operating Results Conference Call for Monday, February 24, 2014
February 21, 2014 14:49 ET | Source: Magnum Hunter Resources
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - Feb 21, 2014) - Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation (NYSE: MHR) (NYSE MKT: MHR.PRC) (NYSE MKT: MHR.PRD) (NYSE MKT: MHR.PRE) (the "Company" or "Magnum Hunter") announced today that it has rescheduled its annual conference call to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 2013 financial and operating results. The rescheduled conference call has been moved up by approximately one week and will now take place on Monday, February 24, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. CST. The Company will issue a press release announcing these financial and operating results before the U.S. financial markets open on the morning of the conference call. On the conference call, senior management will discuss these financial and operating results as well as other corporate related matters.
Individuals who would like to participate should call (866) 550-5717 (passcode: 49396284) approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled conference call time. An audio recording of this conference call will be posted on the Company's website, www.magnumhunterresources.com, under "Investors" following the call, and will be available for 12 months. The Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will also be available on our website under "Investors," upon filing with the SEC.
About Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation
Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation and subsidiaries are a Houston, Texas-based independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition, development and production of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, primarily in the States of West Virginia, Ohio, and North Dakota. The Company is presently active in three of the most prolific unconventional shale resource plays in North America, namely the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, and Williston Basin/Bakken Shale.
Availability of Information on the Company's Website
Magnum Hunter is providing a reminder that it makes available on its website (at www.magnumhunterresources.com) a variety of information for investors, analysts and the media, including the following:
annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after the material is electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission;
the most recent version of the Company's Investor Presentation slide deck;
announcements of conference calls, webcasts, investor conferences, speeches and other events at which Company executives may discuss the Company and its business and archives or transcripts of such events;
press releases regarding annual and quarterly earnings, operational developments, legal developments and other matters; and
corporate governance information, including the Company's corporate governance guidelines, committee charters, code of conduct and other governance-related matters.
Magnum Hunter's goal is to maintain its website as the authoritative portal through which visitors can easily access current information about the Company. Over time, the Company intends for its website to become a primary channel for public dissemination of important information about the Company. Investors, analysts, media and other interested persons are encouraged to visit the Company's website frequently.
Certain information included on the Company's website constitutes forward-looking statements and is subject to the qualifications under the heading "Forward-Looking Statements" below and in the Company's Investor Presentation slide deck.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements." All statements other than statements of historical facts included or incorporated herein may constitute forward-looking statements. Actual results could vary significantly from those expressed or implied in such statements and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Although Magnum Hunter believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, Magnum Hunter can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that affect operations, financial performance, and other factors as discussed in filings made by Magnum Hunter with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Among the factors that could cause results to differ materially are those risks discussed in the periodic reports filed by Magnum Hunter with the SEC, including Magnum Hunter's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended after such fiscal year. You are urged to carefully review and consider the cautionary statements and other disclosures made in those filings, specifically those under the heading "Risk Factors." Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the document in which they are contained, and Magnum Hunter does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements except as may be required by law.
Cham King
AVP, Investor Relations
ir@magnumhunterresources.com
Magnum Hunter Resources
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...that all Spartan-IIIs studied the tactics and field operations of the Spartan-IIs while they were in training?
...that irukan is a grain consumed by Sangheili?
...that Tribute is a major human colony with a strong economy and large industrial capacity?
...that the Covenant battle station Unyielding Hierophant was repeatedly referred to as the "uneven elephant" by Avery Johnson?
...that a glitch in Halo: Reach Forge can make the player impervious to all forms of damage except for assassinations?
Quan Ah
Human[1]
Female[1]
Quan Ah was a shrewd, audacious girl from the Outer Colonies who lived during the Human-Covenant War.[1][2] At the age of sixteen she met the Spartan-II John-117, a meeting which came at a fateful time for them both.[1]
Behind the scenes[edit]
Quan Ah's existence was first unveiled by Showtime on April 17, 2019.[1] In the television series the network is airing she will be played by relatively new Korean-Australian actress Yerin Ha.[1][3] Ha was discovered during a worldwide casting search and is known for her stage work in Australia.[1] Casting notices for the show obtained by The Hollywood Reporter and publicized on November 1, 2018 had mentioned a character named Jenny who was reportedly to be played by a woman of Asian descent between the ages of eighteen and twenty years old.[4] The possibility exists that "Jenny" was a code name or working name for Quan Ah.[1][4] "Quan" is a Chinese surname.[5]
Yerin Ha has performed in the theater productions Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Colby Sisters, The Changeling, and Caucasian Chalk Circle.[3]
Halo: The Television Series (First appearance)
^ a b c d e f g h The Hollywood Reporter - Pablo Schreiber to Play Master Chief in Showtime's 'Halo' Live-Action Series
^ Kotaku - Showtime Announces Live-Action Halo Series, Airs Early 2019
^ a b Yerin Ha lands a breakthrough role in Spielberg-produced series
^ a b The Hollywood Reporter - Showtime's 'Halo' Series Will Feature Master Chief
^ Ancestry - Quan Family History
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Carrera Productions presents
Tab Benoit
Tab Benoit is Louisiana’s No. 1 roots export. More than just an acclaimed bluesman, he is an indefatigable conservation advocate. Benoit is a driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to save Louisiana’s wetlands. In 2010, he received the Governor’s Award for Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Benoit also starred in the iMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of Hurricane Katrina’s effects and a call to restore the wetlands.
In 2007, Benoit won the dual awards of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Male Performer at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis (formerly the W.C. Handy Awards). In 2006, he received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album for Brother to the Blues, a collaboration with Louisiana’s LeRoux. LeRoux joined Benoit on Power of the Pontchartrain in 2007 and the live Night Train to Nashville in 2008.
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Tab Benoit - Shelter Me
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NCAA Compliance Information
Emory & Henry has a long tradition of excellence in athletics and academics and the current staff strives to honor that tradition by building and maintaining winning athletic teams. Winning brings satisfaction and pride to the current student-athletes, and brings honor to the institution and all its alumni. We all want to win. But we must do so in accordance with the policies set forth by the NCAA. The NCAA holds the institution responsible for the control and conduct of the athletics program. Therefore, the institution is also held responsible for the conduct of all its staff, student-athletes, alumni and supporters.
Click here for a printable set of guidelines from the NCAA on how alumni and friends can be supportive of Emory & Henry Athletics while ensuring that we adhere to the rules of Division III.
This document and the text below provide an overview of NCAA Division III rules that are of particular note. Violations could affect the eligibility of a current or prospective student-athlete, or could result in sanctions against the institution.
Thiese are only brief overviews of some of the NCAA's many rules. For more detailed information, please contact Interim Director of Athletics Anne Crutchfield at acrutchfield@ehc.edu or Director of Sports Information and Game Day Operations Joe Matthews at jmatthews@ehc.edu.
NCAA Compliance Definitions
NCAA By-Law 12 - Amateurism
NCAA By-Law 13.01 - Recruiting by Representatives of Athletics Interest
NCAA By-Law 13.1.1 - Four-Year College Prospective Student-Athletes
NCAA By-Law 13.1.3 - Telephone Calls to Prospects
NCAA By-Law 13.1.4 - Contact Restrictions at Specified Sites
NCAA By-Law 13.2 - Offers and Inducements
NCAA By-Laws 13.5 and 13.6 - Official Visits
NCAA By-Laws 13.6 and 13.7 - Unofficial Visits
NCAA By-Law 13.9 and 13.10 - Letter of Intent and Publicity
NCAA By-Law 13.15 - Pre-College Expenses
NCAA By-Law 14 - Eligibility
NCAA By-Law 15 - Financial Aid
NCAA By-Law 16 - Awards and Benefits for Currently Enrolled Student-Athletes
NCAA By-Law 17 - Playing and Practice Seasons
NCAA Definitions:
“Representative of Athletics Interests”
A “representative of Emory & Henry’s athletics interest” is an individual who is known (or who should have been known) by a member of the institution’s executive or athletics administration to:
a) Have participated in or be a member of an agency or organization promoting the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program,
b) Have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics department booster organization of the institution,
c) Be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospects,
d) Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families, or
e) Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution’s athletics program.
Once an individual is identified as such a representative, the person retains that identity indefinitely. Someone who meets the standard to become a “representative of athletics interests” for Emory & Henry must adhere to the same NCAA policies that are set forth for coaches and staff members. The institution, the individual student-athlete or prospective student-athlete can be held responsible for any violations committed by the representative.
A prospective student-athlete (prospect) is a student who has started classes in the ninth grade. In addition, a student who has not started classes for ninth grade becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides such an individual (or the individual’s relatives or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally. A student remains a prospect until the prospect enrolls in a full-time program of studies and attends classes (excluding summer) or participates in official team practice before classes begin.
“Extra Benefit”
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by a representative to provide a service to a student-athlete that is not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. An extra benefit would include the provision of transportation, meals, clothing, entertainment, preferential loan terms, housing and other benefits offered to student-athletes not available to the general student population. Student-athletes and prospective student-athletes must receive benefits or services in the same process and manner as other students at the institution.
NCAA By-Law 12 –Amateurism
In order to maintain amateur status, student-athletes may not receive any preferential treatment, services or benefits based on their athletic ability. There are numerous policies in place related to student-athletes receiving prize money based on athletics performance; use of agents; student-athletes participating in promotional activities for the institution, a charity or a commercial entity; employment of student-athletes in camps or clinics; and sponsorship arrangements that involve any professional sports organization.
NCAA By-Law 13.01—Recruiting by Representatives of Athletics Interest
In Division III, coaches, athletics staff members and representatives of an institution’s athletics interests may make in-person, on- or off-campus contact with a prospect. However, such OFF-CAMPUS contact shall not occur until the conclusion of the prospect’s sophomore year of high school.
NCAA By-Law 13.1.1—Four-Year College Prospective Student-Athletes
An athletics staff member or other representative of athletics interest shall not make contact in any manner with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year institution to encourage or discuss a transfer without first obtaining written permission to do so, regardless of who makes initial contact. There are certain circumstances in which a student-athlete who transfers may be required to complete a year-in-residence at the new institution before he/she is eligible to participate in athletics.
NCAA By –Law 13.1.3—Telephone Calls to Prospects
An institution may permit staff members, student-athletes or representatives of athletics to telephone a prospect at the institution’s expense at any time, provided the call is only for the purpose of recruitment and is with full knowledge of the athletics department.
NCAA By-Law 13.1.4 –Contact Restrictions at Specified Sites
13.1.4.1 Prospective Student-Athletes’ Educational Institution. Any staff member or representative of athletics interest who wishes to contact a prospect at their high school must first obtain permission for the contact from that institution’s executive officer (or designee). Permission for such contact is not needed if the contact with the prospect will be made after official school hours.
13.1.4.2 Practice or Competition Site. Recruiting contact may not be made with a prospect before any athletics competition in which the prospect is a participant. Such contact shall be governed by the following:
a) Contact shall not be made with the prospect at any site before the contest on the day of competition,
b) Contact shall not be made with the prospect from the time that he/she reports on call and becomes involved in any competition-related activity (including travelling to an away game) until the prospective student-athlete is released for that day by the appropriate institutional personnel.
13.1.4.2.1 Contact with Prospect’s Relatives or Guardians at Practice or Competition Site. Recruiting contact may be made with relatives, guardians, or individuals with comparable relationship at the site of practice or competition, including during the conduct of the competition.
NCAA By-Law 13.2—Offers and Inducements
An institution’s staff member or any representative of athletics interests shall not be involved, directly or indirectly, in making arrangements for or giving or offering any financial aid or other benefits to the prospect or the prospect’s relatives or friends. Specifically prohibited benefits include, but are not limited to:
providing or co-signing a loan for the prospect
providing or co-signing a loan for the prospect’s relatives
an employment arrangement for the prospect’s relative
gifts of clothing or equipment
free or reduced cost for merchandise, services, rentals or any purchase
use of an institution’s athletics equipment
sponsorship of or arrangement for an awards banquet for high school, prep school or two-year college athletes by an institution or representatives of its athletics interests.
NCAA By-Laws 13.5 and 13.6—Official Visits
An official visit is one that is financed in whole or in part by the member institution. An institution may only finance one official visit per prospect and the official visit may only be provided after January 1 of the prospect’s junior year of high school.
There are many rules in place governing official visits and the institution must maintain a detailed record of activity related to the visit.
NCAA By-Laws 13.6 and 13.7—Unofficial Visits
An unofficial visit is one that is made at the expense of the prospect. A prospect may visit the campus an unlimited number of times at his/her own expense and these visits may occur at any time. The institution may provide the following expenses or entertainment on an unofficial visit:
a) The institution may provide complimentary admission to a home athletics event in which the team is practicing or competing. Tickets are only for that game and must be in the general seating area.
b) The institution may provide a meal to the prospect at the on-campus dining facility. An institution may provide a meal off-campus ONLY when all on-campus dining facilities are closed and the institution can certify that it is normal policy to provide such a meal to all prospective students (non-athletes) who visit campus.
c) An institution may provide housing during an unofficial visit provided such housing is generally available to all visiting prospective students.
NCAA By-Law 13.9 and 13.10—Letter of Intent and Publicity
Institutions may not use any form of a letter of intent or similar form of commitment in the recruitment of a prospect. An institution MAY use a non-binding athletics celebratory signing form after the prospective student-athlete has been accepted for enrollment at the institution. The only form that may be used for this purpose is a standard form provided by the NCAA national office. Institutional staff members MAY NOT be present at a public ceremony announcing the prospect’s acceptance of an admissions offer from the institution.
An institution may not publicize the visit of a prospect on their campus, may not introduce them at a game or other function, and may not discuss the ability of a particular prospective student-athlete or anything related to the recruitment process. An institution may only comment publicly to the extent of confirming it is recruiting that prospective student-athlete. Publicity about a prospect’s commitment by an institution may occur only AFTER the enrollment forms have been signed and the deposit has been paid.
NCAA By-Law 13.15—Pre-College Expenses
An institution may not provide any funding, directly or through paid advertisements, to benefit a high school athletics program.
NCAA By-Law 14—Eligibility
In order to participate in athletics, student-athletes must be enrolled in a full-time program of studies and must meet the same standard as other students at the institution in order to participate in extracurricular activities including athletics. Grades and credit hours must be monitored on a regular basis in order to ensure the eligibility of student-athletes.
In addition, student-athletes can engage in no more than four seasons of participation in any one sport. Division III measures seasons by participation, not competition. That means that there is no “red-shirting” in Division III. A student-athlete who suffers a season-ending injury, occuring during the first half of the season may be eligible, in some cases, to file for a medical hardship waiver which would allow an additional season of participation.
A student-athlete must complete his/her four seasons of participation during the first 10 semesters or first 15 quarters in which the student is enrolled in a full-time program of studies. (Emory & Henry uses the semester system.)
A student-athlete becomes ineligible if he/she participates on an outside team during the institution’s intercollegiate season in the sport. The student-athlete can only participate in non-collegiate, amateur competition outside of the regular playing season.
NCAA By-Law 15—Financial Aid
The composition of the financial aid package of student-athletes shall be consistent with the established policy of the institution and financial aid procedures for student-athletes shall be the same as for non-athletes. Institutions may not consider athletics ability, leadership, participation or athletic performance in the financial aid packaging.
The percentage of the total dollar value of aid awarded to student-athletes should be closely equivalent to the percentage of student-athletes within the student body. Institutions must submit an annual report to the NCAA that includes data regarding financial aid packages for student-athletes, as well as for non-athlete students.
NCAA By-Law 16—Awards and Benefits for Currently Enrolled Student-Athletes
A student-athlete may not receive an extra benefit unless it can be demonstrated that the same benefit is available to all Emory & Henry students. There is a limited exception that permits staff members and representatives to provide an occasional meal under the following conditions: the meal must be provided in the individual home (as opposed to a restaurant), or may be catered; it must be infrequent and/or for a special occasion; representatives can only provide transportation if the meal is held at their home.
NCAA By-Law 17—Playing and Practice Seasons
Institutions shall limit organized practice activities, the length of the playing season, and the number of contests or dates of competition so as to minimize interference with the academic program of student-athletes. Athletically-related activity is only permitted within either an 18-week window (fall sports) or a 19-week window (winter and spring sports). Outside of those designated dates, coaches may not require student-athletes to participate in any team activity. Voluntary strength & conditioning sessions may be conducted outside of those designated dates but only under the supervision of a certified strength coach and within the regular academic year.
NCAA Division III Countback Calculator for Practice Start Date
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